Larry Johnson joined as two fronts heated up at once.
First, Iran.
With Israel bombing Lebanon daily and telling Washington the pilot-zone program has failed, Iran's top security official Mohsen Rezaei declared:
"sooner or later we will send Netanyahu to hell where he belongs"
He repeated that Beirut is a red line, defended by Iranian might, and noted no Israeli strike has touched the capital since that line was drawn.
Then onto Russia and Ukraine.
The competing Ratcliffe stories fell apart one detail at a time: a director who owns a G5 somehow needing a C-17, a message delivered to the FSB when the CIA's actual counterpart is the SVR, and a supposed warning against escalation answered the same day by Moscow promising strikes on British targets inside and outside Ukraine.
Beneath both fronts sits one ledger: roughly 2,400 Patriots left against the 3,000 missiles Iran started with. Every story changes except the math.
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