
So, he lied that there “was an imminent threat” from Iran.“I don’t understand what the confusion is.
Let me explain it to you, and I’ll do it once again as clearly as possible. Perhaps you’ll report it that way.
… it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone — the United States, or Israel, or anyone — they were going to respond and respond against the United States.
…the assessment that was made was that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.
…We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
And we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we’d suffer higher casualties…
…it was the right decision and an important decision for the safety and security of the world.
“He’s flat out telling us that we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand”.
~ right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh.
“This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said. Such strange logic. So Bibi (Netanyahu) gets a say as to whether the US goes to war, but the US Senate and the American people do not?”
~ Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia.
“I was out there on the front lines for MAGA. And MAGA was supposed to be America First, not Israel First or any foreign country first. Pete Hegseth said this morning (that) we didn’t start this war. I hate to argue with the Secretary, but America and Israel definitely started this war, and you can’t lie like that to the American people.
What is happening to the man that I supported? The man that denounced what happened in Iraq? The man that said, ‘No more foreign wars, no more regime change’?
All of them promised it. And we’re a year in, and we’re in another f***ing war, and we’ve got American troops being killed.
We need to have a serious conversation about what the f*** is happening to this country, and who in the hell are these decisions being made for, and who is making these decisions”.
~ Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, once among Mr Trump’s most loyal allies, during a conversation with radio host Megyn Kelly.
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But not everyone is convinced these were “friendly fire” incidents.The F-15EX Eagle II has a cost of approximately $90 million to $97 million per unit as of 2025, based on a 104-aircraft purchase. Fully equipped with advanced systems like the EPAWSS electronic
warfare suite, the total cost per aircraft can reach up to $117 million.
borjastick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 7:50 am …Iran has been causing mass terror attacks and proxy wars etc for decades…


Iran’s monetary independence and refusal to submit to digital monetary surveillance, plus centralised financial control are the other underlying drivers of the war.
The sustained pressure applied against Iran over recent decades reflects a structural conflict over monetary sovereignty rather than episodic disputes over security or ideology. Examination of intervention patterns since the late twentieth century shows repeated targeting of states whose banking systems resisted integration into Western-managed financial infrastructure. Escalation correlated closely with the transition from analogue monetary governance toward digitised, rule-enforced financial systems requiring universal compliance.
… Iran’s exploration of alternative digital settlement mechanisms and domestic financial technologies compounded these concerns. Platforms operating beyond Western regulatory reach reduce dependency upon centralised approval structures. Combined with resource exports and regional trade networks, such platforms enable sustained economic activity despite exclusion from dominant systems.
From a political economy perspective, regime-change pressure emerges as rational response to systemic vulnerability rather than moral judgement. Architects of unified monetary governance cannot tolerate durable exceptions without jeopardising enforcement credibility. Fragmentation introduces arbitrage opportunities, weakens deterrence, and undermines adoption incentives across compliant jurisdictions.
Military escalation, sanctions tightening, and diplomatic isolation therefore function as instruments designed to restore monetary alignment. These measures operate incrementally, intensifying when integration fails and receding when compliance resumes. Comparable patterns appear across interventions targeting states with independent banking arrangements irrespective of regional or ideological context.
The emerging digital monetary order concentrates authority within technical systems governed by central banks and regulatory bodies rather than representative institutions. Transaction rules encoded within software operate continuously, automatically, and transnationally. Sovereign discretion contracts accordingly, replaced by compliance logic embedded within infrastructure.
Warnings regarding such concentration of power predate contemporary technology. Friedrich Hayek cautioned that centralised economic control erodes freedom by replacing choice with administration. George Orwell warned that systems enabling total oversight transform authority from governance into domination. Their insights converge upon a single risk: technological efficiency applied without institutional restraint dissolves human agency.
The danger lies not in any single state or technology but in absolute control rendered frictionless. Monetary systems governing every transaction govern every decision. When permission replaces freedom, compliance replaces consent, and efficiency replaces judgment, political liberty becomes administratively obsolete.
Duh!borjastick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2026 10:26 am Someone is getting very confused again by thinking the religion of peace is islam.
“We are witnessing history.
Iran is, to the surprise of everyone, destroying US bases so thoroughly and extensively and so decisively that the world isn’t ready to see it.
In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its scope of military domination in the region. Iran has destroyed the most precious, most expensive military bases, assets and equipment in the whole world. American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and Qatar and Saudi Arabia are some of the biggest military installations in the entire world. These are assets that took trillions to build over the course of several decades. We’re talking about a major chunk of military expenditure for over 30 years, going up in smoke.
We are seeing radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars a piece being destroyed in an instant by a few thousands worth of drones. We are seeing entire military bases being abandoned and burned, decimated and destroyed. And I’m telling you from my knowledge, the US has never suffered such devastation in its entire history, except maybe Pearl Harbour but that was one attack.
No enemy in a normal war has done to the US military what the Iranians are doing to the US military right now. This defies belief. The military situation is so bad that censorship blocks practically every piece of new information about this war. If you’ve noticed we’re being exposed to less and less every day.
Thirty-five years ago during the first Iraq war, we were being shown endless footage from Iraq. The smart bombs and the cameras were a novelty back then, but every night we were being shown night footage. Now we are seeing almost no video.
Understand this! This is supposedly the world's biggest military power having the worlds biggest air capabilities and for 4 days when the US is on the offensive supposedly, and is supposed to be breaking through Iranian defences, we are seeing NO signs of American domination over Iranian skies. Where is all the footage of USraeli planes flying over Tehran or any part of Iran for that matter?
American soldiers can not even dream of setting foot in Iran. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the 4th day you’re already hearing the craziest suggestions and ideas from the Trump administration. They are suggesting to send military escorts for oil carrying vessels coming out of the Persian gulf. What are you even talking about?! You want to send American ships into the range of thousands of Iranian missiles? NO ONE can pass through the strait of Hormuz right now.
The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. Trump is flaunting this idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the Hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran?! It seems like the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how massive it is? What do you mean invade Iran?! You think a 10,000 man militia can invade Iran?! Or even 50,000?! Or 100,000?! Iran will swallow them.
The US and Israel have already lost this war. The US and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have huge bombs and can explode buildings, but they will not win this war. Iranians military infrastructure and weaponry is so far underground ALL OVER IRAN. There is no way for the Americans and definitely not the Israelis to reach any of it. They are Doomed.
They have started something they have no chance of bringing to an end. When this is over the US will never come back to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I’m telling you this now with certainty.”
-Alon Mizrahi, Israeli journalist and peace activist.