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As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against Iran, either to seize Iran’s uranium or to attack an island off the country’s coast. Thousands of US troops have sped to the conflict area to await President Trump’s decision.

 

Bring The Troops Back. End This War Now!

 

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The President is on the verge of making a serious mistake to add to a series of deadly mistakes that have characterized this terrible war of choice against Iran. A US ground operation against Iran would only achieve the death of thousands of US servicemembers.

Of course, if our Congress was doing its job, this debacle would never have started. Clear signals would have been sent to the President by Congressional leadership that in the absence of an imminent attack on the US, the US President must go to Congress to make the case for taking the country to war. Instead, what we got was a shrug of the shoulders from Capitol Hill that has already cost billions of dollars and too many lives.

As we stand on the verge of a major ground operation, the main stated goals of the war are that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon and that the Strait of Hormuz is open for shipping. But both of these things were already true before the war started! Now we are expanding the war to try and reverse the negative consequences of starting the war in the first place!

What was supposed to be a quick “shock and awe” to frighten Iran into capitulation has expanded rapidly and is costing the US dearly. As the New York Times has reported, every US military base in the region has been either destroyed or is severely damaged. Billions of dollars in US military equipment has been destroyed in Iran’s response to the US attack. Just over the weekend, a half-billion dollar US radar aircraft was destroyed at a US base in Saudi Arabia, along with several air tankers.

Iran warned that if the US launched another surprise attack this is how they would respond. The arrogant US Administration was sure they were bluffing.

The American people may not be getting the full picture of this disaster because they are being lied to – again – by the pro-war mainstream media. The war is going wonderfully, they report. We are obliterating Iran, they say. But what is really being obliterated is a complex global supply chain not just in oil and gas, but in the multitude of products related to oil and gas. Products such as the fertilizer needed to feed the world.

Already we are seeing gas riots in some Asian countries. Fuel rationing and stay-at-home orders have been issued. Australia is set to completely run out of diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel in just weeks. That means no food gets delivered. Power generation plants are shut down. Life becomes unlivable for many.

This is like the foolish move to shut down the global economy during COVID. In fact it is worse. This disaster will not end when the bombs stop falling. It will only be getting started. A worldwide depression may be upon us all because of a war of choice that was illegally launched.

When you are in a hole, it’s best to stop digging. Expanding this war to include a ground operation would be a massive digging operation. It needs to stop. Now.

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/bring-the-troops-back-end-this-war-now/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

trigger happy AI....

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

qatar is out....

First Iraq. Now Qatar. America's coalition in the Middle East is not fracturing — it is collapsing. Qatar, the country that hosted the largest US military base in the region and served as the only functional communication channel between Washington and Tehran, has officially withdrawn from its role as mediator. The message from Doha is unambiguous: Iran has been here for thousands of years, it is not going anywhere, and coexistence is the only realistic long-term option.

What broke Qatar's patience was not a single event but a pattern — a pattern of being used as diplomatic cover for military operations that were already planned, of watching negotiating delegations get bombed while peace frameworks were supposedly hours from signature, of absorbing strike after strike on its own territory while continuing to serve a process that was never genuinely aimed at peace.

The last Arab ally still pushing Washington to continue the war is Saudi Arabia — the same government accused of ordering the assassination of a journalist inside a diplomatic consulate. Every other major Arab state has stepped back. The diplomatic space in this conflict has not just narrowed.

It has collapsed entirely. And a war with no mediator, no exit ramp, and no regional support has only one direction left to go.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkNj4jyuHM8&t=218s

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

 

S500s....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPHpKk8M1Pc

Iran Just Activated the S-500 — Russia Can Shut It Down Anytime

 

Three Russian cargo aircraft landed in Tehran and the Pentagon said nothing publicly. Not a single statement. That silence is not confusion — it is a decision. And what landed in those aircraft is the reason every NATO ambassador was scrambling for an emergency meeting within hours.

The S-500 Prometheus is Russia's most advanced air defense system ever built. For an entire decade, Moscow refused to export it to anyone — not China, not India, not Turkey. Nobody. Then overnight it appeared in Iran, in the middle of an active conflict involving American aircraft. This video breaks down what actually happened, why the standard coverage is missing the most important part of this story, and what the next thirty days likely look like.

Here is what almost nobody is saying out loud yet.

Iran did not receive a weapon. Iran received a dependency. The S-500 is not a system you hand to a customer and walk away from. Russia's own forces took eleven years from development to operational capability. Iran's most experienced air defense crews trained on Soviet-era S-200 systems with completely unrelated technical architecture. Credible operation of an S-500 battery requires between eighteen months and three years of dedicated crew training under the most optimistic assessments.

So who is operating those batteries right now?

The Russian technical advisers who flew in with the equipment and never left.

That detail — Russian military personnel physically present inside Iranian air defense infrastructure during active combat operations involving American forces — changes the entire strategic picture. Russia did not just transfer hardware. Russia inserted itself. And that insertion comes with something the coverage is not discussing: the ability to walk away. Russia can quietly recall those advisers at any time, leaving Iran with a system it cannot meaningfully operate sitting in the desert.

That is not an arms transfer. That is a kill switch.

This video also examines the S-500's actual combat record, which is a number that should reframe every alarming headline you have read this week. It looks at what Israel's military doctrine says about acting against developing threats and why the seventy-two hour window after deployment may be the most consequential period of this entire conflict. It presents three concrete scenarios for how the next thirty days develop, assigns honest probabilities to each, and gives you a specific observable indicator — the Russian adviser situation — that will tell you which scenario is playing out before any official statement confirms it.

The goal of this channel has always been to go one layer deeper than the surface story. The surface story here is alarming enough on its own. The layer underneath it is stranger and more strategically sophisticated than anything the headlines are reflecting.

What this video covers

This video is an educational geopolitical and military analysis examining the strategic implications of advanced air defense system transfers in active conflict zones, Russian foreign policy decision-making patterns, NATO collective security responses, and the operational realities of complex weapons system deployment. All analysis is based on open-source information, publicly available defense assessments, and established geopolitical frameworks.

Sources and methodology

Analysis in this video draws on open-source military assessments, publicly available defense industry reporting, Institute for the Study of War conflict tracking data, IISS capability assessments, RAND Corporation published research on Russian air defense export policy, and established geopolitical analysis frameworks. No classified information is referenced or implied.

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

50,000....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxvvuxRtJU

3 Reasons Trump's Kharg Island Plan Could Kill 50,000 U.S. Troops

"My favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran."

That's what President Trump told the Financial Times. He's considering seizing Kharg Island — the tiny coral outcrop that handles 90% of Iran's crude exports.

Iran's response? "Our men are waiting for American soldiers to enter on the ground so they can set them ablaze."

This isn't bluster. This is 45 years of preparation meeting political rhetoric.

In this video, we break down the THREE REASONS why seizing Kharg Island could produce more American casualties than every war since Vietnam combined:

► REASON 1: THE KILL ZONE GEOGRAPHY
25km from Iran's coast (within range of EVERYTHING)
Constrained approach routes through mined waters
No cover, no dead ground, continuous bombardment from mainland
Every advantage belongs to the defender

► REASON 2: IRAN HAS BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
45 years preparing for American ground invasion
Revolutionary Guard exists for THIS scenario
Russia providing real-time satellite intelligence
"Our men are waiting to set them ablaze"

► REASON 3: THE SUSTAINMENT NIGHTMARE
Strait of Hormuz CLOSED — resupply nearly impossible
Siege warfare against stranded American forces
Daily attrition under continuous missile/drone attack
Casualties accumulate indefinitely

Plus:
• Why Kharg is worse than Iwo Jima
• The destroyed AWACS proves Iranian precision capability
• What 50,000 casualties would mean for American politics
• Why the oil might be destroyed before capture anyway

Iran is telling us exactly what will happen. Believe them.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - "Take the Oil" — Trump's Exact Words
2:05 - Why This Matters
2:25 - What Is Kharg Island?
6:00 - REASON 1: Kill Zone Geography
8:30 - REASON 2: Iran's 45-Year Preparation
11:00 - REASON 3: The Sustainment Nightmare
13:00 - Implications Beyond Casualties
14:30 - Alternative Options
15:15 - The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality

 

GUSNOTE: TRUMP IS STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK A BAD IDEA IS A GOOD ONE....

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

refus....

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly accused France of sabotaging American military operations, after Paris denied overflight rights to U.S. aircraft carrying military supplies to Israel during the operation against Iran.

Trump warned in a direct social media post that "The U.S.A. will REMEMBER," signalling potential consequences for one of Washington's closest NATO allies. U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the episode exposed the limits of the Western alliance, stating that countries unwilling to provide basing access or overflight rights in moments of need were undermining the foundations of collective defence.

French President Emmanuel Macron, facing simultaneous pressure from the Trump administration and large street protests in Paris demanding France invoke the Genocide Convention over Gaza, called for a moratorium on attacks against civilian infrastructure and a return to negotiations.

The confrontation marks one of the most acute public ruptures between Washington and Paris in decades, raising questions about the durability of NATO cohesion as the United States pursues an assertive military posture in the Middle East.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFWQXoTGUs

 

 

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.