“the most advanced economy in europe”

“scientifically proven democracy”

I got another human-written reply from another correspondence person at the Prime Minister’s office. As you’ll see, I’m calling this crisis “the cost of Israel crisis”. NOT the cost of living crisis.

Kia ora Asshole,

RE: The ongoing cost of Israel

On behalf of the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Christopher Luxon, thank you for writing and sharing your views which have been noted.

Ngā mihi nui

Dear Prime Minister,

The ongoing cost of Israel

The cost of Israel continues to increase. If you don’t condemn Trump, then he will continue to damage the global economy. The result will be that working New Zealanders will need a government subsidy to pay for their supermarket shopping and the cost of rent. This makes no economic sense and that’s why I’m asking you to criticise Trump’s mental state and comment on his dementia symptoms.

Regards, Hugh Jass (in Christchurch)

A ceasefire until negotiations conclude, hardly what I’d call “indefinite ceasefire” which is what was earlier reported.

The New Zealand media had some detailed reports the other day, regarding the oil supply situation. I believe there will have to be an escalation or a conclusion to the war soon, because the trucking companies are panicking and airlines will eventually have to cut flights. Once it begins to impact the ability to do normal business then even business people will get angry. People take it for granted that they can order things on Amazon and have them shipped thousands of kilometres, but this isn’t guaranteed any longer if prices for food, groceries and shipping increase.

The conclusion of the war will be driven by the severity of the economic situation and I believe that something must change within 1-2 months (else daily life becomes intolerable). Trump has so far managed to manipulate the oil price and make millions for his friends with insider trading, but when supply shock happens it will be harder to get that under control. When the tankers stop coming, there will be an urgent need for a conclusion to the war. Recent articles in New Zealand specifically mention supply shock as a severe situation which would require fuel and diesel rationing. It’ll be worse than price increases and it will require government intervention.

Excuse my other post which was poorly worded, poorly thought-out crap. It’s really hard to imagine what will happen. The best scenario is that the majority of the people in Western countries oppose Trump and the world turns against America. It’s unlikely but I try to make it happen with memes, propaganda, protests and emails to Parliament.

This week I sent an email to New Zealand’s Prime Minister and the staff member, surprisingly, replied to my email which suggests that this email will end up on the PM’s desk. So always write a numbered list with a maximum of only 2 points. Government officials love this because it makes their job easy.

The email:

I love this. It reminds me of Tropico 5 when I’m in the colonial era, and I have to pay a fee to gain independence, but there’s another option that’s called “let them come” where I just have to fight off a few enemy squads to earn my independence.

Let the Americans visit Iran. The illusion of supremacy will be shattered. Based Marandi FTW!

I hope so. It’d be pretty funny if the U.S. established an airstrip in Iran, only for a Fat Man to drop on them. Even a dirty bomb would work. Thousands of personnel being evacuated due to radioactive contamination lol. Americans would go crazy: “HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO OUR MEN”. It’d be like 9/11 all over again. Poor America! Being unjustly attacked by the Islamists, AGAIN, just because they hate our way of life!!!1

Stupid thoughts aside, there was a report by Russian intelligence that a ground invasion is possible, as reported by researchers at The Duran: https://rumble.com/v78purg-russias-intelligence-warning-u.s.-ground-operation-in-iran-may-be-next.html

It’s kinda obvious that Trump could invade Iran and set up an air field, he can’t delay it forever. Either he admits defeat now or he gets thoroughly defeated in ground warfare to the point it’s so bad that no-one can call it anything besides a humiliation.

Thanks, I shared this in a Trump group on another website ;)

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I think it’s possible that Trump will use nukes - what else could defeat Iran’s mountain fortifications? There is no larger explosion than a nuke, so perhaps a ground penetrating weapon with a nuclear warhead will be used to destroy Iran’s deepest missile bases? Otherwise Iran will be able to launch missiles for several more weeks.

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/

@[email protected] 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)