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The American people need the Iran war like a fish needs a bicycle. For our politicians and permanent bureaucrats, it’s a different story. The political class, adrift after the Soviet Union fell, needed a new animating mythos. Neoconservatives taught them to experience preemptive war against tinpot tyrants as a civilizational crusade. The Middle East – where America’s “greatest ally” faced existential threats – offered the ideal stage for the clash between order and barbarism. Here was the role of a lifetime: to call the shots on a world-historical mission that cast unilateral hard power as virtue. No wonder they cling to it, even after every failed regime-change…
President Donald Trump owes the Pakistanis for securing a fourteen-day ceasefire with Iran. He now has a chance to extricate the United States from the biggest blunder of his second term. Tensions, however, remain high. “It is emphasized that this does not signify the termination of the war,” the Iranian government said in a formal statement. “Our hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with full force.” One must worry that Trump does not appreciate the ceasefire off-ramp as good luck or an unmerited gift; instead, he likely…
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile during operations in support of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, 2026. Photo: U.S. Navy. Before he became one of the great diplomats of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger wrote his dissertation about the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. Kissinger closely studied how European diplomats like Metternich constructed a new regional order after the defeat of Napoleon. Metternich was an early expert in the art of herding cats, with the felines being powerful European leaders. Drawing on those insights during his stint as national…
Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut moves in step with US-Israeli efforts to isolate Hezbollah and weaken Iran’s negotiating position. In a previous article, we examined the seven messages that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to communicate through mass killings in Lebanon. These messages were aimed at reshaping regional dynamics, asserting deterrence, and forcing new political realities on the ground. Those massacres have already resulted in hundreds of Lebanese killed and more than a thousand wounded, alongside vast destruction of civilian infrastructure, according…
Are the people as clueless as the Deep State expects them to be? You have to wonder. Standing on the tarmac in France before meetings with European foreign ministers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained to reporters that for Iran to ever get nuclear weapons would be crazy. “Look what they’re willing to do with the weapons they have now.” It doesn’t seem that out of the ordinary that a country attacked repeatedly by the most fearsome nation on earth and its companion war provocateur should want to use the weapons in has now in self-defense. Rubio knows who attacked whom…
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Date of sighting: April 10, 2026Location of sighting: Mojanda, EquadorThis group of people got together in order to try to summon and contact alien life. They succeeded in the mountains of Equador a few days ago. They took a photo and caught a yellowish glowing person who looks to be wearing a long robe with an aura around the person. Very rare and breathtaking capture. Summoning alien entities works, I’ve done it and it was in the daylight and 2 meters from me. So don’t discount such evidence…this is a serious scientific proven area. Scott C. Waring – UFO Sightings Daily Eyewitness states: Experience what…
President Trump defended his “Truth Social” post last week, threatening to obliterate Iranian civilization if they don’t come to a deal, during a phone call this morning with FNC’s Maria Bartiromo. Trumo wrote this on Truth Social last week: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen but it probably will. However, now that we have a complete and total regime change, a different, smarter and more radicalized minds prevail, maybe something can happen.””I’m fine with it. I’m fine with it,” Trump said. “That statement brought them to the table,…
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told CNN’s “Smerconish” that he would love to see the Islamic Republic in Iran replaced by a Democratic regime, but letting Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu get credit for succeeding at overthrowing it like this might not be worth it.”Nothing would improve the region more than the replacement of this regime in Iran,” Friedman said. “The problem is I really don’t want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings.””They are both engaged in anti- democratic projects in their own countries. They’re both…