Trump says he bombed Iran

[FlyersFan]

Friendly fire eh?
More like operation "Epic F@ck-up." 
Hope all the pilots managed to eject.

Kuwaitis shot them down.
TV news reports it was during a dog fight of sorts.
Don't know if that's true or not.
Fog of war, and all that.

[andy06shake]

British invention, but not always a totally safe outcome for the pilot. Sometimes the pressure impacts/compresses the spine and if so, they can't fly again..... but at least you are alive!
Rainbows
Jane

I think Zaphoid has explained the process before, yeah, quite the journey, but far better than the alternative.

[andy06shake]

Pretty standard war procedure.
Knock out all communications, even civilian ones.
Have your own propaganda put in it's place.

Hate works both ways through.

And those two are hated.

The ""propaganda"" may not have the desired effect.

[FlyersFan]

British invention, but not always a totally safe outcome for the pilot. Sometimes the pressure impacts/compresses the spine and if so, they can't fly again..... but at least you are alive!

I guess that explains why all six are in the hospital in stable condition,
instead of being checked and released in excellent condition.

[putnam6]

Hate works both ways through.

And those two are hated.

The ""propaganda"" may not have the desired effect.

It's better than letting hardliners spout thier BS to the anti-Ayatollah masses, don't ya know...

for perspective...

One aggregated report cited over 588 missiles and 893 drones total across 11 countries (including those with U.S. troops), but not all were exclusively vs. U.S. targets.

As of early March 2026 (around March 1–2), the situation changed dramatically following U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran (including the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei). Iran directly launched retaliatory missile and drone barrages targeting U.S. military installations/bases across the region (e.g., in Gulf countries hosting U.S. forces like Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Jordan, and others), as well as Israel.
Key details on direct Iranian launches against/impacting U.S. troops/bases (from CENTCOM, regional governments, and reports):

• U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) described defending against hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks, with no initial U.S. casualties reported in early statements, but later updates confirmed 3–4 U.S. service members killed (first known direct fatalities) and others wounded (e.g., at bases like Camp Arifjan in Kuwait).
  
• Specific country-reported intercepts/impacts (many targeting U.S. bases):
  • Bahrain (U.S. 5th Fleet): Intercepted 61 missiles and 34 drones.
    
  • Kuwait (e.g., Camp Arifjan, Ali Al Salem): 97 missiles and 283 drones launched from Iran.
    
  • Qatar (e.g., Al Udeid Air Base): Intercepted 65 missiles and 12 drones (some reports vary slightly).
    
  • UAE (e.g., Al Dhafra Air Base): 137–165 missiles, 209–541 drones (many intercepted, but some impacts and casualties).
    
  • Jordan: 13 missiles and 36 drones (or 49 total projectiles in some reports).
    
• Broader estimates: Iran launched hundreds (potentially 300–500+ missiles and 800+ drones) across the region in initial waves, targeting U.S.-hosting sites among others. One aggregated report cited over 588 missiles and 893 drones total across 11 countries (including those with U.S. troops), but not all were exclusively vs. U.S. targets.
  
• Many were intercepted by U.S./allied defenses (Patriot systems, etc.), but some penetrated, causing damage, casualties, and hits on U.S.-related sites (bases, embassies).
  

 

[cherokeetroy]

MENA Unleashed:

https://x.com/MENAUnleashed/status/20284...05219?s=20

"The US war on Iran isn't about nukes, Islam, Israel, or the Gulf. You have been scammed. It's about preserving the dollar hegemony (America First).

A Jewish venture capitalist and a financier who co-engineered the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and sits on Trump's Board of Peace has now taken a seat inside Israel's War Cabinet, overseeing the military offensive against Iran. His name is Michael Eisenberg. Why is a financier part of the war cabinet? Financial re-engineering.

The dollar does not derive its power from American productivity or the strength of its institutions. It derives it from one thing: the fact that oil is priced and sold in dollars globally, which forces every country on earth to accumulate dollars, fund US deficits, and recycle their energy revenues into American financial assets. That system, the petrodollar, is under its most serious challenge since it was constructed in the 1970s. Dollar share of global foreign exchange reserves has fallen from 71%in 2000 to roughly 59 % today. Iran, Russia, China and India have been systematically invoicing energy trade in national currencies. Every barrel of Iranian oil sold outside the dollar system is a structural vote against American financial hegemony.

Iran is not simply an adversary in this story. It is the most persistent and institutionally serious challenger to dollar dominance in the energy space. Saudi, on the contrary, is the bedrock of the petrodollar (hence why Iran is targeting Saudi). The nuclear file has always been the stated justification, but the monetary system has always been the structural motivation.

The most overlooked piece of evidence from the current conflict came in June 2025. After US forces struck Iranian nuclear facilities, Trump posted publicly that China could continue purchasing Iranian oil. The White House quickly clarified that this was not a formal sanctions waiver. What it was, understood properly, was an informal signal: invoice in dollars and the pressure eases. Iran declined to formalise any such arrangement. The strikes continued. That sequence is not a nuclear negotiation. It is a dollar negotiation conducted through military coercion.

The second mechanism is capital flight, and this one is particularly important for understanding why Wall Street financiers are enthusiastic backers of regional escalation. War and sustained instability in the Gulf and Levant force private capital, sovereign wealth, and institutional money to seek safety in dollar-denominated assets. Every time tensions spike around the Strait of Hormuz, money flows into US Treasuries, dollar deposits, and American money market instruments. The dollar strengthens not through productivity or sound policy but through manufactured fear. For the financier class, this is not a side effect of the war. It is one of the anticipated returns on the investment.

Gaza is not simply a humanitarian catastrophe but a prototype. Trump's Board of Peace, which includes figures from both Washington and Wall Street alongside World Bank President Ajay Banga, is currently planning to deploy a dollar-backed stablecoin as the monetary infrastructure for Gaza's post-war economy. The initiative is being led by an Israeli tech entrepreneur with intelligence background connections. A territory with no functioning central bank, no sovereign monetary authority, and a completely destroyed economic base is to be rebuilt on digital dollar, governed externally, with financial architecture designed in Washington and Tel Aviv. That is not reconstruction. That is the installation of a colonial monetary system into a stateless region, and it is the intended template for how the post-conflict Iran and Levant will be financially organised.

This is what Michael Eisenberg is doing at that war cabinet table. The venture capitalists and financiers are not passengers in this war. They are its architects. The financiers backing this war have made a calculation: that Iranian oil can be brought back into dollar denomination through military pressure, that regional conflict will accelerate capital flight into US assets, and that post-conflict reconstruction zones can be built on digital dollar infrastructure with no competing monetary sovereignty. Gaza is the laboratory. The broader Levant and eventually the Iranian economy are the intended market. This is not a war for Jerusalem. It is a war for the dollar."


"Saudi is the backbone of the petrodollar. Iran is the backbone of the petroyuan. Iran is trying to destory the petrodollar just as much Saudi is working to destroy the petroyuan. This is a war for thr future of the global financial system."

[Kwaka]

With how this conflict is going so far, heads of state are fair game.




For one maybe of where is Bibi:

Netanyahu in Germany? Fact-Checking Claims PM Fled Israel to Greece After Khamenei Death in US-Israel Strikes

Then maybe it is all crap as the fog of war descends us all?

[cherokeetroy]

"QatarEnergy stops LNG production"

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/202...06242?s=20

European gas prices jump over 50% after QatarEnergy halts LNG output

[cherokeetroy]

"Saudi official to Al Jazeera: America has abandoned us, and focused its defense systems on protecting Israel, leaving the Gulf states that host its military bases at the mercy of Iranian missiles and drones."

https://x.com/Mark4XX/status/2028419567362474170?s=20

[andy06shake]

It's better than letting hardliners spout thier BS to the anti-Ayatollah masses, don't ya know...

I think that will take place in the mosques.  

Good thing there is that mosque attendance in Iran is relatively low for a Muslim-majority country. 

Wonder who they will install as the new Ayatollah?