According to the Pentagon, the US attacks Iran with bunker busters and announces complete success. Netanyahu is jubilant. We analyze interests, facts and talk about consequences – for the whole world.
That’s the word right from the short, fat Trump’s mouth:
President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Saturday night after announcing strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites via Truth Social. Speaking from the Oval Office accompanied by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the President said, “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.” He also reached out to Israeli leadership, saying, “I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team. Like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.”
Meanwhile:
– +Iranian state radio: the Fordow nuclear facility sustained no significant damage in the US strike. – IDF officials: there is a slim possibility the Fordow facility was not destroyed. – Iran’s Center for the National Nuclear Safety System: confirmed the attack, but said that emergency inspections at the affected facilities have found no signs of radioactive contamination or leaks. – The International Atomic Energy Agency: no increase in radiation levels has been reported at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. – Remember, the one thing the media never, ever, reports is the real story and the actual truth. – And everything about Clown World is fake and gay.
The one thing that we can be sure of is that if a) nukes are real and b) the Iranian capacity for building them remains sufficiently intact, the Iranians are going to acquire some nukes in short order. I’d be shocked if they didn’t already acquire some from North Korea or Pakistan.
Given that history, I suggest everyone pour themselves a big scotch or vodka and relax. Initial reports almost always are grossly exaggerated. Here is one possibility: Trump may be doing another Houthi spin… you know, declare that Iran has capitulated and then pull US forces out of harm’s way. Iran has been extremely patient to a lengthy list of US provocations. I believe they were counseled by Russia and China to let the US strike the first blow, then Iran could retaliate and would have the full backing of both countries. It is highly unlikely that the US has delivered a crippling blow to Iran. If anything, the US has now provided the hardliners more ammunition for Iran to do the very thing that Trump claims he is trying to prevent… build a nuke.
UPDATE–Upon further reflection, and given initial reports from the sites attacked by the US, I think Iran will not attack US bases in the region because the damage is minimal and they would prefer to keep the focus on Israel. If they don’t attack US bases — and I suspect that is the counsel Russia and China are providing — Iran can continue to decimate Israel and not provide the US with a pretext to expand the war.
A United States Army colonel has been removed from his position on the Pentagon staff supporting the Joint Chiefs after his Israel-critical social media posts were publicized by Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). Until this week, Army Col Nathan McCormack led the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Levant and Egypt branch. That team is part of the Joint Staff J5, which proposes strategies, plans, and policy recommendations to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Within hours of Tuesday’s JNS report, McCormack was yanked from his post, with a Pentagon official telling JNS:
Here are the publishedcomments that led to McCormack’s removal:
May 2025: “Netanyahu and his judeosupremacist cronies are determined to prolong the conflict for their own goals: either to remain in power or to annex the land.”
June 2024: “The more Israel’s death cult escalates toward Hezbollah, the more we will see show-of-force attacks like this and 13 April.”
June 2024: “The U.S. has not been an honest broker. We have overwhelmingly enabled Israel’s bad behavior.”
May 2024: Amid talk of pushing Gaza residents into other countries, McCormack wrote, “[Israel] wants to expel them and cleanse ‘Eretz Israel’ of ethnic Palestinians.”
April 2024: “I’ve lately been considering whether we might be Israel’s proxy and not realized it yet. Our worst ‘ally.’ We get literally nothing out of the ‘partnership’ other than the enmity of millions of people in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.”
Oct 2023: “I agree that Israel has an absolute right to respond militarily, and that civilians may legally be caught in the crossfire, but you are ignoring the requirement of proportionality. Israel’s responses always (always—not hyperbole) disproportionately target Palestinian civilians.”
The President made the right call, and did what he needed to do.
Leaders in Congress were aware of the urgency of this situation and the Commander-in-Chief evaluated that the imminent danger outweighed the time it would take for Congress to act.
The world’s largest state…
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) June 22, 2025
BREAKING: ICE Agents under full assault in Maywood CA forced to deploy tear gas to escape a violent mob with foreign nation flags.
The escalating surge in targeted attacks on ICE is directly tied to the reckless rhetoric of Senator Alex Padilla & Governor Gavin Newsom. pic.twitter.com/m3MgdBU5vC
Amir Tsarfati: « Shortly after takeoff, the B2 bombers were refueled in the air. This means that they have something very heavy in their belly, which means they can't take off with full fuel tanks… » pic.twitter.com/aBPe2HAeBN
The aerial refuelling tankers accompanying the 6 B-2 stealth bombers from the U.S. across the Pacific Ocean just turned off their transponders and “went invisible”
Sorry about the profanity in the above link. The points outlined are valid and we should be considering our options. If you still believe you can vote your way out of this, there are two options that must be accomplished:
Voter ID. This will seriously destroy the Democrat Party.
You must start immediately vetting great candidates to primary existing Congressmen.
I do not believe that we can vote our way out of this and am gravely concerned that the United States is not capable of winning WWIII. I know that the Lord put me in this geographic area for a reason which gives me some peace of mind. And that small comfort is enough.
It’s clear Trump’s foreign policy has been hijacked by the Mossad, and he’s now dangerously sidelining the only people capable of providing him the real unadulterated truth about the ongoing situation.
… the arrant hypocrisy demonstrated by the Western-bloc position that Iran must first negotiate and only then will hostilities be brought to an end. Wait a second, wasn’t it that in Ukraine the “appropriate” sequence of events, according to this ‘rules based odour’, is that first hostilities must immediately cease, and only then negotiations should begin?
As you can see, the West twists the chain of logic in whichever way serves its interests at the particular time. In Ukraine’s case, Ukraine is badly losing and so the West seeks to immediately save their ward by sermonizing Russia about how it’s only “right” that hostilities must end first. In Iran’s case, it’s the opposite: the West is quite keen to allow Israel its illegal and unprovoked campaign of violence against Iran.
No consistency, no principles, as always.
Israel never had the endurance to go twelve full rounds with Iran, and the hope was always that US would step in, which is why everything now depends on Trump and his tiny cohort of string-pullers.
Israeli figures and media are already salivating at the prospect of what’s next after Iran, with various posts about Qatar, Turkey, and Pakistan all being lined up for disarmament and dismantling.
