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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In the largest single deployment of stealth bombers in U.S. history, the Pentagon has sent six B-2 “Spirit” aircraft to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.</p><p>The long-range bombers, which are uniquely suited to evade Iranian air defenses and can carry America’s most potent bunker busting weapons, flew in from Missouri last week in a little noticed operation.</p><p>The B-2s carry not just bombs, but a message for Iran: “do you see our sword?,” as one retired general told Newsmax this week.</p><p>President Donald Trump hasn’t been shy in threatening Iran, saying that if Tehran doesn’t close the door on a nuclear capability they will experience “bombing the likes of which they haven’t seen.” </p><p>“Hell” will “rain down” on the country, Trump has also said. Just today, amidst the stock market meltdown Trump again reiterated his threat, saying that “doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious” — which to the president is undertaking a massive strike.</p><p>Blatant as the threat is, the U.S. government has not otherwise publicly acknowledged the bomber buildup. Though B-2 bombers were used to carry out strikes on underground Houthi facilities in Yemen (both under the Biden and Trump administration), the forward deployment of the bombers to the island of Diego Garcia was only reported when commercial satellite images of the airbase there revealed the six on the runway."</p><p><a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/pentagon-prepares-for-trump-to-go" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kenklippenstein.com/p/pentagon</span><span class="invisible">-prepares-for-trump-to-go</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warmongering</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/B2Bombers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>B2Bombers</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1976398/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1976398/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Message to the Conference in Estonia with the Presence of… <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Eesti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eesti</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/estonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>estonia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Mullahs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mullahs</span></a>'Regime <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeopleOfIran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleOfIran</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Uudised" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uudised</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Message to the Conference in Estonia with the Presence of… <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/900083/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/900083/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Estonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Estonia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Mullahs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mullahs</span></a>'Regime <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PeopleOfIran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeopleOfIran</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a></p>
Mark Burton<p>"Are we in favour of making arms to kill people in order to create jobs?"</p><p>From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism – Michael Roberts Blog<br><a href="https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenextrecession.wordpress.com</span><span class="invisible">/2025/03/22/from-welfare-to-warfare-military-keynesianism/</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Warmongering</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a></p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confidencebuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confidencebuilding</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/narratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narratives</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uno</span></a></p><p>„UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.“</p><p><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160606" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1</span><span class="invisible">160606</span></a></p>
Semenko<p><a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=deadbeatdad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deadbeatdad</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=ablist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ablist</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=sexist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexist</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=hypocrite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrite</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=gullible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gullible</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=resisttrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resisttrump</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.world/search?tag=resistmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistmusk</span></a></p><p>Alt Text:<br>The text lists a series of controversial actions attributed to Elon Musk in recent days:</p><ul><li>Ignored the mother of his youngest child begging for help</li><li>Ignored the mother of his favorite child begging for help</li><li>Called an astronaut a slur for pointing out something he said that was obviously a lie</li><li>Suggested bombing Mexico</li><li>Suggested women can never be qualified to be pilots</li><li>Called Tom Hanks a pedophile</li><li>Followed a 17-year-old girl</li><li>Said journalists who criticize him should be imprisoned</li><li>Believed a TikTok sketch was real</li><li>Believed a picture from The Dark Knight Rises was real life</li></ul><p>The text is credited to @esjesjesj.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, in a post on social media, said a senior IS planner &amp; recruits were targeted in the op:</p><p>“The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, &amp; killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden &amp; his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS &amp; all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WarMongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarMongering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> has conducted coordinated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/airstrikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airstrikes</span></a> against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ISIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISIS</span></a> operatives in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Somalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Somalia</span></a>, the first attacks in the African nation during <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s 2nd term.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a> Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a> said Sat that the strikes by US Africa Command were directed by Trump &amp; coordinated w/Somalia’s govet.</p><p>An initial assessment by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> indicated that “multiple” operatives were killed &amp; no civilians were harmed.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WarMongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarMongering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/somalia-islamic-state-trump-airstrikes-hegseth-africa-56c8ef314fd74812140153e7e3e4d809" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/somalia-isl</span><span class="invisible">amic-state-trump-airstrikes-hegseth-africa-56c8ef314fd74812140153e7e3e4d809</span></a></p>
Georgiann Baldino<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> "devoted two full paragraphs to talking about his admiration for the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley. In the end, McKinley won handily, and the People’s Party [populists] collapsed. McKinley presided over years of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plutocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutocrat</span></a>-friendly policies at home and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/warmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warmongering</span></a> abroad until he was assassinated by an anarchist factory worker in 1901." </p><p>MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-inauguration-william-mckinley-populist-rcna188455" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio</span><span class="invisible">n/trump-inauguration-william-mckinley-populist-rcna188455</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryMatters</span></a></p>