It turns out Iran didn't shoot a short-range anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs) at the USS George Washington and an accompanying destroyer escort but rather medium-range hypersonic "carrier killer" Qassem Bassir ASBMs that can reach speeds of Mach 5-8. This is the first time in US history that we know of that a US near peer competitor has fired a hypersonic missile of any kind against a US warship. The US Navy has very little defense against hypersonic missiles and so these Iranian hypersonic ASBMs pose a deadly threat to US aircraft carriers and their escorts. If even one or two hypersonic missiles hit one of our carriers and it caught fire and was forced to withdraw from the region smouldering it would be a massive blow to US prestige. That is something Iran could do at any time whenever it chooses to do so if Trump fooolishly decides to keep escalating his illegal, unconstitutional imperial war of aggression against Iran.

If it's true that the US has defeated Iran, then why does it have undisputed control over the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf which they did not have before the war? If we have defeated Iran's military then why did Trump withdraw all US Navy ships 1,000 kilometers from Iran's territory? If the US obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities in June 2025 and set it back by decades as Trump claimed, then why did he start another war on Iran and why is he continuing to fight it? If the US has won the war, then why does Iran continue to reject all his pleas to end the war unless he accepts all of their maximalist peace terms? The answer is that it is because Iran is winning, the US is losing and everything Trump is saying about the war is a bald-faced lie. The majority of the American people understand this is a war of lies and they are going to vote for the candidates who promise to stop it.

In late March 2022, following a blitzkrieg advance by the Russian army in which it conquered 27 percent of Ukraine in just a few weeks and with Kyiv partially surrounded by over 1,100 Russian tanks from three directions on both sides of the Dnipro River, Russian President Putin made Zelensky an offer he couldn't refuse. The terms of the Russian deal were that Ukraine had to agree to neutrality outside of NATO and partial demilitarization, disband its ultra-nationalist militias and political parties and grant equal rights to its Russian minority. Ukraine could retain its independence and sovereignty with security guarantees from all five members of the UN Security Council and join the EU. In exchange, Russia would withdraw its troops from 100 percent of Ukraine's prewar-controlled lands leaving Ukraine in control of all but seven percent of its internationally recognized territory. After initially expressing his willingness to take the deal, Zelensky changed his mind, under pressure from UK PM Boris Johnson and then President Joe Biden, and was a no-show to the signing ceremony in Istanbul on April 9th, 2022. I warned at the time that if Zelensky rejected the Istanbul Agreement, Russia's peace terms would grow much harsher, and Russia would proceed to annex 3-4 Ukrainian oblasts and that is exactly what happened five to six months later. Now, Zelensky says he would be happy to give up 20-25 percent of Ukraine's territory after he has lost over a million troops killed in action, another million maimed and severely wounded, 36-42 percent of Ukraine's population and 25 percent of its GDP. This leaves Ukrainians wondering what the point was of Zelensky unnecessarily prolonging his unwinnable war with Russia only to lose three times more territory. The reason was that Zelensky knew doing so was the only way he could retain his dictatorial powers and embezzle enough Western aid money to achieve his goal of becoming a billionaire oligarch so hundreds of billions of dollars would keep pouring in. He knew the moment it ended he would have to hold democratic elections and flee the country to avoid prosecution and imprisonment on corruption charges. President Trump is absolutely right when he says that the diminutive 'dictator without elections' is to blame for the outbreak of the war and the destruction of his once great country!

Trump's Iran 'excursion' has raised the price of gasoline by 50 precent, increased the price of diesel by 70 percent and driven up mortgage interest rates by 30 percent. Americans are justifiably furious at Trump for increasing the cost of living and making it more unaffordable forever all because Bibi Netanyahu blackmailed him into starting an unwinnable forever war over Trump's misdeeds relating to the Israel Mossad Epstein sex ring. Trump's second term has been a total disaster and it's about to get much, much worse after the Democrats win 53-54 Senate seats and 240 plus House seats and start investigating and impeaching Trump and his minion Pete Hegseth for crimes against our God-given Constitution.

It looks like Trump may be Netanyahu's puppet president after all! Netanyahu appears to have ordered Trump to resume largescale US military strikes on Iran along with Israel in a last ditch attempt to win the October 27th elections even though Trump knows it will hurt Republican chances in the mid-term elections.

Back in November 2024, I warned that Trump's neocon warmonger Cabinet picks like Rubio, Ratcliffe and Waltz would likely sabotage his America First conservative agenda and that is exactly what has happened as Trump has started an illegal, unwinnable America Last forever war in the Middle East on false pretenses. He ran on 'America First' and has governed as an 'Israel First/America Last' president. The American people are about to pass the verdict on his disastrous foreign policy and economic policies which amount to a full-frontal assault on their pocketbooks making the cost of living unaffordable for working class and even many middle-class Americans. Trump could have helped to make the GOP a generational majority party and instead is consigning it to minority status for the next decade or two and paving the way for the folks he has denounced as "Communists" to take control of America maybe for good. History will not remember him kindly. Joe Biden started the fire in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Trump, after having vowed to end America's forever wars and not start any new ones, poured gasoline on the flames and flushed his presidential legacy down the toilet.