By Walt Zlotow
Iran has destroyed 10 advanced US radar systems that are crucial for identifying and destroying incoming Iranian missiles and drones. Three major bases lost their radar to Iranian missiles as well as radar protecting the US embassy in Baghdad. So desperate is the US for critical radar, they’ve scooped up high tech radars from South Korea to fill the breach. South Korea is not happy. Without sufficient radar, US bases, Gulf States oil facilities, US ships, and especially Israel become blind to thousands of Iranian missiles and drones.
US bases have been hit at least 25 times, but US censorship of damage hides this this unfolding disaster from the US public.
Knowledgeable observers believe the US will run out of missiles and drone interceptors before Iran runs out of offensive weaponry. They also believe the US likely has less than month of weaponry to continue round the clock bombing. US bases, Gulf States oil facilities and Israeli military and civilian infrastructure all geographically compact making them easily accessible to attack. Iran smartly spread their tens of thousands of missiles and drones thruout Iran’s 676,000 square miles, forcing Trump and Netanyahu to play ‘Whack a Mole.’
Trump’s colossal failure to collapse the Iranian regime shouldn’t surprise since Trump’s single victory plan was for the Iranian people to overthrow their Islamic regime within a few days after Trump assassinated supreme leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That was stupid on steroids. Iran’s 90 million beleaguered souls rallied round their government determined to fight to the death rather than surrender to monstrous attackers US and Israel.
Bombing alone almost never wins a war, something true thruout the century long history of aerial bombing. Now Trump cannot tolerate a long war of attrition because he’s put the world into a possible economic death spiral by near totally disrupting flow of precious Middle East oil. That’s why he’s secretly seeking an off ramp from military, economic and political catastrophe. Having insulted and disparaged nearly every country on earth, he finds himself without an ally except his partner in criminal war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Of course, Trump could miraculously pull out a victory from the jaws of defeat that are closing in on him. But with Iranian missiles and drones raining down on mostly defenseless US bases and oil infrastructure in the Gulf States, and giving Israel a taste of the massive destruction they visited on Gaza…the smart money is on Iran.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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All true.
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of venom left in the rabid reptile.
Donald Monstaturd is sick, mad, unrestrained by civilised or educated attitudes, and will egotistically follow his ignorant selfish instincts, dragging us all in and under. What a galactic turd, elected by similar unthinking garbageskulled voters, who have established filthy savagery, vainglorious fools. This shit has yet to be wiped. Patriots? Somehow, Pentagon, CIA, FBI must end this.
I seems that Trump’s vainglory allows him to do stupid even when a few knowledgeable people get brave enough to suggest an action might not be wise. Even though there are some in Israel who oppose what is being done in their name by the butcher Netanyahu and his Israeli Death Forces, I hope Iran can wreak the sort of havoc on Israel that it has done in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran itself and myriad other places. This is not anti-semitism it is a desire for Karma.
Maybe these articles can clarify….
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/australias-six-pathways-to-the-war-with-iran-part-1/
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/the-dangerous-stories-driving-war-in-iran/?
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03/five-books-to-help-you-understand-iran-recommended-by-experts/?
RC. That’s my thought as well. I can’t see any other way of stopping this bloodthirsty Israeli machine bar smashing them to smithereens. But we’re not hearing that’s happening…but would we be told if it was?
…as ye do sew, so shall ye reap…
even my elderly grandmother knew this!
The tragedy is that for many in Tehran who favoured a regime change, they are now being bombed by Israel and having their infrastructure and homes destroyed.
A palace coup is overdue. Is there a food-taster who gets to sip the Pepsi and nibble the burgers before they get to the President’s table? Perhaps an old-fashioned poisoning, lace the fries with salts of cyanide, dose the sodas with VX.
Or for those with a taste for blood & theatrics, a Caesarian redux, daggers plunged to their hilts into the monster’s neck, captured on iPhone as all such events must surely be. Far beyond time for patriotic Americans to step up and administer what is long overdue, to rid their country of this pestilent abomination.
Nah, nah, nah.
No way.
Youse ‘ave got it all wrong!
I’ve been tellin’ yerz fer years now — yer can get ridder Trump, and the GOP, and the Dems, and the Ziocrazies, yer can clean the whole stinkin’ lot out, and yer’ll still be left with their rotten financial system.
When are yer gunna focus on the real problem???
Take away their power, fer cry’ng out loud!
He lost when he appointed the crazy Hegseth.
And is it just me or what is the weirdness with Trump’s eyes?
They seem far darker than at any other time he has been in the public eye.
Has he finally agreed to contacts?
The low-hanging fruit gets picked first, Steve. And yeh, I don’t disagree, but here’s the thing. How, exactly, will the changes needed be exacted?
Nina Simone, the great Nina Simone, sang this song, It’s Cold Out Here, recorded in 1985… 41 years ago… where she, the most political of artists and acutely attuned to the dysfunction that is America, called for necessary change. Has it happened? Let the readers answer for themselves, but from this scribe’s perspective, things have only worsened, deeply, dramatically, and perhaps irredeemably.
Kanga, it goes back to the saying from the 60s or 70s — Think globally, act locally.
There’s plenty we can do as individuals to distance ourselves from the system, and thereby weaken it.
Grow your own food, install your own power supply, become part of a community renewable energy project.
When we depend on the system to survive, the system controls us.
Strive for independence.
Then there’s things like support for organisations such as GetUp.
They have a project on the go as we speak that is a challenge to the financial system, even though they do not describe it that way.
Or we could force the Feds to make the Reserve Bank work to its charter, instead of for the 10%.
That’s just a few off the top of my head.
Kanga, speaking of songs from way back, the Leonard Cohen classic Everybody Knows is having a comeback.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
A great song, and of course Cohen could not know of the development of missile defence, so the song might not be as prophetic as was once assumed.
Who really runs the USA?
The military-industrial complex, tech bros, Big oil and gas, and big Pharma. Three out of four of those are not just laughing all the way to the bank, they have entrenched their reach for decades to come. Their markets are being wildly expanded. The military-industrial complex profits from weapons being used, the only assets of these three being hit are the data centres in the middle East.
Does AIPAC run the government, only to the extent that they make sure congress reps keep giving cover for Israel’s actions, don’t do anything like turnaround and state the obvious, and keep the funding and weaponry flowing to Israel. That last point is the most pertinent. It is Israel that depends on the USA, not the other way around. It gets its planes, bombs and much of its intelligence from the USA.
It makes more sense now that Israel is getting pounded too, that Israel is a proxy for the USA to control the Middle East oil and gas reserves than the notion that Israel is the tail wagging the US dog.
Which nations/blocs are the biggest threat to US world hegemony? China, the EU, BRICS and Russia. What happened over the past half decade and just recently? The EU has become energy dependent on the USA because of the Nord gas line being blown up, and now its Middle Eastern supply robbed. The USA stole China’s supply from Venezuela, and now hit, through this war it started, 30% of China’s LNG supply. The USA is clearly crippling China’s supply of LNG and oil, that intention was clear after Venezuela.
The USA has been using Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia, that is abundantly clear. Ukraine has been supplied with the weaponry, mainly by the USA, to hit Russian oil and gas facilities, do you see anyone attacking US facilities? Who blew up the Nord gas pipeline – Russia’s supply line to the EU? who lost out, Russia and the EU, who profited? the USA.
Have you seen the Democrats attack the Trump regime for practically taking control of the world’s LNG supplies? (US companies have huge stakes in the cartel profiting from our gas.) The Democrats have had their finger in this pie, as well.
I don’t think the US is losing this war. The theory that this is exactly what those who really run the USA wanted, looks to me to be the most likely of all to be what’s really going on here. Trump was characterized as a useful idiot for those behind the scenes really pulling the strings in his first term, why should that have changed?
Unlimited Selfixated Atrocity, USA, the Trump “policy” of perverted savagery. And he had voter support, corporation support, media support, any brainless boasting bent bastard supported this outline for supremacist violence. It should be all terminated with extreme prejudice. Thommo revisits what we all know and say…
Our ABC has just put out this kind of Orwellian shit out there.
The US leader’s energy and resources are becoming even further entrenched in the Middle East with each passing day, leaving the path clear for Beijing to continue its global economic and geopolitical ambitions virtually unchallenged.
Those ambitions include unseating America’s geopolitical, economic and tech supremacy, and China is now moving in at speed.
The USA is fossil fuel energy independent.
The USA can start this war, steal control of Venezuela’s oil, but it is China that is the dastardly force taking advantage by being cooperative with others and seeking partnerships.
The rest of the article is just as bad.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-20/trump-delay-china-xi-summit-meeting-iran-distracted/106473358
Our ABC has become nothing but a propaganda outlet.
Thommo, well-spotted.
You’ll enjoy this one as well, from the BBC this time.
BBC — Iran has struck the southern Israeli city of Dimona with a missile, injuring at least 47 people. The target appears to have been a nuclear facility about 13km away.
So readers are led to believe that Iran, which destroyed all US radar installations in West Asia with pin-point accuracy, suddenly misses a target by 13km?
And indiscriminately slaughters civilians, unlike the US and Israel.
The strike on Dimona was a warning after Iran’s infrastructure had been hit — we can take out your nuclear facility any time we wish.
@ Thommo: An interesting analysis stating the obvious. Remember the big Iraq Wheat Problem when the Australian Wheat Board was criticised for following local Middle eastern practices of ”greasing palms” to get results?
The outcome?? The 2007 Rudd LABOR government vacated the Iraq Wheat market leaving all the physical infrastructure to their successors, the complaining American wheat producers.
Never let a world emergency escape increasing American domination of world markets ….. especially when the USA (Undemocratic States of Apartheid) is the chief protagonist.
One of the puzzling elements of the American-Israeli theatre of relations is the unsatisfactory question of just ‘whodunnit’, with respect to the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Centre twin towers in New York.
It has to be stated, plainly and baldly, that all fingers of both hands point towards Israeli operatives as being key to the planning and implementation of that outrageous event.
The Commission of Enquiry into the destruction was a whitewash replete with inaccuracies, as is well-documented by any number of forensic analysts. The oft-mentioned ’cause’ of the collapse was that burning kerosene melted the steel beams has been discounted by by scientists, engineers and architects. The presence of military-grade thermite that had the capacity to shear metal beams was never investigated, yet alone publicly discussed. The video evidence of lateral ejection of materials below the collapsing crowns of the buildings, so typically an artefact of a controlled demolition, was also not ceded nor discussed.
Nor was there wide and public discussion around the fact of there having been a significant number of Israeli-owned companies subcontracted by the primary leaseholder, Larry Silverstein, to work within those buildings; companies that were helmed by former IDF and Mossad operatives.
Nor was there objective analysis of just what happened at the Pentagon, instead, the manufactured stroy stuck with the ludicrous assertion that it was hit by an airliner, despited the lack of physical evidence for that to be the case, as is also the case with Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where it was claimed a plane crashed, again, despite any evidence to suport that notion. Even first responders at that site said ‘WTF, there’s no plane debris here,’ yet the story persisted.
Then there’s the dancing Jews, across the Hudson River, celebrating. And then there’s also one of the Rockefellers slipping his tongue some ~8-9 months telling a Hollywood producer that they had something planned that was going to shake things up, change the course of history.
There’s also the unseemly haste to pack all the debris at the site and ship it off to China, despite the site being a crime scene. And there’s Silverstein’s slip of the tongue in an interview where he said, in relation to WTC7, ‘we had it pulled,’ despite it not even being affected by plane or fire or falling debris. It was simply demolished, ergo, it had also been prepared for demolition, jus as the twin towers had.
The story of the Arab pilots was the false flag. As was Osama bin Laden, who, by the way, had his family members flown out of the States courtesy of the government almost immediately after the demolition and mass murder of thousands.
The standdown of the national air defence system on that day was also without precedence in American history, as ordered by the VP, the machiavellian Dick Cheney.
Many people in America have agitated for a full & frank revisit and reappraisal, but it seems to be low on the list of priorities to the enormous frustration of those who lost loved ones, to those who know an anromous crime was committed and the perpetrators have never been brought to justice, to those who are driven to despair by the seemingly unshakebale between America and Israel, and to those who rightly suspect Israel’s devilish motives in carrying out a deepest of the deep black arts operation in order to force America’s hand into entering into wars in the Middle East. That Israel would be prepared to kill thousands of its so-called ally in order to accomplish this objective is chilling, horrifying, demonic. And yet… they appear to have gotten away with it, and in this matter, they’ve shown themselves to be much smarter than the Americans.
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