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Professor Jamal Wakim nails the most underrated factor in this whole war logic: even when a US attack against Iran makes no rational sense, the “irrational factor” can still drive it. In this segment, he argues that on pure material calculations, Washington shouldn’t attack, because it would accelerate the...

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Regarding the promise to destroy Iran, the US spent four days gathering what remained of precision-guided weapons from around the world for the attack on Iran that began yesterday. The problem with this threat from Trump and Netanyahu is that even after collecting all those bombs, their firepower is now much smaller than it was weeks ago. They may be able to strike Iranian civilian infrastructure, but they are still very far from achieving any massive destruction of the country. This war has already reached a stage where it no longer distinguishes between military and civilian targets, and this is clearly evidenced by the attacks from both sides.
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Regarding the promise to destroy Iran, the US spent four days gathering what remained of precision-guided weapons from around the world for the attack on Iran that began yesterday. The problem with this threat from Trump and Netanyahu is that even after collecting all those bombs, their firepower is now much smaller than it was weeks ago. They may be able to strike Iranian civilian infrastructure, but they are still very far from achieving any massive destruction of the country. This war has already reached a stage where it no longer distinguishes between military and civilian targets, and this is clearly evidenced by the attacks from both sides.

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Is it possible that Israel has leverage over U.S. officials—potentially through kompromat networks like Epstein—to push America toward a war with Iran? I’m not presenting this as a proven fact. I’m saying the shift in tone, the shift in deployments, and the political logic make you wonder what’s happening behind the curtain. Because let’s be honest: a U.S. war on Iran makes no sense in terms of American national security. Iran is thousands of kilometers away. It’s not threatening U.S. territory. But it does serve Israel’s security agenda. So the obvious question becomes: whose war is this? And here’s the paradox: objectively, the U.S. should have leverage over Israel, because if this escalates, Israel cannot sustain a long war with Iran without an American air bridge of weapons, ammo, and resupply. Yet what we often see looks like the leverage runs the other way, which suggests other forces operating in the dark corridors of power. I also connect this to the bigger stakes: Hormuz, global trade routes, energy shock, and the kind of economic crisis that could be used to reset systems in ways ordinary people don’t control. Watch the clip and tell me: are we watching strategy… or something far darker that the public isn’t allowed to see?

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Sachs: This is a brazen US and Israeli attack on the whole world because it will bring down the world economy. Russia and China understand that this is a war of American global hegemony. And the US system is so broken that it’s like Rome being in the hands of Nero or Caligula. We’re on the way to a global economic catastrophe. Give it another few weeks: the production of gas and oil will be shut down. The facilities for transporting that gas and oil will be destroyed. The port facilities will be destroyed, and the Strait of Hormuz will still be closed. That will lead to a massive global economic crisis. Clearly, this would be a worldwide economic shock of enormous proportions.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 If the U.S-Iran war has lost the support of Kagan, it means it could be toast Robert Kagan spent decades arguing that American military power could shape the world. He was one of the intellectual architects of the neoconservative movement, a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, and one of the loudest advocates for the kind of interventionism that defined the Iraq War era. So when someone like Kagan starts warning that the United States may be heading toward irreversible defeat in Iran, people should pay attention. Not because he suddenly became anti-war, but because figures like Kagan were always the ones insisting America could escalate its way out of any geopolitical crisis. That confidence now seems badly shaken. In The Atlantic, Kagan argued that the damage from the Iran conflict may already be beyond repair. He warned there would be “no return to the status quo ante” and no eventual American triumph is capable of undoing the consequences of the war. That is an extraordinary admission coming from someone who spent years promoting the idea that American power, properly used, could reorder entire regions. What Kagan seems to recognize now is that this conflict may have exposed limits the U.S cannot easily overcome. His focus is the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s leverage over global energy flows has fundamentally altered the balance of power in the Gulf. Kagan’s argument is not simply that the war is going badly. It is that the U.S may no longer possess the political will, military flexibility, or international credibility needed to reverse the situation without launching a catastrophic full-scale invasion that neither Trump nor the American public appears willing to support. That is the key shift. Kagan now sounds like someone confronting the possibility that escalation itself may have weakened American influence rather than restored it. He openly warns that the war could strengthen China and Russia, fracture alliances, undermine trust in U.S. leadership, and push Gulf states to reconsider their dependence on Washington altogether. In other words, the interventionist doctrine he helped champion may now be producing the exact opposite of what it promised.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 If the U.S-Iran war has lost the support of Kagan, it means it could be toast Robert Kagan spent decades arguing that American military power could shape the world. He was one of the intellectual architects of the neoconservative movement, a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, and one of the loudest advocates for the kind of interventionism that defined the Iraq War era. So when someone like Kagan starts warning that the United States may be heading toward irreversible defeat in Iran, people should pay attention. Not because he suddenly became anti-war, but because figures like Kagan were always the ones insisting America could escalate its way out of any geopolitical crisis. That confidence now seems badly shaken. In The Atlantic, Kagan argued that the damage from the Iran conflict may already be beyond repair. He warned there would be “no return to the status quo ante” and no eventual American triumph is capable of undoing the consequences of the war. That is an extraordinary admission coming from someone who spent years promoting the idea that American power, properly used, could reorder entire regions. What Kagan seems to recognize now is that this conflict may have exposed limits the U.S cannot easily overcome. His focus is the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s leverage over global energy flows has fundamentally altered the balance of power in the Gulf. Kagan’s argument is not simply that the war is going badly. It is that the U.S may no longer possess the political will, military flexibility, or international credibility needed to reverse the situation without launching a catastrophic full-scale invasion that neither Trump nor the American public appears willing to support. That is the key shift. Kagan now sounds like someone confronting the possibility that escalation itself may have weakened American influence rather than restored it. He openly warns that the war could strengthen China and Russia, fracture alliances, undermine trust in U.S. leadership, and push Gulf states to reconsider their dependence on Washington altogether. In other words, the interventionist doctrine he helped champion may now be producing the exact opposite of what it promised.

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The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to. The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He's interviewed by Pascal Lottaz, an Associate Professor at Kyoto University in Japan (this is the full video of the interview: What Freeman argues is that Iran's strike "changes all the rules of the game in the Middle-East". The biggest deal for him is that "the Saudis, the Emiratis and others informed the United States that they would not permit American operations against Iran from their territory and Iran warned those states that if they did, they would become targets. So in a sense, Iran has achieved the neutralization of American forces in the Persian gulf that it long sought. So from a tactical military point of view it was a 'nothing burger' - nobody was killed, nobody was damaged - [...] but from a strategic point of view, from a soft power point of view, it was a huge success. Iran accomplished its objective and it left Israel with an intolerable dilemma. Israel cannot continue to behave as though it can act with impunity."
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This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to. The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He's interviewed by Pascal Lottaz, an Associate Professor at Kyoto University in Japan (this is the full video of the interview: What Freeman argues is that Iran's strike "changes all the rules of the game in the Middle-East". The biggest deal for him is that "the Saudis, the Emiratis and others informed the United States that they would not permit American operations against Iran from their territory and Iran warned those states that if they did, they would become targets. So in a sense, Iran has achieved the neutralization of American forces in the Persian gulf that it long sought. So from a tactical military point of view it was a 'nothing burger' - nobody was killed, nobody was damaged - [...] but from a strategic point of view, from a soft power point of view, it was a huge success. Iran accomplished its objective and it left Israel with an intolerable dilemma. Israel cannot continue to behave as though it can act with impunity."

Arnaud Bertrand

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💥 Prof. Jamal Wakim Exposes Turkey’s Hidden Role in the War on Iran 💥 Professor Jamal Wakim argues that Turkey’s loud rhetoric against Israel hides a much deeper complicity, because Erdogan’s regional project was never only about Palestine or Syria, but about positioning Turkey for a wider hegemonic role from northern Syria to the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this geopolitical reading, the war on Iran was not only an Israeli-American project. It also created an opening that Turkey hoped to exploit. If Iran had collapsed or fragmented, Turkey could have moved more aggressively through the Zangezur corridor, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia, while secessionist pressure inside Iran weakened one of the main barriers to Turkish expansion. That is why Iran’s resilience blocks not only Israeli hegemony in West Asia, but also the wider project of redrawing the region through Turkish ambitions, Gulf money, and Western strategy. .Jamal Wakim .Syriana Analysis
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💥 Prof. Jamal Wakim Exposes Turkey’s Hidden Role in the War on Iran 💥 Professor Jamal Wakim argues that Turkey’s loud rhetoric against Israel hides a much deeper complicity, because Erdogan’s regional project was never only about Palestine or Syria, but about positioning Turkey for a wider hegemonic role from northern Syria to the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In this geopolitical reading, the war on Iran was not only an Israeli-American project. It also created an opening that Turkey hoped to exploit. If Iran had collapsed or fragmented, Turkey could have moved more aggressively through the Zangezur corridor, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia, while secessionist pressure inside Iran weakened one of the main barriers to Turkish expansion. That is why Iran’s resilience blocks not only Israeli hegemony in West Asia, but also the wider project of redrawing the region through Turkish ambitions, Gulf money, and Western strategy. .Jamal Wakim .Syriana Analysis

Kevork Almassian

71,462 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

"YOU CAN'T BLUFF A MOUNTAIN RANGE, MR. TRUMP!" Col. Douglas Macgregor [Douglas Macgregor] delivers a blistering - and accurate - assessment of President Trump's war against Iran, warning that Washington was dangerously unprepared for the reality of the initial phase of the war-of-choice against Iran, and the president remains blind to the mountain of challenges that would result for the U.S. should he order the war's resumption. Macgregor argues that “Trump's game of power and coercion on behalf of Israel has failed” and the U.S. is in strategic drift with its war in the Middle East. The U.S. strategy of psychological bluffing has hit a wall against a state that is effectively a “giant fortress surrounded by mountains.” He warns that we are currently using the “wrong instrument” in an effort to subdue Iran, stating bluntly: “we're not organized for (a war like this), we're not trained for it, we're not ready for it" and the blunt reality is, even if we had a field army of a million men, it would still likely fail to topple the regime in Tehran, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of American lives. The matter is all the more absurd given that the *entirity* of the active duty U.S. Army is LESS than half that number. Meaning: the U.S. embarked on a war of choice against a "mountain fortress" of a country, with insufficient combat power to defeat them, while setting unattainable political objectives for the military to try and accomplish. In other words, failure was baked in because of the mismatch. 📺 Watch the full, urgent breakdown on Daniel Davis Deep Dive now. 👉 #IranWar #MiddleEastConflict #DouglasMacgregor #DanielDavis #USStrategy #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity #ForeignPolicy #BreakingNews #Trump #Israel #PersianGulf
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"YOU CAN'T BLUFF A MOUNTAIN RANGE, MR. TRUMP!" Col. Douglas Macgregor [Douglas Macgregor] delivers a blistering - and accurate - assessment of President Trump's war against Iran, warning that Washington was dangerously unprepared for the reality of the initial phase of the war-of-choice against Iran, and the president remains blind to the mountain of challenges that would result for the U.S. should he order the war's resumption. Macgregor argues that “Trump's game of power and coercion on behalf of Israel has failed” and the U.S. is in strategic drift with its war in the Middle East. The U.S. strategy of psychological bluffing has hit a wall against a state that is effectively a “giant fortress surrounded by mountains.” He warns that we are currently using the “wrong instrument” in an effort to subdue Iran, stating bluntly: “we're not organized for (a war like this), we're not trained for it, we're not ready for it" and the blunt reality is, even if we had a field army of a million men, it would still likely fail to topple the regime in Tehran, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of American lives. The matter is all the more absurd given that the *entirity* of the active duty U.S. Army is LESS than half that number. Meaning: the U.S. embarked on a war of choice against a "mountain fortress" of a country, with insufficient combat power to defeat them, while setting unattainable political objectives for the military to try and accomplish. In other words, failure was baked in because of the mismatch. 📺 Watch the full, urgent breakdown on Daniel Davis Deep Dive now. 👉 #IranWar #MiddleEastConflict #DouglasMacgregor #DanielDavis #USStrategy #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity #ForeignPolicy #BreakingNews #Trump #Israel #PersianGulf

Daniel Davis Deep Dive

13,673 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 THE SILENCED TRUTH: ISRAELI LOBBYING & THE ROAD TO WAR Why did the U.S. really start a war with Iran? The answer is often buried by the media, even when it comes from the administration’s own officials. Former NCTC director Joe Kent made it clear: the war began due to intense pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. Matthew Hoh explains that this is the result of a decades-long "public relations" program designed to ensure American editors and reporters are too afraid to speak the truth. When the interests of a foreign government dictate American military policy, the first casualty is always the truth. Matthew Hoh
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 THE SILENCED TRUTH: ISRAELI LOBBYING & THE ROAD TO WAR Why did the U.S. really start a war with Iran? The answer is often buried by the media, even when it comes from the administration’s own officials. Former NCTC director Joe Kent made it clear: the war began due to intense pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. Matthew Hoh explains that this is the result of a decades-long "public relations" program designed to ensure American editors and reporters are too afraid to speak the truth. When the interests of a foreign government dictate American military policy, the first casualty is always the truth. Matthew Hoh

Mario Nawfal

41,648 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten