Lee Camp On CNN's Rare Moment of Telling the Truth About Iran.
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Real Estate Attorneys Should Not Be Used As International Negotiators.
Remember how close the United States and Iran were to a deal ? Well according to President Trump's favorite lawyer ( for now ) Steve Witkoff , Iran spent the negotiations bragging: Witkoff: Iranians bragged of uranium for 11 bombs US special envoy Witkoff, who together with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner led Washington’s negotiations with Tehran over the disputed nuclear program, said that Iran’s top negotiators boasted in the first round of talks this year of having enough highly enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs. “In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly — with no shame — that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60% [enriched uranium] and that they’re aware that could make 11 nuclear bombs,” Witkoff told Fox. Trump has asserted that the US “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities during the 12-day war last June, which would ostensibly render Iran incapable of immediately turning that enriched uranium into a bomb. Still, Witkoff said the Iran...
Richard Medhurst Returns To Talk About Iran.
Unless you like the intro music, you can start around the 25-minute mark. Either way, Medhurst has a good 3 & 1/2 hours of news, updates, video clips and commentary to share:
Miscellaneous War-Related Clips
Protestors vs a US Embassy (Baghdad): The Trump Administration tries to retroactively prep Americans: Iran has drones and drones and drones and drones: Jerusalem experiencing Iranian retaliation earlier today:
The United States Military Is Not Currently Designed For Continuous Fighting.
Why? Up until 2014, our defense contractors work building missiles in a way that maximized their profits but slowed down productivity . At best, we can sustain projectile-based fighting (offense and defense) for about a week . Also, a lot of the military budget is spent on Tricare . Our stockpiles has been depleted (see also the above link) in other combat operations and replenishment is both costly and time-consuming (as in: would take years to replenish ). All an opponent of the US Military has to do is survive the initial attack, kinda like:
Rachel Blevins: President Trump Already Wants a Ceasefire (But Iran Says, "Nope")
Like I've said before: maybe sending your real estate agent and son-in-law (both who only had Israel's best interests in mind) to "negotiate" probably wasn't the best idea.
