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U.S. Suffers Worst Day of Air Losses in Decades as Iran Conflict Spirals

Simplicius
simplicius76.substack.com
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:45 UTC
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The Iran conflict is escalating, with the Trump administration desperate to keep a straight face on things as American casualties and losses begin mounting.

Today's major shock came when not one, not two, but an unprecedented three American F-15E fighter jets were mysteriously shot down over Kuwait. Note the official US military report admits that Iranian aircraft had been engaging them at a time when "air superiority" was allegedly long established:
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But not everyone is convinced these were "friendly fire" incidents. Iran announced it had downed the craft, which is at least plausible given that Kuwait is positioned well within reach of long-range S-300s.

There are even logical speculations that Iran had received the latest Geran drone tech from Russia which attaches air-to-air missiles onto the Gerans and Shaheds, allowing them to shoot down pursuing craft as Russia has now verifiably demonstrated against a number of Ukrainian aerial assets. It's impossible to know for sure, but friendly fire on three aircraft in a row strains credulity.
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Oil Well

Iran blames Israel for Saudi Aramco drone attack, calls it 'false flag'


Source
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:36 UTC
The Aramco Oil Refinery in Dahran, Saudi Arabia.
© MyLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe Aramco Oil Refinery in Dahran, Saudi Arabia.
Iran has accused Israel of carrying out a drone attack on facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco, describing it as a "false flag" operation.

Iran's Tasnim News Agency quoted a military source as saying: "The attack on Aramco was an Israeli false flag operation, adding that Israel's goal is to distract the minds of regional countries from its crimes in attacking civilian sites in Iran."

"Iran has announced frankly that it will target all American and Israeli interests, installation, and facilities in the region, and has attacked many of them so far, but Aramco facilities have not been among the targets of Iranian attacks so far," the source told the agency.

Comment: False flags are definitely in the Israeli handbook to create chaos.

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Satellite

China's satellites over West Asia: A silent shield for Iran

Shivan Mahendrarajah
The Cradle
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:26 UTC
Beijing's expanding satellite network now hangs over the region as an unmistakable warning to Washington and Tel Aviv: their every deployment is visible.

Satellite Over Middle East
© The Cradle
When MizarVision began publishing satellite images of the US force buildup in the Persian Gulf and Jordan ahead of the US-Israel war on Iran that began on 28 February 2026, the internet reacted instantly. The photographs circulated widely because they revealed something western providers had carefully avoided showing.

For years, companies such as Planet Labs and Maxar filtered or withheld imagery deemed sensitive to US and Israeli interests. The public rarely gained access to unvarnished visuals of American deployments in West Asia. MizarVision disrupted that pattern and forced those deployments into the open.

Obvious questions followed: Why would a Chinese firm release material that western corporations consistently suppress? Who is behind MizarVision? Why is this Chinese company publishing sensitive images that the public has never seen before?

MizarVision, according to publicly available information, is a reseller of images captured by privately owned Chinese satellites. Yet, since Beijing pre-authorizes the release of sensitive information, its motives for doing so have raised eyebrows.

The roles of China's satellite fleet in monitoring US and Israeli activity, and in helping Yemen's Ansarallah-aligned forces and Iran's military during the 12-day US-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic last June, are suspected by American and Israeli diplomats and security professionals; however, the broader public was mostly unaware, assuming that Iran obtained images for military purposes from its own military satellites.

Iran operates a modest satellite program. It lacks the density, redundancy, and persistent coverage required for sustained high-resolution military intelligence. Just as Israel depends on US reconnaissance architecture, Iran leans on a technologically advanced partner able to provide continuous surveillance and rapid tasking.

That partner is China.
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Attention

Long live liberty and freedom Bahrain addition


Islander Reports
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:11 UTC
Bahrain Protest
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Bahrain is in revolution. Saudi armour is rolling in to crush it. You will not see this on CNN.

For three decades Washington told you the missiles are for the people (we have to commit mass murder to save them!) — for the oppressed, the voiceless, those living under theocratic tyranny. It funded colour revolutions. Cheered manufactured protesters in Iran. Ran Farsi-language CIA social media accounts urging Iranians into the streets. Every last word of it in the name of freedom. But where is CNN and the BBC demanding freedom and liberty for this popular uprising in Bahrain? Fecking hypocrites.

The majority Shia population of Bahrain are in the streets. Saudi tanks are crossing the King Fahd Causeway. Again. Where is the White House statement cheering on this popular uprising for liberty and freedom? Where is the State Department's grave concern? Silent — because Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet, and the Al Khalifa family are the right kind of autocrats. The kind that price their oil in dollars. The wrong kind of autocrat is simply the one Washington doesn't own. Washington loves brutal dictatorships and the feeling is mutual for the Sunni monarchs that are loyal to the empires exporting of actual terrorism.

Now watch the boomerang.
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Cow Skull

Trump regime change wars could start WWIII - Medvedev


RT
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:18 UTC
Medvedev
© Sputnik/Ekaterina ShtukinaRussian Security Council Chair Dmitry Medvedev
US President Donald Trump could set off World War III with his "criminal" regime change operations, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned.

In an interview with TASS published on Monday, Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, was asked if WWIII has already begun.

"Technically, no, but if Trump continues his insane course of criminal regime change, it will undoubtedly begin. And any event could be the trigger. Any," he said.

The attack on Iran is part of a broader war by the US and its allies "to maintain global dominance," he stated.

According to Medvedev, Trump made a "grave mistake" by assassinating Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, "putting all Americans at risk."

Comment: Trump has put himself in a situation where he has no good options. That was predicted by many, but hubris and believing their own team's wishful thinking made the US administration go for it anyway. Lighting fires is easy, even a child can do it, but putting them out is another matter.

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Star of David

The War for Greater Israel

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC
Tehran War
© ScreenshotThe bombing in Tehran
There has scarcely been an attempt to pretend any justification in international law for the attack on Iran and murder of its leader. The response of the UK government, focusing almost entirely on condemning Iran for exercising its legitimate right of self-defence, takes the Starmer dishonesty meter further off the scale.

The RAF has been actively involved in genocide in Gaza for two years with its surveillance and logistic support for the IDF. It is now fighting for Israel again; intercepting Iranian missiles is not defensive; it is joining in the attack on an already vastly overmatched opponent.

I am afraid that the truth is the Iranian attempt to defend itself militarily will be less impactful than many anti-imperialists hope. The astonishing amounts of money spent by the US government on military and surveillance technology simply do have real-world effect.

Here in Venezuela, having seen the major sites struck by the US on 3 January, I have concluded that no act of betrayal was needed. Just overwhelming force and precision technology applied against a technologically unequal opponent whose key capabilities were all on open hilltops or in unhardened barracks.

Iran is much more militarily sophisticated, but facing exponentially more force. Khamenei was killed in his own home, not hiding away. He is going to prove a lot more powerful as a martyr than as a ruler with his internal critics.
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Attention

Between external confrontation and internal fracture: America on the brink of a systemic crisis

Jeffrey Silverman
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00 UTC
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Global geopolitical tensions are unfolding in parallel with a deepening domestic crisis in the United States, where structural socio-economic shifts are intensifying social instability and political polarization.

Despite crushing sanctions and the growing threat of military escalation, Iran continues to maintain its position in the broader geopolitical confrontation, even after the early-morning strike carried out by the United States and Israel against Iranian targets today. So far, Donald Trump has not been compelled to fully align with Israeli strategic demands, and some analysts argue that the prospects for peace in Ukraine remain distant, according to interpretations circulated by sources such as the Institute for the Study of War, which critics describe as heavily biased toward attributing blame to Russia. Meanwhile, there are claims that United Kingdom diplomatic maneuvering continues to complicate potential settlement efforts.

All the while, there is a growing sense among many Americans that the system is no longer broken but functioning exactly as designed: wealth concentrating at the top, political choice narrowing, and public trust collapsing. We need to look at the nexus between geopolitical conflict, media narratives, and domestic instability, suggesting that foreign crises may serve as convenient smoke screens while structural economic and political changes reshape society at home and may be leading to a showdown between Washington and Americans themselves.

Comment: Looking from the inside out is no better than looking from the outside in. The problem is not the window, it is the wall.

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Star of David

Khamenei killing: America and Israel cross a new line in international politics

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:48 UTC
Khomeinei
© Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Iranian Leader Press Office/Anadolu/ Getty ImagesIranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
The killing of a head of state and the end of old restraints.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead and the international system is entering a far more dangerous phase than many appear willing to acknowledge.

One may hold any opinion about the Islamic Republic of Iran, about its ideology or ruling elite. There are ample grounds for criticism, some severe. Yet one basic fact remains: Ali Khamenei was the legitimate head of a UN member state, recognized by virtually the entire international community, and a lawful participant in international relations. This included ongoing political negotiations with those who ultimately organized the attack, negotiations that continued until the moment the hostilities began.

The targeted destruction of a state's leadership by another state as a matter of deliberate policy marks a fundamentally new stage in world politics. This is not merely another episode of regime change. Even when compared with the brutal ends of Muammar Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein, the difference is stark. Gaddafi was killed by Libyan opponents amid internal collapse; Hussein was executed following a trial conducted by an Iraqi court, however flawed one may judge it.

Iran's case is different. It resembles the method Israel has used against the leadership of Hezbollah and Hamas: Direct elimination by external force, without intermediaries, without legal framing, and without the pretense of internal process.

Comment: Extermination carries a heavy price for both the victim and the sword. For some it is the end of the line, for others it awaits.

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Stop

Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety

Matt O'Brien, Konstantin Toropin
AP
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:13 UTC
Pete Hegseth
© Kevin Wolf/AP/FileDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth • Pentagon • Washington DC • January 15, 2026
The Trump administration on Friday ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties, escalating an unusually public clash between the government and the company over AI safety.

President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials took to social media to chastise Anthropic for failing to allow the military unrestricted use of its AI technology by a Friday deadline, accusing it of endangering national security after CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down over concerns the company's products could be used in ways that would violate its safeguards.

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again!" Trump said on social media.

Hegseth also deemed the company a "supply chain risk," a designation typically stamped on foreign adversaries that could derail the company's critical partnerships with other businesses.

In a statement issued Friday evening, Anthropic said it would challenge what it called an unprecedented and legally unsound action "never before publicly applied to an American company."
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'Political assassination': Moscow slams US-Israeli strike on Iranian leader


RT
Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:09 UTC
Khamenei picture
© Bilal Jawich/Global Look PressCrowd Khamenei photo rememberance
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family were killed by US-Israeli airstrikes.

The US-Israeli political assassinations against Iran have no place in a civilized world, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said, commenting on the death of the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in US-Israeli airstrikes. Tehran confirmed early Sunday that the 86-year-old leader was killed in one of the attacks. His daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter also reportedly lost their lives in the strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Khamenei's compound was struck in a "powerful surprise attack," vowing that "thousands of targets" in the Iranian leadership will be killed in the coming days.

Moscow met the news of Khamenei's death with "outrage and deep sorrow," the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
"The Russian Federation resolutely and consistently condemns the practice of political assassinations and the 'hunting' of leaders of sovereign states, which contradicts the fundamental principles of civilized interstate relations and blatantly violates international law."
Moscow also warned that continued hostilities are leading to growing civilian casualties and inflicting serious damage on civilian infrastructure.
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