Iran’s superior preparation and missile strategy enable prolonged attrition warfare: Iran maintains vast decentralized stocks of missiles (including advanced hypersonics held in reserve), buried silos with autonomous “dead hand” firing capabilities across multiple districts, and uses older systems to exhaust Israeli/U.S. interceptors before escalating, making a long war sustainable for Iran while depleting attackers’ defenses.
The conflict has already inflicted significant strategic losses on Israel and the U.S.: Israeli interceptor missiles are being rapidly depleted, billion-dollar U.S. radar systems destroyed, and intelligence capabilities crippled; this reflects impulsive escalation driven by hubris, with shifting pretexts from nuclear threats to missile destruction and regime change.
Iran leverages regional Shia mobilization and symbolic acts for broader escalation: The killing of key figures (including the Supreme Leader) has sparked Shia solidarity, uprisings (e.g., in Bahrain), attacks on U.S. assets, and fatwas for jihad, turning the war into a wider sectarian/regional struggle that spreads beyond Iran’s borders and complicates U.S./Israeli objectives.
Control of the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran decisive economic leverage: Iran can threaten or close the strait (via mines, missiles, and coastal artillery), endangering global oil/LNG flows (~20-30% of world supply), pressuring energy markets, weakening the dollar, exposing Europe’s vulnerability, and shifting Gulf power dynamics toward Iran while making sustained U.S. naval operations risky or unsustainable.
U.S. and Israel face unsustainable overreach with no clear path to victory: The war—pushed by Netanyahu’s influence on Trump—lacks contingency plans for energy crises, long-term attrition, heavy civilian casualties (e.g., bombed schools), internal Israeli fractures, or political backlash at home; Iran “wins by surviving,” potentially forcing de-escalation on its terms (sanctions relief, troop withdrawal) amid regional blowback and economic fallout.
…a majority (around 63%) of offshore wealth remains unexposed by mechanisms like the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), meaning significant portions still evade detection.
From Grok on January 20, 2026
The International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) is a United States federal law enacted by the 79th Congress and signed into law on December 29, 1945 (Public Law 79-291, codified primarily at 22 U.S.C. §§ 288 et seq.).
Historical Context and Purpose
The Act was passed in the immediate aftermath of World War II, during a period when the United States was actively participating in the creation and support of new public international organizations (most notably the United Nations, which was established in 1945, along with bodies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labor Organization, and others). Its primary purpose was to facilitate the work of these organizations by granting them and their personnel certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities within the United States. This ensured they could operate independently, without interference from U.S. taxes, legal processes, or administrative burdens, similar to the protections traditionally afforded to foreign governments and diplomats at the time. Without such protections, international organizations headquartered or operating in the U.S. (e.g., the UN in New York) could face practical obstacles like taxation, lawsuits, or seizures that might hinder their global missions.
Key Provisions
The Act defines an “international organization” as a public international body in which the United States participates (via treaty, congressional act, or appropriation) and that has been designated by the President through an Executive Order as entitled to the Act’s benefits. Major immunities and privileges granted to designated international organizations include:
Immunity from suit and judicial process — The organization, its property, and assets enjoy the same immunity from lawsuits and legal proceedings as foreign governments (with the ability to expressly waive this immunity).
Inviolability of archives and immunity from search or confiscation of property and assets (unless waived).
Exemptions related to customs duties, internal revenue taxes on imports, registration as foreign agents, and treatment of official communications (matching those given to foreign governments).
Tax exemptions for the organization itself.
For officers, employees, and representatives (and often their families):
Exemptions from U.S. income taxes on salaries paid by the organization.
Immunity from legal process for official acts.
Certain immigration and entry privileges.
These benefits are not full diplomatic immunity in all cases (e.g., they are more limited for U.S. citizens working for such organizations), and they can be conditioned, limited, withheld, or revoked by the President (or in some cases the Secretary of State) if there’s abuse or other justification. Important Developments and Interpretation When enacted in 1945, foreign governments generally enjoyed absolute sovereign immunity in U.S. courts. The IOIA thus initially provided international organizations with similarly broad (near-absolute) protection. However, U.S. law evolved with the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976, which adopted a restrictive theory of immunity — foreign governments can now be sued in U.S. courts for commercial activities and certain other exceptions. A significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2019 (Jam v. International Finance Corporation) clarified that the IOIA’s reference to immunity “as is enjoyed by foreign governments” is dynamic — it incorporates the current (restrictive) standard under the FSIA, rather than the absolute immunity of 1945. This means international organizations can be sued for commercial activities in many cases, unless they qualify for other exemptions. Today, the IOIA continues to apply to dozens of designated organizations (via various Executive Orders), enabling the smooth functioning of entities like the UN, World Bank affiliates, and other multilateral bodies in the United States.
Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie Founder, KRAINER ANALYTICS, I-System Trend Following Author of: “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible,” “Mastering Uncertainty,” “Grand Deception” (banned)
Key Markets report for Monday, 8 December 2025 Alex KrainerDec 08, 2025
On Thursday, 4 December, the White House published the new “National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (NSS25) The document marks a significant shift in U.S. domestic and foreign policy that will have far-reaching consequences in shaping global relations and the emerging new global order. I believe it corroborates the Trump administration’s intent to reject the post-World War II and claim a dominant position of the United States in a new, multipolar world order. In all, the document is surprisingly short, easy to read and relatively straightforward to interpret. Continue reading ….
ClearNFO:Building on the work of Quigley and others, Alex Krainer brings it all together in this exposé of the system our oligarchs use to control their livestock–that’s you and me, pal.
Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch)@TFL1728 | Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie | Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT
(April 11, 2025): “This is war….The Trump administration is attacking the old European oligarchies from all sides….Israel’s been created there to cynically exploit the Jews …it is the tool of Western hegemony to enable Western powers to benefit from the vast natural resources in the Middle East.” Truth bombs & smart insightful analysis with …
Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728
Alex (Sasha) Krainer@NakedHedgie
Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT
Video link on X: https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1911187067587215376
Glenn Diesen interviews Alex Krainer on the Economic Collapse & the End of Europe
Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe
Alex (Sasha) Krainer: Founder at Krainer Analytics. Monaco, Monaco. Author of #1 rated book on commodities, “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading,” and “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible”; creator of I-System Trend Following – engineering, implementing and maintaining bespoke, high performance turn-key portfolio solutions (with audited track record); publisher of TrendCompass daily market reports; contributing editor at ZeroHedge.
https://x.com/NakedHedgie
Glenn Diesen is a professor of Russian international affairs, with focus on geoeconomics, conservatism and the Greater Eurasia Initiative. Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen
Bonus: KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin’ Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kunstlercast-420-tom-luongo-of-gold?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order.
Grok’s Summary of Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe…
Tom Luongo interviews Alex Krainer: In this fascinating podcast, Alex pieces together a timeline which may explain how many of the recent global events are related, and why Ukraine is so darned important to the Collective West — It’s not what I thought. Alex also identifies some of the great opportunities impending financial disruptions may provide for those with eyes wide open.
With the aid of the internet and the great research provided by Quigley, Sutton and Perloff, the real history of WWII can now be told, and it does make a difference.
Feb 13, 1945: Firebombing of Dresden
Over the years, I’ve been asked for my take on World War II many times. I’ve mostly avoided this topic only giving hints at my perspective (warning that it’s not what it appears) until I had time to properly sequence the events in light of the new information I had learned from reading the well-researched and documented writings of Quigley, Sutton and Perloff. So in lieu of my reasoned opinion based on the more recent and accurate context provided by the three gentlemen above, I offer up two interviews and discussions between Tim Kelly and James Perloff and Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill (below). To supplement this, consider reading the following relatively short books:
To round-out your understanding of World War II, it is highly desirable –once you have read the above—to read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf‘ to get a complete view of the context. You will discover what you have been told by the American education system and the corporate media is a total and complete fabrication. The only way to defeat our masters is to defeat the mythology they have placed in our heads.
12/22/21: Update.. Since so many of the videos below have been deleted, I’m posting this recent interview here: Timothy Kelly podcast episode: “E. Michael Jones on the Holocaust Narrative“
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to Our Interesting Time to discuss his article in this December’s Culture Wars “Dachau for Dummies: A Review of The Defeated.” We also talk about last month’s election in Virginia and how the oligarchs’ attempt to impose centralized technocratic control is revitalizing States’ Rights and undermining the legitimacy of the American Empire.
Published on Jun 3, 2017 James Perloff returns to Our Interesting Times with Tim Kelly to discuss his presentation on the Second World War. We talk about several myths of the “Good War” and why a revisionist interpretation of that event is long overdue and necessary to avoid another global conflagration.
James is the author of several books including Shadows of Power and Truth is a Lonely Warrior. His website is jamesperloff.com
Powers & Principalities Episode 30 (Published on Dec 15, 2017) The Real Winston Churchill by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill
Tim Kelly interviews Germar Rudolf on the Holocaust(Published on Feb 25, 2017) Germar Rudolf joins the show to discuss his research regarding the Holocaust and share his experience as a revisionist researcher, writer and lecturer
Germar Rudolf joins the show to discuss his research regarding the Holocaust and share his experience as a revisionist researcher, writer and lecturer on that topic. We discuss what Holocaust revisionism is and what it is not and we talk about some of the evidence that indicates the official narrative of the Holocaust is a gross distortion of history. Later we talk about the migrant crisis in Europe and demographic winter that is enveloping the entire industrialized world. Germar Rudolf was born in Limburg, Germany. He studied chemistry at Bonn University, where he graduated in 1989. From 1990-1993 he prepared a German PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in conjunction with the University of Stuttgart, Germany. During this time Rudolf prepared an expert report on chemical and technical questions of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz, The Rudolf Report. He is the founder of the small revisionist outlet, Castle Hill Publishers. He has published several books including Dissecting the Holocaust, Lectures on the Holocaust and Resistance is Obligatory. Germar’s website is germarrudolf.com *Please consider a donation to support this podcast.
PEARL HARBOR: ROOSEVELT’S 9/11 False flags do not stand alone. They are better understood – and more credibly explained to skeptics – when seen in history’s context.
Guido Preparata on Conjuring Hitler by Tim Kelly (published July 1, 2017; Length – 1:50:28)
The Morgenthau Plan: The Final Solution to the German Question (Published on Mar 3, 2018) Powers & Principalities: Episode 41 by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill
The true origins of the German National Socialism (Published on Mar 31, 2018) Powers & Principalities: Episode 45 by Tim Kelly and Joe Atwill
More on this topic …
James Perloff: Hitler vs. the Elite Cabal of International Bankers
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Monika Schaefer joins Our Interesting Times to discuss her activism on behalf of Holocaust revisionism and justice for the German people who have been subjected to decades psychological warfare. We talk about the many inconsistencies, contradictions and lies which constitute the ever-changing Holocaust narrative and the necessity for promoting truth in our public discourse.
Monika is a musician and child of German immigrants who re-located to Canada in 1959. Her family stayed connected to “the old country” observing German traditions at home while assimilating into Canadian society. She has devoted much of her adult life to raising public consciousness regarding the crimes committed against Germany in the past century and promoting justice for the German people. Her primary website is Truth and Justice for Germans Society.
