Reg and Jake:

Switching the Ayatollahs with Ahmadinejad is decidedly not regime change, it’s just cutting off a few heads of the hydra while leaving the beast alive to grow yet more heads and to sharpen it’s claws and gargle some more gasoline. If Trump doesn’t comprehend that, Bibi definitely should.

Hoping I’m proven wrong and this story is…[Read more]

Jake and Reg:

I hope the NYT story is just an AI hallucination, but knowing Trump’s delusional behavior especially in his second term, and how so called “Realpolitik” make people do strange things, I can’t help but wonder.

The war with Iran is the next stage of Israel’s post–October 7 strategy. They have dealt with the immediate perpetrators and neighboring proxy fronts . But chopping off their head is not enough. Now they are dealing the Iranian state infrastructure that supports, arms, funds and coordinates much of the wider terror network. ‘Netty’ said that Ham…[Read more]

Oh and i should say the plan was always regime change. There is no long term security until the religious kingdom comers are out of there. Their treaties are useless. There is an islamic doctrine that makes it kosher. Their military capability compromised for time being but their objectives intact.

Trump and especially Netty are well aware. Why…[Read more]

Trump talks out of his ass most of the time. And then they play the game of taking him at his word as though he were a serious human being giving honest assessments. So some military leader is the fall guy.

One has to have a plan in order to know when the objectives are reached.

I did see that some other place. If you take it at face value it is a head-scratcher. I don’t. Not sure what the full plan was. Netty has been warning about theocratic Islam’ designs on kingdom coming for a long time. And he is no dolt.

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

A object lesson in the rarety of intelligence and critical thinking. I wish this wasn’t true but it appears it is:

Trump and Netanyahu and minion followers are literally the gang that can’t shoot straight or even aim correct. I do not think that “regime change” means what they think it…[Read more]

Well said Enco.

How rare is intelligence? I mean general intelligence. The ideological capture of so many academics, the presidents of universities, the students. The underlying narratives are so weak and transparent.

I grew up wtihout giving respect to a thinker until i thought it was earned. I think that was due to having a father who is…[Read more]

Reg:

Enco,

I meant broadly speaking a reflection of the electorate and more to the point of the zeitgeist. Reg had a good article on the flowering of Jew hatred and differences between far right and far left in contemporary world. Far left and far right come at it a little differently.

A great article, though I wouldn’t call it flowering. More…[Read more]