Editor, The Real War newsletter; Former US Army HQ Staff Officer; National Security Strategist and Geopolitics Expert
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BREAKING:
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran informed mediators that is going to target airports, pipelines, and other civilian targets in Gulf countries if attacks on it by Israel and US resume, per WSJ
Iranian Tasnim News also reports that the inner circle around the supreme leader is considering targeting the Israel’s highly secretive Dimona nuclear facility, if Israel attacks Iranian nuclear facilities
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It turns out that even a nominal administration success, the kidnapping of Venezuela's leader and theft of Venezuelan oil, is a bad deal for all concerned, except a few well-connected administration officials and their buddies. theatlantic.com/magazine/202… salon.com/2026/10/23/the-sec…
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
The fact that MAGA are actually BOOING people who are standing up for sex trafficked children in the Epstein files at Trump rallies should tell you everything about what the MAGA movement has become.
In their minds. protecting pedophiles is now patriotic.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin is blaming Ukraine for the war, claiming Moscow tried to negotiate a settlement YEARS before Russia's full-scale invasion.
He argues that back in 2014, Russia offered to help Kyiv reach an agreement with the separatist southeast, but Ukrainian authorities responded with artillery and aircraft against civilians.
“They practically unleashed a war.”
Putin also claims Kyiv refused to compromise under the Minsk agreements, insisting Russia had pushed for negotiations from the beginning.
Writer: Sol
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
BREAKING: Multiple Russian Il-76 military cargo aircraft have landed at Bushehr Air Base in southern Iran to begin the evacuation of all Russian personnel from the nearby Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant ahead of military escalation, per initial reports and local sources.
The flights are also delivering weapons.
The last time Russia's Rosatom evacuated personnel at the plant was on February 28, the day the war started, removing 94 people in a single day.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Peter Thiel, one of Trump’s most influential billionaire backers, says the Iran war was a MISTAKE
“I think we should not have done it. There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”
Thiel made the comments last week during a private lecture in Nashville.
He also raised the question no one in the GOP wants to answer <2 weeks before the midterms:
“Maybe we don’t have the hard power. Maybe we’re going to lose the soft power war.”
Thiel co-founded PayPal and Palantir, donated $1.25 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign, was a key WH advisor during Term I, and poured millions into JD Vance’s Senate primary that put him on the path to VP.
His data company Palantir is actively assisting Trump’s deportation operations today.
He still supports Trump. But his assessment of the Iran war is damning.
When a donor this close starts saying “we should not have done it,” you can bet the White House is listening.
Source: Daily Mail, Politico / Writer: Michael
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
Trump said: “We could leave [Iran] now, but we want to make sure it lasts for a long time.”
This is the forever war his supporters swore he would never do. The same guy who wrecked Jeb Bush in 2016 over Iraq and Afghanistan is now deliberately dragging this out so Iran “never rebuilds.”
If you’re still backing Trump and the current GOP, you’re voting for more open-ended wars. The anti-war Trump is gone.
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BREAKING: Iranian officials now believe a joint U.S.-Israeli attack is imminent and instructing the country’s armed forces to directly activate the decentralized “Mosaic Defense” doctrine, with commanders reportedly receiving extensive lists of U.S. economic and political targets to strike if war erupts, per Fars News.
A senior Iranian security official warned that U.S. political assets and infrastructure in countries participating in the conflict could be directly targeted. The doctrine disperses military command across 31 provincial commands, designed to allow Iran to continue fighting even if its central leadership is attacked.
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BREAKING: Iran has instructed all arms of its armed forces to treat political targets associated with the US and other participants in the war, along with their infrastructure, as legitimate targets in the next round of large-scale war with the US and Israel, which Tehran considers certain, per a senior Iranian security official to Fars.
It comes as Trump has shifted toward favoring a preemptive strike on Iran in recent hours.
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Netanyahu seems confident the president will happily destroy the last two years of his term fighting Israel’s enemies regardless of the cost to the American people
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Republicans are about to get slaughtered in the midterms.
A hated president. A horrific economy. A war no one wants and a defecting base. History will cite the betrayal that caused it.
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
The U.S. has no control over its own war with Iran.
Trump reportedly pleaded with Netanyahu to delay strikes until after the November midterms, offering U.S. forces to carry them out if he agreed.
America’s war. Netanyahu’s terms. Our military.
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Zelensky hates Trump, openly supported Kamala and Democrat for President. Ukrainian operatives were involved in assassination attempts against Trump!
Now Zelensky is openly defiant against Trump and working hard to STOP the US from buying Russian diesel by destroying Russian refineries! He wants gas prices to remain high!!
Zelensky is working to hurt Trump and Republicans in hopes that Democrats win the midterms and take Congress. He is no friend of America!
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 US troops are being pulled back from bases in Jordan, Qatar and Kuwait and embassies across the Middle East are cutting staff... the same drawdown the Pentagon ran the week before the war started in February
Four sources told NBC the moves mirror the pre-war playbook: leave air defenses and security, get everyone else out of missile range.
The options on Trump's desk include Pickaxe Mountain's tunnel entrances, Qeshm island in the strait, and Kharg Island, where almost all of Iran's oil leaves the country.
Hegseth is privately pushing to go; other advisers are asking what the end looks like.
Trump promised on Oct. 8 that nothing happens before Nov. 3, and one official says "before or after" is now on the table.
Kharg is the target that ends the regime's economy or spikes Brent past $130, and the troops being moved tonight are the ones who'd absorb the answer.
Source: NBC News / Writer: Daniel
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
By undermining multiple peace opportunities, including the deal that Ukraine negotiated for itself in April 2022, Jake and allied bipartisan hawks haven’t just neutered Ukraine, they’ve cost it hundreds of thousands lives and a much more viable future. Every goal imputed to Putin is a projection:
Jake Sullivan on Ukraine:
I think Putin doesn't just want the four oblasts and I think he doesn't just want a neutral Ukraine, he wants a neutered Ukraine.
He wants a peace outcome, peace in quotes, that will allow him ultimately to render Ukraine essentially a non-viable entity.
I think he needs to be denied that goal because I do think it is in the American national interest ... to ensure that this kind of aggression cannot ultimately succeed.
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
Trump says he's the boss. But every time Bibi calls, Trump picks up. Every time Israel wants a war, America fights it. And every time the bill comes due, it's US soldiers and US taxpayers that pay for it.
Trump is not the boss.
He is Netanyahu's bitch.
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
George Washington did sign a deal to end the Revolution. It was called the Treaty of Paris, and it established America’s boundaries and water rights, handled war debts, allowed for return of prisoners of war, provided restitution for property, and even gave the British the right to navigate the Mississippi River.
That’s how wars end. Mitt Romney doesn’t know this, because Romneys don’t fight wars. Romneys either flee to Europe or stay home and get rich while better men fight wars for them. The Romneys never saw a war they weren’t willing to dodge while demanding better men fight it for them.
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Trump explains that we have to keep American kids in the Middle East fighting a war to make sure Iran doesn’t develop the nuclear weapon he stopped them from developing when he ripped up the JCPOA in 2018 and obliterated last summer
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Hegseth confirmed his private meeting with Netanyahu but wouldn’t say that he was there to receive the following instructions from his real boss to deliver to Trump: attack Iran before Israeli elections on Tuesday
David Pyne 🇺🇸 retweeted
If Trump is dumb enough to attack Iran again before the midterms, @AbdulElSayed will win the senate seat in Michigan.
It’s a stupid senseless war and America hates it.
We also hate neocons.
This is not an endorsement, I’m not a Democrat, but I’m also not a neocon Republican.