Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S. Trump administration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/07/world/iran-militias-iraq-disarm-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #iraq #middleeast #iran #us #donaldtrump
https://www.europesays.com/1973623/ Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 6, 2025 #Afghanistan #Institute #InstituteForTheStudyOfWar #Iran #Iraq #ISW #Libya #MiddleEast #ORBAT #report #Russia #security #Study #UkraineProject #war
https://www.europesays.com/1973005/ Why OPEC+ is accelerating oil production as prices tank, tariffs hit #BreakingNews:Politics #BusinessNews #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #DonaldTrump #Energy #GoldmanSachsGroupInc #Iraq #kazakhstan #OilAndGas #OilPrice #petroleum #Politics #Russia #SaudiArabia #trade #UnitedArabEmirates #UnitedStates #WorldEconomy
#Bessent said the #pandemic taught us a lesson about destruction of the #SuplyChain (and why we must encourage companies to move *here*.)
That was the DOMESTIC supply chain.
Now they are about to destroy our #IMPORT supply chain. #Round2
I'm reminded of #Dubya invading #Iraq after ignoring the threat that led to 9/11.
They learn the wrong lesson from their F-ups, and respond with an EVEN BIGGER F-up that is even MORE disastrous. 
#DisasterPresidency #TooStupidForPolitics
A SOLDIER'S VIEW OF WAR – As Current “Conflicts” Rage, Two Continuing Factors Drive The Legacies of Vietnam, Iraq And Afghanistan
https://rosecoveredglasses.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/a-soldiers-view-of-war-as-current-conflicts-continue-two-driving-factors-drive-the-legacies-of-vietnam-iraq-and-afghanistan/
#war #SoldierView #Vietam #iraq #Afghanistan #ukraine #MiddleEast
River of human Blood flowing in the streets of Deir Al Balah, #Gaza
‘My son was born a refugee, a child without a home - just like us. We ran from one place to another, always chased by death. As the war dragged on, he was too young to know summer from winter, but he knew suffering.’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-my-son-was-born-world-fire
Every time #Israeli soldiers behead a #Palestinian child & our ruling classes accept this fact, we lose our collective humanity & slowly but surely our society proceeds toward savagery.
h/t #AimeCesaire, who said it best some 70 years ago.
When we learn about the #Holocaust, what is most terrifying and disturbing about it is the #dehumanization, the total #domination & the exercise of arbitrary violence.
We feel the terror in our bones.
And we are now seeing it play out in Palestine every single day.
No, Israel is not a democracy. In fact, it functions as one of the most undemocratic countries in the world. More than 11 million people are denied the right to vote for the government that controls their territory.
https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/no-israel-is-not-a-democracy
We are seeing ACTUAL beheaded babies on our screens and this is not even a news story? Wtf is going on.
Pure evil. #Warcrimes within war crimes, and with total impunity.
Netanyahu is openly gearing up to commit a #crime of unthinkable proportions - the forced ethnic cleansing of #Palestinians, with the continued backing of the US. Every sane and civilized country must oppose this.
#Bush made fascism better for liberals to tolerate because he hid his behind the cloak of a loveable oaf. Liberals remember the #liberal oaf & not the #warcriminal.
Hell, #Iraq was a #bipartisan decision.
Unlike liberals, I can't forgive him for #Iraq. It was a #warcrime that has basically been swept under the rug now in no small part to the #liberal rehabilitation of the grotesque creature known as #GeorgeWBush.
" #Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of #Gaza [..] into an enclosed & possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed."
This plan "can be summed up in just two words: #concentrationcamp."
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-concentration-camp-expulsion/
Israel has significantly expanded its ground assault on Gaza, vowing to seize ‘extensive territory’ to be added to ‘buffer zones’.
https://www.europesays.com/1971198/ Oil price crashed 13% in 2 days. Will the free fall reorder the global energy landscape? #AlSalazar #BakerHughesCo. #BrentCrude #China #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #DiamondbackEnergyInc #Enverus #europe #germany #Iraq #kazakhstan #OilPrice #opec #petroleum #PresidentDonaldTrump #SaudiArabia #TradeWar #Ukraine
