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Category Archives: Iran
Trump Bombed Iran – Now What? (6-22-25)
01:00 The MSM’s lack of sophistication, so what should you expect from the news?04:00 Video: “Israel Has Walked Off a Cliff” – John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dalbnR8vNvs07:00 The Israeli stock market booms, https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-stock-market-iran-conflict-9231579639:00 Michael joins to discuss … Continue reading
America Bombs Three Iranian Nuclear Sites
Iran’s primary protest against Israeli and American attacks is that they violate international law. This shows weakness. If Iran had something more powerful to say, it would say it. If someone had sex with your wife or punched you in … Continue reading
Three Chinese 747s landed in Iran over the past week
Grok says: Flight Details: Between June 14 and June 16, 2025, three cargo planes took off from Chinese cities, including Shanghai and a coastal city. Flight tracking data indicates they flew westward through northern China, crossed Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan, … Continue reading
Israel vs Iran Day 3 (6-15-25)
01:00 Israel is achieving everything it wants, Iran achieving almost nothing but survival.03:00 FT: Iran’s authoritarian friends, Russia and China, are unlikely to prop up the regime if it does start to wobble. Russia did so in Syria in 2015 … Continue reading
Iran Looks Like A Paper Tiger
ChatGPT says: “An open war between Israel and Iran wouldn’t just redraw borders—it would redefine the regional order. This isn’t just about military capabilities; it’s about proxy networks, energy corridors, and the collapse of strategic ambiguity. The real battleground is … Continue reading
Is America about to bomb Iran?
I notice this story trending on X: The United States has significantly increased its military presence at the Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean by deploying seven B-2 Spirit stealth bombers along with several support aircraft. This deployment, … Continue reading
‘Trump Is De-Stereotyping Republican Foreign Policy’
Stereotypes are useful when they correlate with reality (such as different groups have different gifts). Stereotypes are not useful when you insist that different groups have inherent qualities that explain all of their actions. Regarding an out-group as inherently evil, … Continue reading
Decoding the Role of the Body in the Body Politic (10-13-24)
01:00 The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15762811:50 Why VP Debate Moderators Were So Terrible, and Serving Elites Over Viewers, with Fifth Column Hosts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRUNGmd53812:40 Kip joins 1:00:00 Kip’s anti-Israel analysis1:07:30 The magical 1:11:00 The Extended Mind: The Power … Continue reading
Functional & Dysfunctional Violence: Israel readies attack on Iran (10-7-24)
Foreign Policy magazine: “The conclusion therefore is that settler violence leading to the transfer of communities is functional, even if the army does not directly manage it, because it serves the goal of territorial control—something the IDF could not officially … Continue reading
Decoding Israel’s Seven-Front War (10-6-24)
01:00 Steve Hsu: Iran vs Israel: Implications for Missile Defense, https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/iran-vs-israel-implications-for-missile04:00 Michael Doran on October 7 one year later, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ig9ftKAk413:30 Five reasons why Israel’s 7-front war is so hard to win, https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/10/five-reasons-why-israels-7-front-war-is-so-hard-to-win/14:20 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid28:00 Dooovid has been anti-Zionist for … Continue reading