Interesting, the lies and obfuscation is strong on this one.

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From Vox Popoli, https://www.voxday.net./

Evidence the USA is Losing

A satellite imagery company called Planet Labs has announced that it is further restricting the release of satellite images from over the war zone and delaying them for two weeks:

Due to the increasingly complex regional security environment, we are sharing an update to our data access restrictions in the Middle East. There are genuine concerns of use of Planet data over Iran, as well as an extended window of risk for recent imagery. After consulting with experts inside and outside of government, and as we continue to balance operational security needs and our transparency mission, Planet has decided to take additional, proactive measures to ensure our imagery is not tactically leveraged by adversarial actors to target allied and NATO-partner personnel and civilians.

As of today, we are making the following changes:

• Expansion of AOI: The designated Area of Interest (AOI) has been expanded to include all of Iran and nearby allied bases, in addition to the Gulf States and existing conflict zones.

• 14-Day Delay: We are extending the delay for all new imagery (PlanetScope, SkySat, Pelican, and Tanager) from 4 to 14 days before it becomes available in our commercial archive.

The idea that this imagery is being “tactically leveraged by adversarial actors” is absurd because a) it was already being restricted for 96 hours and b) Iran doesn’t rely upon Western civilian satellite imagery, it utilizes the information it is being provided by the Chinese and Russian militaries. The only purpose this serves is to prevent the public from being able to discern when one of the belligerent parties is lying.

One analyst immediately flagged the reason for what appears to be US government censorship being imposed upon Planet Labs:

This is a significant development and the timing alone makes it analytically important. Planet Labs already imposed a 96-hour satellite imagery blackout on Gulf states on Day 7. The original 96-hour blackout on Day 7 applied to Gulf states but notably excluded Iran, which drew immediate criticism from open source analysts including Patricia who flagged it as asymmetric censorship… This expanded notice now includes Iran, which addresses that asymmetry on paper. What it also does is remove the primary independent verification mechanism for damage assessment claims from both sides simultaneously.

Here is what I assess with confidence. The coalition’s strike tempo is down 76% from peak. $5.6 billion in munitions burned in two days. The Pentagon is preparing an emergency supplemental funding request. Two high-value US drones shot down on Day 8. American cruise missiles intercepted last night. A 14-day imagery blackout now covers every base, every facility, every impact site across the entire theatre.

Independent verification of what is actually happening on the ground just became significantly harder for everyone. Draw your own conclusions about whose interests that serves most at this specific moment in the conflict.

In other words, either the US-Israeli narrative is becoming increasingly false, or the Epstein Alliance is about to do something to Iran that it is desperate to hide from the world. And, of course, the answer could quite possibly be both.

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66 thoughts on “Interesting, the lies and obfuscation is strong on this one.”

  1. May be, yesterday rump and others were crawfishing on previous statements, but that was read on the innerwebz.

  2. Guess we need to HIDE all that WINNING.

    Need I add a Sarcasm tag here?

    Sattalight data was showing we are far from winning and Israel is getting busted up so bad that Trump ASKED Putin to mediator a peace.

    From “We’re Hitting Iran even HARDER to Putin PLEASE make it Stop.

  3. Well, if you consider voxday a reliable source……..

    I read him regularly, for entertainment purposes only.

    I trust Phil for a legitimate take infinitely more than vox.

    • Novel idea here- maybe you could actually learn to do fact checking for yourself Chuck, instead of giving us your unsolicited opinions on reliable sources? Not like he didn’t put the link to the press release right there in blue for you Portlanders.

      • Charlie is right. Theodore Beale (AKA Vox Day) is not a reliable source. He never got anything right on Putin’s war and it is not likely he will do any better with Iran.

        Beale is often wrong, but always confident.

      • Novel idea here- maybe you could learn to not believe every press release you read.
        My unsolicited opinion on reliable sources is the only opinion I have.

        Somehow you think voxday is accurate about his take on this? Like he was on the russia ukraine nonsense?

        “you portlanders” lol Speaking of unsolicited opinions. Perhaps if you did just a tad bit of fact checking for yourself sir, you might realize just how asinine an opinion that is.

        Now, I need to go do some fact checking……

  4. It’s possible that the U.S. is not doing well fighting Iran, but that’s not the way to bet. I am trying to imagine a scenario where Iran could possibly be considered to be winning in any commonly used meaning of the word.

    • The best explanation I’ve seen is Simple Survival.

      Trumps “unconditional surrender”, your oil is mine and demanding that HE picks your leadership seems unacceptable to them.

      Every day the oil is restricted by the war Asia is a day closer to the lights going out for lack of fuel for their power grid. Other such situations exist across the globe.

      Eventually when things get too harsh for the rest of the world, they will reject America’s Leadership and the Petrodollar will fail.

      As we import nearly everything, including our medicines that might be ah, bad.

      You can argue that Iran is doing it but from media outside England and America WE are looking like the PROBLEM.

      Seems DECADES of America running about “Changing other folks Governments” is coming home to roost.

      We have a History of being Bad Assed Bombers.

      ASIDE from that we’re not just fighting Iran. China and Russia have a dog in this fight as it’s CHINA’s Oil Trump is trying to own, like it was China’s oil in Venezuela.

      BTW China has been planning for this for a while, they can active coal to oil plants already online and somewhere close to 6 months of reserves in country. That and Russia said they will happily sell them more as Europe says they don’t want it.

      The world past CNN noticed.

      • Venezuela. They said we would be bogged down in a South American Vietnam if we went after Murduro. Damn. I wish we hadn’t gotten stuck in a… Oh, that’s not what happened? Shit. Maybe this isn’t the typical script being played out. Thank God you’re here to tell us all how it’s going to turn out

          • Things are quite different when the guy in charge has no intention of screwing around like the left did in ‘nam. It doesn’t take much to predict when the guy in charge will not screw around.

            • Quartermaster, not sure how a special forces body snatch compares to boots on the ground OCCUPATION of Venezuela.

              Vietnam, we stayed there like idiots trying to change their government.

              The very same thugs that sold Madros to us are running Venezuela.

              BTW I said SOLD. All the fancy super dooper weapons that “WORKED on Mardos thugs DIDN’T work on Madros Cuban Security team.

              They all got killed. You can look that up easily.

              AI PowerPoint videos for USA consumption and Suitcases of 100 dollar bills for the now current Government of Venezuela.

              Meanwhile Quartermaster I NOTICE that NONE of the American Oil Companies OFFERED Venezuela’s OIL have taken Trumps offer even with US Gov CASH added to rebuild it.

              Want links?

    • You can’t take a country without plenty of 19yos with rifles. You can utterly wreck it, however. For the Mullahs, It’s kinda like Satan preferring to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Iran was already hell before the US opened their part of the the 1979 war.

      • Sir how did bomb them into the stone age work out in North Vietnam.

        OH, should I say VIETNAM as the North swallowed the South Vietnamese after we helo’ed out.

        How did the Hothi vs US Navy GAMES workout?

        Hothi’s 2 navy 0.

        Yes, the rest of the world took notes.

        Maybe we should get back to what our founding fathers said about avoiding entangling alliances and not to seek out monsters to slay?

        SURE would be NICE if our incompetent CONgress (spelling intentional) could KEEP the Freeking Gov OPEN and maybe JUST maybe PASS a voter ID law.

        The world seems to see us as a Nuclear armed madhouse with our internal struggles for power. No wonder they tread carefully not to get nuked.

  5. So when we lose, does that mean I have to learn Farsi or does it mean that some mad mullahs are still alive or Biden is POTUS again or something else?
    I’ve learned to wait until Trump is done doing what he does before I try to figure out if he accomplished what he seemed to set out to do.
    YMMV.

  6. They are hiding the truth because things are going poorly for the US and Israel.

  7. USA losing??? Must mean Iran is winning?? You guys and Voxday must live on another planet. Does anything like a 0-30, much less a 0-50+ ship exchange rate mean Iran is winning? Even during WW2, the US couldn’t hide ship losses, especially today when every ship in the fleet lets sailors email home every day… A ship dropping off the chart would get noticed, you know. So would the loss of US or Israeli aircraft. And just because a bunch of goat fucking ayatollah assholes won’t immediately surrender, a bunch of idiots in the USA think this is going to last years and Iran will be stronger than ever before on the other end of the 6 week, or even 6 month, bombing and sabotage campaign?

    How about you let this play out a while before throwing in the towel like a bunch of French pussies? Just because no country has ever killed every single bad guy through bombing doesn’t mean Curtis Lemay or Dan Caine couldn’t do it, given sufficient time. And who gives a shit at $1B/day in cost when we lose that much every day in fake Somali kindergartens and fake California hospice businesses and fake NGO graft. Leave the chips on black and let the bombing bet ride till it doesn’t work. Nobody gives a shit as long as our guys own the air and we don’t have to put our own guys in enemy country. Smuggling weapons to Iranians is a helluva lot easier and more likely to end with them killing more bad guys than good ones. I’m tired of Iranian assholes killing peaceful innocents for 45 years, so screw them until they are mutilated and say they quit…

    • Since History is my hobby I know that censorship was deep and wide during WW2.

      SNIP Yes, censorship was implemented during World War II across various nations to control information and maintain morale.
      Governments sought to suppress news that could be advantageous to enemy forces while promoting narratives that uplifted public spirits.
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      The Office of Censorship was established in the United States to limit sensitive information during the war.
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      Censorship varied significantly by country, with the United States emphasizing patriotic reporting, while the United Kingdom controlled narratives through the Ministry of Information.
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      In occupied nations, censorship was often dictated by their occupiers, leading to different degrees of control.
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      Overall, censorship during World War II was a critical component of information strategies employed by nations involved in the conflict.

      If you really want a few minutes on the internet would show that we INDEED censored bad knowledge like ships lost and so on.

      The quote “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies” by Winston Churchill reflects the idea that during times of conflict, the truth is valuable but often protected by deception. This suggests that in the chaos of war, the truth may need to be shielded to ensure strategic success, as revealing the truth could expose vulnerabilities to adversaries.

      Is your opinion backed up by facts, sir?

      • History may be your hobby, but apparently reading comprehension isn’t your stength. Or are you going to contend that in WWII the US allowed sailors to email home everyday (except, of course, the censored stuff)?

        It’s that constant contact that allows parents back home know their sailor is safe. If a boat load of sailors stop writing home, moms and dads would know about it.

        Note the entire previous paragraph was said by the OP, but you clearly didn’t understand what was written.

        • Anon, lets check back in on your opinion in say a month or so.

          I suspect the damage reports might be in by then.

        • I looked up what military emcom our navy is under in this Iran skirmish.

          You might want to look it up, sir.

          Total blackout of all private emails and phone calls.

          Yes, censorship is in full deployment.

      • Censorship doesn’t mean or even imply losing the war, which is my primary point. Just because the government is censoring information doesn’t mean the Invincible Iranian Ayatollahs are inflicting damage on their neighbors or the US. Having been a target of those turban dicks my entire adult life has given me the perspective that they are only successful at damaging the US when we let our guard down. They are cowards who only harass and intimidate weak people. Strong military forces give them a bad case of fright. And over 90% of their weapons are missing. Everyone who says or implies the US or Israel is losing this is dumb as a bag of hammers.

        • Let’s discuss this in about a month Sir.

          BTW I have family in the navy over there.

          With all the censorship please give us links showing how 90% of their weapons are missing.

          That way I can show it to a few wives and family here that their Husbands are doing fine.

            • Sad reply sir.

              I EXPECT better from an Honorable Marine.

              But please send over a link how 90% of Iran’s weapons miss their target.

              • Sorry SemperFi after reading the rest of your comment here I realized you’re speaking to Charlie and the Hopium crowd “Were WINNING Bigly”.

                BUT I DO HOPE the 90% MISSING crowd will man up and post a link proving the Inferiority of Iran’s weapon systems.

                • Isn’t it because they ordered their GPS systems from some sketchy pager supplier from Eastern Europe?

  9. Despite our narrative of 47 years and all that.

    The rest of the world doesn’t see this war AMERICA and Israel started with Iran like that.

    THIS IS WHAT THEY SEE:

    https://coyoteprimeblog2.blogspot.com/2026/03/choke-point-global-economic.html

    BTW we’re not just fighting Iran, we’ve fucked with China’s oil in Venezuela and now Iran. Iran is the HUB of China’s Belt and Road economic development.

    While our Government cannot even STAY the fuck OPEN over funding children being mutilated by Trans Bullshit and deporting illegals CHINA has been preparing for this war for years.

    But go on saying we’re WINNING as you learn that more than SNIP

    Approximately 70-80% of the U.S. total generic drug supply comes from China and India, with China controlling 80-90% of global production for antibiotics and other key compounds. Additionally, 37% of all APIs used in drugs sold in the U.S. come from China, highlighting the significant reliance on Chinese components in the pharmaceutical supply chain.

    I could go in about a HUGE amount of our daily requirements that REQUIRE shipping into America.

    China has been making America weaker every year with offshoring.

    SO HELL YEAH “Murkia” will mean what when your family cannot get their daily medicines.

    So celebrate the WINNING of being Israels bitch.

    Our founding fathers said Don’t seek out monsters to destroy and don’t get entangled by Europe’s alliances.

    Yet, here we are, being CONTROLLED by our “Greatest Ally ever”.

    • The “medicine” is all poison anyway. The best thing a person can do is stay away from the Kenite controlled “health” system. Chemical based drugs are not medicine. Oh, by the way… It’s Kenite Occupied Israel.

    • Ahh, there is the key. You care what the rest of the world thinks of us. I don’t in the slightest.

      Being cut off from outside sources of meds, etc would be a bit painful for a bit. But in the long run would be a blessing.

      Imagine the pain and suffering they will fell as we cut off all the money we have been sending them for most of my lifetime.

      fuck em

      • Bot?

        Plenty of the posters here require those “fuck em” medications to live.

        Guess you don’t know how many YEARS it takes to build factories.

        • again, not a bot, just an asshole that feels compelled to reply to nonsensical statements.

          Your reading comprehension seems to be a little low.

          I did mention painful.

          • Yeah, watching your wife or husband DYING because if “fuck em” loss of medicine DOES seem PAINFUL.

            Happily, karma is real.

            • The US will win on account of their arrogant exceptionalism, ask any of these brainwashed voters.
              This nation is collapsing from within and all the dumbmasses can do is wave the flag moar harder like trained zoo animals.
              Pretty soon our lack of manufacturing will catch up with us and these arrogant idiots will watch life cease to exist around them, wondering how it happened. Russia/China can sit back and watch as we die, they don’t have to fire a shot.
              I woke up when Saigon fell, most of my peers are still screaming for more wars, and the majority of them never spent a minute in uniform, it’s easier to send your neighbors kids than do it yourself.

  10. Define “winning”….the metrics for victory are not the same as they used to be. And while we can certainly destroy Iran militarily that does NOT guarantee ultimate victory for us. It may merely change the conflict to methods we have not anticipated. Fanatic islamists CAN’T surrender or give up. They can only be killed. And killing all of them is not as easy as one may think. I suspect the best we can do is temporarily slow their plans down. But the west simply doesn’t have the guts to do what is actually necessary to end the threat of islam. Whereas Islamists have NO problem doing what allah commands them to do. Every action has consequences and outcomes.many of which simply cannot be foreseen.

  11. The delay is to prevent the US media (aka IRGC allied Democrat propagandists) from broadcasting military movements to the enemy.

    • Or the damage Iran is inflicting is too much to reveal at this time.

      I looked up what emcom our navy is doing right now and you should look it up also.

      Total blackout of all personal emails and phone calls.

      Full censorship in effect.

      And I was told that we’ve destroyed all their weapons and are totally winning..

      Pity my family members on those ships cannot share victory stories.

        • Goodness Facts really bother Chuck. So, you go for the kindergarten insults.

          I served over 20 years, all my family line served from the Civil War to present, like my family IN those navy ships in the Iran skirmish.

          I gather you don’t read Western Rifle Shooters Association, nor Matt Bracken, nor Zero Hedge and so on.

          Too many well researched writers saying we America is in trouble with the Iran-China tar baby.

          Facts are not anti-American; they are simply facts.

          And it seems from your lack of facts to back up your keyboarding you don’t bother looking up and verifying anything that might offend you.

          Some more facts you can research:

          https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/risk-attack-too-high-us-navy-refuses-provide-escorts-ships-transiting-hormuz-strait

          And this little annoyance:

          https://appalachianrenegade.com/2026/03/10/its-like-they-are-setting-us-up-to-fail/

          Seems today or maybe yesterday we just sent our only minesweepers to the scrapyards.

          Please show your patriotism and RESEARCH what options we have currently to deal with sea mines.

          • Oh man, you got it bad don’t ya?

            Cut it out with the negative waves moriarty.

            wsra, zero hedge, matt and a slew of them at the burning platform have been part fo my daily read for sometime now. They have all gone off the rails with this. As you seem to have.

            I have no more concern for israel than I do for iran or gaza or russia or china or the eu or any other adversary of ours.

            The jewish influence in our government is insane.

            BUT iran and venzuala have been a threat for long enough. We have a Prez willing to do what needs done, then let’s do it. A little pain now to stop a pain that has been ongoing for almost my entire life AND that would only have gotten worse.

            We are putting a serious dent in china’s oil supplies, we are removing a serious threat to everyone in the middle east. We have almost dismembered the drug trade, which the ‘war on drugs’ did nothing about. We have semi secured the panama canal.

            We have certainly reminded everyone in the fucking world not to piss us off. Now, if Trump destroys iran and then brings the boys home, I will be happy.

            I think the positives far outweigh the negatives.

            Finish them. Then lets get the focus back on deporting ALL illegals, revoke all visas and put a moratorium on immigration for 10 years.

            Yes, fuck em. Gonna be a hard lesson on the pharmacuticals, yes. A hard lesson on all the manufacturing that we have insanely sent overseas. It will be painful, more so for some than others, but hey, thats life.

            • Charlie, it would seem, it’s easier to fool you, than to convince you, you’ve been fooled.
              Are we hurting Iran? Big time, but they can absorb more abuse than we can. They have wrecked ALL of our bases around the gulf and shut down all non Iranian oil production/shipping. It looks like we’ve accrued at least a thousand casualties, so far. Can that be hidden? For awhile, but it’s already slipping out.

              • I believe we both started out at Sipsey St. a long time ago, not much has changed with educating the slow thinkers.

              • Where is the evidence all our bases in the Middle East have been destroyed/wrecked? If that is the case, where are all these daily sorties into Iran flying out of? Where are the reports of more than a thousand casualties? The count is 7 dead, at least 8 critically injured, and all from, apparently, ONE hit on a logistics base. The guys who died look like IT and motor pool folks. As for the 90% missed target rates, when 160 drones are sent and only 20 cause damage to their targets, that is scant evidence of magically invincible Iranian weapons systems.

                WRSA, Zero Hedge, etc… are all folks I read, and they always claim Israel controls our government, and the Jews are some kind of supermen who are trying to control everything and everyone. Give it a break. It took the East Germans almost 20% of the population to keep tabs on the other 80% of their people through massive surveillance campaigns. If Israel or even the US government was capable of controlling the entire population, they would have MILLIONS of employees watching everything and everyone. It isn’t physically possible.

                And don’t get me started on AI and computer algorithms being able to spy and control us all. NSA already scoops up every piece of message traffic in the world and STILL doesn’t have enough manpower to act on the really important ones than need human decision makers to decide to do something about Joe Smuckatelli at the car repair shop who may have anti social tendencies and want to ruin government stuff for fun.

                Everyone who is anti American is invincible to the press, dhimmis, liberals, and cranky old farts who always claim the government is out to get them. We are constantly doomed to some dystopian fate because the system is perpetually collapsing. My grandparents, who grew up without air conditioning is South Texas, and with an outhose for the first 30 years of their lives were just doomed, of course. During the Great Depression, my family still had jobs and food and a roof over their heads. And still made great progress in knowledge and health, and overall societal well being. Because they minded their own business, and helped out neighbors.

                The Invincible anti-American demons of this world are as impotent as a wet napkin. No one’s Navy sailors’ family members are dying in mass droves from massive drone strikes by Iranian dickheads. Get a grip

                • Check back in about a month.

                  Meanwhile have a nice adult drink or two and enjoy life.

                  We’re not there in any form and really have only Media telling us what’s happening.

                  Everybody knows the Media is totally honest.

                • So having discernment is anti-American?
                  How many more times do you have to see it?, Obedience is not Patriotism.
                  Nothing worse than a low IQ Foxtard to make my day.

              • I fell that the destruction of all our bases around the middle east is a plus. Gives us a good excuse to bring all our boys home.

                I am not fooled by any of this. But I am also not as anti American as many of the comments I am seeing here.

                Were it up to me, we would have no bases anywhere but on our own border. We would have no immigration at all. We would import nothing and export the same.

                BUT, as long as we are going to break things over there, let’s go ahead and remind everyone just how good we are at breaking things when we set our mind to it.

                As far as iran winning in any way, is that a joke? Again, were it up to me we would send 3 nukes. One to tehran, on to tel aviv and one to mecca.

                • Anti-American; the usual response from a low IQ prole.
                  Time for you to read 1984 and understand how Big Brother loves you.

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