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Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone News just returned and opened with something that stopped me cold. He said we're in a war cycle that won't end until one side fully capitulates, and in his view, the U.S. already has. JD Vance is saying out loud what Bill Clinton only... screamed in private. The missile cities everyone called a waste of money held. The fast boats kept the Strait closed. Iran had more cards than anyone admitted. His investigation ties Butler directly to Israeli intelligence manufacturing the Iran threat narrative that got Trump into this war. Trump isn't physically scared of Netanyahu, Max says. He's politically scared. There's a difference. Is that fear what drove the worst US military defeat since the Civil War? Thank you Max Blumenthal for this conversationshow more

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Our Revolution

50,913 views • 4 months ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war may have damaged American power more profoundly than Vietnam; not through casualties, but by exposing that the U.S military can no longer sustain the empire. Most people still measure wars the old way: How many soldiers were killed, aircraft shot down, or territory changed hands? The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal says that completely misses what happened in the Iran war. The real damage, in his view, is what America burned through trying to sustain it: THAAD interceptors, Patriot missiles, Tomahawks, and long-range precision weapons. The very systems Washington expected to rely on in future confrontations with China, Russia or anyone else capable of challenging U.S power. They take years to manufacture, and that changes everything. America can move remaining missiles from Europe or Asia, but moving scarcity around isn't the same thing as fixing it. And Iran survived anyway. That's the strategic reversal Max thinks people are missing. Trump entered the war expecting something much bigger: Decapitate the Iranian leadership, break the IRGC, trigger internal collapse, and potentially produce regime change. Instead, months later, Washington's most urgent objective has become reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait that was already open before the war began!! This is why Max rejects the idea that a relatively low U.S casualty count means the war was strategically cheap. An empire doesn't only lose power when soldiers die; it loses power when the weapons, bases and industrial capacity that sustain its global reach are consumed faster than they can be replaced. And the consequences don't stop in the Middle East. Every missile burned through in this war reduces the stockpile available for the confrontation Washington spent years preparing for with China. That's why Max describes what is happening as something far more serious than another failed Middle Eastern intervention. It may be the start of the collapse of the American empire. Max Blumenthal

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22,742 views • 19 days ago

⚡️🇺🇸JUST IN: U.S Senators say that Trump is lying and this war on Iran has no end game. Chris Van Hollen: “Today, Congress was finally briefed on Trump's war of choice in Iran. Even behind closed doors, they couldn't get their story straight. But one thing is clear: they don't have a clue what the end game is, and it sure as hell isn't making America safer.” Ed Markey: “Trump is lying about Iran's nuclear capacity. He's lying about Iran's missile capabilities, and he's dragging the United States into another endless war in the Middle East. Trump is completely out of control, and Americans have already lost their lives because of his lies. The war in Iran must end now.”

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Suppressed News.

86,531 views • 5 months ago

U.S. intelligence just warned Israel will sabotage the Iran deal and Defense Analyst Brandon Weichert wasn't surprised for a second. He's been saying Trump is the junior partner in this relationship from day 1. Netanyahu needs the war to survive politically, full stop, and everything is on the table to keep it going The Strait of Hormuz isn't open, isn't closed, just like the ceasefire isn't a ceasefire. Iran already submitted a 6 point countermeasures plan to Khamenei in case the U.S. breaks the MOU But here's the twist he didn't expect me to push back on: forcing Netanyahu to stop means forcing him to sign his own political death warrant Is any American president actually able to do that? Enjoy my conversation with Brandon Weichert

U.S. intelligence just warned Israel will sabotage the Iran deal and Defense Analyst Brandon Weichert wasn't surprised for a second. He's been saying Trump is the junior partner in this relationship from day 1. Netanyahu needs the war to survive politically, full stop, and everything is on the table to keep it going The Strait of Hormuz isn't open, isn't closed, just like the ceasefire isn't a ceasefire. Iran already submitted a 6 point countermeasures plan to Khamenei in case the U.S. breaks the MOU But here's the twist he didn't expect me to push back on: forcing Netanyahu to stop means forcing him to sign his own political death warrant Is any American president actually able to do that? Enjoy my conversation with Brandon Weichert

Mario Nawfal

262,884 views • 2 months ago

CNN: What do you know about what he's saying that Iran didn't until right now didn’t know that we're taking millions of barrels of oil. And this 100 million barrels that Trump says he's actually helped get through the strait. Himes: A lot of that is just flat out untrue. Let's just agree that the president has precisely zero credibility on anything that he says about the Iran war. You don't need to be an intelligence expert to understand that the strait of hormuz, you're not moving anything in secret with a good pair of binoculars on either coast. You can see what's happening.

CNN: What do you know about what he's saying that Iran didn't until right now didn’t know that we're taking millions of barrels of oil. And this 100 million barrels that Trump says he's actually helped get through the strait. Himes: A lot of that is just flat out untrue. Let's just agree that the president has precisely zero credibility on anything that he says about the Iran war. You don't need to be an intelligence expert to understand that the strait of hormuz, you're not moving anything in secret with a good pair of binoculars on either coast. You can see what's happening.

Acyn

665,399 views • 2 months ago

Max Blumenthal: ‘The spell Israel has over Trump appears to be BREAKING because Donald Trump saw their ultimate plan play out at his expense, and now he feels USED and he can’t find an exit ramp. And he may be so, I mean, he should be the salesman of the MoU, but he’s become so unpopular as the result of this failed war that he’s had to send J.D. Vance, his likely successor, out to either pay the cost of the failure of the MoU or to reap the benefits. And right now, I’d say it’s actually a pretty good moment for J.D. Vance because the American public wants this war on Iran to end.’ Watch the full interview with Max Blumenthal in the quoted post below👇

Max Blumenthal: ‘The spell Israel has over Trump appears to be BREAKING because Donald Trump saw their ultimate plan play out at his expense, and now he feels USED and he can’t find an exit ramp. And he may be so, I mean, he should be the salesman of the MoU, but he’s become so unpopular as the result of this failed war that he’s had to send J.D. Vance, his likely successor, out to either pay the cost of the failure of the MoU or to reap the benefits. And right now, I’d say it’s actually a pretty good moment for J.D. Vance because the American public wants this war on Iran to end.’ Watch the full interview with Max Blumenthal in the quoted post below👇

Going Underground

45,522 views • 1 month ago

TRUST ME BRO ISN’T A STRATEGY I’m telling y’all, the war Trump and Netanyahu started will end up being Trump’s undoing. What has the United States actually gained? Trump keeps promising that a deal with Iran is right around the corner, yet the war drags on. And he acts like reopening the Strait of Hormuz would be some historic victory when the Strait was already open before this war. Iran controls the Strait, not us.

TRUST ME BRO ISN’T A STRATEGY I’m telling y’all, the war Trump and Netanyahu started will end up being Trump’s undoing. What has the United States actually gained? Trump keeps promising that a deal with Iran is right around the corner, yet the war drags on. And he acts like reopening the Strait of Hormuz would be some historic victory when the Strait was already open before this war. Iran controls the Strait, not us.

Christopher Webb

41,115 views • 2 months ago

Told BBC that some voices in Iran fear that Trump just wants a deal to pacify the markets ahead of the midterms, but that he will restart the war after November. I am unconvinced. If Trump had a military option, he would use it now to WIN the war and use that win for the midterms. But the bottom line is: He doesn't have a winning military option with Iran.

Told BBC that some voices in Iran fear that Trump just wants a deal to pacify the markets ahead of the midterms, but that he will restart the war after November. I am unconvinced. If Trump had a military option, he would use it now to WIN the war and use that win for the midterms. But the bottom line is: He doesn't have a winning military option with Iran.

Trita Parsi

34,123 views • 2 months ago

In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi said that Iran and the US agreed upon terms that "were very appealing to Iran," explaining that the US accepted a regional end to the war, an end to the war on Lebanon, and to put off discussions about the nuclear program until the second stage. "So the only thing that is in this text that hasn't been agreed upon yet is Iran saying that it will not build a nuclear weapon, but that's what Iran has been saying for decades. So that's not something new for Iran," Professor Marandi said. He explained that the US wanted the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal, but Iran did not accept that, explaining that what Iran accepted "will return to normal is the number of ships that pass through," while it maintains control of the Strait. Seyed Mohammad Marandi #AlMayadeen #Iran #IranWar #US #Hormuz

In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi said that Iran and the US agreed upon terms that "were very appealing to Iran," explaining that the US accepted a regional end to the war, an end to the war on Lebanon, and to put off discussions about the nuclear program until the second stage. "So the only thing that is in this text that hasn't been agreed upon yet is Iran saying that it will not build a nuclear weapon, but that's what Iran has been saying for decades. So that's not something new for Iran," Professor Marandi said. He explained that the US wanted the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal, but Iran did not accept that, explaining that what Iran accepted "will return to normal is the number of ships that pass through," while it maintains control of the Strait. Seyed Mohammad Marandi #AlMayadeen #Iran #IranWar #US #Hormuz

Al Mayadeen English

15,274 views • 3 months ago