Wednesday, April 8, 2026

The "Rescue," reporting, and literally everyone pulling away and calling out.

#Iran #Rescue 



"narrative warfare"
"nonkinetic warfare"
Random speculation: did the President going off on Easter Sunday have something to do with the actual details of the "rescue" operation?




And as for the initial reporting

Private company caves to US administration but Russia and China are happy to provide images
Efforts to hide US military and contractor casualty counts, impact on bases, destruction of planes, energy infrastructure

$400 Million in US equipment lost
Um, no, air superiority
"the Tom Clancy uranium hunt"
also speculation that rescue story was part of the trigger for the Easter message
Also draw on The Intercept



Allies say no, pull away.
no using bases or air space for war crimes
MBS did not ask US for permission to buy interceptors from Ukraine









Chris Nordlund

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Commentary about The "Ceasefire"

#Iran 


RantWoman is, like every othr sane person on the planet, relieved that the President has decided, at least for now, not to attempt to destroy an entire civilization.


First, words from Lawrence O'Donell. Then various comentators.


Check out the Zeteo vid in particular. 


1. If having an insane government means a country should not have nuclear weapons, time for the world to subtract nuclear weapons from the US.


2. There is NO WAY the #DonSnoreleone and Bibi can bomb Iran into regime change. If anything, everyone in Iran is going to do the same thing that people in the US did after 9/11.

3. Way past time for #GrandpaSleepyhead to RESIGN and retire to a genteel life of golf and napping. Declare Mar a Lago a permanent home for the criminally insane. Allow him only to travel between his golf courses and always under guard.

4. Fix him up with a permanent AI loop of cheering crowds and ever-increasing click counts on a social media equivalent of a closed-circuit TV with very limited audience.

5. No pardons, but if he is incompetent to be President, he is also incompetent to stand trial. Concentrate on going after all his enablers.

6. And if we really want to stand up against this nonsense, a windfall profit tax on every company making extra big bank from all the price shocks.








Monday, April 6, 2026

Israel oh Israel

#Israel

CONTENT WARNING: graphic description of torture. 

The latest Israeli "achievements" in the realm of human rights

Did Dems utter confusion and inability to speak plainly about Israeli atrocities doom them in 2024? What does that bode for the midterms??? 

Will enough US taxpayers grow DISGUSTED about spending US tax dollars to support these atrocities, these apartheid policies??? Or ....









And 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnKZg-bFz8


Saturday, April 4, 2026

Will planes getting shot down change anyone's approach to the war?

#Iran #MiddleEast 

RantWoman takes a realist view of videos such as this one. It is useful to know how other people think even if one disagrees with multiple implied premises.










Forget about thr bridge destruction because US planes go shot down.

From Al Jazeera


short explanation of game theory
"Professor" Jiang says Iran has strategic advantage
Will President #StableGenius send ground troops ...?


Also about Israel



And other vids of the day.
Let's swap military leadership in the middle of a war



And speaking of Pam Bondi

Thursday, April 2, 2026

What's Going on with Shipping today: SOME ships going through the Strait of Hormuz

#Iran #StraitOfHormuz


RantWoman is presenting coverage from sources she considers well-informed. Presenting information is not necessarily endorsement of specific policy recommendations.


 Random takeaways:

President #StableGenius is bonkers. For example US Merchant Marine academy cadets stuck on ships in the Persian Gulf.


One reference to something US troops MIGHT be doing 


Ship passage appears to be in national territorial waters, Iran to the N and someone else to the S.


RantWoman cynical comment: the oil market is global. If global prices go up, US oil companies are going to make out like bandits at least for awhile.


Sal says it could take MONTHS to straighten out the impact on world trade of having the Strait of Hormuz closed as long as it has been.


Recreational Blood Pressure elevation but not only from Ambassador Bolton

#Iran

#NuclearWeapons


RantWoman definitely does not share every assumption articulated by Ambassador Bolton but does find some of his commentary informative and relevant. 


RantWoman will spell out issues with assumptions elsewhere.



Rep. Moskowitz is my hero: oversight of the Pentagon compared to just taking an ax to US-AID

 2.5 TRILLION dollars cannot be accounted for by the Pentagon.

And who has $200 BILLION for more #WarOfChoice in the middle east?


Channel description describes sources in general terms.

Comments refer to "AI slop." RantWoman caught one inaccuracy but is not going to listen again to point it out. Anyway, approach with care.

RantWoman is going to subscribe at least for a little while to see what gets cranked out and how the quality looks.