Uncivilized 🇵🇸

Will Trump be responsible for the worst global economic crisis in recent history? To avoid that possibility and exit this war he could offer Iran following points: - Stop the very heavy strikes, incl. non-military ones of the last ~7 days, for which almost everything available was thrown against Iran - Leave the authority of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran - Leave Israel to fight Iran on its own - Leave "too exposed" U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf - Leave Iran with its weaponizable Uranium stocks All these could be sold as U.S. 'Wins' in the media and leave the possibility that Iran would accept it. Strait of Hormuz authority could then be utilized to force the lifting of U.S. sanctions afterwards That's the easy way out of the quagmire But the likelihood for it to happen is low, since he hasn't understood what he is in for because of Iran's resilience...

🇦🇪🇺🇳 The UAE has invoked Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, the most serious mechanism available, calling on the Security Council for "immediate action" to ensure safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Chapter 7 authorizes the use of military force. This is the UAE formally laying the legal groundwork for war.

What are they going to do?

Name me someone less intelligent than Pete Hegseth?

A Trump administration official tells Axios: "This isn't 3D chess — it's 12-dimensional. He contradicts himself regularly, so nobody knows what he's thinking. It's on purpose."

Iran understands and is striking at the heart of how modern imperialist wars are waged: an increasingly privatized digital-financial-military-industrial complex with new, unique vulnerabilities. Hence targeting Nvidia, Palantir, Oracle, Google, Apple, Meta, Tesla, Microsoft, HP, Boeing, GE, JP Morgan, etc. This is not a replacement of the old military-industrial complex, but a merger and an organic development: weapons companies remain vital through aircraft, munitions, and engines, while cloud and AI firms provide the digital nervous system, and banks underwrite and intermediate war finance. What is new is not that private contractors exist, but that they now supply the decision-making architecture of war. Iran is taking advantage of the new vulnerabilities this model exposes for the US and "israel" (including, but not limited to): 1. It creates choke-points, with war-fighting capacity now concentrated in very few corporations that militaries do not fully control. 2. It widens the target set to data centers, regional offices, cloud nodes, subcontractors, and supply chains. 3. Corporate legitimacy is softer than state legitimacy: employee dissent, leaks, whistleblowers, and shareholder disputes can disrupt military support. 4. Because these systems are networked and dual-use, attacks on them can spill into civilian finance, communications, and commerce. As a mostly de-industrialized superpower, the US economy is completely reliant on its finance, tech and especially AI sectors. As with their new control system of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is striking at the heart of US-zionist finance capital and asserting the new international economic order — not through statements or conferences, but with militant resistance.

The U.S. has lost 16 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the Iran war began, including two near Isfahan this week. Each Reaper costs around $30 million — making the losses potentially worth nearly $500 million. Source: CBS

Iran’s Islamist regime disrupts global energy - blackmailing ships in the Strait of Hormuz and attacking its neighbors’ infrastructure. Now imagine how this extreme regime would act with the confidence given by an umbrella of nuclear-armed ICBMs and worldwide reach. The US and Israel are acting to prevent that nightmare.

You: Why do the Persian Gulf, Arab militaries don't attack Iran? Me: This thing 👇

IRGC: We use a drone worth $20,000 to destroy an American plane worth $700 million.

Judging by the projectile secondaries this looks like munition cooking off rather than any form of BM.

Quick reminder that none of these countries, nor Israel, is going to provide significant, if any, troops towards an Invasion of Iran. The only ones dying will be Americans.

Trading advice from Iran’s parliament speaker

Saudi Arabia announcing an agreement with Ukraine for defense reeks of desperation and completely exposes the relationship they have with the US. Why are the saudis hosting and paying for American bases and firepower if they still need to tap Ukraine, a nation on life support that is barely capable of defending itself from Russia, for assistance in defending from Iranian missiles and drones? At some point, the Saudis are going to come to the conclusion that the best security arrangement was the one China brokered for them with Iran just three years ago.