These are our basic problems: gerontocratic leadership; bloated government; pseudo-democracy controlled by a wealthy caste; lack of trust in institutions; low birth rates; high deficit/national debt; inefficient health care; foreign policy designed to start useless wars.

Not every day I find myself in support of Trump, but here we go. To examine the Memorandum of Understanding and ask “Was the war worth it?” is nonsensical. Of course it wasn’t. How could it have been? The premise itself is deeply flawed: that a failed war of choice would somehow strengthen Washington’s hand at the negotiating table and produce more favorable terms. The question is also flawed in another, more consequential way. It implies that a war should not be brought to an end until it has produced better terms—even when the war itself is failing. Taken seriously, that logic leads to a dangerous conclusion: that a failed war must continue until the battlefield fortunes somehow improve and a more favorable outcome becomes attainable. Perhaps that day will come. Perhaps it never will. In the meantime, the costs—in lives, treasure, regional stability, and strategic credibility—are treated as secondary considerations. This is how endless wars are born. Full analysis at Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/tr…

Holy smokes!! 🔥🔥🔥 JD Vance to Israel opposing the MOU "My response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."

Vance slams Smotrich, Ben-Gvir: You can't kill your way out of every problem haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…

Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman.

UK is a police state

So the problem is not Israeli genocide in Gaza. Nor is it murdering thousands of Lebanese civilians, displacing 20 % of its population, and destroying hundreds of its age-old villages. The problem is people saying from the River to the Sea.

It’s important to understand that, contrary to Donald Trump’s quip to Barak Ravid that Netanyahu has “no f***ing judgment,” the Israeli Prime Minister knows exactly what he is doing: With a set of strikes at the Dahiyeh neighborhood in Beirut, he is trying to kill both the pending US-Iran peace deal and the fragile peace between Israel and Lebanon that would come with it. There is a further strategic dividend. Netanyahu is also seeking to preempt Iran’s attempt to establish a new regional deterrence equation—one in which attacks on Beirut, and potentially on Lebanon more broadly, would trigger a direct Iranian response against Israel. By striking now, he is not merely targeting an adversary; he is challenging the emergence of a regional order that would constrain Israel’s freedom of military action. Full analysis on Substack: tritaparsi.substack.com/p/wi…

The US & Iran are to sign a deal today that not only will end their war but also impose a ceasefire between Lebanon & Israel. So this is what Israel did to Beirut sabotage Trump's attempt at peace. And Israel will do more sabotage unless Trump imposes a cost on Israel.

"The Zionist activists moonlighting as “journalists” over at The Free Presserroneously claim the State Department is looking to deport Quincy Institute co-founder Trita Parsi, whose calls for restraint in U.S. foreign policy run counter to Israel’s endless thirst for bloodshed and border expansion. Citing anonymous White House sources in a post titled “Will the U.S. Deport Trita Parsi?” disgraced contributing writer Jay Solomon claims that the State Department launched an investigation into Parsi for supposedly amplifying propaganda from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Solomon writes: “The State Department has launched an investigation of Parsi and could try to deport him, according to U.S. officials and documents reviewed by The Free Press. Parsi was born in Iran, grew up in Sweden, has lived in the U.S. for over 25 years, and holds a green card. “The secretary has been very clear,” said a Trump administration official about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s efforts to combat Iranian influence inside the U.S. “Anyone who seeks to undermine the U.S., we’re taking a hard look at.” That includes “people who support adversaries of ours and whose work furthers their agenda and undermines our security.” The Quincy Institute took Solomon’s reporting seriously and lawyered up. However, the latest update from Parsi himself, along with a statement from the State Department, uncovers just how far some are willing to go to punish and silence anyone who poses a challenge to the Zionist project. Parsi writes: “…the State Department issued a statement to reporters clarifying that ‘the State Department has no plans to revoke the green card of Mr. Parsi at this time.’ Nor did it provide any confirmation for the central premise of the Free Press story—that an investigation of me existed in the first place. I don’t believe there was any investigation against me. Rather, some elements within the State Department wanted to start one and thought external pressure could help move things forward. I say “additional” because for weeks, pro-Israel social media influencers had been urging the U.S. government to deport me, while some activists—or intelligence operators—even produced an AI-generated video of me being arrested by ICE. At the Quincy Institute, we heard from sources inside the administration that there never was an investigation, that none of the principals were aware of the issue, and that the alleged source for the Free Press story may have been a “rogue actor.” That, presumably, is why the State Department took the highly unusual step of publicly refuting Solomon’s report.”" Anna Kasparian from Unaligned

Many people look at the rumored terms of a potential Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran and, correctly, view it as total U.S. defeat. But that’s misunderstanding the most important victory the U.S. have given Iran: Safety. For nearly five decades, the Iran Hawks and Israeli Lobby have been trying to find a President foolish enough to buy their propaganda and attack Iran. For 47 years, they searched, spending their entire careers in the pursuit of war. Now, they got it… and failed in the most disastrous way anyone could have thought. It wasn’t just a loss, it was an embarrassment that will forever impact the legacy of Donald Trump. For the next 250 years, no American President will ever even THINK about attacking Iran again. Not after this failure. Not after this embarrassment. Any person that pitches “attack Iran” will be laughed out of the room. While Iran will irrefutably exit this conflict in a far stronger strategic position than they entered, that is not the most significant accomplishment they have secured in this War. The greatest victory for the Iranian regime is not frozen assets. It’s not the Strait of Hormuz. It’s the assurance of knowing they have embarrassed the United States so thoroughly that no President will attack Iran for centuries.

Irán es el único país del mundo que defiende al Líbano y a Palestina de las masacres de dos potencias nucleares, Israel y su socio EEUU, perjudicando así su propia seguridad nacional. Guste o no guste su modelo, Irán se merece todo el respeto internacional.

In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years. 1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state. 2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state. 3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens. However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".

Step one in ensuring that any peace deal has a chance: restrain Israel. Right now, Israel’s ability to conduct consistent strikes into Iran is heavily dependent on U.S. assistance. As Israel’s own defense minister spells out below, Israel has different objectives than we do, and it’s clear they will not be inclined to adhere to a peace agreement. The stated intent runs wholly counter to U.S. objectives, yet Israel cannot sustain wars on multiple fronts without financial and military support from the U.S. Until they are able to do so, their actions will continue to interfere with our strategic goals and drag the U.S. into conflicts that don’t serve us. Make no mistake—this is a threat to sabotage our deal. But we can remove the leverage: Take away the military support we are providing Israel, immediately, to preserve the potential of ending this foolish war.

In review, Israel has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers, our uranium and rest of our top secrets. They attacked one of our ships and killed 34 US sailors. They've taken $320 billion from us and gotten us to spend $8 trillion for their wars. Is that an ally or an enemy?

I’m skeptical that President Trump can secure a deal with Iran at this point in the war — I’ll explain why that is below, but let me first caveat my skepticism by reiterating: we don’t need to a deal to just declare victory and walk away. It’s the only way out of this mess in the short term that will deliver anything that looks like a win for the U.S. Why can’t we reach a deal with Iran? 1. Iran believes they are winning—and they are not wrong to think they are. Iran is exploiting powerful leverage, which we delivered to them: closing the SOH has obviously significantly hindered the flow of oil/gas, putting massive pressure on us and the global economy. Today, President Trump announced that the U.S. Navy has secretly escorted 200 oil tankers out of the SOH. While this is positive news and may have helped temper rising oil prices somewhat, the impact is not substantial enough to prevent a major energy crisis. These 200 tankers transiting the SOH over the past 100 days represent only about 2% of the normal volume—roughly 10,000 ships every 100 days—prior to the war. Furthermore, the U.S. has to deploy major naval and air assets to keep the SOH open. This is not sustainable and works to Iran’s advantage in the long run: Iran can disrupt commerce through the strait with relatively little effort, while the U.S. must risk two carrier battle groups simply to move 2% of the normal amount of oil and gas. 2. The Iranian hardliners have been emboldened and have no interest in reaching a deal. For years before the war, there was major tension between the moderates—who were open to dialogue with the U.S.—and the more militant factions of the Iranian government, primarily senior officers in the IRGC. At the outset of the war, we killed the leading moderate figure (moderate by Iranian standards), Supreme Leader Khamenei, along with several of his civilian counterparts like Ali Larijani. We’ve used the cover of peace talks as a ruse to launch attacks on Iran on two separate occasions. All of this bolstered the hardliners’ standpoint that we cannot be trusted in negotiations and that Iran had no choice but to fight. 3. Israel. Despite reports of tension between Bibi and Trump, the Israelis remain the spoiler of any progress towards a deal and prove it every time there are serious talks of peace. President Trump has made public statements urging Israel to show restraint, but has been ignored and, in many cases, outright defied. The Israelis consider any peace deal with Iran to be unacceptable and a major threat to their nation. Until President Trump takes away some U.S. military support from Israel, they will continue to sabotage any chance of a lasting peace.

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Earlier today, a new article from The Washington Post highlights how oil executives have moved from politely knocking on the door of President Trump... to taking an axe to the door frame. "Some inventories could be wiped out within weeks, the executives have warned, coinciding with the peak summer travel season." Mike Somners, the CEO of American Petroleum Institute said earlier this week: “We’re sounding the alarm on these inventories going to record lows,” said American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers on “Mornings with Maria,” a Fox Business program that Trump frequently watches. “We should be concerned about what prices we’re going to see over the next few weeks. We have to solve this problem in the Strait of Hormuz.” One of the ways that the Trump Administration is trying to solve this, is by running a de fact "Operation Freedom 2.0". In statements made in the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump stated that "200 vessels" carrying "100M barrels of oil" had been "guided" through the Strait of Hormuz by the United States over the last ~40 days. This amounts to a WHOPPING 2.5M barrels per day. Before the conflict? 20M barrels per day were being exported through the Strait of Hormuz. This equates to ~12.5% of normal oil flows. But fertilizer? Bulk shipping? LNG exports? Nope. Nope. And nope. Operation Freedom 2.0 makes zero sense whatsoever, and more importantly as we saw just earlier this week with the shootdown of the American Apache helicopter, it exposes US troops to grave and mortal danger. What else? It doesn't actually address the root cause, only the symptoms. As I told The Washington Post in this piece: “The president is making a remarkably dubious claim,” said Brett Erickson, managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, “And even if some ships are getting through, this is not a long-term solution. Are we going to perpetually be the chauffeur for the Gulf?” At BEST, this offers an atrocious risk-reward profile that only works... until it goes catastrophically wrong. At WORST, it has drawn the United States back into an unwinnable war with Iran. washingtonpost.com/politics/…