I expect nothing but a pack of lies from the U.S. government on this topic. The infowar means they have to lie to us or somehow distort it, like how Ukraine and Russia declared their dead after a few weeks but haven’t given an update since 2022.

Trump can’t declare victory until he establishes 1) military dominance over Iran; or 2) a civil war in Iran (to be blamed on moolars and terrible people and islamists) he will destroy Iran and then pretend it was the other guy’s fault.

The best outcome is that Americans start rioting like they did on 6th of January 2021. Keep in mind that was just angry boomers who love muscle cars and bacon jokes on Facebook. The only proper unrest against Trump will come from enraged millennials and gen z. A combination of the left and the right. Because everyone is sceptical about Trump now, so it’s just a matter of time until you see the protests and gas riots emerge. Forget about principles or ideology, just get angry at the right moment lol. I really hope it happens but it depends on Iran’s ability to cut off oil supplies and damage market confidence. The best thing anyone can do is spread anti-trump propaganda online.

Here’s how you do it.

1. sign up for Le Freeze Peach website such as Gab
2. join a Trump supporter group
3. post Le Epic Memes about Trump being a moron
4. profit engagement! You’ll be amazed at how much Trump’s own supporters laugh at his stupidity.

Example:

https://gab.com/jeff_mitchell/posts/116201309904366189

Result: people on the American right start to mock Trump and call him a jackass, whilst sharing ai videos of Netanyahu bum-jacking Trump on the deck of an aircraft carrier. People will then send the memes on Signal or WhatsApp and it just snowballs from there. Eventually I like to think that 100,000 MAGA people and communists arrive at the White House fence and stomp on MAGA caps. That’d be almost as good as MLK’s plan to plonk a thousand homeless men in D.C. certainly one for the history books. People in America need to get ready to make a convoy to travel to D.C. and have a mass protest against Epic Fury. There is no point sitting this one out, it can actively be stopped by sabotaging public opinion with memes and protests to ruin Trump’s image and make him lose legitimacy.

Russia Today

09 March 2026

22:18 GMT

President Trump has said that he expects the US-Israeli war with Iran to be over “very soon,” but not this week 🤡

“We’re achieving major strides towards completing our military objectives, and some people can say they’re pretty well complete. We’ve wiped every single force in Iran out, very completely,” Trump told a press conference in Doral, Florida. “We’re ahead of our initial timeline by a lot,” he added.

https://www.rt.com/news/633831-us-israeli-war-on-iran-live-updates/

My opinion: We shouldn’t celebrate yet, because Trump is hinting that he will hit other targets, which I personally fear could mean nuclear facilities, which would cause a major disaster.

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My opinion: Trump is about to lose control of the narrative and risk severe backlash over economic conditions. So he’s going to pull a Bush Jr. and claim Mission Accomplished. Let’s hope Iran keeps on attacking and piles on the pressure. If this goes on for another week then Trump’s own base will abandon him. Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson have abandoned Trump and MTG’s comments were extremely ruthless. She’s pointed out that Americans are suffering from high costs of rent and insurance and that the war is a betrayal. Trump can’t risk a backlash from working class Americans and he may try to exit the war. His hope is that Iran goes into a civil war then he can pretend to wash the blood off his hands and go back to blaming “moolars” and “radical islam” and “terrible people”. Afterward, Trump (or a future president) can come back in the future and finish off Iran. That can’t be allowed to happen. MAXIMUM PRESSURE on Trump plz, both in Hormuz Strait and inside the U.S. Just one more week will ruin Trump and change the narrative against him. Missiles and drones away!

Trump comments suggest he may be ready to declare victory 09:18 BBC

Is Donald Trump ready to declare victory in the Iran war? His comments to CBS News seem to suggest this.

Of course, what victory means in a war whose goals were vague and frequently contradictory is not entirely clear.

The president has said that Iran’s military has been significantly degraded. “There’s nothing left,” he told CBS.

But if the goals were to definitively eliminate the nation’s nuclear programme or to shepherd in a more US-friendly government, the success has been much less certain.

Trump was starting to feel the heat, however. Over the weekend, oil prices had shot up to more than $120 a barrel. American stock market futures and foreign exchanges indexes were sinking. By yesterday evening, Trump had posted on social media that higher oil was a “small price to pay” for US and global security.

Following Trump’s assurances on Monday afternoon that an end is in sight, the US stock market rebounded and oil prices dropped precipitously.

That may reflect a firm belief that the president is, in fact, planning to wrap up his military operation and fears of a protracted regional conflict were overstated.

Or it could be wishful thinking. History has proven that starting war may be easy, but ending one – particularly in the Middle East – is much more challenging.

Russia Today:

URGENT URGENT URGENT!

04:16 GMT

Russian presidential investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev has said that oil prices could climb to $200 a barrel if the war drags on.

“The oil issue is no longer just about the Strait of Hormuz. As oil and gas infrastructure is attacked in the Middle East and production is constrained, the energy crisis will unfortunately be much deeper and longer than most expect,” he wrote on X.

BBC:

Petrol cost likely to rise as oil price surges published at 19:37

Last week, the markets had been relatively relaxed about the seeming nightmare scenario for millions of barrels of crude and liquefied gas to be trapped in the Gulf, with tankers unable or unwilling to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

But the escalations over the weekend, alongside scenes of destruction of energy infrastructure both in Iran and across the Gulf, saw the markets take rapid fright.

The question now is where does this go? Some analysts argue that if the shutdown in the Strait lasts until the end of March, record oil prices above $150 a barrel could occur.

The existing rise is likely to further increase petrol prices, and important derivative products such as jet fuel and vital precursors for fertilisers.

The physical supplies from the Gulf are mainly consumed in Asia. Already, however, there are signs that Asian consumers are bidding up prices for US gas, with some tankers originally heading for Europe turning around in the mid Atlantic.

The evil is real.

Iran deploys Lego VIDEO in PR war against US https://www.rt.com/news/634174-iran-us-lego-video-pr-war/

Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic.

The animation, dubbed ‘Narrative of Victory,’ was widely circulated online on Sunday. It opens with a cartoonish figure of US President Donald Trump – accompanied by the Devil – reading the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The US president is then shown going haywire and ordering strikes on Iran, apparently implying that the attack was meant to distract everyone from a domestic scandal involving the late sex offender’s ties with American elites.

Teenagers in America are watching the propaganda Tik Toks where the White House and Pentagon post Spongebob memes to make the bombing seem funny. A hybrid war where they strike the “enemy” with one hand and give memes to the kiddies with the other hand.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spongebob-iron-man-call-duty-inside-us-meme-war-against-iran-2026-03-07/

@rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml is the website glitching? Because I can’t see your most recent posts unless I’m directly accessing lemmygrad (not logged in) and if I go through lemmy ml as my account then it doesn’t show the latest posts? It says only 62 posts but accessing lemmygrad directly says 94 posts. So I’m missing 32 posts.

Let’s take bets. I reckon it’ll go to at least $120 maybe $140. Trump claims to have destroyed Iran’s navy, air force and army but he still can’t open Hormuz. What a loser! I hate losers.

It sounds bloody dangerous, as if everyone is trying to stab each other in the back as sneakily as they can (but in obvious ways). I can’t blame Russia though 😇

I can’t see any peace deals going through this year, sorry everyone (not sorry)

Regime change is a failed model of government but Americans are too stupid and ignorant to accept this fact. Please help to educate these poor Americans who don’t understand the crimes being committed or the risk of an over-stretched empire.

06 March 2026 15:05 GMT

Going for $150 a barrel LMFAO 😀 👍

Brent crude futures hit $90 per barrel for the first time in almost two years as the US and Israel continue to attack Iran, unleashing war in the Middle East.

The global benchmark added as much as 5.7%, while West Texas Intermediate topped $85 for the first time since April 2024. Futures are up more than a fifth this week.

The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that Kuwait has begun cutting production at some oil fields after running out of places to store crude.

Citigroup Inc. also estimates that the crude oil market is losing 7 million to 11 million barrels per day of supply due to the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.

RT News

06 March 2026 14:18 GMT

Trump has taken to social media to demand “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” from Iran before any deal can be secured.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president went on to call for new Iranian leaders he deems “acceptable,” after which he said the US and its allies would work to help Iran recover.

14:07 GMT

The RT team in Iran has witnessed preparations for Ali Khamenei’s funeral at the Imam Khomeini Prayer Grounds.

The funeral has yet to be held as the US and Israel continue their bombing of Iranian cities.

Due to stringent restrictions, no other media were allowed to film the inside of Tehran’s Mosalla and preparations.

13:59 GMT

The UAE’s Defence Ministry has said it has intercepted nine ballistic missiles and 109 drones today, with three other drones falling on Emirati territory.

This brings the total number of intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles in the UAE during the conflict to 190 and the total number of intercepted drones to 1,110, according to the ministry.

13:22 GMT

Basra International Airport has been targeted by a drone, an Iraqi security source told Al Jazeera.

It was unclear who was responsible for launching the drone or if there were any casualties or damage at the facility.

12:34 GMT

Iranian worshipers, many holding portraits of the late assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, have gathered across Iran for the first Friday prayers since the US-Israeli strikes began seven days ago.

People chanted anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans as they gathered for midday prayers, undeterred by the ferocious ongoing bombing campaign.

Footage shared by Iranian media showed crowds of men and women dressed in black streaming to mosques all across the country.

People are also waving flags in a sign of support for the Iranian government amid the ongoing strikes.

https://www.rt.com/news/633831-us-israeli-war-on-iran-live-updates/

I should add that Hegseth is having another bravado-filled press conference to convince the idiots that it’s going well. 90% reduction in missile launches from Iran they’ll say, without acknowledging what else hides under the mountains 😂

Maybe after a week we’ll see drones flying into bases inside the U.S.

Wouldn’t it be sweet if Trump backed off, only to be attacked within the U.S. itself? 🥷

Iran says new wave of ‘True Promise 4’ operation has begun, state media report

18 minutes ago 11:09 NZDT Enas Alashray Reuters

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the operation involves a combined missile and drone attack targeting sites in central Tel Aviv, according to state media.

The Guards said the assault included the launch of Kheibar missiles as part of the latest phase of the operation against Israel.

Kheibar is a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,240 miles)

So if this is true it would be wise for China to grab Taiwan in 2027 before production of patriots increases or maybe China will increase their production and out-produce the U.S.

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Shame on them. By the way, I’m in New Zealand and they’re saying in the news that we can’t export chilled meat to these countries for quite some time haha!

edit: sadly trade may resume but hopefully not for several days

Yeah I was shocked to be honest. Even more shocked when the government here in New Zealand came out with a bunch of Trump/Netanyahu talking points. The war is a huge gamble and self-defeating, we’ll eventually see some kind of revenge attacks against U.S. bases (and/or citizens) around the world. I listened to a clip by Alex Jones the other day and he said that all the generals were against recommending this war, except for the general at CENTCOM. Not sure if it’s true but it sounds right. Why would a trained military person recommend a war that has global consequences, when there is no threat to the United States? The cost/benefit of this doesn’t work for the U.S. but for Israel it’s just great, they can one day expand their borders.