COMMENT: I love my country. What if Russia and Iran are coordinating an exacerbation of a two front war against “West”? Russia just warned embassies in Kiev to evacuate, signaling upcoming intensification. Iran just goaded US into firing missiles when MoU was near signing. Xi met with Putin right after Trump’s visit, and per news, Chinese and Iranian foreign ministries continue to communicate.
What if the plan was to exacerbate wars on two fronts, with Xi and the Chinese sharing insights gleaned from Trump’s visits? If so, they are playing Trump and hubris like a fiddle. I could have only come up with this theory because you have been pounding the table about this possibility first.
Can you share this, at least to get folks to have an open mind? To me, it’s not about Trump. I just don’t want us to be so foolish, and love him or hate him, there’s a overall reason why all of us would want to avoid any such foolishness?
JN
REPLY: I have expressed my concern, but it seems as if their eyes glaze over, and they simply think that they will win because they have the most sophisticated military. But we spend over $1 million to shoot down a $30,000 drone. To make matters worse, it takes years to replace what was already used against Iran. I have stated before that if I were on the opposite side of the table, I would use Iran to drain the resources, Russia then seriously attacks Ukraine, not just the Donbas, North Korea invades the South, and China invades Taiwan. There is no possible way to defend on four fronts.
Macron went to Xi BEFORE Trump and said the EU will NOT support Iran or Taiwan. So you saw Trump say after his meeting, he recommended the chip maker move to the USA. Trump is trying to cut his losses in Iran and strike a deal to justify exiting, while Israel has said none of the original goals were achieved, and they will act in their own self-interest.
The Neocons are a threat not just to American National Security, but to the entire world. The start wars with NO exit strategy. They presume we will win and NEVER have any strategy whatsoever. In Iraq, they simply focused on removing Saddam. They had ZERO analysis or strategy for what came next.
People like Dick Cheney took us into Iraq with ZERO strategy. It was not a matter of weeks; it was 8 years. We saw the same flawed ideas with Vietnam.
Robert McNamara (1916 – 2009) was a leading Neocon who pushed the country into the Vietnam War. He was famous for saying, “I learned early on never to answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you. And quite frankly, I follow that rule. It’s a very good rule.”
Before he died, he finally admitted that they were wrong, particularly in their assessment of Russia as a threat. The perception of Russia as a threat still dominates the agenda today. The propaganda that Putin is a KGB guy who wants to re-establish the Soviet Empire is absurd. In the 22 years that he has been in power, he has neither tried to re-establish communism nor has he sought to retake the old Soviet states like Poland, the Czech Republic, or even Ukraine. The same claims today about Russia are the very same ones that justified Vietnam. The Vietnam War lasted from November 1, 1955, to April 30, 1975, totaling approximately 19 years and 5 months.
Iran has been Netanyahu’s war, and he suckered the USA into once again funding his endless agenda. He said the same thing about Iraq when he testified before Congress in 2002. This Iran war is a religious war for which there is no long-term solution. Israel and Iran will simply have to fight it out in a cage match, for nobody seems willing to live in peace.
Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued a message on May 26 calling for greater unity across the Muslim world against the United States and Israel, saying that the chants “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” will become the rallying slogans of Muslims and “the oppressed of the world.”
World War II (1942-1945) 84% on average annually. The Cold War Era (late 1980s) cost 28-30% annually. A preliminary assessment is that more than 50% of the National Debt has been used to fund Neocon wars, with the constant interest payments keeping the debt rolling. The latest projection just for the 55,000 American troops involved in Iran, with the future medical care and disability benefits for these veterans over the next 30 years, is projected to be a major driver of the potential $1 trillion total cost. Even UBER costs are up about 25% on average. Nobody seems to understand that these endless wars raise the national debt, and then those in Congress raise taxes to pay for the escalating debt.
The official figure does not yet fully account for this replacement gap. Beyond direct government spending, the war has also imposed broader costs on the U.S. economy.
The conflict has disrupted global oil supplies, pushing the average price of gasoline in the U.S. to $4.23 per gallon in late April 2026, a 40% increase from before the war. Plus, diesel and jet fuel are impacting travel and fishing costs. This war will add significantly to the U.S. national debt, with costs not simply passed on to future generations of Americans; it will result in higher taxes, especially when Democrats get control.
To determine how long it will take for the U.S. national debt to double due to interest alone (i.e., with no new borrowing and no principal repayment), we can use the Rule of 72. The Rule of 72 is a simplified formula that estimates the number of years required to double an investment (or debt) at a fixed annual rate of return (or interest rate) of 5.1% will be 14 years. That is just the interest alone!
The real enemy of government is not Russia, China, Iran, or who knows next. It is the Neocons and their endless wars with no STRATEGY and no intention of ever paying off any debt whatsoever. They are the real threat to the United States, and nobody even looks at this crisis.
