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My mind often overlaps the past present and future onto themselves. Because of this, I will frequently recall events that happened in the past which perfectly mirror what is unfolding before us, and in turn, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve witnessed humanity repeat its same mistakes or can see a slow motion train-wreck ahead on the horizon. During COVID, I realized we were again reenacting the same tragedy humanity had ever experienced since the smallpox vaccine was brought to the market and I had a thought. If people became aware of what had happened before and ended our collective amnesia, perhaps this could at last stop.

As fate would have it, my wish came true, and without knowing me, Steve Kirsch gave me the opportunity to begin introducing that forgotten history to the world. This happened after he chose to publish an article I wrote illustrating how the trucker protests were identical to smallpox protests that had happened more than a century before and then for reasons I still do not understand, encouraged his readers to subscribe to me so I would start writing here.
Note: At the time I chose the username “A Midwestern Doctor” (for the smallpox article), I did not put much thought into it as I was never expecting to use it again.

Over the years, I’ve noticed again and again that a vaccine disaster happens which injuries many in a very similar way, it gets swept under the rug (often by officials who are quite conflicted in their decision to do so), and then the same thing happens again a few decades later.

Given that we give dozens of vaccines to each member of society, this raises an obvious question—what is that doing to society?

A Brief History of Vaccine Disasters

In 1798, the smallpox vaccine hit the market. Once it hit the market, it was observed to frequently cause smallpox outbreaks (rather than prevent them) and to cause a wide range of debilitating and complex injuries that many of the doctors had never seen before (and many of which I believe were examples of “blood stasis”). Curiously, rather than recognizing this was a mistake, most of the medical profession endorsed the smallpox vaccine, and governments around the world mandated it as cases kept on increasing, leading to a downward spiral that was eventually broken by mass public protest against those mandates. Having looked at it extensively, I am of the opinion the smallpox vaccine reshaped the trajectory of humanity’s health and was an inflection point in the era of chronic illness.

In the 1800s and early 1900s, a variety of early vaccines (e.g., rabies, typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis) and horse-generated antiserums (for most of the common infections at the time) entered the market. Since many of these vaccines were produced in small independent labs, there were a variety of quality control issues with these products, which frequently led to hot lots being released that severely injured or killing a group of people. Additionally, many of those vaccines had a high degree of toxicity. Because of this, a variety of new and severe medical conditions emerged, many of which were deemed to be due to brain inflammation (encephalitis) or brain damage (encephalopathy) and observed to occur in conjunction with cranial nerve damage. Most of these conditions (which I discussed in detail here) in turn mirrored the myriad of injuries we now too see from modern vaccinations. In addition to the injuries, two major issues stood out during this period:

• First, in addition to sometimes being directly contaminated with the disease causing organism (e.g., yellow fever or tuberculosis) and causing the illness, vaccines would often cause a temporary immune suppression which lead to disease outbreaks in those vaccinated (discussed here). However, each time this happened, rather than it being seen as a sign we needed to dial back vaccination, it was interpreted as not enough people being vaccinated and harsher and harsher vaccine mandates being instituted to enact that policy or new vaccines being created to address the existing damage of vaccination (e.g., the DPT vaccine frequently caused polio outbreaks).

• Second, public health officials and vaccine designers were well aware of the injuries vaccines were causing, but since no other treatments existed for the disease, regrettably deemed this to be a necessary sacrifice for the greater good and hence covered the injuries up so the public would continue to vaccinate. However, while I understand their perspective, it rested on a faulty premise—effective treatments did exist for the illnesses (e.g., in 1920 it was known IV hydrogen peroxide could treat severe infections and in 1928 it was known that ultraviolet blood irradiation could treat many otherwise incurable infections).
Note: as you might have noticed, everything I just described also applies to the COVID-19 vaccines, hence illustrating how these dysfunctional cycles frequently perpetuate indefinitely.

In the 1940s-1950s, the original pertussis vaccine (DPT) entered the market. This vaccine excelled at causing brain inflammation and a variety of concerning differences were seen in the generations born after its mass adoption in America.
Note: The rabies vaccine also excelled at causing encephalitis (around 1 in 750 injections, of which 20% were fatal), but it did not have as large an impact on society because far fewer people received it.

Between the 1950s to 1970s, numerous instances happened where a rushed and poorly produced experimental vaccine (e.g., polio or the swine flu) was brought to market to address a non-existent “emergency,” and the government chose to ignore warnings from its scientists that it was not safe to give to America. Since the press was honest at this time, they reported the disaster, it became a national scandal and the government provided compensation to the victims.
Note: I compiled those media reports here, the last of which happened in 2002 with Bush’s smallpox vaccine.

In 1986, enough public awareness existed of the dangers of the DPT vaccine that lawsuits were regularly being filed for the brain damage and sudden infant deaths it caused (discussed here). This in turn led to the 1986 vaccine injury act being passed (discussed further here), an act that both shielded vaccine manufacturers from product liability and was intended to help parents of vaccine injured children (even though it didn’t due to selective enforcement of its provisions and the Supreme Court exempting manufacturers from injuries caused by defective vaccines). This act being passed led to an industry gold rush to bring experimental and liability free vaccines to the market, and before long the childhood vaccination schedule ballooned in parallel to chronic illnesses increasing as well.

Note: since this time other vaccines (e.g., RSV and annual COVID vaccinations) were also added to the childhood schedule (but fortunately MAHA managed to recently do the impossible and remove COVID from it).

In 1990, an experimental anthrax vaccine was deployed upon the military to prepare them for invading Iraq. While the war was non-eventful (Saddam did not use anthrax and it was likely the most one-sided conflict in history), the anthrax vaccine severely injured over 100,000 servicemen (leading to what was known as Gulf War Syndrome). Despite these issues, individuals within the Department of Defense who were committed to funding their bioweapons defense program mandated it—leading to severe injuries throughout the military and widespread rebellion against this edict.

After this, new biotechnologies began emerging which made it possible to genetically engineer a plethora of new vaccines that then began to flood the market as ACIP endorses virtually every vaccine given to them regardless of its merits (in fact, throughout their dozens of endorsements I could only identify one case where ACIP did not [boosters for teachers and healthcare workers], and in that instance the CDC simply overrode ACIP). In tandem, direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising was legalized by a 1997 FDA decision, making it possible for the pharmaceutical industry to buy the mass media’s silence, and hence end all future coverage of vaccine injury.

In 2010, Merck convinced America’s women they were at a high risk of dying from cervical cancer (which in reality only kills about 1/38,000 American women each year) so that everyone would buy their highly lucrative vaccine (which was never proven to reduce cervical cancer deaths). This vaccine had an extraordinarily high rate of injuries (e.g., severe autoimmune disorders), but nonetheless, despite a deluge of complaints, the CDC and FDA did everything they could to protect it, and to this day it is still mandated for children.

In 2021, the COVID vaccine hit the market and caused an unprecedented amount of injury (e.g., many noticed healthy adults dying “suddenly” and large polls showed 34% of vaccine recipients reported minor side effects while 7% reported major ones severely impacting their quality of life). Fortunately or unfortunately, the rate of injuries from it was so high that unlike the past disasters, the mass media could no longer sweep it under the rug, which eventually culminated in MAHA ascending as a political force and RFK Jr. being put in charge of the agency which has orchestrated the vaccine disaster for decades.

In my eyes, one of the most important points to take from this history is that at the time each of these happened, the medical profession and public were struck by the explosion of these new diseases (and their immense social cost) but before long, became acclimated to them and forgot they had ever emerged in the first place.

The Harms of Vaccination

There is a large body of evidence suggesting vaccines are either solely responsible for, or one of the primary things responsible for the tsunami of chronic illness which has followed their ever-increasing adoption.

Unfortunately, while there is a great deal of evidence suggesting a problem exists, the effects of the vaccine schedule have never been formally studied and instead concerns are simply dismissed by a chorus that echoes “vaccines are safe and effective.”

This has naturally led to calls for the vaccines to be formally tested, but this is always rejected under the argument that vaccines are “so safe and effective” it would be ‘unethical’ to withhold them from trial participants who need to receive a placebo and expose them to the severe harm vaccine preventable diseases could cause (despite the fact very few of the vaccines on the market are for life-threatening diseases which still exist within the United States).

As such, to get around this embargo, a variety of independent studies (which all faced stiff opposition) have been completed that compared unvaccinated populations to vaccinated ones, all of which show profound harm results from vaccination. However, rather than be listened to, these studies are all dismissed because they “have no placebo” (despite placebo trials being impossible to conduct).
Note: this highlights why the vaccine industry was so shaken up by RFK exposing this grift by now requiring proper placebo testing for new vaccines.

In lieu of placebo trials, we are instead told large databases can be relied upon to monitor for vaccine injuries. However, with the exception of VAERS (which is continually discredited by the media, government and medical profession), all of those databases are secret to the point the government has fought for years in court to protect their release (e.g., “to protect patient privacy”) and told us to trust their assessments of them.

Note: through a series of lawsuits, we were able to get access to some of the CDC’s V-Safe data on the COVID vaccines. In addition to this showing massive harm from the COVID vaccines, access to the raw data also showed that the Lancet summary of V-Safe’s data had distorted it to provide an illusion of safety not shown by the data.

Access to the CDC’s vaccine injury database (the VSD) hence has been a longstanding goal of the vaccine safety community and one of the things RFK pledged to do if he ever assumed office. Remarkably however, right before he got access to it “rouge” H.H.S. employees decided to delete it to prevent this from happening.

All of this hence suggests that either:

•No evidence exists of the harms of vaccination and it has simply not been a priority to formally publish that data (which is odd given how much effort blocking all the lawsuits and petitions requesting it takes).

•There is some evidence vaccines are harmful, and there are concerns this data could be misinterpreted to suggest vaccines are much more harmful than they are.

•The existing evidence shows that vaccines are incredibly dangerous to the point it is an existential threat to the vaccine program and hence all measures possible have been taken to prevent it from being disclosed.

As you might guess, I believe the latter is the most probable, particularly since:

1. There have been documented instances of the CDC altering studies to cover up evidence of vaccine harm (e.g., autism).

2. Numerous clinical trials of individual vaccines show that vaccines cause many of the same disorders that have risen in parallel with increased vaccination (e.g., the HPV vaccine caused at least 2.3% of trial participants to develop an autoimmune disorder.
Note: there are numerous cases reports of children becoming permanently disabled after receiving a higher than normal number of vaccines simultaneously (e.g., at a visit where they also get caught up on missing doses), and conversely, many have observed spacing vaccines out rather than giving them all together lowers the likelihood of a severe reactions (e.g., autism) from vaccination.

3. Despite relentless attempts to keep them from emerging, there are numerous retrospective studies of large medical datasets which each show vaccination results in a significantly increased incidence of chronic disease results from vaccination. For example, a recent study of 99 million people showed the COVID vaccines were 2-7 times more likely than a typical vaccine to cause a variety of life-threatening illnesses and we now have large datasets linking to the COVID vaccines to many conditions like myocarditis, cognitive impairment, along with many autoimmune, musculoskeletal and psychiatric disorders.

4. Established mechanisms exist to explain how many different vaccines could all cause similar injuries to their recipients (each of which are discussed here).

5. I periodically learn of medical practices that have low rates of vaccination and also have much lower rates of chronic illness in their patients.

6. Many colleagues and I frequently observe what we believe to be the harms of vaccination in our patients.
Note: I personally know many trained observers who can have a high degree of accuracy in identifying unvaccinated children. The approaches they use are discussed at the end of this article.

Vaccine Injury Datasets

Despite the embargo on conducting or publishing studies demonstrating evidence of vaccine harm, a few still have been done. They are as follows:

Paul Thomas

Paul Thomas MD, an Oregon pediatrician had a practice with a large number of unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children, and (like many of the other practices with similar patient populations) noticed that the unvaccinated children had dramatically better health. He thus decided to compare their medical records to those of variably vaccinated children and published the data in a study (which, as you are not supposed to violate that embargo, cost him his medical license and resulted in the study being retracted for spurious reasons).

Note: Paul Thomas (now retired and offering coaching services to parents) was also the author of The Vaccine Friendly Plan, an approach to vaccinating that encouraged spacing out vaccinations and resulted in a dramatically lower rate of vaccine injuries. Since his plan implied the current vaccination schedule promoted by the CDC was not safe, his plan was not popular with the medical authorities (which again illustrates the harm of the “safe and effective” dogma, as if dangers were to be acknowledged, far fewer people would be injured).

In his study, to compare the health of 2763 vaccinated children and the 561 unvaccinated children born into his practice, he plotted how many total visits each group had for a variety of issues as their age increased (e.g., how many visits for asthma in total had occurred in vaccinated children who were 1000 days old or younger) and then compared the two (with the unvaccinated group’s visits being equalized by multiplying them by 4.9 [2763/561]). This data in turn suggested vaccinations were the primary agent responsible for the epidemic of chronic diseases in our society.

Likewise, when Thomas compared how likely a child was to come in for an office visit for a variety of health concerns, he found the greater the number of total vaccines a child received (which varied widely in his practice), the more likely they were to require an office visit for a variety of conditions.

Note: the full size version of this chart can be viewed here. In this chart, pay special attention to the fact these charts include ADHD (which was not found in any of the unvaccinated patients), behavioral issues, speech issues, social issues, learning delay and developmental autism.

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The hollowness of the status quo’s self-correcting mechanisms is being revealed, and it’s discomforting.

And so it begins. Call it whatever you want–how about the Great Unraveling for starters–and perhaps it’s appropriate to discuss it on Friday the 13th, as old tales and superstitions are part of the mix.

Let’s start with two superstitions that are not yet recognized as superstitions.

1. There are very smart people who will work very hard to keep the status quo glued together. It’s unwise to bet against them.

2. Technology is Progress and Progress is inevitable.

These seem valid until the tide turns. As the sand castles erode and collapse, these are revealed as belief structures, not facts. We like to think smart people, technology and Progress will solve all difficulties without causing us any pain. When the tide is receding, this seems to be the case. See, problems are getting resolved, technologies are making life better, and Progress is advancing everywhere.

But beneath this veneer of confidence, buffers have thinned and long-smoldering conflicts are catching fire. Nuclear ambitions, nuclear threats–these never went away, and now the buffers containing them have eroded.

The buffers of financialization and globalization have thinned to the point that crisis management has been normalized. Rather than rebalance a corrupted economy and ship of state when the second of two credit-assets bubbles burst in 2008, the very smart people who work very hard shoved the throttle to maximum and ran the speedboat right over the reef.

Rather than accept the limits of a system geared to increase inequality and waste regardless of PR policy tweaks, to maintain the illusion of stability they gunned the engines of financialization and globalization into hyper-financialization and hyper-globalization.

The reef shredded the hull, but momentum and the mighty engines of cheap oil and money creation kept the doomed craft afloat for 16 long years. The PR machinery duped the passengers into believing this unstable hyper-state of spiraling inequality and squandering resources in the name of “growth” was not just permanent, it was inevitable.

The PR has now reached the pathetic stage of self-parody. The soil we all depend on for food has been depleted, but no worries, a robot will wander over the lifeless fields zapping weeds, so problem solved! The faith that simplistic technologies will painlessly solve complex human and ecological problems was always child-like, but grandiose egos and greed were more than enough to push this childish faith to self-parodying absurdity.

So 19 American families have the same net worth ($2. 6 trillion) as 110 million Americans–no problem, there’s an app that resolves that.

Conflicts traverse a familiar landscape. Those dissatisfied with the status quo seek change, and those content with the status quo seek to distract, placate or bribe the discontented without relinquishing any of their power and perquisites.

The greater the concentration of wealth and power in a ruling elite, the greater the opportunities for delusion and catastrophic misjudgment. The concentration of power and wealth have reached extremes throughout the world, and so the stage has been set for miscalculations, clashes of ego, delusional confidences and beliefs and desperate gambles by those who can’t afford to lose.

Nobody noticed–or admitted–that the buffers protecting all these forces from breaking out have been thinned by decades of destruction, fraud, corruption, waste, inequality and propaganda that everything was going just fine because it was going just fine for those at the wheel of power and wealth.

The hollowness of the status quo’s self-correcting mechanisms is being revealed, and it’s discomforting. All is not as it seems, and so it begins. Call it whatever you want, but hyper-normalizing it with fine-sounding cover stories won’t repair the shredded hull.

This article was originally published on OfTwoMinds.com.

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Let’s make this clear: if the US bombs Iran, Iran will kill US military personnel in response. If this happens, it will not be Iran’s fault that those military personnel died. It will be Trump’s fault. It will be the fault of everyone whose decisions led to the attack which resulted in their deaths.

And they will have died for nothing.

Anyone who dies in a war with Iran will have died for nothing.

They will not have died fighting for anyone’s freedom. They will not have died protecting their country.

The warmongers and propagandists will try to spin their deaths in this way, but they will be lying.

The bereaved parents and partners of those who died will also try to frame their deaths in this way, but they will only be fooling themselves, because the truth will be too painful to bear.

And the truth is that everyone who dies in such a war will have died because a few powerful people made some extremely evil decisions out of their own self-interest. And for no other reason.

Do NOT join the US military. Do NOT join the militaries of any nation which normally participates in America’s wars. If you are in those militaries, you should get out by any means necessary, as quickly as possible. If further on down the track there is a draft for a war with Iran, you should dodge the draft. Because otherwise you will be throwing yourself into a war against one of the world’s most formidable militaries, for nothing.

If you fight in such a war, you will be fighting for nothing.

If you die in such a war, you will die for nothing.

If you lose your limbs in such a war, you will lose your limbs for nothing.

If you suffer permanent brain damage in such a war, you will lose your mind for nothing.

Even if you manage to survive such a war with your body and brain intact, you will live the rest of your life with the knowledge that you killed human beings for nothing.

There’s a stanza from Carl Sandburg’s “The People, Yes” which has been bubbling around in my consciousness a lot lately:

The little girl saw her first troop parade and asked,
‘What are those?’
‘Soldiers.’
‘What are soldiers?’
‘They are for war. They fight and each tries to kill as many of the other side as he can.’
The girl held still and studied.
‘Do you know . . . I know something?’
‘Yes, what is it you know?’
‘Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.’

If the US directly attacks Iran — and it’s looking increasingly likely that it will — Iran can be expected to kill many US soldiers with powerful attacks on the US military bases that are within striking range of its missiles. If that happens, the US can be expected to launch a full-scale regime change war on Iran.

If that’s to be, then let this be the war that nobody comes to. Because the alternative is to fight and die in a stupid war waged by evil people, for nothing.

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It all started in the early morning hours of 13 June 2025, with what Israel calls “Operation Rising Lion”. Israel’s Air Force launched dozens of air strikes against Iran, targeting its nuclear [energy] program. According to BBC, in Iran’s own words, this is the biggest assault on Iran’s territory since the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988.

Iran has no nuclear weapons program, as confirmed multiple times by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), belonging to the UN system. However, after a 2024 inspection, the IAEA apparently reported enrichment to about 60%. This is not enough to make an atomic bomb, requiring at least 90%. 

But for Israel which has a nuclear warheads arsenal of several hundred, this justified an unprecedented attack on Iran – a clear declaration of war. Israel’s nuclear bomb stockpile is outside of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement, all quietly tolerated by the west led by the United States.  

Only with the explicit backing of the White House, Israel would dare such an assault on a country with a military power that could by far exceed that of Israel.

As these lines are written, the situation on the Israel-Iran war is constantly changing.

The latest state of affairs is that within the last 48 hours the tables have turned by 180 degrees.  

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ – 13 June 2025), on Monday, 9 June 2025, Prime Minister Netanyahu raised the possibility of strikes against Iran in a phone conversation with President Trump, confirmed by two U.S. officials. Trump responded that he would like to see diplomacy run its course before turning to military options. In an alert to the world, and short-circuiting diplomacy, on Wednesday 11 June, the U.S. pulled some non-essential personnel out of the region in case of an attack. 

On Thursday, before the Israeli strike, Trump said he would not describe an attack as imminent, “but it is something that could very well happen.” Clearly, Trump has given Israel green light for an assault, before diplomacy could run its course. Thereby he was betraying not only Iran, but the entire Middle East, or better called Western Asia, but also the entire world, since by doing so he gave Israel carte blanche to potentially start WWIII.

Since Israel’s “surprise” air raid in the darkest early morning hours of Thursday, 13 June, the situation has changed dramatically. Iran has launched hundreds of high-speed warheads most of which penetrated unharmed Israel’s Anti-Ballistic Missile systems. The Iranian missiles could not be stopped by the US THAAD missile defense. See this.

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See also this from Fox News – 14 June 2025:

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Other dramatic headlines point to “All of Israel is under fire!” Blasts and smoke as Iran launches hundreds of missiles | ITV NEWS, as “Iran launched hundreds of missiles towards Israel; only few were intercepted.” Question: Does Iran have enough missiles and rockets to overwhelm and outlast Israel? The next 72 hours will be crucial.

Iranian missiles have hit key locations in Tel Aviv and other major cities in Israel, also targeting Israeli nuclear arsenal and military sites, leaving untold casualties and massive destruction of infrastructure. To what extent Israel’s nuclear stockpiles were affected, may never be known. 

President Putin, while supporting Iran’s defense, has called on both parties to instantly stop aggressions.

He offered Russia’s good services for mediation. Once upon a time, when Switzerland was still neutral, Bern could have offered Switzerland’s diplomacy to mediate for Peace. No longer, as Switzerland drifts towards NATO, an enemy of Iran – and everything not considered the west.

Mr. Putin most likely warned President Trump to make sure Israel does not retaliate Iran’s response with nuclear weapons. If not Trump, then his Pentagon advisors, must know and understand what this means.

At the behest of Israel, Trump had started negotiations with Iran to reduce their enrichment program to zero, i.e. destroy their enriched uranium which Iran planned to use for civilian purposes. He warned or blackmailed Iran – you agree, or else – which meant you will be assaulted. He gave Iran five days to respond, but Israel launched her attack after day three, certainly not without Trump’s agreement, which meant a flagrant betrayal by the US on Iran and the world.

President Trump entered his second term on 20 January 2025 as a so-called “Peace President,” but resulted instead as a war-President; as one of the biggest deceptions not only for US citizens, but for the world at large. 

Instead of making good on his promise, stopping the horrendous bloodshed and genocide caused by Israel in Gaza and now also in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria, Trump supports Netanyahu with more weapons to continue his ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and in all of Palestine. 

In the proxy war Ukraine-Russia, Trump is far from reaching an agreement. After this unprecedented US-supported assault by Israel on Iran – a Peace Agreement with Russia has slipped away farther than ever. 

Israel also targeted military facilities in Teheran, as well as throughout Iran, killing what is reported dozens high-ranking military officers, including Iran’s top two commanders. 

Iran confirmed that the attacks killed Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Major General Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, along with several nuclear scientists. Iran’s envoy to the UN, Amir-Saeid Iravani, stated that 78 people were killed and 320 others injured. 

This totally illegal, devastating large-scale attack pushed the Middle East into a new war, if not into a deep abyss. Images on Iranian state television said the Natanz site in central Iran, one of the country’s two main nuclear [energy] plants, was struck around 4.15 AM on Thursday, 13 June.

Trump hails Israel’s airstrike (RT 13 June 2025), as “excellent” and warned that there is “more to come.” He warns Iran, “either make the nuclear deal (zero uranium enrichment) or face slaughter” – see this US President Donald Trump has called Israel’s strike on Iran “excellent” and warned that there is “more to come”. 

On the other hand, President Putin (RT – 13 June 25) holds phone conversations with Israeli’s PM and the Iranian President. Mr. Putin condemned the Israeli attack and extended his condolences to Iran, according to the Kremlin press service. 

Some of Iran’s nuclear facilities are 800-plus meters below the ground and cannot be reached by Israel’s missiles. It is not clear how much of Iran’s nuclear energy program has been destroyed. It may never be known.

Trump’s green-lighting Israel’s attack, makes him complicit in this new Israel-initiated Middle East conflict, that might possibly degenerate into a WWIII scenario.

The Financial Times (FT – 13 June 2025) reports that President Trump warned Teheran on his Truth Social Platform, that the next “already planned attacks” on Iran would be “even more brutal,” adding that “Iran must make a deal [on its nuclear program], before there is nothing left.” “No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” he wrote. Yes, the deal-maker has spoken again.

Trump added that the US “makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come — and they know how to use it.” The usual megalo-ego-centric rhetoric which is typically not substantiated, and ever less believable, but ever more provoking a sad smile. 

Mr. Trump’s notion of negotiations refers to the recent US-imposed reduction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program to zero, when in earlier accords – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated in 2013 to 2015 with the US Obama Administration and their western allies plus China and Russia, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium to no more than 5%. For 15 years, Iran agreed to enrich uranium only up to 3.67% and not to build heavy water facilities. They complied with the 15-year condition.

Nevertheless, the Israeli Air Force barrage on Iran follows a months-long stand-off over Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran insists and has always done so, its nuclear program is for peaceful civilian purposes, mostly nuclear energy. The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is closely following Iran’s nuclear program and has never found any evidence that Iran was attempting to build an atomic bomb. 

Please NOTE and be reminded that Israel has hundreds of nuclear warheads, outside of the Non-Proliferation Agreement, tolerated by the west, led by the US of A.  

The IAEA, like most UN agencies, is following politically the “mandate” of the west. So, it does perhaps not come as a surprise that on Thursday, 12 June, the day before the Israeli attack on Iran, the agency declared that Iran was in breach of its non-proliferation obligations, the first such censure in two decades. It may have been the ultimate justification for Israel’s devastating air raid. 

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said,

Israel “Should expect a severe punishment. The Zionist regime, through this crime, has created a bitter and painful fate for itself — one it will certainly face,” he said. “With God’s permission, the powerful hands of the Islamic republic’s armed forces will not leave it unpunished.”

For more details see FT 13 June 2025

This new Middle Eastern war is in a constant state of change, possibly escalating and putting the world in danger, once more the works of the Zionist elite, attempting to control the globe, and achieving Greater Israel which would ideally expand their current map to also include Iran. 

Peace in the Middle East or better Western Asia would be a great step towards world Peace – an engine for socioeconomic prosperity.

The original source of this article is Global Research.

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Have you noticed how many wars there are without being declared?  Israel launches a military attack on Iran and Iran retaliates, but there is no declaration of war.  Israel will attack again, and Iran will again respond by retaliating.  But neither country is at war.  Russia has been in conflict with Ukraine since February, 2023, but it is a Special Military Operation, not a war.  Russia’s strategic triad was attacked, but it was merely a terrorist action, not an act of war.  After a couple of years of being bombed, Gaza’s population is now being starved to death, but it is just a matter of clearing the area so a resort can be built. Libya and its leadership were destroyed; Iraq and its leadership were destroyed; Syria and its leadership were destroyed.  But it wasn’t wars, just the imposition of democracy.  Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen, but war was not declared. Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Hezbollah are merely anti-terrorist operations, not war.

War is everywhere but the reality cannot be acknowledged.

The most serious event of all is not even acknowledged.  Someone in the West gave a green light for an attack on Russia’s nuclear triad despite the fact that Russia’s war doctrine requires a “strategic response” to such an attack.  Putin sidestepped the issue by declaring the attack to be a terrorist action, not an act of war.  But whoever gave the green light for an attack that could have initiated nuclear war between Russia and the West has not been identified and held accountable for the risk to which he subjected life on earth.  Indeed, there is zero interest in discovering how the West green lighted an attack that under Russian war doctrine should have initiated nuclear war.  Putin pretends it didn’t happen, and Washington is uninterested in who and how the US could have found itself in nuclear war.

President Trump says he did not know of the planned attack on Russia’s strategic triad.  This should scare Trump to death. But he seems uninterested in who it was that would have initiated nuclear war with Russia had Putin not flinched. 

How is it that the American people, the people of Europe, the Russians, Chinese and the rest of the world can be content that it is not in the hands of President Trump whether a strike on Russia that could result in nuclear war can be initiated?  How is it that  an outside third party has the initiative? 

Left unexamined, what will the next reckless provocation be?  At what point will Putin be forced to recognize reality and be forced to respond?

The entire media, governments, and security agencies of the world should be focused on identifying, and preventing, a third party from initiating nuclear conflict between the two major nuclear powers.  Instead, there is no interest in the question.  False narratives are in place, and they are running their course.

Despite his boasts, Trump has done nothing to achieve peace.  Trump could easily forestall Israeli attacks on Iran by agreeing to an inspection to certify the extent of Iran’s enrichment of uranium.  Instead, Trump read Iran an ultimatum–which Trump regards as a negotiation–to stop enriching uranium for any purpose or risk being bombed out of existence.  

In other words, for Trump negotiation means complying with Trump’s demands.  Imposing hegemony is not negotiation. 

Putin says the Ukraine negotiations must address the central issue.  Does anyone in Washington understand that the central issue is NATO on Russia’s borders?  There are US missile bases in Poland and Romania.  The missiles can be loaded with conventional or nuclear warheads.  This is an existential problem for Russia, as were Soviet missile bases in Cuba for the US.  President Trump can diffuse the entire issue by removing the US missile bases on Russia’s borders and by rolling NATO back to the 1997 borders.

Trump could diffuse the situation in the Middle East by announcing publicly that the US will not support any more Israeli aggression, and Trump could cease picking a fight with China.

Ask yourself, what is Russia doing to us?  Nothing.

What is Iran doing to US?  Nothing,

What is China doing to US?  Nothing,

How did three countries that are not hostile toward the West get turned into enemies whose subjugation  is worth the risk of nuclear war?  This is a massive failure of Western foreign policy. Where there is no vision the people are lost.

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Much like individuals, countries may often become victims of their own great success.

This risk certainly applies to criminals, including criminal regimes. Even if they effectively conceal their direct involvement in particular incidents, over time their method of operation—their “M.O.”—may become obvious. This allows the ready identification of their handiwork, whether by law enforcement agencies or interested historians.

Last week’s sudden surprise attack by Israel against Iran was a remarkably successful decapitation strike that assassinated much of the latter country’s top military and national security leadership at a single stroke. According to news reports, the victims included the head of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, both the head of the Iranian armed forces and his top deputy, and the entire leadership of the country’s powerful missile and drone division. No previous historical example comes to mind in which the high command of a major nation’s military had been so completely annihilated within just a few hours. On June 12th, IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami had publicly declared that Iran “was ready for any scenario,” but 24 hours later he was dead, along with most of Iran’s other military leaders.

Moreover, the losses extended far beyond the armed forces. Ali Shamkhan, the national security advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader and the individual responsible for the ongoing nuclear negotiations with America was killed, as were the head of Iran’s nuclear research program and many of his top scientists.

Last year the Israelis had employed a similar decapitation strategy to eliminate the entire leadership of Hezbollah, effectively destroying that organization. But although Hezbollah had been widely regarded as the world’s strongest and most heavily-armed non-state militia, renowned for having given the Israelis a black eye during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, it lacked any air defenses and was based in neighboring Lebanon. Meanwhile Iran was a powerful nation of 90 million, possessing advanced weaponry and located more than 1,000 miles from Israel. Iran’s decapitation was simply astonishing.

The exact tactical details of how the Israelis so easily pierced Iran’s robust air defenses cannot yet be firmly established given that elements of the widely published reports might merely constitute deceptive propaganda. But if those accounts are correct, Israel had secretly prepositioned large numbers of powerful drones and other military equipment on Iranian soil, then used these to blind and disable Iran’s network of anti-aircraft defenses, thereby opening the door for the huge air strikes that inflicted most of the destruction, and such a scenario seems quite plausible.

Other explosive drones may have been used for the targeted assassinations of many of the high-profile victims, whose exact locations had been determined by either human or technical intelligence. I’ve also seen claims on the Internet that small Israeli electronic warfare teams had successfully infiltrated Iran and disrupted the country’s military communications channels for hours, severely hampering any defensive measures. But none of these particular details much matter, with the overwhelming end result being the only important fact.

I think that the unprecedented success of this sudden Israeli strike against Iran’s leadership also shifts the probabilities on some other important past events. In April 2024, Iran had launched a retaliatory missile strike against Israel, and despite the best efforts of American and British forces to intercept the missiles in their flight path, the hypersonics and most of the ballistics got through and struck their targets, with Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome defense system proving itself completely ineffective in blocking the attacks. When the Israelis failed to counter-retaliate, the Iranians declared that they had been victorious in that major test of force, thus fully establishing the effectiveness of their missile deterrent.

But then just a few weeks later, Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister both died in a still unexplained helicopter crash while returning from a visit to Azerbaijan, leading many to suspect that Mossad had killed the Iranian president. And now that Israel has demonstrated its enormous ability to strike down so many top Iranian leaders in their own country at a time of high military tension, I think that President Raisi should probably be added to the long list of Israeli victims.

Furthermore, Raisi’s sudden death had major strategic consequences. He had been a leading Iranian hardliner, having close relations with Russia and China, and viewed by many as the likely successor to 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Meanwhile, his replacement was Masoud Pezeshkian, a far more moderate figure eager to avoid any confrontation with America and instead hoping to mend relations with the West. Thus, by eliminating Raisi, the Israelis had drastically “reshaped” the subsequent Iranian political landscape.

This same strategy was obviously an important element of last week’s huge wave of assassinations. Iran’s military leadership and especially its powerful IRGC had been among the most influential supporters of their country’s refusal to bend to America’s demands, with many of them even pushing for the creation of a nuclear weapons deterrent. So their elimination along with that of other hardline national security officials may shift the political balance in a very different direction.

Just as no major nation had ever previously suffered such a heavy decapitating blow, most would agree that Israel was the only country in the world that could have successfully carried out such a bold and daring operation. Indeed, proud Israelis would probably be the first to make such a boastful claim. But pride sometimes goes before a fall.

Once all these facts have sunk in and intelligent Americans have given due consideration to the matter, I think that only the willfully blind or the most obtuse will fail to quietly recognize that Israel and its Mossad had played exactly the same role in two of the most momentous events that similarly “reshaped” our own country’s political landscape, namely the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the 2001 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.

Seen from the broader sweep of history, the combination of those two watershed events, together with many smaller ones, effectively reduced our country to a subservient vassal state largely under Israeli control, and that bitter reality will surely inspire deep resentment as our citizens become more fully aware of it.

For obvious reasons, few Americans will probably voice these new convictions in anything but whispers, but the belief will exist and it will steadily increase in certainty as individuals begin investigating the easily available historical facts, which have been hiding in plain sight for decades. The result will be the steady growth of a massive but hidden unexploded political shell that might detonate at any point, quite possibly leading to the total destruction of the Jewish State when it does. Therefore I think that this ultimate consequence of Friday’s shocking events probably represents a far greater danger to Israel’s survival than do any of the retaliatory Iranian missiles now raining down upon its territory.

The evidence that Israel played the central role in both those devastating past blows against our own country seems obvious. But any such possibility has always been totally excluded not merely from the mainstream media but even from nearly all of the conspiratorial circles that have spent decades intensely focusing all their attention on the events of 1963 or 2001.

Therefore, the total volume of compiled material laying out the strong case for Israeli culpability is quite limited, and for those entirely new to this extremely controversial topic, I’d recommend some of my own writings of the last seven years. These effectively summarize much of the accumulated research evidence, while also providing numerous links and references to more detailed treatments.

For many newcomers to such matters, the whole notion of such a “conspiratorial” explanation for JFK’s assassination or the attacks of 9/11 might seem utterly fantastical, and the high likelihood that the Israeli Mossad killed our president and destroyed our largest office towers would be surely be considered fantasy-squared. So I expect they will have huge skepticism about the content of my various articles.

Fortunately, just last week I published a piece explaining that I had recently used OpenAI’s very powerful Deep Research system to carefully review my many articles on both those explosively controversial topics. The AI concluded that virtually all of my factual claims were accurate, while my overall conclusions also seemed fairly plausible.

However, I should strongly emphasize that there is a sharp distinction between these two aspects of my work. Based upon that thorough Deep Research analysis, readers should have almost complete confidence in the facts that I present, while still deciding for themselves whether I have connected those many dots in sensible or foolish ways.

Here are a few of the summary paragraphs from the Deep Research fact-checking run of my most recent discussion of the JFK Assassination, with boldface in the original, followed by the links to the article itself and several others as well:

Use of Reputable Sources: Despite being published on a controversial platform, the article leans heavily on credible, verifiable sources for its factual assertions. It cites renowned investigative journalists like Seymour Hersh (for JFK’s Israel policy conflict), respected historians like David Talbot and John Newman, and official records (e.g., RFK’s autopsy by Dr. Noguchi, declassified DOJ and CIA documents). In each case where we cross-checked, the article’s representation of these sources was accurate and in context…

In conclusion, the article generally represents its sources fairly and accurately. It certainly emphasizes those that align with its thesis and omits contrary interpretations, but it does not misquote or deceptively excerpt. If anything, it is remarkably heavy on citations and evidence for a piece of this nature, which enhances its credibility…

Conclusion: Our fact-checking investigation finds that the article “How Israel Killed the Kennedys” is grounded in a substantial body of factual evidence, though it assembles those facts to support a specific conspiracy narrative that remains unproven. The major historical claims in the piece are generally accurate and backed by credible sources…

In terms of journalistic integrity, the article takes a decidedly adversarial stance to mainstream narratives, but it does so by marshaling evidence, citing sources abundantly, and largely treating those sources fairly…

Overall Accuracy and Needed Corrections: There are no major factual errors in the article’s content that we could identify. All specific historical facts it cites are supported by documentation…

Summary Judgment: The article “How Israel Killed the Kennedys” is a thorough and well-sourced piece of investigative journalism/opinion that brings together long-suppressed threads of the JFK and RFK assassination story. It achieves a high level of accuracy in presenting factual claims, and it generally represents its many sources honestly. The overall conclusion – that Israel’s Mossad, in collusion with elements of the U.S. deep state, was behind the Kennedy assassinations – remains a hypothesis not acknowledged by official history. But the article does an effective job of demonstrating that this hypothesis is far from baseless, and that it draws on serious evidence often ignored in mainstream accounts…

In conclusion, the journalistic integrity of the article is reasonably high in terms of factual accuracy and source transparency. Its bold claims are presented alongside the evidence that underpins them. It stands as a provocative but factually grounded challenge to the conventional story, and our fact-check finds it largely credible in its use of evidence.

• How Israel Killed the Kennedys
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • March 24, 2025 • 11,500 Words
  Fact-Checking “How Israel Killed the Kennedys”• 15,300 Words

Several of my earlier JFK Assassination articles had received similar fact-checking endorsements from the Deep Research AI, beginning with my original pair of 2018 pieces:

• American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part I – What Happened?
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • June 18, 2018 • 4,800 Words
  Fact-Checking “American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part I – What Happened?” • 13,700 Words
• American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • June 25, 2018 • 8,000 Words
  Fact-Checking “American Pravda: The JFK Assassination, Part II – Who Did It?” • 14,900 Words
• American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame
  Ron Unz • The Unz Review • June 24, 2024 • 10,200 Words
• Fact-Checking “American Pravda: JFK, LBJ, and Our Great National Shame” • 12,500 Words

I was equally pleased with the Deep Research review of my comprehensive September 11, 2023 article that summarized and recapitulated most of my major 9/11 work from previous years. The AI divided the contents of the long presentation into 38 major factual claims and after careful analysis, it declared that each of them was accurate or credible.

While this did not definitively prove that my ultimate conclusion was correct, any mainstream readers should now have full confidence in the credibility of the factual material that I present.

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St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), who was the greatest Christian philosopher of antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence, maintained that a Christian state is the only type of state where true justice can be achieved. This is because, in such a state, the body politic would rule according to Christian tenets and values, which would align the state’s laws with divine law.

Writing after Christianity was proclaimed as the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Theodosius I in 380, he said: “Were our [Christian] religion listened to as it deserves, it would establish, consecrate, strengthen, and enlarge the commonwealth in a way beyond all that Romulus, Numa, Brutus, and all the other men of renown in Roman history achieved.”

In a congenial manner, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his address at Hungary’s 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago, denounced the agenda of left-wing protagonists who are actively working to “replace Christianity and the nation” in Western society.

My friends, two plans are on the table. One is the liberal plan, and the other is the patriotic plan for Europe. The liberal plan sees the old, cultural, Christian Europe as obsolete. They want to move beyond it. For decades, they have been working to fabricate a new identity to replace Christianity and the nation.  

Christianity certainly did not start in Europe, and therefore it cannot be defined as a European religion. Nonetheless, it received “in Europe its most effective cultural and intellectual imprint and remains, therefore, identified in a special way with Europe.”

The Christian faith—via the institutional Catholic Church—not only provided humanity with a purpose in life in this world and in the next, but it helped the human individual harness his individual gifts so that he, too, could contribute to the well-being of others and of society. We see this, for example, during the Middle Ages when there was no longer a Roman Empire to maintain a united civilization.

In its place, the Catholic Church assumed this role and was vital in the formation of laws, universities, architecture, literature, art, and so forth, right up to the Renaissance. And this happened not just in the West but in the East, too, with Sts. Cyril and Methodius who, during the ninth century, brought Christianity to the Slavic peoples and helped create a civilization.

Yet, as indicated by Mr. Orbán, the globalized politics of the West for the last few decades has done nothing but berate the Christian foundations upon which Western society was built. Non-governmental organizations, like the United Nations through its exploitation of soft law, have sought to replace the Christian virtues ingrained in society with altruistic guidelines and codes of conduct as human rights that are unbecoming. The European Union has also been a part of this anti-Christian crusade. Both have led to the dismantling of the infrastructure of civilization—the family—by promoting abortion and imposing the use of artificial contraception under the term of “reproductive rights,” or recognizing homosexual unions or transgenderism under the pretension of equality.

Incidentally, this is a reason why Muslims have gained a firm foothold in our Western society. They collectively refute any relativization of gender identity as advocated by the LGBTQ+ activists and, likewise, oppose abortion and artificial contraception, whereas we in the West are aborting and contracepting ourselves out of existence.

Ironically, part of the anti-Christian movement has come from those who profess to be Christian, such as certain Roman Catholic bishops and priests or cafeteria Catholics and ecclesiastical communities like the Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Methodists or Christian fundamentalists. The former is due to their dissension from Church teaching. The latter, whether they have a systematic theology or not, is because of their approach to their faith.

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Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran was an action that undermined United States national interests and United States involvement in the war is contrary to the national interests of the United States. When the focus is on America First and not Israel First, this statement is obvious.

The back and forth between Israel and Iran has been going on for decades and there is mutual hatred. The leadership of both countries is nuts. It does not serve U.S. national interests to get involved in this conflict. Americans have had it. No more stupid Middle East wars that are designed to bankrupt the United States, and in this case, potentially crash the economy.

Israel’s attack was unprovoked. The argument in favor of the attack rests on the position that Israel has a right to defend itself and that Iran obtaining nuclear weapons is a perceived threat to Israel. Israel has a right to exist. Therefore, a preemptive Pearl Harbor style attack on Iran was justified.

This basis for foreign policy is based on paranoid psychopathy. If the United States and Russia had this approach the world would have been sent back into, the stone age a long time ago. A preemptive attack would be legitimized if you knew your enemy was going to launch in an hour and you beat them to the punch. Even there, there is so much room for error and miscalculation that preemptive attacks are a very dangerous and potentially disastrous road when we are dealing with nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, President Trump has made statements that he was aware of everything and that he supported the attack on Iran. This statement runs contrary to a statement put out by Secretary of State, Rubio, that the United States had nothing to do with the attacks. To make matters worse, the U.S. air force and navy have been involved in the air defense of Israel. The United States is already involved.

Of course, proponents of the war are creating a false dichotomy between Zionism and Anti Semitism. This is deliberately designed to guilt people and make them feel uncomfortable enough to go along with the war and ignore their America First principles. I have little tolerance for Zionists or Anti Semites. America First means that the interests of the United States are the primary concern.

This attempt to pigeonhole people into one of these two camps is buttressed by the magical thinking that guides many peoples’ views on the U.S. relationship with Israel. This traces back to the Scofield heresies in the early 1900s, when Scofield annotated the Bible. There has been a deliberate effort in the 20th Century to influence Christianity in the United States. This situation creates an irony as American Jews have varied opinions on the Israeli Gaza genocide as they do on the Israeli Iranian war, conversely many evangelical Christians are lock step with Israel and could even be called Israel Firsters.

Magical thinking and paranoid psychopathy are not what should guide U.S. foreign policy. Foreign policy should be a bit more pragmatic. Let’s apply a pragmatic approach to this conflict.

It has not been established that Iran is trying to get a nuclear weapon and that their nuclear program is not simply civilian.

Even if Iran was seeking to get nuclear weapons, so what?

The United States and Russia each have approximately 1500 active nuclear weapons and thousands in stockpiles. Iran getting a few nuclear weapons does not pose a threat to the United States. Furthermore, Israel has between 70- and 200 nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has nuclear weapons. The nuclear disarmament of these two countries is justified as they are violating the nuclear proliferation treaty. Why wouldn’t Iran seek a nuclear weapon as a response. There is also nothing to stop Russia and China from selling nuclear weapons to Iran.

What exactly should we do then?

Also, when a country gets nuclear weapons, they stop getting bullied. Pakistan would be an example.

Should this war continue, Iran could shut down the Strait of Hormuz where 20-25% of the world’s oils ships through. While the United States does not depend on this oil, gas prices in the U.S. could sky rocket in this scenario as a result of upward pressure on the global oil market.

Retired Colonel Douglass Macgregor, who led the largest U.S. tank battle since World War II, posted the following on X:

“Iran was caught off-guard. But Iran recovered more quickly from its Pearl Harbor moment than Israel expected.

In less than 18 hours after Israel’s surprise attack, Iran responded firing hundreds of ballistic missiles including hypersonic missiles into central Tel Aviv and across Israel.

Meanwhile, Israel’s Iron Dome failed. Israeli intelligence failed. Now Netanyahu is pleading with Washington to intervene with American Military Power to rescue Israel from certain defeat; a defeat Netanyahu crafted with encouragement from Washington.

At the same time, Russia, China, Pakistan and most of the Muslim World are rallying to Iran’s defense.

Supplies, equipment and technical assistance are pouring into Iran.

It’s time for a reality check:

Washington burned through $12 trillion in the Middle East since 2003. Result? 7,000 dead Americans. 50,000 wounded, open borders and 100,000 Americans dying yearly from Fentanyl poisoning.”

Globalists want these wars along with unfettered immigration in order to break America. The United States in its current form can not continue to exist for world government to arise. These wars are partly designed to break America.

To date, Iran has reciprocated Israeli attacks and has behaved with restraint and has not closed the Strait of Hormuz, although that could change on a dime. Iran has also not attacked U.S. troops in the area, which do not belong there and are very vulnerable to attack, as most are not combat troops. This restraint runs contrary to the idea that Iran will just start lobbing nuclear weapons once obtained. Considering the fact that Israel could be seen as a proxy for the United States as the U.S. provides financial and military aid to Israel and has stated that it supported the attack on Iran, this is restraint.

The prospect of $10 a gallon gas prices is a serious concern if this war escalates.

How would that impact the U.S. economy?

The economy is already in a shambles. This war is not in U.S. national interests. Ending this war is, however.

Macgregor warns that this Middle East war could drag the United States into WWIII, in arguing against U.S. direct involvement he also points out that:

We have 40,000 troops in UAE, Qatar, across the Persian Gulf. They are sitting ducks. Iranian Shahed-136 Drones cost $20,000 each. American Patriot Missiles cost $4 million per interceptor.

Do the math. We will run through our inventory of missiles and go broke while Americans come home in boxes.

Politically this war is a disaster for Trump as it fractures his coalition, which was already fracturing because of his continued support for mRNA biowarfare against Americans, support for biometric ID and Palantir creating a digital database on every American, and other aspects of the control grid. Trump now appears to be retreating on deportations and that is angering another group of supporters.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Financial Express

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Thanks Ginny Garner.

AI Control of the US Military by Greg Reese

Following orders will no longer be a concern

Read on Substack

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Start at the 41:00 minute mark for the salvage operation in Venezuela. LOL! Mikey is so naive. Dealing with the military and governments of South America about an old airplane is risky business, but money changing hands can get you anything. I’ve been there. Hahaha!

At the end, Mikey and his two mechanics think the plane will never fly again. There is no paperwork on the parts! Hahaha. The paperwork will be done, don’t worry, retroactively.

“The engines were open.” Mikey. What is he talking about? The spark plugs were in the engines. The cowlings were on. It was in a hangar. Maybe the magnetos are bad, maybe not. Change the oil. Clean the plugs. Rotate the engine with the starter a few times to see if things are moving. Then fire the engines up and see what happens. See if the propeller governor works on the ground. You can pretty much test everything on the ground. 

Put in some extra gas tanks. Get a ferry permit. Hire a loco ferry pilot. And fly it back to Texas, then north to Canada and the hangar.

Sheesh!

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Re-Entry: J. D. Breen

Traveling in the “shitholes” of the world is a challenge. Bureaucrats with uniforms, guns, and a love of their authority are everywhere. The bureaucrats have to hire all their own relatives and in-laws. It’s expected. So, you end up with four or five layers of “security”. It’s really for job security and keeping peace in the family.

Dress well, smile, make a joke (learn some of the local lingo), and you’ll be fine.

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Writes Saleh Abdullah:

The whole interview was filled with false statements and projections as he tries to drag the United States into a war on Israel’s behalf. He claimed that Iran tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice and made crazy claims about Iran providing nuclear weapons to the Houthis. He even claimed that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to strike the east coast of the United States. There’s no proof of any of these things he said.

Bibi looked like a very sick, nervous and desperate man in this interview. He has no real support and people are sick of this evil lunatic. He’s pushing the world towards a third world war and doesn’t care how many people die in the process. This is a man who is obsessed with maintaining political power so he doesn’t get thrown in prison for corruption and war crimes charges.

https://archive.is/2025.06.13-142336/https://fortune.com/2024/08/17/palantir-alex-karp-us-3-front-war-russia-china-iran-autonomous-weapons-drones-military-draft/ 

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1934030494351704266

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/large-numbers-in-congress-back-attack-on-iran-call-for-us-to-support-israel/

https://x.com/VMcKennapoems/status/1922102323347665221

https://archive.is/ZllHp

https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-trump-really-deceive-iran-with

https://archive.is/BJbO1

https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1933474262960255112

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13076037/Benjamin-Netanyahu-son-Yair-Florida-apartment-Israel-war-Hamas-Gaza.html

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1934295359041253422

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Tim McGraw wrote:

I watched “The Hobbit” trilogy again this weekend. In my opinion, it is as good, or maybe better, than the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Howard Shore again composes the soundtrack. Again, the credits are made up of excellent charcoal drawings and sketches for the film.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the story. The artists made the scenery and costumes. The composer set it all to music. All of it started in the imagination of the human mind.

For me, the charcoal drawings and sketches, the music, and the dialogue in the film are the story. Perhaps, because movies are visual, the charcoal drawings and sketches are the most important part of the triad. Life comes in threes, and so does film. Three acts in life. Music, scenery, and dialogue in film. 

We seem to be living in the world of “The Battle of the Five Armies”. I can’t even keep all the armies straight anymore. Who is on whose side today?

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Writes, Patrick Foy:

We have been propagandized and conned for a very long time by this psychopathic liar and war criminal. Evidently, Washington, especially President Trump, likes Netanyahu. Or pretends to.

See here.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Federalist

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Trump’s pretend diplomacy enabled Israel’s war on Iran.

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