The Israeli Butler-in-Chief Donald Dumb cannot win his war against Iran. For one thing, the Iranians are a very stubborn people whose Shiite Muslim religion is grounded in victimhood ever since its leaders were killed by their Sunni Muslim enemies. Ali Ibn Abi-Talib - the fourth Caliph - was assassinated in 661 AD, while his son Hassan died in 670 AD from poisoning and his other son Hussein was killed at the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD. Shiism was born in violence and death, and has continued to hold a grudge for the past 1300 years. Muslim Shiites love the sight of their own blood, they thrive on being the eternal victims, hence their suicidal and martyrdom proclivities. Even if the regime in Tehran falls, it is hard to imagine Iran as a western puppet, like the Saudis and the other decadent Gulf penguins are.
On the other side, the American butlers of the Israeli Zionists are waging this war not out of conviction, but because the Zionist weasel Benjamin Netanyahu has bamboozled the ignorant and dumb American president into playing John Wayne in real life and idiotically fighting Iran on his behalf. We are spending more and more billions and suffering more deaths and injured soldiers just because the Zionists want to be the only nuclear policeman in the Near East. Beyond this, Donald Dumb's only fixation is to steal more oil and minerals wherever he can find them, and make more money for himself and his cronies and nepo family members. He doesn't give a hoot about Israel or about Iran: To him these are "shithole" countries he feels he, the superior dumb and ugly American, must abuse and exploit. The subprimate hominid is not about ideas or ideologies: He cares only about the big mamoo!
The more I think of nuclear power, the more convinced I become that all countries should have their cutsie little nuclear arsenal. Those with nuclear power today have not engaged in wars with one another: Nuclear power is a powerful deterrent against nuclear war. It is also a membership card to the Veto Club that has paralyzed any serious action by the United Nations.
Suppose for a moment that Iran owns one nuclear bomb: Will it really use it against some enemy (Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.)? Won't Iran be immediately nuked to smithereens and not survive to tell about its great history as a major warmonger of antiquity?
But nuclear power makes the country untouchable. That is what Kim Jong-Un of North Korea has achieved. By having a nuclear arsenal, his country is protected against any attack or aggression, and for the past 80 years has neither attacked others nor has it been attacked by others. Grandstanding and burlesque shows of macho chest-beating are not a real threat.
Israel's Zionists are not afraid of Iran's "Islamist" nuclear bomb. They say they are, but they are lying. If they were sincerely worried about an Islamist nuclear power, they should be worried about ultra-religious Muslim Pakistan. But they are not. What the Zionists are worried about is to no longer be the exclusive regional bully that steals land which it then clears by ethnically cleansing its indigenous people, guards the oil fields of the Gulf on behalf of the US, and continues to expand its colonial ambitions beyond the pathetic stretch of Mediterrnean coastline that the "Jewish homeland" in Palestine that the crooked English gave away to wealthy European bankers.
Iran's real or hypothetical acquisition of a nuclear bomb is a red herring issue. But Donald Dumb did not ask questions when he initiated this war to satisfy the whimsical directives of his master Netanyahu. As a result, the US is been slowly drawn into the deadly marshes of yet another war in the Middle East that it will inevitably lose. The body bags have started arriving and thousands of innocent Iranian civilians are being killed. All of this for the sweet eyes of the Zionists whose value is in proportion to the Western and American investments in unnaturally maintaining the "homeland" alive.
From Lebanon, through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and others.... why has this region never known peace ever since it shed its colonial masters (Ottoman Turkey, England, France....)? Why have other regions of the world, e.g. Asia, been in peace since they rid themselves of their colonial rapists? The answer is the festering "homeland" pimple in Palestine known as Israel. Had the English crooks not gifted Palestine (which was not theirs to begin with) to the Zionist bankers with colonial aspirations in 1917, western imperialists would probably have invented another pretext to keep a foothold and protect their access to the region's oil reserves.
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Family of Fallen Airman Rages at Trump’s ‘Uncalled For’ War
Laura Esposito
Sun, March 15, 2026
The families of a servicemember killed in Donald Trump’s war are pleading with the president to end the conflict in Iran—the same day he was [enjoying golfing] in West Palm Beach.
The family of Tech Sgt. Tyler Simmons, 28—one of six American service members killed Thursday when an Air Force refueling aircraft crashed while supporting military operations in Iran—said they believe his death could have been prevented.
“Just the worst nightmare we could ever imagine. We trust in God that he will comfort us and be with our family,” Simmons’ cousin, Stephan Douglas, told NBC4 in Simmons’ native Ohio. “We believe this could have been prevented. It’s a sad day.”
The Pentagon has formally identified the six service members killed in Trump's war in Iran. / Department of Defense
Douglas added that “We didn’t need to be in this war ... This is uncalled for, and this is what we get,” he said.
Simmons’ grandmother, Bernice Smith, echoed the same sentiment to NBC4. “Families are suffering right now,” she said. “Just to create a war because you want to create a war is not right.”
In a statement, the Simmons family encouraged the public to take their grief to the ballot box in November. “Our hearts are saddened beyond measure to learn of six more airmen being killed last night,” the family said in a written statement. “One of them is our Beloved Tyler Simmons. Tyler’s smile could light up any room, his strong presence would fill it. His parents, grandparents, family and friends are grief stricken for the loss of life.”
They went on: “Vote for Tyler and the five others who lost their lives recently and for all those serving our country,” the statement reads. “They are heroes who are loved and will be missed. Praying for Tyler, his fellow airmen, his family and we pray for the United States to do better and be better.”
Other loved ones of Simmons also took to social media to voice their sorrow.
Tech Sergeant Tyler Simmons is the second of the six individuals to be identified in the crash. The 28-year-old was an only child who had been described as being able to light up any room. / Screenshot/Instagram / Instagram
“We love you Tyler Simmons and could never forget you,” wrote a woman who identifies herself as Vida Michlle on Instagram, who wrote that Simmons was her neighbor and a friend of her children.
“You were an amazing young man and made the ultimate sacrifice. We will always look out for your parents in your honor.”
Simmons was one of three Ohio Air National Guardsmen killed during Thursday’s mission, alongside Capt. Curtis Angst, 30, of Columbus, and Capt. Seth Koval, 38, of Stoutsville.
The Pentagon identified the other servicemembers as Maj. Alex Klinner of Auburn, Alabama; Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington; and Tech Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky.
As of Sunday, 13 servicemembers have been killed in the war Trump launched in coordination with Israel on Feb. 28 without congressional approval, and more than 140 have been injured.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
On Saturday—the day the Pentagon released the names of the service members—Trump was seen departing his golf club in Florida. The president spent Sunday on the green as well, according to White House pool reports.
The president has frequently bragged about being a good player. Here, he is wearing the same baseball hat he wore when he unceremoniously welcomed the fist six body bags of US military service men and women who died in service to Benjamin Netanyahu. / Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
In 2008, former President George W. Bush made headlines after admitting he quit golfing in 2003 out of respect for families with loved ones fighting in the Iraq War.
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said at the time, according to reports.
“I don’t want some mum whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”
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MEANWHILE,
Skyrocketing energy prices and inflation woes mount as the ‘absurd’ reality in Iran sinks in
Jordan Blum
Sat, March 14, 2026
The immediate shock of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran is felt most acutely in fuel prices. As the fighting drags into a third week, however, the ripples are spreading across a broader swath of the economy, threatening to affect everything from groceries and work schedules to stock markets and interest rates.
Even stagflation—the dreaded S-word that plagued American consumers during the 1970s Middle East oil crisis—is in the air again, as business leaders, analysts, and policymakers reassess the scope and duration of a conflict that the U.S. government seems to have underestimated.
At the center of the widening crisis is the false belief that the Strait of Hormuz—the narrow choke point separating 20% of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas from global markets—would be left untouched from the conflict, said Bob McNally, former White House energy adviser under George W. Bush and founder of the Rapidan Energy Group.
“Even the possibility that a hostile power could choke traffic in Hormuz—by far the world’s most vital energy and commodity artery—was considered to be absurd,” McNally told Fortune, largely because it hadn’t happened before. “When I would tell people our analysis shows that, in a military conflict with Iran, Hormuz would be shut for weeks, people looked at me like I was high on crack cocaine.”
With crude oil benchmarks hovering near $100 per barrel—up 70% since early January—prices may rise to all-time highs of $150 or greater by the end of March if the strait remains effectively closed with no clear end in sight, McNally said. If anything, he said, prices are still artificially lower than they should be: “The world can’t grow without 20% of its energy—not in the short term. People are just unwilling to come to grips with the idea that we’re not going to get 20% of our energy back really fast.”
Oil forecaster Dan Pickering, founder of the Pickering Energy Partners consulting firm, noted that the effects in the U.S. are relatively muted thus far thanks to domestic oil and gas supplies. While U.S. fuel prices are up nearly 35% from January lows and still rising, there are no shortages or long lines at gas stations. That is not the case in much of Asia, where dependence on Middle Eastern supplies has led to skyrocketing prices and a cascade of other effects. Shortages of fuel, cooking gas, and electricity, have led to work from home directives, school closures, and conservation requests in countries such as Vietnam, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Shortages of fertilizer shipments will trickle down into food and grocery costs.
“Compared to a week ago, the situation looks more challenging and longer lasting. An easy solution to the straits does not appear on the horizon,” Pickering said. “With that, there’s fear of inflation, fear that stocks might be overvalued, and you’re hearing ‘stagflation’ a lot. It’s rippling through sentiment, and it’s putting a higher floor on pricing whenever this conflict ends.”
A previously robust stock market is starting to show signs of disquiet: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for instance, is down 6% in a month and expected to dip further at least as long as the war extends. The exception, of course, is energy producers capitalizing off the price surges, as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and many other U.S. oil and refining stocks jumped to record highs.
Open for transit, aside from the shooting
Member countries of the International Energy Agency agreed to release a record-high, 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves, including 172 million barrels from the U.S., but doing so will take at least four months to pull from storage. “Oil can’t come out fast enough to offset the closure of the straits. You have some help that will come over the next three to six months, but this crisis is happening now,” Pickering said.
It’s been more than a week since President Donald Trump announced plans for government-backed, oil tanker insurance and potential naval escorts through the strait with little tangible progress. The U.S. is currently in the process of sending more warships and Marines to the Middle East.
The military is currently focused on weakening Iran’s defenses, and naval escorts for tankers may begin as soon as the end of March, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said March 12. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth downplayed the problems more, saying on March 13 that he’s not concerned about the strait.
“The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that,” Hegseth said with a straight face during a press conference.
Later March 13, Trump was asked on Fox News when he would know the war is over. His response, “When I feel it in my bones.”
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Iran responded to the war—including the death of its supreme leader and other top officials—by firing missiles at its energy-producing, neighboring Gulf states and then at tankers within the strait.
Although he has yet to be seen and is believed by the Trump administration to be injured, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a statement pledging to keep the strait closed, using both mines and bombing attacks from ground forces. A handful of tankers from non-enemy nations, including India, were strategically allowed through.
“Iran is demonstrating that it controls the Strait of Hormuz, and not the United States,” McNally said. “It does that by both periodically attacking ships in the strait—re-instilling fear among tankers and insurers and keeping them from moving—and apparently allowing certain tankers to go through.”
White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly countered to Fortune that the U.S. has destroyed over 20 of Iran’s mine-laying vessels with more to come. “President Trump is fully prepared to provide U.S. Navy escorts through the Strait of Hormuz if he deems it necessary,” she reiterated.
Carolyn Kissane, associate dean of the New York University Center for Global Affairs, said the markets are no longer taking White House statements “at face value”—as was the case during the first week of the war—and are recognizing that Iran is “going for the jugular.”
“This is historic that Iran is targeting Gulf states and the Strait of Hormuz, which has always been the worst, worst, worst-case scenario,” Kissane said. “If there’s no conclusion in the next two-to-three weeks, we are looking at much higher prices, and a lot of insecurities across supply chains for the foreseeable future. There are going to be some very huge ripple effects.”
One of those ripple effects is the political implications in a midterm election year in the U.S., especially since this is clearly recognized as a “war of choice,” she said.
While just a few weeks ago, voter concerns about AI data centers and rising utility costs seemed to be replacing gas prices at the pump as the new political bellwether, now surging fuel prices are the focus again. Former President Joe Biden took a big political hit from high fuel costs when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and that obviously wasn’t an American military decision.
That said, it’s because of those very reasons that this war might still conclude within a couple of weeks or so, said Pavel Molchanov, energy analyst at Raymond James. Trump has always focused acutely on keeping fuel prices low.
“When prices at the pump spike, presidential approval ratings go down. And now, the price of oil is the highest in four years,” Molchanov said. “The longer Americans feel pain at the pump, the more political pressure there will be on the White House to end the war.”
And while the level of Iran’s military response has surprised some observers, the country needs resolution as well. After all, Iran isn’t moving its oil through the strait either, Molchanov said.
“Iran needs to export its oil. They need the money.”
This story was originally featured on Fortune.com
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