>>2746977Finklestein is a zio afterall.
>>2746980Okay aipac
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/13/aipac-illinois-abughazaleh-ahmed-bean-biss-israelAIPAC's plan to sink progressives: Slam them from the left
Groups linked to AIPAC are employing an eyebrow-raising tactic to sink pro-Palestinian progressives in Democratic congressional primaries: Going after their leftist bona fides.
Why it matters: It is a telling indication of what the ruthlessly pragmatic pro-Israel organization sees as a winning message with Democratic voters who have grown increasingly hostile towards their brand.
Rather than running ads through its go-to Democratic political arm, United Democracy Project, AIPAC appears to have employed a web of vaguely named groups targeting specific districts this cycle.
>>2746982AIPAC is retarded because all this ends up doing is pushing the overton window further left.
I don't know why this thread constantly devolves into arguing over who is the carrot in the relationship. We can acknowledge Israel owns the US and also that both Israel and the US should be destroyed. Undermining America and Israel's relationship doesn't require excusing either party's actions. The fact it makes rightoids mad to say Israel owns them and they're being sent to die for Israel, and it makes Zionists mad to say Israel started the war in Iran, is enough for me to repeat it just to spread chaos among our enemies. Doesn't matter that it's not really true tbh.
>>2746978I grew up thinking Kashmir was someplace cool.
I guess I was fooled by marketing.
To conserve interceptors, IAF choosing not to shoot down some Iranian cluster bomblets
Submunitions carrying a few kilograms of explosives are unlikely to harm people if they are sheltering, military officials say; IAF says
https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-conserve-interceptors-iaf-choosing-not-to-shoot-down-some-iranian-cluster-bomblets/>>2746989Doesn't sound like Iran was ever an imminent threat to me.
>>2746971Nah, he was small fries. Think a dude wearing an ankle monitor in Florida vs Jeffrey Epstein.
>>2746944What are the odds of getting Q anon schizos to become pro Iran by saying this is a war of the Deep State vs Patriots?
Saudi Arabia intercepts, destroys 5 drones in the eastern region
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence has announced that it intercepted and downed five more drones over the Eastern Province, which is considered the economic hub of the country and location of key oilfields.
Bahrain reports warehouse fire after Iranian attack
Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior said the fire at a company warehouse broke out due to falling shrapnel resulting from “Iranian aggression”.
Civil defence workers have the fire under control “without any injuries”, the ministry said.
The Interior Ministry did not say whether the attack involved Iranian drones or missiles.
China restricts fertiliser exports, further tightening global supply amid Iran war
China is curtailing fertiliser exports to protect its domestic market, industry sources have told the Reuters news agency, placing additional strain on global markets already grappling with shortages caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.
In mid-March, Beijing banned exports of nitrogen-potassium fertiliser blends and certain phosphate varieties, sources told Reuters.
According to the news agency, along with existing bans and export quotas for urea, only a handful of fertilisers – notably ammonium sulphate – can be exported from China, which would mean between half and three quarters of what China exported last year is now restricted, potentially up to 40 million metric tonnes, according to a Reuters estimate.
China is among the world’s largest fertiliser exporters – shipping more than $13bn worth of it last year.
Reports of the ban come as shipments of fertiliser through the Strait of Hormuz are stalled. Shipments through the waterway account for roughly one-third of the sea-borne supply.
“This pattern is consistent: China restricts supplies rather than coming to the rescue during global tightness,” Matthew Biggin, a senior commodities analyst at BMI, told Reuters.
“They’re prioritising food security and insulating their domestic market from price shocks,” Biggin said.
Saudi Arabia deals with stream of incoming drones
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence has reported intercepting and destroying three drones in the east of the country over the past hour.
The spokesperson for the ministry said earlier that 10 drones were also destroyed on different occasions over the past several hours.
All were intercepted in the eastern region of the country.
Kuwait targeted by missile and drone attacks
Kuwait’s military said air defences are currently confronting “hostile missile and drone attacks”.
The military said if explosions are heard, they are “the result of air defence systems intercepting the hostile attack”.
Members of the public were also called on to follow security and safety instructions from authorities.
UAE defending against missile threat
The UAE’s National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority has warned people to remain in a safe location as air defence systems are currently responding to the threat of a missile attack.
Members of the public were asked to monitor “official channels for warnings and updates”.
US-Israeli relationship could crack as Iran war drags on
There is an assertion, not just in Israel, but here in the United States, that the US was pulled into this war.
But does anyone really believe that the US was deceived? That Donald Trump was deceived?
Yes, there is somebody, a man named Joe Kent, who was the former director of the National Counterintelligence Center. Kent quit in protest over the war, and he said that Israel had essentially misled the US about the war.
And we know that because Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was on Capitol Hill, and she was asked about that, and she said, yes, she did find that concerning.
She was also asked if the US and Israel have the same goals in mind, and she said, no, that Israel seems more bent on regime change.
She said that was based on just observing their targets, and the US was focused more on military targets.
This is a question that comes up a lot here in the US. People in Congress, particularly Democrats, are upset.
Republican commentators who normally had aligned with the president, people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, have been critical.
So this is a real matter of concern … It certainly caused a crack in the US support for that war, which is very low, under 30 percent. But it could potentially cause a crack in the alliance between the US and Israel.
But so far, Trump and Netanyahu have remained aligned, regardless of all that criticism.
>>2746975The comments are mostly as bad as I expected them.
>>2746986>Doesn't matter that it's not really true tbh.You're right ''comrade" just repeating the talking points of our "enemies" is totally sowing chaos. they aren't at all eager to say the exact same shit
FCC green-lights Nexstar's $6.2B merger with rival TV station owner Tegna
The FCC approved the deal less than a day after eight state attorneys general sued to block it. The combined entity would become the nation’s largest operator of local TV stations.
In a news release Thursday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency waived a rule that bars a single company from owning TV stations reaching more than 39% of U.S. households. The combined entity would cover at least 60%
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/fcc-greenlights-nexstars-62b-merger-rival-tv-station-owner-tegna-rcna237953>>2746996which of our enemies are saying this talking point exactly?
AIPAC called it antisemitic.
Democrats called it antisemitic.
Republicans called it antisemitic.
Israel called it antisemitic.
Iran has been saying it for the entire duration of the war btw.
>>2746982Axios is aipac. You are aipac. You arr epstein
>>2746918In the 1920s, the USSR did face significant technological sanctions and sought to acquire boilers from the West. Ramzin was a leading expert who had even traveled to the US and UK on missions to study and purchase such equipment . When external acquisition became impossible, his expertise became crucial for creating a domestic alternative. His once-through boiler design was a significant innovation, and the first one was put into operation in 1933
Note that anticommunist retards made up his gulag tenure to blacken any Soviet historical figure of note, lol. You can clearly see that scientists of the highest caliber had alibis and state protection in the form of sharashkas. Later on secret high security cities came online, which coincides with the end of practice of sharashkas, i.e. it was just fake incarceration of scientists for the sake of hiding them from foreigners >>2747002>>2746918Ah, what I mean by this example, Soviets overcame sanctions of industrially necessary good, without it industrial production was impossible. They barred USSR from acquiring those, they had to buy used ones for a while, until they came up with their own, much better design, that replaced Westoid designs, even, and was cheaper to produce.
>>2747004I don't think the US government will allow the AI bubble to pop if they can help it. Something like 70% of economic growth post-COVID has been in the AI sector. If that bubble pops so does the entire economy. Inshallah.
>>2746997what does that have to do with the war?
>>2747006Great Depression started regardless of USA's wishes on the issue. Today we are in Roaring Twenties, with all the same fake data and fake prosperity
>>2747008Well the US government does have some control over when collapses happen. They can just print money and give AI companies bailouts until midterms at least, and likely if not for the Iran war could've delayed the bubble bursting until after the 2028 election(if there was one). The Iran war complicates things a bit and removes a lot of their ability to manipulate markets so that might be why Epsteinites are getting antsy.
>>2746944Iran did more to punish the jewish pedo rings that rule the west than any western government.
>Can confirm the deployment of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit from California has been sped up to occur within days, per two officials.
>The task force, with about 4,500 sailors and Marines, is expected to head across the Pacific, eventually replacing the 31st MEU in the Middle East. The 31st MEU was dispatched a week or so ago and is closing in on the region now.
>Seems possible the two ARG/MEUs overlap for a time, depending on what form operations take. But unclear at this time.
>Each MEU includes an infantry battalion landing team of about 800 Marines with aviation and logistics support.-WASHINGTON POST
https://xcancel.com/DanLamothe/status/2034823425592631312#m >>2747004Probably. The energy crisis is gonna tank everything. It will take years to rebuild what was already lost and the warmongers aren't paying attention to pesky details like supply chains and whatnot.
>>2747010Did they do a platner ad
>>2747014It's oddly fitting that a murderer-rapist got caught with his pants down
>>2747008>Today we are in Roaring TwentiesI'm pretty sure that's what they meant by maga, trad fads and nostalgia for Jim Crow. I thought the maga crowd voted to set us back 100 years on purpose but now some of them act like they weren't paying attention.
>>2746931Nah it comes from Alex Jonesberg who believes genociding third worlders is bad for some reason (i.e. he's a Christian with Jewish kids)
>>2746796https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coinSo he's testing out yet another way to fuck over the budget I think? I thought that he was already playing games though.
>>2746999I was using enemies sarcastically, as a way to imply that you and various other people in these Iran threads are posing as leftlypol users to parrot the talking point itself.
>Iran has been saying it for the entire duration of the war btw.These unnamed Iranians don't decide whether or not it's true. though I would like to read more on their perspective. do you have any names?
>>2747021I think it's the typical vanity with this guy.
The antichrist was always going to have his image stamped on a coin.
Ansar Allah: We stand in solidarity with Iran and the resistance in Lebanon and Iraq… and we call for unity.
The political bureau of the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen renewed its solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran, considering that it is “writing an epic of faith, freedom and dignity on behalf of the nation.”
The political bureau also affirmed its solidarity with "the mujahideen of Hezbollah and the resistance factions in Iraq and all the peoples of the nation" who, according to the statement, are subjected to American-Israeli aggression.
Ansar Allah also called on Arab and Islamic countries to "unite ranks and positions" in response to what it described as the duty to support Palestine and its just cause.
He also stressed the need to support Al-Aqsa Mosque and the people of Gaza, noting that they are receiving the Eid holiday under siege and starvation, holding "the Zionists and their allies" responsible for that.
On Thursday, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the political bureau of the Ansar Allah movement , told Al-Mayadeen that the decision to stand with Iran in Yemen "has been made," stressing that they are monitoring the situation, and indicating that Yemen's participation is "only a matter of time."
The Economist: War on Iran will weaken US military capabilities for years
The Economist magazine warned that an American war on Iran could weaken the United States’ military capabilities for years, due to the depletion of ammunition and the exhaustion of forces, especially the Navy, which is “already under considerable strain.”
The magazine quoted US Vice President J.D. Vance as saying, during the Munich Security Conference in 2024, that the world "is suffering from a scarcity of resources," stressing that the United States does not produce enough ammunition to support multiple wars at once, whether in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or East Asia.
She noted that the war launched by US President Donald Trump against Iran will increase pressure on the US armed forces, which may weaken their readiness for any potential conflict in Asia, with the repercussions of the current military operation continuing for years.
According to an analysis by researchers from the Paine Institute for Public Policy in Colorado, the United States used more than 5,000 pieces of ordnance during the first four days of the war, and about 11,000 pieces during the first 16 days, making the operation "one of the most intensive air campaigns in modern history."
The analysis added that this campaign surpasses in intensity the early days of NATO's bombing of Libya in 2011, indicating the scale of the military drain Washington is facing.
>>2746796Yknow it’s kind of weird how Trump is trying to do the Cult of Personality shit but without monopolizing the superstructure or even entering some “period of exception” as Schmitt would put it. Like he’s putting his name on buildings but artists are just refusing to play there and people are publicly calling him a fat retard.
and for those who'd like to get some theory:
>Advocates of the view that Israel wields enormous influence over US Middle East policy cite as evidence US policy itself: what Washington does in the Middle East, they say, is injurious to the interests of the United Israel, a Beachhead In the MIddle east States. At the same time, it is helpful to Israel. Therefore, it must be true that Israel and the ‘Jewish lobby’ have hijacked US Middle East policy to obtain Israeli benefits at US expense. It would hold therefore that we shouldn’t blame Washington for the frightful state of the Middle East; we should blame the self-declared Jewish state.
>All of this, however, rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of whose interests US foreign policy serves. It is assumed that when decision-makers set policy that they are guided by the common interests of US citizens.
>The evidence, however, points in a different direction. Rather than taking the common interests of US citizens into account, policy-makers pay special attention to the needs of corporate America. US Middle East policy may be at odds with US interests, where US interests are equated to the common interests of Americans, but it is not at odds with corporate America`s interests. What Washington does in the Middle East benefits US investors to a high degree. US Middle East policy has delivered enormous benefits to US oil companies, for which the Persian Gulf is a leading source of ‘black gold.’ US Middle East policy has also delivered enormous benefits to US arms manufacturers, who act as armorers to the Arab world’s imposed leaders, and to US banks, in whose accounts the proceeds of Middle East oil sales are deposited.
>>2747013Deadass just heard 2 guys who talking about it on the street,one was a marine
Saudi Arabia believes oil could rise above $180 if disruptions persist: Report
Officials in Saudi Arabia believe that the price of oil could rise to $180 per barrel if disruptions persist in the Strait of Hormuz through the end of April, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing multiple unnamed sources.
Oil prices have been fluctuating wildly since the war began on 28 February, with Brent crude briefly approaching $119 per barrel on Thursday before retreating.
Umer Karim, an expert in Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy at the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, told Al Jazeera that he believes at least $150 a barrel is within the realm of possibility depending on the progress of the war.
“If these Red Sea terminals are attacked – if there is any kind of obstruction within the Red Sea – I think anything above $150 is quite possible,” Karim told Al Jazeera. “Right now, this is the only viable connection between Europe and Asia,” Karim said.
Saudi Arabia has been able to keep exporting oil because it has facilities at the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, located more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Gulf.
Analysts fear, however, the port could become a target as energy facilities across the Gulf have been attacked by both Iran and Israel.
More drones intercepted, destroyed in Saudi Arabia’s eastern region
The Saudi Defence Ministry has announced the successful downing of nine more drones over the country’s Eastern Province, the latest in a night of interceptions involving more than two dozen drones.
Kuwait confronts second round of missile, drone attacks
The Kuwaiti army said “hostile missile and drone attacks” are being confronted, and members of the public have been asked to follow official safety instructions.
The sounds of explosions being heard are the result of Kuwait’s air defence systems “intercepting the hostile attack”, the military said.
Just over an hour ago, Kuwait’s military reported confronting an earlier missile and drone attack.
Dubai says ‘air interceptions’ successful, no injuries reported
Dubai’s official media office has announced successful “air interception operations” over the city, “with no injuries reported”.
The office provided no further details on the nature of the defensive operations.
Saudi Arabia says drone downed over northern al-Jawf province
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence has announced that it intercepted and destroyed another drone over al-Jawf province, in the north of the country, amid a continuing stream of drone attacks over several hours.
>>2747033His art of the deal is fake it 'til you make it and if you don't pretend like you have. Fools 30% of the country consistently.
>>2747036For Epstein!
>>2747025>do you have any names?why, so you can report them to Elon Musk and have their social media banned for speaking out against the war effort?
>These unnamed Iranians don't decide whether or not it's trueOnce again it doesn't matter if it's true or not if it creates distrust and divides our ideological enemies. Pitting the Zionists and White Nationalists against eachother is extremely important for the American Left to make any progress in ending US aggression in the Middle East. I fucking hate Tucker Carlson but there's a reason the Zionists are absolutely obsessed with him right now instead of targeting left-wing voices. They NEED to manufacture a united front for this war by rallying the entire American far-right and center-right into supporting the war effort. Any dissenting voices from those factions are considered a greater threat to their propaganda campaign than a voice on the left, because voices on the left have a very small reach in US society.
We don't need to agree with these people or endorse their beliefs in any way, we just need to use them for our own purposes and hijack their signaling towards anti-imperialism. Make white nationalists hate Israel by blaming them for dragging America into the war. When the economy starts getting worse, keep reminding people that it's Israel's fault and that we'd have cheaper gas if not for Israel etc. Leftists know this is not true, but normies are stupid cattle that need to be herded towards the correct position one step at a time. You aren't gonna convince an American to abandon the Democrats and embrace Communism overnight. But you might convince them to abandon Israel and embrace isolationism through appealing to their direct material interests, and from there push them towards increasingly anti-imperialist positions that they see as a natural progression from "No More Foreign Wars" or whatever.
This obsession on the left of maintaining ideological purity and only working with those who 100% agree with you is really disastrous. We need to be opportunistic in our tactics.
>>2747038>“If these Red Sea terminals are attacked – if there is any kind of obstruction within the Red Sea – I think anything above $150 is quite possible,” Karim told Al Jazeera. “Right now, this is the only viable connection between Europe and Asia,” Karim said.USA doesn't negotiate with "terrorists", so they will attack Iran, like, Israel will use civilian planes to hide their military oens for another outrageous attack, Iran retaliates, and then USA will claim that Iran is the irresponsible one
>>2747041I think you are correct, aslong as theres an effort to educate people the same side
>>2747046that's a fake quote though unfortunately. it was AI generated
>>2747046If vance wasn't an immature, off-putting and weird looking millennial, and if he had a spine, he could've organized the 25th amendment on the diaper don. He may be thiels puppet but at least he doesn't have Alzheimer's.
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