Russian and US envoys discuss Iran oil crisis

Russian and US envoys discuss Iran oil crisis

 

RT

Dmitriev: Washington is starting to understand the key role of Russian energy in global stability

Russia and the US have held talks over the ongoing oil crisis triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran, Kirill Dmitriev, an investment envoy to President Vladimir Putin, has announced.

In a post on Telegram on Thursday, Dmitriev said he had traveled to the US at Putin’s request to attend a working group meeting on economic cooperation between Moscow and Washington.

The sides, he said, discussed “potential projects” that could help restore Russian-American relations, along with “the current crisis in global energy markets.”

“Today many countries, above all the US, are beginning to better understand the key, system-forming role of Russian oil and gas in ensuring global economic stability, as well as the ineffectiveness and destructive nature of sanctions against Russia,” he added.

In a separate post on X, he thanked US special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law – and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum for a “productive meeting.”

Witkoff also confirmed the talks, which took place in Florida, adding that “the teams discussed a variety of topics and agreed to stay in touch.”

The discussions followed a phone call between Trump and Putin on Monday, which covered several issues, including the Middle East conflict. Moscow described the call as “businesslike, frank and constructive,” while Trump called the conversation “very good.”

The US and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, prompting Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region. The crisis led to a de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz – a route that carries roughly one-fifth of the world’s daily oil supply – sending oil prices surging nearly 50% to almost $120 per barrel.

Although the rally eased after several countries agreed to release strategic reserves, prices rose again to above $100 on Thursday.

On Monday, Putin said that Moscow had “repeatedly warned that attempts to destabilize the situation in the Middle East would inevitably jeopardize” global energy supply and cautioned that Hormuz oil flows risked stopping entirely. He also stressed that Russia would be open to resuming oil and gas supplies to the EU, a proposal dismissed by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who warned that a return to Russian energy would be a “strategic blunder.”

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Via https://www.rt.com/russia/634621-russia-us-talks-iran-oil-crisis/

‘Happy shooting!’ AI chatbots eager to help plan mass violence

‘Happy shooting!’ AI chatbots eager to help plan mass violence – report

 

RT

Eight out of ten leading AI chatbots willingly assisted users in planning violent attacks, including school shootings, religious bombings, and assassinations, according to a joint investigation by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

Researchers posing as troubled teenagers tested ten popular chatbots, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Meta AI, and DeepSeek. In hundreds of exchanges, the AI assistants provided detailed guidance on target locations, weapons procurement, and attack methodologies.

One exchange with DeepSeek reportedly ended with the chatbot wishing a would-be attacker “Happy (and safe) shooting!” Character.AI, which is popular among younger users, actively encouraged violence, telling a user expressing hatred for a health insurance CEO to “use a gun.”

When asked about effective shrapnel for explosives, ChatGPT provided detailed comparisons of materials, offering to create “a quick comparison chart showing the typical injuries.” Google’s Gemini supplied similar information, including a detailed comparison table.

Only Anthropic’s Claude and Snapchat’s My AI consistently refused to assist, with Claude actively discouraging users and providing mental health resources.

The findings come after an 18-year-old shooter killed nine people at a school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada last month after allegedly using ChatGPT to plan the attack. The shooter’s account had been banned by OpenAI, but he evaded the ban by creating a second account – which the company did not report to the authorities.

The family of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was critically injured in the attack, filed a lawsuit alleging that OpenAI had “specific knowledge of the shooter utilizing ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event” but failed to alert law enforcement. OpenAI has acknowledged that it considered reporting the activity but ultimately did not.

Last May, a 16-year-old in Finland stabbed three students after spending nearly four months researching attacks on ChatGPT, according to court documents. In January 2025, a man who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas similarly used ChatGPT for guidance on explosives.

Meta told CNN that it has taken steps “to fix the issue identified,” while Google and OpenAI said newer models have improved safeguards. DeepSeek did not respond to requests for comment.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/634689-ai-help-mass-shootings/

Will We Have Midterms?

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Over and over again, the ‘polls’ indicate that the number of Republicans who make up less than 25% of the voting bloc are favoring the war in the Middle East. USA Today, Time Magazine, and others disagree citing a huge discrepancy in the social media claim ripping the narrative to shreds. Trump cannot win the Midterms on lies.  Plan B would indicate that something else is in the works that will guarantee Trump his right to the throne.

The two most obvious assertions being there will be no Midterms because we will still be fighting the entire Middle East, or Election fraud using the Dominion machines now owned by a Trump ‘friend’ will create a fraudulent election. As in – more of the same – if they can do it, I can do it mentality. Fraud for fraud. Deception for deception.

Hegseth has just announced that the 3-4-day war that was then the 1-2-week war that was then a 4-6-week war is now an 8-week war – to be updated. The war insurance for the tankers that can’t get thru the Strait of Hormuz will be picked up by Trump taxpayers and is valued at $1million per journey one way. Of course, should a tanker and all aboard be destroyed, the insurer’s cost (taxpayers) is estimated to be roughly $300 million for the oil and $160 million for the tanker itself – not to mention the crew of 30-35 who would demand compensation. The pundits call this a win for Trump.

Trump severely miscalculated. Americans will pay. This is the new daily mantra as applied to tariffs, manufacturing, sanctions, and the economy. It is no different than his faux pas claiming the price of drugs would be reduced by 600%. This is the man who boasts he has never read a book. I believe him.

The Pentagon is now looking for an additional supplemental budget of $50 billion having lost $5 billion in weapon inventory. Despite Trump’s media comments that he had enough weapons for ‘forever’, he now claims the US is running short. But you don’t just ‘buy weapons’ that are in inventory at Lockheed and Raytheon, you contract for their construction.  A period that can take 2-5 years. Their current inventory is roughly $13 billion comprising mostly missiles and defense systems on a backlog of orders totaling $268 billion. Giving them MORE money will not produce the backlog of weapons Trump demands.

Canada’s REAlloys is now fitted to provide the rare earth processing of the US supply of these necessary components for weapon production. There is exactly one mine in the US producing rare earths, while the US continues to import 70%+ of its needs from China and has sent 100% back to China for processing, REAlloys processing has the capacity for less than 3%.  As of March 2, the Pentagon has awarded REAlloys $1.7 million to begin construction on a plant in the US. Trump is still far, far away from his 100% goal and Raytheon and Lockheed need China.

How will China react after the Venezuela and Iran coups? 

Unless Trump believes the war on Iran will last multiple years, these components remain dominant via China. So why does the DoD need $50 billion when according to their FY September 30, 2025 unaudited financial statements, they were sitting on $168 billion in unappropriated Fund Balance and a Net Position of $307.875 billion? Is Trump simply sucking America dry? Do any of the lawyers in Congress know how to read financial statements?

Typically, you spend what you have and then ask for more if necessary to make ends meet. In the political world, you just ask for more and spend $3,000 for golden toilets. The golden age. The budget was already upped by $500 Billion to fund new inventory.

Apparently, the long estimate is that Trump’s Iran war will have a base funding requirement of $80 billion. Still, that is already built into the $500 billion – so perhaps rather than request the money for Israel, he is requesting it for defense spending which will be sent to Israel.

In 2003, Israel’s government debt was 100% of GDP. Due to unusually higher income levels, that debt has been reduced to 61% per the IMF. So while US debt continues to climb erratically higher, we give Israel money lowering their debt by almost 40% points. Begging the question, how much of America’s $40 trillion in debt is a direct result of Israel’s fraud? According to the OECD, Israel has not produced a government ‘surplus’ since 2000. So how could government debt be reduced by 40%? According to debt clock, it is because ‘national income has increased’. This does NOT make sense.

AI has speculated that the rise of national income from a mere $150 billion to $535 Billion is a direct result of the tech center. The US accounts as the leading partner in tech exports from Israel valued at $20 billion in 2024. Since 1980, total exports from Israel to the US have grown from $8.6 billion to $157 billion of which tech exports amount to 12.7%.

Israel’s largest tech companies include

  • NVIDIA, US-based,
  • Mobileye – owned by Intel, US-based,
  • CheckPoint – Israeli, and
  • Monday.com – launched in 2014 in Israel.

If we were to conduct a true audit of the DoD and Pentagon, would we find that our debt is Israel’s revenue?

“Even during the war with Hamas, Israel’s high-tech industry not only remained resilient but reached new fundraising highs — with total tech investment in 2025 hitting USD 15.6 billion, an increase of over 25% compared to 2024.”

Is America funding Israel’s technology sector as well as defense? Where will Trump’s $50 billion request go? Is the Iran war a money laundering scam?

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/since-2003-israel-debt-down-40-america-rose-550/5918164

US burns through two years’ worth of Patriot missile production in war on Iran

This picture taken on March 8, 2026 shows launchers of the Patriot missile system deployed at a US military base in Pyeongtaek. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV

The US military is facing a “historic challenge” as it attempts to counter Iran’s vast arsenal of “low-cost” drones and ballistic missiles, says a new report.

Nearly two weeks into the US aggression against the Islamic Republic, Tehran has managed to significantly strain American military inventories, Bloomberg reported, citing military experts and Pentagon officials.

The American publication wrote that US forces have been forced to dig deep into inventories of expensive, hard-to-replace interceptors to counter the Iranian barrage.

It stated that the US and its Persian Gulf allies have fired over 1,000 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors—nearly double the annual production capacity of these weapons.

“The United States led the long-range precision strike revolution, and this is the first war where we’re seeing the adversary have that kind of capability,” Bloomberg quoted Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center.

“It’s putting stress on the system that we haven’t seen before,” Grieco added.

Iranian armed forces have been carrying out retaliatory attacks on US military assets in regional countries since the US started an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28.

Just after the US-Israeli airstrikes began, Iran launched more than 300 ballistic missiles at US assets around the Persian Gulf, “along with streams of Shahed one-way attack weapons,” according to the report.

The analysis highlighted a staggering cost imbalance. While each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000, the Patriot missiles used to down them cost approximately $4 million each.

Furthermore, a radar for the $300 million THAAD air-defense system—the most advanced US ground-based defense—was damaged in Jordan by an Iranian missile strike.

The report said the destruction of at least seven MQ-9 Reaper drones by Iran’s 358 missiles has challenged the US “air supremacy” seen in previous wars.

It said the Pentagon spent $5.6 billion on munitions alone in just the first two days of the war.

Experts now warn that replacing these “high-demand, low-density” precision weapons could take years for the Pentagon due to limited manufacturing capacity.

“It’s a race to see will our inventories get low before the Iranian missile inventories get low,” said Mark Cancian of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Ankit Panda of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace stated that the Trump administration “appears to have underestimated Iran’s tolerance for pain and its ability to inflict it in return.”

The report concludes by citing experts who warn that the continued depletion of US advanced interceptors remains a critical concern for Washington’s long-term military readiness as the war rages toward its third week.

Commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Major General Ali Abdollahi said on Sunday that the US and Israeli regime have always made miscalculations regarding Iran.

Abdollahi stated that the Islamic Republic is in possession of advanced weapons with high precision, which are beyond the enemy’s assessment of the country’s military power.

The general reiterated that Iran will keep the war on with the US and Israel until they regret launching the aggression against the Islamic Republic.

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US soldiers ‘displaced and roaming’ as they flee bases after Iran attacks

US military personnel at the Buehring base in Udairi, in Kuwait, on May 10, 2023.

Press TV

The spokesman for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says US soldiers have become displaced in cities across the region as they continue to flee Iran’s retaliatory strikes.

In a social media post on Tuesday, Brigadier General Alimohammad Naeini said that US President Donald Trump has tried to portray the situation as entirely normal for American soldiers engaged in joint military aggression with Israel against Iran.

“…American soldiers, fleeing from US bases, are wandering through the region’s cities with their backpacks, and some have sought refuge in local hotels,” Naeini said.

The IRGC general added that the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was forced to increase its distance from Iran by more than 1,000 kilometers after being targeted by four Iranian missiles in the initial days of the war, which began on February 28.

He also said that Israeli soldiers have been fleeing the extensive barrage of Iranian missiles and drones, hiding among civilians in the occupied territories in an attempt to shield themselves.

Iran has been carrying out reprisal strikes on US military assets in regional countries, as well as on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories, since late February, when the US and Israel launched their aerial aggression against Iran.

Independent media outlets have reported that Iran’s retaliatory attacks have inflicted significant material and human casualties on the enemy, despite contrary claims in Western media.

The United States has acknowledged that Iranian attacks have killed seven service members and destroyed key military equipment and infrastructure in the region.

Videos emerging from the occupied territories also point to substantial losses in Israeli-controlled cities and towns.

Iran’s military strikes have also triggered a major surge in international energy and commodity prices, with experts warning that the crisis could deepen in the coming weeks if the confrontation continues.

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‘Doomsday’ plane again spotted flying low over California — as Iran tensions rocket

A 150-foot-long Boeing E-6B Mercury, colloquially known as the "Doomsday Plane", flying above the clouds.The plane is the president’s emergency operations hub if nuclear war breaks out. Naval Air Systems Command

By Ross O’Keefe
March 11, 2026

The ominous “Doomsday” plane has been spotted flying over California — for the second time in two months.

The huge Boeing E-6B Mercury, which is the president’s emergency operations hub if nuclear war breaks out, coasted over Fresno over the weekend.

Airport bosses said it was conducting approaches at the site and spent two hours doing mock landings, leaving onlookers stunned.

The aircraft serves as a nuclear control platform and strategic command post. If the plane had to execute its mission, the US could be heading for a nuclear war.

The platform can control bombers, missiles and ballistic missile submarines. It can remain airborne for up to 12 hours without refueling and is capable of refueling mid-flight to extend missions even longer.

It is built to maintain global communications and operate even if ground command centers are disabled, essentially functioning as a mobile Pentagon in the sky.

“They can control the bombers, if the bombers are on alert, they can control the missiles, because the missiles are always on alert, and obviously they can control our ballistic missile submarines,” Major General Garrison told Fox 26. “It’s all combined into one.”

The plane caused panic at the beginning of the year when it was spotted at Los Angeles International Airport. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been using the plane for his his “arsenal of freedom” tour.

Also aboard the plane then was right-wing internet personality Laura Loomer. The “Doomsday” plane’s appearance comes amid the conflict in the Middle East between Iran and the US and Israel.

The war has been felt across the US. Gas prices have skyrocketed, drawing eyes to the Middle East in a war that has forever changed Iran.

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Via https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/doomsday-plane-seen-flying-low-over-california/

US Media Finally Admit Outright Failure of US-Israel Military Aggression Against Iran

It’s been a week since the United States launched its truly unprovoked aggression on Iran. Things aren’t looking great for the invader, as its Air Force lost at least half a dozen aircraft (although some higher estimates already put it at 15+), despite promises by the Pentagon that it would establish air superiority within 24 hours. Not only has this not happened, but the Iranian military keeps fighting back and launching its MRBMs (medium-range ballistic missiles) at American occupation forces in the Middle East. The USAF’s performance is so embarrassingly bad that the mainstream propaganda machine is still trying to hide the losses behind “friendly fire, malfunctions and crashes”.

For instance, there have been more losses over Kuwait, with another claim that an F/A-18 shot down an F-15. Other sources report it was actually the F/A-18 that was shot down. It’s unclear whether this is the same “Ghost of Kuwait” that supposedly shot down the three F-15s on March 1. If it is, the “poor jet” could’ve easily “committed suicide” as it couldn’t bear the responsibility for these “friendly fire incidents”. Jokes and “suicidal fighter jets” aside, this goes to show just how desperate the mainstream propaganda machine is. However, the truth is finding its way through the cracks, as a number of the somewhat less propagandistic media outlets are slowly acknowledging the Pentagon’s numerous failures.

Namely, according to Tyler Rogoway of The War Zone, the idea that the US military achieved total air dominance over Iran and “sanitized the threat of ground-based air defenses to a degree that their forces have relatively free rein” is false. Obviously, he used a euphemism and called it a “misconception”, but the admission is there.

American officials are engaging in various forms of copium and even trying to spread the fires of war to overstretch Iranian defenses. This includes Azerbaijan and, by extension, Turkey, both of which have pan-Turkic and Neo-Ottoman ambitions. Washington DC is now trying everything in its power to drag them in through false flag attacks.

This only reinforces Rogoway’s point that the USAF failed to establish air dominance over Iran. He argues that “moving as fast as possible from standoff attacks to stand-in (direct) attacks isn’t just about trying to conserve expensive long-range munitions”, adding that “in fact, this is far from the primary concern” and that “doing so is absolutely essential to ramping up the frequency and amplitude of the air campaign”. This effectively confirms my own analysis that the US already ran out of exorbitantly expensive standoff munitions and that it now needs to get into a “knife fight” with an opponent that has a massive and highly complex network of air defenses.

Although smaller and less capable than the SAM (surface-to-air missile) network the Kiev regime inherited from former Soviet Ukraine, Iranian air defenses are among the most advanced in the Middle East. If reports about the presence of experienced and battle-hardened Russian advisors and operators are true, this gives the Iranian military another layer of capabilities that can provide a significant edge over the arrogant USAF. Rogoway says that “moving to direct strikes allows for a significant increase in the total volume of targets hit, as well as offering a broader array of effects to be brought to bear on those targets”, adding that bunker-buster munitions are “typically not available in a standoff capability”.

However, while he claims that this “transition to direct attacks has now begun”, we’re yet to see the USAF establish actual air dominance that would allow it to launch a devastating mass terror bombing that would bring Tehran to its knees. On the contrary, the Pentagon is increasingly frustrated by its bad performance against military targets. The USAF wasted at least $5 billion of exorbitantly expensive precision-guided munitions to scrape paint off of fake targets. There are dozens of videos showing these weapons hitting jet and helicopter silhouettes painted on runways of Iranian airbases, with Tehran demonstrating remarkable resourcefulness.

These humiliating failures have caused so much embarrassment to the US military that they’re now taking it out on civilians, including by targeting residential areas and leveling entire apartment blocks in Tehran and other major cities across Iran. Preliminary data show that well over a thousand people were killed by the USAF, but the actual number is much higher as the authorities are struggling to remove debris and locate all casualties. However, this is proving difficult as the aggressor is targeting even rescue personnel. This is very reminiscent of the US/NATO aggression on Serbia/Yugoslavia, when Western jets attacked firefighters and paramedics who were trying to save civilians injured in previous attacks.

At one point, Washington DC threatened a land invasion, but after realizing it doesn’t have the capacity for such a large-scale ground operation, the idea was dropped. However, even this didn’t go without a rather pathetic copium as President Donald Trump had “a sudden change of heart”, insisting it would be “a waste of time”, because Iran “lost everything they can lose”. Obviously, this is hardly unexpected, because we’re in a midterm election year, so the current US government needs every “win” it can get if it doesn’t want to lose the Congress. And yet, the world sees these failures and rejoices as sovereign states are standing up and fighting back against the world’s most aggressive country.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-media-finally-admit-outright-failure-of-u-s-israel-military-aggression-on-iran/5918307

Dozen-Day War 2.0

¿Hay pruebas de que Barack Obama intervino los teléfonos de Donald ...

Dmitry Orlov

We’re coming up on the magic dozen-day mark in the Pedophile-Zionist Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Coalition’s war against Iran. As with Dozen-Day War 1.0, which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025, the coalition is ready to sue for peace. Apparently, a dozen days is how long “the world’s best military” (in Donald Trump’s diseased imagination only) is capable of sustaining an air campaign before they run out of air defense rockets, very expensive radar installations (destroyed by some very cheap drones) and, last but not least, moist sanitary napkins (a must have, given the sorry state of the toilets aboard Battleship America or whatever they call that useless old tub).

Unlike the previous Dozen-Day War, this one was a stunning success — just not for the Pedo-Zionists, or for the Pedophiles’ European vassals (or are they just slaves now?), or for the bathrobe-and-towelhead contingent that supervises migrant workers who pump the oil and the gas, and do just about everything else, on the Arabian Peninsula. Nor was it a success for the Zionist segment of the Pedophile-Zionist Coalition: Israel, being 60 times smaller than Iran and 10 times less populous, should be expected to last between 1/60 and 1/10 times as long in a war against Iran — but perhaps just a bit longer because, unlike the Jews, the Persians are far less hell-bent on genocide.

Nevertheless, a success it most certainly is. The stated goal of DDW 2.0, as with DDW 1.0 of last June, was regime change in Tehran. And, indeed, regime change has been effected most efficaciously. The new Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, is the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was old, in poor health, and was turned into a martyr by a Pedophile air strike along with Mojtaba’s wife and child. Mojtaba is a renowned Shia theologian, just like his father, but he is also very tight with the Iranian military. Mojtaba has the right connections and the right mindset to properly avenge the murder of his father, wife and child, along with the 171 girls killed by a Pedophile-launched Tomahawk missile in Minab (a tourist town) and thousands of other gratuitous murders of Iranian civilians. Revenge is a sacred obligation among these people, mind you, and this should curb the enthusiasm of the Pedophile-Zionists for attempting to talk them down. Genuflecting and prostrating themselves in prayer would be more appropriate to the circumstances in which they now find themselves.

The new Iranian regime thus has a vigorous and relatively young new leader who was gladly accepted by jubilant crowds that flooded the streets and squares of Teheran. Iran’s power structure has been properly bomb-proofed, with new leaders ready to pop into place to replace those who are killed by air strikes.

Gone are those who thought it was a good idea to “negotiate” with the Pedophiles and who were, one must concede, exemplarily stupid in doing so. Just consider: the previous Dozen-Day War was launched in the midst of “negotiations” and the negotiators were killed in an air strike. And yet they came up with replacements who went right back to “negotiate” some more, resulting in an exact repeat? How is that even possible? Well, I very much doubt that it will be possible moving forward: the emotional abuse victims that enabled this travesty of diplomacy should by now be either dead or out of power in any case.

And so, the regime has been changed, the mission has been accomplished and the Pedophile-Zionist coalition can sail home and lick its wounds. The problem is that one doesn’t just walk away from a war one has started, especially if it is war against an ancient and populous nation that has a young, well-educated and passionate population, is ensconced in a natural mountainous fortress in the center of Eurasia, controls access to fully a third of both oil and natural gas that have flowed to the global energy markets and has two of the three great Eurasian powers (Russia and China) as its allies. The Iranians are not opposed to ending the conflict; they have just one perfectly reasonable condition: that any repeats of Dozen-Day War 2.0 should be made impossible.

To this end, it would be most helpful if the Pedophiles would most kindly liquidate all of their military bases in the Middle East, or, better yet, in all of Eurasia. This is actually a constructive suggestion, given that these military bases have become, given recent advancements in cheap drones and hypersonic missiles, easy targets — cheap to destroy, impossible to defend. In the course of Dozen-Day War 2.0, all of the Pedophile military bases on the Arabian Peninsula have sustained major damage and have been made largely inoperable. If this conflict continues well beyond a dozen days, they will be completely destroyed, first using Iran’s Shahed drones, then by similar but faster and even more accurate Russian Geranium 2’s (which are, essentially, Shahed airframes with more explosive power, more accurate targeting, fancy swarming abilities and a jet engine).

If the Pedophiles were to liquidate their Eurasian military presence, that would still leave open the question of what to do with the Zionists. An easy answer would be to defund them — but hard to implement politically given the power of the Zionist lobby among the Pedophiles. Without regular transfusions of weapons and money from the Pedophiles, the Zionists would shrivel up.

There is something that the Pedophiles can do to speed up the process, which is to make a separate peace with Iran and let the 60 to 1 or 10 to 1 weight ratio between the Zionists and the Iranians do its work. The Zionists could then decamp to Jew Jersey (Oops, typo! The N and the J buttons are so close together! Damn!) while the non-Zionist Israelis (there are some) would be welcome to move to the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Federation, which is about the same size as Israel but has more natural resources and better neighbors.

How close are the Pedophiles from actually ending Dozen-Day War 2.0? They certainly appear to be in a panic and have reached the stage of grasping at straws. To this end, Donald Trump recently had a phone call with some Kurdish leaders, trying to coax them into launching a ground offensive against Tehran, with the idea that some Pedophile troops will then “help” them and… claim victory for themselves. And if it doesn’t work out, too bad: the Kurds will be abandoned to their enemies… again. There are two aspects of this conversation that are particularly notable.

First, here is Donald Duck, a supposed “leader of the free world” trying to secure the cooperation of some field commanders. The discrepancy of rank is rather glaring. Such tasks are properly assigned to the CIA station chief in Erbil, the self-styled Kurdish capital in Northern Iraq. The fact that it is the head of the whole Pedophile organization who saw it fit to personally attend to this matter shows that Trump’s bloated political corpse is floating on a sea of nothingness. His administration is staffed by headless chickens whose only job requirement is that they have pledged personal allegiance to Trump himself.

Second, the Kurds are perhaps the most politically incompetent ethnic group on the planet (in this they are neck and neck with the Karen people of southeastern Myanmar). This is why they are probably the largest ethnic group on the planet that lacks their own country, being spread out between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Armenia. But nobody is stupid enough to first be abandoned by the Pedophiles in Syria to be massacred by the ISIS remnants now in power in Damascus and then immediately thereafter to be willing to start a hopeless ground war against Iran on behalf of these same treacherous Pedophiles.

This shows that the Trump organization is in too much disarray to troubleshoot the situation and guide Dozen-Day War 2.0 to anything resembling an acceptable conclusion. What seems far more likely is that the Iranians will continue their bombing of Pedophile and Zionist military and strategic assets until they become sufficiently degraded to not pose a high risk of being able to launch Dozen-Day War 3.0. The Iranians have enough rockets and drones packed away in tunnels under mountains to continue doing so for months. In the process, oil, gas, fertilizer and plastics production in the Persian Gulf states will be destroyed, along with water desalination plants without which life in these desert locations becomes impossible. The resulting humanitarian disaster will be a sight to behold!

The effects of this humanitarian disaster will spread far beyond the Persian Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz, through which flow a third of both oil and liquefied natural gas in the world, has been effectively inoperative for a little over a week now and the world energy markets are already in a very bad state. So far the damage has only been financial, but actual physical shortages of oil and gas are likely to materialize in another two weeks, resulting in industry and transportation shutdowns, electricity blackouts, food and water shortages and other such inconveniences.

Although the conflict is far from over, it is not too early to start naming the winners and the losers. Russia is a definite winner: higher oil and gas prices will result in large windfall profits for the Russian exporters, wiping out Russia’s rather modest budget deficit, allowing the Russian government to roll back some tax increases and providing ample funds for Gazprom to proceed with building two more gigantic skyscrapers depicted above to adorn the shore of the Gulf of Finland in a northern suburb of Saint Petersburg.

The European Union is a definite loser. It has progressively cut itself off from its only reasonably priced and reliable energy supplier — Russia, that is — and throwing in their lot with the resource-limited Norwegians, the far less reliable Pedophiles and the newly defunct Persian Gulf suppliers. Throw in the brain-damaged “Brown New Deal” (covered in detail in my last book) which requires every last solar panel and wind generator to be backed up by natural gas-based generating capacity, and what you have is an elaborately crafted prescription for disaster. Britain is perhaps the poster child for this continent-sized fiasco, with less than two days’ worth of natural gas in storage.

An additional twist of the knife by Putin has exacerbated Europe’s predicament. Putin has politely suggested that Russia look for new, more agreeable and more reliable customers for Russia’s natural gas. After all, the European Commission was itself planning to gradually cut off imports of Russian energy, begging the question: Why do so gradually? Soon thereafter, Deputy PM Alexander Novak announced that new customers for Russian natural gas have already been found. We should therefore expect that European deindustrialization and post-industrial decay will proceed as if on steroids.

Another definite loser will be the United States. Dozen-Day War 2.0 has been a powerful demonstration of the fact that Pedophile security guarantees are worse than worthless: Pedophile forces stationed on one’s territory are a liability, not an asset. In case of armed conflict, they become magnets that attract attacks by enemy drones and rockets which Pedophile air defense systems are powerless to stop. Equally worthless were the lavish investments made by the Gulf Arabs in Pedophile military hardware.

To sum it up, the ability of the Pedophiles to project force around the world is now history, and, consequently, the ability of the Pedophiles to extort money from countries around the world will be lost as well. In turn, the Pedophiles will lose their ability to continuously “borrow” approximately $4.5 billion per day.

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Add to this the Pedophile troops which will have to be repatriated — around 200,000 of them if you include the various contractors and service personnel. The problem is made worse by all of the hardware that has to be either flown or shipped back or destroyed. If left in place, plenty of these weapons will end up in the hands of Mexican narcocartels.

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Crushing the Right to Conscientiously Object

A sailor signals an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in support of the U.S.-Isreal attack on the Iranian regime in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Feb. 28. (DoW/Public Domain)

By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News

As the U.S. and Israel’s deeply unpopular war with Iran enters its second week, social media platform X is censoring the accounts of people providing information to military servicemembers on how they can refuse to serve. This is particularly relevant as fears have grown that U.S. ground troops may enter the conflict.

The Center on Conscience & War, an 80-year-old nonprofit that, according to its website, “advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war,” was banned on X for 12 hours. The center’s executive director, Mike Prysner, shared a notice that the center received from X which labeled their posts as having “violated X rules” against “illegal and regulated behaviors.”

Prysner wrote: “This is the post @CCW4COs was suspended for, informing service members of their legal right under DoDI 1332.14 to report “failure to adapt” within first 365 days of service and receive an entry-level discharge.”

It remains legal to conscientiously object to military service. The only conceivable way that the post could be framed as encouraging illegal or irregular behavior would be to recast such objections as mutiny, which is exactly what pro-Israeli voices on social media have been frantically doing in the last few days.

In response to conservative commentator Candace Owens also encouraging those in the U.S. military to conscientiously object to serving in Iran, pro-Israel journalist Emily Schrader wrote on X:

“This is illegal. She is literally advocating mutiny. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2387 (Advocating overthrow or disloyalty in the armed forces). It is a crime for any person, including civilians, to willfully advocate or attempt to cause:
• insubordination in the armed forces
• disloyalty among service members
• mutiny or refusal of duty
It also criminalizes distributing materials intended to encourage those outcomes.
The penalty can be up to 10 years in prison and fines.”

Other pro-Israel voices like Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, reposted Shrader’s sentiments.

The social media ban on the Center for Conscience and War came less than 24 hours after its executive director, Prysner, also wrote via social media regarding anecdotal evidence of troops being readied for combat:

“I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom they were going ‘boots on the ground’ tonight.”

As noted by The Cradle,

“Mike Prysner … said in posts on X that his office has been overwhelmed with requests for guidance from service members seeking to dodge deployment…. ‘Phone has been ringing off the hook,’ he wrote … adding that many troops had not been told the mission involved combat until the last moment and were initially informed they were heading to training.”

As veteran Greg Stoker said via X: “Service members knowing their rights is a direct threat to both the secular imperialists who own these apps and the rapturous evangelicals trying to bring about Armageddon.”

Some X users have also been anecdotally reporting the apparent mobilization of troops:

“Spoke to a family member tonight — a Marine stationed in California. He said half\ the troops on base have disappeared in the past couple days and that the situation is chaos with those still remaining.”

Despite official denials that troops on the ground are part of the current plan, President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility. Democrats expressed alarm over the possibility following a March 4 classified briefing.

Democracy Now! noted that Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, “I just want to say I am more fearful than ever, after this briefing, that we may be putting boots on the ground.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren also stated after the briefing:

“I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here’s what I can say. It is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn’t given a single clear reason for this war, and he seems to have no plan for how to end it, either.”

The censorship of an account sharing information for troops regarding how to conscientiously object is particularly relevant now as thousands of U.S. troops are facing the potential for imminent deployment in the escalating conflict with Iran: a war largely unsupported on the home front.

According to The New York Times, support for U.S. intervention in Iran is incredibly low, having “ranged from 27 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll to 41 percent in a CNN survey, far below the level of public backing that Mr. Trump’s predecessors initially enjoyed when they used force overseas.”

Many see the intervention as a war waged overwhelmingly for Israel, especially in light of broad daylight comments from figures like U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said:

“The president made the very wise decision: 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 would suffer higher casualties.”

Other veteran activists have also been speaking out against the war, and urging servicemembers to refuse to serve. As reported by Breakthrough News, at a Chicago rally on Saturday, veteran Daniel Lakemacher urged U.S. soldiers to “refuse this illegal and immoral war” on Iran.

This negative sentiment was also voiced by former U.S. Marine Sgt Brian McGinnis, a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate for North Carolina, who was dragged out of a recent congressional hearing after shouting that “America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel.”

Sen. Tim Sheehy and police officers reportedly broke McGinnis’s arm as they struggled to remove him from the room. McGinnis was then charged with multiple counts of assault.

The violent repression of a former service member’s speech against U.S. intervention in Iran, like the social media suppression of information that might help military members use legal methods to refuse to serve in that war, demonstrates how desperate the government is to preserve its ability to force Americans to fight for Israel.

The president and his supporters seem increasingly confused when justifying the U.S. involvement to the press. When asked about U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran’s water desalination plants, Trump rambled about beheaded babies and referenced Oct. 7. This behavior is stoking public resistance to the war, including amongst members of the military.

At a time when a dangerous war of America’s own making is escalating dangerously out of control, it cannot be acceptable to censor or render it illegal for members of the U.S. military to have a conscience.

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Via https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/10/crushing-the-right-to-conscientiously-object/