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Skip to contentHow More War Reshapes the Middle East Forever See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"Historic Russia": The Land Putin Will Not Give Back See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Dollar, Sanctions & Bombs Can't Bring it Back /Alastair Crooke See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Fatal Assumption That Tehran Will Break /Professor Richard Sakwa See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Will Americans Die to Open the Strait of Hormuz? Seyed M. Marandi See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Israel About to Ignite Entire Middle East? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Iran's Next Strike May Not Explode. It Could Shut You Down /Col Doug Macgregor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Netanyahu Wants More War. What Did Hegseth Promise? /Andrei Martyanov See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There's No Isolating Iran Now /Col Lawrence Wilkerson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

bIGGER bOMBS cAN'T fIX tRUMP'S lOSING sTRATEGY IN IRAN / jOHN mEARSHEIMER See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bomb Pickaxe Mountain, Get a Nuclear Iran See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Zelensky's Next Offer May be Take It or Leave It See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Ritter - MOAB Won't End This Iran War See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Europe Wants Russia's Blood. Trump Wants Out See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ukraine Betrayed - No Intel, No Starlink. Now What? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Iran Sinking Ships to Make Trump Pay at the Polls See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Skip to contentTrump Got Played. Iran Rebuilds While He Brags See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Does Trump Join a War the Saudis Can't Finish? /Col Doug Macgregor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Saudi Arabia Can't Stop the Houthis. Guess Who Wants In? /Patrick Henningsen See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Riyadh’s Airport Hit Again as Trump’s Ceasefire Runs Into Russian Fire /Col. Lawrence Wilkerson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Putin Played Trump Twice in 3 Days /Russian Senator Shenderyuk-Zhidkov See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are Witkoff & Kushner Selling Out Ukraine? /Pascal Lottaz See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Riyadh's Airport Burns, Tankers Next /Alastair Crooke See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Skip to contentEuroope's Next Flashpoint / Richard Sakwa See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

3 Billion Barrels Lost to Iran War / Larry Johnson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

HIDE THE DAMAGE, ESCALATE THE WAR /Col Doug Macgregor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Skip to contentHouthis Don’t Have to Conquer Saudi Arabia to Make It Pay See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's Ukraine Deal is Dying, Europe Inherits the War /Alexander Mercouris See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Devastating Miscalculations in the War with Ukraine /Roger Koeppel See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Israel's Oct 7 Warning Could Blow Up the Ceasefire /Chas Freeman See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fairford: Real Plot or Ready-Made Pretext for Round Two? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Will the U.S. Join the Yemen War? /Dave DeCamp See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ukraine Hitting Russian Refineries as Trump Pushes for Talks See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia is Crushing Ukraine's Capacity to Fight / Iuliia Mendel See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Iran War, Russia Hits Kyiv's Bridges See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

10K More U.S. Troops Deploy as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes /Suliaman Ahmed See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Putin Admits Refinery Strikes Cost Moscow 1% of GDP /Larry Johnson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia Debuts Pylon-Cutting Drone on Ukraine's Power Lines /John Mearsheimer See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Can the U.S. Afford to Annihilate Iran? Seyed M. Marandi See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rubio Kicks Out Iran's Araghchi Out of New York /Col Larry Wilkerson See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia Warns NATO: Touch Kaliningrad, We Go Nuclear See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pilot Tries to Crash Israel-Bound Jet — Was Iran Behind It? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Russia Pounds Kyiv as US Pushes Peace Talks /Patrick Henningsen See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

23 years Over in Iraq as Iran Demands US Admit Defeat /Col Doug Macgregor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump's Foreign Policy Up Against a World That Won't Bend See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Washington Risking Another War for Israel /Lt Col Daniel Davis See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Old World Order is Breaking - Trump Won't Let Go /Alastair Crooke & Lt COl Daniel Davis See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump May Use Israel to Launch a Nuclear Strike on Iran /Col Doug Macgregor See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ansar Allah's Red Sea Advance Exposes Saudi Weakness /LIVE from Yemen, academic Hussain Al-Bukhaiti See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Houthis Have Saudi Arabia Trapped /Brian McGlinchey & Lt Col Daniel Davis See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.