Putin Says Kiev Plans Black Sea Pipeline Attack Gives West Nuclear Warning; Trump Speech Iran Strike (Alexander Mercouris)

00:00 Introduction & Program Overview
00:27 Trump's State of the Union Address: Iran Focus
03:39 Analyzing Trump's Claims on Iran
09:12 US Intelligence & Realities About Iran
12:17 Likelihood and Limits of US Attack on Iran
15:51 China-Iran Missile Deals & Military Shifts
23:28 US Military Limitations & Strategic Concerns
29:24 Shifting Global Military Balance
35:36 Russia, Ukraine, and NATO Military Developments
41:14 Putin's Speech: Dirty War and Negotiations
52:52 Putin on Security, Pipelines, and Ukraine Operations
01:09:00 Russian Advances in Ukraine
01:11:10 UK Politics: Epstein, Mandleson, and Starmer
01:22:43 Closing Remarks & Channel Info



Editorial comment: The opening part of Alexander's video goes over the State of the Union claims about Iran killing US soldiers in Iraq (during the war) using Improvised Explosive Devices, where he says that this, and other claims, are not substantiated. He's correct. I posted news clips (on the original Spookyweather webpage) dealing with the issue during 2007-8 when the Bush neocons were trying to expand the fighting into Iran. I remember they announced a press conference to display evidence of IEDs coming from Iran, but it was then cancelled. I also remember a mainstream news story explaining how a US operation uncovered a bomb making factory inside Iraq, that was making the IEDs they said came from Iran. The Iranians deliberately stayed out of the war to avoid the US attacking them. No evidence of their involvement ever appeared at the time or it would have been paraded around as an excuse to attack them.

At the same time as the IED thing was going there were resurrected claims about the Iranians having a nuclear weapons program. In reaction to these political claims the US National Intelligence Estimate on their nuke program was released/leaked to the public. It said said that Iran had given up on their nuclear program in 2003. Bush was asked about it and he said, something like; "I don't know why they'd say a thing like that" - in the face of his administration claiming there was a program.

So that's how the previous march to war was stopped back in 2007-8. It seemed like a lot of military people inside the US didn't want to become involved in more fighting after getting bogged down in Iraq, where they hid the real casualty figures - that were MUCH higher than reported.

I shared news stories on this at the time. If you leave Iran alone the middle class will end up moderating the country. But the neocon plan is to destroy the place, and probably use their ISIS/al Qaeda puppets to do so. They will likely move out of Syria into Iraq, and then onto Iran. They'll first declare Iraq as some kind of Iranian ally, which is true today, and pour fuel on the fire. Iraq will be the next target for ISIS, and the US will not help them, although Russia or China might. CIA money and weapons will flow to the extremists and it will be Syria 2.0. For them to have any chance of winning against Iraq they'll first be building up a large force, equipped with a lot of drones, and know how, from Ukraine.

The only thing that will stop this might be some sort of block from within the US establishment, but a lot of the networks running these ops are pretty much 'on the loose', using black pools of money, and it's also in the hands of the Israelis plus Gulf State actors that are against Iran (blackmailed, corrupt Governments). It's not an easy thing to stop.
All they really need is political cover to let the fighting commence. Perhaps rebranding the extremists as pro-Democacy rebels, like they did before. Maybe they will try to start some sort of internal conflict inside Iraq first and then flood it with the extremists. This is what happened in Syria. Some sort of excuse will be rolled out that the mainstream media will trumpet. You can guess that a big part of the problem rests with the mainstream press. You can't despise them enough.

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, February 27, 2026.]