‘Donald Trump feels BETRAYED & MISLED by Benjamin Netanyahu over Iran war quagmire.’

—Doug Bandow, Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan

‘I don't think that he feels any particular loyalty, for example, to Netanyahu. I suspect he also, in fact, feels betrayed to some degree that Netanyahu promised him an easy win, three or four days, regime change.

“You can go home and have your big parade and an arch of triumph and you've won.” And none of that happened.

I think he knows that he was misled, that the question of his political future, to have a Congress heavily dominated by Democrats would be very dangerous for him.

To have the Republican Party damaged significantly would be bad for him, to have it ruined for the next presidential election.

All of these things mattered to him. So I suspect that he really knows he's got to get this over. And my hope is that sense of self-preservation takes over very quickly.

Because if it's just his ego, he really could take the world over the edge.

But if he worries about his reputation for the future, then there's hope that he might decide he's got to get it done.’

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“Donald Trump has demonstrated pretty conclusively that without NUCLEAR WEAPONS, it’s hard for Iran to defend themselves.”

—Doug Bandow, Former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan

‘The danger, of course, is we’ve got a new leadership that’s more angry, more antagonistic, probably more nationalistic, and they have a much better reason to want a nuclear weapon….

They don’t have to do that right now.

The point is the Strait of Hormuz has turned out to be their nuclear weapon and given them extraordinary leverage that they may have thought they might have had in the past, but they never used it.

And this is the extraordinary thing: Donald Trump has created the entire problem. They wouldn’t have the enriched uranium if he hadn’t gotten rid of the JCPOA, the nuclear accord that Obama negotiated.

And then last year he attacked them in the middle of negotiations, this year he attacked them in the middle of negotiations and they struck back at the strait.

So he’s the one who’s created the problem of both the nuclear issue as well as the Strait of Hormuz.’

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Russia’s🇷🇺 Dmitry Medvedev:

‘Following the assassination of the Supreme Leader of Iran, there is no doubt that Iran will continue pursuing nuclear testing and will eventually acquire nuclear weapons.’

Doug Bandow, Ex-Special Assistant to President Reagan:

‘There’s a lot of talk in the Washington policy community that the US🇺🇸 MUST defend Taiwan…

I doubt Americans want a NUCLEAR WAR with China🇨🇳 over Taiwan. They don’t even know where Taiwan is. They don’t want to fight a war 6,000 miles from home.

That does make me very nervous in the future. I think American policymakers underestimate that risk. I think the Chinese are very serious.

And no one on Earth, I mean, especially China and America, but no one on Earth wants a war between these two countries.’

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:

"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years.”

Contrast that to just the second Trump Administration alone where Trump has bombed 7 countries including Iran and Venezuela.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine proxy war: Europe is SUFFERING economically, Trump has LOST INTEREST in the conflict

‘Russia expected that the Europeans, and ultimately the US would pay a price. The Europeans have suffered very badly. Getting rid of cheap energy sources has hurt their industries enormously.

It’s hard for them to raise the money to keep funding the war in Ukraine. It’s pretty clear Trump has kind of grown tired of it.

He didn’t solve it the way he wanted. Congress still wants to support it, but even there you don’t get the same levels of enthusiasm.

And I’m sure that Putin and the Moscow government are all watching this and taking that into account as they plan for the future that they can assume.

I think that interest will continue to flag.

It’ll be interesting if they decide there’s a point to approach Trump where they think, perhaps especially after the Iran debacle, that they might be able to convince Trump to try to take a more favourable stand and get the war over with with Ukraine.’

—Doug Bandow, former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan

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We are facing an ongoing energy crisis due to the shortage of Russian gas.’

-Germany’s🇩🇪 genius 14% approval rating Chancellor Merz

Just an idea maybe…lift the sanctions so Germany doesn’t face a shortage of Russian gas so you can start reversing the deindustrialisation?

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IRAN WAR: ‘The UAE🇦🇪 has been the MOST EFFECTIVE militarily of any of the Gulf States.

They do have the capacity to defend themselves, more so than most of the other Gulf States.’

—Doug Bandow, Former Special Assistant to US🇺🇸 President Ronald Reagan

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Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich:

‘Israel has no interest in joining the limited confrontation between Iran and the United States…the current situation is the best possible for us.’

Drag the US into a war for your apartheid state, and leave the US’ soldiers to fight and die in the war you wanted.

‘America’s closest ally.’

Why the US🇺🇸 hates Cuba🇨🇺 and makes up fictitious lies to justify a regime change war against Cuba:

Nelson Mandela to Fidel Castro:

"Our friend Cuba, which helped us in training our people, gave us resources to help us with our struggle, trained our people as doctors. You have not come to our country…when are you coming to South Africa?”

When the US speaks of ‘third worldism’, it means Cuba has backed liberation struggles against US-backed barbaric regimes in the global south.

Pete Hegseth: The US has spent $37 BILLION for the war on Iran

Here’s what $37 billion ($290 per household) could have gotten for the American people:

370,000 teachers at an average total annual compensation of about $100,000 (salary plus benefits).

740,000 affordable homes if each unit cost around $50,000 in federal subsidy.

More than 10 years of the National Cancer Institute’s budget, which is roughly $7 billion annually.

About four years of the CDC’s budget, which is roughly $9 billion per year.

Nearly the entire annual budget of NASA, which is around $25–30 billion, with billions left over.

More than three times the annual cost of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which serves hundreds of thousands of veterans and students.

Over 9 million Pell Grants of $4,000 each for college students.

Replacing or renovating thousands of bridges and schools, depending on project size.

37 new state-of-the-art hospitals at around $1 billion each.

740 elementary or high schools costing roughly $50 million each to build.

370,000 nurses for one year (assuming total compensation of about $100,000 each).

On this day in 1946, Zionist terrorists of the Irgun organisation, led by future Israeli PM Menachem Begin, bombed the King David Hotel, the British Administrative HQ in Palestine.

At the time, it was the deadliest terror attack targeting British subjects. Disguised as Arab workmen and waiters, the members of the Irgun planted a bomb in the basement of the main building of the hotel, whose southern wing housed the Mandate Secretariat and a few offices of the British military headquarters. The resulting explosion caused the collapse of the western half of the southern wing of the hotel.

91 people of various nationalities were killed, and 46 were injured in the attack. In 2006, former Irgun fighters and right-wing politicians commemorated the attack on the King David Hotel in celebration with a conference, and also unveiled a plaque in front of the King David Hotel in a ceremony.

Current Israeli Prime Minister and genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu attended the celebration and gave a speech defending the Zionist terrorists of Irgun.

BREAKING: Donald Trump says for every ship shot at by Iran, the US will destroy one power plant or bridge in Iran

ICYMI: New UK🇬🇧 Prime Minister Andy Burnham:

‘There is no change, I will be with Zelensky 100%.’

Get ready for more billions of your pounds to continue going to a failed proxy war!

The circus policies continue.

Donald Trump claims the American people aren’t against the war on Iran despite the high gas prices, because they don’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

This is the most unpopular war in American history. 59% of Americans oppose the war according to a July Washington Post/Ipsos poll.

Trump is destroying his own Presidency with foreign policy delusions, spoken into his ear by an echo chamber of neocons.

Marco Rubio:

‘The Cuban regime has spent years destabilizing the region.’

Leaders of nations in Latin America overthrown either directly by the USA or in coups with US involvement:

🇬🇹 Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemala, 1954

🇵🇾 Federico Chaves, Paraguay, 1954

🇨🇺 Fidel Castro, Cuba, 1961
(attempted)

🇬🇾 Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana, 1964

🇧🇷 João Goulart, Brazil, 1964

🇩🇴 Juan Bosch, Dominican Republic, 1963/65

🇧🇴 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivia, 1964

🇧🇴 Juan José Torres, Bolivia, 1971

🇨🇱 Salvador Allende, Chile, 1973

🇺🇾 Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguay, 1973

🇦🇷 Isabel Perón, Argentina, 1976

🇬🇩 Maurice Bishop, Grenada, 1983

🇵🇦 Manuel Noriega, Panama, 1989

🇭🇹 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, 1991 & 2004

🇻🇪 Hugo Chávez, Venezuela, 2002 (attempted)

🇭🇳 Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, 2009

🇧🇴 Evo Morales, Bolivia, 2019

🇻🇪 Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela, 2026

Donald Trump salutes as the 4 US soldiers killed by Iranian strikes are brought back home.

As this war continues and becomes more severe, scenes like this will become more regular, causing disaster for his own Presidency…

As the US population becomes increasingly more outraged by the pointless, failed war.

The question that will baffle historians for decades is why an American President torpedoed his own Presidency for a war for Israel’s national security interests, and a war which served none of the US’ security interests.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

'The people who are in charge of the country don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know how to fix their economy. They don’t understand basic concepts.’

Cuba estimates the losses caused by the US embargo to be US$2.1 trillion (adjusted for the price of gold).

The US strangles Cuba’s economy by not even allowing fuel imports.

Marco Rubio either doesn’t understand basic concepts of how US sabotage and economic strangulation crippled a country, or is deliberately lying.

JUST 6% of Britons would volunteer to fight if the UK🇬🇧 faced an invasion, and only 14% would serve if called upon.

The shocking poll was conducted by YouGov.

Aside from Britons not wanting to die for a corrupt elite in a pointless war against Russia🇷🇺…

Here is another potential reason for Britons not willing to fight and die for their politicians:

"I speak as a goy, a mere goy…the Jews were put on the face of the earth to be a light unto nations, and Israel is being that light.”

—Retired British Army Officer Richard Kemp:

This is what you get when the British military is associated with a genocidal apartheid state, and nothing but war crimes and imperialism abroad.

Why would just 6% of Britons volunteer to fight if the UK🇬🇧 faced an invasion?

Here’s how the British Army treated Iraqi children during the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

After the British population have been left to suffer economic decline and mediocrity for decades, and have been robbed by an oligarchy….

The British public do not want to serve in a country associated with war crimes and barbarism, even if their own homeland were invaded.

🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief Drapaty makes derogatory remakes about the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, calling them criminals, and saying many of them don’t want to work and only want freebies.

Remember, this is how Ukraine’s officials see the people of Donbass, who they supposedly consider as citizens of Ukraine.

Russian-speaking civilians in Eastern Ukraine were treated as second-class citizens since the Maidan Coup, which laid the groundwork for the slaughter of their own people in Donbass.

Now that these regions have joined Russia, the mentality exposes itself again.

Why would Russians in Donbass ever want to be part of a state that views them like this? A question NATO nation media will never explore.