It’s clear, says Col Douglas Macgregor, that Iran has absolute control over the strait of Hormuz and the U.S. can do nothing about it. This accounts for Trump’s sudden turn around:
Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says “the American Empire has walked itself into a defeat. That is not just like Afghanistan, and Iraq and Somalia … and a host of other little wars. This is fundamental. This is a defeat of empire”
In recent weeks, Iran has demonstrated that even the most advanced American air-defence systems cannot withstand sustained Iranian drone strikes.
Iranian missile strikes are forcing US forces to abandon military bases across the Middle East. To the point that America’s regional command centre has been forced to relocate to Israel. Pepe Escobar explains
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Slavery has a long history in Africa. Trans Saharan and Indian Ocean slave networks had existed for centuries before a single European ship appeared off the African coast
The second type of love is the love of imperfection, i.e. people. It’s easy to love perfection. It’s much more difficult to love imperfection
By extension this warning also applies to the UK and Bulgaria. Both NATO members have air bases that recently hosted U.S. military aircraft. So, either through refuelling or rearming, both nations have been instrumental in the U.S. war against Iran
Trump says he has cancelled plans to strike Iran after claiming that Tehran and other countries in the region had reached “the perimeters of a deal”
Iran plans to eject the U.S. military from the Middle East entirely. Is this starting in northern Iran and will we now see this happening elsewhere in the region?
The American Empire has chosen its hill to die on, writes Mike Adams. The American people do not have to die there with it
Pentagon assessments reveal that U.S. forces have shouldered the brunt of defending Israel from Iranian ballistic missiles. However, US anti missile stocks are running low and U.S. protection cannot carry on indefinitely