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The Future of the Middle East – The Bigger Picture

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

Last week, it was reported that senior military leaders held a private meeting in Germany to discuss the ongoing conflict with Iran and regional security. That meeting, as it has been called, was engineered by the U.S., and hosted by Admiral Brad Cooper, included the military chiefs of staff from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, and Egypt.

That in and of itself is remarkable because the participants don’t always agree with one another regarding political, cultural or military points of view, but it gets even more remarkable when one considers the one participant not included in the aforementioned list – Israel.

That’s right, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir had an equal seat at that most incredible assemblage of military leaders. From what we know, Adm. Cooper reassured participants that the U.S. would maintain its military footprint in the Middle East despite recent regional escalations and attacks on American bases but that was just the opening statement. The topics under discussion included an exchange of intelligence and assessments regarding regional war developments and Iranian attacks on military installations, reviewed American strategic proposals to safeguard and expand protected commercial ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and the recent escalations involving Houthi forces in Yemen.

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Anti Trump War Rhetoric vs. Reality’s Receipts

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

Enough already with the virtue-signaling from those who disagree with the current strategy being employed against Iran, and the constant blaming of President Trump for mishandling the war, or making promises he hasn’t kept, or the claims that if Trump won’t finish the job, Israel will finish it for him.

And what happens when someone disagrees with the virtue signaling sorts? They will quickly proclaim that those who disagree with their opinions are “up Trump’s butt,” “brown nosers,” “Trump can do no wrong sorts” or “liars.”

Personally, I believe there have been mistakes made. For instance, I believe Trump was wrong to say, as he did in early March, 2026, that defeating the Iranian regime would only take 4-5 weeks, something he repeated several times before eventually dropping that line for a more non-descript timeline. What I believe he should have said from the jump was – “We’ll remain in this fight until the Iranian regime and the IRGC no longer hold the world hostage to their tyranny, brutality and terrorism.” Here’s another mistake I believe Trump has made – saying he will not stop until Iran unconditionally surrenders. That’s not ever going to happen and I made that very clear in my commentary, “The Mullah’s Madness Unmasked” back on May 10th, 2026. More on that later in this commentary.

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Where’s Waldo and Weapons of War

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By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

Over the past couple of weeks, and over the past several months, two questions regarding certain aspects of the war with Iran have continued to crop up. Both are rather interesting questions, and both seem to have complex answers.

No, I’m not talking about why we’re doing this, that or the other thing, or for that matter, why we’re not doing this, that or the other thing. These questions are a bit more eclectic…perhaps more on the ethereal side of things but one thing is certain, both involve conspiracies…and corresponding theorists.

Let’s just be honest, if it’s in the news, its fodder for conspiracy theorists and that’s nothing new. Conspiracy theories have been around since ancient times and have been centerpieces of civil, and not so civil debate from watering holes to water coolers. Anything that’s unknown automatically lends itself to unending chatter, and even some things that are verifiable facts become the subject of those who simply refuse to accept facts as facts.

In the latter category – the Earth is round. It is NOT flat, but that hasn’t stopped the Reynolds Wrap cap crowd from proclaiming we round Earthers and full of beans. Here’s the question they just can’t answer…IF the Earth IS flat, what’s on the underneath side of it? I ask because regardless of how flat one makes a pancake, it still has two sides.

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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 2

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

The strategy employed by the U.S. against the Iranian regime should be pretty clear by now except to some critics of President Trump who are getting close to stage 3 TDS. The strategy, as I have said many times, is to use our military to cut the Iranian regime off from the one thing they need the most…money…while systematically eliminating remaining targets that threaten not only our military, but Iran’s Arab State neighbors, shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, and potential ground operations that may well be coming soon against the IRGC.

Evidence that the strategy is working can easily be found if one pays attention to reports, not only from our military, CENTCOM or our media, but also from more unlikely sources like Iran itself.

Sure, there are those who are fit to be tied over pauses in the action, and over “negotiating” with the enemy, but I believe that those who have adopted the talking points of the IRGC, in that “The U.S. is losing the war,” or that “Trump is a fool and doesn’t know what he’s doing,” would rather continue to virtue-signal their own personal armchair quarterback belief that they could do better if they, not President Trump were running the show.

As for the most recent “pause” for so-called “negotiations,” just over a week ago, it wasn’t President Trump, nor was it Steve Witkoff or Jared Kushner who suggested it, rather it was Admiral Bradley Cooper, Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) who advised it and for a very interesting reason…the U.S. military had run out of targets related to the Strait of Hormuz. This isn’t to suggest that Iran has nothing remaining with which to threaten shipping, just that the IRGC hasn’t exposed any of what they may have left or where they’ve been hiding it for about a week.

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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 1

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

Political analysts, think-tank sorts, some religious and/or theocratic scholars, and various other critics have been quick to argue that President Trump is “mismanaging the war” because he simply “does not understand radical Islam or the Iranian regime’s death-cult mindset.” Some on the right side of the aisle also claim that “Trump is losing the war.” Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. I believe our president has a much better understanding of the radical Islamic mindset than do some of his critics, I believe he has a much deeper understanding of the broader Middle East mindset than his critics claim he has, and I know that there is no easy way to fight ANY war, especially one with so many moving pieces as this one.

While President Trump’s primary stated purpose for this war is to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon, we all know that the only way to ensure that is to create regime change in Iran. Here’s the problem with the U.S. engineering regime change – we have a terrible success rate in doing that. Viet Nam, Korea, and several recent attempts in the Middle East…including in Iran in 1979 leap to mind. But that’s not the only issue we face. Go too fast and you create a vacuum of power. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, don’t want to do that again.

Go too slow, you wind up as a tourist in Hanoi pretending it was an adventure on your bucket list for decades.

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Hormuz and Beyond

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Far too many people, even some on the right side of the political aisle have a narrow view regarding the Strait of Hormuz and are far too quick to condemn Trump for “mishandling the war.”

They claim that President Trump has made the war against Iran “all about oil” and “all about the Strait of Hormuz” proclaiming over and over again that “we don’t get any oil from Hormuz, and we should have left the Hormuz situation to those that do get their oil from it.” To suggest, or believe that the U.S. doesn’t benefit from shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, or that others should have been left to deal with it because we don’t benefit from it is myopic and in some cases, hypocritical.

It’s time to set the record straight, especially for those who have complained that the war is all about oil, and everything else has been ignored.

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“The Deal” –  Pragmatism vs. Emotionalism

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

A pragmatist is a person who approaches problems, decisions, and beliefs based on practical, real-world results rather than abstract theories, ideals, or emotions.

When it comes to the Middle East, there is no shortage of emotional responses, theories and ideals. I understand those points of view and while I certainly do NOT agree with such emotional anti Semitic views as expressed by the vast majority of the liberals, I DO stand with Israel, the Jewish people and Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has wisely stated, “If Israel’s enemies put down their weapons today, there would be peace, If Israel put down her weapons today, there would be no Israel.” That is a very pragmatic view. It is based in historical reality. Since 1948 when Israel officially became a nation, they have wanted to live peacefully with their neighbors, but the fact remains, Israel’s neighbors have, for the most part, wanted Israel eliminated.

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The Mullah’s Madness Unmasked

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

On April, 8th, 2026, President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran which was initially supposed to last two weeks. Pakistan, working as the middleman introduced a framework for a ten point “peace agreement plan,” which has now, in various forms, been on the table for the past month. Up until now, all “negotiations” have failed, and while I strongly disagree with “negotiating” with terrorists, and make no mistake, Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, the “negotiations” have been pretty limited to President Trump telling Iran what to do, and Iran saying, “no.”

If we go back to the end of the first week of military operations, President Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran to halt US and Israeli air strikes, stating he would accept no deal otherwise. He asserted that Iran’s military was ineffective and called for the nation to “wave the white flag” To be crystal clear, while some Republicans are clinging to that statement and are expressing dismay that President Trump has seemingly backed away from it, “unconditional surrender” was never the reason for going to war with Iran, it was but a suggested off-ramp for the Iranian regime to bring the devastating bombardment to a halt quickly.

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The Indoctrinated Indoctrinator’s Deadly Mission

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Please Click LIKE at the bottom of this commentary, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot – Commentary

I’m sick of having to cover these stories, and I’m livid over what we now know regarding the perpetrator of yet another assassination attempt on the life of President Donald Trump. I’m sick and tired of what has led up to this, and I’m beyond pissed at those who either try to downplay it, dismiss it or excuse it.

Enough!!

Last Saturday evening, President Trump was making his first appearance at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner at the Washington Hilton. Over the past couple of weeks, since President Trump made the announcement that he would indeed attend the event, the first time has decided to do so, liberals…be they garden variety liberals, elected liberals or liberal members of the propaganda media did what they always do…they pitched a fit.

In the days leading up to the annual event, 250 members of the liberal propaganda media were urging a “forceful” protest or boycott of the event. And their reasoning for urging a liberal propaganda media boycott of the annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner? Because, according TO those members of the liberal propaganda media, “Trump contradicts the event’s purpose,” asserting that, “Trump is an enemy of free speech.”

Really?

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The Clock is Ticking…What Comes Next?

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Op-ed / Commentary By: Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots 

On February 28th, 2026, President Donald Trump began what no U.S. President had the courage to do over the past 47 years – he began military action against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. In concert with Israel, over the past two months, the radical Islamic regime’s military assets have been pounded into the dirt, pounded to the bottom of the sea, and eliminated from the air. The ranks of the regime’s leadership have been decimated, and their ability to continue striking Israel, their neighbors and U.S. forces has been severely weakened, but not completely eliminated.

Likewise, the Iranian regime’s ability to rearm, resupply and finance their proxy armies has also been severely damaged, but not completely eliminated, and the regime’s hold over the Strait of Hormuz,  which they rely upon for shipping oil, their primary source of income has slipped away and is now all but controlled by the U.S. and a naval blockade.

But this war is not over. Unless and until whatever remains of the Iranian regime has been driven out…out of power, out of Iran and/or permanently eliminated, the threat to Israel, the Middle East, Europe and indeed to the United States still exists.

Here is the problem – The War Powers Resolution.

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