On this Father’s Day I made a commitment to my children that I am now going to be sober for the rest of my life.. I understand it will be a long journey and I will have to take each day as it comes…if any of my ape’s have taken this journey, any advice would be welcomed 🙏🏻
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
Imagine this was Hunter Biden or someone close to Obama……
The republicans would be kicking up fuck!!
But they keep pretending they don’t see what that fat slob and his circle are doing!!
No wonder Russia has him in their pocket!!
Embarrassing
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Dutch spies flipped a Russian GRU hacker, got into Jared Kushner's phone in 2018, and watched him log into a Dubai account stuffed with roughly $750 million that came in through Azerbaijan.
The Vanity Fair excerpt from Matthew Cole's book says Saudi and UAE money filled that account and at least one other, totaling around $2 billion. One source claims about $1 billion of it sat in an Israeli account and was allocated for Kushner's personal benefit. They say he moved sums from the Dubai account to a warlord, a mercenary, and a former hit man while he was the White House point man on Middle East deals.
Kushner called the whole thing completely insane and said none of it happened. His lawyer said the accounts never existed.
So the Dutch military intelligence service was sitting on screenshots of the president's son-in-law moving Gulf money through a charity front at First Abu Dhabi Bank, and the U.S. never publicly said a word about it.
If the money was for "off the books diplomatic objectives" to force normalization and keep Trump from losing face on Israel, why route it through Azerbaijan and a UAE charity instead of any official channel?
Why did a Dutch service that flipped a Russian spy end up with better visibility into a senior White House adviser's phone than the people who were supposed to be watching him?
And if none of this is true, why did the author get multiple sources describing the same Alpha and Beta accounts, the same transfers, and the same personal benefit claim years later?
Watch the CBS segment. Then tell me which part is harder to believe: the Dutch watching the screen, the money trail, or the blanket denial.
@IanCarrollShow@jaredkushner I love seeing the way the MAGA faithful are defending this!!
At this point if you are still MAGA you are just a brainwashed sheep
📢 Trump has been a Russian Asset since the 70s. Russia elected him, the United States did NOT.
Who made this? Who are the artists behind it? I would like to give credit and promote it. This is 100% treason and 100% accurate.
They used him, they bailed him out, he works for Russia.
WATCH THIS. This needs to be everywhere on repeat all the time. 🚨
US, Russia, and Israel appear to be coordinating against Europe and Canada, and it is clearly escalating. Trump & Netanyahu face being declawed in a few weeks. We must remain calm and resolute, do not give in to their provocations and destabilisation attempts. Together strong.
FLASHBACK: Ten years ago tonight, Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump would operate as a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
Hillary was right about everything.