So now, as they have done for hundreds of years, the US will agree treaties with their enemies (to get them to apply self-restraint and subside into complaisance) until such time as the US war machine can convince US leadership that they once again have the military advantage and they can return to belligerence mode; strutting, bullying, violating treaties "unilaterally", sanctioning, invading... you know... same old shit we've had for the past three decades. Is anyone ever going to learn?
The US ability to force adversaries to sign treaties and repeat those practices depends on credibility, of which the US and the entire west has squandered being exposed as hypocrites and deceivers, Also economic strength, but as Russia and China are demonstrating the benefits of trading in local currencies moving away from the debt based western financial system. That economic advantage through control of the global reserve currency may not be there for much longer.
If Israel responds (in the very foolish hope that the US can rush in and crush Iran on their behalf) it appears to me that much of the world will be partying on the hillsides watching the spectre (as Israeli settlers have done watching the destruction of Gaza) while Israel is reduced to rubble - As with Amalek we are reminded of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Not that I buy into this biblical crap - knowing what the universe is (see https://ihavenotv.com/the-sun-god-star-universe-bbc) - but it makes for good copy when addressing Netanyahu.
You left out one part, Scott, at least if we assume that none of the Iranian missiles were hypersonic:
It showed that US Air Defense + Israeli Air Defense could be beaten with less-than-State-of-the-art Iranian offensive weapons.
Apparently, no hypersonics needed (or is that inaccurate?).
Compared to an opponent using hypersonic missiles, the Iranian tactics got through multi-national air and ground based missile defense, with the Iranians voluntarily keeping "one-arm tied behind their back".
Interesting how the AN/TPY 2 would “see” a hypersonic warhead and how the speed would affect target classification. In that regard shooting a hypersonic at Israel would be beneficial. Since the west can’t seem to do this technology! They have no development targets.
TPY 2 is expensive needs a lot of electricity and so there are not many of them.
The last stage of the retaliatory attack supposedly included Fattah 2 multistage missiles, with an estimated Mach 5 on the final leg, with a 500kg warhead. If it qualifies for being "hypersonic" it reaches only about half the velocity of the fastest Russian hypersonics.
I can't help but wonder whether Iran has the faster versions.
"half the velocity of the fastest Russian hypersonics" - REALLY ?
The RS-28 Sarmat (nicknamed "Satan II" by NATO) features unique characteristics that enable it reliably to breach any existing and future anti-ballistic missile defenses.
Sarmat's parts are made exclusively domestically, which will make its mass production "easier and accelerate the process of providing it for Russia's Strategic Missile Force."
The RS-28 Sarmat ICBM flies at Mach 20.7, 20.7 times the speed of sound and can be equipped with, for example, 10 heavy 750kt MIRV warheads or 15 lighter nuclear warheads with a combined destructive force of up to about 40 megatons.
Sarmat is more accurate than its predecessors, and is “capable of wiping out parts of the Earth the size of Texas or France.”
Impact power without war heads is enough to destroy city like New York or Los Angeles.
Russian Avangard, the world’s fastest nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that’s 20 to 27 times faster than the speed of sound; can hit any target on Earth within an hour.
Avangard combines the speed of ballistic missiles and maneuverability of cruise missiles in a single platform.
Tested and delivered as a birthday present to President Vladimir Putin in 2018, Avangard is 20 to 27 times faster than the speed of sound, it can move at roughly 33000 KM per hour. That’s Moscow to NYC in 14 minutes (transatlantic), less in the high atmosphere; probably closer to 6-8 minutes.
"Impact power without war heads is enough to destroy city like New York or Los Angeles."
---A quick check suggests otherwise, though perhaps you can clarify. Wikipedia (I know, I know) states, "The Avangard weighs about 2,000 kg and travels at Mach 20–27, giving it the equivalent of 21 tons of TNT in kinetic energy alone, excluding any explosive warhead."
That 21 tons of TNT is far, far less---almost one thousand times less---than that measured wrt The Gadget, releasing as it did...
"...energy equivalent to more than 20,000 tons of TNT,..."
Anything faster than mach 5 is Hypersonic by definition and anything slower than that but faster than mach 1.2 is Supersonic. Above mach 10 is defined as High-Hypersonic and above mach 25 is possible in re-entry if air-resistance is managed.
With that out of the way, most ballistic missiles have hypersonic warheads specially after re-entering atmosphere (those that do) but they are not so throughout their entire flight and their initial stages. So a missile itself is true hypersonic if it reaches a minimum of mach 5 within atmosphere and not just outside of it and throughout its flight even in the initial stage shortly after launch.
I am not one of those people who believe everything I hear.
After Ronald Reagan 'rabitted' on about Star Wars I began to wonder how this was possible to create a shield wherein NO missiles would be able to land on US soil.
I am not an expert, just an ordinary woman living in a DEFUNCT world of brutality and war.
Since Star Wars I have always wondered about the Israeli defence shield...called the DOME.
Is it possible that it is exaggerated by propaganda in order to put the 'fear of god' into countries outside the western influence?
Iran has proved that missiles can get through....so...........an attack by several countries at the same time makes the DOME null and void?
The Israeli "Iron Dome" appears to work in a reasonably high percentage while defending against conventional weapons, especially the rudimentary ones that have been considered traditional from Hamas / Hezbollah, but it is limited by the number of them available at any time. They are expensive and they are rapidly depleted in a concerted attack. From the evidence I'm hearing/seeing, a lot of them were expended on the older drones and missiles utilized in Iran's well-planned retaliatory strike.
Why would they do that? What possible set of reasons? Maybe if the Empire had some horrendous “success” with the biological weapons program it “doesn’t have?” Or “rods from God” orbiting bombardment satellites? Why are such scenarios even thinkable? Why is it that the Russians and Chinese “Communists” seem more interested in getting off the Death March highway to hell than the effing death wishers that run the West?
The US determined that missile to missile defense systems were inadequate. That's why they launched space-based lasers- to hit intercontinental ballistic missiles in their boost phase.
Now Israel and the USA need generations to pass by to let the impact of killing thousands/millions to fade from the memories of the relatives of the innocent dead.
China's holdings of U.S. Debt has dropped from $1300 billion to now under $775 billion. This lowers the price of U.S. bonds and increases interest rates.
That is but a small part of the accounting but.... there is no accounting for U.S. Policy.
It would be interesting to study the wording of MSM coverage. Iran's action seems typically described as an "attack," not always tied to Israel's preceding "attack" on its consulate. By comparison, I just saw an intro to a story on any further Israeli action as a potential "strike." Wording in anything should be varied to make it interesting; that's basic good writing. But choice of words can be slanted too.
Wording variations like you describe are precise and intentional. Editorial guides and style guides are propagated internally at corporate media companies to impose authoritarian control on word choice in news media. See this story from The Intercept about one such memo prohibiting journalists from using words like "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
Not only is this a horrendous breach of journalistic ethics - it also provides a mechanism for the owner class to impose speech control mechanisms on global thought. It is so completely anti-free-speech and anti-American, yet there is not a single corporate news entity in America that does not practice this flavor of propaganda.
I knew that, having ended up majoring in English, getting a law degree, then following this issue. Words do indeed matter.
Similarly, a discount book vendor's catalog described a book about a particular Nazi camp as being about a place where a certain number of Jews were "murdered," but a certain number of Poles were "eradicated." "Murder" is typically defined as the unjustified or unexcused killing of a human being; "eradicate" more to describe the dispatch of mice, rats, roaches, ticks, bedbugs and other beings deemed vermin. MartinBerliner tweeted (Xed?) that Russians "ARE rats and roaches. What's the problem?"
Thank you for the link! I opened it and will read, although, as it is NYT, I will not be surprised.
“I expect to see the political downfall of Benizion Milokowski the POLISH jackass pretending to be a Jew and now running Israel, into the ground. (Will take some time before reality dawns on some of the dimmer bulbs)”
From a commentor in Moon of Alabama.
Benzion Netanyahu: Zionist whose views had a profound influence on his son Benjamin | The Independent | The Independent
So if the Pole was also a Jew is he murdered, exterminated, or both?
A great example is the recent knife murder of six people at a Bondi Beach shopping mall in Sydney. The MSM first named the murderer as a terrorist as they thought he was an Arab Muslim.
Turns out he is an Australian citizen (of Maltese descent) and he was renamed as a mentally ill attacker. Only Muslims and Arabs are terrorists!
The owner Class. The Brahma caste living off the backs of others? The Central Bank, money-printing, debt-conjuring class, skimming as the money flows by?
The "Too Big To Fail (Jail)" class that paid bonuses and dividends to their ilk from the money stolen from poor Americans?
Western Media is so pathetic. Although the USA knocked down nearly all the incoming, the repeated Headline was 99% were stopped (by Israel).
Of course, that is missing the point if the 1% was a Nuclear Missile on Tel Aviv. Iran can send thousands of chaff flying objects while sliding through directed, punishing missiles.
And does the U.S.A really, really, really want the F35 knocked down by Iran?
Once again, Scott shows all his "I'm just a dumb Marine" talk is a winning humility. His clarity and conciseness in explaining both military technological developments and their global implications are unparalleled. This post is a stellar example.
For the moment there is a realization in Israel and the United States that Iran leveled the playing field. It is a great moment for Iran and the axis that stands against colonialism, apartheid, and genocide but it is also a magical moment for the MIC and the trillions of dollars that will be required to swing the pendulum back in their favor.
I for one, sincerely hope that Russia and China are seeing this as a "Pilot Study".
Perhaps now we can see some multi-lateral sanity on the International Stage, the emergence of a genuine "International Community", the resurrection of International Law and at last, - at long last! - the very end of the shitty-arsed "Rules-Based system" that "Makes the world safe for Capitalism".
<b>HAMAS</b> has done the world a massive favour by exposing for even the thickest moron to understand what psychopathic, amoral leadership we have as a uniform condition throughout the Western World. I FULLY SUPPORT their courageous assertion of the legal right of Palestinians, as the people of an occupied nation, to resist the brutal, degrading, vindictive, psychopathic, cruel and racist and illegal occupation of Palestine by whatever means they can.
See Wikipedia: "In international law, the right to resist is closely related to the principle of self-determination.[9] It is widely recognized that a right to self-determination arises in situations of colonial domination, foreign occupation, and racist regimes that deny a segment of the population political participation. According to international law, states may not use force against the lawful exercise of self-determination, while those seeking self-determination may use military force if there is no other way to achieve their goals.[30] Fayez Sayegh derives a right to resist from the Charter of the United Nations' recognition of an inherent right of national self-defense in the face of aggression.[31] Based on the charter, the 1970 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 explicitly endorsed a right to resist "subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation".[32] Based on this, many scholars argue that the right to resist exists in customary international law where self-determination is at issue.[33]"
All the broken treaties used on the Native Americans to steal their livelihood and property. This should have told Russia that the agreement not to go to Ukraine with NATO was what the USA has been doing since they "discovered" Native Americans and their resources. The"Minsk" agreement, that is referred to, was a broken treaty. They have now "discovered" the Russians and their resources. What a trip.
U.S. promotes lawlessness with our Security Council vetoes. We should be promoting a stronger UN instead of killing and defunding UNRWA. Getting checkmated is good but it doesn’t address the causes and ongoing starvation and genocide of warehoused populations. It only restricts the spillover and territorial ambitions of the aggressor.
if their much-vaunted "iron dome" works as advertised, why did they need multiple airforces to help destroy slow moving shaheed drones? And were unable to defend against the missiles?
I think their AURA of invinciblity has been punctured.
The Israelis need America to wipe their butt let alone defend its borders.. and we know how bad America is when it comes to Defence.. just look at all the wars it lost. Look at Ukraine!
I think Major Ritter also made the point earlier that Iran did not use the element of surprise thus giving Israel a reasonable amount of time to coordinate a missile and air defense response with US, British, French, ie NATO forces. Iran demonstrated to the world it had the balls and the means to directly confront Israel militarily if provoked. And they did it while two US aircraft carrier strike groups were in the area. Russia demonstrated this same principle to NATO when it launched its SMO. But did NATO learn from it? No! Today's NATO is led by military men who were under the command of former Nazi Generals that were segwayed into NATO after WWII. If the US seriously desires to avoid war with Iran they should stop sending arms to Israel and bring Israel's violations of international law and the Genocide Convention to the attention of the UN Security Council together with Lyndon LaRouche's Oasis Plan as the basis for peace between Israel and Palestine.
And giving the warning, as they did a few years back when they hit the US missile base, is basically saying to the filth "imagine what we can achieve with no warning".
Iran is being very clear about how the new rules work. President Raisi:
'We categorically declare that the smallest action against Iranian interests will certainly be met with a severe, widespread and painful response against any perpetrator'.
I take that as meaning that Iran will respond to attacks on their interests outside Iran, as well as inside.
I would love to assume that rational voices are prevailing in Tel Aviv right now,.but no one should make that assumption.
Are the Zionist lunatics in Tel Aviv listening? They run Israel and effectively own Bibi the Butcher. I doubt they're listening to Iran at all.
Lost in eschatological madness, they think they're winning and not just that, but God is on Israel's side.
I've no doubt that they would attack Iran without hesitation.
On their heads be it, should they decide to do so.
Off the point and I don't know whether you have seen it but in the recent report on the F-35 the GAO said the following. "According to maintainers at one installation, on a short-notice deployment, the squadron required 13 C-17s to transport the support equipment to maintain 12 F-35 aircraft." Don't you think that the usefulness of the F-35, even if it were a good fighter plane: is somewhat compromised by having to be accompanied by C-17s on a one to one basis in order to move around all the support equipment required to maintain them?
Well done, Scott, as usual. Just want to emphasize two key points: 1. the Russians have already easily defeated US Patriot missile defense systems in Ukraine, and 2. the Iranians gave the USA like 3 days warning of the strike and told them what they were going to attack.
"Iran`s purpose in launching the attack was to establish a deterrence posture" Really? And they think a 3% success rate is a win? How many of Israel`s missiles do they think they can stop? If they manage to provoke Israel into a war, the differences between a first world military and a third world military will soon become apparent.
You don’t get it. The strike was designed to poke the sacred cow with the threat of slaughtering it.. you were not allowed to even touch the sacred cow. The Iranians touched it. The barrier of fear - the iron dome - has been breached. That’s the purpose. Just like the purpose of 7 Oct was to inflict a flesh wound that would fester and turn gangrenous and it has. The Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan failed miserably in spite of their military superiority. The iron dome has gone the way of that US military superiority. Poof!
Also, a very important correction to your comment. When you say, ‘if they [the Iranians] manage to provoke Israel into a war..’ I guess you didn’t get the memo yet that Israel bombed the Iranian consulate and this is a retaliatory attack. The Israelis have been itching like a heroin addict for a war with Iran. Anyone with two neurons to rub together has figured that out by now..
Why are you defending the worst terrorists on the planet?
Also you’re clueless about how missile defense works, and how easily it can be overwhelmed. Iran now knows, and is undoubtedly sharing this intel with its allies, exactly what it takes to render the missile defense useless. Boom. Israel is fucked. As it should be. Mass murdering racist piece-of-shit welfare state.
You know who provoked who here don't you? Israel bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing a total of 12 including Iranian military commanders. That was after Israel bombed Lebanon killing the IRGC commander and advisor to Hezbollah. Israel is a garrison state by choice and has been since 1948. Why? Because they know Palestinians want their land back. Land that belonged to Palestinian families who, in many cases, owned the land going back hundreds of years. Jews and Palestinians were living peacefully in this region for over a hundred years before the invasion of European Jewry. Why the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot? What was the British Empire's intention? To preserve the British Empire after WWII, the British would use the conflict between Arabs and Jews to prevent this important region of the world from being developed into a vibrant economic crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe. But in 1975 Lyndon LaRouche proposed the Oasis Plan to the Israeli leader Abba Eban and PLO. Almost two decades later, features of the Oasis Plan were incorporated into the Oslo Accords, but they were never implemented for various reasons. Rabin was assassinated Jewish extremists, the World Bank reneged on funding it and Hamas replaced the PLO in Gaza. You can find LaRouche's Oasis Plan online. It is once again being proposed by LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute as the basis for lasting peace between Jews and Arabs in the Southwest Asia region. Check it out and tell me what you think.
I recommend looking at Khazars who they are in history and today, those who call themselves Jews, even when they are not. 99% of the mainstream media stuff of this is a complete lie. Synagogue of Satan (SoS) is good at that.
- The Khazars were originally semi-nomadic Mongolians and Turks who occupied much of the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan from 6-11. century and "converted" to Judaism in the 8th century, and todays calling themselves European Jews and Abrahamic Bloodline/Israelites descendant Jews, which they are not.
The real Abrahamic Bloodline/Israelites descendant Jews are today only about 2,5% of all jews globally.
Khazars, those fake jews main enemy is Christianity, because they hate Jesus Christ, and frankly they hate everyone who's not one of them.
This explain why there's a war in Ukraine, Those Khazars want their snake nest and especially the head of that snake Crimea back.
With the unofficial support of the Byzantines, who were beginning to see the Khazar's kingdom/empire called Khaganate as a threat, the Russians launched several attacks on the Khazars finally destroying the power of the Khaganate by the late 960s with the Khazar limestone fortresses of Sarkel and Tamatarkha falling in 965 and the Empire's capital Atil being destroyed around 969, so complete was the loot of the city by the Russians that a contemporary wrote “no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch”
Well then why are they getting their asses kicked? Israel`s response was target and restrained. If they are stupid enough to escalate this mess they started they will be rendered helpless.
Well, if you had anything more substantive than vacuous one liners, you’d be taken seriously.. but how do you expand on nonsense? Hard to do. Here’s a suggestion, use bumper stickers. Your ilk love it! Something like MIGA (make Israel great again). Stick it on a hat and wear it and go outside and harass some protestors.. otherwise, just waddle along Scott Waddle..
Beyond what you have mentioned, Scott, Jordan at least, has admitted to shooting at the Iranian missiles and they had a 72 hour warning that the Iranians were going to shoot at them. A zero warning scenario would be far more interesting....
So now, as they have done for hundreds of years, the US will agree treaties with their enemies (to get them to apply self-restraint and subside into complaisance) until such time as the US war machine can convince US leadership that they once again have the military advantage and they can return to belligerence mode; strutting, bullying, violating treaties "unilaterally", sanctioning, invading... you know... same old shit we've had for the past three decades. Is anyone ever going to learn?
The US ability to force adversaries to sign treaties and repeat those practices depends on credibility, of which the US and the entire west has squandered being exposed as hypocrites and deceivers, Also economic strength, but as Russia and China are demonstrating the benefits of trading in local currencies moving away from the debt based western financial system. That economic advantage through control of the global reserve currency may not be there for much longer.
fr, but I for one hope it doesn't repeat.
If Israel responds (in the very foolish hope that the US can rush in and crush Iran on their behalf) it appears to me that much of the world will be partying on the hillsides watching the spectre (as Israeli settlers have done watching the destruction of Gaza) while Israel is reduced to rubble - As with Amalek we are reminded of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Not that I buy into this biblical crap - knowing what the universe is (see https://ihavenotv.com/the-sun-god-star-universe-bbc) - but it makes for good copy when addressing Netanyahu.
You left out one part, Scott, at least if we assume that none of the Iranian missiles were hypersonic:
It showed that US Air Defense + Israeli Air Defense could be beaten with less-than-State-of-the-art Iranian offensive weapons.
Apparently, no hypersonics needed (or is that inaccurate?).
Compared to an opponent using hypersonic missiles, the Iranian tactics got through multi-national air and ground based missile defense, with the Iranians voluntarily keeping "one-arm tied behind their back".
Interesting how the AN/TPY 2 would “see” a hypersonic warhead and how the speed would affect target classification. In that regard shooting a hypersonic at Israel would be beneficial. Since the west can’t seem to do this technology! They have no development targets.
TPY 2 is expensive needs a lot of electricity and so there are not many of them.
The last stage of the retaliatory attack supposedly included Fattah 2 multistage missiles, with an estimated Mach 5 on the final leg, with a 500kg warhead. If it qualifies for being "hypersonic" it reaches only about half the velocity of the fastest Russian hypersonics.
I can't help but wonder whether Iran has the faster versions.
"half the velocity of the fastest Russian hypersonics" - REALLY ?
The RS-28 Sarmat (nicknamed "Satan II" by NATO) features unique characteristics that enable it reliably to breach any existing and future anti-ballistic missile defenses.
Sarmat's parts are made exclusively domestically, which will make its mass production "easier and accelerate the process of providing it for Russia's Strategic Missile Force."
The RS-28 Sarmat ICBM flies at Mach 20.7, 20.7 times the speed of sound and can be equipped with, for example, 10 heavy 750kt MIRV warheads or 15 lighter nuclear warheads with a combined destructive force of up to about 40 megatons.
Sarmat is more accurate than its predecessors, and is “capable of wiping out parts of the Earth the size of Texas or France.”
Impact power without war heads is enough to destroy city like New York or Los Angeles.
Russian Avangard, the world’s fastest nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that’s 20 to 27 times faster than the speed of sound; can hit any target on Earth within an hour.
Avangard combines the speed of ballistic missiles and maneuverability of cruise missiles in a single platform.
Tested and delivered as a birthday present to President Vladimir Putin in 2018, Avangard is 20 to 27 times faster than the speed of sound, it can move at roughly 33000 KM per hour. That’s Moscow to NYC in 14 minutes (transatlantic), less in the high atmosphere; probably closer to 6-8 minutes.
WOW
"Impact power without war heads is enough to destroy city like New York or Los Angeles."
---A quick check suggests otherwise, though perhaps you can clarify. Wikipedia (I know, I know) states, "The Avangard weighs about 2,000 kg and travels at Mach 20–27, giving it the equivalent of 21 tons of TNT in kinetic energy alone, excluding any explosive warhead."
That 21 tons of TNT is far, far less---almost one thousand times less---than that measured wrt The Gadget, releasing as it did...
"...energy equivalent to more than 20,000 tons of TNT,..."
Thoughts, my friend?
Try again but using the RS-28 Sarmat which is the biggest, heaviest, and fastest weapon system in the world weighing more than 200 tons.
That I was talking about.
Yes they do. They are saving the best for last.
Anything faster than mach 5 is Hypersonic by definition and anything slower than that but faster than mach 1.2 is Supersonic. Above mach 10 is defined as High-Hypersonic and above mach 25 is possible in re-entry if air-resistance is managed.
With that out of the way, most ballistic missiles have hypersonic warheads specially after re-entering atmosphere (those that do) but they are not so throughout their entire flight and their initial stages. So a missile itself is true hypersonic if it reaches a minimum of mach 5 within atmosphere and not just outside of it and throughout its flight even in the initial stage shortly after launch.
I am not one of those people who believe everything I hear.
After Ronald Reagan 'rabitted' on about Star Wars I began to wonder how this was possible to create a shield wherein NO missiles would be able to land on US soil.
I am not an expert, just an ordinary woman living in a DEFUNCT world of brutality and war.
Since Star Wars I have always wondered about the Israeli defence shield...called the DOME.
Is it possible that it is exaggerated by propaganda in order to put the 'fear of god' into countries outside the western influence?
Iran has proved that missiles can get through....so...........an attack by several countries at the same time makes the DOME null and void?
The Israeli "Iron Dome" appears to work in a reasonably high percentage while defending against conventional weapons, especially the rudimentary ones that have been considered traditional from Hamas / Hezbollah, but it is limited by the number of them available at any time. They are expensive and they are rapidly depleted in a concerted attack. From the evidence I'm hearing/seeing, a lot of them were expended on the older drones and missiles utilized in Iran's well-planned retaliatory strike.
SO. If Russia/China/N. Korea decided to attack at the same time?
I'd say the object of their infliction would be toast. Burnt toast.
Why would they do that? What possible set of reasons? Maybe if the Empire had some horrendous “success” with the biological weapons program it “doesn’t have?” Or “rods from God” orbiting bombardment satellites? Why are such scenarios even thinkable? Why is it that the Russians and Chinese “Communists” seem more interested in getting off the Death March highway to hell than the effing death wishers that run the West?
The "Iron Dome" has rusted the way I see it. The Israelis should have listened to Niel Young. According to him "Rust Never Sleeps".
Ha.
The US determined that missile to missile defense systems were inadequate. That's why they launched space-based lasers- to hit intercontinental ballistic missiles in their boost phase.
And what if the USA invested in Peace?
Now Israel and the USA need generations to pass by to let the impact of killing thousands/millions to fade from the memories of the relatives of the innocent dead.
China's holdings of U.S. Debt has dropped from $1300 billion to now under $775 billion. This lowers the price of U.S. bonds and increases interest rates.
That is but a small part of the accounting but.... there is no accounting for U.S. Policy.
The Iron Grift. Some MIC corporation made a mint off of it.
It would be interesting to study the wording of MSM coverage. Iran's action seems typically described as an "attack," not always tied to Israel's preceding "attack" on its consulate. By comparison, I just saw an intro to a story on any further Israeli action as a potential "strike." Wording in anything should be varied to make it interesting; that's basic good writing. But choice of words can be slanted too.
Wording variations like you describe are precise and intentional. Editorial guides and style guides are propagated internally at corporate media companies to impose authoritarian control on word choice in news media. See this story from The Intercept about one such memo prohibiting journalists from using words like "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
Not only is this a horrendous breach of journalistic ethics - it also provides a mechanism for the owner class to impose speech control mechanisms on global thought. It is so completely anti-free-speech and anti-American, yet there is not a single corporate news entity in America that does not practice this flavor of propaganda.
I knew that, having ended up majoring in English, getting a law degree, then following this issue. Words do indeed matter.
Similarly, a discount book vendor's catalog described a book about a particular Nazi camp as being about a place where a certain number of Jews were "murdered," but a certain number of Poles were "eradicated." "Murder" is typically defined as the unjustified or unexcused killing of a human being; "eradicate" more to describe the dispatch of mice, rats, roaches, ticks, bedbugs and other beings deemed vermin. MartinBerliner tweeted (Xed?) that Russians "ARE rats and roaches. What's the problem?"
Thank you for the link! I opened it and will read, although, as it is NYT, I will not be surprised.
“I expect to see the political downfall of Benizion Milokowski the POLISH jackass pretending to be a Jew and now running Israel, into the ground. (Will take some time before reality dawns on some of the dimmer bulbs)”
From a commentor in Moon of Alabama.
Benzion Netanyahu: Zionist whose views had a profound influence on his son Benjamin | The Independent | The Independent
So if the Pole was also a Jew is he murdered, exterminated, or both?
Perhaps he is lost. Like Netanyahu/Milokowski
"So if the Pole was also a Jew is he murdered, exterminated, or both?"
I don't care, as long as he is either.
A great example is the recent knife murder of six people at a Bondi Beach shopping mall in Sydney. The MSM first named the murderer as a terrorist as they thought he was an Arab Muslim.
Turns out he is an Australian citizen (of Maltese descent) and he was renamed as a mentally ill attacker. Only Muslims and Arabs are terrorists!
The owner Class. The Brahma caste living off the backs of others? The Central Bank, money-printing, debt-conjuring class, skimming as the money flows by?
The "Too Big To Fail (Jail)" class that paid bonuses and dividends to their ilk from the money stolen from poor Americans?
That Owner Class?
Precisely that owner class.
https://youtu.be/fT03vCaL-F0
Western Media is so pathetic. Although the USA knocked down nearly all the incoming, the repeated Headline was 99% were stopped (by Israel).
Of course, that is missing the point if the 1% was a Nuclear Missile on Tel Aviv. Iran can send thousands of chaff flying objects while sliding through directed, punishing missiles.
And does the U.S.A really, really, really want the F35 knocked down by Iran?
you can play with this:
https://www.gdeltproject.org/
Thanks, Tone!
Once again, Scott shows all his "I'm just a dumb Marine" talk is a winning humility. His clarity and conciseness in explaining both military technological developments and their global implications are unparalleled. This post is a stellar example.
For the moment there is a realization in Israel and the United States that Iran leveled the playing field. It is a great moment for Iran and the axis that stands against colonialism, apartheid, and genocide but it is also a magical moment for the MIC and the trillions of dollars that will be required to swing the pendulum back in their favor.
I for one, sincerely hope that Russia and China are seeing this as a "Pilot Study".
Perhaps now we can see some multi-lateral sanity on the International Stage, the emergence of a genuine "International Community", the resurrection of International Law and at last, - at long last! - the very end of the shitty-arsed "Rules-Based system" that "Makes the world safe for Capitalism".
<b>HAMAS</b> has done the world a massive favour by exposing for even the thickest moron to understand what psychopathic, amoral leadership we have as a uniform condition throughout the Western World. I FULLY SUPPORT their courageous assertion of the legal right of Palestinians, as the people of an occupied nation, to resist the brutal, degrading, vindictive, psychopathic, cruel and racist and illegal occupation of Palestine by whatever means they can.
Absolutely!...
See Wikipedia: "In international law, the right to resist is closely related to the principle of self-determination.[9] It is widely recognized that a right to self-determination arises in situations of colonial domination, foreign occupation, and racist regimes that deny a segment of the population political participation. According to international law, states may not use force against the lawful exercise of self-determination, while those seeking self-determination may use military force if there is no other way to achieve their goals.[30] Fayez Sayegh derives a right to resist from the Charter of the United Nations' recognition of an inherent right of national self-defense in the face of aggression.[31] Based on the charter, the 1970 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 explicitly endorsed a right to resist "subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation".[32] Based on this, many scholars argue that the right to resist exists in customary international law where self-determination is at issue.[33]"
Pasted from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_resist>
They can print the dollars but they can't prints the STEM personnel.
All the broken treaties used on the Native Americans to steal their livelihood and property. This should have told Russia that the agreement not to go to Ukraine with NATO was what the USA has been doing since they "discovered" Native Americans and their resources. The"Minsk" agreement, that is referred to, was a broken treaty. They have now "discovered" the Russians and their resources. What a trip.
U.S. promotes lawlessness with our Security Council vetoes. We should be promoting a stronger UN instead of killing and defunding UNRWA. Getting checkmated is good but it doesn’t address the causes and ongoing starvation and genocide of warehoused populations. It only restricts the spillover and territorial ambitions of the aggressor.
if their much-vaunted "iron dome" works as advertised, why did they need multiple airforces to help destroy slow moving shaheed drones? And were unable to defend against the missiles?
I think their AURA of invinciblity has been punctured.
The Israelis need America to wipe their butt let alone defend its borders.. and we know how bad America is when it comes to Defence.. just look at all the wars it lost. Look at Ukraine!
Oh geez. Now you have the whole war industry with boners.
I think Major Ritter also made the point earlier that Iran did not use the element of surprise thus giving Israel a reasonable amount of time to coordinate a missile and air defense response with US, British, French, ie NATO forces. Iran demonstrated to the world it had the balls and the means to directly confront Israel militarily if provoked. And they did it while two US aircraft carrier strike groups were in the area. Russia demonstrated this same principle to NATO when it launched its SMO. But did NATO learn from it? No! Today's NATO is led by military men who were under the command of former Nazi Generals that were segwayed into NATO after WWII. If the US seriously desires to avoid war with Iran they should stop sending arms to Israel and bring Israel's violations of international law and the Genocide Convention to the attention of the UN Security Council together with Lyndon LaRouche's Oasis Plan as the basis for peace between Israel and Palestine.
And giving the warning, as they did a few years back when they hit the US missile base, is basically saying to the filth "imagine what we can achieve with no warning".
Iran is being very clear about how the new rules work. President Raisi:
'We categorically declare that the smallest action against Iranian interests will certainly be met with a severe, widespread and painful response against any perpetrator'.
I take that as meaning that Iran will respond to attacks on their interests outside Iran, as well as inside.
I would love to assume that rational voices are prevailing in Tel Aviv right now,.but no one should make that assumption.
Are the Zionist lunatics in Tel Aviv listening? They run Israel and effectively own Bibi the Butcher. I doubt they're listening to Iran at all.
Lost in eschatological madness, they think they're winning and not just that, but God is on Israel's side.
I've no doubt that they would attack Iran without hesitation.
On their heads be it, should they decide to do so.
"Are the Zionist lunatics in Tel Aviv listening?"
I hope they are not. They need to be ended - yesterday!
As Finkelstein says.
Israel has a pattern of behaviour. They start slow and escalate.
This is not the end of its terrorism against Iran.
They used it in Egypt/they have used it against Palestinians and others.
Off the point and I don't know whether you have seen it but in the recent report on the F-35 the GAO said the following. "According to maintainers at one installation, on a short-notice deployment, the squadron required 13 C-17s to transport the support equipment to maintain 12 F-35 aircraft." Don't you think that the usefulness of the F-35, even if it were a good fighter plane: is somewhat compromised by having to be accompanied by C-17s on a one to one basis in order to move around all the support equipment required to maintain them?
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105341.pdf
Well done, Scott, as usual. Just want to emphasize two key points: 1. the Russians have already easily defeated US Patriot missile defense systems in Ukraine, and 2. the Iranians gave the USA like 3 days warning of the strike and told them what they were going to attack.
"Iran`s purpose in launching the attack was to establish a deterrence posture" Really? And they think a 3% success rate is a win? How many of Israel`s missiles do they think they can stop? If they manage to provoke Israel into a war, the differences between a first world military and a third world military will soon become apparent.
You don’t get it. The strike was designed to poke the sacred cow with the threat of slaughtering it.. you were not allowed to even touch the sacred cow. The Iranians touched it. The barrier of fear - the iron dome - has been breached. That’s the purpose. Just like the purpose of 7 Oct was to inflict a flesh wound that would fester and turn gangrenous and it has. The Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan failed miserably in spite of their military superiority. The iron dome has gone the way of that US military superiority. Poof!
Also, a very important correction to your comment. When you say, ‘if they [the Iranians] manage to provoke Israel into a war..’ I guess you didn’t get the memo yet that Israel bombed the Iranian consulate and this is a retaliatory attack. The Israelis have been itching like a heroin addict for a war with Iran. Anyone with two neurons to rub together has figured that out by now..
Diana! Good write. But I dun get why you will need 2 neurons to figure stuff out?
I think I plagiarized this phrase from Scott Ritter himself! Except he used ‘two brain cells’ 😆
Wow, so beautifully said, no one could say it better, real kudos!
The Tin Sieve.
Watch and learn
And out of curiosity, why do you defend terrorists?
Oh I’ve never defended the Israelis. Let’s please not exchange insults..
Why are you defending the worst terrorists on the planet?
Also you’re clueless about how missile defense works, and how easily it can be overwhelmed. Iran now knows, and is undoubtedly sharing this intel with its allies, exactly what it takes to render the missile defense useless. Boom. Israel is fucked. As it should be. Mass murdering racist piece-of-shit welfare state.
Twaddle, Twaddle, Twaddle, mummy wants her laptop back. Get back to your Xbox.
You know who provoked who here don't you? Israel bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus, killing a total of 12 including Iranian military commanders. That was after Israel bombed Lebanon killing the IRGC commander and advisor to Hezbollah. Israel is a garrison state by choice and has been since 1948. Why? Because they know Palestinians want their land back. Land that belonged to Palestinian families who, in many cases, owned the land going back hundreds of years. Jews and Palestinians were living peacefully in this region for over a hundred years before the invasion of European Jewry. Why the Balfour Declaration and Sykes-Picot? What was the British Empire's intention? To preserve the British Empire after WWII, the British would use the conflict between Arabs and Jews to prevent this important region of the world from being developed into a vibrant economic crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe. But in 1975 Lyndon LaRouche proposed the Oasis Plan to the Israeli leader Abba Eban and PLO. Almost two decades later, features of the Oasis Plan were incorporated into the Oslo Accords, but they were never implemented for various reasons. Rabin was assassinated Jewish extremists, the World Bank reneged on funding it and Hamas replaced the PLO in Gaza. You can find LaRouche's Oasis Plan online. It is once again being proposed by LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute as the basis for lasting peace between Jews and Arabs in the Southwest Asia region. Check it out and tell me what you think.
It won't work. ashkeNAZI are incapable of peace and sharing.
I recommend looking at Khazars who they are in history and today, those who call themselves Jews, even when they are not. 99% of the mainstream media stuff of this is a complete lie. Synagogue of Satan (SoS) is good at that.
- The Khazars were originally semi-nomadic Mongolians and Turks who occupied much of the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan from 6-11. century and "converted" to Judaism in the 8th century, and todays calling themselves European Jews and Abrahamic Bloodline/Israelites descendant Jews, which they are not.
The real Abrahamic Bloodline/Israelites descendant Jews are today only about 2,5% of all jews globally.
Khazars, those fake jews main enemy is Christianity, because they hate Jesus Christ, and frankly they hate everyone who's not one of them.
This explain why there's a war in Ukraine, Those Khazars want their snake nest and especially the head of that snake Crimea back.
With the unofficial support of the Byzantines, who were beginning to see the Khazar's kingdom/empire called Khaganate as a threat, the Russians launched several attacks on the Khazars finally destroying the power of the Khaganate by the late 960s with the Khazar limestone fortresses of Sarkel and Tamatarkha falling in 965 and the Empire's capital Atil being destroyed around 969, so complete was the loot of the city by the Russians that a contemporary wrote “no grape or raisin remained, not a leaf on a branch”
Yep, yep, and yep again.
You know very much. Thanks for sharing !
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born 25 August 1948) is a German political activist.
Zepp-LaRouche often resorts to distorting facts from history.
You need to read ..............
Iran is NOT behind in weaponry it is also backed by Russia.
Well then why are they getting their asses kicked? Israel`s response was target and restrained. If they are stupid enough to escalate this mess they started they will be rendered helpless.
Another one enters the room. twaddle by name, twaddle by nature.
It is always amusing to observe all the bobble heads reflexively attack anyone not in lock step.
Well, if you had anything more substantive than vacuous one liners, you’d be taken seriously.. but how do you expand on nonsense? Hard to do. Here’s a suggestion, use bumper stickers. Your ilk love it! Something like MIGA (make Israel great again). Stick it on a hat and wear it and go outside and harass some protestors.. otherwise, just waddle along Scott Waddle..
But Twaddle you are in lockstep, with the goose stepping ZioNAZIs.
Beyond what you have mentioned, Scott, Jordan at least, has admitted to shooting at the Iranian missiles and they had a 72 hour warning that the Iranians were going to shoot at them. A zero warning scenario would be far more interesting....