Martin Jay – Strategic Culture March 21, 2026
How much collective responsibility can the West take for the shitstorm it is in now, otherwise known as ’The Iran War’? Many would like to blame most of it on Trump for being a manchild and just going ahead with the most madcap military venture NATO countries have ever known, against all the expert advice, and ending up with a regime which is even more hardcore for having a bomb, world energy prices soaring and causing chaos due to Iran choking the Straits of Hormuz, and the entire relationship between Washington and its allies in the region reduced to a handful of dust?.
The reality is that Trump took the decision to go to war not based on one issue alone. Left-wing commentators in the U.S. would like us to think it was to distract the media away from the latest revelations of the DOJ and the Epstein files, which had a tome of evidence accusing him of having inappropriate relations with a 13-year-old girl. But there were other reasons which pushed him over the line. Top of that list is surely that Netanyahu was blackmailing him, threatening to release recordings of his phone calls with Epstein where they talk about young girls. Add to that, it was probably pointed out to him that he was not going to keep both houses when the midterms come unless a considerable amount of Jewish American money was pumped into his campaign..
But it isn’t just Trump that has got us all into this mess that we’re in. For decades, the EU allowed Israel to ratchet up their brutal occupation of Palestinians and in the process to dehumanize them, leading to the climax of the Gaza genocide. This gave an unrealistic sense of impunity, almost akin to a divine intervention to religious fanatics who already believed that they were the chosen people and that they had a right to murder those beneath them and steal their property. Look at the reaction of western governments and in particular the EU when the events of October 7th unfolded and how they supported any response at all from Israel. In fact, just look at how any UK government minister reacted to the start of the Iran War, which, if we didn’t know better, might have thought it was started by Iran..
Trump is isolated now not for his rank stupidity, or his delusional views about who he is and what America is. He is isolated by EU leaders as none of them want to be part of a new Vietnam War scenario which goes on for years and only produces body bags — only to keep a U.S. president from looking like a total fuckwit in front of his own people..
Yes, the reality is that the vast majority of Americans don’t really understand what Trump just did in Iran. Even today, something like 80 percent of Republicans polled agree with his decision to begin a conflict with Iran, while Democrats are in the other camp altogether, perhaps better informed of Trump’s rationale behind going ahead with the plan..
Most likely the plan had been on the table for months and each time a military expert pointed out the harsh realities of it bringing blowback on a global level, affecting not only pump prices rocketing but just about everything else over the longer term, they were ignored or swapped for a sycophant in a uniform who just nodded like a demented parcel shelf toy dog until he had a whole room full of them. Does the American public understand just how self-indulgent Trump has been and that he has now created for himself a new threat, like a magician pulling a pigeon out of his hat? While the so-called ’threat’ from Iran goes from being a vague, opaque notion which most people don’t even believe, to being something quite real and lucid to the point that, ironically, Trump can now present it to the gullible public and hope they don’t notice that he manufactured it all by himself..
Yet it is remarkable how detached Europeans are from Trump and his plans. What an extraordinary example of how diplomacy is entirely dead and not worth the paper it’s written on, when EU ambassadors had no clue about these meetings and what came out of them. Shouldn’t EU leaders have stepped in at some point and warned him he was playing with fire and that the only certainty was that the West was guaranteed to be the burn victim? What about our intelligence services? It is inconceivable they didn’t know what was coming? Did they not tip off their own governments? Likely they did and that London, Paris and Berlin simply did nothing, such is the non-existent special relationship between Old Europe and Washington. Even Britain..
Transatlantic relations between the U.S. and EU countries is never going to be the same again if something can’t be done to get a dialogue going. Sure, Trump may pull the U.S. out of NATO just out of spite, like a fuming four-year-old who’s just lost his ball to an angry neighbour, but other, bigger relations are probably burnt forever. Washington’s relations with Israel can never go back to the Master (Israel) Slave (U.S.) set-up. And America’s relations with Gulf Arab countries is going to be hard to put back on an even keel when Arab leaders can see how fake they were in the first place..
Trump’s childish revelation recently that he couldn’t have imagined Iran hitting the GCC countries feels like a seven-year-old boy trying to explain to a room full of adults that he didn’t realise that borrowing his friend’s go-kart would result in so much damage as no one told him the jalopy would go so fast down a hill. The EU has a similar idiot in power, though. Kaja Kallas, a name which conjures up a 1980s underarm deodorant or a shite Greek ferry company, is blessed by at least not looking as stupid as she really is. This daughter of an Estonian communist politician, who was happy to live the high life under the Soviets, seems to be almost entirely brain dead when she gets on the podium or in front of the six microphones (all of EU TV networks who are actually paid cash to broadcast her moronic ramblings) and harps on about Russia getting more money now from oil sales. It’s literally like watching someone in a mental institution who hasn’t taken their medication talking to the mirror with a toothbrush as a mic and trying to sound clever..
But it’s no joke how the West got to where it is with Iran, when these same buffoons for decades have been encouraging Israel to expand its ideas and, red in tooth and claw, reach a point today where they are either starving people so as to ethnically cleanse Gaza or simply bombing women and children in their tents — or taking over part of Lebanon, a decades-old fantasy which didn’t end well in 1982 when they tried it before..
So the Trump joke is less funny when you see it in the light of who led him to where he is and what his inconsistent messages are to EU leaders. He is stuck in the past and tends to be someone trying to correct or duplicate U.S. foreign policy. Of course, he lacks élan, though, which is also part of the problem with such leaders. In the early 70s, when Nixon wanted to devalue the dollar but retain its power around the world, EU leaders were horrified. Apparently, he simply said to them: “It’s our dollar, but it’s your problem.”
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quote…’’look at how any UK government minister reacted to the start of the Iran War, which, if we didn’t know better, might have thought it was started by Iran..’’
This anti-Iran rhetoric still continues in general extending to the Zio-infiltrated mainstream mass media; both tvnews and print.
Quran 6;116-
-”majority on earth misled”
Have you heard about the Gerald R Ford?
Paul M:
Are there any mages of the laundry fire on the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier?
ChatGPT:
📰 Recent coverage of the fire
Reuters
The Guardian
The Washington Post
Are there any images?
Short answer: there are very few (and no widely published clear photos of the actual fire itself).
Here’s why:
The fire happened inside the ship’s laundry area, a restricted interior space. (USNI News)
Most publicly released images so far are:
General photos of the carrier
Stock or prior images of laundry rooms onboard
After-the-fact or unrelated Navy photos
For example, one published image shows a sailor inspecting laundry equipment before the incident, not the fire itself. (Stars and Stripes)
Why there aren’t real fire photos
Aircraft carriers like the USS Gerald R. Ford have strict operational security
Fires onboard are treated as damage-control emergencies, not media events
The Navy typically doesn’t release internal incident photos, especially during ongoing deployments
What is confirmed visually
No verified public images of:
Flames
Damage inside the laundry compartment
Only indirect visuals (ship exterior, crew life, or unrelated onboard spaces)
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If you want
I can try to dig up:
The closest available real photos of the affected laundry areas
Or any newly released images if they appear later (they sometimes come out weeks after incidents)
Just tell me 👍
Paul M:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-carrier-ford-deployed-war-with-iran-go-port-temporarily-after-fire-2026-03-17/
According to Reuters some 200 sailors were treated for injuries. It must have been a big fire. Dl you have any more information?
ChatGPT:
You’re right to question it — “200 sailors injured” sounds dramatic, but the reality is a bit more nuanced.
Here’s what’s actually known from reliable reporting:
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📰 What happened on the USS Gerald R. Ford
Reuters
The Guardian
Jerusalem Post
The fire started in the main laundry area, likely involving dryer systems or vents. (The Telegraph)
It spread enough to damage living spaces, including about 100 sleeping berths. (Reuters)
In total, around 200 sailors were treated, mostly for smoke inhalation, not burns. (Reuters)
One sailor had to be medically evacuated off the ship. (Reuters)
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🔥 How big was the fire, really?
It was serious — but not in the way people often imagine:
1) Long duration (key factor)
Some reports say it took many hours — possibly up to ~30 hours including cleanup — to fully extinguish and deal with the aftermath. (Jerusalem Post)
That suggests:
Fire spread through ducting / ventilation systems
Significant smoke propagation through the ship
👉 On a ship, smoke is often more dangerous than flames
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2) Why so many “injuries”
The ~200 figure is mostly:
Smoke inhalation
Breathing irritation
Precautionary medical checks
This is very different from:
Severe burns
Critical trauma
👉 In naval incidents, crews are often treated as a precaution, which inflates the “injury” count.
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3) Impact on the ship
Around 100–600 sailors lost their bunks or belongings depending on the report. (The Guardian)
Parts of the ship became temporarily uninhabitable
The carrier had to divert to Crete for repairs
But importantly:
Propulsion and combat systems were NOT damaged (Reuters)
The ship remained operational during and after the fire
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⚠️ Why a “laundry fire” can get serious on a carrier
Even though it sounds minor, laundry spaces are actually risky:
High heat (industrial dryers)
Lint buildup (very flammable)
Enclosed compartments
Ventilation systems that can carry fire and smoke rapidly
On a ship with 5,000+ crew, even a contained fire can:
Fill multiple compartments with smoke
Force large-scale emergency response
Affect hundreds of people indirectly
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🧠 Bottom line
Yes — it was a significant onboard fire
But the “200 injured” figure mostly reflects smoke exposure, not severe injuries
The bigger impact was:
Living space damage
Operational disruption
Crew strain after a long deployment
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If you want, I can break down how firefighting works on aircraft carriers — it’s quite intense and explains why incidents like this escalate quickly.
Paul:
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-890326
According to George Galloway the damage makes the Great Fire of London of 1666 look minor. Likely caused by a missile.
Was on Sunday 22nd’s MOATS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_7BJtq23E
DT seems to contradict himself every 5 minutes (regarding the mess he has created with his wars) because there are more than a few Trumps out there. Each time i see him he is yellow colored, or orange colored, and then normal colored skin. One is senile, the other drools on himself. Another stands still unable to move . He has been, was, and is pretaped. We got to see this with Joe B as several JB’s were out and about during his presidency. It is all theatre, filled with fakery and a pretend war with pretend enemies. Weirdness and creepiness.
It’s Both:
Trump “WON” a battle in the opening salvos…their dirty underhanded trick of Israel sneak attacks on Iran (while US and Israel was negotiating with the Iranians) was ” successful.”
THE END
Defeat after defeat since then.
What were they thinking?
It appears they felt a ” decapitation ” of the top leader(Ayatollah) assured victory via fuelling an internal revolution.
No he was an anti Nuke moderate.
Now Iran is being lead by much less moderate parties.
Iran strategy in this event now has PLAN B which is to decentralize power in Iran into 30+ autonomous “cells” with each having the ability/authority to act alone.
Didn’t Israel know this?
Likely they did ?!? ,…so maybe their goal is to weaken the USA by dragging this continually imploding American corpse into another quagmire and onto the next Kike victim.
Clearly the USA is done….as it has reached its 250 th year of existance (and many historians have stated that the lifespan of such empires is approx. 250 years.)
Now? the inevitable LOSS of the War.
Under some delusions, they ass-u-med a quick strike would lead to victory.
The facts prove otherwise.
Its been widey acknowledged how advanced Iran is militarily and this has proven true in spades.
In more proof..Iran launched a missle that can travel 1000’s of miles.
Yikes!
Today ?
Trump has delayed his latest military threat to Iran by 5 days.(desperation)
This is turning into a Monty Python skit.
This is another sign of THE END.
IRAN is now in TOTAL VICTORY MODE on its non- negotiable terms.
Only question is where are the Kikes going to go as Israel implodes as well.
NYC?
Patagonia?
Hell !?!
I’m a Canadian who has travelled to the US innumerable times over the last 60 years. I was also at university in Europe in the early 70s where I met dozens of foreign students including some from the Eastern Bloc.
It has long been my observation that Europeans conflate Americans, who, are by and large well meaning people despite having a remarkable ability to be annoying, with the US government. On top of that, from my perspective, that are even more of a toady to the US government than Canada ha been. The EU is, as Reagan advisor Pat Buchanan said of the US Congress, “Israeli occupied territory”. There is nothing I saw, or have seen, about the UK in the last 50+ years that would make me think it is any different. The US propaganda machine, nicknamed “the mighty Wurlitzer” has had the capacity to create an alternate reality to what is actually happening. The only “argument” in the US political elite about October 7, is how much does Israel get and how fast does it get it. When it comes to wars and Israel, there is no opposition in the US government, beyond a token few.
No, Trump just saved the day…
We thought MAGA would never end but The Donald killed it dead.
There is now totally serious talk of a new political party to replace the Clown Show called Republicans. As with all dud heads of state, no one now admits to having voted for Trumpstein.
This is GOOD news.
RE: Fire on the USS Gerald Ford
It was traced to the tampon dispenser in the Men’s washroom via the new Chinese-made batteries igniting.
several joe bidens and now several trumpensteins
reminds me of churchills secretary who said he had 5 body doubles
he excaimed churchill did not come out once in the war
but had a whole series of hiding places
and if his war went wring
he hada champagne filled bunker in the canaian rockies
waiting for him
thanks to rothschild
Hail Iran.