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Top IS-Khorasan Commander Killed in Southern Afghanistan
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Arizona rancher, 73, is released from custody on $1M bond after securing money via Christian donation website when GoFundMe shut his page down: He's charged with murder for shooting dead Mexican on his property
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Kelly was released from custody on a $1million surety bond Thursday

  • Friends and family have helped raise over $350,000 on GiveSendGo

  • Kelly was in custody for shooting Gabriel Cuen-Butimea on January 30

Courtesy of Anomalous Sources:
Migrant shot dead by Arizona rancher, 73, was cartel drug smuggler, says ex Border Patrol chief... as prosecutors DOWNGRADE charges from 1st to 2nd degree murder amid growing public outrage

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who was previously a supervisor in the area, told NewsNation that the area has a 'propensity for violence'.

'Everything that I have seen, my professional experience would tell me that that guy was either a scout or an actual guide for a group.

'With the radio, [it's] much more likely he was actually scouting out in advance, or the front-man, but that type of activity and behavior doesn't take place out there unless it's part of the cartel,' he said.
More at link.

I could not believe this man is being held under bond. Like he was going to flee. Riiiiiight...

Justice MUST come the way of this American Citizen rancher. Are we living in Gotham City?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


#2  "The law does not apply to me."

Keep it up. That's how we got the Magna Carta.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/24/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#3  A fentanyl pill costs 10 cents (.10) to make in Mexico. The same pill sells for between $20.00 to $30.00 in the U.S.. That is a huge margin for the Cartels and their partnership with U.S. politicians who refuse to secure the borders.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 02/25/2023 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The Arizona rancher provides the solution for the dilemma. He must therefore be punished.

We are no longer a nation of solutions. We have become a nation of perpetual turmoil, division, and conflict.


Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2023 2:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Got to be hard at 73 to maintain a ranch.

Don't piss off old people. Life in prison is less of a deterrent
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2023 7:30 Comments || Top||

#6  I really don't think you interrupt Darwin while he's at work...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||

#7  MEO: The rancher is located in southern
Santa Cruz county in AZ. That is Rep. Raul Grijalva's, and the Democrat Party's leading Marxist's political home. He will receive no justice if a trial is held in La Raza dominated Nogales.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 02/25/2023 8:44 Comments || Top||

#8  So not one of the chattel; a democrat associate.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/25/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#9  A gummint that needs to "make examples" is already lost.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#10  We are no longer a nation of solutions. We have become a nation of perpetual turmoil, division, and conflict.

So what you gonna do? You coward Russophobic puto!
Vote? Post you complain at you elected representative internet site?

You are been royalty fucked. LOL.
Posted by: ACÁ JOE || 02/25/2023 11:52 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm a 100% reactionary. that's all that's left.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  GoFundMe should not be used.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||

#13  We are no longer a nation of solutions.

You’ve said you left, my dear, so you no longer count as We. We’ve got plenty of solutions, though California — where you formed your idea of America and Americans — is completely uninterested.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 21:59 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Tunisian President Criticised For Pointing Out Illegal Migration Is Designed to Change Demographics
[Breitbart] Tunisian President Kais Saied has been criticised for stating that mass illegal immigration is a "criminal enterprise" directed toward changing the demographics of his country.

President Saied made his comments this week at a meeting of the country’s National Security Council, calling for action to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants arriving from sub-Saharah Africa, which he labelled as "hordes."
And so they are.
The Tunisian leader went on to blame illegals for being a source of violence, crime and "unacceptable acts", stating that illegal migration was a "criminal enterprise hatched at the beginning of this century to change the demographic composition of Tunisia," newspaper Le Figaro reports.

According to President Saied, mass illegal immigration risked transforming Tunisia, which is also a major departure point for illegals looking to reach Europe, into an "African only" country and changing its "Arab-Muslim" character.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why does this all seem familiar?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/25/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps there is a parallel universe after all ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2023 9:01 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Houthis rattle their scimitar, grimace fearfully
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A bigwig in Ansarullah’s political bureau, Mohammed Nasser al-Bukhaiti, revealed actions that will be taken by Sana’a in the case of failed negotiations.

"Negotiations between Sana’a and Riyadh may succeed or fail. Sana’a is ready for all possibilities, but in any case, it will not accept negotiation with Riyadh’s puppet," Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said in a tweet, referring to the so-called head of the Riyadh-formed Presidential Council, Rashad al-Alimi.

He stressed, "Achieving peace in the Arabian Peninsula is a common interest for all its countries, and just as Sana’a prefers the option of peace, it is ready to fight the next war, the theater of which will include the countries involved in the aggression on Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
."
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Deputy FM of Yemen addresses UAE directly on occupation of Abd al-Kuri island
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sana’a government, Hussein al-Ezzi, directed on Thursday a message to the UAE regarding the Abd al-Kuri island of the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i Socotra archipelago.

"Abu Dhabi should not exhaust itself too much by working to establish its presence on the island of Abdul Kuri, or on any Yemeni island," said al-Ezzi in a tweet on Twitter.

He stressed that "leaving Yemen and its islands is always the best option, and history says that whoever insists on antagonizing the Yemeni people gets tired and collapses quickly.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Caribbean-Latin America
Mega-prison in El Salvador for 40,000 suspected gangsters – which has only 80 beds for every 100 inmates - welcomes its first new inmates with vow 'You will never walk out of here'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in world with 2 per cent of their population currently in jail

  • Recently the government has cracked down on gangs and arrested 63,000 people under state of emergency

  • The Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT)' - claimed as the largest mega-prison in the Americas - just opened in Tecoluca, 74 kilometers (46 miles) southeast of the capital San Salvador
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/25/2023 09:01 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


#2  El Salvador is one of those places that should just be nuked. The well-being of the entire rest of the planet would improve immediately.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Not much of a market for 'Destination Weddings' and you never see El Salvador offered as a Wheel of Fortune Grand Prize. Just say'n.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2023 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure there's some good food there. Still, I can get that at home.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I am 63 years old and have no tattoos. Not on my back. Not on my ass. Not on my arms or legs. Not on my face.

My impression is babies in El Salvador are born with tattoos.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  That was prolly a rayciss thing to say. No worries. My Wild Turkey will still taste just fine tonight.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#7  El Salvador has welcomed crypto currency with open arms. Something tells me they might need to expand that prison sometime down the road.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/25/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  hate to wreck a tropical paradise with nukes. rounding 'em up into one place sounds like an excellent start tough...
Posted by: 746 || 02/25/2023 20:42 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
A young man from Volgograd, convicted in the case of terrorism, left Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A teenager from Volgograd, sentenced to compulsory treatment in a terrorism case, left Russia with his mother. He has been put on the federal wanted list.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 14, 2022, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found a teenager from Volgograd guilty of preparing an attack on a school and, considering that the young man was socially dangerous, decided to send him to a special type hospital for compulsory medical measures.

On January 9, the court of appeal refused to satisfy the appeal against the verdict. The mother said that her son had just got a more or less normal life, he went to college, and the court verdict deprives him of hope for the future. 

The student was arrested in June 2020, when he was 14 years old. The investigation decided that the teenager was preparing the murder of a school employee and one of the students, for which he himself made a bomb. There is no convincing evidence of the investigators' version, and the psychiatrist's conclusions about the student's insanity are doubtful, the defense pointed out.

After the teenager’s stay in the regional psychiatric hospital No. 1, the head physician of the institution issued a certificate stating that the conclusion of the examination regarding the student  was not true , lawyer Andrey Gordeev said on September 3, 2021. Earlier, lawyer Sergei Bashbakov expressed the same opinion. "It is not clear to me how he was recognized as insane. In my opinion, he is sane, an ordinary normal teenager," he said.

A teenager from Volgograd, whom the court sentenced to compulsory treatment on charges of preparing an attack on a school, left Russia with his mother, Kavkaz.Realii reported today.

The family decided to leave the country after an appeals court upheld the young man's sentence, his mother said.

“In the evening after the trial, we returned, and an employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service called us. He said: “Let <...> come in.” Well, to put a bracelet on him. I say that he is busy, he will come tomorrow. The next day, another call. We understand that we have nowhere else to go, we pack a bag and just leave," she said in an interview posted on the SOta YouTube channel. 

According to the mother, the doctors of the psychiatric hospital where, by court order, her son was kept during the trial, told her that the sentence on compulsory medical measures meant at least five years in the hospital. "The chief physician personally told us that she did not see any illnesses in at all, but she would be forced to treat him," the young man's mother said, follows from an interview dated February 23. 

The forensic psychiatrist told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent earlier that  Anatoly Krivosheev  noted that the diagnosis made by the experts of the Serbsky Institute could be the basis for recognizing insanity. The procedure for compulsory treatment in a hospital for people with such diseases is determined by the court based on the opinion of experts. "It is also possible to stop or change the treatment regimen (for example, facilitate it) only by the court in the presence of all participants in the trial - the patient, his lawyer and the prosecutor," he said. Krivosheev to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A teenager from Volgograd, convicted in a case of terrorism, was put on the wanted list, the Telegram channel Sota reported on the same day. The message also published a screenshot of the wanted message.

Posted by: badanov || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
129,000 Afghans Apply for Asylum in EU in 2022
[ToloNews] Nearly 1 million people applied for international protection in the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
in 2022, according to data published Wednesday, bringing the number of asylum requests to a level not seen since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016.

Associate Press (AP) reported, of that number 129,000 Afghans applied for international protection in the European Union.

"After more than a decade of war and economic collapse in their country, Syrians continued to be the top nationality of asylum-seekers in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
with more than 130,000 applications. They were followed closely by Afghans fleeing the spiraling security, humanitarian and financial troubles that followed the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
takeover in August 2021, with 129,000 requests," AP reports.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
some residents of Kabul asked the Islamic Emirate to provide employment for youth so they do not leave the country.

"There are smugglers on the way who sell passengers, as well as thieves. People are leaving the country and travel to Iran
...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
because of challenges here in the country," Kabul resident Hasibullah said.

"We ask the Islamic Emirate to create job opportunities, to create businesses, so that the young people return to their homeland and make their homeland prosperous," said Abdul Moumen, a resident of Kabul.

According to some asylum seeker rights activist muppets, restrictions imposed by the caretaker government, and economic challenges are among the reasons for the increase in the asylum seeker numbers of Afghan citizens in other countries.

"The main reason for this sort of migration is the high restrictions on women in terms of education and employment, as well as the economic, cultural, social, political, and security infrastructures," said Asifa Stanekzai, an asylum seeker rights activist muppet.

Previously, the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation reported that there are nearly 7 million Afghan migrants colonists living abroad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


India-Pakistan
Pak: Govt seeks national consensus to root out terrorism
[GEO.TV] The National Apex Committee — comprising the country's top military and politicianship — Friday sought national consensus to root out militancy as Pakistain faces a fresh wave of terrorism.

The meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, according to a statement issued by the PM's Office on Friday, reviewed in detail the incidents of terrorism in the country — especially the terror attacks at the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
Police Lines Mosque on January 30 and at the Bloody Karachi
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin spotted at funeral of top terrorist wanted in India, killed in Pak
[OneIndia] Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
Chief and Pathankot terror attack criminal mastermind, Syed Salahuddin
...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating....
was spotted publicly leading the funeral of top Hizbul commander Bashir Ahmad Peer alias Imtiyaz Alam in Pakistain's Rawalpindi.

Peer, who was reportedly in charge of launching turbans into Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
through Line of Control, was designated a terrorist by the Centre on October 4 last year under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for his role in terror activities.

According to the notification, Peer participated in a number of online propaganda groups to unite ex-murderous Moslems and other cadres for the expansion of activities of Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
, and other terrorist organizations.

Syed Salahuddin is a Kashmiri separatist leader and the chief of Hizbul Mujahideen, a hard boy group based in Jammu and Kashmir, India. He is also the chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), an umbrella organization of various hard boy groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir.

He founded Hizbul Mujahideen in 1989 and has since been leading the group's armed struggle against the Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir.

On October 4 of last year, the Narendra Modi government designated Peer as a terrorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

In 2017, the US designated him as a global terrorist, freezing his assets and prohibiting US citizens from doing business with him.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Outpost recognition boosts Israel’s hold over West Bank, deepens Palestinian despair
[IsraelTimes] Settlers celebrate decision to legalize nine unauthorized outposts, say it formalizes longstanding cooperation with government to expand settlement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 02:11 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Netanyahu has held a number of secret meetings with senior Israeli military officials discussing plans for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] But don't tell nobody, okay? 'Cuz it's a secret.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  A lot of death and destruction is a coming attraction, and thank God Bibi is the decision maker, not the Puppet Show. What is coming didn't have to happen!

Anyone who doesn't think this has been, at least in part, a consequence of the clueless American left's pandering to the Iranian nuke program, is a fool.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/25/2023 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Exactly! The Obama-Iranian deal getting ready to bloom.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2023 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Great to see that the secret meeting has a Twitter account.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 16:11 Comments || Top||

#4  The problem with kicking the can is sometimes your fall and break your ass while winding up from the next kick.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 16:20 Comments || Top||

#5  #3: ytou think jarret or rice helped?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/25/2023 18:02 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 02/25/2023 19:09 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 02/25/2023 19:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Fortunately, Israel has better friends in higher places.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 19:45 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 02/25/2023 19:58 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
No Party Through Which We Can Repatriate ISIS Families In Syria – Morocco’s FM
[NPASyria] On Thursday, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said there was no party in Syria to negotiate with in order to repatriate Moroccans affiliated with Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) who are held in the war-torn country.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has time and again called on the international community and countries who have ISIS nationals in North and East Syria to repatriate them.

In November 2022, Co-chair of IDPs and Refugees Office of the AANES, Sheikhmous Ahmad, renewed the call for countries to repatriate their nationals of ISIS families held at the region.

The Moroccan Foreign Ministry added the issue of repatriating Moroccan ISIS families is a shaky one. It is not easy to find a quick solution particularly for those held in Syria as there is no party to hold talks with.

The statement was made by the ministry following a sit-in organized by the families of Moroccans stranded and detained in Syria, Iraq in front of the ministry building.

During their sit-in, the families of those detained demanded relevant authorities expedite the repatriation of their family members and bring them to justice, according to Moroccan newspaper Hespress.

The newspaper said that Moroccan officials themselves stressed that Morocco is counting on settling this issue through the Iraqi government, which will assist the Moroccan government to settle the issue in Syria after finishing it in Iraq, which also have many ISIS-affiliated Moroccan nationals.

Mariam Ziron, general writer for the National Coordination for Families of Moroccans, revealed during the sit-in that "a number of women contacted the coordination and revealed that they fled camps after the earthquake."

She added, "They and their children are currently living in difficult conditions in light of the bitter cold and the fallout of the disastrous earthquake which hit the region."
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 02:24 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Iran says it’s likely to send Syria air defenses, after latest alleged Israeli strike
[IsraelTimes] State TV says Tehran expected to ship ‘radars and defense missiles’ to its ally in Damascus; White House warns Russia may supply fighter jets to Iran as their security ties grow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 00:38 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  "Targets"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Great chance for ELINT. Steal Russian stuff that has been downgraded by the iranians.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 11:01 Comments || Top||


Video shows little girl in Iran hit in the face for not wearing hijab
Whether or not what is claimed actually happened as described, it speaks to the mood of the country that such a thing is believed.
[OneIndia] A video went viral on February 22 which shows a maiden of tender years sitting on a road in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
and crying as blood oozes from her nose.

On Twitter those sharing the video claimed that the little girl was hit on her face for not wearing a hijab.

"Little girl bleeding after getting hit in Iran. Her fault? She didn't wear Hijab. "Hijab is a choice" is the biggest scam of our times," Twitter user Monica Verma wrote on Twitter.

This girl is the latest victim of brutality in the Islamic country. The vigilante police have been criticised for being brutal with the women who do not follow Islamic dress codes.

According to Twitter users, the latest victims is Sara Shirazi, an elementary school student. She was hit by a lady called Razia Haft Baradaran, when she was on her way to school.

Now only was the little girl beaten up, but her family was also threatened with a fate similar to that of Mahsa Amini, if they protested or approached the media.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iranian state television offered an extended defense against an accusation attributed to international inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84 percent
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "Dang! How'd that get in there?"
"I'll betcha it wuz Zionist spies what dunnit!"
"Betcha you're right! Why, I seen two or three suspicious-lookin' characters around here just last week!"

Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  It is nice that Obama helped the Iranians with their nuke program

  • Israel has a lot of nukes

  • Nukes require a delivery system

  • Nukes require specific scientific maintenance or they won’t work


  • They will end up with one kindergarten nuke to pit against an arsenal of graduate level nukes

  • There is a level of pre-nuke restraint that goes away post nuke

  • You have to build at least two and explode one as proof

Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 16:24 Comments || Top||

#2  In summation - Iran will get their butts kicked. Hopefully, they won’t end up glowing in the dark.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 16:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Frying carpets and glow in the dark pistachios.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 16:29 Comments || Top||

#4  We will be told Netanyahu killed the next Jesus.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||

#5  NPR: "Iranian scientists days away from cure for COVID vaxx when Tehran was nuked"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 16:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Tuh-ray-zuhh Kerry starts GoFundMe for iranian orphans.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 16:35 Comments || Top||

#7  I expect that the attack will be conventional. If they get nukes and threaten nukes that is a problem … for Iran.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Conventional Prompt Strike. Let assholes pucker in Omaha and Omsk while they wait to see what the payloads are.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 17:05 Comments || Top||

#9  It will be with jets and there will be no tweet to announce the conclusion of a secret meeting. That was pure puppet show.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/25/2023 17:31 Comments || Top||

#10  They will end up with one kindergarten nuke to pit against an arsenal of graduate level nukes

The Persians would come up short in a nuclear exchange with a major power. But there are other more deniable things you can do with fissionable material. Give it to the Paleos, for example. A dirty bomb set off in Tel Aviv would make a big mess and let the Paleos count coup, even without being a nuke.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/25/2023 18:04 Comments || Top||

#11  there will be no tweet to announce the conclusion of a secret meeting

You saying Milley will be the last to know?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 18:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I can see him rushing to the mess to interrupt Darth Lunch's between snacks meal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2023 18:09 Comments || Top||



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