Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone News just returned and opened with something that stopped me cold.

He said we're in a war cycle that won't end until one side fully capitulates, and in his view, the U.S. already has.

JD Vance is saying out loud what Bill Clinton only screamed in private.

The missile cities everyone called a waste of money held. The fast boats kept the Strait closed. Iran had more cards than anyone admitted.

His investigation ties Butler directly to Israeli intelligence manufacturing the Iran threat narrative that got Trump into this war.

Trump isn't physically scared of Netanyahu, Max says. He's politically scared. There's a difference.

Is that fear what drove the worst US military defeat since the Civil War?

Thank you @MaxBlumenthal for this conversation