Trump doesn't need a big Iran deal

President Donald Trump has always said he'd rather make a deal than a war with Iran, but that he wouldn't hesitate to do the latter if needed.

Sure enough, when he failed to get a nuclear deal last year, Trump bombed Iran's nuclear facilities. And when a grand bargain still wasn't forthcoming in late February, he and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a joint, large scale war against Iran that swiftly degenerated into a geopolitical and global economic catastrophe...

All these articles work on a false premise. Namely, that Trump cares about Iran or making a deal with them. Trump is there to sell wars to retards, nothing more. I don't think he cares much about anything, but that's another topic. After Trump, another person will take the senior empire manager job and sell other wars to other groups of retards. No refunds.

The US suggests it might dump talks as Russia escalates war

Rubio's ominous comments about the future of negotiations, coupled with Moscow urging US and European diplomats to leave Kyiv, spell darkness ahead.

The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the US and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before Russia launches "systematic strikes" marks a drastic escalation in the Ukraine conflict - with a serious risk of drawing the Washington and NATO into direct conflict with Russia.

It most probably means that Russia intends to use Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missiles to strike the underground headquarters in Kyiv where US and European officers have been helping the Ukrainian armed forces to target Russia with missiles and drones...

"The next blow will be more painful": Russian experts are signaling something bigger than retaliation

Following the Ukrainian attack on a college in Starobelsk, Russian strategic analysts describe a shift toward "managed escalation" against Kiev and discuss the broader risks to Europe.

On May 25, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a strong statement regarding Ukraine. Condemning the recent strike by Ukrainian forces on a college building and dormitory in Starobelsk which resulted in the deaths of 21 students and many injuries, the ministry warned that the incident was the last straw for Russia and that its "cup of patience has overflowed."

According to the Foreign Ministry, the Russian military will now systematically target defense industry facilities in Kiev. Moscow urged foreigners, including diplomats and representatives of international organizations, to leave the Ukrainian capital "as soon as possible" and advised civilians to stay away from defense industry facilities...

US State Department: "Operation Epic Fury does not justify unprovoked Iranian attacks against American troops in the region."

@Middle_East_Spectator

NOTE: No, it doesn't make sense. And as much as we here will laugh at it and see it for the painfully obvious manipulation that it is, these statements aren't made for us. The language isn't coincidental, it's phrased the way it is on purpose. Such statements are made for the aforementioned retards who will read this and think it makes sense. To them, it does.

Thanks to "Pedro" for sharing.

UK vetting files expose former US ambassador Mandelson's deep intelligence and financial ties to Israel

Leaked security clearance documents have revealed that former British Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson maintained regular communications with the former head of Israel's military intelligence directorate, Tamir Hayman.

According to a report from The Guardian, United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) flagrantly denied Mandelson a security clearance after discovering he spoke bimonthly with Hayman, the general who previously boasted of prompting the US assassination of Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani, though the Foreign Office overrode the decision.

The intelligence vetting files also exposed that Mandelson secured a £1 million (1.1 million USD) loan from an unnamed businessman to purchase shares in the Israeli tech firm Moon Active...

Nothing more dangerous than a Netanyahu Mileikowsky scorned

...The emerging deal between the US and Iran represents an existential danger to Mileikowsky's political future. With his coalition fracturing and elections approaching, he can't survive a peace that leaves Hezbollah intact and Iran's nuclear program deferred. The only path that may keep his future viable now runs through Lebanon...

No, that's not how it was written in the article. My version is better. This is another in a long line of articles that are built on a false premise, just like the one about Trump "not needing a big deal with Iran" from yesterday.

The Judeo-American empire has no intentions of having peace with Iran. Or anyone else, for that matter. Whatever is agreed today will be violated tomorrow. So Mileikowsky and "Responsible Statecraft" can all sleep easy knowing imperial wars of aggression will never stop unless the empire is forced to stop. One symptom of the disease will be replaced by another.

@americanmajority

Trump may miss his principled opponents

His new friends are not only his adversaries of yore, but the obstacles to policies he wants now - particularly peace in Iran.

On the surface there are no three politicians more different than John Cornyn, Thomas Massie, and Bill Cassidy, the three Republican lawmakers whose current stints in Congress were recently ended by Donald Trump.

Massie is the only one of this trio who might have a political future. Although he lost by nearly 10 points, he won a shade more than 45 percent of the vote to Cornyn's 36 percent and Cassidy's just under 25 percent.

But the truth is, Trump has never cared much for either the GOP establishment institutionalists like Cornyn and Cassidy or the strict constitutionalists of Massie's ilk. While they are coming from radically different places both in terms of policy and institutional power (one faction ran the party for decades, the other was a rump within it long before Trump), they both are always telling Trump he can't do stuff...

US Treasury slaps sanctions on Iranian authority overseeing Hormuz

Washington seeks to criminalize the newly established maritime shipping mechanism by labeling fee collection as "extortion."

The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on 27 May the designation of the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) as an officially blacklisted entity, effectively freezing the agency's assets and banning any global business with it.

In a significant escalation of its ongoing "Economic Fury" campaign, the move targets the Iranian government body responsible for managing maritime traffic and regulatory oversight within the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz. The US characterizes this latest measure as part of a "financial stranglehold" intended to achieve "maximum economic pressure" on the Iranian state...

Cry harder.

boomers: "its so cool that trump
is making a $250 bill."

me af;

Drone strikes residential building in Romania

Romania's Defense Ministry claimed that the UAV which injured two people in the city of Galati came from Russia. A drone crashed into an apartment block in eastern Romania near the Ukrainian border on Friday, injuring two people, emergency services said.

According to the regional emergency services department, a drone carrying explosives struck the 10th floor of the building, sparking a fire. Around 70 residents were evacuated.

Catalin Sion, a spokesman for the Galati emergency services, said two people were hospitalized with minor injuries, while two others were treated for panic attacks.

Firefighters, police officers, and a bomb squad are working at the scene. A video posted on social media purports to show the moment of the strike.

The Romanian Defense Ministry later released a statement claiming that the drone originated from Russia and was involved in strikes in Ukraine. Moscow has not yet commented on the matter...