It comes after what officials describe as an unprecedented infiltration of Iranian security services by Israeli agents.

Authorities suspect information fed to Israel played a part in a series of high-profile assassinations during the conflict. This included the targeted killings of senior commanders from the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and nuclear scientists, which Iran attributes to operatives of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency working inside the country.

Shaken by the scale and precision of these killings, authorities have been targeting anyone suspected of working with foreign intelligence, saying it is for the sake of national security.

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They think they’ve got him. Somehow the mainstream media knows that the Iran strikes didn’t finish Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and maybe a couple of months at most and the mullahs will be as dangerous as ever. This makes Trump apoplectic. He’s pretty sure Iran has been dealt with. But the media have their sources.

Nobody could possibly know the extent of the damage this soon. They bombed the nuclear sites with bunker buster bombs, so who’s going to go check out the damage? I’m pretty sure Iran got set back by more than a few months, but you’d never know it from their public proclamations. They’re saying they won the war!  

Iran won the war, according to everybody in Iran that doesn’t want to be killed. We’ve been hearing for years what nice people Iranians are, and that they’re ruled by zealots still living in centuries past. So why haven’t they revolted and ousted the ayatollahs? There’s all kinds of speculation, some have been executed and many more imprisoned as the weird guys try to stay in power.

The media has decided to make a big deal over the early reports of destruction at Iran’s nuclear facilities. They want to fight over something they can’t possibly know. They’ve decided to drive Trump absolutely crazy, claiming that the damage was not as advertised. The media has not been forthright with us for a long time.  

The mainstream is at its wits end trying to bring down Trump. They’re trying to convince us that it’s only a matter of time. You read the mainstream media dripping with innuendo. It’s only a matter of time, they’ll turn us all against Trump eventually, or so they think. They say Trump is making things worse, insisting on his version. It’s enough to make you stop reading. THIS TIME they’ve got him, or so the mainstream thinks. Trump’s loyal support groups are leaving him, they tell us. He’s picking fights with moderates who supported him.   

Our news has been full of courts overruling Trump policies. But the Supreme Court just decided that the lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions. The liberals on the Supreme Court are panicking as the majority pushes out rulings favorable to the President.  Probably the thing they are most upset about is the birthright citizenship issue. The naysayers are saying the Supreme Court is “declaring open season on all our rights.” Call me crazy, but I’m not worried.

For years my Dad chronicled the downfall of the U. S. and a lot of it was linked to this theory that illegal immigration was a good thing.  Some of you will remember when Ronald Reagan decided to legalize the ones already here, and that was supposed to be the end of it.  But it only served as encouragement.  

Now the left is outraged about people in CHURCH being accosted about their citizenship. The media is incensed that foreigners are being deported. What they believe is not part of the equation. They can be good Christians at home too. There are sob stories galore, we can’t even begin to absorb them all.

Some of you have traveled overseas, and it used to be one of the things people aspired to do.Well everybody wants to come here, worse than ever. Europe has been ruined largely with the influx of refugees from the Middle East. This has not exactly been good for the Europeans. Some Europeans have always looked down their noses at Americans, they feel superior somehow. You can see vestiges of it in the meetings they hold.  

European leadership is still singing the song of the past twenty years. They can do anything that relates to “saving the planet.”  Well, we’re no longer interested in “saving the planet,” we’d like to live and prosper. And they think we’re the idiots.  

As for the Ukraine. That’s next on the agenda and that might be a little more difficult, because Putin thinks he is winning, and maybe he is. You have to be willing to write off a lot of lives to let the war go on. But for now, it goes on.  

NATO has agreed to five percent defense spending. We’ll see.              

 Mark

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We’re going to have to watch carefully to see what happens with this Israel-Iran war. As everybody knows, Israel unleashed numerous strikes on Iranian targets.  They went after Iran’s nuclear program and key people in the regime. We’ll probably never know the details unless the Iranian people rise up and overthrow the Mullahs.  

The overview showing where Israel unleashed its missiles is available to see, but as I write Iran is exploding missiles in Tel Aviv. Trump is trying to get the Iranians to think twice, but they’re true zealots. The Iranian people should have had enough. After all, it was Jimmy Carter who stood by. The Shah fled and the weirdos took over. I doubt that anybody alive can forget it. And then at the last minute, he gave the go-ahead for a raid. But it was too late, and you know the outcome.  That may not have been what he intended, but that’s the way it worked out.  If you revisit the Carter debacle… On second thought, don’t.  It’s too depressing.

But it’s a brand new day, and Iran is feeling pretty tough. Recent years have seen them funding all kinds of terrorist groups, and the guys with turbans are ultimately responsible for a lot of the mayhem we’ve seen. But they are responding.  We’d all hoped that they’d take the opportunity to call the whole thing off and turn peaceful. But that’s not in their nature.  

Let’s hope this thing doesn’t get out of control. We wouldn’t want Russia or China getting involved. Hopefully they don’t want to cross swords with you know who.  No doubt, Iran is mad and wants revenge. It looks like Israel killed at least four or five of Iran’s top commanders, but there’s no shortage of lunatics in the Middle East.

These people lie to themselves and everybody else. They proclaim how brave they are, and that one of them can take out ten or twenty Israelis. I heard it all back in the day. These must be the children of those who were calling the shots back then. You don’t need me to tell you, these people are crazy! They boast and carry on, and you just have to smile and nod. 

Turns out there’s a disagreement between Trump and Newsom. We’ve been watching things go crazy in Los Angeles. I hope this isn’t true, but I read something suggesting that government agencies may be funding the protests. Many a loser has come out and suggested that the riots are just a matter of racial hatred on our part. That has no credibility. We just don’t want the United States to turn out like Mexico.

Peaceful protesters? I guess all those burning cars don’t count. The thing in L. A. is threatening to spread. Suddenly there are reports of marches and protests in places we’ve never heard of. The media is broken-hearted about the treatment of aliens. I’m starting to wonder if the stories about them voting have merit. The way the liberals are acting you might be tempted to wonder. You’ve probably read all about the conundrum and who’s winning the fight. To hear the news tell it, people are really upset about the aliens getting thrown out.  It’s going to take a while.  

I don’t know about you, but I like the United States being on top of things again. At least we’re not fighting everybody in the Middle East. Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia makes me think that there may be a few sane people in the Middle East, just not the majority.  

Mark

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