Timothy Snyder and Phillips O’Brien on the War in Iran

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1. quikwrit says:

   April 12, 2026 at 7:34 pm

   TRUMP DECLARES HE WILL BLOCK THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ!!!

   Wait!?! Whaaa!?!

   The Strait of Hormuz was open and oil tankers were sailing through BEFORE Trump declared war on Iran.

   Then the Iranians closed the Strait when Trump declared war on them.

   Trump bombed Iran relentlessly, demanding that the Iranians open the Strait.

   Now, on Sunday, April 12, Trump has declared that he will “immediately” begin a blockade by U.S. Navy warships to totally blockade the Strait because his so-called peace talks have failed.

   DOES ANY OF THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU?

   Of course not — but it makes sense to Putin, who controls Trump.

   THINK ABOUT IT: Back at the fall of the Soviet Union to which Putin had pledged his undying allegiance, Putin swore revenge against the United States for causing the fall of his beloved Soviet Union.

   Along comes an American billionaire named Donald Trump who is going bankrupt and can’t get any banks to lend him any more money. But Putin does, buying Trump by getting him to launder illegal money for Russian oligarchs…money laundering for which Trump could go to jail for a very long time if any of the evidence ever got out. Putin owns Trump from then on.

   By flooding Right Wing American news and social media with conspiracy theories, Putin undermines American voter confidence in traditional American politics and puts up Trump as the “savior” of the nation, getting him elected as President in 2016 and again in 2024.

   And the United States has been destroying itself under Trump ever since, first by the angry political split that divides even families, as well as dividing the entire nation…then by attacking NATO which for 75 years has kept Russia from regrouping Putin’s former Soviet Union of nations in Europe…then by destroying the very health of the American people by undermining the people’s faith in vaccines and medicines…and now wrecking the U.S. economy with oil shortages, coming food shortages, and soaring inflation.

   And equally important to Putin’s plan: Nobody trusts the United States any more. America has completely lost its moral leadership of the free world.

   Yep…Putin’s revenge plan against America is moving along nicely in the hands of Putin’s Puppet in the White House.

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