Rod McLaughlin

@CraigMurrayOrg If admirals defied the president and retreated, that is mutiny, but what can he do about it? Replace the professional chiefs of staff with loyalists. Stalin found out the problem with doing that in 1939 in Finland. But he still won the winter war. Trump isn't winning this.

Sometimes it's worth stating the obvious. If the US has won the war, why has the 5th Fleet from Bahrain had to flee the Gulf altogether and hide 1,500 miles away?

“It was lucky one of the guns inside didn’t go off or else she and our baby, due next month, could have been shot and killed.” The ignorance and wussiness of Brits re guns is amusing. Police incompetence is less so. theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@jvgraz Perhaps he's using the word 'literally' in its original meaning. The word has literally reversed its meaning, like the word 'antisemite.'

Whoa - I was totally on my way to thinking you're full of shit, but then you threw that "literally" in there at the end and it completely turned me around.

@FurkanGozukara The word "admits" can easily be misused. It means "he said it, and it's true." It is not true. Europe would be safer without being specifically allied to one of the three major nuclear powers.

Absolute humiliation for Europe. NATO Chief Mark Rutte openly admits on camera that the European Union is completely defenseless without Washington. He tells European leaders to "keep on dreaming" if they think they can survive alone. The Western alliance is incredibly fragile.

@7signxx Some of the most effective critics of Israel and its centrality to Jewish culture worldwide are Israeli Jews. But they are a tiny minority. @alon_mizrahi @MaxBlumenthal @GiladAtzmon

"BRILLIANT PIECE on IRAN !!!!! Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli journalist, one of the most worthy Jews in the world: "We are witnessing history. Iran, to everyone's surprise, is destroying American bases so thoroughly, on such a large scale, and so decisively that the world is not ready for this. In 4 days, Iran has managed to expand its sphere of military dominance in the region. Iran has destroyed the most valuable and expensive military bases, property, and equipment in the entire world. The American bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are among the largest military facilities in the entire world. These facilities have cost trillions of dollars over several decades to build. We are talking about the fact that the bulk of the military spending that has been made over more than 30 years has gone up in smoke. We see radars costing hundreds of millions of dollars each being destroyed in an instant. We see entire military bases being abandoned and burned, looted, and destroyed. And I'm telling you, as far as I know, the U.S. has never suffered such destruction in its entire history, except perhaps for Pearl Harbor, but that was just one attack. No enemy in a conventional war has ever done this to American military forces as Iran is doing right now. It's hard to believe. The military situation is so serious that censorship is blocking almost all new information about this war. If you've noticed, we're getting less and less information every day. Thirty-five years ago, during the first Iraqi war, we were shown endless footage from Iraq. Back then, smart bombs and cameras were a novelty, but every night we were shown night-time footage. Now we hardly see any videos at all. Understand this! Supposedly, this is the world's largest military power, with the world's largest air capabilities, and on the fourth day of the U.S. offensive, supposedly and supposedly breaking through Iranian defenses, we don't see any signs of American dominance in the Iranian sky. Where are all the video recordings of our planes flying over Tehran or any other part of Iran, for that matter? American soldiers can't even dream of setting foot on Iranian soil. And to understand how desperate this war is, on the fourth day you're already hearing the most insane proposals and ideas from the Trump administration. They're proposing sending military escorts for oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf. What are you even talking about! You want to send American ships into the zone of destruction of thousands of Iranian missiles? NOW no one can get through the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians have been preparing for this for decades. They're flaunting the idea of arming Kurdish militias to invade Iran. What the hell are you talking about? Have you seen a map of Iran!? It seems the Trump administration has never seen a map of Iran! Do you know how vast it is? What does it mean to invade Iran!? Do you think a militia of 10,000 people could invade Iran!? Or even 50,000? Or 100,000? Iran will swallow them up. The U.S. and Israel have already lost this war. The U.S. and Israel can kill millions of civilians in their homes. They have powerful bombs and can blow up buildings, but they won't win this war. Iran's military infrastructure and weaponry is deep underground all over IRAN. Neither the Americans nor, especially, the Israelis have any chance of reaching any of it. They're in deep shit. They started something they have no chance of finishing. When this all ends, the U.S. will never return to West Asia. There will be no American presence in the Middle East. I'm telling you this now with certainty." ©David Z t.me/Palestinianspi…

@ryangrim x.com/markcurtis30/s…

@ryangrim On behalf of England, I'd just like to correct the statement that we have 'sold you out.' Your warplanes are refuelling at an RAF airfield, and the RAF is also helping your no. one ally in the region commit genocide.

We launched an unprovoked war because Israel and our lunatic wing wanted to, and nobody helped, and that’s such a betrayal! How could they!

The top leaders of Iran, Russia & China all sound like they’re about 60-80 IQ points above Trump, Hegseth, & most top congressional leaders from both parties. It’s embarrassing.

@AdamNoahWho @ABC This ABC News clip basically says that bombing Iran back to the "Stone Ages" (Trump's words - he knows a bit of palaeontology) wouldn't be "a long-term solution." I suppose if he were in Germany in 1942, he would have said that about their genocide.

My thoughts on Iran’s downing of a US fighter jet & the way the Trump admin has undermined its own chances at diplomacy - ABC News - abcnews.com/video/13169745… via @ABC

@sciencegirl The British Museum is my no. 1 goto destination in the British Isles, along with the Museum of Free Derry.

A Chinese student created a website that maps British Museum artifacts to their countries of origin.

@Sat_Sumo "He will not say anything that is a gift to ppl who want to frame it as an ideological project" This says 'attempting to compromise with supporters of Israel's child-killers works.' Not only is it morally evil, it is tactically inept. The story of Corbyn shows that.

It's a Corbyn puff-himself-up wank-fest as usual. Nothing but openly declaring himself an enemy of Zionism will do - or are nice cuddly lefty Zionists welcome at the inquiry?

@Partisangirl @s_m_marandi @Fellowship247 😇

@s_m_marandi @Fellowship247 lol

I'm not eligible. My name isn't in the Epstein files.

@ElCruzSeb @LadyJustice9111 "That silence is deafening" Like the Japanese authorities after Midway

THIS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT MOMENT OF THE ENTIRE IRAN WAR. THREAD. 🧵 Let me walk you through what just happened. Iran shot down a US F-15E Strike Eagle. It went down in southern Iran. The wreckage is confirmed on Iranian soil. The pilot — or pilots — did not eject safely. Iran's Tasnim News says IRGC forces captured them. Iran initially claimed it was an F-35. It was an F-15E. Either way, they have the wreckage. And they claim they have the crew. The US scrambled an immediate rescue operation. F-35s flew combat air patrol overhead. MQ-9 drones monitored the crash site. A C-130 and Black Hawk helicopters went in for extraction. The rescue failed. One Black Hawk was shot down during the attempt. Multiple aircraft lost in a single operation. The US is publicly denying all of it. No confirmed losses. No confirmed POWs. Nothing. That silence is deafening. Now here's where it gets really bad. This morning, Trump said "take the oil and make a fortune." This afternoon, Iran announced they have an American prisoner of war. The same damn day. March 31: Trump said he was "willing to end the war." April 3: Trump says take the oil. April 3: American pilot captured on Iranian soil. The last time Iran held Americans hostage was 1979. 444 days. Destroyed Carter's entire presidency. A POW is not just a tragedy. A POW is leverage. Iran now holds a card nobody can take from them. If that pilot appears on Iranian state television, the political fallout in the US will be unlike anything we've seen. Over 100 legal experts today called the US strikes potential war crimes. Now a US servicemember is in Iranian custody. This is not a footnote. This is the story.

Israel is now more dangerous than Nazi germany was. A deep ideological hatred of all around them with a desire to seize lands. Fully armed by the West and with legal impunity. Nuclear armed and a total religious supremacist outlook. The most dangerous entity to ever exist.

Damn Surgeon, Coming in here to the House of Lies, telling the truth. Never mind, hardly anyone will ever hear him…

@jeremycorbyn destroyed himself - he chose capitulation-cum-complicity over resistance, he chose to fawn upon his foes & forsake his friends. I despise him utterly.

Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist. History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals.