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🚨BREAKING: FIRST PHOTOS OF TRUMP’S CALL WITH IRAN

"In the worst-case scenario, that risk is a situation where parts of Alberta cease to be able to water crops or feed livestock in the heat of the summer, because data centres have bought first dibs on the water beneath the prairie." nationalobserver.com/2026/03/23/inv…

So the whole world is demanding Iran opens up the Strait to all, condemning Iran, threatening Iran... In Cuba, every single person on a ventilator in hospital died overnight, because of Trump blocking fuel. Why aren't you condemning him? Why has there not been a peep?

Iran just told Trump to go ahead and pull the trigger. Thirty-three hours left on the clock, and Tehran didn’t blink. It escalated. Trump threatened to obliterate Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t open for business within 48 hours. A reasonable person might have expected some back-channel signal, a quiet diplomatic murmur, maybe a phone call through Oman. Instead, Iran’s senior military command walked up to the microphone and announced that its entire strategic posture has shifted. Not defensive. Offensive. The country has enough reserves to last a year. The Strait is closing completely. Every vital piece of infrastructure in the Middle East, energy, water desalination, IT, is now a declared target. This is not a country signalling that it wants a way out. This is a country that has decided the cost of backing down exceeds the cost of the wall it’s about to hit. Which puts Trump in the kind of position he has never actually been in before: a deadline he set, in public, that the other side just laughed at. He can obliterate the power plants. In which case Iran closes the Strait, hits the desalination plants that keep Saudi Arabia and the UAE alive, and about a fifth of the world’s oil supply disappears overnight. Markets open Monday to scenes that make 2008 look like a minor correction. Or he doesn’t. In which case every adversary on earth just watched the President of the United States issue an ultimatum and absorb a public humiliation in real time. There is no clean exit here. There is no art to this deal. Thirty-three hours. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Price of Iwo Jima was 7000 KIA and 19,000 wounded

Trump is literally proposing the same exact plan that President Obama already had in place before Trump ended it.

American hypocrisy

The absolute hypocrisy is staggering. Netanyahu stands in front of cameras and accuses Iran of bombing nurseries, civilians, and holy sites using forbidden weapons. He is literally describing his own exact war crimes in Gaza word for word. Pure psychological projection.

Let’s be honest about the résumé here. The United States has not won a war since 1945. Korea: stalemate. Vietnam: fled. Iraq: created ISIS. Afghanistan: handed the keys back to the Taliban after twenty years and a few trillion dollars. That is not a winning streak. That is a participation trophy collection of weaknesses. Oh, and 1945? They needed a formal invitation. Germany declared war on America. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The US did not ride in on principle – it got dragged in because refusing would have looked embarrassing. Three years of sitting it out while Britain bled, Canada crossed oceans, and the rest of the Allies held the line. By the time American boots hit Normandy, the back of the Wehrmacht had already been broken on the Eastern Front by the Soviets at a cost of twenty million lives. The US arrived at a table that others had set, ate well, then spent the next eighty years telling everyone they won the dinner. So yes. Keep the lectures about European dependency coming. Just maybe check the scorecard first.

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

Obama literally did this.

The "luck" Netanyahu describes in his video is a luxury bought with billions in hardware, while the rest of the region remains trapped in a cage of "Locke"—the Lockheed Martin technology (F-35s, Hellfires) that provides the mechanical backbone for every Israeli strike. While he points to a single site in Arad where no one was killed, he ignores a ledger of human cost that has been systematically built since 1948. Here is that story, told in inverse chronological order, reaching back 78 years to expose the hypocrisy of "luck" versus the reality of "the Lock." 👇 👉 March 2026: The Regional Invasion The "danger" Netanyahu speaks of is the daily reality for the 72,123 Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023. While Arad reports zero casualties, the "Locke" has ensured a different fate for others: • The Iran Front: In this current war, an illegal invasion conducted without UN authorization (violating Article 2(4) of the UN Charter), over 1,406 Iranian civilians have been killed. A single "precision" strike on a girls’ school in Minab alone killed 165 people, mostly children. • Lebanon: In just the last three weeks, Israeli strikes have killed 1,021 Lebanese civilians and displaced 1.2 million. • Gaza’s Erasure: Today, 97% of Gaza’s schools and all of its universities are rubble. 94% of hospitals are out of service, leaving 1.6 million people (77% of the population) to face an engineered famine where the elderly and children die quietly of starvation. 👉 2023–2025: The "Lock" on the West Bank While the world watches the missiles, the illegal occupation of the West Bank has reached a boiling point. Since 2023, 1,071 Palestinians have been killed there. Over 36,000 people have been forcibly removed from their land to make way for illegal settlements, turning the territory into a series of open-air cages. 👉 1982–2006: The Lebanon Cycles • 2006: The world watched as 1,100 Lebanese civilians were killed in a single month. • 1982: During the invasion of Lebanon, the Sabra and Shatila massacre saw between 800 and 3,500 civilians killed while Israeli forces "locked" the exits of the camps, lighting the sky so the killing could continue through the night. 1956 (70 Years Ago): The Suez Crisis & Kafr Qasim Exactly 70 years ago, the "human cost" was enforced by a literal lock 👇 • Kafr Qasim: 49 Palestinian farmers returning from their fields were massacred by border police. They were killed because they were unaware that a "lock" (curfew) had been placed on their village. • The Nakba (1948): The story began with 750,000 Palestinians (the 1,750 you mentioned is likely a typo for this massive exodus) who were forced from their homes. They left with iron keys, thinking they would return. Instead, they were locked out forever. *** Sources and Verification (March 2026) • Casualties: Palestinian Ministry of Health & UNRWA Situation Report #212 (March 2026) confirm 72,123 deaths in Gaza; WHO and Iranian authorities report 1,406 civilian deaths in Iran since Feb 28, 2026. • Infrastructure: Save the Children/HRW 2026 reports confirm 97% of Gaza schools and 94% of hospitals are damaged or destroyed. • Legality: UN Experts (OHCHR, March 12, 2026) designated the Iran strikes as a violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter due to lack of Security Council authorization. • Lockheed Martin ("Locke"): CEO Jim Taiclet confirmed in Feb 2026 that data from Israel’s F-35 use is "worth many billions" to the company. • History: UNISPAL records for the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre (49 killed) and the 1948 Nakba (750,000 displaced).

The news that Orbán’s people inform Moscow about EU Council meetings in every detail shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. We’ve had our suspicions about that for a long time. That’s one reason why I take the floor only when strictly necessary and say just as much as necessary.

Here’s what nobody tells you about being the most powerful man on earth. At some point, you stop being powerful. And then, rather inconveniently, everything you did while you were powerful becomes somebody else’s problem to sort out. Donald Trump is currently in year two of his second term. He has renamed a cultural institution after himself, closed it, unleashed what can generously be described as a paramilitary immigration force on his own cities, and apparently authorised military strikes where survivors were finished off in the water. He did all of this with the serene confidence of a man who has never once faced a consequence. And here’s the thing. Domestically, he may be right. His own Supreme Court essentially invented a new legal principle specifically for him, which is a level of judicial favouritism that would make even a dodgy FIFA referee blush. But the International Criminal Court did not get that memo. Neither did Germany. Neither did the Netherlands. And critically, neither did Scotland, where Trump owns a golf course he may never visit again without a very awkward phone call from The Hague. Rodrigo Duterte thought he was untouchable too. He is currently attending his war crimes trial via video link from a detention cell in the Netherlands. Which is, one has to admit, not how most people picture retirement. His cabinet will spend the next several decades buried in lawsuits, disbarment proceedings and foreign legal complications. There will be no quiet farm. No memoirs tour in London. No honorary degrees. Just paperwork. Eternal, relentless, internationally sourced paperwork.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

The people who did this want you to know international law and civilian life must be protected.

Right. Let’s just pause there for a second! Iran is not Germany in 1936. Iran cannot invade Poland. Iran does not have a mechanised army rolling toward the English Channel. Iran has ballistic missiles, a few proxy militias, and an economy that looks like a particularly sad car boot sale. The actual country currently occupying sovereign European territory, bombing civilian infrastructure and being actively assisted by the largest nuclear power on earth is Russia. And the man who just decided to stop arming the people fighting it is sitting in the Oval Office. If you’re looking for your 1936 moment, it already happened. It was called February 2022. And half of the people now invoking the Holocaust to talk about Iran spent that year arguing we shouldn’t provoke Moscow. Europe isn’t looking away from Iran. Europe is watching Washington hand Russia the wheel. That’s your history lesson.

Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people. Self awareness of a potato

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1