Iran at STRANGE TIMES

Iran

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on January 3, 2026

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The money is not working so the revolution is now ‘game on’! What a great start to the new year! The regime obviously can’t solve the problems…so the regime is doomed! Even their low life henchmen types can’t do anything with their pay! So, the fact that the jig is up is slowly beginning to dawn on them and this will spread quickly! It is now in US and western interests to ensure that the Iranian masses ‘drain this swamp’! How this unfolds is beyond any outsiders grasp but I am sure that Turkey will again be the most central Johnny on the spot! But as Mao said if there is to be a revolution then there must be a revolutionary army and there is not one yet and without a peoples army the people have nothing!

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1 Patrick Muldowney
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 am

The days roll on, and the regime is not yet able to prevent the spread of demonstrations let alone shrink the problem. Basics like bread are becoming the issue! Death to the regime is now a prominent chant. This is still preliminary rather than early stages of regime death yet.
2 Patrick Muldowney
January 9, 2026 at 10:21 am

The revolution to overthrow the clerics has clearly now begun and apparently will be televised! No going back now.
3 Patrick Muldowney
January 10, 2026 at 4:27 pm

Big news out of Turkey! Re Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia military alliance negotiation! That is a population of 370+ mil. It surrounds Iran and is Islamic in culture. It speaks to both the US and the rest of NATO, as well as Russia and Israel. (Syria is still in the news about the reintegration process re the SDF -PKK- in Aleppo.)

‘All political power, grows out of the barrel of a gun.’ and it now looks like the Iranian armed forces are cracking (otherwise the army would have been on the streets by now, so the slaughter and fightback is about to break out but with a split. What will the west led by Trump and Erdogan do? How will Europe show up?

The swamp will drain dramatically in 2026!
4 Patrick Muldowney
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 pm

The regime will be gone in weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_n1LYGGoy0

The Kurds are being protected and that will mean the US will be involved with a big air war!

The pseudoleft are about to disgrace themselves yet again.
5 Patrick Muldowney
January 29, 2026 at 11:16 am

The US military is still moving their units into place and developing their plan; but a big start to this now IMV inevitable war is not far away. My guess is now days or weeks rather than months. When it starts it has to be big and precise and it can’t then stop only for the regime to regroup. The ‘thunder run’ on Bagdad that saw the fall of the statue (following the longish air war period) is not quite the model but IS part of the background learnings of THE very fluid 2026 plan.

Anyhow the US will NOT be willing to do very much of the required ground fighting (and virtually none in cities) and they will get out of Iran ASAP. Yet a small number of forces supported by the US airpower could very well liberate the whole country and the Turks, Armenians, Kurds and all the rest ARE going to get involved (but only after the US has destroyed the Iranian big ‘stuff’) and a ground offensive becomes not only required but viable. So, I say a powerful and effectively ‘peoples’ army is on the way.

Very small intervention forces would make a very big impact simply because they would be liberating the vast majority (9-1) of the now angry -at the regime- masses and if the target is the hated regime forces (and that will be the systematic targets) liberation will quickly be seen to be the goal of any ‘thunder run’ rampages (from whatever friendly forces) essentially designed for cutting off any big communities and thus liberating them. Big ‘protest meetings’ will then become -like the Maidan events in Ukraine- big ‘town-hall’ meetings and a new revolutionary control will be established, and this process rapidly expand the revolutions writ.

This will be history making because about all that will be required is for largish cities to be cut off from the regime’s direct exterior control and the ‘protesters’ will then essentially liberate themselves as the rats that terrorized them are forced to run and get exposed to the US air power! So, they will run without their heavy stuff! A chessboard approach WILL then produce a cascading effect.

Roll on the democratic revolution. The ‘hands off’ ‘anti-imperialist’ brigade already has their placards prepared! As with Iraq and so on the revolution will come despite the pseudo-left and the other stability loving openly rightwing conservatives. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4IwBAatbZmg

BTW Russia has just pulled out of their airbase in the SDF controlled northern region of Syria! That is a big signal of the bad leadership of the PKK. Whatever happened to Rojava? Assad fell and so did the prospects for the Rojava project.
6 Steve Owens
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 pm

Well you are nothing if not an optimist. The US has placed a large carrier in the Persian Gulf. It looks like the US will hit Iran with air assets and may decapitate the regimen but what then? Who is going to put troops on the ground? The anti regimen forces are large but unarmed. Somehow the pro regimen forces will need to be neutralised. These forces include the 340k strong Iranian Army, the 125k strong Islamic Revolutionary Guard and the 100k strong Popular Mobilisation Forces usually stationed in Iraq. So that’s half a million+ well armed battle hardened troops up against who?
History is against this new adventure being a success. The US put hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq without much success. They put no troops into Libya and that was a disaster.
7 Steve Owens
January 29, 2026 at 7:28 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0kpk3drgjo
8 Patrick Muldowney
January 30, 2026 at 12:34 pm

Nice to hear your thoughts. You sound like the ghost of Mao with his line that ‘without a people’s army the people have nothing’ and I agree BUT if you read what I have said above US airpower is the key to the rise of that peoples army and thus a more rapid victory of this democratic revolution and that is what is unfolding.

My wild guess (and that is exactly what all this will be from me and most others not even operating with any coherent theory) is that the hated regime might have 1 out of 10 support in the population not including (for clarity double your realistic numbers) 1million armed forces. So, we can further agree that 1mil is the number that counts for the short term. They have murdered many thousands in the last few weeks and consequently pessimism has descended on the people and is rampant in the west notably among the ruling elites and their lying mass media and the pseudo-left.

However, IF war breaks out (up to Trump and no one else as it was with Putin in his later wars) with the US coming to the assistance as it were, then the Iranian central command and control, air forces and navy will be the 1st forces targeted and I think that will go on till their effective destruction. They will be out of the war.

The necessarily widely dispersed ground forces will break apart (I think we probably both agree on this) the only questions are to what extent and to what timetable. I don’t know the answers to either but the picture for that 2nd point will look very different to the current picture simply because of the 1st victory.

When those breaks begin to happen the pro revolution elements (whatever their size at first) will then stand (where they are) with the masses and then make contact with the US and receive not static air cover over that area, but air attack as they advance to agreed goals (the US big plan). This type of support could say start with the Peshmerga who will be involved out of Iraq and the Kurdish regions will fall to local control very quickly!

1million troops may well turn into 800,000 V 200,000 on the revolution’s side quicker than even I might guess but it won’t take 4 years and Ukraine, Syria, Libya and Iraq have reminded us that revolution requires us to ‘cast aside illusions and prepare for struggle’. However, that number would be decisive with the addition of the last superpowers air power and logistics putting further war in favor of the 1 v 4.

So, I repeat.
‘Anyhow the US will NOT be willing to do very much of the required ground fighting (and virtually none in cities) and they will get out of Iran ASAP. Yet a small number of forces supported by the US airpower could very well liberate the whole country and the Turks, Armenians, Kurds and all the rest ARE going to get involved (but only after the US has destroyed the Iranian big ‘stuff’) and a ground offensive becomes not only required but viable. So, I say a powerful and effectively ‘peoples’ army is on the way.’

Those currently in control of the armed forces will eventually begin to run for their lives as increasing numbers of those that they command begin to desert and the jig is seen to be up. The regimes ‘die-hards’ will not be fighting step by step back to anything like the Berlin Bunker. A rot will IMV rapidly set in.

We are about to conclude the 4th year of the escalated Ukraine war. My 5-year prediction may well prove optimistic, but I am still hopeful. I do not think the Iranian revolution will take 5 years.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4IwBAatbZmg

You should make some detailed comments on the article you have posted above without any. Then we might know what YOU think about the issues (and you could then hold yourself to account).

I will post on a Ukraine thread some links I use that you may already use or know of but if you have any others to add feel free to recommend your additions.
9 Patrick Muldowney
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 pm

Today everyone is talking but IMV no one really gets it especially the foreign policy elites and the pseudo-left that parrot the same guff in different bottles. What they get right is that war is now on the table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GfXJXPIEsQ others are talking revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7wE3XOwFU but what is the broader theoretical thinking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rU2QPIwOQs 24hr deadline?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMFrrP0ilQw Piers Morgan
10 Patrick Muldowney
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 pm

I honestly hope this does not turn into the very big revolutionary war that I think it will, but only armed struggle could possibly end this theocratic fascist regime that is backed by China and Russia.

What I am confident about is that the genocide in Gaza and the continuing war for greater Israel is not going to escape peoples notice! Our western political, cultural and media elites are losing the youth.

‘for the times they are a changing’
11 Patrick Muldowney
January 31, 2026 at 9:48 am

We are indeed living in strange times https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LHICJ271mNo
12 Patrick Muldowney
January 31, 2026 at 12:51 pm

Sam Kiley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kiley has made his views very clear. Why Iran is the wrong war for Trump to back. and I wonder how much of this Steve agrees with? https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/why-iran-is-the-wrong-war-for-trump-to-back/ar-AA1VjlIg?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=697d5bc3a6ea42bb897631a3eb3771f3&ei=26

I have to admit that the US could very well stuff this up, after all they are not led by the sharpest of tools. But the Iranian masses will have to press on with the revolution because there is no going back now.
13 Steve Owens
January 31, 2026 at 7:54 pm

I don’t want to appear rude but maybe the US has helped enough in Iran. In 1953 the CIA overthrew the democratic government in Iran. They then helped Iran by training and equipping Savak. The CIA has had a hand in the 1979 protests, the 1999 2003,2009, 2011, the 2016 Cyrus revolt the 2017, 2018,2021, 2022,2023,2025 and 2006 protests. Many of these protests have been stimulated by the US “maximum pressure campaign” Then there is operation Praying Mantis and Operation Nimble Archer along with the flight 655 tragedy. Add to this the murder of Soleimani who at the time was co ordinating the campaign against ISIL. Then there’s the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Syria by Israel and the joint bombing campaign last year. Given how much the US has helped the people of Iran do you ever think that maybe the way forward is to stop helping and just let the country run it’s course.
14 Steve Owens
January 31, 2026 at 10:46 pm

One clarification above I wrote 2006 it was a typo it should read 2026. Apart from that I listed 22 times where the US has interfered with the internal workings of Iran. Of the 22 it is hard to identify any that improved the situation for the people in Iran but that’s OK maybe 23 will be the charm. I should point out that my knowledge of Iran is a bit sketchy I counted 22 interventions but I’m sure anyone who has knowledge about Iran could point out a few more, just off the top of my head I could point to the policy of providing intel to both sides during the Iran/Iraq war because US foreign policy aimed at a stalemate but yeah who knows 23 might work out fine. How many people died in that war? Estimates start at 1,000,000 that’s some shit right there.
15 Patrick Muldowney
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 am

Curious why you have not mentioned the US British Australian etc and Soviet invasion and occupation of Iran in WW2. I would be interested in your views of this.
16 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 9:06 am

There have been 13 massive protest movements in Iran and of course we support the right of the Iranian masses to free speech and free assembly but we need to be clear, protests are not likely to topple the regimen. History is clear on this. During July 1917 in Petrograd there were massive armed protests which rallied around Bolshevik slogans. Lenin’s advice to the protesters was “The Bolsheviks appealed to the soldiers who had started the demonstration to act peaceably and in an organised way.” Lenin collected works
17 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 9:26 am

I am aware of but have not studied the British/Soviet occupation during WW2 but I am of the opinion that during war sovereignty of neutral states is often breached ie Nazis bombing Dublin, US bombing Switzerland, Churchill’s threat to Irish ports these things happen during war and the decisive factor is do you support or oppose the war. I assume that the British and Soviets decided that it was a necessary measure to defeat the Nazis so my immediate response without much information would be to support this. If you could prove that it was counter productive to the war effort then I would reverse that judgement.
18 Patrick Muldowney
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 am

I have already agreed with your views that all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun and thus the requirement for a people’s army – just like the free Syrian Army that developed and won in Syria (long after you declared the war lost as you will recall).

But what of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran and occupation of Iran I am very interested what and how you think about it.
19 Patrick Muldowney
February 1, 2026 at 9:55 am

I don’t think you are a racist, so why were you so dismissive of invading the fascist powers Spain and Portugal and starting the second front much sooner? When the Soviets were being bled white the US sent millions of troops to Britain rather than fight fascists. Seems like a double standard.
20 Patrick Muldowney
February 1, 2026 at 10:10 am

Steve Owens, as his consistent policy choice, tries his level best to obfuscate on what i’m (a communist putting the maoist inspired ‘drain the swamp’ argument) is saying; he does not make any genuine attempts to elucidate on the issues that arise from that viewpoint but rather hides from these issues and return to the well known crimes of the great Satan and the above 2 comments January 31, 2026 at 7:54 pm January 31, 2026 at 10:46 pm demonstrate my point.

1/ It is well known by ALL anti imperialists / revolutionary democrats / progressives that the US over the years has had various policies that were rotten to the core, and that I have referred to every year since well before 1991 and the US led international COW war to liberate the country of Kuwait from the Iraqi Baathists and consequently, at least partially liberate, the people of that country. Below is the same old style by another pseudoleftist anti war activist who even thought herself a communist!

patrickm said July 9, 2008 at 10:02 am
What are we to make of the comments from LindaD on this thread? She is not able to conduct a rational debate with someone that she believes is wrong about the war in Iraq and instead resorts to insults and a pointless rant. Why is she listing the great Satan’s long list of crimes going back to the atom bombing of Japan in WW2? How can this long list of issues that we agree about, help her in making an argument about what we disagree about? It can’t, and the other eight people that have taken part in this thread know this.
So the question arises why the silence from them? They all ought to know that LindaD is not conducting herself in any manner that is appropriate for any communist. Her inability to deal with any point in a manner that even resembles an effort to seek truth from facts is right up front. Every point made by me against her position has simply been avoided.
People who have read this thread all know that my position is that the U.S. has had rotten to the core policies since WW2, and they all know that they have led to the actions that were pointlessly listed by Linda D. Yet they are silent while their comrade invalidly tackles her opponent by either deliberately or completely ignorantly implying that I think the former policies of the ‘realists’ such as that untried war criminal Kissinger were to be supported. They were not.
The ‘realists’ whole life’s work of propping up the tyrannies of the Middle East is being undone and they are screaming mad about it. But LindaD hasn’t noticed.
The following is a point by point breakdown of what she has just done and what others are liberally tolerating.
‘Hate to even dignify your ramblings, rantings and diatribes Patrick’ = insult
this is NOT a revolution. = assertion; if LindaD had never voted in a free and fair election she might see the new freedom to do so, and to form a political party and to publish a newspaper and hold meetings etc., as quite revolutionary.
‘And … ad nauseum.’ = pointless reminder of the Great Satan’s post 1941 crimes.
‘The slaughter of over 300,000 Iraqi civilians in W’s war’, = phony pacifism; It has to be phony because maoists have never been any sort of pacifists. I wonder at what point LindaD will blame market place bombers for the casualties of their bombs going bang!
‘…and a recorded 200,000 in Daddy Warbucks’ war, = more phony pacifism (I take this to be Kuwait) but note that this was not ‘the Baathists war of aggression’ and note that the casualties are not sheeted home to Saddam! It’s the fault of those that put a stop to the annexation of a sovereign state. This is really strange because LindaD was just called out on walking two sides of the street on this issue.
‘…and the now 5,000,000 Iraqi refugees…no way in my (or millions of others) name.’
= reconfirmed opposition to the liberation of both the people of Kuwait and Iraq without any argument except to be generous an implied one that the cost was too high perhaps. But I can’t think of any realistic alternative to war to bring on this liberation as Paul Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in the silly video. No sanctions and economic measures were going to work with the Baathist dictatorship sitting on a sea of oil to fund their tyranny.
‘A rose by any other name…” It’s gonna take a whole lot more than a bar of Boraxo (Reagan’s soap of choice) to wash the blood of millions from the hands of the U.S. imperialists, for all their crimes against humanity–under the guise of bringing “democracy” to the world.’
= refusal to deal with the argument that the U.S. formerly used to rave on about democracy while actually supporting tyranny, but after 9/11 have changed policies and are now supporting the spread of bourgeois democracy rather than being the biggest barrier to that revolution.
Now LindaD’s inability to hold up one side of a debate and deal with the issues that I have argued in reasonable detail is not surprising. But the liberalism demonstrated by those who call themselves communists as they say nothing and continue to promote video’s dribbling on about oil and do so while mistating the analysis of other communists is more than disappointing.
This is not just the era when ‘nations want liberation, countries want independence and the people want revolution’. It is also the period of lowest tide for the western left.
With people who can’t admit to the heroic liberating efforts of U.S. troops in WW2, because to do so would open a Pandora’s box, and out would pop the possibility that the U.S. ruling-elite could order them to act heroically in another war, nothing much can be done.
But the dead end is obvious.
Prime Minister Maliki negotiating the withdrawal as region after region come under the full control of Iraqi soldiers is just another signpost on the way to the political death of those who will not stand up and even notice the revolutionary changes even after they have happened.
Video: Noam Chomsky asks What About the Iraqis? « Kasama

So Steve knows about WW2 and the fact that Japan, Italy, Germany, France etc are not now US ruling class ‘possessions’ run by puppets!

The invalid method of Linda D is replicated by Steve Owens.
21 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 11:23 am

The USA was forced into WW2 and once in played a progressive role in liberating France, Holland, Germany and Japan. This was progressive but afterwards they lapsed back into reactionary Imperialism Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and on and on. Somehow after Saddam invaded Kuwait you decided that the USA had flipped back into progressive mode and you supported the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and urged for war in Syria and bombing Libya. The neo-cons running this policy were also keen to wage war on Iran but that was a bridge too far. I guess that if Iraq had been more of a success then we would have seen war against Iran and logic would indicate that you would have given this war your support.
My position is that the USA never flipped back into progressive mode as can be seen by the genocide in Gaza.
Honestly what is the role of the USA in Iran? There is no opposition vying for power there are just people impoverished by the regimens incompetence and by US sanctions.
All America can do is bomb and hope that regimen change emerges from the rubble. That is their policy and to hell with them.
22 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 11:51 am

I’m trying to understand our differences and I think I can make these differences most clear with historical analogies. I think you see the world as being in a pre WW2 situation one side fascist and one side democratic with Putin in the role of Hitler and China as Japan and Iran as Italy.
I see it more like pre WW1 with numerous great powers attempting to dominate.
So you think the answer is to encourage war and I think the answer is to oppose war.
23 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 8:10 pm

Did I really say that the Syrian civil war was over? I remember saying that the rebels had the initial upper hand but then Assad gained the upper hand with the use of tanks. The positions reversed when Saudi Arabia started to supply the rebels with TOW anti tank missiles only for Assad to be on top once again with Russian air to ground support. The Free Syrian Army virtually disbanded in 2016 and remnants got protection through the Turkish intervention and the free area of Idlib that the Turks protected. Turkey rearranged the military opposition with ex al-Qaeda/ISIL people in charge. No one anticipated that Russia with it’s forces occupied in Ukraine and Israel decapitating Hezbollah would leave the road to Damascus open.
24 Steve Owens
February 1, 2026 at 8:20 pm

I think it’s a serious misreading of history to think that the allies attacking Spain was a good idea. One Spain had an army battle hardened. Churchill went to great lengths to keep Spain out of the war. England was bribing senior Spanish authorities exactly to keep Spain out of the war. Hitler made a huge mistake by not recruiting Spain. An Axis Spain would have closed the Mediterranean and allowed Nazi submarines to have bases much further West. Hitler and Franco could not come to terms. Franco wanted a cancellation of debt and Hitler should have said absolutely yes but you persist in the nonsense of bringing Spain into the war.
25 Patrick Muldowney
February 2, 2026 at 4:19 pm

‘The fall of the ayatollahs might merely usher in more chaos and conflict – a terrible, counterproductive outcome analogous to those that followed Western interventions in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.’ As we see from Steve Owens the above is a widely held view of the pseudoleft and open right.

But let us assume that the situation in Iran is twice as difficult as I have speculated. So, the problem would be that only 1 in 5 (so 1 v 4) of the population would favor the democratic revolution and the armed forces faced by the unarmed masses would swell to 2million. The population is, from memory, about 92million. So, that would make about 72 democratic revolution supporters for every 18 Islamofascist supporters. However, one lot -the fascists- are armed and the democrats and any fellow travelers are not. These raw statistics are consequently hopeful only in the very long term and then only perhaps, but they are undoubtedly grim in the short term.

People who want to see the regime defeated and the democratic revolution victorious given the magnitude of the arms differential are thus faced with dilemmas in all directions.

That would seem a reasonable reflection of the basic fear that the Iranian people are up against a much bigger enemy than my first guestimate BUT according to Steve they would be best left to work it out for themselves. US ‘Hands off’ is Steve Owens loud and clear message.

This view logically admits that this presents the revolutionaries with a problem that the lawful tyranny does not have. The Chinese will still be backing them and so will the North Koreans and to the extent he now can Putin! I am also aware of significant elements from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others who have a vital interest in preventing a democratic revolution in this strategically vital country. So, the external support for the Islamo-fascists is both broad and very powerful and will not be stopped by a ‘hands off’ from the west approach but obviously encouraged. This one-sided approach seems to me a fatal flaw to the claimed moral high ground ‘support’ for the currently unarmed Iranian masses.

Even when fascist armies turned up and blatantly enslaved people and annexed their territories you would not countenance war to undo what they were doing. Falkland invasion, Kuwait invasion, Georgia invasion, Ukraine invasions, Syrian Intervention all spring to mind. Russia is currently intervening in several countries in Africa for example and fascist China is meddling all over the world. Indeed, many pseudo leftists have blamed the current Russian ‘response’ of invading Ukraine on NATO expansion no less ie. if smaller countries unite in a collective security structure, they are the problem!

Now I think these ‘other side of the coin’ issues are often hidden behind the fact of the long litany of imperialist wrongdoing. As Linda D pointlessly spelled out above. Further the issues get very muddled when a fucking act of genocide is currently underway as the Zionist desperately try to make and ‘win’ their war for greater Israel backed by the US. So, the little and big Satan thinking has more than a bit of evidence to confuse people. I am reminded of Thacher doing the right thing in fighting fascism after all those years of doing the wrong thing in Ireland’s northeast. Not one of my Irish comrades correctly analyzed the Falkland war. None understood the necessity for democrats to unite with the right wingers to defeat the fascists.

However, Mao’s ability to unite with Chiang Kei Shek (more properly a mass murdering fascist himself) but who led forces that were not just fascists and rightists but also vitally required to stand up to the greater current danger of the Japanese Militarists shows us the correct approach.

The US ruling elites are not now saints nor have they ever been! To point this out in Linda D manner is as silly as it gets. One only has to consider the atomic bombing crimes in the context of their WW2 ‘on the side of the angels’ activity to understand the constant juggling required to defeat the enemies of the people one by one that you are already prepared to do! Stop pretending that you’re not doing this.

If you want to even see where the medal podium is, you have to get out of your phony moral high ground gutter just for a start.

Repeating all the wrong doings of Chiang Kei Shek from 1927 till the Sian incident would only lead the foolish to hang him rather than set him free to fight the Japanese. Difficult as the method is to apply when dealing with such scoundrels, victory is won by uniting the many to defeat the few and by first working out what is the principal contradiction right now.

If I were you, I would read Mao selected works starting from vol 1 page one and read to vol 4 last page. People who want to think about revolutionary wars and how to win them have a duty to study those who have won them.

You are currently making no sense, as usual.

Even a rotten lying Zionist is making more sense Crisis with Iran | Lt. Col. (Res.) Jonathan Conricus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUp6A7H4aHU
26 Steve Owens
February 2, 2026 at 5:33 pm

So you’re calling for military action against Iran. Who else is calling for military action? There’s the would be king. So that’s you and the king anyone else on this crusade for democracy. Starmer is on board but last I heard Netanyahu was edging away. Saudi Arabia is a no as is the United Arab Emirates and Turkiye is a no.
27 Patrick Muldowney
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 am

I don’t think the king has any real prospect of winning mass support for a British style constitutional system when the time for that choice arises after the victory over the islamofascists.

But I note that a large number of the Iranian people would welcome their direct enemy being attacked and themselves assisted. I have no idea what % of the population would be but I think it’s notable that you have forgotten about these millions and instead mention the ‘king’ and thus his supporters also a small but measurable %. Then there are the Iranian masses who like the ‘king’ are already in exile in the west. I know that a large number of them would think that their enslaved people require military assistance and who better than the US to destroy their enemies’ big assets and leadership, and to disrupt their ability to co-ordinate the ongoing mass deaths and enslavement that seems to have slipped your mind.

Anyway, you must remember this is still down to 1 man and he has a TACO tag so who can say. I hope 1 way and you apparently hope the other. I just think that a person like you who wants to see the Iranian masses armed and fighting back against the actual enemy of any change ought to start telling us where the arms and training is going to come from and over what time span you would estimate your preferred method to the same change project and given that the enemy command and control and ‘big stuff’ would not be disrupted under your preferred method, what your estimates for the resultant casualties are for your method.

I won’t go into the detail re your silly thinking about WW2 and where a 2nd front could or could not have been launched all I will say for now is that my proposal would have seen the demise of 2 more fascist regimes and millions fewer Soviet casualties just for starters. Naturally the US and British and French. Spanish and Portuguese, especially the Vichy and the Fascists in the other 2 would have suffered more casualties. Anyway you show no sign of even having contemplated the alternative thinking but like with the atomic bombing that was not done to save US soldiers lives as claimed there were alternatives and they ought to be speculated upon sometime. Unfortunately, not now; but here is an item of some interest to add to your new knowledge about the WW2 era. https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/spain-s-forgotten-soldiers-why-thousands-volunteered-to-fight-for-hitler/vi-AA1VwhPB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6981245f8b7b462aaf4c99b019353f4a&ei=39
and https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/spain-s-forgotten-soldiers-why-thousands-volunteered-to-fight-for-hitler/vi-AA1VwhPB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6981245f8b7b462aaf4c99b019353f4a&ei=39
and
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/covering-the-azores-gap-in-world-war-ii/
as food for thought.
28 Patrick Muldowney
February 8, 2026 at 2:26 pm

A mixed bag of thoughts https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/extremely-weak-focused-us-strikes-on-ayatollah-could-spark-resurgence-in-iranian-uprising/ar-AA1VTxbl?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=6987fcf5d6b54045bebb4235869082b3&ei=40

Good re Iran and the Trump known unknown issues then typically sloppy sky news junk re ‘Kurds’. The Turkish government is NOT the enemy of the Kurds but rather have in various forms of a Turkish government been at war with the PKK led element of the Kurds for the last 40+ years. Syria is now being fully reconstituted by the Syrian majority and thus the Assad aligned Rojava authorities are being integrated into the new Syria. It’s complex and there are those that present as democrat by day and come out as fascist by night but then the democratic revolution like all revolutions is like that!