This seems to have more to do with Waltz getting caught trying to plan the direction of US policy with Netanyahu than anything Iran has done. It puts some new light on that photo of Waltz using the Israeli version of Signal the other day in the White House. It probably has a backdoor for Israeli intelligence.
WaPo is reporting they Waltz was fired because he was seen by Trump as working for the president of the wrong country. Can you guess which one?
So, as it turns out, Iran has been given short reprieve while Trump replaces someone who is rabidly dedicated to Israel in Mike Waltz with someone merely enthusiastically dedicated to Israel in Marco Rubio.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/03/waltz-trump-israel/
I’m someone who loves to argue and I fucking hate debates. They are almost never good.
Please remember to get tested for brain damage lol
It would be so funny if NATO just fell apart because Israel attacked Turkey and NATO did nothing lol
I refuse to watch this dumb Hasan debate. Hasan’s best content is when he manages to stop being addicted to desktop for a day and do an IRL.
So the most recent one?
Gun to my head, this was probably done out of Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily. Depending on the size of the drone, someone could have launched it from a ship if it was a small one, or done it from Malta, since that “country” is basically just several intelligence agencies and organized crime syndicates in a trench coat.
The deep state lives.
Reminder that the outbreak in Wuhan happened around month after the World Military Games were held in Wuhan, and is still my preferred conspiracy for how COVID showed up there.
Also shout out to this paper for calling out the vape lung thing. Even a lot of people who are willing to consider the potential Ft. Detrick shutdown theory basically stick their fingers in their ears and go “LALALA IT WAS VITAMIN E OIL” even though a lot of the symptoms match up with COVID.
There was also water sample testing in Spain that found COVID in the waste water in the spring on 2019, which I have never heard any follow up on:
That law is pretty much the basis for Treasury sanctions. Congress won’t revoke it.
Bukele enjoys popular support because the alternative to his massive anti gang measures is having the highest intentional murder rate in the world.
The murder rate had declined precipitously in El Salvador before Bukele took office.
The three years after he got into office saw a decline not because of his iron-fisted, policies, but because he continued the previous administrations policies of negotiating with and mediating between the gangs. There are also serious questions as to whether or not their current numbers are even accurate.
I don’t see him being a beneficiary of his anti-gang measures as much as he has been a beneficiary of the decline in murder that started before he even took office, the same way a GOP Governor in certain red states got to take credit and an approval bump for Medicaid expansions that they opposed. As an outsider, the whole situation seems to me a lot more fragile than it’s protrayed.
There’s a gotdang Cheeto Doctor Who in the White House
The two other votes were Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley.
I just hope they get vetted well. Rapid expansion of forces and poor security vetting is reportedly how Israel infiltrated Hezbollah since 2006.
Is Aoun at risk of losing his mandate if this just keeps happening while he does nothing except make trips to France saying Israel should stop? The Israelis are clearly trying to restart the civil war as a pretext to reinvade.
I mean that’s just standard conservatism. It’s more like Reagan’s influence on Kamala lol.
WaPo is reporting that Waltz was already on the hot seat before whiskeyleaks even happened. Maybe the pause in the Iran negotiations is the straw that broke the camels back, but it’s hard to say that with any certainty since we don’t really know what “logistical and technical issues” means. Plus, Waltz wasn’t pushing for negotiations, he was pushing for an attack on Iran. If Iran wasn’t willing to negotiate with people who aren’t 100% Zionist, they’d have to stop negotiating with the US government entirely.