DONARUDO
WEEK 560 / 583 — The Surrender
Vol. 8 ·  Chapter 58 — Khamenei · Mar 3 – Mar 9, 2026
Manga panel 1 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: Tuesday the sea lanes are insured by decree, and the navy will escort the tankers through the strait if it has to.
MARCH 3.
Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the Financial Security of ALL Maritime Trade, especially Energy, traveling through the Gulf.…
Manga panel 2 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: Thursday the domestic demand is restated with passion, at the expense of everything else, and not the watered-down version.
“The Republicans MUST DO, with PASSION, and at the expense of everything else, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT - And not the watered down version.…”
Manga panel 3 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: Saturday at dawn the sentence the whole campaign was for: beaten to hell, Iran has apologized and surrendered to its neighbours.
Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore.…
Manga panel 4 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: That evening an old ally finally considers sending two carriers, and is told not to bother, and that it will be remembered.
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer — But we will remember.…
Manga panel 5 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: Sunday night, with a war half-fought, he stops to correct the name of the bill, which he says is much better this way.
It's not the Save Act, it's The Save America Act! A MUCH better, and more important, name!!!…
Manga panel 6 of 6, Week 560 “The Surrender”: And Monday a women's football team is about to be sent home to be killed, and he asks for asylum, and offers to take them himself.
Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran National Woman's Soccer team to be forced back to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give ASYLUM. The U.S. will take them if you won't.…
IN ONE WEEK HE ACCEPTS A SURRENDER, DISMISSES AN ALLY, AND OFFERS ELEVEN WOMEN A COUNTRY.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Tuesday afternoon the sea lanes are insured by decree, and the navy will escort tankers if it has to. Thursday the domestic demand is restated with passion and at the expense of everything else, and not the watered-down version. Saturday morning the war produces the sentence the whole campaign was for: Iran, being beaten to hell, has apologized and surrendered to its neighbours, the first time in thousands of years. Saturday evening an old ally finally considers sending two carriers, and is told not to bother — we do not need people who join wars after we have won them. Sunday night the name of the bill is corrected, which he says is much better and more important. And Monday, a women's football team is about to be sent home to be killed, and he asks another country to give them asylum, and offers to take them himself.

Readers' Corner

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