The Cradle – Aug 20, 2026
More than 750 US service members have been wounded since the US launched its war of aggression on Iran on 28 February, according to Defense Department casualty data updated on 19 August.
The update added more than 50 wounded US soldiers to the Pentagon’s war casualty database, bringing the official total to 757 wounded and 18 killed.
Those figures are drawn from two separate entries in the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System, combining the totals listed under “Overseas Operations” with those recorded for Operation Epic Fury.
The Defense Department created an Overseas Operations category last month in its casualty database for personnel killed or wounded from 7 July onward, separating those figures from casualties recorded under Operation Epic Fury.
The 7 July cutoff aligns with the White House’s notification to Congress that a new war with Iran had begun.
The Pentagon has not specified which war the Overseas Operations casualties relate to, nor where or how the personnel were killed or wounded, prompting further questions about the transparency of its reporting.
The Intercept reported on 4 August that the split came days after a wave of Iranian strikes on US facilities, and cited a US government official who called the new method “designed to obscure the count” and a “casualty cover-up.”
At the time of the report, the new page listed 273 killed or wounded since 7 July. Combined with the Epic Fury figures, the official total reached 704 – an 83 percent rise since the first ceasefire deal on 8 April.
Counting casualties left out of the database, The Intercept put the real number of US personnel killed or wounded in the war on Iran above 900.
The outlet has documented repeated anomalies, including the Epic Fury count dropping from 500 on 21 July to 431 without explanation.
The Washington Post reported on 18 August that the Pentagon is reassessing its military footprint in Persian Gulf countries after months of losses inflicted by Iran.
The central question is whether to pull troops back from the Gulf, where the largest US bases overseas have absorbed much of the Iranian retaliatory fire, with over 200 US facilities being damaged or destroyed since the war began in February.
Michael Ratney, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, named Jordan, Israel, and Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast as possible destinations for relocated forces, though he acknowledged the added distance was no perfect fix, as Iranian missiles have already reached all three throughout the war on Iran.
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vanessa Feltz: ‘Every Jewish person I know is questioning their future in this country’
Story by Etan Smallman
Vanessa alias ” the trollop” makes light of israeli crimes
and the fact that most Brits want them out
So much was this so that the British gave palesting to the jews and said here go there
Adolf Hitler found them such a pain that he asked Adoldf Eichman to find a place for them
he decided on madagaskar
the french protectorate they said only if out jews can go there too
no one wants them because they are scumbags
Charlie Kirk (CK) was assassinated by Israel and Trump. You have a traitor in the White House. CK was against the Iran war, he met with Trump and told him so, and now is dead. The assassination of CK was by the same people who killed JFK, for the same reason. Israel kills anyone who is not licking their boot. Many young Christians just found out – their loyalty to Israel is not just foolish, it is evil and treasonous. Candace Owens has exposed the Zionist control of Turning Point, USA, the Christian organization dedicated to saving the nation.
Here is my inspired movie script like Red Dawn (1984), a movie about young people taking action during a military invasion, while the older generation allows themselves to be rounded up, put into concentration camps, and executed. In this new imagined movie, a young Christian patriot named Adam who follows in the footsteps of Charlie Kirk – but to the logical conclusion that in order for the Christian faith to survive the immoral boomers must die. Yes Virginia, the older generation still loyal to Israel must die for supporting mass murder, genocide, traitor Trump, and demonic Israel.
In this movie, our new Christian hero has a conscious awakening in our Jewish controlled Simulacrum, goes from a model obedient citizen to becoming a rebel leader who makes war on the older Christian boomers who refuse to stop supporting demonic Israel. The movie starts out seeing a handsome Aryan Christian boy named Adam (represents a new genetic beginning) singing praises to Jesus in church, he is surrounded by Christians who love Trump, but through a series of synchronicities he becomes conscious that his faith is a deception. Adam learns the truth about Trump – he is really a monster (and the forecast Christian Anti-Christ (AC)), and that his Evangelical Christian brethren are really demonic helpers of the AC, and butchers and murderers of evil Israel.
Scene: Adam sees Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Trump supporting American politician, a Christian woman he respects, talking on Fox News about how Trump is a liar who campaigned on MAGA but was really only for Israel. At the next Sunday church, we see Adam arguing with the church elders (boomers) about how Trump has sold the nation out, he questions the church elders about how a Christian congresswoman is calling president Trump the antichrist. The elders get angry and throw him out of church. Adam learns a hard lesson, Christians only love you when you agree with them. Adam’s awakening has begun, the world is not the way he was taught in church, the church elders are corrupt and supporting evil.
Adam becomes “conspiratorial aware” and leaves the church with a bunch of his young born again friends after learning Israel is doing false flags, that his church’s support of Israel is wrong, that the US government is run by Jew whores and traitors, that the older boomer generation is sick and evil for supporting evil Israel. Adam and his friends try talking sense to the older generation, but they are hopelessly brainwashed and stubborn, absolutely will not stop supporting demonic Israel and MIGA Trump. His church only tolerates parishoners who support Trump, and Trump is evil.
Scene: Adam and his friends are shown using their smart phones to connect to social media going on alt sites and learning about what is really going on. (Adam now has a beautiful Christian girlfriend (a non-fake Erika Kirk stereotype who the audience connects with), who believes in his greatness, and totally supports him. Adam’s influence rapidly grows because of social media.
Part of Adam’s awakening is not being rigid about making love outside of marriage, Adam is now openly defying the controlling religious order of the hypocritical older generation. (Adam’s white gorgeous blond and strong girlfriend who is always ready for love making as a good Christian woman – the message to the audience is that a good Christian women should sexually satisfy their man, that real morality is not supporting political evil. These new young Christians are boldly challenging the old order which controls people with prohibitions on sex, but wants them to go to war for Israel.
Adam is dedicated to his “hot wife” out of wedlock, but is more dedicated to the cause (which the audience is taught is dedication to god is more important than his relationship with his girlfriend) becomes despondent how completely evil Amerika is, especially the church (aka the christian flock), he withdraws from society and we see Adam growing a beard, living in the woods, praying like George Washington for guidance (viewers see Adam transforming – building moral resolve against the corrupt older generation). While in the wilderness Adam receives divine guidance just like Jesus, and is tempted by government agents who act like the devil Satan in the Jesus tale.
In one scene, with despondent Adam is the wood meditating, he wakes up to see a couple of Hare Krishna devotees who showed up out of nowhere with the Bhagavad Gita and stay for a week teaching Adam the moral lessons of Krishna to Arjuna – how he must pick up a sword and kill his own people for good to survive. Adam is not only cast as Charlie Kirk but as previous heroes like Arjuna, King David, and Moses.
The young Hare Krishna devotees teach the Gita and the teaching of Krishna – that good people must destroy evil people for society to continue at often intervals. After the young Krishna bucks leaves, one of Adams young patriot friends reminds him of what Thomas Jefferson said about the blood of tyrants being shed for freedom to survive. These events galvanize Adam’s mind that kinetic action must take place, thoughts and words are not enough.
When Adam re-emerges from the wilderness (he is carrying a homemade walking stick, (borrowing the Moses with staff trope so the audience knows he is the new spiritual leader on a divine mission from god) he walks into Medford, Oregon, now a militant police state, cops in black uniform harass him, Flock cameras everywhere, he sees the homeless being executed point blank range and another thrown into unmarked vans and hauled away.
Scene: just like ‘They Live’, Roddy Piper (Nada) putting on the glasses and sees the real messages on billboards, but in this movie, the borrowed trope we see Adam coming to conscious awareness (without any special glasses) of the massive Israeli propaganda on all cars, homes, signs, flags that support Israel.
Scene – Adam sees the USA flag next to the Israeli flag while walking past a boomer home, while at the same time scrolling social media images of the butchery in Gaza, it dawns on him he lives in a completely evil demonic society controlled by Jews and evil older boomer Christians who own property. Adam is the Christian young man, like Charlie Kirk, who is waking up, that he lives in a real matrix of Jewish evil. (Also borrowing the Matrix trope of Neo)
At this point, Adam decides that to be a “true Christian” he is going to have to take action to save Christianity which has fallen into the pits of Judaic perdition, and the boomer generation – which has gone fully satanic – must pay for their infidelity. He makes plans to do a reverse false flag to save his church. Adam decides to burn down his own church to save their souls. This will be broadcast nationwide, and he believes the older boomer generation, which are worthless money grubbing immoral cowards, will fall in line once they realize they can die supporting Israel.
Like the Vietnam war, Adam becomes convinced in order to save his people, it is necessary to destroy them. Scene – we see Adam watching an old news broadcast by Peter Arnett during the 1968 Tet Offensive – the famous quote “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it”)
In the final climatic scene of the movie – we see our militia gang of true young Christians torching his home town church and burning the apostate and hypocritical older boomer generation. They locked them inside with a large wooden cross jamming the doors shut.
(a movie trope is borrowed to re-create this scene, we borrow the trope from ‘The Graduate’, Adam trapping the angry boomers in the church with a large cross pinning the front door shut).
“In the 1967 movie The Graduate, the angry crowd of wedding guests and family members are trapped inside the church when Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) crashes Elaine Robinson’s (Katharine Ross) wedding. Benjamin uses a large wooden cross to lock the glass doors from the outside, leaving the furious group pounding and yelling behind the glass.”
The young true Christians have hardened their hearts to the older evil boomer generation which follows and support evil antichrist Trump. Just as the Israelites of the Bible were commanded by God to destroy evil men back then, Adam leads the “new Israelites” to destroy Trump, the Epstein class of pedophiles, rapists, and cannibals.
(In Deuteronomy 7:1-2 and Deuteronomy 20:16-17, Yahweh commanded the Israelites to “utterly destroy” and “leave alive nothing that breathes” among the specific groups occupying the Promised Land. This was ordered to judge them for severe moral transgressions—such as child sacrifice—and to prevent Israel from adopting their religious practices.)
Scene – younger generation of true Christians read passages from the Old Testament of God commanding the true Israelites to destroy all those who do not worship the true god, they galvanize their minds to the dying screams of the hypocrites and demons being burned alive in their own church. In order to save their souls, the must be tried by fire. It is made clear to the movie viewers that to be a true Christian, to follow the true god of Israel, they must rise up and destroy the imposter pastors corrupted by the Khazar Jews who have corrupted their church and their nation with bribes and false teachings.
At the end of the movie we see Adam has become the new Christian leader of Amerika (he is the new true Charlie Kirk), he is burning churches alongside with young leftists to save the Christian souls from possession of demonic Israel. We see young people all over nation (who can no longer afford houses or cars) joining forces to rid Amerika of Zionism in order to save their faith. We see on TV antichrist Trump and his rich cronies condemning these “terrorist” acts, and we see Congress revealing the latest Jeffrey Epstein files of raping little girls and babies, killing, cooking, and eating them – so the movie goers understand fully the Amerikan government is completely and totally satanically evil, is beyond any redemption, and must be totally destroyed like a passage from the Bible, the nation must destroyed by fire so it can born again and start afresh without any Epstein- pedo-cannibal deep state class in control.
Scene – Adam watches a science TV show that show how fire restores the forests for new life, this convinces him that Amerika must be torched to be renewed again. He becomes fully convinced that he could prevent a nuclear holocaust if the people would rise up and initiate the destruction themselves instead of allowing the demonic Trump cabal from triggering all out nuclear war with Russia and China.
The viewers are shown that Adam is a reluctant messiah, but every step of the way the unseen spiritual forces are guiding his path to an inevitable conclusion – the older boomer sellouts to demonic Israel, like the Pat Robertson 700 Club must face the wrath of god for their loyalty to evil. The older generation sold their souls for wealth and are like Judas Iscariot, traitors to Jewry. In one scene, a TV network of Evangelical liars who support war and Israel, are seen jumping to their deaths from their corporate headquarters, reminiscent of 911.
I believe this would make an excellent movie on par with Red Dawn, The Book of Eli, the Matrix, etc. It would be aimed at young Christians awakening in the matrix of pure Jew evil which has the western nations by the throat. It would be set in radical Portland, Oregon, which is full of Leftists and Christians alike – and in the movie many of the radical Leftist ideas are cross pollinated into the Christian culture. In this movie, the young Christian revolutionaries are vectored information from young warriors all across the political and theological spectrum.
During the movie, the audience is shown graphic scenes of violence and destruction in Gaza and Amerika. The world is a bad movie under Jewish control. Adam gains understanding that the fundamental Christian churches subverted to Old Testament have abandoned the teachings of the New Testament Gospels. The targeted Christian audience has these thoughts reinforced in the movie, again and again in the movie the audience is reminded that Jews have ruined the nation, that Amerika and the Christian Church has fallen and is now irredeemable and must be destroyed to save the Christian faith.
All movies are about the present moment. Idiocracy is not about America 500 years in the future, it is about our idiotic nation right now. The movie “The Book of Eli” is set after a nuclear holocaust, while this movie is about preventing one. Trump is taking us toward one, he is working with NATO and Ukraine to attack Russia. This could easily lead to all out war, in which many people die horrible deaths. CK tried to stop Trump and got killed. In this movie, the hero is a young man who stops Trump from totally destroying the nation from provoking a nuclear war. We see Trump talking peace, but behind the scene orchestrating war (just like the antichrist would do),
In this movie, young people are the heroes just like Red Dawn. The older generation is fat, dumb, and happy and willing for their fellow Amerikans to die for Israel. To prevent the total Jewish takeover of America, Adam (aka Charlie Kirk) must overcome his church and Bible brainwashing that Jews are the chosen ones. Jews are the evil ones. Adam has to come to understand the Christianity is being used by Jews to destroy the nation from within.
The viewers on this movie are called into action to defeat the liars and deep state. Trump is for Israel, not America. Young Christians are gaining red-pilled awareness must see the Trump regime, and Israel, Likud, Chabad, SPLC, ADL, the war corporations, media, wealthy Jewish donors, the 700 Club, and evangelical churches as the enemy of their faith and life itself. For life to survive, good must defeat evil. America is just about completely gone – fallen into Khazar Jewish evil. Young people, who are our future, who are carrying the breedable DNA, must rise up and defeat the old order. In order for the Second American Revolution to succeed, Christians must become aware of what is really happening and do something about the Jewish takeover of the nation.
Whatever the umber of dead and wounded jewnited states terrorists is it’s not nearly enough until it’s ALL of those costumed retards and psychos.
I’ve gotten word from one of the slack-jawed mentally retarded faggots who was at the navy base in Bahrain when it got bombed that they’re all learning how to apply for “disability” status, which comes with a large invisible crutch and a monthly deposit into their bank accounts even though they weren’t wounded ..all they did was shit their pants, piss themselves, and cry about their gaming consoles getting destroyed when Iran sent a little return fire their way.
OOOOOHH
IT BREAKS MY HEART, poor child killers .
@ Yukon Jack
Good luck with your movie Jack. You might find the Hollywood moguls very interested in it, but I don’t know if they will give you any funding or help you promote it. You can, however, just use your Smart Phone, and even do selfies if you are going to star in it, and then get it on YouTube, but you may have to delete any negative content referring to ” the Trump regime, and Israel, Likud, Chabad, SPLC, ADL, the war corporations, media, wealthy Jewish donors, the 700 Club, etc.”