Posted on 04/20/2026 5:53:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
They’re holed up in a bank demanding three large pizzas, a helicopter, and a personal phone call from Sydney Sweeney. . . ."— Greg Gutfeld on Iran’s negotiating position.
The Russians have a phrase for it: negotiation-incapable (ne peregovorosposobny). That is what the Iran delegation demonstrated during a long day of talks with the US team over the weekend in Islamabad. What part of “no nukes” didn’t they understand? All of it, apparently. The corollary question on the table — arguably more pressing for Iran — was: how much more punishment are you willing to suffer to sustain your dream of atomic bombs? You have no defenses left, no control of your air-space. Do you just want to sit in the dark for the next hundred years?
Such is the obduracy of the Shia death cult. They have no friends left in the world. Russia, you think? Not really. That relationship was pegged to geopolitical dynamics that are dead and gone. Russia is much better off normalizing relations with the USA so we can both be safe and secure in our spheres of influence. Europe is busy committing suicide. In this situation, China is little more than Iran’s very unhappy customer. Maybe Uncle Xi Pooh Bear can try talking some sense to whoever is left in-charge at the IRGC. . . give up your lunatic bomb dreams and just re-open the dingdang gas station! Pretty Please!
Anyway, why interfere with US operations in Hormuz? The USA is wresting control of the Persian Gulf from these maniacs who can’t be trusted to just stay open for business. Japan, the two Koreas, Indochina, India, also have to stand by with mounting frustration as these jihad-happy idiots starve Asia’s economies. A change in Iran’s attitude can’t happen soon enough and Mr. Trump is on the case. The blockade starts at 10a.m. today, Monday. Whatever’s left of Iran’s revenue stream goes out the window. Maybe they lob some rockets and drones at our ships. Maybe they hit something, maybe not. We’ll see where they launch from and that will be the end of X-number of remaining launch sites. Then there are the bridges, the power plants. FAFO mofos.
About those 1000 pounds of 60-percent enriched uranium (their precious bomb fixings). . . . You must imagine that it is either buried deeply under the rubble of Fordoz and Isfahan, or maybe distributed in many secret hidey-holes all over the place. . . or perhaps sitting booby-trapped somewhere. In short, there are many reasons to think that no special forces operation will be able to get at it. So, the only other conclusion is that Iran must be driven to a place where they will surrender the stuff willingly themselves. That could be a harsh place.
While you stay tuned to events there, plenty more developments break elsewhere in this raucous world. Viktor Orban was voted out in Hungary. How did that happen? Maybe genuine public sentiment (sixteen years of Viktor O enough?). Maybe a whole lot of Soros money involved, plus EU backstage ballot shenanigans. Mr. Orban conceded graciously in any case, patriot that he is. Expect a blizzard of narratives to follow. The truth will be hard to sort out. And it remains to be seen whether the new president, Peter Magyar, will throw open Hungary’s borders, hoist the pride flags, and give up importing Russian oil and natgas — all per the EU’s policy regime.
Here in the homieland, the fabulously loathsome Rep. Eric Swalwell, lover of Fang-Fang and accused multiple rapist of his office girls, shameless serial liar, and all-around uber jerk-off, has lost his shot at bringing additional ruin as governor to the forlorn state of California. Might even be ejected from his seat in Congress. Oh, happy day!
Rumored to be released this week by the House Intelligence Committee: the transcript of former Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s testimony about events that led to Impeachment #1 of Donald Trump in 2019. The transcript has been locked away in a vault since October, 2019. Tulsi Gabbard rooted it out. The shadowy Atkinson played a crucial role in positioning “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella to spark off charges of the “Ukraine quid pro quo” phone call against the president. Ciaramella was then a CIA agent planted in the National Security Council. He may have been involved earlier in co-authoring the fake Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that kicked off the RussiaGate hoax in 2017. For Impeachment #1 Atkinson reportedly changed the whistleblower rules to allow Ciaramella to convey second-hand hearsay from sketchy NSC member Col. Alexander Vindman to Rep. Adam Schiff, then chairman of the House Intel Committee. The chain of actions suggests the impeachment was a CIA setup.
The CIA director at the time was Avril Haines. Ms. Haines ran the London CIA field office during the period when former MI6 agent Christopher Steele was concocting the notorious Steele Dossier at the center of RussiaGate. It has long been suspected that RussiaGate was a joint CIA / MI6 operation. Isn’t it about time that Avril Haines sat for a deposition in these various matters? It might be nice to know if our main Intel Agency was involved in serial schemes to overthrow the US government.*
*Correction:
Gina Haspel was in charge of the London desk of the CIA when the Steele Dossier was cooked up, not Avril Haines. (Apologies to Avril Haines. I mixed them up.) Ms. Haspel served as CIA Director from May, 2018 through January 2021. She presided over the concealment of the Hunter Biden laptop, the Impeachment #1 nonsense, and the Jan 6th US Capitol operation. Avril Haines was Deputy National Security Advisor (2015–2017) — serving as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor under Obama — and Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) (2021–2025) under President Biden. Ms. Haines apparently overlooked the Biden family’s bribery operations in Ukraine and China, or was not properly informed about these activities. You can switch out the name of Avril Haines for Gina Haspel in the last paragraph of today’s blog.
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James Howard Kunstler ping
I thought Gina Haspel was killed in a CIA SWAT raid in Germany in December 2020.
Iran will never capitulate.....never.
BUMP
The ceasefire ends Tuesday night.
The IRGC will seethe and plot in the dark.
The world will send relief to the Iranian people. It will be quickly stolen and repurposed.
Looks like no new leadership changes or capitulation in the near future.
No word at all on popular uprising we had hoped for.(doubt it will ever happen)
WE will be doing this again and again on a loose schedule for years to come with less and less support from the world.
We are fighting a fanatical group of people who believe they will be rewarded with “paradise” if they die for their cause.
Its going to be hard, and I do not know if the American people have the will or stomach to properly see this through until the end.I
Seriously? You think these Muslim clymers are bothered by that? Look at Gaza. Look at Lebanon. Look at Syria. They're counting on it because it ratches up the hate and increases their power.
The US is in part a victim of its earlier successes.
We annihilated several layers of command and control. As a result,
there is really no one capable of negotiating anything. Whoever
is sitting across the table from Vance in Islamabad cannot guarantee
that whatever is agreed to at the peace talks will be accepted
by the IRGC or whoever is in charge of whatever province. They
are exchanging words for time. The punishment will continue until
the right “leaders” emerge who can make a deal and make it stick.
Just my 2 cents...
“As a result,
there is really no one capable of negotiating anything.”
There is no negotiating. Only acceptance of our terms.
Pretty clear from what I have read that US Intelligence agencies (Deep State), reached out to their 5-eyes friends to help destroy Trump. If the USA has “friends” like that, do we really need to trust them or are they potential enemies. The lasted NATO country refusal to all the US to use European air bases or air space, indicates that they are not friends and should not be trusted.
Thanks for the ping.
“Ms. Haines apparently overlooked the Biden family’s bribery operations in Ukraine and China, or was not properly informed about these activities.”
Kunstler is being too nice. As ODNI it was her job to know those things!
Iran will capitulate when they are bombed into the stone age. There is also infighting between the IRGC and military. The good Iranian people need to be freed from these monsters.
President Trump has said he will have a say in who is the next leader of Iran. Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shahm, lives in the US is has said he is willing to take charge of Iran for a couple of years to get the country going, and the Iranian people want him.
Trump has stated he wants the Iranian nuclear “dust”. Here is the explanation, Clandestine is highly intelligent, I get his articles in email, plus he’s on X.
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trump-is-gathering-evidence-in-iran
Trump is Gathering Evidence in Iran
Clandestine
Iran is about Obama/Clinton.
The oil, global reset, leverage over NATO/China, etc., those were just added bonuses.
This entire military operation in Iran, has been about destroying Iran’s nuclear program, AND proving that the Obama administration is responsible for it.
That’s why Trump repeatedly says the “nuclear dust” is the number one most important thing in negotiations. He doesn’t just want Iran to sign a deal not to make nukes. He wants the Uranium from Fordow, so the US MIL can use nuclear forensics to confirm the origins of all the uranium. US MIL Intelligence knows exactly where it came from, they are just there to confirm what they already know.
Trump is in Iran to gather incontrovertible evidence. Isotopic signatures. Nuclear fingerprints.
This is why all propaganda assets have been deployed, why both the Left and woke-Right squeal so loudly about Iran, and why there is so much disinformation online about the situation in Iran.
Trump is about to secure the smoking gun that will take down the Obama administration, hence why the traitors are in such a panic.
It’s happening, and they know they can’t do anything to stop it.
Apr 18, 2026
What I think too.
I agree completely.
The only unresolved question is who is going to sign the articles
of surrender and will their signature be accepted?
You could be right.
We’ll see.
“The only unresolved question is who is going to sign the articles of surrender and will their signature be accepted?”
And who is going to do the acceptance.
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