All pre-war increases. March will be even uglier.

More: The joint US"Israeli strike against Iran in February 2026 has triggered intense debate among scholars and policy observers. Military conflicts in West Asia are not unusual, but this particular episode may carry consequences far beyond the immediate battlefield. Some analysts have drawn parallels with the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Britain and France attempted to seize the Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it.

Although the operation initially succeeded militarily, it collapsed politically after the US forced its European allies to withdraw. The crisis revealed that Britain could no longer act as an independent global power and symbolized the end of its imperial dominance.

Today, Iran strike could represent a comparable geopolitical inflection point. For more than seven decades, the US has anchored the global order, not only through military power but also through institutions, rules, and economic arrangements that have structured the post"Second World War international system. Many countries, including emerging powers, expanded economically within this framework.

China's rise as a manufacturing powerhouse and Russia's growing integration into global markets both occurred largely within an economic system shaped by American leadership. The legitimacy of US leadership, therefore, rested not only on strength but on the perception that the system it created produced stability and shared economic benefits.

My hope is that this is a sign of things to come.

But what I suspect actually happened was that Evanston's sizeable Jewish population is educated on the realities of the terror, collective punishment and genocide Israel has unleashed in Gaza and elsewhere since 10/7 and has rejected AIPAC's preferred candidates because of it. We can't count on most of America to be that well informed.

As damning as this resignation is for the Trump regime this guy was a Tucker Carlson protege and I'm glad he's out of our government.

Trump has found the Vietnam that he so desperately tried to avoid in his youth.

I'd like to say no way this holds up on appeal but who can tell these days.

The grid didn't just collapse, we've put them under siege and they have no fuel or spare parts. What we as a nation are doing to 11 million human beings in Cuba is absolutely barbaric.

BullBringer is just repeating what he read.

He hasn't a clue what he means.

Yeah I meant the author not him, but term moron certainly applies to both. I plonked bellringer long ago, nothing he has to say is of any interest to me.

I feel sorry for the cancer.

These morons need to learn what words like Marxist actually mean before they use them. There are no Marxists in the Democratic Party, it's a center-right party.

Tell that to all the Russian ships they've sunk.

Is AI writing articles about year-old archived reddit posts now?

Slow unnecessary death is the best way to get fewer conservatives.

#3,

Exactly. Iran will chose when they want the war to end.

More: CNN ANCHOR BRIANNA KEILAR: Happening now in the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, testimony from Epstein's longtime accountant Richard Kahn. He's being deposed behind closed doors today.

The House Oversight Chairman calls Kahn a, quote, "big witness.".

Lawmakers were expected to ask him, among other things, how Epstein accumulated his vast wealth and how he spent it.

Moments ago, a member of the House committee said Kahn provided some new information about the system that enabled Epstein to commit his crimes. The congressman also saying this:

REPRESENTATIVE SUHAS SUBRAMANYAM (D-VA): We can't get into the details of everything that was said, but one of the things that we did learn was that there was another head of state that was mentioned as having financial transactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Not an American one.

And then another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. We did confirm that.

She wants in on all the steak and lobster tail the Secretary of War Crimes ordered.

Almost seems like this was the plan when we started the war.

More: The four companies each committed millions of dollars to the project through legal settlements with Trump in the months after the 2024 presidential election, seeking to resolve claims they had harmed him by restricting his access to social media or defaming him in their coverage. The commitments totaled at least $63 million, according to company statements and media reports.

But the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Fund, Inc., which was set to receive at least some of the settlement funding, was administratively dissolved last September by Florida officials after it did not submit a mandatory annual report. Three months later, Jacob Roth, the lawyer who originally incorporated the fund, filed articles of dissolution, OpenSecrets first reported last year.

"Now it is unclear where this money has gone, exacerbating concerns about corruption that were apparent at the time of the settlement," the lawmakers wrote.

More: On Monday, Donald Trump said the war on Iran was "very complete".

On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth, his secretary of defence, said Iran would face "the most intense day of strikes" yet in Operation Epic Fury.

If the messaging seems confused, it may be because the US " and to a lesser extent Israel " has found itself caught in a classic military trap. By relying on overwhelming firepower, they have been suckered into what could yet prove to be another Vietnam.

There, the US won every battle over 11 bloody years, but famously lost the war.

This was despite it, as now, having complete air superiority, and quickly destroying most of the crucial military and industrial infrastructure on which the enemy was thought to rely.

By escalating the Vietnam War "horizontally" into the towns and cities in the south on their own terms, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces outmanoeuvred the US.

Tehran also has little chance of defeating the US military, but escalation may again favour the enemy, according to Prof Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats, and the author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.

"Horizontal escalation occurs when a state widens the geographic and political scope of a conflict rather than intensifying it vertically in a single theatre," he says in an essay published in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the US Council on Foreign Relations.

"It is especially appealing as a strategy for the weaker parties in a military contest. Instead of trying to defeat a stronger adversary head-on, the weaker side multiplies arenas of risk " drawing additional states, economic sectors, and domestic publics into the remit of the conflict".

More: The 67-year-old musician, born Eric Reed Boucher, experienced a hemorrhagic stroke Saturday, March 7, caused by high blood pressure, according to a Facebook post from his record label, Alternative Tentacles.

Biafra described the moment he realized something was wrong.

"I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just collapsed under me and I fell to the floor," he recounted in a statement. "I couldn't even break the fall with my left arm because it wasn't working either. I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn't. I realized I had fallen and I can't get up!'

"It was this point I thought, Oh s", I'm having a stroke!'"

They better get to building, June is right around the corner. /s

More: The notes from multiple 2019 interviews with a woman who claimed that both Epstein and Trump assaulted her as a minor were released on Thursday. They detail her uncorroborated accusations surrounding her interactions with Trump in the 1980s, when the woman claims she was between 13 and 15 years old.

The woman, whose name is redacted, alleges that the assault occurred after she met Trump and a group of people that included Epstein. Trump allegedly asked the others to leave the room before, according to the FBI notes, "mentioned something to the effect of, Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.'"

The allegations go on to claim that Trump attempted to make the woman perform oral sex on him. The woman claims she "bit" his penis, to which Trump responded by striking her and having her removed from the room.

You guys are right, lets just stick with the current plan of the rich paying nothing and everyone else covering everything. /s