Nostr notes by WakWak

“This is not a wartime blockade. It is the construction of a ...

2026-04-03T18:05:05+02:00

“This is not a wartime blockade. It is the construction of a permanent maritime regime — the first new toll imposed on an international strait in more than 160 years — and its implications extend far beyond the Persian Gulf.
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Twenty-six ships have used this IRGC-controlled corridor since mid-March, according to USNI News tracking data published on March 27. That number is growing. The system is operational, replicable, and — critically — being formalized in law.”

https://houseofsaud.com/iran-hormuz-toll-booth-sovereign-maritime-regime/

“In 2011, President Barack Obama decided to begin what would ...

2026-03-29T06:21:43+02:00

“In 2011, President Barack Obama decided to begin what would become a monthslong military campaign to oust Qaddafi.

The intervention got off to a dramatic start when U.S. Tomahawks pounded Libya’s air defenses...Within a few short days, Qaddafi’s military was flattened.

Many U.S. leaders expected the regime to collapse under pressure. Instead, stalemate set in.....Weeks soon turned to months.

A similar pattern is now playing out in Iran.”

http://archive.today/DJaXx

“However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic ...

2026-03-23T18:02:44+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…gs6x
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“However the Iran war unfolds, it will prove to be a strategic self-own in our great-power competition with China.
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The war will redound to Xi’s advantage. In effect, China is approximating the 'offshore balancing' strategy long advocated by U.S. foreign policy realists. By avoiding military involvement and letting regional actors check one another, it incurs none of the costs in blood, treasure, or political capital that America will now have to shoulder.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-war-iran/

Exactly. They had plans to do something similar with China as ...

2026-03-21T07:45:12+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…23vt
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Exactly. They had plans to do something similar with China as well. It was supposed to play out like with Russia & Ukraine where our leaders act like magnanimous diplomats while the Chinese are drained of resources fighting one of our proxies.

The way this is playing out though is that we're the ones draining our resources fighting the proxies while the Chinese leaders get to look like the magnanimous diplomats.

“In the last ten years, China and Iran have enhanced their ...

2026-03-21T03:09:14+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…h9g5
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“In the last ten years, China and Iran have enhanced their cooperation in missile technology development, satellite and space initiatives, intelligence sharing, cybersecurity, and electronic warfare.
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Iranian forces can hit high-value military targets more effectively because they have better missile guidance systems, better electronic warfare capabilities, and satellite data that helps them aim more accurately.”

https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/03/20/china-iran-intelligence-2026-war/

We have tried for years to lure China into a proxy war to bleed ...

2026-03-21T01:35:13+01:00

We have tried for years to lure China into a proxy war to bleed them like we did to the Soviets in Afghanistan. It would be a bitter irony if we ended up stumbling into a proxy war trap ourselves.

https://x.com/i/status/2033997561179345377

“Donald Trump’s seemingly impulsive, unplanned attack on Iran ...

2026-03-20T21:35:49+01:00

“Donald Trump’s seemingly impulsive, unplanned attack on Iran was the end result of a long, persistent campaign by many around him. The underlying currents that caused Trump to begin his war were his extensive personal pathologies combined with pressure from those who benefit politically and economically—and from those who see it as a fulfillment of prophecy.

This matters a lot because people motivated by eschatology are generally immune to other arguments.”

https://www.mind-war.com/p/end-times-hunger-games-the-mythological

“Once one says 'industrial base,' the logic becomes ...

2026-03-11T15:09:36+01:00

“Once one says 'industrial base,' the logic becomes much more radical than administration officials may realize.

It means attacking the system that produces and reproduces [modern life]: electric power, transport, fuels, machine tools, metallurgy, electronics, repair facilities, and perhaps the broader fiscal and industrial foundations of recovery.

A country that cannot rebuild has, by definition, suffered something much closer to strategic deindustrialization.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/dan-caine-iran/

“The convergence of energy decline, dollar weakness and ...

2026-03-10T15:21:56+01:00

“The convergence of energy decline, dollar weakness and geopolitical crisis that produced this war was forecast 18 years ago. A 95-page strategic assessment prepared in 2008 identified the exact conditions under which a US administration would consider a military strike on Iran rational – and predicted every major consequence now unfolding.”

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/trump-went-to-war-with-iran-to-seize-oil-as-us-shale-enters-terminal-decline/

“Iran doesn’t pose a significant threat to Israel, let alone ...

2026-03-09T22:47:32+01:00

“Iran doesn’t pose a significant threat to Israel, let alone the United States. Even at its strongest, Tehran has merely challenged Israel’s dominance of the Middle East, not its survival. Yet the claim that Iran existentially threatens the Jewish state is rarely disputed in mainstream American debate, even by politicians who oppose war.”

https://jewishcurrents.org/iran-is-not-an-existential-threat

“Meanwhile, Trump may nominally prefer a regime change to state ...

2026-03-09T14:30:43+01:00

“Meanwhile, Trump may nominally prefer a regime change to state collapse, but he is unwilling to put forth the resources to achieve it and will eventually disengage when the costs begin to mount.

If the Iranian regime falls, not just figureheads but the state apparatus itself, the inevitable result will be massive destabilization and Libya 2.0, if not worse. This is by design.”

http://archive.today/Qh74d

“This raises a simple question: How quickly can the West refill ...

2026-03-07T18:28:17+01:00

“This raises a simple question: How quickly can the West refill its arsenals?

Emergency supplemental funding cannot instantly reverse decades of consolidated production lines and atrophied mineral processing capacity. It is constrained by time, chemistry, and industrial physics. The input of missiles is not just money; it’s a supply chain that starts with minerals, processing, and sub-tier capacity that does not surge on command.”

http://archive.today/LA5ZA

“'Wipe out the memory of Amalek' has become an oft-used ...

2026-03-07T16:48:46+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…uam8
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“'Wipe out the memory of Amalek' has become an oft-used phrase at the highest levels of Israel’s government, a dog whistle well understood to call for the extermination of the Palestinians.

Now, by linking Iran and Amalek, Israel’s government seems to be bringing that same genocidal logic to its latest conflict—only one of a number of different religious frameworks Netanyahu’s government is working within as it wages war alongside the United States.”

http://archive.today/EwD89

“At nearly every stage, Republicans and Democrats in Congress ...

2026-03-07T16:18:07+01:00

“At nearly every stage, Republicans and Democrats in Congress – along with presidents from both major parties – have laid the foundation for a war on Iran.

Over time, escalation itself became normalized.

Economic warfare became cyber sabotage. Cyber sabotage became targeted assassinations. By the time Trump entered the White House for his second term, the framework for America’s long-awaited war on Iran was already in place.

All he had to do was pull the trigger.”

https://original.antiwar.com/jon_reynolds/2026/03/05/americas-war-on-iran-has-always-been-a-bipartisan-effort/

“Forcing a full surrender on Iran could require months of ...

2026-03-06T23:54:52+01:00

“Forcing a full surrender on Iran could require months of military operations and a ground invasion.
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Tehran says it is uninterested in a ceasefire or further negotiations with the US. 'We are not asking for a ceasefire. And we don’t see any reason why we should negotiate with the US. [The US] attacked us twice in the middle of negotiations,' Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas told NBC on Thursday.

He went on to say that Iran is prepared for a ground war with the US.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/03/06/trump-says-he-will-only-accept-irans-unconditional-surrender/

“Analyzing the pattern of Iranian counterattacks suggests a ...

2026-03-05T21:44:18+01:00

“Analyzing the pattern of Iranian counterattacks suggests a layered operational approach designed to create regional disruption on land, sea, and air, while simultaneously attempting to exhaust US and allied defensive resources.
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Tehran appears to be fighting a war of endurance: prolong the conflict, expand the economic battlefield, make the costs increasingly prohibitive, ration advanced capabilities, and impose steady human and financial costs on its adversaries.”

https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-1a/

“Israel’s endgame is the 'total destruction of ...

2026-03-05T15:01:52+01:00

“Israel’s endgame is the 'total destruction of [Iran]', said Danny Citrinowicz, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies.

Summarising the Israeli government’s position, Citrinowicz said: 'If we can have a coup, great. If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great. Israel couldn’t care less about the future . . . [or] the stability of Iran'.”

https://archive.ph/n8j9p

“Apart from funding the U.S.-based human rights NGOs profiled ...

2026-03-04T20:27:29+01:00

“Apart from funding the U.S.-based human rights NGOs profiled here, the NED is spearheading a myriad of operations targeting the Islamic Republic......the NED is attempting to build up a widespread network of media outlets, NGOs, activists, intellectuals, student leaders and politicians who will all sing from the same hymn sheet, that of.....regime change.”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-the-cia-backed-think-tanks-fueling-the-iran-protests/290638/

“The Trump administration is increasingly seeking to place the ...

2026-03-04T13:29:33+01:00

“The Trump administration is increasingly seeking to place the responsibility on Israel for the growing war with Iran. Israeli officials have pushed back, saying that Israel could only have moved forward with explicit US approval.
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Amid these efforts to shift responsibility, it appears that regime change efforts continue apace. On Tuesday, Israel bombed a meeting of the Iranian Council while they were counting the votes for the appointment of a new supreme leader.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/regime-change-in-iran/

“Marco Rubio said we attacked Iran because Israel was planning ...

2026-03-03T15:52:48+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…p8tw
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“Marco Rubio said we attacked Iran because Israel was planning to attack......But Trump and his top officials tried to sell the war as being related to Iran’s nuclear program despite insisting that it was 'obliterated'

Now that the war has started....Trump suggested that he is pursuing regime change.....but Rubio said the goal was aimed at eliminating the 'threat' posed by Iran’s missiles.

When asked for a timeline, Rubio said the war will last 'as long as it takes'.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/03/02/rubio-says-the-us-launched-a-war-with-iran-because-israel-was-planning-to-attack/

“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a ...

2026-03-03T14:04:36+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…vcfg
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“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was 'anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,'..

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).”

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

“Trump’s many 'reasons' amounted to really no reason ...

2026-03-03T13:59:17+01:00

“Trump’s many 'reasons' amounted to really no reason at all. Any intellectually honest observer was left fairly clueless.

Enter Congress. More specifically the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which shared a post on X congratulating the president on 'ending' Iran’s 'forever war' with the U.S.

I swear I’m not making this up.
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By this metric, realists and restrainers can argue that the U.S. began this supposed ongoing war by pursuing Iranian regime change in 1953.”

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/on-the-iran-war-they-think-youre-stupid/

A New World Emerges. Iran Will Win & Israel May Not Survive ...

2026-03-02T23:59:40+01:00

A New World Emerges. Iran Will Win & Israel May Not Survive –W/Douglas McGregor

https://youtu.be/yd_uJiRcl0Q

“In 2017, President Donald Trump appointed the son of the CIA ...

2026-03-02T18:57:05+01:00

“In 2017, President Donald Trump appointed the son of the CIA super spy John Stanley Pottinger as an advisor......From this point onwards, a select group of CIA-affiliated actors began the operation to takedown Jeffrey Epstein.

This group were not heroes. This was the start of a CIA-led Fifth-Generation Warfare (5GW) era operation to co-opt the Epstein case and to cover up the CIA’s central role in the rise of the so-called international moneyman of mystery.”

https://newspaste.com/2026/02/11/the-pottinger-legacy-the-takedown-of-jeffrey-epstein/

“It's Time to Put Fuentes, Owens, Carlson, Uygur, Jackson ...

2026-03-02T14:49:58+01:00

“It's Time to Put Fuentes, Owens, Carlson, Uygur, Jackson Hinkle and others inside a WWII-Style Internment Camp.
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What we are witnessing today mirrors the darkest days of the Vietnam War....as America fought against an 'Evil Empire,'...
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there is no choice but to take decisive action and arrest them.
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We must act immediately.

There is no other way.”

http://archive.today/xBMNO

“Occasionally, a mainstream news story will mention how Iranian ...

2026-03-01T22:56:11+01:00

“Occasionally, a mainstream news story will mention how Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was tortured in the Shah’s prisons. One can only imagine how formative such an experience was. When you consider that the torture was at the hands of police and jailers trained and/or supported by the United States, Great Britain, and Israel, it puts a different color on Western propaganda about Khamenei.”

https://kayej.substack.com/p/godfathers-of-savak-torture-regime

Al Jazeera Anchor: “Is there an off-ramp for Iran?” Dr. Foad ...

2026-03-01T17:29:48+01:00

Al Jazeera Anchor: “Is there an off-ramp for Iran?”

Dr. Foad Izadi: “The next generation of Iranians, those who didn't understand why their parents and grandparents were anti-American....They now understand they are fighting the Epstein class that rape little girls or bomb little girls.”

“Republican strategist Chad Schnitger, who is overseeing the ...

2026-03-01T00:33:47+01:00

“Republican strategist Chad Schnitger, who is overseeing the influence operation, hopes his initiative will shore up Gen Z support for Israel.

Schnitger says his funders at the Israeli Foreign Ministry want him to focus narrowly on religious issues.....But the materials on his website suggest a blurry division between religion and politics.”

“The new initiative features Israeli soldiers, West Bank settlers, and a pastor of Messianic Judaism as key voices.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/evangelicals-and-israel/

“One hour after Donald Trump declared war on Iran, CNN put out ...

2026-02-28T15:45:09+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…yumx
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“One hour after Donald Trump declared war on Iran, CNN put out an article invoking Amalek three times, explaining that the biblical passage commanding Israel to remember and eradicate Amalek is read publicly before Purim to fulfill the mitzvah of remembering Israel’s enemies.

At the very moment American bombs are falling, CNN’s news desk is highlighting ancient scriptural eschatology to justify the bombs.

That is not a neutral editorial decision.

That is propaganda.”

https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/cnn-america-is-going-to-war-with

“if you have followed Syria closely, you recognize something ...

2026-02-26T13:46:50+01:00

“if you have followed Syria closely, you recognize something else: the timing is too synchronized, the incentives are too clear, and the outcomes are too useful for the very actors who claim they are trying to prevent them.

What is happening now is a strategic transition. And like most strategic transitions in our region, it is being sold to the public in a language that does not match the mechanics on the ground.”

https://x.com/i/status/2026777853791187422

“America’s policy toward Cuba is economic warfare, which is ...

2026-02-14T22:55:35+01:00

“America’s policy toward Cuba is economic warfare, which is no less illegal or lethal than a conventional war.

U.S. policy in Iran is no different. It is intended to create hunger and suffering, not in the regime but in the population..
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In the absence of any desire or talent for diplomacy, economic warfare, and its policy of imposed famine, has taken its place beside conventional warfare in American foreign policy.”

https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2026/02/12/when-did-starvation-become-an-acceptable-tool-of-foreign-policy/

“A group of former IDF intelligence and former NSO Group cyber ...

2026-02-08T17:11:31+01:00

“A group of former IDF intelligence and former NSO Group cyber experts has developed a variety of zero-click [no user intervention] weapons and other advanced tools for various Western intelligence agencies.
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The US first entered into a contract with Paragon, now US owned, in late 2024 under the Biden administration.
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NSO, which is now owned by US investors, appointed former US ambassador to Israel and Trump confidante, David Friedman, to chair the firm.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-885789

“In February of last year, the Trump administration declared ...

2026-02-08T14:36:52+01:00

“In February of last year, the Trump administration declared six Mexican cartels to be foreign terrorist organizations, yet these same organizations are acquiring ammunition made at the plant owned by the US Army.
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In 2022, a former US Marine pled guilty to running a gun trafficking ring that sold guns and ammunition to the Jalisco Cartel.

During the operation, US federal agents seized 10,210 .50-caliber armor-piercing incendiary rounds with Lake City markings.”

https://www.icij.org/news/2026/02/mexican-cartels-overpower-police-with-ammunition-made-for-the-us-military/

“Christopher DiIorio, a whistleblower whose emails are also ...

2026-02-07T23:57:24+01:00

“Christopher DiIorio, a whistleblower whose emails are also included in the Epstein files, alleges 'massive fraud' by Cerberus and Feinberg enabled by the SEC, through which companies operated shell companies to funnel and obscure the transfer of money. 'Money laundering clean up GUARANTEED,' one email by DiIorio reads. The recipients of DiIorio’s emails are fully redacted, as are entire blocks of text within the emails.”

https://www.pogo.org/investigates/epstein-files-show-financial-ties-to-dod-deputy-secretary-feinberg

As you say, it is inevitable. Both teams have already been well ...

2026-01-29T21:22:13+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…kttj
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As you say, it is inevitable. Both teams have already been well trained to believe that there are fellow Americans who must be tracked and punished by the State for thinking differently. Both teams cheer on the erosion of our liberties in turn to fight whatever new bogeyman state actors cook up.

the expansion was tied to January 6th. It will be weaponized ...

2026-01-29T17:35:23+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…p8ds
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the expansion was tied to January 6th. It will be weaponized against Americans on both sides.

“'We have a nice little database and now you’re ...

2026-01-29T15:00:11+01:00

“'We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist,' a masked federal agent taunted a protester filming him in Maine last week.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin’s response was firm: 'There is NO database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS.'

There’s just one problem: She’s lying.”

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secret-watchlists-of-americans

“Donald Trump has created an organ that resembles a private ...

2026-01-27T15:07:10+01:00

“Donald Trump has created an organ that resembles a private company more than an international peace‑building body. Its membership roster reads like a who’s who of pro‑Israel hawks, real‑estate speculators and corporate financiers.
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It is a dystopian vision for Gaza without Gazans – a world in which sovereignty is commodified, resistance is criminalized, and war profiteers masquerade as peace‑makers.”

https://original.antiwar.com/Alan_Mosley/2026/01/25/chairman-trump-and-a-dystopian-vision-for-gaza-without-gazans/

“During his first administration President Obama deported more ...

2026-01-27T14:48:22+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…69ev
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“During his first administration President Obama deported more people per day than Trump. But he did so without generating a huge public backlash.

Are Trump’s policies really more controversial than those of other presidents or is the amateurish implementation of policies by his administration the real problem?

Whatever it is – he will need to change it. Otherwise he will lose much of his power at the end of this year.”

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/01/why-is-trump-causing-his-own-downfall.html

“Trump’s immigration act closes with two dead Americans and ...

2026-01-26T07:53:32+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…5n7m
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“Trump’s immigration act closes with two dead Americans and zero progress on credibly pushing back against mass migration. In sum, Trump’s bombastic rhetoric and enforcement pageantry earn social media applause, inflame the Left, fracture the nation, and preserve unchecked legal and illegal mass migration—precisely as the Great Replacement’s architects intended.”

https://www.josealnino.org/p/ice-minnesota-raid-is-pure-theater

“This isn't paranoia. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

2026-01-23T14:50:13+01:00

“This isn't paranoia. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it himself, that social media is 'the most important weapon … to secure our base in the U.S.' and TikTok was 'the most important purchase going on right now,' with its control 'consequential.'

No doubt the Ellisons and Hillary Clinton feel the same way today.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tiktok-sale-israel/

“It comes as Israel reportedly moves to renew and expand its ...

2026-01-23T14:44:47+01:00

“It comes as Israel reportedly moves to renew and expand its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States, extending it for up to 20 years rather than the traditional ten and likely securing at least $4 billion annually from U.S. taxpayers.”

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/israel-boosts-funding-to-propagandize-americans/

“Israeli military-grade bullets were found in the bodies of ...

2026-01-22T19:17:35+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…f2xh
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“Israeli military-grade bullets were found in the bodies of children killed during protests in Iran, as revealed during forensic examinations, a source within Iranian security structures told TASS.”

https://tass.com/world/2074485

“The World Economic Forum wasn’t simply the brainchild of ...

2026-01-21T14:47:02+01:00

“The World Economic Forum wasn’t simply the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, but was actually born out of a CIA-funded Harvard program headed by Henry Kissinger and pushed to fruition by John Kenneth Galbraith and the 'real' Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn. This is the amazing story behind the real men who recruited Klaus Schwab, who helped him create the World Economic Forum, and who taught him to stop worrying and love the bomb.”

https://newspaste.com/2022/03/14/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-love-the-bomb/

Israeli-American Council to Haim Saban: “How do you buy and ...

2026-01-18T18:57:14+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…v2xr
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Israeli-American Council to Haim Saban: “How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the US?”

Saban: “I wanna be cautious…We just play within the system…Those who give more have more access, and those who give less have less access—it's simple math.”

Israeli-American Council to Miriam Adelson: “How do you buy and ...

2026-01-18T18:57:02+01:00

Israeli-American Council to Miriam Adelson: “How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the US?”

Adelson: “Can you allow me not to answer? ... I want to be truthful and there are so many things I don't want to talk about.”

Israeli media is reporting that 'foreign actors are arming ...

2026-01-14T18:44:09+01:00

Israeli media is reporting that 'foreign actors are arming protesters' which is the reason for 'hundreds' of Iranian security forces being killed.

https://x.com/i/status/2011144117913608482

Putin on US continuity of agenda: “The United States' plans ...

2026-01-10T18:18:27+01:00

Putin on US continuity of agenda:

“The United States' plans to annex Greenland may only surprise at first glance and lead to the mistaken belief that these are merely extravagant remarks by President Trump. In fact, the U.S. had such plans as early as the 1860s.....These plans have deep historical roots, and the U.S. will continue to systematically advance its geopolitical, military-political, and economic interests in the Arctic.”

“It is the unfortunate affectation of a restless and decadent ...

2026-01-09T19:48:44+01:00

“It is the unfortunate affectation of a restless and decadent society that is in constant conflict overseas, but whose own disaffected citizens feel little obligation to defend their country or to view their wars as anything other than spectator sports.

The public worship of today’s military is, in many ways, a political and emotional tithe that obscures the reality that the American public has outsourced its wars to a small and self-contained subset of society..”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/rand-paul-trump-venezuela/

“There is a theory that the US has made a silent agreement with ...

2026-01-09T17:43:04+01:00

“There is a theory that the US has made a silent agreement with Russia and China to divide the world into spheres of influence. America gets the Western Hemisphere, Russia gets Europe, China gets Asia..

The confusion comes from mistaking prioritization for abandonment..

The Western Hemisphere focus is not America retreating to its corner... It is securing the base of operations. The Monroe Doctrine reassertion enables the Asia strategy. It does not replace it.”

https://medium.com/@mcnai002/the-bridge-at-the-center-of-the-pentagon-d104b4cf3248

“Despite deploying innumerable staff from other agencies to ...

2026-01-09T16:48:53+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…jggz
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“Despite deploying innumerable staff from other agencies to assist in enforcement activities and ordering active-duty military to facilitate removals at the border, the Department of Homeland Security’s claims of record arrests and deportations never materialized.
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The need for public persistence to separate the Trump administration’s wild claims from reality and to fully document Trump’s actual enforcement efforts remains of continuing importance.”

http://archive.today/CPOJF

“The Trump administration continues to conceal its actual ...

2026-01-09T16:48:52+01:00

“The Trump administration continues to conceal its actual record of enforcement actions. While initially daily numbers of ICE arrests were posted on social media, this practice stopped when arrest numbers began to fall. As to Trump’s promised campaign of the mass removal of immigrants, to date no daily figures appear to have ever been released of the actual number of removals carried out by this administration.”

https://archive.ph/yyoMZ

Chavez: “I take this opportunity to once again condemn, from ...

2026-01-06T03:39:37+01:00

In reply to nevent1q…9v56
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Chavez:

“I take this opportunity to once again condemn, from the depth of my soul, the state of Israel. Damn you Israel, terrorists and murderers! Israel funds the opposition in Venezuela. Mossad terrorists are trying to kill me.”

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2026-01-05T19:35:13+01:00

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“According to the data in the classified database, the Israeli ...

2026-01-05T16:12:24+01:00

“According to the data in the classified database, the Israeli army believed it had killed around 8,900 operatives since October 7...

The overall death tolls published daily by the Gaza Health Ministry (which are considered reliable even by the Israeli military) do not distinguish between civilians and militants.

Assuming that all of the certain and probable militant deaths were counted in the death toll, that would mean over 83 percent of Gaza’s dead were civilians.”

https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-percent-civilians-militants/

Venezuela Vice president Delcy Rodríguez: "An attack of this ...

2026-01-05T03:53:25+01:00

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Venezuela Vice president Delcy Rodríguez:

"An attack of this nature undoubtedly has a Zionist tinge... the defense decree is now activated, all of Venezuela is mobilized. There is only one President in this country, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros."

Maduro: “Those who govern [the state of Israel] today are not ...

2026-01-05T00:15:27+01:00

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Maduro:

“Those who govern [the state of Israel] today are not from the twelve tribes. Netanyahu is not an authentic Jew. He is a scoundrel who comes from Poland.

The conflict that exists since the foundation of the State of Israel is a geopolitical conflict. Israel was created to conquer the entire Middle East and Central Asia... It is the Zionist project that they say goes from the river to the sea and beyond.”

Maduro: “Attention men and women of the United States, Europe ...

2026-01-05T00:04:03+01:00

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Maduro:

“Attention men and women of the United States, Europe and the world.
[Zionists] have sown an ideology more dangerous than Nazism. First [they want to wipe out] the Palestinian people. Next it will be against all Arab and Muslim people. Then they'll come for the Christians, Catholics.”

“The case has significant geopolitical implications and has ...

2026-01-04T22:36:04+01:00

“The case has significant geopolitical implications and has drawn close attention in Israel and Jewish communities worldwide, given Maduro’s long alliance with Iran and repeated attacks on Israel and Zionism by his government.

Hellerstein’s Orthodox Jewish background has been widely noted in Jewish and legal circles over the years. He is known for observing Jewish law while maintaining a reputation for strict judicial independence.”

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1rqksvvzx

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem: “Venezuelan migrants can apply to become ...

2026-01-04T21:08:49+01:00

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem:

“Venezuelan migrants can apply to become refugees in the United States.”

not just Neocons. This has been standard international relations ...

2026-01-04T19:59:20+01:00

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not just Neocons. This has been standard international relations theory taught to every prominent beaurocrat running the American government for over 100 years. For the Liberal Order to truly control the world, they must first control Russia & China

https://americangeopoliticalsociety.com/heartland

https://americangeopoliticalsociety.com/rimland

Not according to our own military industrial complex. It's ...

2026-01-04T19:06:02+01:00

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Not according to our own military industrial complex. It's always been about internationalism.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE209.html

https://peacediplomacy.org/2022/06/27/woke-imperium-the-coming-confluence-between-social-justice-and-neoconservatism/

Lotta people don't know their own histories. The last time ...

2026-01-04T18:53:55+01:00

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Lotta people don't know their own histories. The last time one of these guys was in power, they were so corrupt and politically and culturally repressive that it fueled a revolution in the country. The first Shah was so bad the Brits teamed up with the Russians to take him out.

But history has a way of repeating, again and again, so who knows. Maybe Shah ver3.0 will be different.

Zettour 🇮🇳 (npub1nqp…78tm)

And yet, that's exactly what they did. They didn't even ...

2026-01-04T18:35:41+01:00

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And yet, that's exactly what they did. They didn't even change the language from the Bush administration. They know if people knew the truth they would reject it wholecloth, so they lie to us. You are partly right. This is attempt at regime change is part of the century long war the liberal order has waged on the world. Russia and especially China need to fall for global liberalism.

Mearshimer points this out, that "Liberalism cannot work as advertised unless there is a world state."

are enemies truly enemies when we need to continually fabricate ...

2026-01-04T18:15:33+01:00

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are enemies truly enemies when we need to continually fabricate evidence to prove that they are enemies?

“Once they were neoconservatives. Over the past few years they ...

2026-01-04T18:08:22+01:00

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“Once they were neoconservatives. Over the past few years they have gradually shifted their positions. Sounding less like Dick Cheney or John Bolton.....Instead, they speak the language of the 'America First' movement...

The result is that Mr. Trump may end up with a foreign policy team.....with roots in familiar Republican approaches.
[...]
'They are still internationalists,' said Richard Haass, a national security official who worked for President George H.W. Bush...”

http://archive.today/FpdRm

George W. Bush 🤝 Donald Trump History repeats... Again and ...

2026-01-04T17:54:03+01:00

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George W. Bush 🤝 Donald Trump

History repeats...

Again and again and again

Yeah, I remember a lot of people used to publish their work on ...

2026-01-04T16:22:24+01:00

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Yeah, I remember a lot of people used to publish their work on Russian controlled media because they were free to say things there that you couldn't say on U.S. controlled media. Then the democrats brought all that to an end. First with Russiagate, then with the media crackdowns at the beginning of the Ukraine war.

≠ hippies->chipper ≠ (npub1vlu…xzzu) therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

If you really want to know, I'm partial to people like Thomas ...

2026-01-04T15:25:51+01:00

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If you really want to know, I'm partial to people like Thomas Massie & Ron Paul.

≠ hippies->chipper ≠ (npub1vlu…xzzu) therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

We were until 2019 @npub1kq8…n985 @npub1zwf…efrl ...

2026-01-04T15:20:03+01:00

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We were until 2019

charles lindbergh (npub1kq8…n985) therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

Yeah, that guy who comes from two generations of puppet leaders ...

2026-01-04T15:16:46+01:00

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Yeah, that guy who comes from two generations of puppet leaders who were installed to manage Iran for the City of London and Wall Street interests but were both wildly unpopular & had to torture and kill a ton of their own people to stay in power. The first Shah was so bad, the British & Russians removed him together & the second shah who was installed by CIA/MI6 was so unpopular that he sparked the Islamic revolution.

https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history_facpubs

Mr Funk 🇦🇺 (npub1xgj…fk2u)

The point, i guess, is that China & Russia were buying ...

2026-01-04T14:46:43+01:00

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The point, i guess, is that China & Russia were buying Venezuelan oil from Venezuelans. Venezuela was selling us oil too until our sanctions made that all but impossible. Maduro had signaled many times that he was still willing to sell us oil, but we didn’t want to buy oil from Venezuelans. We want control of their resources.

therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

True & it seems Trump is willing to keep selling Venezuelan ...

2026-01-04T06:26:18+01:00

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True & it seems Trump is willing to keep selling Venezuelan oil to China –after our oil companies get their cut that is.

therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

VP of Venezuela is president now @npub1zwf…efrl ...

2026-01-04T04:38:24+01:00

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VP of Venezuela is president now

therealCrusader :verified: (npub1zwf…efrl)

“For the moment, the rules-based order (meaning whatever rules ...

2026-01-04T04:33:04+01:00

“For the moment, the rules-based order (meaning whatever rules Washington wants to impose) persists in the Western Hemisphere. As President Donald Trump noted, 'We can do it again. Nobody can stop us. There’s nobody with the capability that we have.'

Put differently, 'Team America' is back!

The question is what happens next?”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/restraint-foreign-policy/

They did, until they didn't: “What has followed has been a ...

2026-01-04T04:19:53+01:00

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They did, until they didn't:

“What has followed has been a bitter disappointment. Then we had only one dictator. Now we have hundreds. Under Saddam there was security. There was corruption, but nothing like this. Our lives were protected. The Americans began it. And then with the politicians they destroyed the country. Nothing has changed. And things seem to get worse all the time. There's no future.”

charles lindbergh (npub1kq8…n985)

their king? You mean that Pahlavi guy who's father was a ...

2026-01-04T04:00:46+01:00

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their king? You mean that Pahlavi guy who's father was a British/American puppet & who's grandfather was a British puppet?

"Pahlavi is our king!" LOOOL Poor people are so psyopped ...

2026-01-04T03:29:36+01:00

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"Pahlavi is our king!"

LOOOL

Poor people are so psyopped that they're begging for the son of a former British/American puppet & grandson of a former British puppet to rule over them."

Synclair (npub1rfr…6zv2)

Pretty much. Trump knew in his first term that doubling down on ...

2026-01-03T22:04:19+01:00

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Pretty much. Trump knew in his first term that doubling down on crippling sanctions in Venezuela was going to drive mass migration towards the US & did it anyways. It's all part of of the game.

https://archive.ph/HobEp

≠ hippies->chipper ≠ (npub1vlu…xzzu) Obi-Two al-Menashani 🦡 (npub12cs…p3fq)

“Under what pretext did they bomb Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, and ...

2026-01-03T15:22:41+01:00

“Under what pretext did they bomb Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, and Libya? Were there Security Council sanctions? No. They simply decided to do it and did it. That's all there is to international law: they do whatever they want.”

–President Putin

“Following the attack, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy ...

2026-01-03T15:11:49+01:00

“Following the attack, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said 'The first thing President Maduro told the people of Venezuela was ‘people to the streets,’ activated as militia, activating all the Nation’s comprehensive defense plans. The people of Venezuela, in perfect national unity, must mobilize to defend their natural resources and what is most sacred: their right to independence and to the future'.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/03/us-bombs-venezuela-claims-to-capture-president-maduro/

“Advocates of 'peace through strength' have used it to ...

2025-12-31T00:59:32+01:00

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“Advocates of 'peace through strength' have used it to advocate for seemingly every foreign policy position, from containment to rollback, prosecuting wars, and pursuing diplomacy. Despite its malleability, it has, however, consistently served as a rhetorical bait and switch, entrenching the very liberal world order that conservative hawks claim to oppose.
[...]
The popular phrase enables professed anti-war conservatives to conserve liberal internationalism (globalism).”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/when-peace-through-strength-means-war-peace

“US forces have now launched strikes in Venezuela, Nigeria, ...

2025-12-31T00:59:31+01:00

“US forces have now launched strikes in
Venezuela, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, the Caribbean, and Eastern Pacific this year.

That's part of the President's 'peace through strength' initiative”

“Just to refresh everyone’s memory, the Navy already ...

2025-12-28T22:28:55+01:00

“Just to refresh everyone’s memory, the Navy already attempted to build a modern version of the battleship in the early 2000’s. ... Each of those ships still don’t have a clear mission and now exist as $8 billion anchors around the Navy’s neck.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-battleship/

US National Security Strategy 2025: The Pursuit of Globalism ...

2025-12-23T16:18:50+01:00

US National Security Strategy 2025: The Pursuit of Globalism Repackaged

https://youtu.be/TWxzNgUwjxg

“...while it may be tempting for some to cherrypick quotes from the document to indulge in wishful thinking regarding a positive shift in US foreign policy, the paper outlines what has been referred to for decades as the Wolfowitz Doctrine - bolstered by an unprecedented military build-up, the creation of a 'burden sharing network,' and simply resold as 'MAGA'.”

“What is largely unacknowledged—both in government ...

2025-12-06T06:27:05+01:00

“What is largely unacknowledged—both in government assessments and across most media coverage—is that India has become a significant, and perhaps primary, source of fentanyl and fentanyl precursor chemicals entering the United States.
[...]
This is especially striking given the political and strategic importance Washington places on New Delhi, which Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, described as 'the geopolitical center of gravity in the 21st century'.”

https://www.uncaptured.media/p/the-fentanyl-killing-america-is-from

we got another "anonymous" Falun Gong shill account here? ...

2025-12-03T15:11:50+01:00

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we got another "anonymous" Falun Gong shill account here?

“They choose to do this in front of the world. This is ...

2025-11-05T03:23:54+01:00

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“They choose to do this in front of the world. This is intentional. They want the world to hate them.
[..]
In the extreme form of Jewish escetology, they believe that at the end of the world Israel will fight the entire world and God will help Israel triumph. So what's really happening is that there are extremists within the Israeli government who want to accelerate the end of the world.
[..]
They want to unite themselves by dividing the world —by ending the world.”

https://youtu.be/sS9xidsyxXY

“When Trump selected Rubio to serve in a top position, he was ...

2025-10-29T19:15:48+01:00

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“When Trump selected Rubio to serve in a top position, he was confirming that this is the kind of foreign policy he wanted. When he made Rubio his 'temporary' National Security Advisor earlier this year, he was putting an interventionist zealot in charge of his foreign policy. The U.S. is pursuing regime change in Venezuela because Trump has been in favor of doing this for years, and he surrounded himself with hawks who want the same thing.”

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/10/29/the-regime-changers-work-for-the-president/

1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan ...

2025-10-27T19:13:10+01:00

1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan military officer, General Ramón Guillén Davila, to help them ship 22 tons of cocaine into American cities.

Davila's Cartel of the Suns disappeared once it lost its utility to the CIA, and was resurrected by the Trump administration as justification for targeting Venezuela.

“After Trump’s presidential victory last year.....the ...

2025-10-26T15:05:21+01:00

“After Trump’s presidential victory last year.....the Communist Party’s leading ideologue, Wang Huning urgently designed a new playbook for Trump 2.0, one that would break the constant reactive posture that had defined Beijing’s past approach.

The new approach is rooted in a core belief in Beijing: that Trump is fundamentally transactional, not ideological.....Beijing would cater to Trump’s desire for deals while simultaneously applying painful economic pressure.”

http://archive.today/fnkfN

“[Rubio] is now seen as an enlightened adherent of the New ...

2025-10-23T19:53:41+02:00

“[Rubio] is now seen as an enlightened adherent of the New Right, which espouses a more nationalist approach that in part seeks to revitalize the Monroe Doctrine for the 21st century.

His views on regime change, however, haven’t changed.

Rubio was a hawk, and still is a hawk. It’s just that the kinds of justifications that he’ll use to get the policy outcomes he wants have evolved in light of the necessities of what’s happened to the Republican Party with Trump...”

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-little-marco-became-trumps-biggest-asset-in-latin-america/

“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal ...

2025-10-15T20:31:58+02:00

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“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela and conduct a range of operations in the Caribbean.

The agency would be able to take covert action against Mr. Maduro or his government either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation. It is not known whether the C.I.A. is planning any operations in Venezuela or if the authorities are meant as a contingency.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20251015180508/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-cia-action-venezuela.html

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado proposes regime ...

2025-10-15T04:17:22+02:00

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado proposes regime change in Venezuela to Donald Trump:

"Forget Saudi Arabia, I mean we have more oil than them, I mean endless possibilities. We will privatize our entire industry for you. American companies will profit greatly!"

“Continuity of Agenda: From Bush to Trump. One Regime Change ...

2025-10-13T19:27:34+02:00

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“Continuity of Agenda: From Bush to Trump. One Regime Change Agenda Spanning 25 Years + Trump's Role in Creating Legitimacy for both the 'Prize' and the Venezuelan Opposition...

▪️Nobel 'Peace' Prize-winner Maria Corina Machado, a US-backed opposition leader and agitator, dedicated her prize to US President Donald Trump who is book-ending a 25 year campaign to overthrow the Venezuelan government beginning under the Bush administration and continued under Obama/Biden..”

https://x.com/BrianJBerletic/status/1976857494745206995?t=zvdsQqyu_KEd_8k-AxxurQ&s=19

Big surprise! The Nobel Peace Prize went to another globalist ...

2025-10-13T16:56:33+02:00

Big surprise! The Nobel Peace Prize went to another globalist stooge!

https://www.eurasiareview.com/11102025-the-nobels-moral-collapse-when-peace-honors-the-politics-of-war-oped/

https://www.mizanonline.ir/en/news/2760/israeli-media-reveals-nobel-laureate%E2%80%99s-ties-to-likud-party

“Gershon Baskin, the architect of the negotiations that freed ...

2025-10-13T05:08:53+02:00

“Gershon Baskin, the architect of the negotiations that freed the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, revealed on Thursday that Hamas had agreed the exact same terms of the deal in September 2024, in the last months of the Biden administration, but that Biden officials had disregarded it while Binyamin Netanyahu had refused point blank.”

http://archive.today/qd4ci

“George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank, ...

2025-10-09T20:58:42+02:00

“George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank, said the US would be close to a recession this year if Big Tech were not spending so heavily on building new AI data centers.

The 'AI machines' are literally saving the US economy right now, Saravelos said....'The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely'.”

https://www.techspot.com/news/109626-ai-bubble-only-thing-keeping-us-economy-together.html

I tend to agree, but I can understand why they agreed to it. ...

2025-10-09T17:18:34+02:00

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I tend to agree, but I can understand why they agreed to it.

Israel is desperately losing the public relations war, which Trump has openly acknowledged:

https://youtu.be/tyTMjhO4zSo

So Israel has to make a show of wanting peace so blame for the continuing carnage can be shifted to Hamas. Rejecting the one sided "peace talks" outright would have given Israel this much needed PR advantage.

“Heavy air strikes and artillery shelling were reported in Gaza ...

2025-10-09T15:51:58+02:00

“Heavy air strikes and artillery shelling were reported in Gaza City and Khan Younis overnight, according to local media.

Israeli quadcopters were also reported to have dropped bombs on civilians in Gaza City.

The renewed strikes came after US, Qatari, and Egyptian mediators announced early Thursday that a deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas to end the war.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced