Scott Watrous

@MatthewPHoh @gerry6868 @YouTube @STANISKRAPIVNIK Thank you. Ugh.

Thanks Scott. The International Criminal Court (ICC) should but the US is not a member and the US actively targets the ICC to weaken it. The principle of universal jurisdiction exists for war crimes, so any state could bring charges against the US and individuals. Here are some examples: fibgar.es/en/what-is-the… No, the US won’t face any such consequences though.

Guest Matthew Hoh: Trump Fatigue Syndrome grips America and the World. youtu.be/W_kpQNDEyiA?si… via @YouTube @MatthewPHoh @STANISKRAPIVNIK

@MatthewPHoh Another great essay from @MatthewPHoh

“If you don’t understand why the Palestinians endure, what Hezbollah is fighting for, or the role that self-determination and independence play in Iran’s purposes, then this war is nothing more than a one-dimensional tale composed of false and misshapen tropes and stereotypes. It will also lead you to believe, wrongly, that there is resolution available, i.e. victory, through more airstrikes, a tighter blockade or another village bulldozed. Finally, failing to acknowledge resistance to occupation and foreign domination as the basis for the Palestinian resistance, Hezbollah and Iran’s foreign policy will make you think that it is possible to end the war with anything other than an end to occupation and guarantees of sovereignty.” Link in first comment.

@BuzzPatterson Love these stories!

A flying story of days of yore. One time, when I was a young, wet behind the ears, Air Force aircraft commander (Captain), we were flying back from a highly classified base in the Middle East. I’ve written about this place before. It’s wild. Anyway, we were destined for Frankfurt, Germany. We climbed out of the austere, secret, US military installation, and cruised back to Frankfurt. The US had an agreement with NATO to not contest or reveal our flights to and from said location. We were filed accordingly. As we approached French airspace, French ATC (which is always a barrel of monkeys) demanded our point of departure over the radio. “France, REACH XXXX, unable. Under ICAO #, we are not required to provide that.” Cue a pissed off French controller. The frog wasn’t happy. I told them that I couldn’t provide that to them based on our international agreements. They got pissed and refused our entry into German airspace. So, believe it or not, we had to enter holding on the French-German border. I gave the aircraft to my copilot and got on the HF (high frequency) radios to talk to the US Embassy in Frankfurt. These radio stations exist so the American military can talk worldwide. The Embassy immediately got on it. I called the Command Post at Frankfurt, apprised them of the situation, and told them to prepare for is to divert to Mildenhall AB, England. That, however, created a whole new set up problems. Our cargo and passengers were extremely sensitive, and diplomatically very challenging. I had a letter signed by the President of the United States authorizing me to go anywhere in the world. Frenchy didn’t care. After holding for an hour (which really sucks), constantly crunching the fuel numbers, with expletives bouncing off the cockpit ceiling, we were finally cleared into Germany and landed shortly thereafter in Frankfurt. Just another day flying the Big Iron on the line.

What an absolute honor and a blast to have been interviewed by @profwolff, a man who I have learned so much from over the years. This was a very real personal and professional highlight for me: youtu.be/KM4sL9E28UM?si…

@Supersonic_Red Thank you for giving words to our experience! Well done.

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

@MatthewPHoh @profwolff Great interview!

@MatthewPHoh Incredibly powerful work Matt.

“How could there not be resistance to such indignity and humiliation, to such cruelty and such depravity, and to such terrorism and such evil? How could there not have been the intifadas, and how could there not have been the October 7th attack? I’m not going to offer the question of why we as Americans support such crimes and horrors, because that answer is simple. We do so because the United States is an empire and those indignities and humiliations, those cruelties and depravities, and those terrors and evils are what empires do, if not directly, then by proxy.” (Link to essay below.)

@HealthRanger Enjoyed your segment a lot. Great show.

Pay attention to Redacted. Excellent reports, including this one.

@MatthewPHoh The way the US has treated Cuba for the last 50 years is reprehensible. The “sanctions” devastate citizens and communities without any regard for human suffering.

How quickly can this administration pivot from war on Iran to war on Cuba? Based on its speed in its actions in just the last six or seven months towards Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela and now Iran, I would say pretty quickly. This administration has glaring incompetencies, and, at its core, it is a kleptocracy and a kakistocracy, but it does put in motion what it intends, no matter the resulting consequences, cost or wreckage. The obsession with Cuba has been vicious and enduring in Washington, DC, and this may be the long waited for moment to right the wrongs of 1961 and restore the chessboard to order (the parallel obsession with Iran, in its imperial entitlement and obligations, is clear). Among those rational around the President, and there are a few, the thought must be: use Cuba, “take it” as the President says, turn attention away from the Gulf, blame that on the Europeans for not doing their part, tell the Arab monarchs that the Chinese, Russians and Indians will never keep them in power the way the US has, and tell Americans the inflation and layoffs they are enduring, as the costs of the Iran war come home this summer, are because Joe Biden sent them a $1400 check five years ago. This administration has the imperial will, decades of pathological anti-Havana mania and a need to get attention away from the Middle East. An overextended, drained and strategically inept American military will be further tasked, however with the significant comfort of staging out of continental US bases. I would expect this war on Cuba to emphasize the assassinations, kidnappings and economic warfare, including destruction of civilian infrastructure and secondary sanctions, that US governments excel at, with a focus on immiserating Cubans to a near-Gazan level. I am humbled at the thought of what this administration might do to conquer Cuba, including things no one who is not a part of a madman’s court would ever think of.

@thematrixb0t This should be obvious to every hunter who ever used one…

Candace Owens released the video behind Charlie. That's not a 30-06

@JDunlap1974 He woke up!

What do you think happened to Tucker Carlson?

@MaxBlumenthal Maybe no sane person should engage with her on X. Let her platform melt away…

Loomer is crashing out over Trump’s humiliating failure in Iran And she’s taking her frustrations out on me Was it something I said?

@MatthewPHoh Thank you @MatthewPHoh for another clear and concise assessment.

How was this not always going to be the case? Israel is not going to give up their opportunity to cleanse and occupy Lebanon. Among other reasons, they need to do this to further West Bank annexation. Two attacks on Iran during negotiations plus the daily bombings and murder by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon during “ceasefires”. Why would Iran accept such a thing? The questions I have had since last night, as well as my thoughts as of now: Questions: -Has this war done enough economic and political damage to prevent a future war, as well as a recalibration of American presence in the Middle East, a lifting of sanctions and a re-ordering of the Middle East (e.g. Iran/Oman de facto and de jure control of Straits of Hormuz)? Plus, larger geopolitical and economic goals (global diminishment of US empire, de-dollarization, rebuke to biased international institutions and norms)? -Do the Iranians need breathing space for two weeks to reset military? -Do the Iranians not have the capacity to continue the war further and are sincere about a negotiated end as they do not see being able to sustain a campaign? -Or do the Iranians retain such a military capacity, but believe that they have achieved enough of their objectives? -The Iranians had to have the understanding that the Israelis would either sabotage the cease-fire at some point or consider Lebanon not a part of it, as the Israelis are insisting today. -How much do the Americans need to resupply, rest, rotate and refit their forces? Is this just a US ploy to begin fighting again in two weeks time or whenever the cease-fire breaks? Or to begin war again months from now or next year? -Is this an entryway into an American campaign similar to Israel’s cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, or similar to US “containment” of Iraq from 1991-2003, with constant but limited bombings and sanctions? Just enough constant pressure to hurt the Iranians and limit their actions, but not enough to cause Iran to break the cease-fire. -Does this meet Trump’s ego needs? Thoughts: -My expectation is that Iran will withdraw from the ceasefire because of its commitments to Hezbollah and Lebanon but also because Iran has had the initiative for almost all of this short war and Iran is likely to still have the military capacity to sustain weeks or months more of conflict. -I don’t believe Iran has fully met its economic and political conditions for denoting successful achievement of their adjectives. Nor do I think the domestic political conditions within the US currently would preclude a return to war by the US. -It’s impossible to know the true state of Iran’s missile and drone stocks, as well as other aspects of its ability to sustain its campaign, but based upon what we’ve seen this last month, plus the recent entry of the Houthis into the war, my belief is that Iran has an edge over the over-extended Israelis and Americans. -With regards to infrastructure attacks, Iran has escalation dominance with the threats on Gulf State infrastructure as well as Israeli infrastructure - although that could well lead to Israel or US nuclear weapons use (more likely Israeli). -I would be dumbfounded if Iran continues with this cease-fire process for no other reason than that the US simply can’t be trusted. -I continue to believe the long-term strategy for the United States is to carry out a campaign similar to the 1991 to 2003 campaign against Iraq, hoping that the pressure will somehow lead to uprising and regime change. -The Israelis will do as they feel is in their best interest. They still understand they have political support from the US Congress, as well as capitals throughout Europe, including Brussels. -The Israelis believe the last few years have been the best opportunity for them in decades. I don’t believe they will change course from their objective of Greater Israel into Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank, as well as established and clear regional dominance.

@MatthewPHoh Excellent analysis as always. And seriously concerning.

@ireallyhateyou Absolutely read this piece from one of the greatest writers ever. Wake up!

Wow. Everyone should read this 1983 article by Roald Dahl. Every word of it. It's literally the same fucking shit as now, with the same kind of impunity, only now it's even much worse. He called it. He fucking called it and they just ignored him and called him an antisemite.

@BrianOSheaSPI @JohnKiriakou @MatthewPHoh Matt Hoh is one of the most honorable and honest men I have ever met. You are not, obviously.

Here’s convicted leaker, disgraced former CIA case officer @JohnKiriakou interviewing disgraced former State Dept loser and Left/Marxist darling @MatthewPHoh . And why not? Both seem to be working for our enemies, so of course they would be working together to amplify their Anti-Trump/anti-American and pro-Iran slop. And like Kiriakou, Ho has been shilling for our enemies for a while. Here he is cheerleading for Iran in 2000 via an interview he gave to Iranian propaganda platform HABILIAN, reposted by Iranian propaganda platform Nournews. In it he weeps for Venezuela and Cuba as well while attacking our allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel. Hey Ho: sanctions aren’t a form of terrorism, terrorism is a form of terrorism. And subversion and treason is an act of greed and cowardice…as you two are quite versed in NOURNEWS nournews.ir/en/news/49556/…

@DanielLDavis1 @LauraLoomer She is beyond repulsive!

Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer here exposes the rot intellectually at the highest levels of influence on our administration, and the deadly consequences of President Trump, listening to advice like what she gives. It has already led to a war we should never have fought, that not only has deprived us of the blood of 13 Americans and the wounding of 330 others, but now has cost yet another combat aircraft, on top of the others that have already been destroyed, our bases that have been devastated throughout the region, and now skyrocketing oil prices that threaten to throw our economy into a recession. All of that – every bit of it – was self-inflicted and should never have happened, but did because President Trump listened to the advice of people like this podcaster. Nevertheless, I’m grateful that she’s choosing to elevate this to the public eye, so people can see what their own eyes who is giving President Trump good advice, and who is giving him deadly bad advice.

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@ailanyus No way

Be 100% honest: would you still have voted for President Trump if you knew he'd attack Iran?