Martin Jay – Strategic-Culture.su Feb 24, 2026
The news that a U.S. aircraft carrier has had to dock in Crete to deal with thousands of seamen needing to leave it in order to, as the saying goes, “take a dump,” should not come as a great surprise to sceptical geopolitical observers. Many might see it as ominous for Trump’s strategy to go ahead with an attack on Iran – an attack which no one outside of his cabal of nodding dogs believes can work, neither in the short nor longer term. This is not only because Iran is hugely better prepared than it was in the June attacks of last year, but also because the U.S. is too vulnerable on too many levels. Iran does not have to win this war. It only needs to deliver precise yet devastating losses, even in low numbers, to Israel and the U.S. The USS Gerald R. Ford’s poorly designed toilet system is a sort of stinking metaphor for America’s weakness: the plumbing of all the ship’s toilets is configured so that if one toilet is blocked, the whole system suffers the same fate, and suddenly thousands of sailors are standing in their own waste.
The Trump armada is the same. Its size is its vulnerability, and it is entirely possible that the joint chiefs of staff – whom Trump personally installed – and the coterie of Pentagon yes-men have not told him that Iran can easily sink the Ford, with or without a failing sanitary system. One hypersonic missile, which cannot be intercepted, is all it would take. If these aircraft carriers are so afraid to come too close to the Straits of Hormuz now, due to the Houthi threat from much less sophisticated missiles, then surely there is a plumbing crisis in the planning of what Trump is trying to achieve by taking on Iran. It is, without any doubt, the most ill-conceived, plainly mad military operation that America has ever undertaken, and it will certainly lead to Trump being impeached when it all goes horribly wrong.
The most extraordinary element of this crisis is that it has been entirely manufactured by Trump’s own uniquely childish, chaotic, and absurdly stupid ideas on how to induce new power and growth in the U.S. economy. Trump’s tariffs strategy is failing on a grand scale and has forced both China and Russia to diversify their economies away from the U.S. market – in particular China, which is enjoying new growth in Central Asia. The Venezuela coup, which has almost certainly given the Trump circle a new lease of optimism about what it can pull off around the world, has forced Russia and China to think harder and more deeply about how to deal with a madman in the Oval Office. They have come to the conclusion that he has to be stopped and that a conflict with Iran is the right time and place to do it, given that Trump has given them no choice in the matter. Russia and China simply cannot afford to let their alliance with Iran be destroyed by a U.S. president who is trapped by an Epstein-like blackmail tryst with Israel. Arguably, this is less to do with their affection for Iran and its leaders and more to do with survival. If Trump were to succeed in overthrowing the regime in Tehran, where would he go after that? Russia and China believe strongly that he has to be stopped – and taught a lesson.
America’s miscalculation on the battlefield is legendary, as there are too many examples to point to, simply to see that this pattern never seems to make U.S. presidents stop and think when they are overstretching themselves. Afghanistan, Iraq, and of course Vietnam were all wars America lost with huge losses, with very little recalibration of understanding what America’s real power is in the world. Having a huge, well-resourced military is hardly a guarantee of winning anything. History has shown this. In fact, it is this vanity, this delusion, which feeds the brain fog and produces a mindset that America can win any war with anyone if it puts its mind to it. But this thinking is usually championed by half-wits who have never served in the military and only want to profit from the lives of young men from poorer families – like Lindsey Graham, or even in Europe, like Ursula von der Leyen, who seems almost sexually charged by the idea of war, but who simply smiles like a silly little girl when a journalist asks her if any of her children are in the military.
“America cannot even win a proxy war in Ukraine,” might be an argument that some advisers to Trump will dismiss by saying, “Well, yeah, but that’s a proxy war… Iran is different as it’s our boys and our ships and planes.” But even this argument is demented and gives a glimpse of just how much of a fake democracy America is, given that Trump 2.0 is modelled on a leader surrounding himself with sycophants, all egging him on, while all Israel has to do is wave its chequebook and remind Trump that his own failed policies are going to eject him from both houses when the midterms come around. It is America’s phoney democracy which has led to Trump’s mad Iran plan gaining the momentum it has managed in recent weeks, even though the whole world and his dog are pointing out that Iran has so many military options to strike the old empire at its weakest point. We should never forget that the perceived success that Trump might have gleaned in June of last year – when 12 days of bombing damaged Iran and its infrastructure – not only did not succeed overall in its objective of toppling the regime, but, perhaps more importantly, only had the impact it did due to the element of surprise.
The only surprise now for observers watching this slow-motion train crash is just how stupid Trump has been to think he can survive this madness. There are no good outcomes. All roads seem to lead to him falling on his own sword. Have pity on those in America whose living comes from satire, as they are being robbed of their raw material by actual real events. No one is going to bother mocking up a cartoon of Trump standing in raw effluent, surrounded by naval officers looking at him with eagle eyes. Wasn’t it Rome that in the end collapsed under its own corruption and blocked sewers? You can’t make this shit up. Literally.
Two left wing students jailed after blowing up sheep with fireworks in brutal attack
Story by Peter Stevens • 2h •
Two students have been jailed after blowing up a sheep with fireworks following a prolonged and brutal attack.
Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, chased the animal before punching and kicking it for around 30 minutes in a field near Ditchling Beacon in the South Downs, East Sussex, in November 2023.
The attack escalated when the pair placed fireworks in the sheep’s mouth and anus, killing and mutilating it,
before calling two friends over to witness what they had done.
Hollands filmed the incident and was heard laughing and encouraging Ashby to kill the animal.
Ashby, from Ashford, Kent, and Hollands, from Horton Kirby, Kent, both pleaded guilty last August.
Ashby was sentenced to two years in prison, while Hollands received a 20-month term in a young offenders’ institution.
Protesters gathered outside Hove Trial Centre as the case was heard.
The court was told the attack caused widespread distress in the local community, with some residents reporting “sleepless nights” and “anxiety” after learning what had happened.
Horror as mum set on fire in front of daughter by migrant gang seeking revenge
Story by Laura Zilincanova
Five migrants have been found guilty after a violent attack that left a woman and a teenage girl with severe burn injuries. Another five migrants admitted their roles in the incidents, which unfolded in December 2021.
After an 11-week hearing at Nottingham Crown Court, Det Con Howard Davies of Staffordshire Police said: “This was a horrific ordeal for a mother to be set on fire in her own home in front of her daughter by a number of men seeking revenge.”The incident involved 10 men
The incident involved 10 men
© Staffordshire Police
Five migrants have been found guilty after a violent attack that left a woman and a teenage girl with severe burn injuries.
After an 11-week hearing at Nottingham Crown Court, Det Con Howard Davies of Staffordshire Police said: “This was a horrific ordeal for a mother to be set on fire in her own home in front of her daughter by a number of men seeking revenge.”
All five men convicted following the trial have been remanded in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.
Staffordshire Police said trouble began on the afternoon of December 16, 2021, when Naveed Hussain, 32, Bilal Ahmed, 26, Kashif Ahmed, 25, and Ali Abbas, 22 – all from Stoke-on-Trent – were involved in a fight on Kildare Street in Longton.
During the fight, Kashif Ahmed suffered a stab wound to his shoulder and was taken to hospital for treatment.
Later that evening, just before 11pm, a group of men went to a property on Beverley Drive in the Bentilee area, demanding to speak to Hussain.
Yea, yea, yea, sounds like a load of BS to me and we know ((( who ))) just loves to talk BS, don’t we? The numb-skulls in the US have finally figured out that attacking Iran is no good for business and so they are looking for an out.
As if a super carrier would have “plumbing problems”. I don’t buy. More likely the crew, who have been at sea now for over eight months are on the brink of mutiny.
I watched a video yesterday about the USS Gerald R Ford and I was surprised when it said there were 600 toilets aboard her. Members of her crew both men and women were shown a dozen deep queuing to use one of the functioning toilets. It sounds like a lot of toilets but I’m guessing a vessel that size with a crew of around 5,000 working across the whole vessel need toilets nearby, as it’s no good having crewmembers away from their posts for half an hour or more answering nature’s call.
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Labour branded ‘paedo defenders party’ by Tory leader in heated slanging match
Story by Adam Cailler • 20m
Labour has been branded the “paedo defenders party” during a feisty PMQs. Despite talking about student loans, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch launched a tirade at Prime Minister Keir Starmer. for hiding up the Rotherham scandal
Responding to earlier claims that she had “made her party smaller” – after several members had jumped ship to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK earlier this month, over the mass migrant swamping scandal – she hit back in a big way.
Referencing Dan Norris, the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham who was suspended last April after his arrest on suspicion of rape, child sex offences and child abduction, she said: “The Prime Minister has the cheek to talk about my party hiding pedos
Starmer who until recently was thought to be just a sniftafarian, sniftafarians are those who like to sniff boys pants
Just like the Bloated, Bloviating Blowhard referred to as The BLOTUS, the USS Herald R Lord is full of shit! Quite fitting for the Empire of Bullshit.
“The Arrogance of The Empire Will Cause its Monumental Failure” ~ Iran War OVER? Pentagon in PANIC? ~ Puerto Vallarta is a War Zone
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-arrogance-of-empire-will-cause-its.html
Wow, hyperbole on the cusp of desperation
with a big dash of frustration and angst.
Scott Ritter on steroids.
The men in US Navy are child killing cowards they always have been, and aircraft carrier crews are the very worst. That is what they do they launch aircraft to bomb children and even worst blockade them to starve them to death it does not get much eviler than that. They are like evil spoiled children they are not fighting sailors. The aircraft carriers have a library a recreation room internet streaming a giant mess hall like a huge restaurant to eat good hot expensive food. They have Baskin Robbins ice cream at least six flavors they also have a PX on board ship. As if all that is not totally insane enough, they even have a maternity ward for the female pregnant sailors on board. It is madness! The US Navy is insane. These are not true warships because all of that space could be used for weapons ammo medical supplies lifeboats and fuel so that the ship could fight longer in battle! But of course, in real life between 1946 and 2026 the aircraft carriers have not fought real battle! If they just ate MREs the crew could use the mess hall and galley space for missiles, but the crew want hot chow, and they don’t like the taste of MREs. They don’t want their precious morale to suffer! What is the crew’s morale going to be when the carrier is hit by enemy fire and the antimissile space was being used to store ice cream! All the carriers really are in real life are floating factories for the crew to work in for twenty to thirty years. Factories that of course never get outsourced to India Mexico or China. The crew get a job with benefits and a pension, and they get to leave the rustbelt back home. The whole thing is a scam on the taxpayers because these ships do not truly defend the nation. The US Navy spent 17 years building the USS Gerrald R Ford and they designed a toilet system where if one toilet is blocked, they are all blocked. Does that sound like a warship to you? The Naval Engineers did this because the very idea of the aircraft carrier being hit by enemy weapons is unthinkable to them because these are not truly warships. Don’t you think that if the carrier is hit by an enemy weapon that weapon will almost certainly damage at least one toilet when it blows up a part of the ship? If the US Navy, try to fight Iran they are all going to die or mutiny because they cannot fight a real war! That ship has truly sailed.
You can see on Youtube et cetera where Trump, surrounded by people like Pence discusses sending people on a mission to Mars and going back to the Moon
Excellent article!
And excellent excrement! Holy Shit Voltman!
Yes sir! The empire of bullshit is up to its nose in putrid, nauseating bullshit, horseshit and chickenshits. Too chicken to tell the shithead-in-chief to sit down and shut the fuck up. The Lying sack of shit should be referred to as the BLOTUS not the POTUS. He’s The Biggest Liar Of The United Snakes.
I don’t believe Trump decides whether or not to attack. His job is to fool the public. If he has any power at all, the fucking moron-in-chief should turn his guns on the Rothschild conglomerate and israel, that loud, gurgling shithole, that plugged-up sewer full of criminally insane parasites that have been siphoning the world of everything of value.
But Trumpenstein won’t do that because he’s too ignorant, stupid, conceited and indoctrinated.
Bang on Tony O’Neil with what you said. Just check out Operation Millennium Challenge where the yanks had to handicap the marine general in charge of the Iranian defenders on their super computers to win
25 February https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNmw5Xk3kc Burkina Faso’s Iran Deal Shocks The West / by Frontline Africa
13.47: ‘Now let me tell you what is actually happening/ The US have already been lost in the (mineral rich + strategic in conflict to target China/ Russia/gj) Sahel / they have been kicked out of their military bases/ they have no military footprint any longer in Burkina Faso/ Mali & Niger….because of that China/ Russia/ Turkiye & Iran they are all taking their place….
The US is now trying to keep their presence in West Africa / the easy way in is the “democracies” of Ghana/ Nigeria* / Ivory Coast….these are the countries that gives the US an open door to walk in/ sit down at the table & dictate terms to these countries/ Ghana has always been in bed with the US for a very long time”
22.07: We are living in the moment where the US & its allies have openly said/ thru Congessional report thru speeches at the Munich conference that they intend to compete aggressively for resources & influence in the hlobal South/ they have sais they want to counter Russia & China/ they have said they want to secure suplly chains for critical minerals/ they hahave said they want to reshape the strategic landscape pf Africa”
comment/ ” You cannot ride two horses that are moving in opposite directions”
(* 24 February https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OWBvze2yOM USA releases neo-colonial plan for Nigeria / France joins in)
comment/ “Nigeria seems to be welcoming the chains of slavery that the AES have broken free of💪🏾🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪”/ “Tinubu was always a CIA agent from all the way back in the 1980’s, when he was in the US.”
25 February https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KABIj-B9rFc Burkina Faso goes to Tehran/ The West did not see this coming
Anyway every body qnywhere
h.a.n,d. have a nice day
CIA O
What a load of crap…and a load of rollocks!🤢😢