The Fat is in the Fire
Friday, June 13, 2025 5:24 PM
Friends + Interlocutors,
Steve Bannon calls this “The Age of Trump” and expects The Don to run for a 3rd term. Bannon doesn’t explain how this is possible, but he (Bannon) is working on it. And Trump keeps dropping hints. I think a lot depends on the current Trump-enabled Israeli attack on Iran. Could it blow up in Trump’s face?
First of all, we must be careful what we say and how we say it. Please refer to Caitlin’s Johnstone’s helpful Refresher On The Rules For Discussing Israeli Wars. This mostly applies to bribed elected officials in Washington and to its foreign policy Blob, but certainly not to me and probably not to you.
Secondly, we must realize that Donald Trump, our self-proclaimed Peace President, is up to his armpits in collusion with Israel's unprovoked surprise attack on Iran. The Wall Street Journal made that clear first thing this morning: In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack.
Anyone who saw the video of Trump’s New York real estate envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday should have been able to see the writing on the wall. This American über-Zionist was happy to deliver Trump’s and Netanyahu's take-it-or-leave-it Diktats to the Iranians.
From Witkoff’s speech it is obvious that “negotiations” were a sham. Trump had given Netanyahu the green light to attack Iran. Please understand that Iran has done absolutely nothing wrong and there was no legitimate reason for Israel to attack it. This is a wanton, brazen attack without cause.
With Israel having 300 plus atomic bombs, constructed from uranium stolen from the U.S., I would think Iran might be interested in acquiring a few nukes of its own to counter-balance. But no, you see there is a religious Fatwa against building The Bomb issued by Iran's two Supreme Leaders. The U.S. intelligence community knows that. The USG knows that Iran is not working to build an atomic bomb.
What’s more, please refer to Mordechai Vanunu’s 2005 interview Iran poses no Threat. That was true in 2005 and it is true today...
I had been working for 19 years in the Dimona weapons research centre in the province of Beer Sheva. Just before I quit that job, in 1986, I took photos of the interior of the factory to show the world that Israel was hiding a nuclear secret…
Israeli authorities were lying. They constantly said that Israel’s political leaders had no intentions of acquiring nuclear weapons. However, they were producing amounts of radioactive substances that could only serve that goal: manufacturing nuclear weapons. They were significant amounts. I calculated that at that time, in 1986, they already had 200 atomic bombs…
So I decided to reveal what they were secretly doing. I also wanted to prevent the Israelis from using atomic bombs and to avoid a nuclear war in the Middle East. I wanted to contribute to peace in the region. Israel, having such extremely powerful weapons, could work for peace. It had no reason to fear a Palestinian or even an Arab threat as it had the necessary weapons to survive.
All countries should be open to international inspections and to tell the truth about what they are secretly doing in their nuclear facilities. Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Almost 180 countries have done it, including all Arab countries. Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan… all Israeli neighbors have opened their borders to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Israel is the worst example. It is the only country that has refused to sign the treaty…
Under the control of the IAEA, Iran does not pose any threat. Western experts perfectly know the nature of the Iranian nuclear program, contrary to Israel, which does not let anyone enter its nuclear facilities. That is why Iran decided to take a step forward and to tell the world: “You can not demand more transparency from us while closing your eyes to what is happening in Israel!”
The Arabs have known for 40 years that Israel has atomic bombs and nobody does anything about it. As long as the world continues to ignore Israel’s atomic weapons, they will not have the moral authority to say anything about Iran. If the world is really concerned, if they want to put an end to nuclear proliferation, then they have to start from the beginning, that is, Israel!
Iran has a civilian nuclear program like many, many other states. Ergo, this nuclear bomb scare is simply a fantastic fraud and an excuse by Israel, by its Fifth Column propagandists in the USA (like Witkoff), and by the Washington Blob to bomb Iran to bits like was done to Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Uncle Sam has been hijacked by the Israel Lobby to be of assistance. The Don is the latest and most proactive stooge to act on behalf of Israel's long-range project.
Judge Napolitano’s interview with Professor Mearsheimer today contains a number of good insights on the subject. Mearsheimer concludes that President Trump is now a warmonger, based on his support for the attack on Iran. Here is a sample of Trump’s rhetoric as of this morning. To me, it is unhinged and bloodthirsty. Read it.
At first it sounds like he wants to take credit for the successful attack. No doubt he wants the credit. “I told them [Iran] that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment in the world, BY FAR, and that Israel has lots of it, with much more to come….”
However, he then sounds a bit desperate, insisting that Iran make a deal. “….but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left…JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God bless you all!”
With such threats and boasts, no wonder Professor Mearsheimer now regards Trump as a warmonger. Why would Trump be desperate, you ask? Because he knows the longer the Israeli attack goes on—for which he has given the green light and is entirely responsible—the more likely it is that the U.S. military will become involved. Suppose Israel gets in trouble and asks for help. Another Washington war for Israel like Iraq and Syria. Some of his more thoughtful supporters are already jumping ship.
Finally, let me remind everyone once again about Israel’s German U-boats, armed with nuclear cruise missiles. No one brings up that subject. I’m certain that these U-boats have been dispatched to the Persian Gulf or the Indian Ocean. Israel is now ruled by outright crazies, with Bibi Netanyahu at the top of the list, but my no means the craziest.
If Iran’s inevitable counter-attacks start doing real damage, I see every likelihood that the U-boats would launch a nuclear strike. And how ironic that would be. Iran is hit with a nuclear bomb, which weapon Israel—Washington’s shining knight and perpetual victim—was supposedly trying to keep Iran from obtaining.
Patrick
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