Here we go again

Here we go again. The United States of America has launched Operation "Epic Fury" in the Middle East. The White House has officially announced the start of this massive military campaign, aimed, they say, at permanently dismantling Iran's nuclear potential and its missile networks.

Because the US is the only democracy in the world, the only one that arrogates to itself the right to do whatever it wants and to place any other country it wants under its "democracy." Self-legitimization that is very democratically based on voting and the expression of the will and representation of the people... ah, no, it is based on the amount of lead that is proportionally destined to fall on people's heads.

You can be sure of one thing: nothing good will ever come out of the United States of America, a country founded on the rejects of modern European society, armed to act like gangsters and spread fear, hatred, death, and destruction throughout the world.

Welcome back, "new American century"! The clan of godfathers with the stars and stripes flag hadn't closed its doors, it was just busy with some pedo-Satanist parties on Epstein Island and elsewhere. Now they're back in business. It doesn't matter what color, it doesn't matter what political flag, it doesn't even matter if the economy is booming or collapsing: what really matters is smashing everything.

In fact, the White House has said that Epic Fury is based on the Peace Through Strength doctrine, marking the shift from diplomatic pressure to direct action to ensure global security and protect strategic allies, which, reading between the lines, means Israel. Because we must not forget — really, we must NEVER forget — that Israel represents the strongest political force in the US. Netanyahu is just one name among many; what matters is the neocon eschatological messianism, with its Christianity revisited in the form of a spiritual talk show. You can't remove that with a military operation, with a few protests against genocide or with political revenge, because it is a systemic element, part of the very constitution of the United States of America.

Trump has stated that the goal of Epic Fury is to end decades of instability, aiming for a rapid and total neutralization of threats in the region, with 4-5 weeks of military engagement.

There is no doubt that Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is making up for all the wars he did not start in his first term.

Even the Board of Peace now takes on a clearer meaning: it is a network to put the leaders of various countries at his service, for billions of dollars, who now recognize his authority as "lord of lords," while from his throne — not made of swords but of the blood and bones of people killed by American wars — he tells the world what to do and mocks the entire emerging multipolar system.

Former President Bill Clinton on Friday told lawmakers that he had no clue about crimes carried out by Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender who visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times while Bill was president, before letting Clinton fly on the 'Lolita Express' dozens of times.

"I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," Clinton said in a statement prepared for a closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York. "I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn't see."

"My brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and ... I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on," said the 79-year-old former president, adding "I had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing."

Qatar halted its production of liquefied natural gas on Monday as Israeli and U.S. strikes against Iran and Tehran's retaliation prompted precautionary shutdowns of oil and gas facilities across the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia shut its biggest domestic oil refinery after a drone strike, a source with knowledge of the matter said.

Qatari LNG production is equivalent to about 20% of global supply. The Gulf country is the world's second largest LNG exporter after the U.S. and plays a major role in balancing Asian and European LNG market needs. Asian clients represent 82% of state-owned QatarEnergy's customers.

A wave of attacks in the Middle East stretched into a third day, also resulting in the suspension of most oil production in Iraqi Kurdistan and several major Israeli gas fields, throttling exports to Egypt.

Oil prices surged as much as 13% intraday to above $82 a barrel, the highest since January 2025, as the conflict ground shipping to a near halt in the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil supply flows.

State oil giant Saudi Aramco's (2222.SE), opens new tab 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) Ras Tanura refinery, which was shut as a precautionary measure, is part of an energy complex on the kingdom's Gulf coast which also serves as a critical export terminal for Saudi crude oil.

And so it begins. This time it isn't 'kayfabe' and 'negotiated strikes and counter-strikes'. The 'peace president', when announcing joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February, said it would just take a few days, and gloated that he 'took out the regime' by targeting top Iranian leadership, including Ayatollah Khamenei. But Iran's swift and massive response - bombing 11 countries housing US and Israeli military bases and installations, including a British base in Cyprus, EU territory - now has Trump saying the war will 'last for weeks'...

What did they think was going to happen, that Iranians would 'rise up and take power from their oppressors'? The Americans appear to have truly believed their own propaganda. In reality, Iranians are defiantly rallying in support of their country, and government, while Muslims across the region are preparing to potentially join the fray and do as Iran has always sought: remove all American military forces from the Persian Gulf, if not the Middle East as a whole.

It's too early for predicting such an end-game, but in the meantime, it appears that, in the absence of Iranian popular support for US and Israeli 'regime intervention', the strategy could switch to attacking the people of Iran and the country's infrastructure, 'punishment' for not 'capitulating'.


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The public story of Jack and Caroline Lang was supposed to be a triumph of culture and enlightened politics in the Fifth Republic. The private record now emerging from the Epstein files reads more like the biography of a dynasty that treated power as a family asset and a convicted sexual predator as a useful friend.

For years, the Langs projected an image that suited Parisian elites. Jack was the flamboyant minister who turned the Fête de la Musique into a global export and made culture a stage for presidential grandeur. Monique Lang (Jack's wife) was the unofficial gatekeeper at the ministry and later at Place des Vosges, the one who knew every artist and every journalist. Their daughters, Caroline and Valerie, grew up inside that glow. From the outside, the clan looked like a modern court that existed to celebrate art, ideas, and progressive politics. Sadly, Valérie, their youngest daughter, was taken by cancer at the age of 47.

Caroline herself embodied this official narrative. For almost three decades, she ran Warner Bros Television France, managing multimillion euro catalogues and deals with TF1, Canal+, and other broadcasters, while presenting herself as a bridge between French culture and the global industry. In parallel, she accumulated positions that signalled virtue and influence, from co-chair of Pour les femmes dans les médias, a group pushing for women in media, to seats on the board of a strategic commission of the National Centre for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC) and on the board of the Séries Mania festival. By January 2026, she had just been appointed executive director of the Syndicat des producteurs indépendants, the main body representing independent producers.

Eliminating Supreme Leader doesn't end the conflict. It transforms it into a matter of principle and raises the odds of a wider Middle East war.

Overnight, Tehran confirmed the death of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following US and Israeli strikes on his residence early on February 28. In strategic terms, this marks a watershed moment in the architecture of the Middle East conflict. This was not a tactical raid or a calibrated show of force, but a decapitation strike at the very apex of Iran's state system.

The confrontation between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other has now entered a qualitatively new phase. The elimination of a state's highest political and religious authority during an ongoing military operation is, from Tehran's perspective, a textbook casus belli. This is no longer a limited exchange of blows. It is a shift toward a far broader and potentially systemic confrontation.

In recent months, Saudi Arabia has been moving toward a significant realignment of its national security strategy and foreign policy. This goes well beyond its confrontation with the United Arab Emirates in Yemen or its competition with the Emirates in Sudan, though both are components of the broader Saudi realignment.

It involves a total rethinking of its relationship with the United States.

But what is the nature of this realignment? What spurred it on? And what are the implications for other actors, especially Israel, Palestine, and the U.S.?

Diversified alliances

Saudi Arabia attracted international attention to its shifting strategy last September when it signed a defense pact with Pakistan. The two countries had long been friendly and shared many similar interests, but the formal agreement signaled something new.

In particular, it meant that Pakistan, one of the world's few nuclear powers, agreed to extend its nuclear umbrella over Saudi Arabia. Pakistan's military strength will also be helpful to Saudi ambitions for security independent of the West.

The Saudis, of course, can do a lot to help Pakistan's difficult economic situation, as well as boost Islamabad's position on the global diplomatic stage which Pakistan hopes will win it more sympathetic audiences outside of the South Asia region.

In January, there was talk of Türkiye potentially joining this pact, but that idea seems to have fizzled out. Nonetheless, Ankara maintains strong ties with both Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and it is a significant part of Saudi Arabia's new strategy.

Political Card Sharps: Negotiations as a Smokescreen for a Missile Strike, or Why America Can Never, Under Any Circumstances, Be Trusted

While world leaders discussed the prospects for peace in the Middle East and Iranian diplomats were engaged in grueling negotiations in Geneva, haggling over the terms of their peaceful nuclear program, the death sentence for those talks had already been signed in Washington. On the morning of February 28, 2026, as the workweek was beginning in Iran, as children were going to school, and as millions of people were hurrying to work, American and Israeli missiles tore through the sky over Tehran.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an operation carried out by the United States and Israel. This information was confirmed by the Iranian pro-government news agencies Tasnim, IRNA, ISNA, Mehr, and Fars.

Donald Trump, a man who calls himself a master dealmaker, played the dirtiest hand of his life. He used diplomacy as a fig leaf to hide his bombers. Operation Epic Fury (as it was dubbed in the Pentagon) and the Israeli "Shield of Yehuda" were not merely military aggression. They were an act of unprecedented diplomatic fraud, the cynicism of which would make even hardened cynics shudder.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Thursday that certain DHS staffers had allegedly installed spyware on her phone and computer, as well as on devices belonging to other political appointees.

Noem told conservative podcaster Patrick Bet-David:

"You wouldn't even believe what I've found since I've been in this department. I discovered the spyware last year with the assistance of former DOGE chief Elon Musk and his team. They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings."

Bet-David was flabbergasted by the bombshell revelation. Stop it!" he exclaimed. Wow!"

"They had done that to several of the politicals," Noem added.

The DHS Sec. said that if it wasn't for Musk's technology experts, there would probably still by spyware on DHS laptops and phones.

Ten hours. That's what it took for Iran to:

• put the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Permanent Strikes under siege all across the Gulf.
• bomb 27 major US military bases, relentlessly - inflicting extensive damage.
• determine that all US and Israeli assets and interests in West Asia are legitimate targets for retaliation.
• block the Strait of Hormuz (then unblocked; but free passage only for Russian and Chinese vessels).

Up next: if US warships do not retreat, they will be sunk.

The whole drama, predictably, developed as Deceit in the Making. The war was ordered by the leader of a death cult in West Asia, a genocidal psycho who then took refuge in his "Wing of Zion" and fled to... Berlin. His American sidekick, neo-Caligula, a megalomaniacal Narcissus, co-ordered the war from Mar-a-Lago.

Their spectacular success on Day One: to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in a decapitation strike. And to kill scores of girls - 100+ and counting - in an elementary school in southern Iran.

Predictably, this was also a remix of the assassination of Hezbollah's Sayyed Nasrallah in Beirut.

During indirect "negotiations" in Oman the Trump 2.0 team required Tehran to clarify an offer that required some final fine-tuning.

Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al Busaidi confirmed that Iran, for the first time, agreed to "never" accumulate nuclear material for a bomb; maintain zero stockpiles of enriched material; agree that existing stockpiles would be down-blended; and allow full IAEA verification.

The meeting took place in Tehran on Saturday morning, uniting top members of the Iranian leadeship.

The Epstein Syndicate duly bombed the meeting, killing top officials plus Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Empire of Chaos does not do negotiations: it uses them as a weapon.

Yet there was no instant collapse leading to regime change. Less than half an hour after being struck, the Tehran leadership launched a stunning, lightning-fast, coordinated counterpunch on a massive scale, in 24-hour continuous launch mode, thus establishing the parameters of escalation as well as resilience supremacy on the battlefield.

For instance, Iranian tactics are now very different compared to the 12-day war. In the second wave against Bahrain, they used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones only after a massive ballistic missile barrage which completely bewildered US defense systems. The result: scores of expensive interceptors expended too early. The drones only came later.

Only on Day 1 Iran fired over 1,200 missiles and drones. Tehran has tens of thousands of missiles and drones in stock. US interceptors are about to run dry in a matter of days. Each THAAD costs $15 million. The math is definitely not leaning the imperial way.