Thoughts:

1. Was this just a gesture? Did they even seriously hit Fordow with for example nuclear bunker busters? Because their conventional ones would need several hits for sure success.

2. Also once again this proves Iran's air defenses are not good folks. They just strolled in. I was thinking originally maybe they hit facilities near the borders with glide bombs but to hit Fordow they'd have to go deep. Is it too much to ask for them to down a B2? Apparently so and it really puts doubt into my mind about those claims of shooting down f-35s from the zionist air force.

This attack was CLEARLY telegraphed. The whole waiting two weeks was such an obvious ruse just as they'd attacked them during talks that if Iran wasn't on full alert they are naive as hell. If they were it shows they're powerless against American air power. I mean WSJ leaked it was happening.

Iran is a sitting duck and it is frustrating to read this. They should have gotten a nuke. They should have expected these bombings and should have developed or bought or stolen better air defenses. They should have chosen at least one of these to do.

Let's say they moved the nuclear materials. But if they did they now have to hide them and move them and hide them and I doubt they have any places as hardened as Fordow. Mossad infiltration is pretty deep so if Iran doesn't go sicko-mode on the US and zionists in response the US will just bomb that new location and act like it's not an act of war.

At this point frankly I don't get the point of bluffing with the uranium enrichment beyond 60%. I understood it to be an Iranian tactic to threaten to get nukes and show they could in order to get concessions in negotiations but given how the west has shown their dishonesty both with Iran and Russia it seems kind of silly at this point. But perhaps they believe in great man politics and hope a Democratic politician will negotiate (and for some reason that a Republican won't just undo it like Trump did).

If it was an empty gesture, if no real damage was done to say Fordow and Trump is just going to declare victory regardless it may be tactically smart for Iran to stay mum on the failure of the strikes and let him have his win. Though the problem with this is Bibi may publicly announce it failed anyways to pressure Trump into more strikes.

If on the other hand these strikes were successful Iran needs to hit back by sinking a carrier group. Closing the strait of Hormuz is an option but one which will fuck up China's economy if maintained for any significant period of time.

Iran however may no matter how bad the damage choose to just grit and bear it. They chose the "poison pill" of the JCPOA after all in 2015 and may choose not to do more than symbolic retaliation which of course emboldens the empire to hit them again and more frequently as well. Iran frankly either stands up right now or they can kiss goodbye any hopes of reclaiming their regional power status. With Hezbollah already on the backfoot and Syria out of the picture their power projection and proxy projects were already fucked up medium-term at least. But if they let the west salami-slice their way to hitting them however they want, decapitations, strategic bombings to take out valuable assets in their borders, etc they cease to be a functioning state and enter Syrian circa 2018 failing state territory where more pushes and shoves will come until they topple them and remove them from the picture.

So I fear the US and the zionist entity slowly strangling and bombing them to death as they turn the other cheek again and again because they fear escalating and allow the salmi-slicing tactics to work.

Every accusation a confession.

Kind of predictable though when the other guy went after low level embassy staffers. Unfortunately you start doing that and people see it a lot differently than doming Healthcare CEOs, the message copycats get is just get anyone involved at any level, just unleash your frustrations on easy access soft targets. And that's appealing to people because hitting the targets that kind of matter more is often much more difficult and challenging and many of these people are acting emotionally and in an undisciplined, glory-seeking way.

This is unfortunately what you get. People doing these kinds of attacks that don't in any way disrupt the zionist machine, don't really intimidate those who matter at the top because you're just hitting the very bottom and play right into their narrative and let them justify more crackdowns and paint everyone with the same broad brush as just hating Jews, as being terrorists, as being willing to kill uninvolved civilians.

People you know justified the attacks on those embassy people because they posted ghoulish pro-zionist views online, well these people were posting those views IRL with their little protest here and the only difference is those other people were official low level but easily replaced employees. Neither one is going to resonate as justifiable to most people, most Americans, but this is even less so.

It's very ineffectual. What the 'left' in the US does compared to even the UK where those activists regularly shut down Elbit systems and their suppliers. You know I think most British people don't look at those activists there shutting down the weapons companies as dangerous, hateful terrorists whereas it's easy to paint these attackers in the US as just that and that's a problem. These are acts of undisciplined despair and emotion but they're going to hurt the disciplined parts of the movement all so they can feel better about themselves by taking action. It's very selfish and it plays right into the hands of the zioniosts who get to claim Jews are under attack and rally around needing to uphold the zionist project.

This isn't going to scare zionists from the streets. It isn't going to slow the genocide, it isn't going to give pause to those carrying it out, it isn't going to give pause to them abetting it here in the US.

All they wanted to do was pretend to cut government "waste", scare people, shake them down for loyalty, push them to purge DEI and progressive policies or language and then turn the spigots back on once the obedience was there.

Excellent news if true and if he sticks the course and doesn't reverse in a week.

I can hear it now:

"Folks the Chinese I've decided to go easy on them, they're very weak and in a bad spot and I'm a nice guy, I'm a nice guy. I look at them in this bad spot and I said okay I'll go easy on you, it's very sad, very sad what's going on in China and you know I'm America first but I had to do it, just had to do it. They're in a very bad spot, it would be a catastrophe if I didn't and then it would be our problem too. They still have too much of our stuff and I think we need to figure out a way to get it back but it's going to take some time and some plans. And let me tell you folks I have the best plans, I'm a planning genius. People are constantly coming up to me and telling me how brilliant my plans are. So we're going to use these wonderful plans and we're going to win but it's going to take time. And right now folks let me tell you we need to deal with the radical left lunatics in this country. Did you see what happened just recently? They made Elon into the soyjack, they turned him into the soyjack and humiliated him. It's disgusting and we can't allow it. These radical left America-hating universities have got to put a stop to this. We're not going to allow it anymore folks."

Under communism this will be the only allowed format of super hero cape-shit movie. Just a series of movies where Magneto is right and vindicated and eventually wins in the series with the help of his human communist comrades and a broad group of mutants. And it ends with him visiting his friend Professor X in a comfortable low security re-education facility (actually located in the professor's mansion for some reason) and playing chess with him in a homage to the old movies where Magneto is imprisoned and Xavier visits him to play chess. Then as the credits roll Magneto appears for a short message to remind the audience that in real life hundreds of thousands of ordinary people risked it all, sacrificed greatly and gave their lives to overthrow capitalism and that they are the true super heroes.

They're going to let the feds harass Leonard Peltier in his house arrest and make his life as close to the misery of actual prison as they can.

This is why Biden is fucking pathetic for commuting instead of pardoning him and others.

This person is such a naive liberal and that's why they didn't get deeper and why this won't have a meaningful impact. Lifestyle anarchist maybe at best. I mean outing themselves to protect a bourgeois reporter who most likely was in no real danger from these cowards and had no particular reason to and immediately blew his cover (that's exactly the thanks you get and why your attitude towards bourgeois press should be "fuck em")? After all that work too. Rookie mistake after being the only one to raise anything about it in a conference.

This guy freaking out and blowing his cover over this is bad, people may die (actually good people, not bourgeois stenographers) because of his decision to unnecessarily reach out to a reporter who didn't even care to protect his attempt to help them. It will only encourage these groups to engage in that kind of testing earlier and more often and perhaps even actually force recruits to kill or maim leftists. Because after all it worked here, it finally outed him.

Also should have sent a copy of the documents to like unicorn riot or some other leftist doxxing group as these "responsible reporters" from Propublica are capitalist, imperialist stenographers who aren't going to actually out any of these people to anyone but their direct supervisors at the FBI meaning there will never be a full uncovering or any kind of even tiny reckoning from this. Not to mention having those names could help operational security for leftist groups immensely as they're absolutely infiltrating DSA and ML parties.

Kind of like how many of those Snowden documents vanished and will never be published because he didn't send copies to better people who might have leaked more or all of it.

Not that institution and fourth estate loving liberals will ever learn but let this be a lesson to folks here, send it first to amenable liberals but schedule another release to an actually left group, include instructions not to release for a few months so your liberal reporter doesn't feel burned and pre-empted but make sure it all gets out soon enough.

Say Mr. Lame Duck maybe you should protect vulnerable groups like trans people or undocumented persons with maximum executive action in your final months before Trump gets into office?

What's that? What you really care about aren't those vulnerable people and just want to do some reactionary shit instead to already sanctioned countries that have been under illegal oppression and embargo for half a century which Trump would agree with and could have done anyways? Oh cool. Nice to see the mask continues to slip.

Please slap liberals who claim to care about vulnerable groups with actions like these, his pardon for his son which is suspiciously all encompasses and reminiscent of the Nixon pardon and get that doubt going on whether actually maybe Democrats aren't harm reduction and won't actually fight for them.

This is the kind of stuff you need to shove in the faces of liberals. They claim have to vote blue to stop le evil dictator Trump and yet what does their party do? Go out of their way to give him dictatorship tools. They cannot claim they're anything but slightly nervous and reticent accomplices instead of any kind of resistance to him and therefore voting blue is not resisting, it's just another form of enabling and deluding yourself.

Reminder:

They may see with the US risking getting into a war with Russia and wanting a war with China that their own time to pull the US into a conflict to settle the region's problems in their favor using the might of the US is quickly drawing to a close and will likely not exist in a few years so why let a crisis go to waste when they can try and get the US to take out Iran and Hezbollah for them which would allow greater "isreal" to become a reality. It's an expansionist mindset too. Also fascists gonna fascist.