JM—Up until now, Iran has carefully avoided civilian casualties in Israel when attacking military sites, but maybe it’s time to take the gloves off. Israel shows no such restraint.
Everybody has a limit.
We see that Russians are coming to that realization too.
MH/RD—Every major war always has transformed political relations just as they’ve transformed financial relations. And I think, you know, I’d like to talk about the transformations at work just for a minute. And I think most of the harms that you’ve mentioned relate to the United States, and I don’t see the United States participating in this creation of a new kind of world order. It’s going to do what it can to fight against it. So you’re right, the financial system is already so highly leveraged that it’s going to be probably the major victim of all of this world depression, just as it was a major victim in 1929 after the collapse of the World War I settlements that led to the Great Depression.
OBB—In Israel, some officials warn the deal falls far short of their strategic objectives, leaving the Islamic regime and its ballistic missile programs largely intact. Critics complain that Jerusalem was not briefed on the official terms and Washington declined to share details out of concern for leaks. Some say they fear that Iran will use the 60-day negotiation period as a smokescreen to fast-track its nuclear development and shorten its nuclear breakout timeline, but these sentiments reflect the same fabrications about Iran as a “nuclear threat” that Netanyahu has been pushing for decades even though Israel itself is a nuclear power.
DD—The video discusses how elite bonding involves “team-building activities” that escalate into aberrant, secretive behaviors to reinforce loyalty and mutual blackmail potential.
Analogies include opulent retreats, dangerous adventures, and secret initiation rituals.
References to scandals such as Skull and Bones suggest that shared transgressions strengthen elite solidarity and prevent defections.
OBB—VERSAILLES IS NOT the most auspicious location, therefore, for Trump to sign the MOU that is supposed to start bringing about an end to the war between the US and Iran – a war that the US and its proxy, Israel, have so far lost – reminding us, as it reminded Arnaud Bertrand earlier today (Bertrand), of what he calls the two other most famous US capitulation agreements: the Paris Peace Accords with Vietnam in 1973 and the Doha Agreement with Afghanistan in 2020. Was French President Macron rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of a US now free to redirect its attention to assisting Europe’s Quixotic mission to liberate itself from the non-existent threat of Russian invasion as convincingly as Trump has liberated the US from the non-existent threat of an Iranian nuke?
PG—For his World War I service, the French government awarded Bullard the Croix de guerre, Médaille militaire, Croix du combattant volontaire 1914–1918, and Médaille de Verdun, along with several others.[14][18] After his discharge, Bullard returned again to Paris.
