Why Are Americans So Bloody Stupid? (Video - 50mn)

    A stunning indictment of America and its lack of critical thinking delivered with a strong, mesmerizing Australian accent. Brilliant and to the point. You do not need to agree with everything to enjoy the video. Well actually, that's the point of developing critical thinking. Isn't it? Where the video is enlightening is in explaining how exactly things ended up the way they are. If you are American, by the end of the video, you will be a little less stupid. OK, that was a joke. The people following a blog like this one probably already do enjoy a fair level of critical thinking. And as we all know the problem is other people and their tribes. Right? Did I miss something? :-)    

 Why Are Americans So Bloody Stupid?

"Trump's Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation!" by McGlinchey

   The Trump "shit-show" is becoming harder to watch by the day.  

   There is no obvious goal or direction. The only thing that is clear is that Trump is "owned" unlikely by ideology so it must be by money and the results are catastrophic. Is there truly no one left in Washington who can inject some good sense into foreign policy and avoid complete auto-destruction? Apparently not. This is what happen when you dismiss everybody around you who voices a dissonant idea or objection to yours.  

   One positive aspect on YouTube is that lately the videos of Colonel Douglas Macgregor are not censured anymore. So here's a recent one to confirm that someone with a "brain" can still be found in the US, if not in the White House:

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: America and Israel Have Lost Iran War

  

By Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities

As the US-Israel war on Iran grinds into its sixth month, it’s clear to all but the most intellectually-dishonest Trump loyalists and war-bent Israel-sympathizers that it’s been a spectacular failure.

A war of aggression that was supposed to precipitate a revolution has instead galvanized popular support of the Iranian government in defiance of the country’s tormentors, who’ve killed thousands of their fellow citizens and destroyed civilian infrastructure. A war that was launched to neutralize Israel’s principal rival seems certain to leave that rival far more geopolitically powerful than before, while driving Americans’ support for Israel to record lows.

Beyond unforgivably throwing away the lives of 18 American service members in an unconstitutional war launched on false pretenses, Trump’s blunder has depleted America’s arsenal and pushed the country more than $100 billion deeper into debt. Meanwhile, the longer Trump delays the inevitable consummation of his defeat, the greater the risk of an economic calamity that engulfs not only the United States but the entire world.

If that latter nightmare can be sidestepped, we’ll likely find that Trump has inflicted his most enduring damage on an intangible yet critical national asset: the ability of American diplomats to productively engage counterparts all over the world. From using negotiations as a ploy for surprise attacks to murdering heads of state and casually reneging on American commitments — including his own — Trump’s damage to US diplomacy will be evident for years. Of course, that’s not to suggest America’s foreign policy reputation was sparkling before Trump’s ascension to power — only that he and his team have managed to drag it down to new depths.

Trump’s collaboration with Israel to launch an unprovoked war on Iran is manifestly among the worst foreign policy decisions in the history of the American republic. However, it’s important to appreciate that Trump first set this 2026 disaster in motion eight years ago: In May 2018, — spurred on by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton and Trump’s Israel-first donors — Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action, or JCPOA.

Also called the “Iran nuclear deal,” the July 2015 JCPOA was the culmination of nearly two years of painstaking negotiations over highly technical provisions, conducted by representatives of not only the United States and Iran but also China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the European Union.

Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to major restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for relief from brutal economic sanctions. Among other things, the JCPOA required Iran to eliminate its medium-enriched uranium, slash its cache of low-enriched uranium by 98%, limit future enrichment to 3.67%, agree to even more external monitoring than it was already submitting to, and render its heavy-water reactor worthless by filling it with concrete.

Catering both to devoted Israel supporters and to Republicans who were eager to assume that a deal negotiated during the Obama administration must have been treasonous, Trump had repeatedly railed against the JCPOA throughout his 2016 campaign, declaring that his “number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.” After being named national security advisor in April 2018, Bolton — who had long been pushing for war on Iran — quickly prodded Trump into making good on his promises to tear up the JCPOA, despite the fact that Iran was fully complying with the agreement.

“Trump’s move demonstrates that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its promises,” the Belfer Center’s Martin Malin said at the time. “It will heighten tensions in an already smoldering Middle East while giving fodder to hardliners and nuclear bomb advocates in Iran.”

After Trump’s withdrawal and the reinstatement of waived sanctions, Iran waited a year, but then began straying from its own commitments -- using elevated uranium enrichment as a lever to push for a new agreement and relief from suffocating sanctions.

Having long denied it was developing a nuclear weapon -- a claim repeatedly deemed truthful by the US intelligence community -- Iran returned to the negotiating table during Trump’s second term, once again ready to part with the uranium it had enriched to higher levels. Indeed, less than 48 hours before the United States and Israel attacked on Feb. 28, Iran offered concessions that included dilution of its 60%-enriched uranium, a multi-year pause on new enrichment, subsequent enrichment capped at 20%, and expanded IAEA oversight. UK national security advisor Jonathan Powell was reportedly surprised by the strength of the Iranian offer, seeing it as reason to hope war would be averted. His and others’ hopes were about to be dashed.

There are many facets of the Trump administration’s assault on diplomacy, but none more vulgar than using ongoing negotiations as a means of unleashing a surprise attack on a negotiating partner — an attack that includes the killing of that partner’s head of state.

That’s exactly what the Trump administration did to Iran in February. Having held a third round of talks in Geneva on Feb. 26, the two countries were set for what was described as technical-level discussions the following week. Instead, teaming up with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump launched a massive war on Iran. In addition to killing more than 100 elementary-age schoolgirls and many other civilians and military conscripts, the opening attack killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, his daughter, son-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter.

Rubio further diminished US credibility by attempting to characterize the surprise attack as somehow defensive. “We knew there was going to be Israeli action” which would “precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said. Observers were quick to note that, regardless of Israel’s status as a sovereign state, its dependency on Washington means Trump held de facto veto power over an Israeli strike, which makes the rest of Rubio’s rationale hollow.

Marco Rubio: "We went proactively in a defensive way" pic.twitter.com/i3XMjV0C9e

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2026

February wasn’t the first time that insincere Trump administration diplomacy set up Iran for a surprise attack. In June 2025, the administration had completed five rounds of negotiations with Iran and scheduled a sixth for June 15. On June 13, Israel attacked Iran. It was no surprise to Trump, who boasted that Israel informed him in advance. On June 22, Trump joined the 12-Day war via Operation Midnight Hammer, bombing Iranian nuclear facilities.

Beyond their fundamental immorality, these surprise attacks amid negotiations undermine long-term US interests by fostering distrust in everyone who witnessed such blatant American treachery. Following the start of all-out war on Feb 28, Washburn University law professor Ali Khan wrote about the consequences of turning negotiations into a “calculated ruse”:

“The breach of good faith signals worldwide that it is pointless to make any deal with someone who would do the opposite after creating an expectation or reliance for the other party. Iran or any other state would be highly reluctant to trust the Trump administration again in future negotiations.”

Note, one shouldn’t assume the world’s distrust will be so tightly associated with Trump that it will vanish when he leaves office. In Marco Rubio and JD Vance, his administration holds at least two potential successors to the Oval Office, to say nothing of senators, representatives and governors who’ve cheered on Trump’s misconduct and would be prone to emulating it. And don’t think for a moment that Democrats are immune to following unhealthy presidential precedents, whatever their commentary may be when those precedents are set by a Republican.

With his 2018 withdrawal from the JCPOA, Trump reneged on a deal made by another president, but Trump has repeatedly reneged on his own commitments too.

That’s the case with the June 17, 2026 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, which Trump signed at the Palace of Versailles. Primarily brokered by Pakistan with help from several Middle Eastern states, the MOU has been described as an agreement to make an agreement. It comprises 14 points setting conditions for an immediate ceasefire and 60 days of negotiations for a lasting peace.

Trump quickly fell short of full compliance. “When you look at what’s happening from the Iranian point of view…the Iranians believe that the United States has not lived up to its part of the bargain,” University of Chicago international relations scholar John Mearsheimer said in July.

There are several elements where Iran reasonably accused Trump of noncompliance, but we’ll examine three, starting with the most significant one of all. Point 5 covers what has replaced uranium as the core focus of the conflict — Iran’s selective blocking of traffic through the economically vital Strait of Hormuz:

5: “Upon the signing of this MOU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge, for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa.….[and] conduct dialogue with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz...”

This point was widely understood to mean Iran would lift its blockade but still oversee and direct all traffic. When it exerted control of shipping traffic in March, Iran replaced the pre-war route that went down the center of the strait with one that guides traffic along Iran’s coast. However, after the MOU was signed, the Trump administration started instructing ships to use a different route, which passes through the territorial waters of Oman.

“We violated [the MOU] by setting up a southern corridor,” retired US Army Colonel Daniel Davis declared on his Deep Dive geopolitics podcast. “There’s nothing in the MOU that we signed that authorizes a southern corridor or America to enter into it and decide on our own how that’s going to be done. It’s just not there.” Davis, who returned from Afghanistan and blew the whistle in 2012 on civilian and military officials’ misleading of the public on how that war was progressing, suggested the US move in the strait was a deliberate provocation.

Deliberate or not, it was provocative indeed. After issuing radio warnings to ships attempting to use the southern route, Iran fired disabling shots at them. Trump then restarted his bombing of Iran, which prompted Iranian retaliation against American forces and the countries that host them. The two countries then began a long series of “tit for tat” strikes that continued into this week.

Then there’s Point 10 of the MOU, in which the Trump administration promised to issue sanctions waivers that would allow for unfettered Iranian exports of oil and petroleum. Trump revoked the waivers on July 7, pointing to Iran’s attacks on ships that didn’t submit to Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz… control that, again, the United States seemingly agreed to under Point 5.

Numerically reflecting its high importance to Iran, Point 1 of the MOU required the “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts in Lebanon.” It focused not so much on Iran and the United States but more so “their allies” — the Iranian-allied Hezbollah militia and the US-allied State of Israel. However, Israel continued its operations, including a level of comprehensive destruction of civilian infrastructure in Southern Lebanon that mirrors what the Israeli Defense Forces did to Gaza. One can make the argument that the United States wasn’t in a position to impose MOU terms on Israel, but if that’s truly the case, Trump shouldn’t have signed an MOU by which he essentially certified that he would.

Doubling down, the Trump administration even took action to legitimize the IDF’s presence in Lebanon. “[The MOU] said we had to get the Israelis out of Lebanon. We made no effort to do that,” said former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman. “In fact, we turned around and Marco Rubio went and…brokered an agreement between the Lebanese government and Israel that they will jointly go after Hezbollah. So what is this? At a minimum, it’s not very smart.”

Critically, Trump’s behavior bolsters the credibility of hardliners in the Iranian government who’ve repeatedly argued that the United States cannot be trusted and shouldn’t be negotiated with. Moderates prevailed over skeptical hardliners when Iran opted to sign the JCPOA, again when it twice attempted to seek sanctions relief and avert war via negotiations only to be subjected to surprise attacks, and again with the June 17 signing of the MOU.

“The hardliners said ‘don’t sign it, you can’t trust the Americans’,” Mearsheimer recently told Chris Hedges. “But the moderates prevailed, and then the hardliners proved to be correct, so they’re now in the driver’s seat, as best we can tell…and those hardliners will push forward a tougher deal for Trump to swallow” whenever the next version of an MOU is pursued.

It’s not only adversaries of the US government that have been subjected to Trump’s sudden reversals on terms he himself agreed to. Just ask Saudi Arabia.

On July 22, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz ​bin Salman signed an agreement by which the kingdom would be able to build nuclear reactors and enrich uranium with US technology. Both governments published official announcements, and it was seen as a triumph for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The very next morning, Trump blindsided the Saudis and his own subordinates, using a social media post to retroactively add a huge requirement — there would be no nuclear deal unless Saudi Arabia joined the Abraham Accords, which entails recognition of Israel as a legitimate state, and the establishment of official diplomatic relations.

Such a move would run counter to Saudi Arabia’s long-running insistence that recognition of Israel is unthinkable without a firm plan for Palestinian statehood. Further, Trump’s demand for a Saudi embrace of Israel comes at a time when Muslims within the kingdom and throughout the region are outraged by Israel’s destruction of Gaza and southern Lebanon, making such a move perilous for the Saudi royals. Contrary to the agreement his energy secretary had signed, Trump also suddenly declared there would be no enrichment of nuclear material inside Saudi Arabia.

“You strike a deal, you sign it, you announce it, you brag about it, and within 24 hours you’re changing the terms in a fundamental way,” observed the Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi on Deep Dive. “If that’s what you do to Saudi Arabia — a country that the United States has a very close relationship with…on top of that, the Trump family has very close business ties with — then what are you going to do with Iran? What is the shelf life of any American commitment under Trump to the Iranians in any agreement?”

Or to anyone else, for that matter. “We’ve convinced the entire world that we don’t know what we’re doing, and we can’t be trusted, and we don’t keep our word, and we don’t even stay consistent from one day to the next,” former ambassador Freeman recently told Davis. “So how can you deal with us? That’s the question everybody has out there.”

As Alastair Crooke sees it, US diplomacy may never be the same. Summing up the effects of Trump’s multi-front assault on trust in America, the former British intelligence agent, diplomat and founder of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum told Glenn Diesen, “The American ability to negotiate in the old-fashioned diplomatic idea, I think, is gone. I mean, we’re in a new era.”

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How Korean Feminism Finally Made It Impossible to Make Babies (Video - 23mn)

   A fascinating preview of the future in Korea where the country has trapped itself between modern educated women and archaic social norms. The Chaebols (conglomerates) benefit from the system while society is imploding.  

   Dr. Jonathan Tam does a good job linking seemingly unrelated trends together to present an unflattering aspect of Korean culture. Can the country find a solution to the conundrum? Japan didn't. It will be difficult. 

How Korean Feminism Finally Made It Impossible to Make Babies

Fauci Destroyed Millions of Lives, and Truth-Tellers Are Owed Sincere Apologies

   The Covid saga was by far the best example to date of the Deep State and the international cabal showing its hand publicly. Dr Fauci is safe, not because he did the right things but because he is protected. 

   Would Dr Fauci fall, the "system" would lose its credibility and unravel and this will therefore not let be, whatever was uncovered by Tulsi Gabbard or RFK Junior.  

   All this shows that the people we elect have very limited real power and agency. As Frank Zappa rightfully said: "At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, pull back the curtains, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."  

Fauci Destroyed Millions of Lives, and Truth-Tellers Are Owed Sincere Apologies

by Mike Adams

The Case That Demands to Be Made

History will not be kind to Anthony Fauci. It will not remember him as a hero of public health, because history records what the living refuse to admit: Fauci is the face of a mass casualty event.

I believe the pardon Joe Biden handed him is the clearest admission of guilt yet. Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shielding him from COVID-19-related criminal prosecution, backdated to 2014 ^[1]. Innocent men do not need backdated protection; guilty men cannot survive without it.

Ed Dowd described what we all witnessed as “the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda machine that tried to silence anyone who noticed the bodies piling up” ^[2]. That is not a conspiracy theory. That is testimony. And the fact that no reckoning ever came only proves the operation was deliberate. Those of us who sounded the alarm were treated as enemies of the state, but we were the only ones telling the truth.

Fauci’s Non-Testimony and the Biological Weapon Cover-Up

The cover-up originated with the U.S. Dept. of Defense and then expanded to Wuhan. The Wuhan Cover-Up documents how the first SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence displayed a standout molecular feature that made it seem like this novel virus, spreading like wildfire, seemed deliberately designed to infect human cells ^[3]. I have long reported that the spike protein used in some vaccines is part of a more complex concoction derived from the SARS-CoV-2 bioweapon, which includes prions and elements from HIV, among other coronavirus strains ^[4]. This is not biology by accident; it is the engineering of a depopulation bioweapon.

Project Veritas documents indicate that the work conducted was indeed classified as gain-of-function research, suggesting a discrepancy between Dr. Fauci’s public claims and the reality of his actions ^[5]. So why did the man at the center of this never face a single day of questioning? Because the people who protected him were part of the same apparatus, of course.

The obvious question remains: why did Trump keep people like James Comey and Anthony Fauci in their positions despite their alleged ties to the deep state ^[5]?

The Persecution of Truth-Tellers

I lived this persecution. This is what the system does to anyone who refuses to be silent. The landmark lawsuit exposing U.S. government coercion of Big Social reminds us that free speech isn’t an option if you want to live in an open, creative, advanced, free-thinking society; it’s a necessity ^[6].

Many doctors suffered the same fate. The Fifth Circuit eventually issued a potentially precedent-setting ruling that sides squarely with the First Amendment in a case involving censorship of doctors ^[7], but the government even created a disinformation office and used the FBI to meddle in social media companies to get them to shut down or censor “unapproved” facts and ideas ^[8]. This was a coordinated attack on dissent, and the media was happy to cheer it on.

Accountability, Nuremberg, and the Apology That Is Owed

What happened to us all is a Nuremberg crime against humanity. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s work provides evidence necessary to hold those responsible for this Nuremberg crime against humanity legally accountable ^[9]. Fauci should be made to face the same kind of public accounting that the Nazis faced at Nuremberg. Not vigilante violence, but a trial in the light where every collaborator, funder, and enforcer is forced to testify.

The backdated pardon is not a shield. As attorney Greg Glaser said, “While Biden’s preemptive pardon is likely to shield Fauci from federal prosecution, it does not preclude state prosecution” ^[10]. And the House Oversight Committee invalidated over 4,200 executive actions and pardons signed via autopen under former President Joe Biden, citing a lack of proof that he authorized them ^[11].

Holding the Line and Moving Forward

The truth-tellers who never wavered have earned a credibility that cannot be purchased or faked. Ed Dowd’s numbers are alarming: millions of Americans have been disabled by the COVID jabs ^[12]. Further evidence shows that mRNA vaccines disrupt ovaries, damage the placenta, and suppress sperm motility, with a 40% rise in maternal mortality and a 13-20% drop in live births in Western countries ^[13]. These are not side effects; they are the results of a depopulation agenda.

Until justice arrives, it is our duty to fight for truth, human dignity, health, quality of life, longevity, and happiness ^[5]. I will keep telling the truth because protecting life and exposing the anti-human agenda is my number one commitment.

You can follow my videos and interviews at BrightVideos.com

References

1. 1. Cassie B. Fauci Could Still Face Legal Troubles Despite Biden’s Backdated Pardon. NaturalNews.com. January 23, 2025.
   2. Ed Dowd. The COVID Reckoning That Never Came. Zero Hedge. July 11, 2026.
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   4. Mike Adams. Situation Update. Brighteon.com. October 29, 2021.
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   6. Rob Verkerk. Feature Landmark US Lawsuit Exposes US Government Coercion of Big Social. ANH International. May 2, 2024.
   7. Cassie B. Group of Doctors Whose COVID-19 Criticisms Were Censored Can Move Forward with Case, Appeals Court Rules. NaturalNews.com. June 14, 2024.
   8. J Michael Waller. Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains.
   9. Mike Adams. Brighteon Broadcast News – RFK Jr. Exposes Dark Secrets of U.S. Bioweapons Program. Brighteon.com. December 14, 2023.
   10. News Editors. Florida Hints at Legal Action Against Fauci for Pandemic Response. NaturalNews.com. March 1, 2025.
   11. Kevin Hughes. House Oversight Committee Declares Biden’s Autopen Pardons “Null and Void,” Calls for DOJ Investigation. NaturalNews.com. October 29, 2025.
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   13. Mike Adams. Interview with Naomi Wolf. October 24, 2025.
   14. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin. COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey.

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No Iran war off-ramp coming for Trump

   As for the war in Ukraine, we are now submerged with propaganda, claims and counter-claims so that in the end, the truth is buried under the announcements and almost impossible to reconstruct.

   It looks more and more likely that the attack in Egypt was a false flag from Israel. The very least that can be said is that it wouldn't be surprising. Likewise, the Saudi attack on Yemen was so "stupid" that although real, it is difficult to imagine that the Saudis are truly in charge. This is the price you pay for "protection" and having US bases on your land.    

   As for Trump, it is truly amazing to see how a man with plenty of tactic but no strategy has been cornered by the international cabal and outsmarted by Iran. As often in such cases, the only smart move was not to play. Now it is extremely difficult to see how he can extricate himself from such a quagmire without losing either credibility or the war itself, obliging him to double down every single time. Professor Jiang prediction a few days earlier was prophetic: There may be no exit or off-ramp as explained below.       

No Iran war off-ramp coming for Trump

 by Leo Hohmann

If it’s even true that Trump is looking for an off ramp, global power elites will make sure he doesn’t find one; WWIII and military draft incoming

 

In case you haven’t noticed, the war in the Middle East is expanding.

Just in the last few days, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt have all been drawn into the conflict that started with just three parties — the U.S., Israel and Iran. The new additions make this a truly regional war with global ramifications. Even Ukraine managed this week to get involved, striking an Iranian ship it said was sending military supplies to Russia. For those who needed an outward sign, this attack by Ukraine connects the Middle East war with Iran to the war against Russia in Eastern Europe. As I’ve been saying for months, it’s all part of the same war.

Egyptian officials confirmed today that two ships on its Mediterranean coast came under a drone attack Wednesday at the port of Damietta, a key loading point for liquified natural gas (LNG). As of this writing, no nation or entity has claimed responsibility for the attack, a sure sign of a false flag by malevolent forces, while Western fingers are predictably being pointed at Iran. You can use your imagination as to who would like to expand the war in the direction of Egypt by looking at whose interests that serves.

So far, this is following the exact trajectory I predicted when these wars started in Ukraine and the Middle East. Because I saw them as part of the same major war, not separate conflicts, I knew they would continue to escalate and anyone talking about memorandums of understanding (MoU), peace talks and Trump looking for an off-ramp doesn’t know what they’re talking about and aren’t worth listening to. Trump may want an off ramp, but the powers driving these wars and financing them will make sure he isn’t presented with one that his ego will let him take. Those financing the wars are the ones pulling the puppet strings. The politicians associated with the wars are mere front men.

Donald Trump by now must be well aware that bombing alone is not going to take out the Iranian government. A ground invasion will be necessary. But he also knows that any landing of troops on Iranian soil will result in tremendous casualties for the invaders.

All this talk from various Iranian ex-pats that gets regurgitated by conservative podcasters and writers that the Iranian regime is weak and ready to fall as soon as U.S. troops hit the ground is pure fantasy. Then, they tell us, Iran can install the Clown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the playboy son of the former Shah, to rule happily ever after in the interests of America and Israel. Pure poppycock. Do not listen to these people. Reza would not survive one week without a bloody civil war tearing apart Iran, if he could even govern without being assassinated.

Trump himself knows this.

But Trump doesn’t want to land U.S. troops on Iranian soil if he can help it, at least not right before the mid-term elections. He knows launching this phase of the war would result in high casualties in a very unpopular war and that such a war would also likely require the U.S. to reinstate a military draft.

Ideally, I believe Trump would like to find a willing proxy to invade Iran. The Kurds have been mentioned as one possibility but Iran seems ready for that eventuality. Could Egypt be a better option? Egypt has a very large army and we see that country being hit at its weak point, the Suez Canal zone and connected ports, a major trade route into the Mediterranean Sea.

If we see further assaults on Egypt’s main economic connection to the outside world, that’s a sign that they are being targeted for the role of willing proxy against Iran. Egypt also has a large Sunni Muslim population, which has no love for Iran’s Shia Muslims, so the religious element also works in favor of them being recruited as a Western proxy, along with the Kurds, the Saudis and anyone else who is willing to join the fight against Iran.

But I do believe we are still an escalation or two away from any ground invasion of Iran. I could see a scenario unfold where the U.S. recruits a proxy force to invade Iran and then sends in its troops to finish the job, but even this supposed mop-up role could take longer than Trump believes and require a very unpopular military draft. Once Trump reinstates the draft, many more Americans who are currently tuned out will wake up and protest sending their sons to fight another overseas war on behalf of foreign interests. This will cause Trump to clamp down on protests, potentially declaring martial law and possibly even canceling elections in 2028. He has been known to talk about a third term, having brought that up again just a few days ago.

And now we have a report out of Israel that something big is getting ready to go down in the war against Iran.

The Iran-affiliated Hormuz Letter posted Thursday to its X account as follows:

BREAKING: Israel says the U.S. is preparing for something “bigger than anything we have seen before” in the war on Iran, a senior Israeli security official tells Channel 15. The official adds the U.S. is preparing for a large-scale unprecedented operation against Iran, not just a single isolated response, with Israeli defense circles saying the U.S. is approaching a major counter-response.

That same source reported a couple of hours later:

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has just launched multiple airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned shortly before “the indications reveal the Saudis are heading toward full escalation. We will meet their full escalation with full escalation.”

Shortly before that, The Hormuz Letter reported that Iran had landed direct hits on U.S. assets at its air base in Jordan, destroying three F-35 fighter jets and killing at least one U.S. military officer along with an unspecified number of “maintenance personnel.” This has not been confirmed by the U.S. military.

BREAKING: For the first time since the start of the war, Iran’s IRGC announces the complete destruction of 3 F-35 fighter jets and significant damage to 3 others at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, through multiple ballistic missiles targeting the deployment ramp and maintenance hangar this morning, per Tasnim. Iran had not previously announced the destruction of an F-35. The IRGC adds several U.S. officers and maintenance personnel were also killed at the base. The strike comes in response to a U.S. strike on 2 residential homes on Qeshm Island earlier this morning, killing a father, mother, and their 2-year-old child, and injuring 2 other children.

It’s difficult to know how much of this is true. Both sides are waging an information war as intense as the kinetic war. But it’s safe to say that the war’s trajectory and the nature of the rhetoric on both sides suggests that violence is reaching new heights across the Middle East, as it is in Russia and Ukraine, and pretty soon nobody will be able to deny we are in World War III.

Remember, the ultimate goal of the globalist power elites is to take down the flailing U.S. empire and its outdated paper petro dollar and replace it with some form of global government with a new global currency.

So whatever the Trump administration has up its sleeve will ultimately backfire. Could we be on the verge of a defeat so humiliating that even the arch-salesman Donald Trump can’t spin it as a victory?

Only time will tell. But one thing I want to stress is that we should not get excited whenever either side in this now global conflict starts talking about peace. The false peace that will eventually come is probably two or three years away. Before you can have any semblance of peace, there must be a clear winner and clear loser in World War III. And since this war is just starting to get cranked up, we are a long way off from that.

But right now, the U.S. is being exposed as a paper tiger and Trump is going to be obsessed with trying to reverse that trend and reasserting American strength. Trump is not a rational man who is driven by facts, such as the fact that the U.S. is running out of missiles and munitions, running low on oil reserves, and that there are limits to what American military power can achieve. There’s also the disturbing fact that changes in modern warfare actually mean America’s bloated military budget is spent mostly on weapons that have become obsolete. Not only are they obsolete, but they are tremendously expensive and will take several years to restock.

Instead of focusing on facts and acting rationally, Trump is driven by his emotions, which buttress his overwhelming desire to be seen as a winner of heroic proportions. This is exactly the type of political leader the global financiers needed and wanted at this point in history, because his egocentric emotional responses to events make him super easy to manipulate. He wants to go down in history as the one president who conquered the imaginary demons crafted by the globalists for decades – Russia, China, Iran. Trump wants to bag them all. And it’s his hyper-emotional, overzealous nature that will actually hasten America’s downfall, allowing the globalists to replace the American-dominated global order with their long-coveted new international economic order based on technocracy and an air-tight digitalized control grid ruling over a vastly smaller global population.

John Cleese: “Some Cultures Are Better Than Others”

   If Germany has chosen industrial collapse, England seems to prefer cultural collapse since anyway on the British Isles industry is little more than history. 

   It is in fact sad to realize that the people who made everybody laugh 20 years ago are now criticized for truism such as saying that they prefer English culture to more violent ones in the Middle East. 

   Outrageous? Maybe so but the violence which is spreading all over England is now far from anecdotal. Eventually such trends evolve either towards anarchy or strong men taking power which tends to accelerate rather than stop the decline.          

by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Legendary Monty Python star John Cleese has drawn a clear line in the sand, declaring himself a “culturalist” who believes some cultures are superior to others.

Cleese has also openly backed Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe amid the accelerating collapse of British norms under mass migration and parallel societies.

The legendary comedian responded this week to ritual insults hurled at him for supporting Lowe by rejecting the tired “racist” smear from the usual uneducated quarters.

“I am not a racist. I am a culturalist,” he stated in a post that now has over ten million views, adding “I believe that some cultures are better than others. I prefer cultures that do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents. Call me old-fashioned…”

Cleese had earlier made plain his preference for Lowe over the rest of the political class, stating he trusts the Great Yarmouth MP “more than any of the other leaders.” The Metro reported the comments as Cleese pushed back against the predictable pile-on.

Lowe, for his part, simply called Cleese a patriot. The exchange has crystallised a growing recognition that Britain’s cultural foundations are under sustained assault from imported practices fundamentally at odds with the country’s historic values of individual liberty, equal protection under the law, and basic human decency.

Cleese has for some time now been documenting the same pattern with characteristic clarity. In April he tore into the BBC over claims that the British education system was designed for “whiteness,” pointing out the obvious: it was built for British children in Britain, most of whom happened to be white at the time.

To treat that historical fact as a “racist conspiracy,” he said, is insane. The broadcaster, he charged, operates with a hidden agenda opposed to the beliefs of the majority of British people.

He has also zeroed in on the political reality driving the double standard. With churches across Britain suffering more than ten recorded crimes every single day – theft, arson, vandalism, violence – Cleese observed that Labour politicians have become so dependent on Muslim votes that they no longer even pretend to be even-handed. “We need a new election,” the Python star demanded.

Cleese has noted that the focus on religion in Britain falls almost exclusively on Islam, while more peaceful and spiritual traditions are sidelined. He has asked why schoolchildren are not being introduced to Buddhism – a far more civilised belief system – rather than being steered toward Islam.

He has highlighted the one-way demand for respect: Islam insists its traditions be honoured while showing no reciprocal intention of respecting British ones, the polar opposite of genuine multiculturalism.

And he has pointed out that other religions do not threaten to take over the country, whereas multiple Muslim clerics and scholars openly do.

These are not abstract observations. They map directly onto the lived experience of communities watching churches burn, girls trafficked, and native citizens pushed down waiting lists.

That is precisely the ground Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain have chosen to fight on. The party, which surged past the Conservatives in membership within weeks of its launch, does not traffic in polite fictions.

It has vowed to deport millions of illegal and burdensome migrants – “if that means millions go, so be it” – to outlaw incompatible cultural and religious practices, and to give the British people a binding referendum on the death penalty for pedophiles and rapists when guilt is undeniable.

“Prison or deportation is too kind,” Lowe has said.

Lowe’s own record shows why the establishment treats him as a threat. As an MP he has submitted more than a thousand Freedom of Information requests that forced light onto grooming gang data, the true costs of mass migration, and foreign offender absconding rates.

When the results proved too damaging, the WhatDoTheyKnow platform restricted his access. Lowe’s response was characteristically dry: the restriction was “not in the spirit of transparency.”

He has also refused to soft-pedal the immigration crisis itself. Lowe has called openly for a hostile environment toward illegal entrants, many of them criminals, stating he wants them all deported and does not care how it happens.

Far-left politicians and media figures predictably denounced the stance as “cruel” and “repulsive.” Lowe’s reply was equally direct: he could not care less about defending the “humanity” of third-world conmen who break into the country and leave British families living in fear.

The practical consequences of the current open-door approach continue to surface. Lowe recently told Joe Rogan that arriving migrants are placed at the top of NHS waiting lists for dental treatment that British citizens cannot access. Rogan’s reaction was pure disbelief.

The incentive structure is obvious: free housing, welfare, and priority healthcare create a magnet that draws people across multiple safe countries.

Nowhere has the cultural incompatibility been more horrific than in the industrial-scale rape gang scandals.

Lowe’s Restore Britain-backed inquiry documented a nationwide pattern of abuse involving up to 250,000 young British girls, overwhelmingly by men from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds, with police and politicians suppressing the truth for decades under the banner of community cohesion.

Elon Musk responded by endorsing Nuremberg-style trials for those who enabled the cover-up. “The politicians who turned a blind eye to the Rape of Britain must go to prison,” he wrote.

Cleese’s latest stand simply names what millions of Britons already see. Preferring a culture that does not stone people, mutilate girls, or treat women as disposable is not racism. It is the minimum requirement of civilisation.

The uneducated may continue to throw the racist label; the rest of the country is increasingly done pretending that all cultures are equal when the evidence of the last three decades proves otherwise.

Britain’s political class spent years importing demographic change while criminalising honest discussion of the results.

Cleese, Lowe, and a growing public are no longer playing along. Some cultures produce free speech, scientific inquiry, and equal rights. Others produce the opposite. Pretending otherwise has already cost Britain dearly.

Professor Jiang: "The West Will Burn!" I Predict This Happens By 2030 │ Jack Neel (Video - 59mn)

   Professor Jiang is both drastic and interesting. He has a pessimistic outlook of the current Western society, but not built out of hatred but out of knowledge and thinking.  

   His conclusions are based on 1- Game theory, 2 - Lesson for history and 3 - Eschatology (how people conceive the "end"). A potent mix which allows him to project what is most likely to happen in the coming years.  

   He predicts no nuclear war but a quagmire in the Middle East with no exit and consequences which will be global and far reaching. 

Professor Jiang: "The West Will Burn!" I Predict This Happens By 2030 │ Jack Neel

Max Otte: Germany Is Racing Toward Total Collapse (Video - 26mn)

   The decline of Germany is irreversible by now. Still it is interesting to hear the details of the process from German sources and how the suicide came in protracted waves of misguided policies. From open borders to energy harakiri, the Germans relentlessly gutted their country voluntarily.  

   But now, like the French and other Europeans, they will re-industrialize, re-build a strong army, compete with China and set up AI data centers. Great! With what money? 

   More likely, they will "compete" with Egypt for lackluster development with a tsunami of Moroccan immigrants as we are currently seeing in Ceuta. Growth, thanks to phony under-counted inflation numbers will remain positive while the population sink in despondency as discussed in a recent video.   Why Every Civilization Collapses the Same Stupid Way – Spengler's Philosophy of Decline (Video - 19mn)

   10 years ago, we could have argued that this was avoidable. Now it looks ineluctable. The dye is cast. As Rammstein sings: "adieu, goodbye, auf wiedersehen!" 

Max Otte: Germany Is Racing Toward Total Collapse

 

Why Every Civilization Collapses the Same Stupid Way – Spengler's Philosophy of Decline (Video - 19mn)

   As we contemplate the sunset of our own Western civilization, it becomes essential to see what's happening in perspective to understand where we are going. 

   We are not the first ones to reach this stage. Every single civilization has done the same, confronted the same obstacles and eventually crashed.   

   What is different this time is the scale. Our civilization is global and consequently the collapse will impact everyone. The similarities in history are the Bronze Age collapse in 1200 BCE and the Roman collapse in 400 CE. Note the 1600 years gap. It may not be by accident.   

   Most importantly, collapse doesn't mean the end. Egypt was in turmoil for two hundred years thereafter but it recovered. Likewise, Byzance or Byzantium if you prefer, survived the end of the Western Roman Empire and prospered later on.

   We should expect something similar this time too. Initially. everyone will be impacted but eventually some "countries" will rise back from the ashes faster than others. The use if nuclear weapons would change little. Cities would be razed, populations would starve, but 10 years after the war, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were on their way to being rebuilt. 

    Spengler's prism of Philosophy of Decline is an interesting way to approach the phenomenon. 

Why Every Civilization Collapses the Same Stupid Way – Spengler's Philosophy of Decline