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Saying the Iranians put themself in this position is ridiculous though.

I mean they didn't put themselves in this position alone but they teased the monster by enriching uranium beyond their needs.

They don't need 60% enrichment, not at the quantities they were making. Not for medical research or other bullshit I'm pretty sure. It was done as a middle finger to the west to kind of taunt them to get them back to the table and to get something like the JCPOA back. It was a negotiating tactic and an attempt to punish the west by saying "see, you break your deal, we'll enrich far beyond our needs, now that we're here at this mark you need to give us more concessions compared to when we were at that lower mark". It was a bunch of "bad stuff" they could in theory trade to a west that doesn't exist, the west that maybe existed in the minds of Iranian liberals in exchange for things they wanted.

That was a tease, it was insincere and a negotiating tactic most likely and a taunt against the zionists and the US who have been hounding them about getting nukes. It was silly to go half-way thinking they could negotiate with the west and it was a bluff clearly as they didn't go the rest of the way.

And we can see from other Iranian actions they do other gestures like firing their oldest and most easily intercepted rockets at the Americans, warning them ahead of time as a "response" to US aggression and bombing them that they intone highly of "retribution" and god and blah blah blah but when the time comes they duck the war or striking back. They avoid doing anything that would seriously escalate the situation and alter the status quo they've had in tit for tats with the zionists for decades. They chose the off-ramp.

Fact is Iran blinked. It was probably the right move under the circumstances for their own situation (maybe not the world, probably not Palestine but who knows). They threatened the US not to get involved, the US punched them in the face and they did this purely propagandistic gesture of spitting at their feet and stomping off while declaring victory (while the US does the same).

So yes, in conclusion they put themselves in this position to be doubted as anything but a paper tiger with their moves as mentioned AND by not getting that nuke.

I have no doubt if the US starts a full on invasion of Iran they'll respond but the US knows this and is content to manage it and knows what lines it can step up to and how to salami-slice. The zionists got Iran to stop firing missiles at them after all. Palestinians got nothing. Iran got a propaganda victory that's transparent and empty.

To be fair the Iranians put themselves in this position by enriching uranium beyond their needs and teasing getting a nuclear weapon without ever getting one or intending to get one likely entirely as part of positioning themselves better for bargaining after losing JCPOA. So it wouldn’t be a first and this is why you shouldn’t act that way.

Happy birthday!

This is 100% for their planned war of aggression.

It's not just kayfabe, it's not just money for land mine manufacturers. It's to provide a defense against a Russian counter-thrust after they drive NATO forces deep into Russia via a hole in this. That way they figure they can shape things via controlling where troops end up. Russia should 100% lay their own mine-fields in response because it's impossible to know exactly where NATO forces are going to dismantle their own minefields in future to thrust through some armored columns. They should wait until after NATO does it of course so they look worse but make the mines now, get out the plans for razor wire deployments and signage to attempt to block off the mine-fields from wandering people.

Westoids are completely deranged about losing hegemony to China and multipolarity and are preparing a suicide-rush on Russia. That or they want to dissuade Russia from helping China when they commit 80% of their forces along with the US to attacking and containing China (and possibly attacking Russian shipping in the process thus giving them valid reason to respond).

Sadly the US is an old master at front companies and re-routing logistics. They bought all that titanium from the USSR for their SR-71 and other advanced warplane projects through an elaborate network of front companies. So it will mildly increase costs but not stop the US from getting what it wants if any significant amount at all is made available to western companies.

Critical support to him in exposing the empire's lies. At a time like this I think his role in providing an anti-empire view is far more important than his problems.

Yes, he is problematic to put it mildly as he has patronized prostitutes in Germany and bragged about it. Being proud of r*pe is not a good look but I'd certainly rather he be popular and young people flock to him and his views than any other mainstream view on offer in the US. He is unambiguously a net good at present despite his problematic attitude towards sexual exploitation of women, his ambiguous views towards China, the fact he's not an ML, etc.

So now is not the time I think to attack him as he's on the right side of these issues at least usually.

The problem is the zionists also have access to the production capacity of Europe and the US. As well as other vassals like occupied Korea. Combined these are substantial amounts of production.

The war against Iran will be economic, by sea, and by air not by land. So having working anti-air, being able to intercept enemy stealth bombers (including US) before they can deliver big payloads to take out industry or nuclear sites is important.

The big worry is the zionist entity resorting to using nuclear bunker busters on Iran's nuclear sites, likely with US approval and help and with Europe rushing to justify it as being absolutely necessary and/or cast doubt on the bombs being nuclear and call it Iranian propaganda. At that point Iran's nuclear program is moot and in the past and the west and the zionists can afford to settle with Iran in exchange for some sanctions relief and an end to direct hostilities. I expect if that approval goes through, the US and the zionists will burn another cyber-weapon and/or electronic warfare to bring down Iran's air defense long enough to deliver the nuclear weapons.

This will buy the zionists breathing room to complete the genocide and cement hegemony over the middle east/west Asia so sadly I think its very likely they do it especially once this conventional war escalates to stopping shipping and taking out oil refineries and infrastructure (we're basically there already) they have little to lose at that point. As it is Hezbollah is out of the picture for the time being, Yemen and Iran are the only ones standing aside from the resistance in Palestine which is well only able to do so much and really on the back-foot at this point.

Russia cannot help Iran given its own war with Ukraine and its need to apply its entire arsenal there. Another reason why the west might be okay with the zionists using nuclear bunker busters is their own resources are stretched thin by Ukraine and short of abandoning it and just dropping it right this moment to shift all production to supporting the zionists they can't do both so may see this as their option to continue Ukraine while also allowing their zionist proxy to win its battles.

I really hope they don't dare do that but they seem so deranged and probably feel so close to victory and yet also collapse at the same time that they may be pushed to do it.

If the US and Europe get dragged into an extended war here or have to empty their reserves to support the zionists it'll push back conflict with China by years more. Then again the plan could be all along to do everything to cement hegemony in as many places as possible before confronting China in order to ensure they have few friends, no trade routes, and limited partners.

The US is doing everything in its power to undermine MAD and nuclear deterrence in general. This doesn't surprise me given how many more nuclear weapons the US has to China that they think they can and should use some in a conventional war. The logic being they afford to, it kills enemies that would weaken their conventional forces, and enemy use of the same would undermine their limited stockpile while US use wouldn't matter to their deterrent. Still deeply alarming.

NATO war-mongering monsters are gearing up for a war of aggression again.

Whether it's actually with Russia or just a faint and the plans are to use it all against China is the debate to be had I suppose. They're totally deranged and totally in the thrall of the US, any sense of independence that people felt they were edging towards has been rightly relegated to the trash-bin as they remain committed to white, western supremacy at the expense of all else.

Now is the time for European comrades to agitate against the austerity being imposed to support funding all of this. Anything that even slows this program delays what may be a nuclear war.

https://www.rt.com/russia/618344-lenin-mausoleum-moscow-renovation/

News of a big restoration of Lenin’s tomb has come out in the past week or so. More generally reverence for figures like Lenin or Stalin in capitalist Russia divorced from what they stood for.

It's interesting in itself that they choose to announce it. It's a soft declaration of war of sorts really and perhaps another step along the line to preparing their populations for open war with China (and perhaps Russia too at this point). They claim they're "hitting back" despite clearly hitting first but perhaps that's part of the plan too.

Good to point out that they've also publicly announced recruitment of spies from Russia and China with slickly produced, very publicly disseminated videos on social media trying to recruit people from both nations as well as open statements by US intelligence leadership that they're stepping up recruitment and targeting and claiming they're not meeting goals (never trust a liar). So they're very much making this an official cold war at the very least if not paving the way for stepping up to a hot war in future from these open acts of aggression.

Part of it may be messaging, they want the public, they want Hollywood "thriller" writers and such to notice these things and make more anti-China, anti-Russia content and for there to be this undercurrent of a sense of we're at war with China and Russia.

Once again evidence that Ukraine is being used by the west as a global tool for maintaining its hegemony. Even after the current regime falls I expect the west to move their heavily trained CIA specialists (swastika tattoos and all) to Africa or Asia to continue CIA backed operations aimed at enemy states and disrupting multi-polarity. It's a real problem because right now they're contained within Ukraine. Russian forces are unable to kill them in large numbers as they're used as blocking units and the first to fall back from the front while reluctant conscripts are the ones dying as canon fodder so it's very likely even in a fall of Berlin type scenario that the west organizes their evacuation and these types are never killed by Russia but moved to be assets elsewhere. As it was with the most heavily trained and raving fascists in other comprador states last century like south Vietnam, so it is today. Only this time thanks to the poor tracking of weapons deliveries to Ukraine they've managed to smuggle and set aside quite a dangerous high tech weapons cache for future use.

Thanks comrade. Hopefully it's the ideas and not because of my weird writing style though I guess it could be that too. That or the spelling mistakes...

China is trying hard to give the US a slow decline. They've taken direct hits themselves because they want to avoid the confrontation. This would result in a hard decoupling of the US. What would really matter is if India stands with Russia as the US can't afford to attack both. Their supply chains for drugs and electronics would cease to function.

What I worry will happen instead is this passes, the president has authority on how to implement and can grant waivers, they use it very harshly on China, exempt broad swathes of India and use it as a cudgel to beat on Europe further and force them into their orbit and into reliance on their expensive energy imports as well as beating on other countries that want to align with BRICS and Russia and China specifically and thus hastening the formation of a bloc system with increasingly high barriers to trade and India probably allowed to play neutral if they continue to help the west with reshoring from China to India.

So that's my issue, there's almost always discretion and waivers so in practice it would likely be used as an attack on China. They might even given individual Chinese companies waivers to attempt to pressure them to ensure they don't use Russian products or energy and some Chinese firms would absolutely take that deal to keep the US market.

So while I don't think this would make the US implode overnight from sanctioning everyone I do think it passing would be a real win to the war hawk freaks like Graham (one of the closest human beings to being some sort of demon who gets off only on suffering and pain and war) who are also proponents of a hard decoupling and a dramatic near-term confrontation with China and thus a sign of things to come in terms of US policy and intent towards a hard decoupling with China, formation of bloc system, cold war 2.0, then pick off and attempt to destroy the smaller parties in the China/Russia bloc with coups, direct wars/proxy wars, sanctions, color revolutions, etc to isolate, encircle, turn up the heat and destroy them.

They may also think they can engineer a sino-soviet type split between Russia and China but they're absolute fools for that. This won't cause that. If anyone is going to split it will be Russia from China as frankly they have more to gain and as a capitalist nation pushing increasingly reactionary culture on their people means they'll see some difference between themselves and China.

Partially accurate username.

Needless to say this is horribly wrong. Reading Parenti would disabuse you of this to say nothing of actually reading Marx and understanding DiaMat.

I'm sure Putin's security detail is taking adequate precautions against the treacherous and backstabbing west.

Moscow says it won't be pressured over Ukraine 30-day truce --RT

This is foolish. As foolish as Trump's tariffs war. It's trying to bully someone with a strong hand into a deal when they already offered you one. Trying to bluff them in a situation where if they call your position collapses entirely is foolish.

Trump is showing he truly is someone swayed by whoever talks to him last. Zelensky was instructed by psychological experts from western intelligence I'm sure just how to appeal to him at their last meeting.

Russia's bottom lines have been the same since the start and the only change has been the addition of recognition of the eastern oblasts (which Russia within its own legal system incorporated as de jure parts of Russia (under Russian law)) as part of Russia.

I can only assume that this ceasefire is another Minsk agreement deception. They intend to attempt to force it, to re-arm and re-train and re-group Ukraine's military so they can put more of their men into the meat grinder and stall a collapse of the front another 10 months. And quite frankly given all the talk from France and other members of sending in troops once a ceasefire is achieved of trying to push the envelope of the acceptable slowly until Ukraine is de-facto but not de jure part of NATO.

Trump is going to ensure the US gets very little or no minerals to plunder from Ukraine if Russia has to push through to the finish.

I also wouldn't be shocked if Trump is testing the waters with this, says nothing and then when Russia pushes back hard he'll claim he never agreed to that and attempts to leave Europe on the hook for it all.

"This"

Wrong. This is just an attempt to make Netanyahu the problem. To pick him out, to say that the zionist occupation was good and fine but he ruined it, to ignore the reality of decades of apartheid and colonization and settler violence against Palestinians. They're doing this too little too late because there's a problem, too many liberals have seen through the illusion and propaganda and see the genocide, this threatens the whole project. So just blame it all on the current guy then when he's out of power they can say he was corrupt and under indictment and things were bad then but are good now.

There are different definitions of win. I certainly fear nuclear war. But I think the west believes their island chains will strangle China, prevent a break-out beyond the SCS or retaliation against US interests and notch them a win. China will repel them from the SCS, reclaim Taiwan and unless subjected to continued attacks I think it's possible they won't pursue the US much further though who knows. The US will use the fall of Taiwan and the inevitable missile attacks on island chains around China such as Philippines which were used in attacking China/PLA, etc to further justify their presence and cast China as an aggressor and "threat to democracy" and as justification for Russia level sanctions and attempts to economically strangle or at least isolate China and push it into its own bloc which can gradually be attacked and undermined.

China itself doesn't want to put the US in a spot where there is zero relations and incentive for the US to just go sicko-mode so they're likely to go along with the decoupling and ship products for finishing to third countries while counting on US decline. This would allow the US to prevent China from claiming the commanding heights, the name brands, the finished products, and totally removing the US ability to sanction countries by denying them product (China could still sanction but so could US, both would have a veto) and allow the US a very ugly kind of managed decline in an attempt to reclaim greatness.

West still thinks it has tricks up its sleeve. Their special forces people talk vaguely of swarms of AI sea-faring drone-mines they'd plan to deploy in the SCS to totally deny China its use for their navy but I also believe for the purposes of stopping Chinese shipping and forcibly decoupling them from the world.