Trump getting set for the ground invasion

 

They Lost the Air War. Now They Want the Ground War.

The Islander

The Pentagon has made detailed preparations for deploying US ground forces into Iran. Senior military commanders have submitted specific requests. Calling for the 82nd Airborne Division, Global Response Force, and Marine Expeditionary Units. Planning includes "where to detain Iranian soldiers if boots hit the ground."

Trump said “I’m not putting troops anywhere” then immediately added “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.” 

So let's talk geography. Iran is 1,648,000 square kilometers. It is roughly five times the size of Iraq, the country that broke the American military for twenty years, cost $2 trillion, and ended today with NATO's entire contingency forces evacuating. Iran has a population of 90 million, a mountain range that runs the entire length of its western border... the Zagros rising to 4,000 metres, a second range across the north — the Alborz and a central plateau ringed by desert. The terrain was specifically designed by geography to destroy conventional land invasions. Ask every empire that tried.

82nd Airborne Division on its way to Middle East — CBS. GI's are tools in the mega-gamble by the western oligarchy in the futile attempt to remain in control of the collapsing colonial project.

The US has already spent roughly $2 billion per day on this war. Hegseth and Trump are begging Congress for another $200 billion in emergency funding. The administration previously floated a worse case 4-6 week timeline. Wave 80 from Iran, the Strait is still locked to the West. The USS Ford is in Crete with a "laundry fire" as pretext for retreating to safe waters. And they’re now planning a ground invasion of the largest, most mountainous, most heavily armed nation in the Middle East.

Vietnam was 331,000 square kilometers and no nuclear neighbours. Afghanistan was 652,000 and they lost after 19 years and 4 trillion dollars. Iraq was 438,000 and it never ended. Iran is 1.6 million with Russia to the north, China as its primary trading partner, and a population that just watched America bomb their schools and hospitals for three weeks.

But sure....The 82nd Airborne. That’ll do it.

“No, I’m not putting troops anywhere.” Right, Donald. Very strongly said. Tremendous denial. The best denial. Nobody denies like this president… Nobody.​​​​​​​​​​​​ 

America's #1 lie: 'Free elections in the USA!'

 

She spells it out quite clearly and with the appropriate level of rage....

Iran well dug in

• Part of Iran's missile complex lies beneath a granite mountain in Yazd, at a depth of approximately 500 meters. The most powerful bunker-buster bomb in the US, the GBU-57 MOP, can penetrate more than 60 meters of concrete, but this site is located at a depth of about 440 meters. The complex contains several tunnel entrances on different sides of the mountain and an internal railway system. The rock is approximately 300 million years old and significantly stronger than reinforced concrete. 
• Gas in Phoenix, Arizona now at $6.49 a gallon.
• More than 600 schools across Iran have been destroyed or damaged, resulting in the death or injury of more than 1,000 students and teachers. The aggressors, who arrogantly shout "no mercy, no respite" and threaten Iran with attacks on vital infrastructure, have targeted hospitals, ambulances, medical personnel, Red Crescent relief workers, oil refineries, water sources, and residential areas. 
• The arguments for a ground attack on Iran are becoming increasingly absurd. US Vice President J.D. Vance claims that Iran was planning to use 'nuclear suicide belts' and kill tens of thousands of people, and therefore, it should be attacked.
• Meanwhile, over a million Iranian citizens have been mobilized in anticipation of a US ground operation Operation Mehr. According to information published in numerous foreign newspapers, citing several members of Congress, an attack on Iran may occur in the near future.

Blast from the past: The final warning

Residents in India’s Jammu & Kashmir donate to Iran

RT

Residents in India’s Jammu and Kashmir union territory have launched a notable show of solidarity with the people of Iran as the war with the US and Israel continues.

Across the region, people are donating gold, cash, copper utensils, and other valuables, an RT India correspondent reports from the ground.

Multiple collection camps have been set up in the valley, mainly in Shia‑dominated areas, where residents of all ages – including children as young as seven – are parting with personal belongings in an unprecedented show of support.

Kashmir was a major center of mass demonstrations in India mourning the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US‑Israeli strikes. Jammu and Kashmir has an estimated Shia population of around 1.5 million, or roughly 10-15% of the region’s total. Yet the solidarity with Iran is now coming from all sections of society.

Tucker with an Israeli politician

 

Tucker and former Interim President of Israel Avraham Burg on how close we are to the end of times. 

Watch the full conversation here

The Islander

Iran does not trust the US, negotiations are a project of the "third lie" to cover up a ground invasion - Tasnim News Agency 

🔻For Iran, it is obvious that the US statements about negotiations are just a project of the "third lie", and the Americans are pursuing several goals under this cover: 

1. To deceive the world, showing themselves as supposedly peace-loving and wanting to end the war; 

2.  To keep oil prices low around the world; 

3. To gain time to prepare for a new aggressive operation in southern Iran with a ground invasion. 

❗️If before the 12-day war, Iran doubted the results of negotiations and the US commitment to agreements, then after the 12-day war, it completely does not believe in Washington's sincere desire to negotiate at any moment. 

The Americans started the war both during the 12-day war and now - in Ramadan, conducting negotiations, and this time they are preparing the ground for a new crime under the cover of lies about negotiations. 

Exposing the zionists

 

A brave man. 

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.

Europe key to US ops in Iran

Another very interesting piece from the WSJ. These details have been available through OSINT sources but it's a good roundup showing how key Europe is to US operations against Iran:

• The central command center for US operations against Iran is within Ramstein Air Base in Germany (unsurprising)
• US drone operations are conducted from there as well
• Ramstein is increasingly being used as a hub by the Americans. Military transport aircraft, in particular, land there and took off for the Middle East, including several Boeing C-17 Globemaster III (77.5 tons of load) and Lockheed C-130 aircraft (20 tons).
• American media reported that F-16 fighter jets had been transferred from US Spangdahlem AFB, Germany to the Middle East. According to the trade magazine Air and Space Forces, they are to be used in Iran to combat air defenses. BBC reported that the base is now operating “around the clock.” 
• Sigonella air base (intensified cargo aircraft movements and the deployment of US reconnaissance aircraft, including a P-8A Poseidon operating toward the Eastern Mediterranean) and MUOS (provides global secure communications for US Navy and allied forces) in Niscemi, both in Sicily (Italy)
• American aircraft stationed in Spain have been relocated to France and Germany after the Spanish government denied the use of the Morón and Rota air bases for attacks on Iran
• Bomber aircraft sorties out of bases in the UK like RAF Fairford
• Refueling operations are based out of Aviano Air Base in Italy and Tubé Air Base in France
• Lajes Air Base in the Azores (Portugal) is serving as a major logistical hub, with dozens of aircraft stationed there at various times during the conflict
• RC-135 Rivet Joint spy planes are operating out of Souda Bay in Crete
• Unspecified "logistics and intelligence assets" are being hosted by Romania

The piece paints an amusing picture of European attitudes towards this. Keir Starmer's justification for overcoming his reticence to allow the US to base out of British facilities in the initial wave of strikes is that bomber operations are now "defensive" in nature. 

Merz has said publicly that this "isn't [Germany's] war," but he has no choice but to allow US operations out of German air bases due to pre-existing legal agreements. 

Meloni has spun Italian involvement as minor because only refueling missions are flown out of Aviano. Similarly, French defense minister Vautrin said, “a refueling aircraft is a gas station, not a fighter jet."

These technicalities may work on the European public, but it's difficult to imagine they'll work on the Iranians.

Let's focus not on what Trump says, but on what he does.

These are the U.S. military units recently deployed to the Middle East against Iran.

• 160th SOAR (Night Hunters): An elite helicopter unit that secretly inserts and extracts special forces, often at night, using skilled pilots and modified aircraft.
• 75th Airborne Brigade: A light infantry force for rapid raids, airfield seizures, and close-quarters combat missions against high-value targets.
• Delta Force (1st SFOD-D): A top-tier counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit focused on high-risk, precision missions targeting high-value individuals.
• 1st Special Forces Group (1st SFG): Operates primarily in the Asia-Pacific; trains allied forces, conducts unconventional warfare, and supports insurgencies or partner militaries.
• 5th Special Forces Group (5th SFG): Focused on the Middle East; It specializes in counterterrorism, unconventional warfare, and advising local forces.
• US Navy SEALs: Special operations focused on the sea—raids, reconnaissance, direct action, and covert missions from the sea, air, or land.

But for what mission?

• Islands within or near the Strait of Hormuz—Small but strategically important islands used by Iran to control shipping lanes. US special forces could quickly seize them to reopen the strait.
• An island outside—Iran's main oil export terminal. Seizing or destroying it would cripple Iranian oil revenues.
• Iranian nuclear facilities or other high-value sites—Potential raids to destroy stockpiles of enriched uranium or related infrastructure.  

Cuban history lesson by Professor Zenkus

Prof Zenkus  @anthonyzenkus

Cuba 1950s was a Mafia-controlled Epstein Island where women were forced into prostitution by organized criminals who promised poor women from the countryside work as dancers or maids. At one point upwards of 30,000 Cuban women were exploited in the sex trade. 

1950s Cuba, run by the American Mafia led by Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Santo Trafficante, Jr. in conjunction with dictator Fulgencio Batista and backed by the CIA - was a decadent paradise for US elites; business moguls, politicians and celebrities who went to Havana to partake in gambling as well as sex parties often arranged by the Mafia, giving the mob blackmail to guarantee allegiance from investors and US politicians alike. 

One of Castro's first moves after the revolution was to make prostitution illegal. And instead of punishing sex workers and trafficking victims, the revolutionary government offered them re-education and job training.

Needless to say, the "customers' weren't happy when Castro and the revolutionaries from the mountains stormed into Havana on New Year's Eve 1958 and sent the mob and Batista packing.

Danger of Kessler Syndrome in LEO

The Kessler Syndrome is the idea that filling Earth’s orbit with too many satellites will inevitably cause failures to occur, leading to a cascading series of collisions that eventually distributes a layer of debris across the entire orbit, making it impossible to reach space from our planet. 

According to new research, we’re actually closer to this scenario than we thought. 

If this happens much of the Earth will go dark.

Nations ignore this at our own peril.