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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Trump Plan To Open The Strait of Hormuz By Putting US Marines Boots On Iranian Soil Is Doomed To Fail

by Colonel Sealey Farquhar

President Donald Trump's latest escalation of the war in Iran invoves sending US marines to the Middle East to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as concerns grow that rising oil prices could cause a global recession . The president ordered a warship carrying an expeditionary unit to sail for the middle east in a move that could lead to boots on the ground in Iran.

Mr Trump pledged that US forces would hit the Iranian regime “very hard” over the next week and added that the war with Tehran would end “when I feel it in my bones”.

More commercial tankers came under fire from Iranian forces on Friday after the new supreme leader pledged to keep the strait closed until attacks on Iran stopped.

Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, insisted to reporters that they “don’t need to worry about” the strait. It was “something we are dealing with”, he said. Hesgeth seems to have forgotten that he said Iran could not close the Strait of Hormuz a few days before thety closed it.

US officials confirmed on Friday that the USS Tripoli had already left Okinawa, Japan, with 5,000 sailors and a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit on board.

The expeditionary unit is capable of carrying out special air and surface operations and has landing force capabilities, but is unlikely to arrive for another two weeks.

Members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is capable of launching ground assaults Credit: US Marine Corps

This orce will join the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Gerald R Ford, which are already in the region.President Trump is sending US marines to the Middle East to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as concerns grow that rising oil prices could cause a global recession.

Trump pledged that US forces would hit the Iranian regime “very hard” over the next week and added that the war with Tehran would end “when I feel it in my bones”.

More commercial tankers came under fire from Iranian forces on Friday after the new supreme leader, obviously not dead or in a coma as was reported by mainstream media in the week, pledged to keep the strait closed until attacks on Iran stopped.

It is hard to imagine that Trump’s Iran War will be finished in a few weeks. Quite the contrary, like all the predictions made by his expert adviers the whole projects has not been thought through. The bid to effect regime change in Iran and take control of its oil and gas resources via a puppet government will collapse in failure, misery and shame in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Gordian Knot of the Strait of Hormuz’s defense or maintenance is unsolvable. The Strait is a death trap. Iranians operating from their own soil can make it so at their whim. They are positioned perfectly to launch boats, missiles or mines to destroy or cripple all ship traffic. They are close to the one and only narrow path all that is navigable by big ships like oil tankers must follow inside the horn of the strait. Michael Clark, a British SkyNews television Military Analyst has recently explicated this point in the below SkyNews program excerpt at about 2:10:

https://news.sky.com/video/analysis-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-in-effect-blocked-due-to-risk-posed-by-iran-13514529

The above strategic conundrum is the abyss of miserable failure laid before Donald Trump in the Anglo-Iranian War. Horribly, something like it is repeated in all projects or programs throughout the Trump administration. It is characteristic of Donald Trump’s every action because he always fails to plan research and think through, with wisdom, prudence, intelligence, knowledge, insight and mature equanimity, before acting.

Here are four examples.

First, the failure of his program for manufacturing workers to experience burgeoning job opportunities and “a better paycheck” as a result of his ludicrous tariffs. The real manufacturing employment statistics easily prove this. the highest manufacturing employment in the U.S. was 19.5 million in 1979 but that since then it has steadily declined due to automation, among other things. That makes good sense. The losses in manufacturing jobs due to automation will never be reversed. Assembly line automation advances are salutary, sound and permanent improvements in efficiency which it would be folly to undo or abandon.

Second, the folly or failure of his frequent statements that NATO members are united behind him and have increased their defense spending to 4% or 5% of GDP. As of June 3, 2025, only Poland, Lithuania and Latvia exceeded 3.5%. All other NATO countries were under 3.5%.. Please read this report for that information in Graph Three:

https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf

As Deutsche Welle asked in a recent article: “Can debt-laden NATO members spend billions more on defense?” If NATO members seriously plan to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035 — a ‘quantum leap,’ according to the Atlantic Alliance's General Secretary, Mark Rutte there must be serious doubts that the most indebted members [can] really afford the hike.”

This report clearly explains that most NATO countries are too broke and indebted to pay the 5% target by 2035. That they could meet Trump's defence budget target is an impossible pipe-dream due to the economic miseries of 100 years of European Socialism.

Third, the miserable, embarrassing failure of Donald Trump’s deportation policies which are Unconstitutional. Boston, Massachusetts United States District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy’s 81 page decision, issued on February 25th, concluding that his deportation of asylees or refugees to third countries is illegal has damned this project. This is reported in the following WGBH online article, which includes an embedded url or link to the full District Court Memorandum and Order:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-02-25/mass-judge-rules-against-trump-administration-policy-for-third-country-deportations

Fourth, all his Executive Order tariffs were recently nullified by the Supreme Court as Unconstitutional. That was a complete disembowelment of his Presidency. He will now have to repay about $188 billion.

The calamitous failure of his Iran War is replicated or reflected in the similar failure of all his administration’s major “programs.”

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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Iran Tightens Grip On The Gulf As Mosquito Fleet Bites Foreign Commercial Oil Tankers

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi today (12 March 2026) denied reports that Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Takht-Ravanchi's remarks come days after the US said it had struck multiple Iranian vessels, including 16 minelaying vessels operating near the Strait of Hormuz.

"Some countries have already talked to us about passing the Strait, and we have cooperated with them," the Deputy FM was quoted as saying by AFP. "As far as Iran is concerned, we feel that those countries that joined the aggression should not benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz."

News sources in the middle east report that India has agreed passage for 28 ships through the strait, but this is not confirmed.

UK Defense Secretary John Healey said the reports had become "clearer and clearer that the Iranians may have started mining in the strait."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba says the closure of the Strait of Hormuz should be continued as a tool to pressure the enemy as reports from Reuters and other international sources suggested Iran has begun marine mine laying operations to further block sea traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

He additionally stated that "all US bases should immediately be closed in the region and those bases should be attacked."

Attacks on US bases in the Gulf region and as far away as the Mediterranean have been ongoing this week, as the cross Gulf drone and missile strikes continue, most recently in northern Iraq, and around Erbil.

On the question of base attacks, he claimed that Iran "only" targets military bases and sites, and says this will continue. However, he did try to assure angry Gulf neighbors, who have been pummeled by Iranian missiles and drones for close to two weeks now, that Iran believes in "friendship with our neighbors".

The message, which may have been released in response to reports that the Ayatollah had been seriously injured in a bomb strike and was in a coma, further praises 'martyrs' of the Islamic Republic and is one that emphasizes Iran is not backing down, despite the immense daily US-Israeli bombings so the economic outlook for the west is grim as we face a months long oil and energy crisis.

He also 'thanked' regional militias for their 'support' - at a moment Shia Iraq militant groups are said to be launching strikes on US targets inside neighboring Iraq. Ominously, the new Ayatollah is warning of opening "other fronts".

Elsewhere in The Gulf two oil tankers were struck overnight in the Gulf asas Iran intensified its attacks on foreign ships across the region. The vessels were reportedly hit by small, fast, remote-controlled boats on Iran's Mosquito Fleet, in effect marine drones laden with explosives. The attack took place in Iraqi waters, with footage showing one of the tankers ablaze.

The aftermath of the attack on the oil tankers in the Gulf near Iraq
Picture: screen grab from AFP

Iraqi authorities said oil Iraqi ports had “completely stopped” operations following the attack, hours after Donald Trump insisted the United States had already won the war.

The attacks sent oil prices soaring on Thursday, with crude hitting more than $100 (£80) a barrel, despite record releases of strategic crude reserves to dampen one of the worst oil shocks since the 1970s.

The two tankers - carrying cargos of extremely flammable naphtha and condensate, - were attacked while present in loading area.Tanker ZEFYROS was scheduled to head to Khor Al-Zubair Port on March 12 to load additional 30,000 tons shipment of naphtha. This incident negatively affects Iraq’s security and economy and also represents a threat to safety of maritime navigation and oil activities within Iraqi territorial waters, SOMO says.

According to an Iraqi port official speaking to the Reuters news agency, authorities have successfully evacuated 25 crew members from the two ships. Despite these efforts, the fires have remained ablaze on both vessels.

One tanker, which was flying a foreign flag, is believed to be American, though its specific nationality has not been confirmed. The attack took place within Iraq’s territorial waters, but no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

It turns out that perhaps the area is not as "safe" as President Trump said it was. And as a reminder, the US Navy already said it was 'too dangerous' to escort tankers through still.

As a result of these hits on tankers, Iraq one of the first Persian Gulf majors to start reducing oil production after the near-closure of Hormuz, closed its oil ports, followed by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The cuts forced forced the International Energy Agency to act with a co-ordinated release of 400 million barrels — a historic drawdown that is significantly higher than the volume that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Oil prices are surging higher on the news with WTI back above $91 - now up on the week and 20% higher than yesterday's lows.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Pushback Against Globalism Gathers Strength As Centre - right AfD Advance In Germany

Leaders of The European Union musth be seeting with rage, despite all their political, propaganda and lawfare efforts to stop the rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the most hated (by the left and Eurofederalist) political force in Germany, keeps showing robust signs of life, whether in its impressive showing in a state election on Sunday or in a recent courtroom victory. In a regional election on Sunday (8 March), the AfD more than doubled its previous vote share for the parliament of Baden-Württemberg, one of the most prosperous and heavily populated states in western Germany. On February 26, a German constitutional court dismissed a case brought by the country’s domestic spy agency aimed at having AfD, Germany’s second most popular political party, classified as a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organization. The “confirmed right-wing extremist” designation has been a key tool in the campaign among establishment and left-wing politicians to ban the AfD entirely on grounds that they are a 'threat to democracy.'

This is far - left bollocks of course, it is the AfD’s extremist enemies who seek to ban and censor it, who deny it its parliamentary privileges, who have launched arson attacks against its leaders, and who have assaulted its members. The AfD has done none of these things to its opponents, nor has it called on supporters to resort to violence against its opponents. AfD has abided by every legal ruling against it, however tendentious. The AfD is Germany’s staunchest supporter of Israel and German Jews; it alone has tried for years to cut off the U.N. slush fund that supports Palestinian terrorism.

What makes the AfD so toxic for the globalist left is that its policy portfolio commits the cardinal sin of making the case that mass migration by semi - educated, unskilled, culturally incompatible third world peasants and labourers who have no intention of integrating into German society is destroying traditional German culture and identity.

They also go against the approved narrative by pointing out that Germany’s open-borders policies are saddling the country with a crime- and terror-prone, welfare-dependent, culturally alien population that consumes taxpayer resources while only intermittently giving something back to German society, usually in the form of unwanted sexual attention to German women or trying to give the German car industry back to the by driving into a crowd of German people at a Carnival or Christmas Market .

Its other crime against democracy is in calling for the enforcement of laws already on the books regarding the deportation of criminal aliens and other migrants who have no right to remain in German society. At its core, its heresy is to assert that a country has a right to decide its level of immigration and resulting culture change, rather than that level being determined by the will of the migrants themselves.

Ionically the German trying to get AfD banned as a threat to democracy and the EU leaders condemning Trump’s ‘betrayal of democracy’ see it as perfectly normal to levy fines against European nations whose elected leaders defy EU policy (Poland, Hungary), or to enact punitive trade chastisements on nations that elect to leave a supposedly benign and voluntary trading bloc (the UK).

These same European fans of democracy happily watch the liberal consensus crumble as they increasingly deny their own populations the free speech on which democracy depends, and react with fury to Americans pointing this out. They talk openly about banning parties that don’t follow a globalist line (like the AfD in Germany) or have compliant judges who simply reverse election results they didn’t like (EU and judicial collusion in Greece, Spain, Belgium and Romania).

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German Elections: Anti - EU party AfD 3rd In Polls

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In Parallel With The Upheaval In European Politics, A Similar Cataclysm Is Happening In The USA Having reported for three or four years now the rise of the anti - Integration parties in European Union member nations, UKIP in Britain, the FN in France, AfD in Germany, Denmakr's Peoiple's Party, Five Star and the Liga Nord in Italy, the Sweden Democrats and others in every E U member state, we now look at what is going on in the USA as campaiging for the presidential election gathers pace.

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War On Cash - A Country By Country Guide
More on the global war on cash being waged by ruling elites in parallel with their war on privacy as they try to exert total control over everything.

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Re-Branding Dissent - The Quiet Destruction Of Democracy
Many people, all the contributors to this publication among them, fear that democracy is being destroyed. OK, OK, hipsters will say but ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but left wing deceit aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are being outlawed and abolished in a sustained attack on free speech and civil rights.

How Mainstream Media And The Major Political Parties Are Making Sure Voters Do not Hear The Voices Of Politics' Most Powerful Critics
As the General Election campaign starts to heat up, we try to shift focus away from the squabbling between Conservative and Labour about who can make the most promises they have no intention of keeping and to the real issues concerning jobs, social breakdown , mass immigration, and loss of national sovereignty.

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Another Reason To Get Out Of EU. UKIP MEP Hits Out At Fishing Policy That Penalises British Fishing Crews
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Democracy: Does It have A Future Or Has Global Totalitarianism Won?
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European Commission puts business profits before the needs of the world’s poorest.
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Representative government Is Being Replaced By A Global Technocracy
When Peter Mandelson, the architect of the New Labour project that gave Britain it's most authoritarian government in three hundred years and sold out national sovereignty to supranational bureaucracies, says that representative democracy is dying, he does not sound as if he will be one of the chief mourtners. What can we do to rescue our democratic freedoms from smooth faced technocrats like Mandelson?

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Military Experts Advising Trump Overlooked Iran's Mosquito Fleet - Taking Kargh Istand Is Not An Easy Option For Winning The War

Iran's IRGC receives new fast boats armed with laser-guided missiles

A batch of unmanned speedboats for Iran's Mosquito Fleet

The Telegraph today carried a story headlined: "The tiny island of Kharg that could let Trump beat Iran without sending a single soldier," claiming to offer insight into the latest thinking of 'experts' on how to progress the war on Iran. Like most war stories it took a simplistic view of what could be a near impoosible task.

When serious export of Iranian oil started it was soon met by a problem. Iran’s coast is relatively shallow. Big tankers have a lot of draft. It was thus troublesome for Iran’s oil industry to deliver large loads of crude oil to big ships.

The answer to this problem was Kargh Island a tiny, flat, featureless islet surrounded by deep water, some 15 miles off the Iranian coast. The government in Tehran, incollaboration with the oil companies built a termina able to load very large crude oil carrying vessels on the island. Today 90% of all Iran's petroleum products are handled by the Kargh Island Terminal.

For decades dimwit American politicians and military leaders have dreamed of fetching Kharg to thereby get control over Iran’s oil production: In an interview with a British newspaper back in 1988, an up-and-coming New York property mogul named Donald Trump was asked about his plans for the future.

Never one to be lost for words he, boasted that he might one day run for president and vowed to win back “respect” for America on the world stage. He also had stern words for the theocratic regime of Iran’s Islamic Republic, already a sworn enemy of America in the wake of the 1979 US hostage crisis.

“They’ve been beating us psychologically, making us look a bunch of fools,” Trump told The Guardian. “One bullet shot at one of our men or ships, and I’d do a number on Kharg Island. I’d go in and take it.”

Several figures of the current Trump administration have likewise opined that the taking of Kharg would give the U.S. a hold over all Iranian oil exports – now and in future.

However the American leadership is skirting some serious optic problems which have been vastly underplayed in US & western media, and so are effectively unknown to the population at large. These factors point to a long war, energy shortage and a global economic crisis.

JCOS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, yesterday emphasized three U.S. objectives in Iran: destroying Iranian ballistic missile and drone capability, striking ‘deeper into Iran’s military and industrial base’ and continuing to decimate Iran’s navy to allow maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.”

Aside from Iran’s Navy being far from the sole obstacle effecting Hormuz Maritime traffic, the Pentagon must eventually deal with the presumed destruction of all or most of their regional bases – which, again, few people outside government and the military know anything about.

Kargh Island for example is too close to the mainland to be taken easily, modern shore based artillery located many miles back from the coast could easily reach ships attacking the island. Hormuz, already partly blocked by Irainan Navy ships sunk by US and Israeli bombing raids is effectivly closed to shipping from hostile states and could remain so for many months, causing prolonged chaos in the global economy Iran was never going to be a pushover.

And in both cases there is an even more deadly threat to the naval personnel manning the ships inolved in leading the allied advance. Iran has developed, or rather revived, an unconventional naval strategy known as the “Mosquito Fleet.” Instead of relying only on large warships to defend its waters, Tehran has focused on builing a fleet of hundreds — possibly thousands — of small, high-speed attack boats designed to challenge much larger naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

The term “Mosquito Fleet” refers to a large number of small, fast, heavily armed boats operated mainly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC Navy). These boats are: Equipped with anti-ship missiles, Capable of speeds between 50 to 110 knots (approximately 90–200 km/h,), Small enough to maneuver quickly and approach larger vessels. Because of their speed and size, they can rapidly close in on larger warships, launch missiles, and retreat before facing a full counterattack.

Iran’s Mosquito Fleet strategy is specifically designed to exploit the vulnerabilities of a billion-dollar carrier like the USS Abraham Lincoln. Shore based Iranian commanders conceal large groups of these fast-attack crafts in civilian fishing ports, specialised underground maritime bases carved into the Persian Gulf cliffs, and even simple truck trailers.

These vessels can be wheeled out, launched from a random beach, and begin attacking a tanker or destroyer within minutes. The U.S. cannot target every garage along a 1,300-mile coastline. Iran possesses thousands of these boats, many of which are now unmanned kamikaze vessels packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives.

While a U.S. destroyer’s Aegis combat system may be one of the best in the world, it has its limits. If 50 boats attack from 50 different directions simultaneously, the ship’s guns simply can’t pivot quickly enough to engage them all. It only takes one boat getting through to cause a USS Cole-type disaster.

A U.S. Hellfire missile costs approximately $150,000, while a single Iranian speedboat may only cost about $20,000. If the U.S. has to fire 500 missiles to stop a swarm, they end up spending millions to destroy plastic boats. Iran can produce these vessels faster than the U.S. can manufacture high-tech missiles.

Trump and Wright both made high-profile claims regarding naval escorts and unblocking the Strait of Hormuz. When Wright deleted his post and the Navy confirmed that no escort occurred, it sent a clear signal to the markets and Tehran that the U.S. is currently unable or unwilling to enter the kill zone of the narrow straits.

Game and second set to Iran.

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Monday, March 09, 2026

War In Iran, Fuel Crisis In Europe, Economic Chaos Everywhere

News from the Persian Gulf war zone today is that Iraq has shut down some oil wells, following the kead of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Qatar has also shut down is gas wells and the process ‘trains’ needed to liquefy natural gas.

This is bad news for Europe particularly, and for the rest of the free world and is, as we reported yesterday, due to the virtual closure of the Strait of Hormuz and because of potential missile and drone attacks on the vulnerable and highly exposed production installations.

While oil and LPG prices have increased on all global markets, commodity traders have not yet recognized the length and severity of the supply crunch these shut downs will cause. Prices, currently in the high $90s per barrel, will need to get much higher ($150+/bl) to cause an equivalent demand destruction.

Even if the war on Iran stopped tomorrow and the Strait could be reopened immediately (which would require US Marines' boots on Iranian ground) it would take many weeks until the flow of supplies returned to normal levels.

Oil wells, like electricity generating stations, once shut down, cannot be brpught back oline at the flick of a switch. The bore of an unused oil well may close up, sediments may block the oil flow, valves start to fail. It means that drilling rigs will need to be setup at each of the wells a task involving several days work even if all materials are readily available, before the oil starts to flow. There are thousands of wells that have been shut down.

Qatar’s liquefaction of natural gas is an even bigger problem as sactions over Rssia's war with Ukraine have cut off supplies from that source making exports from the Gulf even more vital and the process to create Liquefied Petroleum Gas is quite complex:

The first step on the onshore facilities is the separation of condensate from gas. The separated condensate is stabilised and sent to storage to await export. The natural gas then flows to the liquefaction trains for processing into LNG. During the first phase of this process, sulphur compounds, carbon dioxide, and water are removed in stages. The gas is then chilled using propane and mixed refrigeration processes.

The heavy hydrocarbons are separated out and fractionated into liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and plant condensate. The cryogenic main heat exchanger in each train then cools the gas to approximately – 150 °C, liquefying it in the process. Finally, as the pressure is reduced to almost zero, the temperature decreases to – 162 °C, nitrogen is removed and LNG is transferred to one of the storage tanks prior to being loaded into a LNG vessel.

When a liquefaction system shuts down all the product in it will have to be removed. The whole cryogenic chain, once stopped, will warm up and will need to be cooled down again to its very low working temperatures. The metal structures involved do not react well, to say it mildly, to frequent changes in temperature. Failures will occur. Repairs will be needed.

It will take at least two months to revive the Qatari process trains. This of course only after the war has ended. Some 20% of the global LPG supply will thus be unavailable for a lengthy period of time.

The big mouths and bigger egos on the American side of the conflict have not only let the cat out of the bag but have painted a very complete picture for Gulf Control Councol (GCC) rulers to see a long war is completely against their interest. Their ambassadors got dressed down very well by Lavrov with what some have described as tough love. Despite that, GCC rulers now see Russia as more powerful than the US Empire in the Gulf region and with Russia comes China.

The big dilemma for GCC rulers is their investment portfolio in the west which has the very real possibility of becoming a total loss if war spreads beyond the gulf region and becomes global conflict. Likewise are US corporate assets within the GCC that Iran aims to eliminate as part of its goal to eject all US & European related assets from the region.

Shi’a leaders have now issued fatwas calling for jihad in support of Iran, a move that coulfd have a major impact on events in Iraq. Hezbollah has been performing very well in the eastern Mediterranean so far.

Iran’s 91 million people are spread out across the nation aside from the 10 million or so that live in the Tehran metro region, meaning the US - Israeli war effort needs to target an area the size of Europe, while Occupied Palestine houses about 7.5 million Zionists 75% of whom are concentrated in Tel Aviv and Haifa metro areas making it far easier for Iran to concentrate its attacks.

While this is going on economic damage continues to mount up, particularly amongst four key US East Asian allies–South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Philippines, all of which are dependent on energy imported from the Persian Gulf. That factor along with EU dependence brings the possibility of shifting the geopolitical balance away from the USA Empire since Trump has made clear he doesn’t care if the world enters a massive depression caused by prolongation of the war.

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Sunday, March 08, 2026

Trump And The Truth About International Law

Rather like a loyal friend trying to convince a drunk that it is foolish to picj a fight with an 800 pound gorilla, the Trump administration has tried to save Europe from itself, to tell a friend drunk on delusions that it is time to sober up and that the big hairy guy was not 'looking at you a bit funny,like', that's jut the way gorillas look. Government by Virtue - signalling is in a way like being extremely drunk. The short-term high of progressive virtue comes with a long-term hangover of economic ruin, international irrelevance, and total societal collapse. Nowhere is this more abundantly evident than in the welcoming of, and indulgent patronage fading into submissive terror towards, third world Muslim populations who refuse to integrate with Western culture and values.

In the past few weeks, since Trump's Venezuela coup removed Marxist dictator Nicolas Maduro from power, we have been told innumerable times by the more idiotically leftist European and British political pundits that US PresidentDonald Trump and his administration have betrayed ‘international law', the rules based global order’,‘the democratic norms’, NATO, and we are told that they have betrayed their European partners. This outraged screeching has reached a crescendo over the attack on Iran and its theocratic regime which only shows how little leaders of the 'woke' world understand about the threat of Islamic extremism and the uselessness of international law, which is in fact little more than a vehicle to carry us to global authoritarianism.

The first of these ignores the fact that the international rules-based system is a vague set of guidelines and suggestions that has never been formally codified let alone ratified by the world's leading nations, is often ignored by nations outside the cosy coven of Western liberal democracy and of course is meaningless to Communist or Islamic countries, whether the Soviet Union of the past or the China of the present. Even arch-globalist and Donald Trump hater Mark Carney, the banker selected to carry the Canadian-cultural-Marxism torch dropped by Justin Trudeau, admitted that the so - called ‘rules-based system’ that he and other bureaucratic-minded apparatchiks of the globalist way so love has always been riddled with hypocrisies. In fact 'International Law

In an anti-Trump speech delivered at the last Davos World Economic Forum gathering, Carney said: ‘For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

‘We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

‘This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.>/p?

‘So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.’

Carney’s rare act of ‘honesty’ in politics is remarkable for its sleight of hand. He acknowledged that ‘international law’ and the ‘rules-based system’ was a lie, a fiction, all along, backed solely by American power and European convenience. Yet think about how deeply contemptuous you have to be towards actual democracy to say this (we were always lying to you, you know), about being able to say that the rules-based system is a total fiction

Only a fool would suppose that because democracy, say, produces bad governments it must by its nature produce bad government per se; and therefore it's no different to dictatorship. Democracy is much different to dictatorship. Bad governments can be voted out.

So it is with the rules-based order. Yes, it has been much abused, and even hypocritically praised by the abusers. But the only alternative is the force-based order: the arbitrary application of power.

That which is justified by nothing and constrained by less sucks all morality out of both the domestic and international contexts. Democracy? Welcome to the world of Vladimir the Great, elected last time round with a mere 88% of the vote. Just extend the lines to find the natural terminus ... a future of pure power politics, the near-term dominion of China, Russia in the east of Europe, and the collaboration of these to to create a new international order based on their rules.

Human freedom gone, the capacity for peoples to express their own will gone, a life of peace and security under principled constraints on the state gone, a broadly cooperative world system all gone.

This is what force, as the standard for national and international comport, leads us to. It is not a better world. There are two and a half realities depending on what you know to be true.
Those in charge know the full reality, many of them even understand the goals of that reality. [great reset]

They in turn, feed a false reality to their brainwashed voters, paid supporters and protesters. [TDS]

Those with common sense, who have questioned everything their entire lives, have a much finer understanding of reality and see things as they are.

In the US, that means generational, intentional and ridiculous decisions, made by members of Congress $ sponsored by the rich, are responsible, along with the Pres, the UN controlled State Department and other cabinet heads, for the poor state of the nation, including the percent of foreign-born resident, % of the poor, % the uber rich, and of course, 100% annihilation of every God given liberty during Covid. These are the people that knew better than to take a single jab.

In the United Kingdom same as in the US, your officials march to a different drum, lulled you along for generations, taking care of your every need, while making you totally dependent. At least in Europe and the USA we still have some rights, but now know how quickly they can disappear under certain political parties.

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Saturday, March 07, 2026

A Muslim View Of The Conflict In Iran And Tehran's Theocratic Regime

In the past few days we have seen the world divide into the usual binary over the US / Israeli attacks on Iran. People on the more conservative end of the political spectrum are supporting Trump's bid to bring down Iran's brutal, theocratic regime, at the other end leftists are in the streets protesting in support of Iran and Gaza. And in the middle, where the balanced, common sense view of the situation should be is the usual void.

Now this blog hsas spent the past few days trying to report on the development of the conflicts and its likely effect on the prospetity and lifestyles of people in the east and west, particularly as, with support from China, Iran has the ability to close the sea route throug the Stait of Hormuz which is vital for oil transportation.

Our neutrality was not because we did not want to take sides, although we always try to avoid taking sides in international squabbles, but because the situation is for more complex than we in the west, with only the limited and extremely biased information provided by mainstream media to inform us, can be aware of.

As usual the "We're the god guys, they're the bad guys," approach from both sides is totally inadequate. Fortunately we spotted this post from somebody who does understand the situation on Facebook and as there is an open invitation toshare the post for information, we bring it to you today.

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Mustapha Ezzarghani is in Washington D.C., United States.

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For days now, I have been watching a strange narrative spreading across Western media and social networks: the claim that the confrontation with the Iranian regime is somehow “Israel’s war” and that the United States was dragged into it.

As a Moroccan Muslim and an Arab who has spent years studying the politics of our region, I can say clearly: this argument is not only false—it is intellectually dishonest.

Let us start with a simple fact. The Islamic Republic of Iran has not spent the last four decades declaring war only on Israel. Its leaders openly speak of fighting the “Great Satan” — the United States — and the “Little Satan” — Israel. For 47 years, their ideology has been built around exporting revolution, destabilizing the Middle East, and spreading militant networks across the region.

This is not an Israeli fantasy. It is Iran’s own declared doctrine.

Iran finances militias, trains terrorist organizations, and builds missile and nuclear capabilities while threatening not only Israel but also Arab countries, American forces, and global stability. From Lebanon to Iraq, from Yemen to Syria, the fingerprints of Tehran are everywhere.

So when the United States acts against that regime, it is not acting on behalf of Israel. It is acting to defend its own strategic interests and the stability of the international system.

The idea that Washington needs to be “manipulated” by Jerusalem into recognizing this threat is absurd.

Every American administration of the 21st century—Republican or Democrat—has stated clearly that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is a fundamental national security priority.

The debate in Washington has never been about whether Iran is dangerous. The debate has only been about how to stop it.

Some believed diplomacy and concessions would change the behavior of the clerical regime. Others believe that a regime driven by revolutionary ideology and apocalyptic theology will never voluntarily abandon its ambitions.

But pretending that the Iranian threat exists only in Israel’s imagination is a dangerous illusion.

There is also another uncomfortable truth: Iran today is not an isolated regional actor. It is deeply connected to the broader geopolitical challenge facing the West.

Tehran has become a strategic partner of Russia and an economic partner of China. Chinese purchases of Iranian oil have helped keep the regime alive despite international sanctions, while Iranian drones have played a central role in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

This is not a local Israeli issue. It is part of a global strategic confrontation.

Those who repeat the slogan “this is Israel’s war” are ignoring the obvious: a nuclear-armed Iran would not threaten only Tel Aviv. It would threaten the entire Middle East, including Arab countries, and it would destabilize global security for decades.

And yet, instead of confronting this reality, many prefer to blame Israel. They claim that the Jewish state somehow controls American policy, pushes Washington into wars, or manipulates global politics behind the scenes.

These accusations are not serious geopolitical analysis. They are recycled conspiracy theories that have circulated for generations.

Criticizing governments is legitimate. Debating military decisions is legitimate. But reducing complex strategic decisions to the idea that “Israel controls America” is not criticism—it is propaganda.

Israel does not need to invent the Iranian threat. Iranian leaders themselves have repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state. They openly describe Israel as a country that could be erased with a single nuclear weapon. No responsible nation would ignore such threats.

Standing against the Iranian regime is not about serving Israel. It is about preventing a radical theocracy from acquiring the most dangerous weapons on earth and using them to reshape the Middle East through intimidation, violence, and nuclear blackmail.

If that threat disappears, Israel will be safer. But so will Arab nations, Europe, and the United States.

Recognizing that reality does not require being Jewish or Israeli.

Sometimes it simply requires honesty.

And as an Arab Muslim who believes in stability, sovereignty, and the future of our region, I refuse to repeat narratives that protect the most dangerous regime in the Middle East while blaming the only democracy in the region for defending itself.

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