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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Backing down now feels more dangerous to both sides than pushing forward. That's the trap geopolitics expert Brandon Weichert describes, where neither capital can accept the cost of being seen to fold, so the ladder only goes one direction: "It's going to get really nasty." He stops short... show more

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🇺🇸 A peacetime draft is coming, and Congress may hand it over. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert has been reading up on FDR, who ran exactly that before America entered the war, and he sees the same road opening now: "He is escalating and he's not going to stop, and he's going to take us all the way to a nuclear strike if he has to." His read on the advisers running this is blunt, calling economics and business people badly out of their element on a military crisis, growing more desperate the longer it drags. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸 A prophecy made in 2004 is now unfolding in real time, and almost no one saw it coming. Geopolitics Expert Brandon Weichert says a CIA insider warned that bin Laden's pan-Islamic vision would survive his death, and 21 years later, Israel is more isolated than ever. "Israel is going to be more isolated than it has ever been before, and the United States is going to be far too removed." The trap was set decades ago. The question is whether anyone is willing to admit we walked straight into it. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸 A prophecy made in 2004 is now unfolding in real time, and almost no one saw it coming. Geopolitics Expert Brandon Weichert says a CIA insider warned that bin Laden's pan-Islamic vision would survive his death, and 21 years later, Israel is more isolated than ever. "Israel is going to be more isolated than it has ever been before, and the United States is going to be far too removed." The trap was set decades ago. The question is whether anyone is willing to admit we walked straight into it. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Once a war reaches full escalation, history says it doesn't stop until it burns itself out. Geopolitics Expert Brandon Weichert says the people driving this aren't statecraft professionals, they're amateurs who hate expertise. "This is not a good position for the United States to be in." He points to Herman Kahn, the Cold War nuclear theorist who basically said wars like this run themselves, and good luck stopping one once it's going. A war on autopilot, and everyone's just bracing for the crash. Brandon Weichert

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Once a war reaches full escalation, history says it doesn't stop until it burns itself out. Geopolitics Expert Brandon Weichert says the people driving this aren't statecraft professionals, they're amateurs who hate expertise. "This is not a good position for the United States to be in." He points to Herman Kahn, the Cold War nuclear theorist who basically said wars like this run themselves, and good luck stopping one once it's going. A war on autopilot, and everyone's just bracing for the crash. Brandon Weichert

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🇺🇲🇮🇷 Reporting shows it was Vance and Gen. Dan Caine pushing to hold off on further escalation, while Rubio's side pushed harder. And depletion concerns aren't the only reason the strikes paused. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert thinks Trump still wants one more major strike, on the "hardened" nuclear sites, and the current lull is about getting munitions and aircraft ready for that. So the theory: one more big round of escalation before anyone actually takes their foot off the gas. Does that read match what you're seeing, or is this actually winding down? Brandon Weichert

🇺🇲🇮🇷 Reporting shows it was Vance and Gen. Dan Caine pushing to hold off on further escalation, while Rubio's side pushed harder. And depletion concerns aren't the only reason the strikes paused. Geopolitical analyst Brandon Weichert thinks Trump still wants one more major strike, on the "hardened" nuclear sites, and the current lull is about getting munitions and aircraft ready for that. So the theory: one more big round of escalation before anyone actually takes their foot off the gas. Does that read match what you're seeing, or is this actually winding down? Brandon Weichert

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The statements announcing Iran's strikes on Kuwait and Bahrain went out before the bombs even dropped. Brandon Weichert just explained why that happened and where we are in the war. "Trump is like the kid who keeps putting his hand closer and closer to the burner, thinking it won't burn him. And every time he gets lucky and then eventually he is going to get burned and we're going to get burned in the process." The escalation trap is wide open, and we're walking straight into it. Brandon Weichert

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