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A senior Israeli official told Channel 14: "We are on the verge of several days of fighting against the Iranians and their proxies in the Middle East."
the neighborhood alert map
A senior Israeli official told Channel 14: "We are on the verge of several days of fighting against the Iranians and their proxies in the Middle East."
sounds partial here
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkk...oogle_vignetteYemen's Houthi rebels announced Monday that they were reinstating what they described as a naval blockade on Israel and closing the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Israeli shipping, while also claiming responsibility for missile attacks launched earlier in the day.
makes him look weak, tbh
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/07/w...003b6r8usj40dyTrump says US will "declare total victory" over Iran in next two weeks
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“We’re negotiating now, and they want to make a very good deal. They’re willing to give us everything, they’re willing to give us no nuclear weapon,” Trump said.
“I think we are winning that battle, but you’re really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory, it’ll be a total victory, it’ll happen very soon, and oil prices will come tumbling down,” Trump said.
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/polit...ran-deal-closeIt’s been more than two months since President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran, saying at the time that the two sides were close to a deal.
Trump said on social media on April 7 that they were “very far along” but needed two weeks for “the Agreement to be finalized and consummated.” He concluded by saying that “it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution.”
There was no resolution, of course. But Trump has nonetheless spent the two months since then continuing to suggest a deal was right around the corner. A lot.
Including the period before the ceasefire, he’s done it at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate to cut one.
Sounds like he's given up on bombing them and will just keep repeating the same "almost done" line for the foreseeable future
Trump is still caught in an escalation trap and still has impulse control issues...but I agree he is looking like a weak coward right now
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/trum...uz-strait.htmlTrump says U.S. must ‘respond’ after Iran shoots down helicopter over Hormuz Strait
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. will “respond” as he accused Iran of shooting down an Apache helicopter that was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz.
The two pilots involved in the attack “are safe and uninjured,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”
Trump did not say what form the U.S. response would take. But his post signaled that conflict with Iran was about to ramp up once again, despite him claiming hours earlier that a deal with Tehran could be reached as soon as this week.
The two sides are in the final stages of a “very, very good deal” that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and fully reopen the Hormuz Strait “immediately upon signing,” Trump said late Monday night after leaving an NBA Finals game in New York City.
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Back to "no more Mr Nice Guy" mode.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/09/trum...uz-strait.htmlTehran targets Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan after U.S. strikes Iranian assets
Iran targeted several Gulf countries after the U.S. launched attacks on the Middle Eastern nation earlier on Tuesday stateside.
Jordan’s military said Wednesday local time that it had intercepted five Iranian missiles, according to state media, while Bahrain sounded alarms and Kuwait activated its air defenses to intercept “hostile aerial targets.”
U.S. forces on Tuesday evening launched strikes against Iran “in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” U.S. Central Command said.
The “self-defense strikes” are “a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” Centcom said in an X post.
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DJIA to open 400-500 points down
"Praise be to Allah"
it's the 90 day anniversary of this whopper
"Operation Epic Fury — is that a great name? It's only a great name if you win. And we've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You never like to say too early you won — we won. We won. In the first hour it was over. We won."
So how the did a $30,000 shahad drone with a top straight line speed of 115 miles an hour take down a ing 100 million dollar Apache attack helicopter???? Somebody is lying.
yeah, a lot of people are wondering about that
Iran denied the shootdown
for a few hours Trump acted like it was no big deal
apparently a sitdown with Hegseth and Caine changed his mind
Yeah that jump was anticipated. Market is already pricing in two rate hikes this year. Expect to hear the dreaded "transitory" word.
"strategic insolvency"
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/09...rategy-taiwan/The war in the Persian Gulf has created global shock waves—by roiling the world economy, unsettling U.S. alliances, creating epic disruptions to freedom of navigation, and bringing the nuclear nonproliferation order to a tipping point. But one of the most important and potentially destabilizing implications of this conflict has been to throw U.S. strategic insolvency into harsh relief.
The war has featured impressive tactical feats by the United States and Israel, such as the killing of dozens of high-ranking Iranian officials in the opening hours of the fight. The capabilities on display over Tehran—and U.S. President Donald Trump’s penchant for military risk-taking—have surely been sobering for Washington’s adversaries in Moscow and Beijing. Yet the war has had more ambiguous, sometimes damaging, strategic outcomes. It has also caused an alarming depletion of key U.S. weapons stockpiles while ripping capabilities away from other dangerous theaters.
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