Iran's regime is betting that they are willing to endure more loss than the U.S. will. So, their goal is to make the war as costly as possible. If the U.S. is more desparate to end this than Iran, they will be able to negotiate more favorable terms. 

Israel would first have to stop assassinating anyone in a position to negotiate. Yet that's their entire plan, keep the US trapped in the destruction of Iran. Anyone replacing them would only be more reluctant to negotiate.

The war will be very costly even if it ends today. The ripple effects will have grave consequences to the world economy. 

Trump To Demand 100 BILLION Extra To Pay For Iran War

That's an extra $600 per tax payer in the USA, please chip in to kill more children.

'Illegal War’ Launched by an ‘Authoritarian President’: Fmr Obama Official Slams the Iran War

In this wide-ranging interview of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ former Obama official Ben Rhodes joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss Israel’s role in shaping the United States’ war with Iran.

Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security adviser in Barack Obama’s White House for eight years. He was working with President Obama as Benjamin Netanyahu continued to pressure the US, time and time again, to attack Iran.

In the discussion, Rhodes tells Mehdi that Israel’s ultimate objective is to turn Iran into a “failed state.” He criticizes Democratic Party leadership for failing to respond to the conflict, arguing that those who did not oppose the war must be primaried.

The two also examine the Obama administration’s decision to pursue regime change in Libya in 2011 without congressional approval. “I acknowledge the mistakes made,” Rhodes tells Mehdi, reflecting on the intervention.

Intel: Regime Change In Iran NO LONGER POSSIBLE

"NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three ​sources familiar with the matter.

A "multitude" of intelligence reports provide "consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger" of collapse and "retains control of the Iranian public," ‌said one of the sources, all of whom were granted anonymity to discuss U.S. intelligence findings."

Pretty sure Netenyahu sold Trump on the idea it would be a quick thing. And he knew that Trump would be too stubborn to admit defeat. Played like the fucking moron he is.

Yeah Kent said as much in his resignation letter.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr

— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) March 17, 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: U.S. Strategic Defeat in Iran Will Reshape the World

"Trump, it's no secret now, he wanted and expected a short war. He now seems to be locked in a position of all or nothing that either he can escalate and try to knock out uh America's main rival in the Middle East which is Iran or he risks being expelled from the region, him but the United States military if all these bases will be well destroyed. And the Gulf state nations would begin to grow concerned about the military presence being insecurity instead of a source for security."


"Ground troops are not realistic uh at all. But let me back up just a little bit. Haaretz, the only newspaper I'll read and sometimes I don't even like it because Netanyahu owns all the rest of them virtually. But Haaretz had a really interesting sub headline yesterday. It said to win Iran needs only not to lose. To win BB and Donald need a spectacular victory. That sums it up."


"Do you know that they took out five of the multi-million dollar, two of them were a half billion a piece radars in other countries that have left us blind and we can't replace them. And guess why we can't replace them? Because we can't get the rare earth metals from China in order to replace them. Even if we could build them that fast. So, this has been very very fine-tuned by Iran."

"Regarding those radars, it's gallium I think the rarest mineral they need and apparently China has about 98% of well it's not extracting at least refining. So overall the control is if the US wants to go to war to China, it's going to have to ask China for permission first to and he just denied a a visit or you just cancelled a visit. Picture this will will you? The number one strategic interest we have in a foreign state is China. The last interest we have in a foreign state other than that BB sells us is Iran. and we're canceling a meeting with the man in charge of the first so we can be the advocate for war with the second."

This entire administration is such a joke.

One of the bad things about living in Arizona is that Turning Point USA is based here. So they are always throwing money at every election. I see campaign posters all around the Valley. It makes it easy for me to know who not to vote for. 

Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma thug with anger issues, almost got his bid for DHS secretary defeated in committee thanks to Rand Paul's opposition.

Then John Fetterman stepped in....

Afroman 2028!

‘Is Netanyahu Dead?’ Senate Intel Committee member Chris Van Hollen responds

The Trump administration has lied to the American people yet again.

Since striking Iran in late February, Donald Trump and top administration officials haven’t been able to get their stories straight about their rationale for war.

“They’ve had these constantly shifting rationales,” says Senator Chris Van Hollen, who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee. “And the reason they have to keep shifting them is because when they say that one thing was their goal – like getting rid of Iran’s nuclear capacity, they claimed – that turns out to be just not true.”

What is true, though, is that Trump played right into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hands when he decided to strike Iran. “Netanyahu just a few weeks ago said he’d been waiting 40 years for an American president to join him in attacking Iran. And in Donald Trump, he finally found somebody stupid enough and reckless enough to actually do it,” Van Hollen explains.

While Van Hollen, who is widely considered a possible 2028 presidential candidate, slams Trump for acquiescing to Netanyahu and Israel, he doesn’t spare Joe Biden either:

“The Biden administration did nothing to hold the Netanyahu government to account, and now the Trump administration is not only doing nothing to hold them to account, but essentially just giving them a blank check to do whatever they want in Lebanon or in Iran.”

01:30 Why are we at war?
05:37 Trump’s motivations
08:09 Iranian girls’ school bombing
11:46 Democrats supporting Iran war
14:19 Cost of war
15:56 Chance of rigged midterms
18:04 Situation in Gaza
22:02 Criticism from ADL
24:13 American attitudes on Israel
25:42 Netanyahu rumors

The Netanyahu rumors are only getting stronger, either he died on March 8th or is somewhere hiding / recovering. 

Could Van Hollen run in 2028?

Mar a Lago goes blue!

The special election wins keep piling up. Let's hope it carries on into the midterms. 

Hopefully she can do something about the epidemic spreading there...: