It's insane that Starmer's government is joining illegal attacks on Iran, after the US and Israel have spent the last week committing war crime after war crime, including bombing hospitals and massacring children in schools. Absolutely sick and depraved man.
“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”
West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.
And another massacre post-My Lai: in 1988 the US fired two missiles at the civilian flight Iran Air 655, while it was transmitting civilian identification codes, killing all 290 occupants, including 65 children.
Someone corrected me and pointed out that the Minab massacre follows the Amiriyah massacre in Iraq in 1991, when the US massacred over 400 civilians taking refuge in a shelter.
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
NATO is not a "defense" alliance. It is a platform for the projection of US imperial power into Asia and Africa. This is fundamentally *not* in the interests of the European people, not in the interests of the rest of the world, and should not be tolerated.
But he should go further. Spain, and all other sane European governments, should shut down the US military bases altogether, and withdraw from NATO.
He is also correct to reject increased spending on NATO, which only enriches US military contractors, increases US power, and deepens European dependency. NATO spending does *not* help the people of Europe, it helps the US military industrial complex.
Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.
I was honoured to support The Hague Group over the weekend. If your government has not yet agreed to join Hague Group measures, to uphold their obligations under international law, please organise and pressure them to do so!
Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.
For the Gulf states, the obvious response is to kick the US military bases out, and they should do it immediately, for the good of the whole region.
It is wild that European countries want to join a war that was started illegally by and for a man who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by their *own* institutions.
The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.” I'm telling you, these people are genocidal fanatics. And no, this did not begin with Trump. They want to do to Iran what previous US administrations did to Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Libya... the evil is 100% bipartisan.
"Neo-colonialism is the worst form of imperialism. For those who practice it, it means power without responsibility, and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress." --Kwame Nkrumah
Very similar to what they are currently doing to Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.
Pressure on Nkrumah ramped up after he published his book "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism" in 1965, which openly criticized precisely those forces that ended up orchestrating his demise.
The US and UK began discussions about ousting Nkrumah in 1961, and set about suffocating the Ghanaian economy by cutting off international finance and driving down the price of Ghana's main export, cocoa, hoping to create internal tensions.
on the 24th of Feb, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was part of a coordinated effort to destroy socialist and Pan-Africanist movements on the continent.
Every single politician, editor, journalist and random poster on this site that tried to discredit the MoH death count as "too high" should be exposed and hounded out of polite society for running cover for genocidaires.
It is reasonable to assume this is a conservative estimate, as the further crippling of MoH capabilities during 2025 would have increased the distortion ratio.
That's 1.7058 times more than the 49,090 deaths reported by the MoH figures as of that date.
As of Feb 16, 2026, the MoH was reporting 72,063 deaths. If the same ratio holds, total deaths would be 122,925.
Here is the relevant data:
The Lancet study found 75,200 violent deaths, plus 8,540 indirect deaths in excess of projected mortality, for a total of 83,740 deaths as of January 5, 2025.
If that same ratio has continued to hold, it means total deaths will have reached 123,000. Truly apocalyptic violence.
The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
All this in the name of "democracy" and "freedom". The absurdity is so extreme you couldn't make it up if you tried.
And they want to do an illegal invasion in order to crush Iran's sovereignty and install the son of the previous dictator as a literal monarch, who will run the country as a playground for US capitalists.
Now the US is imposing sanctions that are *explicitly* designed to starve and immiserate ordinary people.
