This war has revealed a bitter truth | Ahmed Khalifa

This war has revealed a bitter

truth for us Arabs & real Muslims

in the UAE & the Gulf:

Europe is no longer the Europe

we used to know.. The Europe of

beauty, culture, humanity & art

the one we looked up to, studied in

& learned so much from, is gone !

Now it feels like a third-world

country a refuge for failures

a safe haven for extremists

run by the Muslim Brotherhood

IRGC agents & every terrorist who

got kicked out of the Middle East!

Europe has sadly lost its identity.

Soon the the native European will

feel like strangers in their own land

watching their society get worse

& worse all with the blessing of their

own leaders!!

It’s a painful, pathetic joke..

I’m sorry, but I have to post this

warning (Video) again. It was from

10 years ago. I don’t know if it’ll make

any difference anymore, but I’m

sharing it for the fifth time anyway!

America is winning in Iran. And the Left hates it

 

Historian, Classicist, Stanford Hoover Institute Fellow, Victory Davis-Hanson, talking of the winning going on in Iran. 

But the wish for losing -- of America losing, of the West losing -- the wish for "Gleeful Defeat" amongst the Left and other Trump haters. Who hate a man more than they love their country. 

Saudi Arabia will attack Iran …

Click above for the Short. Prince Faisal in his perfect English accent

 Saudi Arabia will attack Iran …

… if attacks against Saudi continue. But Iran “doesn’t want diplomacy” says Saudi Prince Faisal, above. “I’m doubtful they have the wisdom” to stop war and negotiate instead. 

Arab nations are united against Iran. They support U.S. and Israeli actions against the Iranian regime. 

As the Riyadh Statement shows. Not just Arab, but nearby Islamic nations as well. 

The Prince Faisal Short, above.

Iran Crumbles...

 

... and it's good news for the West. 

I am most certainly aware that that's not the view of the legacy media. That they're taking every opportunity to big up any perceived negatives against America; and to diminish any of the achievement of Operation Epic Fury. 

I find it disgusting that the European West, the American media, the media in Australia, the UK, the EU, can be against winning a defensive war on Iran -- defence against a burgeoning Islamist caliphate -- because they don't like the man waging it. 

I'm fully on side with winning this war. I know that America and Israel are trouncing Iran. But also that Iran's is not a finished regime. And that the main battle now is against the headwinds from the West itself. Weird and disturbing. And should not be so. 

Shame on pusillanimous leaders like France's Macron, Britain's Starmer, Italy's Meloni, Germany's Mertz and the Spanish socialist shill whose name I can't be bothered to remember. But who seems happy to have the Modern Moors reconquist Andalusia. Which, bottom line, is what this war is all about. Pushing back Islamist Jihadi attacks, of which Iran, its Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, are just the tip of the spear. 

Is that too tough to read? Too difficult to acknowledge? So be it. 

00:00 Long View on Iran War 03:02 Iran Weakened Militarily 04:24 Winners and Losers Russia Gulf 06:22 Global Fallout China Europe NATO 09:16 US Outlook and Conclusion

Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, the Washington Times, and other media outlets.

Hezbollah is the model for Iran proxies world wide | Loay Alshareef

Lebanon was known as the "Pear of the Levant", "the Paris of the Med"... the "Switzerland of the East". Now it's a basket case. Terrorised by well-armed murderous religious lunatics. 

It was Palestinian terrorists wot done it. In the shape of Hezbollah, the "Party of Allah". Hezbollah invaded Lebanon after being kicked out of Jordan -- a Palestinian state itself! -- for being too radical even for Jordanians. 

Hezbollah proceeded to be a parasite on the body of Lebanon, to change its character, to ruin it for Lebanese and foreigners alike. 

This is the Iranian IRGC's model. A state within a state. An armed group stronger than the military of the country it parasitizes on. All funded by Iran.  

All of which non-US westerners seem happy to go along with. 

Iran's ambitions don't stop with the Middle East. They explicitly go to Europe and then to the rest of the west. That's what this war, Operation Epic Fury, is all about. Preventing more Hezbollahs all over the world. More Hamas' all over the world. More Houthis all over the world. More Palestinian Islamic Jihads all over the world. 

We don't have to guess or speculate about this. Iran has been saying it clearly for fifty years. It says it still. It will go on saying it until their last breath. 

The guy in the Short clip above is Loay Alshareef (Arabic: لؤي الشريف; born 11 November 1982), a UAE-based Saudi-born Egyptian activist who advocates for the Arab world to normalise relations with Israel.

Get that! There are Arabs willing to have better relations with Israel. If you can imagine it, it would be a huge improvement to having a terror state bent on killing everyone that doesn't accept their radical Shia Twelver Islam. 

Did Israel drag America into the war?

A constant attack by the Loony Left and the Marxist Right. 

The short answer is “no”. 

History teaches. If Israel, or, before Israel’s founding, “the Jooz” control American policy, they’re not very good at it. 

Here is the full list of Israel/“the Jooz” failing to control America:

- Pre-1948 (WWII): The US enforced strict immigration quotas under the 1924 Act and refused to significantly ease entry for Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution; the 1939 MS St. Louis was turned away, and requests to bomb Auschwitz were rejected.

- 1948 Arab-Israeli War: The US imposed an arms embargo on all parties; Israel could not buy weapons from America and had to source them elsewhere.

- 1956 Suez Crisis: Israel seized Sinai with allies but withdrew fully after US economic pressure and UN demands under Eisenhower.

- 1963 Dimona: The Kennedy administration demanded inspections of Israel’s nuclear reactor and threatened consequences for non-compliance.

- 1981 Osirak strike: The Reagan administration condemned Israel’s bombing of Iraq’s reactor and suspended F-16 deliveries.

- 1982 Lebanon War: The Reagan administration suspended cluster munitions and pressured Israel to halt its advance on Beirut.

- 1991 Gulf War: The Bush administration urged Israel not to retaliate against Iraqi Scud missiles to preserve the coalition; Israel complied and accepted US Patriots.

- 2003 Iraq invasion: Israel warned against it and did not push for action.

- 2015 JCPOA (Iran deal): Despite intense Israeli lobbying and Netanyahu’s congressional address opposing the deal, the Obama administration negotiated and implemented it.

- 2016 UNSC Resolution 2334: The Obama administration abstained, allowing the resolution condemning Israeli settlements; Israel had sought a US veto.

Victory? | Michael Doran and Gadi Taub

Victory? 

Of course not to the legions in the media, the Trump and Bibi haters worldwide. 

Not to the “Gleeful Defeatists”. Whose personal hatreds of two men trump their support for the enlightenment values of the west. Who openly cheer for the victory of the worst tyrannical theocracy this century. 

Michael Doran and Gadi Taub have been fair-minded yet hard-headed analysts from a right-of-centre perspective. If you want perspective from left-of-centre, you just need to go to any of the mainstream media. CNN will give it you. So will the BBC. And so will Australia’s ABC. And Democrats too, of course. Australia’s Labor government. All of Europe….

Mike and Gadi are fair: they read out a list of ways the pro-Iran-regime crowd claim IRGC has won. As well as the counter to that. Which amounts to a reckoning that we, the west, are much better off than we were on October 8th 2023. This will no doubt be mocked as being “major cope”. You watch.

But, yeah. A Victory on points.

There’s discussion of the moral dilemmas of asymmetric war. Where the enemy is perfectly willing to put its citizens in harm’s way, to kill them if they dare resist. Gadi mentions an Israeli analyst who says that if the enemy puts civilians in front of military targets, you must stop the war. Which of course will mean that the west can never win another war against terrorists. It’s the ultimate “terrorist veto”. 

It’s what happened with the hostages in Gaza. One’s own military becomes hostage to the hostages. It’s a dilemma. Which some people, like Yishai Fleisher, argue against. And I support. Such are the exigencies of existential battles. Not “if they go low, we go high”. Uncomfortable, sure. 

Me? On the issue of “ceasefire” I’m not at all keen, as  I wrote. So I remain firmly of the opinion of “hmmm…”. Which is, at best, “we”ll see”. What do I know? Nothing. “I know nothing…”.

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Vince Dao, a young conservative commenter, makes some good points. He strikes me as pretty smart. Head screwed on. Why Iran regime is changed, whatever the current appearance.

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ADDED: There are reports — unconfirmed— that China pressured Iran into agreeing to this ceasefire. This could make sense. End of the day what they want, what we all want, tbf, is a peaceful Middle East. Or at least one without an Islamist, terrorist, genocidal-suicidal, millenarian, regional-global bully.*

*ADDED (2): Grok answer to my query: 

Yes, multiple credible reports confirm that China exerted pressure on Iran to accept a recent two-week ceasefire with the United States (and involving Israel), which was announced on April 8, 2026. The truce includes a pause in hostilities and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz for safe passage. [More]

"Ceasefire"? Or Rearming Opportunity?

 

Joe Siracusa's hard-headed analysis of the "ceasefire". 

Which I'm wary of, but hope for the best. That's all that can be said about it. 

Hope for the best. 

While knowing that the IRGC is going to rearm and that they're trolling America along. Something they've been doing since Jimmy Carter. 

I'm a big "hmmm".... about this. 

Resurrection Rescue — the “Easter Miracle”

 

Resurrection Rescue. The day of Jesus' resurrection, a daring rescue brings the downed airman home.

Max Afterburner tells the story. Surely a movie here. 

Retired Colonel Joe Buccino, shows us the map.

ADDED: Mainstream Media — CNN, MSNBC, ABC, New York Times… — can hardly bring themselves to mention the rescue. Such is their hatred for Trump they’d rather the American pilots had been lost, or, even better, captured as hostages. 

Meantime: Chinese media was claiming that America had killed its pilots. Then.. that they were trying to kill their pilots. Apparently based on IRGC propaganda. Vince Dao, grandson of a South Vietnamese Army general who was airlifted in the infamous “Fall of Saigon” helicopter evacuations, talks about the U.S. doctrine of “no man left behind”. And how anti Americans are spinning this rescue (“Huge cost in wrecked aircraft”). 

On the issue of costs of the rescue, I did the calculations. They come to 0.000013 of the Pentagon budget. Less than a rounding error. While Morale boost is huge. And imagine the opposite effect on morale of the Iranians parading a captured pilot. So, yeah, very much worth it. And to be lauded. Screw the Europeans petty-minded shitty take. 

Trump, Hormuz and the end of the Free Ride

Food for thought.

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress.

The Left’s hysterical opposition to the War | Victor Davis Hanson

 

Yes it’s true. Hatred of Trump trumps love of country. Trumps patriotism. Trumps the hope of destroying a clear and present threat from religious fanatics. 

I find it disturbing and disgusting. I remember how political differences used to be about tax rates and health policy. It used to be about policy and policy differences. Which were debated in the halls of Congress. Now it’s about hating Trump. It’s paid protesters on the streets. It’s regular violence. It’s open calls for the murder of Donald Trump. 

Victor Davis Hanson, calm professorial historian, ponders the questions. He talks of the hypocrisy of the Left over this war. If it were prosecuted by Obama, the media and the Left would be swooning and cheering it on. As they did with his bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

There is no doubt in my mind, in my following of politics in America, that big chunks of Democrats have become openly, even proudly, violent and anarchical. During the “mostly peaceful” No Kings protests last Saturday, I saw sprayed onto the walls of a Federal Building: “Kill your local ICE agent”, followed by the the Anarchist sign. Nothing was done. Nothing. 

They hid this about Israel | Daniel Greenfield

 

Iran has been at war with the United States for nearly fifty years. It’s just that the United States didn’t deign to recognise it. Except for wording words, from president after president. “We must deal with Iran and all options are on the table”. Except they weren’t. The only options “on the table” were talks, sanctions and deals that were immediately broken by the Ayatollahs. 

Until Trump. Who really did have all options in the table. Which makes me realise the reason for calling the operation “Epic Fury”. You tweak the tail of the lion often enough, he turns on you with fury. *Epic* Fury. Because it’s taken so long to build. 

Daniel Greenfield is correct approximately 100% of the time in the video above.According to my understanding in 20 years now of studying Islam, its theology, its ideology, its caliphate ambitions: he’s spot on.

I used to follow the late David Horowitz, Daniel’s predecessor and founder of the Centre Daniel now runs. Horowitz used to be a Marxist. Who changed when he understood the damage Marxism had done to the world. I always identified with that, as I’d also had an eye opening time when I went to live in Cultural Revolutionary China in the 70s and saw what extreme leftism, Marxism, Maoism had done to China. And by contrast what market forces did in the next 40 years.

Daniel covers a lot in this talk. The current war, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamophobia and more:

• Why the media narrative around “genocide” is being pushed
• The real reason the Israel–Palestine conflict isn’t about land
• How universities became hostile to Israel and the West
• Qatar’s influence in American institutions
• Why the UN targets Israel more than any other country
• The growing divide inside the conservative movement
• And what may be driving major voices like Tucker Carlson

Time stamps at the show notes.

“Can Iran really be stopped?” | Max Afterburner

 

I’ve followed the Max Afterburner channel for some time. And I’ve posted his analysis before. (By the way, “Max” is not Max as in the Mad Max, but Max as in short for “Maximum”. The “Afterburner” being the fighter jet’s booster). 

Max Afterburner is Ryan Bodenheimer*, who sets out (0:55) his extensive experience in the U.S. Air Force, and in war, war planning and instruction. It’s extensive. 

This is a man clearly proud of his country and its military, but also has a clear-headed view of the difficulties of war. In particular the difficulties of completely suppressing Iran’s IRGC. Which he sees as defaulting to terrorist mode, given its military is essentially destroyed. 

The threat from Iran is and was real and explicit. You don’t have to wait, like a tethered goat, for the lion to eat you. You don’t have to wait for the first mushroom cloud to blossom. You don’t have to wait until Iran has so many missiles, so much fortification, so much drone and missile manufacturing capacity, to act. Act is what the U.S. and Israel did. They are supported by 12 Muslim nations! It’s the Europeans (and Australia) who are complicit in appeasement. 

I guess this is the first time that Ryan has been on a British YouTube channel, above on Spiked, with Fraser Myers.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction – US War in Iran & Latest Developments 00:55 Guest Introduction – Ryan Bodenheimer, Fighter Pilot & YouTuber 03:28 Has America Won? Assessing Trump's Victory Claim 06:36 Was It Ever a Fair Fight? Iran's Military vs. the US 07:54 Kharg Island Explained – Iran's Oil Lifeline & Strategic Significance 10:45 Taking Kharg Island – Risks, Options & Special Operations 12:24 How Iran Might Retaliate – Terrorism, IEDs & Proxy Tactics 14:30 State of Iran's Proxies – Houthis, Hezbollah & Militias 16:07 US-Israel Coordination – How the Air Campaign Works 18:19 Trump vs. NATO – Is Europe Doing Enough? 21:49 European Sentiment Explained – Energy Bills, Terror Plots & Bafflement 23:12 Energy & the War – Costs for the US and Europe 25:15 China's Role – Air Defences, Rare Earth Minerals & Strategic Interests 27:44 China, Taiwan & the Bigger Picture – Why Taiwan Could Benefit 30:25 The First AI War – Drones, Surveillance & Undersea Technology 33:22 Why the B-52? Economy of Force in Modern Warfare 36:27 What People Misunderstand Most About This War 39:29 Closing Remarks

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*Ryan Bodenheimer is a former U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter pilot with 12 years of service, including two operational assignments and 70 combat missions in Afghanistan providing close air support to Tier 1 special operations forces. He was selected for the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team, where he flew for two years and performed in 150 air shows before serving as an instructor. 

In his squadron's plans department (PLANS), he prepared for potential conflicts involving the Taiwan Straits, Iran, and North Korea. After Afghanistan, he was chief of the PLANS department, teaching on operations against Iran, including degrading its ballistic missiles, drones, and nuclear capabilities.

After leaving the Air Force he was a commercial airline pilot for five years and later started his YouTube channel, Max Afterburner.

How to end the war? Win it

You don’t win a war by leaving the battle ground. You can claim victory all you want, but the other side is going to say “we outlasted you”. Neither do you win a war by a ceasefire. At best that gives a “frozen conflict” like Korea. But “victory”? That’s when the other side gives up. That’s when you achieve your clearly-stated war goals.

The goals of Operation Epic Fury are clear. No matter how much CNN, BBC, MSNBC and all the rest may repeat “the war aims are not clear”; they are. The president and Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio have stated them repeatedly and clearly. Here they are, from my memory:

1. Destroy the Iranian Army. Tick.

2. Destroy the Iranian Navy. Tick

3. Destroy or decimate the Iranian ballistic missiles system. In progress 

4. Destroy the military manufacturing systems, such that 1, 2, and 3 cannot be rebuilt. In progress 

The projected result of these four aims >> an Iran that can no longer threaten the region and the world. An Iran that cannot build a nuclear bomb. The Iranian people an opportunity to rise up and build their own government. 

ADDED: Marco Rubio sets them out, again, clearly, to George Stephanopoulos of abc's Good Morning America. 

These are clear aims. I buy them. So do the vast majority of Republicans and a majority of all Americans. 

Republicans on Iran war and Trump

I’m speaking here as one who remembers clearly the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. In this household we were against both those wars. As Richard Clark, counter-terror czar, said at the time:

“Attacking Iraq after 911 was like attacking Mexico after Pearl Harbour”. 

That sure stuck in the mind…

“This time it’s different”. Well, yes, it is. For a start the clearly-expressed aims are convincing. We were never convinced by the WMD excuse for attacking Iraq. We were not convinced by Colin Powell’s pivotal presentation to the United Nations. We were never convinced that “getting” Osama bin Ladin needed a full-scale war in Afghanistan.

Iran, by contrast does have uranium enriched to 60%; it does threaten the region and the world with death and destruction; it has killed thousands of Americans and people of all nations, and hundreds of thousands of its own people; it does support terror proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis; it does have a ballistic missile program aimed at Europe and the United States. It does threaten the world with nuclear annihilation. Even as that would annihilate Iran itself. Its religious lunatics are apocalyptic millenarians, ecstatically happy to be incinerated in a theocratic mushroom cloud.

Let’s also recall that in Iraq we did not lose the war. The war was quickly and convincingly won. We lost the peace. The whole process of “nation building” was ineptly handled; it should never have been attempted. There is no such aim in Operation Epic Fury in Iran. 

That’s called “learning from experience”.

Emily Scheader makes my points better than me, in this video, Grok transcript summary below:

Operation Epic Fury goes well, but…

Operation Epic Fury goes well, but… The headwinds are strong. All from the loopy Left and ranty Right in the West. Echoing our enemies, Iran, Russia, China. 

Western civilisation may never win another war if this keeps up.

This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza.

They create impossible standards in terms of:

• -Zero Casualties
• -Zero Economic Disruption
• -Zero Uncertainty
• -Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission
• -Zero Collateral Damage

And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it….same script as Gaza…the bad guys have no agency and it’s actually our fault.

Day 32 of the Iran war:

• -degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks
• -the Supreme Leader is gone…and his replacement is s vegetable
• -all the top leadership is gone…in fact, we don’t even know who’s in charge

Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism.

And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralisation propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click.

This isn’t responsible skepticism.

It’s weakness…

And you’ll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out.

This is madness.

So “How does this war end?”. Answer: by winning. We, America and Israel, have to win. No ceasefire without capitulation. 

Stopping Iran genocidal regime is a “gift to humanity” | Jasem Aljuraid

🔥 BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch:

Mr. Chair,

I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers?  A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land. 

Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs. 

So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home? 

Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty.  Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic. 

What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity. 

There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived. 

I don't believe in miracles, but this is one. 

So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel? 

Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace. 

Thank you.

Things you won't see in the news: 12 Muslim nations denounce Iran

The Ministers in Riyadh. Pic from the World Socialists 
 site, who are very angry at the Ministers! 🤣

How about this? 

On March 18, 2026, foreign ministers and top diplomats from 12 Arab and Islamic countries met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a consultative ministerial meeting where they issued a joint statement strongly denouncing Iran for its recent military actions. They're calling it the "Riyadh Statement". 

The countries: 

• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Egypt
• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon
• Pakistan
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
   (Host)
• Syria
• Türkiye
• United Arab Emirates

Never before today, never before the current situation in the Middle East, have we seen such unity amongst Arab and other Muslim states. Denouncing a rogue, terrorist Muslim state. 

Muslim states denouncing Iran. Now, who does NOT denounce Iran and its fanatical terrorists?

1. The mainstream media, all the usual suspects: the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, the New York Times. And all the rest. They don't even acknowledge the Riyadh Statement! 

2. All of leftie Europe and the U.K. They do not denounce the Iranian regime. My own Australia is pretty limp as well. The PM, Anthony Albanese is in hock to the Muslim vote. 

3. And the Democratic Party is actively hoping for an Iran win, because otherwise, Orange Man Bad would have a win. Can't have that.

Isn't that somehow disgusting? 

That the most involved states in the region reach unprecedented unity in denouncing this horrid extremist Shi'a Iranian regime. But no one on the Left in the west can bring themselves to wish for a US and Israel victory, so much do they hate Donald Trump. 

A US-led victory, should it happen, will be a victory for the West. Also a beginning of real peace in the Middle East. For if Saudi Arabia joins the Abraham Accords, the wars against Israel will cease. 

The best summary of the case for war in Iran | Lindsay Graham

Plenty of folks don't like Senator Lindsay Graham. And truth be told I don't much either.

He's called a "warmonger", and not without reason. His critics say: "You won't find a place on this earth that Lindsay wouldn't like to bomb". 

Ok. Fair enough. 

But... on this issue. On the big one happening right now, on Operation Epic Fury -- to destroy the capacity of the religious lunatics in Tehran to destroy the world in the name of Allah -- on that one issue, talking on the floor of the Senate, he gives as good a summary as I've seen of the case for this war. 

A war, by the way, to stop a bigger war, to stop WW3. A war, an Operation, to end the war that Iran declared against Israel and the US, way back in 1979. 

Here's a transcript from Grok, of the first five minutes:

Senator Graham:

OK, I'll go ahead and get started.

You're entitled to your opinion. This is a free country. Whether you like President Trump or not is up to you. Your view of the war is up to you, but you're not entitled to your facts. You're entitled to the facts. And here are the facts.

 To my Democratic colleagues, I challenge you today uh to prove that I'm wrong.

During the negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear problem, President Trump sent Steve Woodoff and Jared Kushner to negotiate with the Iranians. They say, Mr. President, all they want is peaceful nuclear power. The Iranians, they've been saying that and they should be entitled to enrich like other countries like us.

A bunch of nations enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. And they claim, why not us? Because you're cheap. The IAEA, not me, not Lindsey Graham. You've have a history of not living up to what you say about your ambitions. That your enrichment facilities are not designed to produce peaceful power, but to produce a weapon.

So during the negotiations, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner offered the Iranians, listen, if you'll give us your highly enriched uranium, we will guarantee you a lifetime fuel supply for free. That you can have all the spent fuel you need to operate a peaceful power program. You don't need to enrich. And if you want to enrich for medical purposes, very limited, fine. But you can't have an enrichment program that would lead to making bomb braid material because you're not reliable.

And I would go a step further.

It'd be like letting Hitler have anything. See the difference between me and I think a lot of people here, maybe most Democratic colleagues, I think these guys are religious Nazis. Miller Hitler wanted a master race. He wrote a book. Nobody believed him. He literally wanted to kill all the Jews and nobody believed him.

The Ayatollah is the same. The the regime is built around a cult of death. They want three things. To purify Islam, they're Shi'ites. Their number one enemy is Sunni Arabs. They think they're they've got the faith wrong, that they're that they're traitors to the faith. They hate Sunnis because they're not true to the faith.

And Saudi Arabia believes it.

So they want to purify Islam, bend it to their will, make every Sunni reject their view of Islam and accept the Ayatollah's view. That's what they say, not me. I believe it. 

Number two, they want to kill all the Jews. And they openly say it. They're not hiding their disdain for Israel. They're actually talk about it. They put death to Israel on like milk cartons. These people are serious. and you should take them serious.

Like in the 30s, people didn't want to believe that Hitler meant what he said because they were tired from World War I. And they said, "Oh, he's just all talk. He wants this. He wants that. He wants more German-speaking territory. He's not completely crazy. You know, he's sort of just doing the Hitler thing." 

 Well, he was completely crazy.

Now, I don't know why he wanted to kill all the Jews. I don't know why Hitler thought the Aryan race is the only pure race on the planet, but a lot of people are dead because we got that wrong. Let's don't do that again. We're playing like World War II never actually happened. And you're rewriting this regime's history from 1979. What have they done until today? What have they done to make you think they don't believe what they say? What behavior have they exhibited that they really do want to be normal?

So during those negotiations when they said no to every offer under the sun, they said something that was a fatal mistake for them. "Oh, by the way, we have 460 kilograms of uranium at 60%".

Cliffhanger, right? Carry on from here if you're interested in the rest. It's a pretty good!

What is it with Trump Derangement? | Victor Davis Hanson

TDS is at “an all time high”, says Berkeley professor Victor Davis Hanson.

I agree. From random college students interviewed on their spring break, to demonstrating grannies on roadsides, to the Late Night hosts, right up to senior leadership, so many appear, to me, sitting here in Hong Kong, supping from a variety of media, seem to me off the planet. They are inhabiting a differed universe. Though I should say “bubble”, I suppose. About which I’ve written before.

Brice Springsteen is out there, yelling (liberals, young and old, do an awful lot of screaming), contrasting Dems and Reps:

• Democracy over Authoritarianism
• Rule of law over lawlessness
• Ethics over unbridled corruption
• Unity over division
• Peace over war

Ok, sure Bruce. But which is which? I could make a grounded case that the left side of the list is the Reps, and the Dems are the right side. Springsteen is delusional enough to think it’s the Dems who are the “Democracy over authoritarianism”, etc. (But I won’t make that case for now. Too tedious. Save to say a powerful facts-based case can be made for my side of this duality).

Meantime Late Night hosts are so Trump delusional that they’re against the war in Iran. Not for any reason. After all, Democrats have long called for the Iranian regime to be stopped.  No. They do not have a reason to be against it. Just Trump hatred. Putting TDS over national security.

"Why Are Liberals Against Liberation?" | Elica Le Bon

 

Elica Le Bon is an Iranian-born, American lawyer and activist for the people of Iran. Which is to say: ANTI the IRGC and PRO the strikes against it by Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.

Her own family, mother, aunt, uncle, were all imprisoned by the IRGC regime in 1979. Her uncle was tortured and killed. Mother, aunt and cousin all made it to the U.K. where her father was, and where Elica grew up. 

I've posted her a number of times over the years. She's smart, quick, eloquent. 

On the outcomes of the current war: she sees either (hopes, really):

• Complete surrender by IRGC, or 
• Severe degrading of the IRGC such that they can't threaten the region or its own people. 

Anything else and it's going to be a rejuvenated IRGC. Even more radical. 

The people of Iran (Persian, Zoroastrian) are very different from the regime (Arabs and Muslim). Most Iranians -- 82% -- hate the regime, she says, quoting a poll by the Dutch non-partisan pollsters Gamaan. They are seen as the invaders, colonisers and despots. I agree with all of that. 

(Gamaan did a poll I quoted before, on "Iranian Attitudes to Religion", showing Shia Muslims are just 32% of the population. Atheist, Agnostic or None are 37%)

She explains the motivations behind IRGC and the Mullahs' hatred of Israel, the eschatology of their world view. And the spread of the Marxist oppressor/oppressed world view amongst the Left. 

Elica Le Bon is one of the many gorgeous Iranian women activists.