The Future of the Middle East – The Bigger Picture

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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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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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The Iran War – Options vs. Alternatives Part 2

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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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Hormuz and Beyond

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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Drones, Retaliation, and A Globalist King

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On October 6, 2023 there was some semblance of peace in the Middle East…on October 7, 2023 the world bore witness to what could be the prelude to World War III. And the still ongoing Ukraine/Russian War will pale in comparison to the dangers we now face if we don’t stop listening to and believing all the falsehoods, lies, and innuendos our government and the media spews out in hopes of directing the public discourse.

Israel was savagely attacked on that bright sunny day in October…not unlike the sunny day that was our own 9/11…and we know said attack morphed not into uniting the world against those who do not belong amongst civilized men, but actually has…due to media manipulation and government anything but misspeaks…helped to stir up the old hatred that is the hallmark of antisemitism both here at home and abroad.

We also know whose truths and allegiances are veiled and whose are not. Joe Biden is playing both sides against each other by first saying he supports Israel’s war effort in Gaza while at the same time putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back this rightfully fought war. And yet Biden has now initiated his own seemingly out of proportion retaliatory response to the recent drone strike on a U.S. military base inside Jordan. And with this being but an attempt to bolster his flailing presidential campaign, Joe Biden might well have set the stage for not only a wider Middle East War, but put the U.S. dead center in the middle of it.

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Let the Lion of Israel Roar

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So, Hamas, from inside of Gaza, had been firing rockets into Israel nonstop for two weeks, and for the better part of those two weeks, Israel had been both intercepting the vast majority of those rockets, and pounding Hamas installations in Gaza in return.

Let me be very clear on a couple of key points here…Israel didn’t start this, Hamas did, and Hamas is being supplied and funded by Iran.

Those are just the facts, and no amount of panty wadding propaganda by liberals and the international community can change that. Facts are facts and propaganda is pure crap.

Israel has every right to defend itself against such overt attacks by terrorist organizations and the rogue regimes that prop them up financially. In my mind, part of that defense includes going on the offensive to put an end to the rabid swine that is Hamas. If opening a can of Israeli whoop-ass on Iran is necessary to put a definitive end to such attacks as Hamas has been waging against the Jewish State of Israel, then so be it, and I’d be happy to lend them my can opener.

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One Man Alone is Jordan’s Future

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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

What if I told you there was no “Palestinian/Israeli conflict?”

Would you believe me?

What if I told you that it isn’t the Jews or Israel that are oppressing the so-called “Palestinian” people?

Would you believe me?

What if I told you that historically there wasn’t any animosity between the “Palestinian” Arabs and the Jews…that it was invented, and orchestrated over a period of decades by bad actors…not from Israel, but from Arab states?

Would you believe that?

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Built Upon a Lie

By Craig Andresen and Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots

Albert Einstein once said, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”and how right he is but not for the reason you might think.

Both modern Jewish and Christian beliefs still hold to traditions from the Old Testament in regards to creation with both great faiths believing that Adam was created from the dust and dirt by the hand of God. Also, Jews believe the place where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac to God the Father and where Christians believe that Jesus was crucified is holy and sacred ground. And built upon this holiest of grounds is also where the First and Second Temples of the Jews were built, and where certain denominations of Christians believe the that Third Temple will arise and be the site of Jesus’ Second Coming and where Jews believe the messiah will first appear.

But what do these varied beliefs have as a common point of reference…simply…the land itself upon which these events did occur and which might possibly see holy events again occur in the future. And that land itself is known as The Temple Mount…an area of only thirty-five acres in the southwest corner of Jerusalem’s ‘Old City’…yet it is the most contested piece of land on Earth. And that contested land sits under…yes under…the Al-Asqa mosque (Masjid Al-Aqsa)…which in Arabic simply means the ‘farthest mosque.’

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A Syrian Solution

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

The current situation in Syria, has gone from bad to worse this week, as a chemical weapons attack left dozens dead, and dozens more critically injured in a northern Syrian community, the Idlib province described as a rebel enclave.

It has been described as the worst chemical attack in the war-torn country in years, but the real question is…who did it?

Therein, lies the problem.

Internationally, the UK, U.S., France and the U.N. are blaming Syria’s president, Bashar al Assad, while Russia and Putin are laying the blame on the Syrian Rebels. Al Assad says he and his military had nothing to do with it, and the rebels have even tried to blame the U.N. for the situation that led to it. Continue reading

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They Are Not Refugees

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

mus 1Since last November’s election, and especially since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, liberals far and wide have engaged in a combination of collective violence, and the holding of their breath in various attempts to showcase both their abject stupidity, and their ability to throw a tantrum.

Hollywood celebrities are threatening to not make any more movies until President Trump resigns, as though such a breath-holding tantrum will somehow negate the fact that most Americans who like watching movies, have their own collections and DVD players.

One celebrity says she won’t attend the Oscars, in protest of President Trump. Big deal, as after Meryl Streep’s pitched hissy-fit at the Golden Globes and an entire series of hissy-fits at the SAG awards…

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