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Best of the Web: Thinking About the Unthinkable

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Iran's grand plan to end U.S. presence in the Middle East

Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that "There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender," and announced that he must have a voice in naming or at least approving Iran's new leader, as he has just done in Venezuela. "If the U.S. military must utterly defeat it and bring about a regime change, or else "you go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who's no better.'"1 It will take at least that long for America to replace the weaponry that has been depleted, rebuild its radar and related installations and mount a new war.

Iranian officials likewise recognize that U.S. attacks will keep being repeated until the United States is driven out of the Middle East. Having agreed to a ceasefire last June instead of pressing its advantage when Israeli and regional U.S. anti-missile defenses were depleted, Iran realized that war will be resumed as soon as the United States is able to re-arm its allies and military bases to renew what both sides recognize is to be a fight to some kind of final solution.

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Best of the Web: Meteor fireball over northwest Europe on March 8 - meteorite fragments found

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We received 2806 reports about a fireball seen over Aargau, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Baden-Württemberg, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bavaria, Bayern, Bern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Brussel, Brussels, Bruxelles, Centre-Val de Loire, Clervaux, Diekirch, Drenthe, Esch-sur-Alzette, Flanders, Flevoland and Fribourg on Sunday, March 8th 2026 around 17:55 UT.

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Comment: Meteorite fragments have been found in Germany:




Star of David

Best of the Web: How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war

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The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president's deepest fears to keep him on the war path.

"I got him before he got me," an ebullient President Donald Trump remarked to a reporter when asked about his motives for authorizing the killing of Iran's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 28, 2026.

With his off-the-cuff remark, Trump revealed that anxiety about his own assassination at the hands of Iranian agents influenced his decision to initiate a US-Israeli regime change war that has already resulted in American casualties, the bombings of schools and hospitals inside Iran, devastating Iranian retaliatory strikes on US military bases and embassies, and a spiraling global economic crisis.

Trump's generalized fears of assassination were well-founded. He was nearly killed in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 by a 20-year-old engineering student named Thomas Crooks who managed to fire eight rounds at the former president from a rooftop, slicing his ear and missing his head by a hair's breadth. Two months later, a drifter named Ryan Routh was arrested after hiding for hours in the shrubbery outside the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh had been spotted after pointing an assault rifle toward a Secret Service agent as Trump played golf 400 yards away.

Black Magic

Best of the Web: US-Israeli massacre of schoolgirls a human sacrifice to 'Epstein cult' - Iranian envoy

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© Stringer / Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe funeral of children killed in an airstrike on a school in Minab, Iran
The strike on an Iranian school that killed at least 160 pre-teen students and teachers on the first day of the US-Israeli regime-change operation resembles satanic rituals allegedly enabled by pedophile American financier Jeffrey Epstein, an Iranian diplomat has claimed.

The attack in Minab, for which US and Israeli forces have not yet acknowledged responsibility, occurred last Saturday as the Pentagon and IDF struck targets across Iran in an attempt to decapitate and paralyze its government.

Alireza Sanei, Iranian ambassador to Belarus, alleged on Wednesday that Epstein was part of a mystical cult and that the same forces targeted the Minab school in "some ritual of child sacrifice" meant to bring success to the US-Israeli military operation.

"Children from different countries were trafficked to Epstein Island," the diplomat said, referring to the financier's notorious islet in the US Virgin Islands. "There were abuses, rapes, then sacrifices. They sacrificed kids to the devil spirit."

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Flashback Best of the Web: French govt orders hospitals to "be prepared to treat thousands of soldiers in potential major war by March 2026"

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France is preparing its health system for a scenario in which it may have to treat thousands of soldiers returning from combat, in what its health minister says is a precautionary measure.

In a letter to regional health authorities dated July 18, the French health ministry reportedly directed hospitals to be ready for a potential "major engagement" by March 2026.

The ministry said France's hospitals should be aware of the "limitations in wartime" and be ready to care for both French and foreign soldiers in the event of a major conflict.

It said hospitals should be prepared to treat thousands of soldiers within a period of 10 to 180 days, according to the French satirical newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, which first reported the letter last week. Euronews Health has not independently verified its contents.

Comment: In hindsight, perhaps it wasn't "war with Russia" they had in mind...


Fireball 3

Best of the Web: Meteor fireball behind mysterious flash and boom over Vancouver, British Columbia on March 3

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A flash and loud boom heard across Metro Vancouver sent shockwaves heard as far away as Washington State. St. John Alexander reports.


Star of David

Best of the Web: Operation Epic Disaster: The arrests that prove the US-Israel war Was built on coercion, not precision

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Read this sentence carefully. Read it like your understanding of the war depends on it... because it does.
"In Qatar and Saudi Arabia, authorities arrested Mossad agents planning on committing bombings in those countries."
Tucker Carlson spoke those words on March 2, 2026. While the United States and Israel were still basking in the afterglow of "Operation Epic Fury", still selling the world the story of a surgical precision campaign that had eliminated Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a single night of dazzling tactical brilliance, their own intelligence operatives were apparently sitting in handcuffs in Riyadh and Doha — caught red-handed, planning to blow up the very Arab capitals that host America's largest military bases in the region.

Not Tehran's agents. Not IRGC proxies. But rather, Israeli intelligence agents from the Mossad, who reportedly have been arrested by America's own allies for plotting to bomb them.

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Best of the Web: Spain refuses to provide military support for US attack on Iran

Washington has withdrawn its tanker planes from the Morón air base in Seville after being denied permission to use it in Operation Epic Fury
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© David Arjona (EFE)Military aircraft at the Morón air base in Seville.
Spain is refusing to support the U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran and has distanced itself from the position adopted by France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, which have shown themselves willing to undertake "proportionate defensive action" in response to Tehran's attacks on the Persian Gulf countries and Cyprus. "Each country makes its own foreign policy decisions. Spain has a very clear position: Europe's voice must be one of balance and moderation at this time, working towards de-escalation and a return to the negotiating table," Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Monday. "A logic of violence, as we are seeing, only leads to a spiral of violence, and unilateral military actions outside the United Nations Charter, outside any collective action, have no clear objective. Europe must defend international law, de-escalation, and negotiation," he insisted.

Comment: Trump has threatened to 'end all trade with Spain'.

He did so in front of the German Chancellor, who's visiting DC.

The Chancellor AGREED with the American president.


The EU is all but dead.


Star of David

Best of the Web: Israel strikes girls' school in Iran, killing up to 160 (UPDATED)

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An Israeli strike has hit an elementary girls' school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing at least 51 people, state media reported, as the immediate civilian cost from Israel and the United States' huge bombardment of Iran comes into sharper focus.

Iran's Mehr news agency also reported that at least two students were killed by an Israeli attack that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera's Mohammed Vall said of the attack on the girls' school, "There are new reports confirming the number of people killed in that strike has now gone above 40. That's a civilian target, and that's one of the targets that might really become problematic with regards to this campaign by the Americans and the Israelis, who are saying that they are targeting only military targets and they are trying to punish the regime, not the people of Iran.


Comment: Tass reports:
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei said that the strike by the United States and Israel killed up to 160 schoolgirls in the southern city of Minab.

"The Zionist regime's attack on the school in the city of Minab killed 150-160 of our girls, which is a terrible crime," he said, as quoted by ISNA.




Snakes in Suits

Best of the Web: The Talented Mr. Newsom

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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom could be our next president. But does anyone - including him - know what he stands for? A detailed look at his life suggests the answer might be no.

California has every natural and economic advantage: a long, beautiful coast, great weather, a generations-long stranglehold on cultural production in Los Angeles and advanced technology in Silicon Valley.

Yet years of Democratic misrule have made the state so unlivable its taxpaying residents are fleeing en masse. Building houses, or high-speed rail, or anything else in California is nearly impossible. Meanwhile, the state has done all it can to make itself a home for unemployable illegal migrants, including offering them free medical care.

One might think this record would make Gavin Newsom, California's Democratic governor, an unattractive presidential candidate.

One would be wrong.