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No Lessons Learned: Trump’s Insane Resumption of the Iran War
So the geniuses in the white house have begin to suspect that maybe, just maybe, as journalist Mark Ames noted on X, after weeks of CIA-targeted bombings from Ukraine into Russia, maybe those nefarious Russkies are assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Gulf. I’ve got news for these Beltway Einsteins: China’s helping Iran too. And probably North Korea. In fact, every member of the multipolar alliance is likely doing their part: the mental opacity afflicting Washington does not afflict them. They know very well who is trying to destroy them. So they take countermeasures. That’s called sanity. How did white house mega-brains conclude China and Russia may be feeding Iran targeting data? Welp, Iran struck very sensitive targets with unusual precision (which, in fact, it has done and will continue to do throughout this war, but its success rate can no longer be ignored). For instance, per the New York Times, several Blackhawk helicopters were at least damaged when Iran blasted a Jordanian air base. The hangar housing the helicopters was hit, as was the anti-drone surveillance system. According to Ames on X July 19, “Iran’s missile and drone capacity has been massively underestimated…And the IRI is still holding back.” This is something white house gasbags should have assumed when bloviating about destroying the Persian nation, but as Ames observed, the last U.S. attack on Iran occurred about 13 weeks ago, when Tehran shocked the world with its military puissance, and Trump’s attention span isn’t that long. So he probably forgot. Not learning obvious lessons is clearly a problem for this white house. Iran already beat the U.S. once. So what did Trump do? He struck again. And now he threatens a wider war, which is clearly suicide, as it means curtains for U.S. vassals like the Gulf Arab governments, and could easily plunge the world into economic depression. Trump threatened this wider attack on July 15, so by July 20, the headline in the Washington Post was, surprise! “U.S. teeters on all-out war with Iran after more troops are killed.” WaPo only cited three, possibly four, U.S. soldiers killed, but other, non-Pentagon sources estimate more. As military expert Will Schryver put it on X July 20, “the dilemma remains: withdraw and relinquish West Asia to the Iran/Russia/China bloc, or continue to fight and relinquish the entire empire.” This followed news that the U.S. had retreated its aerial refueling tankers to Israel. According to an Iranian source speaking to Fars News Agency July 19, Iran’s July 17 strikes on U.S. bases in Qatar, Saudia Arabia and Jordan “resulted in the destruction or damage of a number of American aerial refueling tankers,” so the U.S. military “in a clear retreat, transferred several of the surviving aerial refueling tankers to Ben Gurion airport [incidentally painting a big red bullseye on that facility].” That’s called fleeing. Not a good sign for the Trump regime, which relies on pugilism to mold diplomacy. Iran expert Trita Parsi tweeted July 20 that the Trump white house uses “a strategy centered on military action shaping the landscape of diplomacy, rather than a strategy in which the final outcome is determined through PEACEFUL diplomacy. Either the commitment is to diplomacy within the MOU, or it is to actions (military and non-military) outside of the MOU. It can’t be both. I suspect we will not see any SERIOUS diplomacy until this question has been settled. Unfortunately, we are not there yet.” And even more unfortunately, by the time we get there, we may have fought (and lost) an all-out war, resulting in lots of corpses, American and Iranian. I say lost, because as some observers have noted, all Iran has to do not to lose is to survive. Iran will doubtless do that. The U.S. cannot win: a ground invasion is suicide; ditto sending naval assets too close to the Persian coast; U.S. military bases in the region are indefensible and have already been torched. So all Trump can do is bomb. While he bombs, Hormuz is closed, the world economy tanks, and U.S. assets in the Middle East get wiped off the map. In other words, a war on Iran will make Trump the biggest loser; and we all know how he feels about losers. The only conclusion is he just doesn’t know what he’s freaking doing. And that’s alarming. Meanwhile, it looks like U.S. proxies, vassals and attack dogs in the region are prepared to go down with the Empire. For, as threatened, Ansar Allah has vowed a maritime blockade in the Red Sea against the Saudis. The problem is that on July 13, Saudi Arabia hit Sana’a International Airport, striking “the runway to prevent an Iranian Mahan Air flight carrying a Houthi delegation and patients back from Tehran from landing,” per Drop Site News July 20. On July 16, Ansarallah said those strikes on Sana’a would be answered, that it would retaliate by blocking Saudi access to Bab al-Mandab, thus rendering the Red Sea off-limits for the Saudis. And ta da! That appears to have happened. So if no oil transits the Red Sea, under normal circumstances that would mean seven percent of world oil shipments would be bottled up. But because of the Hormuz closure, oil was re-routed through the Red Sea, so that percentage is higher. Twenty percent of the world’s oil cannot now transit Hormuz. Add this Red Sea blockage and it will be at least 27 percent. So a fiasco just got worse. On July 20, the Intercept’s Nick Turse reported that CentCom “withheld information about Americans killed and injured from the public” in this latest Iran War. “The surge in deaths and injuries raises the official U.S. casualty count to at least 446…since the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was struck on April 8. The first official told the Intercept that recent attacks had wounded ‘far more’ personnel than are reflected in the Pentagon’s current casualty count.” Reportedly, “dozens” were injured. Turse reports that the Pentagon’s “official tally was also previously adjusted downward by 15 casualties without explanation.” He notes that according to the New York Times on July 20, “the Pentagon withheld information on ‘dozens of U.S. military injuries in the Iran War.’” The article also covers the “significant” damage inflicted on U.S. bases by Iran the previous week, and that “Iran had learned how to defeat U.S. air defense systems by overwhelming them using a mix of ballistic missiles and drones.” Meanwhile, Trump mendaciously claims the Iranian military has been annihilated. There is reason to suspect that the CIA, unlike the pentagon, is not on-board with this whole idiotic Iran war project and that therefore white house lies will be exposed, sooner rather than later. So in all likelihood Trump’s latest Iran adventure will end like the last one – namely a total bust for the U.S. As we all know, a definition of insanity is repeating something ad nauseam and expecting a different result each time. This is not just Trump’s problem. Pretty much every U.S. president since the World War II fire-bombing of Dresden has sought to bomb his way to martial victory. All – post WWII – have failed. From the flattening of North Korea, to the two million murdered in Vietnam and on through this imbecilic Iran War, U. S. presidents have bombed promiscuously, killed loads of civilians, and then, despite obvious defeat, marched into the sunset as if nothing untoward or unexpected happened. Failure is never admitted. The white house is either silent or it lies, and millions of foreign corpses bear witness to its futile, pointless homicidal mania. This is what’s going on with Iran, and this is how it will end. “The “peace president” is up to his neck in innocent blood. And so is everyone who voted for him.
Return of goods to markets in Gaza doesn’t mean people can afford them
Return of goods to markets in Gaza doesn’t mean people can afford them Displaced Palestinians in Gaza struggle daily to afford food, with soaring prices and limited income opportunities. Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Every day is a struggle for Ghadeer Nassar, as she struggles to provide for her seven children. They live together in a small classroom in Remal Model School, alongside other displaced Palestinians. Recommended Storieslist of 3 items - list 1 of 3Tech giant Palantir posts ‘otherworldly’ growth despite criticism over Gaza - list 2 of 3Gaza holds mass funeral for 112 people killed in Israel’s 2023 Sabra attack - list 3 of 3Seventh round of Israel-Lebanon talks begins – what’s on the agenda? Some goods have returned to Gaza’s markets, after months of shortages driven by Israel’s blockade on the territory, running alongside its genocidal war. But the challenge now for families like Nassar’s is finding the money to buy those goods. Nassar’s husband has no stable source of income, even before the war, which began in October 2023. Instead, he depends on temporary work opportunities that provide the family – their children range in age from 14 years to nine months – with little financial stability. “He used to do whatever work was available,” said Nassar. “On some days he would earn no more than seven or 10 shekels ($2.27 or $3.25).” Ghadeer has been forced to turn to options she never thought imaginable, like selling her wedding ring and her husband’s phone so she could provide for her children. And when money is simply unavailable, she turns to bartering. Once, Nassar said, she exchanged one kilogramme of rice for four kilogrammes of lentils – the latter could feed her family for longer. “I try to make whatever food we have last as long as possible,” she said. “I don’t buy what I want, I buy what I can afford.” Only the necessities Maher al-Khudari, a shop owner in Gaza City, says that purchasing patterns have changed dramatically compared with before the war. Although larger quantities of goods are now available, prices remain high due to shortages and the cost of bringing in and transporting products, while most residents have exhausted their savings and lost their jobs. Shop owners themselves face a daily dilemma: customers need food, but many can no longer afford to pay for it. Al-Khudari says some people ask to buy necessities on credit, but that puts him in a predicament. “People come wanting to buy on credit, but their circumstances are difficult. I am also someone trying to make a living, and if I give everyone who needs help credit, I will lose everything, because all of Gaza is in need,” he explained. Al-Khudari has noticed that those who are buying from him aren’t buying what they used to: the person who would buy a kilogramme of vegetables now purchases a few pieces, while things like sweets have become luxuries. “The problem is that people do not even have the minimum amount of money to secure a piece of bread,” he said. Economic collapse According to the United Nations, food insecurity remains high in Gaza. The World Food Programme notes that while the entry of commercial and humanitarian supplies has increased in the last two months, the number of households reporting that they were finding it difficult to buy goods from markets because of unaffordability had also increased. With Israel unwilling to allow reconstruction to properly commence in Gaza, and the Palestinian enclave’s economy to rebound, the current situation is likely to continue. That forces the territory’s population, the majority of them displaced, to be reliant on food aid. The scale of the economic collapse caused by the war is reflected in the numbers. The latest UN market data indicates that the food consumer price index is 102 percent higher than pre-war levels. Palestinian economic expert Mohammed Abu Jiab said that one of the biggest challenges facing the Gaza economy was a shortage of cash liquidity. Abu Jiab explained that the availability of goods in markets in Gaza is not evidence of genuine economic activity, because purchasing power has sharply declined in the wake of thousands of families losing their jobs and savings as a result of the war. Instead, they have become dependent on aid or temporary sources of income. The expert added that simply populating the markets with goods is not enough for the economy to recover. Instead, more income and job opportunities need to be created, allowing people to earn money that they can then spend on purchasing goods. That is unlikely to happen without real long-term stability in Gaza, something that Israel appears unwilling to allow. And so, for Palestinians like Ghadeer, every decision at the store is a difficult one, and she is forced to only buy what she urgently needs. Her three-year-old daughter, Sham, newly out of hospital after being treated for a broken leg, wanted an orange recently. Nassar’s husband couldn’t afford to buy one, but taking pity on Sham after hearing her pleading, the shopkeeper gave her one for free. “There are many times when I cannot find anything to feed my children,” Nassar said. “I boil water with vegetable powder and they drink it without any vegetables or meat.” “My biggest fear is that these may be my best days,” she added, “and that the worst is yet to come.”
Return of goods to markets in Gaza doesn’t mean people can afford them
Return of goods to markets in Gaza doesn’t mean people can afford them
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday
Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday