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Iran's Retaliation Underway
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It’s 10 pm in Morocco, 6 pm in Washington DC, and Iran has launched rockets and drones at Iranian military targets in retaliation for Israel’s bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus and killing seven people, including high-level military officers. Earlier today, J. Michael Springmann and I discussed how the Iranian response, which we knew was coming, would play out. Springmann’s article HOW WILL IRAN RESPOND TO DAMASCUS EMBASSY ATTACK? was the basis for our discussion. Below is an excerpt. -KB
Let’s move on to the big news for today, which is in the Iran versus Israel category. The breaking news today, I don't know if you saw this, Mike, was that Iran's IRGC just seized that Israeli-linked ship near the Straits of Hormuz. It's owned by that Israeli billionaire who keeps getting ships seized. So go Iran! Keep seizing more ships. And if anybody messes with you any further, shut down the Straits of Hormuz.
Exactly. That's the ultimate. The Washington Post and the news media here in the States and online keep going on about how the Israelis are terrified they're going to have a strike tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, and Genocide Joe Biden is behind this. He's moving forces into the region, but nobody specifies what kind of forces and what kind of equipment. And he's ready to attack Iran on a moment's notice when the Israelis give him the word.
Yeah, well, I hope it's not that simple. I had Gordon Duff on the show last night talking about how Obama had pointedly removed the American component of Israel's Iron Dome as a sign of displeasure with Netanyahu at a certain point in the festivities with Lebanon. So whether the Biden administration really wants a bigger war, which will badly mess with his reelection, I don't know. It's hard to believe that he's that stupid. But I think the US is kind of self-destructing, so we can expect almost anything from them. But as Gordon said, if the Americans get involved in any way…when, not if, but when Iran retaliates, that means very likely some combination of hitting American military bases, as happened after the murder of General Soleimani, and ultimately shutting the Straits of Hormuz, which will utterly destroy the United States economy. And probably that would be the event that would be seen after that as the end of the American empire, because a kind of general war would break out and China would emerge on top after that. So anyway, we'll see if all that happens in the next 24 hours.
I would like to think the Americans would be smart enough to arrange it with Iran. Iran basically is going to say, OK, this is the level we're going to do. You guys (Americans) stay away. And if you're going to get involved, it's going to be much worse. And the Americans will say, OK, all you're going to do is blow up one Israeli building. Yeah, OK, we can live with that. We'll yell and scream about it, but we won't get involved. Anyway, I think that's actually more likely, Mike. But you're betting that if an Iranian rocket blows up an Israeli building, that the Americans will attack Iran?
From the way Genocide Joe has been raving and all the quotes coming from the general staff, they're itching for an excuse to strike at Iran. So they'll take anything as an excuse to lash out at them in hopes of destroying the country, which I think is an impossibility. And as I wrote in my Substack article, which I g