#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #China
What the US naval blockade is accomplishing with respect to China
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Nukes, Israeli spies, and the Canadian PM
#Iran #NuclearIssues
Two US figures share very frank opinions
Scott Ritter on President #StableGenius in the situation room, nuke use and talk of nuke use, generals who refuse illegal orders, the Secretary of #WarCrimes, and starting about minute 14 how the US is broken.
Retired Colonel Douglas mcGregor
a WHOLE bunch of interesting points. Watch the whole video if possible.
STRONG comments about possible offramp and why not basing US forces everywhere would be a good thing.
US has not decided how or when to implement the President's order on nuclear testing.
Part of the back and forth trash talk.
Disrupting Israeli international presence.
Iran Ally Russia Detains, Questions Israelis For Hours In Shocking Moscow Airport Crackdown | VERTEX
Detention of Israeli travelers
Indications that Mossad agents have eyes on Pope Leo XIV over background meetings with Iran
Italy will not use its resources for Israel's purposes
Lawrence O'donell:
Canadian PM calls US President the world's most dangerous and corrupt gangster
Highly Enriched Uranium: HEU
#Iran #NuclearProgram #OperationSapphire #BudapestMemorandum
Readers who want to see RantWoman go off, scroll down past the video and the embedded tweet.
"You can't bomb away their knowledge."
"Trust but verify."
"I think we are going to be dealing with Iran's nuclear program with very few tools...for a long time to come."
Iran just cited the Budapest Memorandum in nuclear talks with Washington.
— Gandalv (@Microinteracti1) April 21, 2026
Let that sink in.
The country America has been bombing for weeks just handed US negotiators a copy of their own promises and asked, politely, how that’s going. The 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which… https://t.co/eEYALt8lMv
RantWoman pops off:
1. If having an insane leader is a reason for the a country not to have nuclear weapons, should the US expect maybe the Argentinian inspector from the IAEA or someone from Sweden to come knocking at our door needing to secure US nuclear weapons?
2. If RantWoman had her way, Israel would be subject to the same level of inspection that is being demanded of Iran. RantWoman thinks Israel will be able even without use of their nukes to wreak horrific carnage across its neighbors, but subjecting itself to international inspection and monitoring COULD be an interesting trust-building exercise.
3. RantWoman rather likes Iran's "How's that working out for you?" reference to the Budapest memorandum. There is plenty of commentary and a certain amount of lament in reference to Russia's war on Ukraine to Ukraine having given up its nukes. Nukes probably would not solve centuries of tug of war about Crimea but Ukraine would have had interesting cards.
4. Kazakhstan is still cleaning up the consequences of Soviet Nuclear development. Qazaq national identity is grappling with that and, among other things, writing in Latin alphabet instead of Cyrillic.
5. Nostalgia is not exactly the right word, but RantWoman hearkens back to the halcyon days of #StableGenius 1.0 when the President was showing off something pretending to be The Art of the Deal threatening North Korea with nuclear war over Twitter. To this day, RantWoman has no idea why those threats were not deemed a violation of Twitter user agreements, but anyway.
RantWoman has no exact knowledge of whether that got anywhere or whether the world has just figured out how to live with North Korean nukes. RantWoman does, though, wonder whether conversation would get anywhere if one asked the Dementia Patient in Chief "how's thatworking out for you?" about his previous approach to North Korea. If the President's brain is too far along turning into pudding, is there some lesson the rest of us need to draw.
Terrifying and boring
#Iran #StraitofHormuz
This post dedicated to the 20,000 mariners stuck on cargo ships and oilers in the Persian Gulf because of military activity.
Every day "Check the crazy. Check the crazy."
50 countries with a common interest to re-open the Strait
European countries "We are not belligerents. We were not consulted...DIPLOMACY"
Veterans Protest Iran War at US Capitol.
#Iran #Veterans
whether or not readers need for RantWoman to go off: it is offensive to be shipping more people off to another foreign war when the US is still not fully paying off the costs of previous endless wars. Especially offensive is the veterans' administration' chicanery with VA supported housing financing now forcing many military families into foreclosure and homelessness. And we will not even talk about PTSD and other service-related medical issues.
Anyway, now the protest videos
This video is incredibly moving
"It is absurd to me that (Congress isn't) doing anything.
And words from the generals
In search of a victory narrative
#Iran #Israel
RantWoman is probably going to skip a daily posting from What's going on with Shipping and related is the strait open / is it closed back and forth.
It is all Silly. DANGEROUS but silly. President #StableGenius is demonstrating more and more signs of dementia, lack of orientation to time and space, inability to stay anywhere near the topic at hand. He apparently had to be kicked out of the situation room during the Easter weekend pilot rescue. General Cain refused an order just to launch nuclear weapons. Even comparison with parodies dating from 2020 show how stunningly he has deteriorated.
Instead, comments on the situation from other angles.
Oops: Iran missiles take out supposedly stealth US built Israeli aircraft.
TONS of military jargon.
Oh rats: Thanks to Iran air defense Israel can't just mindlessly bomb "engagement zones."
poll report about view of israel in the US
contrast with NPR report about the very high percentage of people in Israel who strongly approve of Israel's current military campaigns
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