Larry Johnson predicts Trump will be removed from office for America’s defeat by Iran.

4 March 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

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“Larry Johnson : The Dangerous Fallout of Khamenei’s murder”

2 March 2026, Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom

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NAPOLITANO: Give us the big

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picture as you see it now, 48 hours uh

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after all this started, the United

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States and Israeli invasion of Iran?

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JOHNSON: The ability of the US to maintain a

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presence in the Middle East looks like

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it’s been virtually destroyed. Uh the uh

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United States has started a war that it

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cannot finish despite all of Donald

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Trump’s claims about oh we’re doing

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great we’re most powerful you know

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Iran’s begging for relief you know none

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he’s just he is so delusional that this

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is frightening because this is spinning

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out of control where it is going to

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affect the global economy. Uh in fact,

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just earlier this morning, the the US

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hit an oil pipeline in Iran. Expect now

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Iran will take out the oil uh pipelines

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in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab

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Emirates. So the world oil supply is

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going to be in trouble. Actually, the

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ones probably popping champagne corks

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right now are sitting in the Kremlin and

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in Moscow because with the price of oil

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going way up, Russia’s going to be

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sitting in a sweet, sweet position. Um,

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was the miscalculation

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that will, you know, historians will

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look back at it and just shake their

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heads and say, “What the hell were they

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thinking?” Think of this. the one guy in

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Iran that blocked for 36 years the

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Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear

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weapon. The one man who stood in the way

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who said we will not build a nuclear

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weapon. That’s the guy the United States

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killed. So you we’re sitting there

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saying uh that oh yeah we got to we’re

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doing this so Iran doesn’t threaten the

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world with a nuke. uh the Ayatollah Khaminei

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36 years ago issued a fatwa said no that

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is evil we’re not going to go down that

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path and the United States killed it or

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the Israelis did or both.

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NAPOLITANO: Is this because of the Israeli fixation

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on assassinations?

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JOHNSON: Yeah they think they think they can kill

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their way out of it you know oh we’re

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going to go kill the terrorists that’ll

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stop the terrorism, well number one the

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amount of quote terrorism that Israel is

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subjected to is a gross exaggeration.

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But go back and look at their response

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to the Munich Olympics in 1972. You

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know, they killed a few of those people,

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but it didn’t change, you know, it’s not

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going to change the desire of the

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Palestinian people to want to have and

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live on their own land and not to be

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forced out by a bunch of outsiders. So

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this is um you know I think this this is

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changing fundamentally uh the the

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geopolitical landscape, and it’s it’s

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hastening the ascendancy of Russia and

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China. NAPOLITANO: Uh Alister Crooke um reports

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and he bases this on I guess information

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that has come to him as well as public

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sources in Israel that the uh decision

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to attack was made when Prime Minister

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Netanyahu visited Mara Lago, uh on New

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Year’s Eve. If that’s right, and it

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seems like it is, let me know. Then all

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the negotiations between the United

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States and Iran were again a subterfuge,

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a fraud, and an attempt to lull them

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into a false sense of security. JOHNSON: That

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that’s correct. Uh in fact, uh I have

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heard uh from a source that I trust, that

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the the initial attack that was supposed

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to take place was January 13th as part

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of that color revolution. But because

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Iran with the assistance of Russia and

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China had effectively uh turned off the

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internet, the Starlinks and and put and

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and put a stop uh to the protests. Uh

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they they recalibrated. Uh there was

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another uh you know when we heard rumors

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that there was going to be a strike

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there actually was, you know, the

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decision was on the table. Uh but they

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finally relented. What’s really

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interesting is our reports now from the

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group of eight, you know, the eight top

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Republicans and Democrats in the House

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and Senate that they were briefed by

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Marco Rubio yesterday. And Rubio told

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them, “Look, we found out that uh Israel

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was going to go ahead and do the attack

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with or without us. So, we we we joined

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in.”

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That’s that’s how we got started on

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World War II.

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NAPOLITANO: Wow.

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If if what Rubio said is true, the

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government should be removed. And if

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Rubio said what Rubio said was not true,

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then he’s lied in a very very sensitive

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environment to his uh to his former

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colleagues.

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Do you uh put stock in these reports

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that uh I don’t know if it was Rubio

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personally, but somebody in the State

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Department reached out to their

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counterpart in the Italian foreign

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ministry asking them to relay to the

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Iranian foreign ministry the wish of the

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White House for a ceasefire. The

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response to which was go to hell?

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JOHNSON: Yeah. Within 24 hours of the US and

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Israel starting this war, the US reached

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out. There’s multiple reports. It’s not

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just one source. Uh they were trying to

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get the Italians to approach Iran and

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they did and and the Iranians said no

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and hell no. No, we’re not talking to

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the Americans anymore. Uh Ali Larajani uh

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who is a close adviser to the Ayatah

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Khamenei made it clear we have nothing to

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talk about. Iran right now is it’s

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actually holding the cards despite the

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way the West is portraying it that you

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know Iran’s on the ropes and they’re

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taking a beating. Now they’re we’re

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bombing and destroying a lot of uh a lot

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of infrastructure and and but we’ve also

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we’re killing children, murdering

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children. Uh but that you know that’s

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what Israel does best. Uh shoots and

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kills the defenseless. Um but a as as

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a result of this activity, Iran now

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they’ve closed the straight of Hormuz.

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They’ve they’ve fired upon at least four

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ships. Uh one American and and the other

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three are British, I think, or at least

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uh carrying oil in the direction of

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Europe. Um the oil market is starting to

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respond. The price of oil, I think, is

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now up to $82 a barrel. Um, so Iran’s in

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a position they to shut that down. They

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have hit and destroyed basically every

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American base that includes Al-Oudeid in

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and Qatar uh Prince Sultan in Saudi

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Arabia. The most important one, the the

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ones that incurred the most damage is in

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Bahrain where the fifth fleet of the US

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Navy was based. and and and that base

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was important because uh you know as

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we’ve talked before the destroyers carry

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what are called vertical launch system

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tubes and to reload those you have to go

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to port to reload the the weapon systems,

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well they ain’t they ain’t going to

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Bahrain now. Also, there was a port that

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was being developed in in Oman and and

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that’s going to be taken out it’s been

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attacked already, so the ability of the

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United States to deploy and maint

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maintain forces there. It’s being

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they’re being as I think Alister Crooke

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used the term driven out. Absolutely.

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And and that’s one of I think an

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unexpected consequence. You’ve seen also

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the attack on US military installations

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in Iraq. So this is

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look at the difference between what’s

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happening now with what happened on June

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13th in 2025. That was a a surprise

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attack. that was uh completely

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unexpected by uh Iran. Uh they lost a

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significant number of senior leadership

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and it took them took them 10 to 12

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hours to respond.

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This time. Yeah, they got hit. Uh I’m

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not I don’t know if they anticipated it

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that it would be at that precise time

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and they all again senior people

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Khamenei was dead three the head of the

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IRGC was killed but within an hour they

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were up and firing their missiles so

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they didn’t have to wait and try to

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organize a chain of command. it was

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already intact. And the what we’re

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seeing is Israel and the United States

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are rapidly depleting their uh their

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arsenal of Patriot missiles. Number one,

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and I think by the end by by Friday or

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Saturday uh this week, uh the US and

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Israeli air defense systems will

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essentially be exhausted. And that’s why

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you saw Trump

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through the State Department try to say,

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“Let’s talk. Let’s talk to the let’s

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restart negotiations.”

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They have now destroyed any credibility

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of dealing with the United States. And

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this spills over to Russia. The the

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commentary out of both by Vladimir Putin

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and by the uh Russian foreign ministry

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uh have been intensely angry and just

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outraged at what the United States has

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done. So, you know, next time Steve

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Stevie Witkoff calls up and says, “Hey,

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uh, Vladimir, let me come by and chat.”

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The Russians are going to tell him, you

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know, that he can go meet with himself.

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They’re not going to talk to him. So,

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uh, this is, uh, I think in in some

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aspects, this is also going to

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accelerate Russia’s pressing of the war

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in Ukraine. The spillover effects on

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this are enormous.

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Right. Um, I want to play a clip for

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you. It’s just about a half an hour old.

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It’s It’s really uh absurd.

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Well, I’ll let you comment on it. It’s

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the Secretary of Defense who calls

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himself the Secretary of War, claiming

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regime change has occurred already, even

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though that’s not really our goal.

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Number 19, “Iran was building powerful

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missiles and drones to create a

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conventional shield for their nuclear

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blackmail ambitions. Let me say that

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again. A conventional shield for their

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nuclear blackmail ambitions.

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Our bases, our people, our allies, all

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in their crosshairs. Iran had a

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conventional gun to our head as they

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tried to lie their way to a nuclear

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bomb. It almost worked under Obama and

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his terrible deal, but not under this

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president.

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Turns out the regime who chanted death

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to America and death to Israel was

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gifted death from America and death from

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Israel. This is not a so-called regime

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change war, but the regime sure did

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change and the world is better off for

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it.”

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What the hell is he talking about? The

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regime sure did change. It’s terrible to

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go through life being that stupid, being

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that much of a liar. Yeah, it’s going to

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change. Uh, as I pointed out earlier,

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the one man that had blocked that was

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the the the spiritual uh and actually

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political force keeping Iran from going

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ahead with a nuke was uh Kami. We killed

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him. Now that he’s out, uh I cannot

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dismiss the possibility that his

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replacement will come in and say, “Look,

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uh for the benefit of protecting the

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Iranian people for to protect like these

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little girls, this 150 little girls,

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six, you know, between the ages of 6 and

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12 that were murdered by the United

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States. We got blood on our hands.

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That’s why they call death to America

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because we were responsible for a

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minimum of 300,000 dead Iranians over

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the course of the last 46 years. That’s

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why they called death to America because

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we are bringers of death. We’re not

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bringers of life. So, as a result of

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this, Iran could likely get a leader.

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They’ll say, “We’re going we’re going to

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build it now.” It’s right. And they

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could do it. They could do it in short

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order. and and when when it happens

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again, Israel doing all of this

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ostensibly to protect itself has signed

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its death warrant. Uh Donald Trump has

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done he he’s he’s he’s done the sin of

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George HW Bush only magnitude larger.

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MY COMMENT:

Then he predicted that Trump will be removed from office for this.

He has just about the best of all track-records for his predictions coming true, but most of those have been about military matters, and Trump’s ouster would mainly be political.

The several polls that have been taken since Trump’s-Netanyahu’s invasion of Iran on February 28th have shown strong disapproval by the American people except amongst Republicans — and all of those polls were taken before news started dribbling in (ultimately even into U.S. media) that Iran is winning against its Israel-U.S. invaders.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.