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Unicorns and Fairies (Real Estate Agent Attempts to Broker Deal With Iran): 

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Witkoff on Iran: The president is curious as to why — I don’t want to use the word capitulated but why they haven’t capitulated. Why under this pressure with the amount of naval power over there, why they haven’t come to us and said we profess we don’t want a weapon…

C’mon Trump, sending what amounts to a used car salesman to broker peace with the most devious and strategic outlaw country in the Middle East?  What ya thinking man.  Please explain how anyone can expect anything good to come from this so called “negotiations”.  When you go into talks with Iran telling everyone who will listen that they will not stop nuclear enrichment and will not do away with their missiles, then we can expect no deal.  At least not one that Trump himself has said must include both.  

Iranians are master negotiators, they understand the gullibility of the western diplomats and politicians.  Iran always plays the delay and waiting game.  They are content to live to fight another day, whereas the western mindset is to accomplish today for their campaign sound bite.  

It has been somewhere around 9 weeks since Trump made his famous, “help is on the way,” declaration.  Sad to say we need to either make the regime change, which is the only way to bring some stability to the region, or make a bad deal and walk away.  Note to America First disciples, who want a hands off approach to all things outside our borders, if we do that I can almost guarantee a regional war in the next few months.  Bad deals can’t be enforced and we have tried that scenario many times.  Over and over again!

Iran has struck a deal with Russia to purchase thousands of shoulder-launched air defense missiles in exchange for half a billion euros. (Per Financial Times) 

Speaking of hard to enforce deals, Gaza is a good example, and brokered by Witkoff.

“Our position on international forces is clear: we want peacekeeping forces that monitor the ceasefire, ensure its implementation, and act as a buffer between the occupation army and our people in the Gaza Strip, without interfering in Gaza’s internal affairs,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP.

Hamas and Israel have continued to trade attacks along the Strip despite the tenuous cease-fire, with the terror group committing daily violations of the truce…

“We see them test our troops. We see them carrying out attacks every week … [Hamas] has injured and killed soldiers since the ceasefire began,” IDF Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani told The Post. New York Post

A Message from Amir Tsarfati: my humble opinion, Special Envoy Witkoff caused significant damage to the war effort by telling Fox News that the President is kind of frustrated and even surprised that the Iranians are not capitulating.

Those words echoed loudly across the Middle East – and they were received as a signal of weakness and ignorance.

Weakness – because a massive military buildup impresses no one if there is no clear willingness to use it.

Ignorance – because this regime will never surrender its “insurance policy” – namely its nuclear program, its ballistic missile arsenal, and its regional proxies – if it believes the ultimate objective is to topple it anyway.

Right now, many in the region view President Trump as someone who may have miscalculated the situation – projecting a “Maduro effect” onto Iran as though the two cases are comparable. They are not.

In my opinion, the President must now be firm – and if a strike is required, it must be decisive and unmistakable.

It must be carried out in such a way that every enemy of the United States understands clearly – America does not posture – it acts.

Deterrence in this region is not built on rhetoric – it is built on demonstrated resolve.

If the objective is to prevent a wider war and restore credibility, then the message must be unmistakable – do not test the United States.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto those who call evil good, and good evil.

Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness,

Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Such are the days we live in. Maranatha!

Venezuela Air Defense

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Very interesting post copied from Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram account. Amir is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs having been a former member of the IDF with great contacts in intelligence. Rh

Venezuela from the Russian perspective

It is difficult to overstate the level of frustration across Russian social media over the American move in Venezuela. There is hardly a single Russian military blogger who has not addressed it. The reaction on the Russian side revolves around two main axes.

The first axis is dominated by frustration that, once again, Russian systems – especially Russian air-defense systems – were caught completely unprepared. Russian commentators complain that, once again, their allies proved incompetent and unable to properly operate the equipment they were given, making Russian hardware appear ineffective.

Added to this is concern over the geopolitical consequences: the Maduro regime was seen as a close ally of the Kremlin – and that ally is now gone. Another fear frequently raised is that once infrastructure is restored, the United States could impose a global oil price ceiling of roughly $50 per barrel due to its control over production in Venezuela.

The second axis is captured by the most common phrase circulating on Russian Telegram over the past week:

а что так можно?

“So… you can actually do that?”

Despite everything mentioned above, most of the Russian frustration stems from the fact that the Americans succeeded precisely where the Russians failed. Anger over the successful arrest of Maduro is almost always accompanied by sharp criticism of the Kremlin’s actions at the start of the war and Russia’s failed attempt to seize Kyiv.

In the image: a modern Russian-made Buk air-defense system in Venezuela after receiving American “treatment”.

(David Lisovtsev)

Manduro Captured!!

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Latest reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed indictments against Manduro and his wife with conspiracy to engage in drug-terror activities, conspiracy to import cocaine, weapons and other terror activities against the United States.

What happens next is the real problem, who takes over, what kind of government, can the people rise up and have democracy? All good questions. As in Iran people get tired of becoming slaves to dictators. Are you listening New York? You have made the same fatal mistake by electing a socialist-Marxist! Trump to have a press conference at 11 AM. Rh

And if you’re wondering why – below are the facts:

1. The Venezuelan regime nationalized and expropriated, without compensation, oil facilities belonging to American companies, and later refused to pay the billions of dollars in compensation awarded against it in World Bank arbitration.

2. Transferring management of Venezuela’s oil industry from private hands to the government triggered the collapse of the country’s economy even before U.S. sanctions, which merely accelerated the process.

3. In order to cope with the catastrophe it created, the Chávez–Maduro regime found a new ally: Iran.

4. Venezuela and Iran cooperate in the military sphere (including the development of drones) and in circumventing the international and American sanctions imposed on both.

5. Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro’s leadership is an active player in flooding the United States with hard drugs. Each year, more than 100,000 Americans die from drug overdoses.

6. According to the international community, Maduro lost the elections held in Venezuela and falsified his victory.

7. Maduro’s regime is a Bolshevik dictatorship that violently suppresses all opposition.