Rod McLaughlin

@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.

Total chaos in Dubai once again. This time, a 25 year old female flight attendant from England has been arrested. She was afraid to fly to Dubai because of the explosions. But her airline assured her the situation was not too dangerous. She believed Dubai was downplaying the destruction. So she took a photo of the heavily damaged airport to show her airline that her safety was at risk. She warned her colleagues not to visit Dubai on WhatsApp. Now she has been arrested. 2–5 years in prison. Source: Daily Mail.

@OmarBaddar @ryangrim The analogies with the Nazis are legion, but the Israelis are more sadistic. Some historians say the Nazis weren't the sadistic stereotypes of the movies, they just thought they were doing a job.

Read the following from the NYT & ask yourself one question: When else in history did a genocidal foreign occupying army warn residents not to harbor members of a religious community that they seek to eliminate?

@KateEmersonBri @Ostrov_A @X I've become brutalised. I laughed the other day at what I thought was a clip of Israeli soldiers getting blown to bits. The films of Iranian missiles hitting Tel Aviv give me a h@rd0n. I blame Zionists.

@Ostrov_A @X Not salivating over the death of Jews. But happy to see the end of genociders.

Wow, check out the replies here. I do love @X, but boy, sometimes it truly is an unhinged cesspool of deranged hate, salivating over the death of Jews.

Critics of Balfour usually miss the bit where he says the Jews can have a state providing they don't mistreat the locals. That promise is now void. Of course, he had no right to promise anything to anyone.

@AGDugin Yes, critics of Balfour usually miss the bit where he says the Jews can have a state providing they don't mistreat the locals. That promise is now void. Of course, he had no right to promise anything to anyone.

Netanyahu has no right to the territory of Palestine. It was given to the Jews on the presumption of their polite, humanistic and friendly behavior. What we witness now leaves no chances to them to control Palestine.

@jvgraz @georgegalloway The bit where George quoted fellow Glaswegian John Maclean was lost on the Americans. “I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.” bbc.com/news/articles/…

This was America's "Emperor Has No Clothes" moment on the Iraq war. Most in the US had never heard of @GeorgeGalloway, let alone heard words like this spoken to US senators. The MSM tried to paint George as a wack-job and it backfired spectacularly. To this day, his statement is remembered as the turning point in public attitudes toward Iraq.

@zxer4rah @Partisangirl I wonder if Assad might make a comeback.

This is Syria under Assad fighting Israel Assad been fighting since hafez all the way upto to the Bashar Seeing videos of so called Arab tribes free Syrians wanna march to free jerusalem is a joke while they won’t even free the golan heights or mount hermon

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@Sargon_of_Akkad Britain is directly involved in the war, allowing American warplanes to refuel. It's also our genocide, as the RAF helps Israel monitor Gaza.

It's not our war.

Or maybe we were right all along, and you were just too dumb or compromised to see the reality of American global power beyond the fake liberal-internationalist veneer — and now it’s just become so obvious you can no longer deny it.

@AssalRad International law has always been an illusion. To paraphrase Stalin, how many divisions does the ICC have?

The ICC prosecutor has faced more punishment for holding war criminals accountable than Netanyahu has for committing genocide. Imagine explaining this to future generations.

@OrangeFreddyG @Jackiew80333500 Palestine is also the center of the fucking universe because its fightback inspires all of us.

The idea of a “crime against humanity” is that wherever a genocide is occurring it is a crime against all of us. So yes Palestine is the center of the fucking universe until the masters of the universe stop arming a genocide of it.