Stefan Popenici

Ursula von der Leyen faces blowback over diplomatic ‘overreach’ As the Iran conflict enters its second week, national diplomats say the European Commission president is overstepping her role and wading onto their turf.

also, read this for some basic facts (not that I like Politico). "Pound sand" after.

I disagree. And her position is that of a trump vassal. Seriously.

How is VDL making the EU stronger? This is nonsense.

BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary Guards say, in response to Trump, that they will be the ones who 'determine the end of the war'.

Americans can tolerate a genocide in Gaza, ICE killing and kidnapping people, Trump's racism and cruelty, but I do think high gas prices - in addition to all the other chaos - might be a bridge too far.

Spanish deputy leader slams Merz for his deference to Trump “What Europe needs today is leadership, not vassals who pay homage to Trump,” said Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz.

“What Europe needs today is leadership, not vassals who pay homage to Trump"
Hear hear

Take that Heidegger

Ah, "rewriting history favorably..." but wasn't this copyrighted by Joseph Goebbels? Or was it Stalin? I can't remember.

The American wisdom and strategic thinking replaced the 86 years old ayatollah khamenei with a young ayatollah khamenei.
Impressive.

The Pete Hegseth Exception Nearly a year after a national-security scandal erupted on my iPhone, no one in the Trump administration has faced consequences.

Please read this article. Free link.
With leadership so competent and responsible how can the war in Iran go wrong? Right? Right???

Why Escalation Favors Iran America and Israel may have bitten off more than they can chew.

Timely read: “By 1967, the United States had dropped three times more tonnage worth of bombs on North Vietnam than it had used in World War II”… In Vietnam the US never lost a battle and still lost the war.

The American war against Iran cannot end well.

Now they’ll argue that precision missiles must be invented so we can avoid this happening in the future.
Sociopaths can’t understand shame.

Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

A NYT analysis “shows the stunning velocity at which the fortunes of the 1 percent have increased across the country since President Trump first took office in 2017”

Congratulations to all MAGA voters for their choice against the “elite”.

Oh, and for all this peace.
#idiocracy

WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING HIM TO STOP THE DEPORTATION OF IRANIANS THAT HAPPENED A WEEK BEFORE THE FUCKING WAR STARTED. Including a gay couple.

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime America has blood on its hands.

The United States needs to get over the quaint WWII-era notion that it is a force for good in the world. It is not. Especially now.
www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-eleme...

YouTube video by The France 24 Observers How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops • The Observers - France 24

Israeli planes sprayed herbicides on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days.😡😡😡

youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp9...

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

here's a photo of Hegseth's gesture (Saul Loeb/Getty)

Oil markets are getting the war in the Middle East all wrong Investors seem calm, relying on Donald Trump's reputation as a deal maker but the reality is this conflict could be long and destabilising.

Another good and clear analysis from @alankohler.bsky.social #read

He's wearing the same hat.

Definitely clear that not all Iranians are "ideological people" and so many hate that criminal regime. But war crimes, targeting schools and hospitals, killing civilians and incinerating children create the extreme opposite of submission, and will unite them strongly against the perpetrator.

It is NOT a coincidence that the US and Israel are bombing schools and hospitals, murdering scores of innocents. The leaders of both countries have repeatedly signaled that the laws of war, which were created to force combatants to refrain from murdering civilians, will be violated with impunity.

All these dumb, hateful fuckers feeling big now. Anybody can smash things up.

I'm out of words here

This is *nothing* dignified about wearing a cheap baseball cap that promotes yourself to the otherwise solemn ceremony to receive the bodies of the troops you had killed to distract from your bad economy and rampant pedophilia.

UNICEF spokesman enraged over child casualties from Israeli-US Iran war UNICEF spokesman James Elder stressed the importance of growing numbers of children killed in global conflicts.

This is where we are now. Children are massacred and we are told to move on. 💔
But if we move on we are all doomed.

So when you have no argument, you change the topic entirely and skid over facts? I never wrote idiotic things such as "the great nation of Australia" or even implied that racism is limited to the US.
But.. I'm not going to argue against MAGA-style logic here. Bye

Iran has so far engaged in an ethical war, observing principles of proportionality.

The US & Israeli bombing of a water desalination plant in Iran is a war crime.

It is a violation of the Geneva convention because they are essential for civilian survival. It is also devastating for the region.

Military might is NOT what makes a nation "great".
Also, you know what happened with the greatest military force on Earth when it was led by an evil guy with a ridiculous moustache and his equally evil clique? Hint: no might by the end of 1944.
So... give it time and avoid MAGA-lite clichés.