Phillip Giraldi – The Unz Review June 28, 2025
It is generally believed that American voters elected Donald Trump president at least in part due to their embracing his lies that he was a peacemaker who would not involve the United States in the pointless wars that have proliferated since 9/11. Trump’s predecessor the hapless Genocide Joe Biden had entangled the US deep in a conflict involving nuclear armed Russia and had also armed, funded and politically protected war criminal Israel in its openly declared objective to eliminate the Palestinians. Neither conflict could be justified based on actual American interests. So Trump looked like a better bet than a witless giggler like Kamala Harris, though voters would have benefited from looking at the Trump record during his first term in office where he was little more than Israel’s mouthpiece after being heavily bribed during his campaign by Nevada casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Trump and his ambassador in Israel David Friedman endorsed the oppression of the Palestinians on the West Bank and in Gaza and also illegally approved moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump also allowed Israel to annex part of the Syrian Golan Heights and ordered the assassination of Qassim Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and regarded as a major enemy by Israel, killing the man when he was in Baghdad Iraq for peace talks. Trump, like his successor Joe Biden, never said “no” to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Be that as it may, the past five months have demonstrated that searching for an honest man (or woman) in Washington would require Diogenes and his lamp, with little hope of coming up with someone who was not alternately a bad joke, an incompetent, or a screaming psychopath. The last several weeks illustrate just how bad things are, though the real fear must be that they can actually get worse if Trump joins Israel when it ignores the current ceasefire and attacks Iran once again. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump will no doubt have to construct a new big lie to explain their belligerency as it is now clear that Iran had no nuclear weapons program.
Even given the horrors being perpetrated by the United States as a bosom buddy ally of Israel, one is nevertheless particularly taken by the malapropisms and the verbal slurs and even threats of physical abuse increasingly being hurled about by the buffoon who pretends to be the president of the United States. Trump, pretending to negotiate with Iran, also saw fit to threaten to “eliminate” the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, if Iran did not submit to unconditional surrender. He claimed to know the “secret location” where Ali Khamenei was hiding but “won’t kill him for now.” Trump also called out Representative Thomas Massie, one of the most principled men in Congress, on social media, calling him a “LOSER” after Massie posted a social media post criticizing the president for unconstitutionally bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday night without a declaration of war. Worse still, Trump also engaged in screaming fits focused on two women journalists who questioned his claim that he had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, demanding that CNN’s White House correspondent “Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out like a dog.”
Over the past few years Trump’s disdain for dogs has often been on display and he has likened a long list of perceived enemies to dogs — including former FBI director James B. Comey, former acting attorney general Sally Yates, and even his own Secretary of State Marco Rubio. As an animal lover, I found Trump’s expression particularly disgusting and I wondered where the sense of dignity and decency was in a man holding the highest office who would use such a phrase. Or of the brain connected to mouth that would use such an expression in the first place, particularly as the ladies were referring to a leaked report by government analysts. The report suggested that the enriched uranium and centrifuges had been removed from the Iranian sites days before Trump had sent his B-2 bombers to attack them in support of Israel’s own attack on Iran several days before. The damage to the sites was considered to be limited. Interestingly, the Defense Department’s own Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysts were among those who were skeptical of Trump’s claims about the Iranian program. To put it succinctly, Trump may have spent billions of dollars successfully bombing empty tunnels and he been since taking pains to pretend otherwise.
Trump has also shifted his tirades over the Iran attack to what he prefers to label his critics’ disdain for the US military, which carried the bombing out under his orders. President Trump and other White House officials are now suggesting that questioning the decision and efficacy of bombing Iran shows a “lack of patriotism” and is something that “disparages American troops.” These claims remind one of the disastrous Iraq War in 2003 when skeptics were simply marginalized by George W Bush as anti-American or as “traitors” by asserting that they didn’t support the troops.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth discussed the Iran operation’s success in a press conference and fielded questions from the press, while President Trump, who was himself a draft dodger during the Vietnam war, shared his opinion on social media where he posted how “Secretary of Defense (War!) Pete Hegseth, together with Military Representatives, will be holding a Major News Conference tomorrow morning at 8 A.M. EST at The Pentagon, in order to fight for the Dignity of our Great American Pilots. After 36 hours of dangerously flying through Enemy Territory, they landed, they knew the Success was LEGENDARY, and then, two days later, they started reading Fake News by CNN and The Failing New York Times. They felt terribly!”
Hegseth repeated the message from his boss in the White House to the media, explaining how “What’s really happening is you’re undermining the success of incredible B-2 pilots and incredible F-35 pilots and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who accomplished their mission, set back a nuclear program in ways that other presidents would have dreamed. How about we celebrate that? How about we talk about how special America is, that we — only we have these capabilities? I think it’s too much to ask, unfortunately, for the fake news.”
And then there was the usual lie encrusted follow-through that inevitably is produced whenever a leading politician screws up. In a long post on his Truth Social account on Wednesday night, President Trump demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial in Israel come to an end. Netanyahu and his wife have been on the receiving end of three charges of bribery, theft, and breach of trust. Trump, who only last month was reputedly not speaking to Netanyahu and as recently as last Tuesday criticized his government as well as Iran by saying “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
But Trump has perhaps inevitably changed his tune under pressure from the Israel Lobby and Congress and is now defending his war criminal buddy while also praising himself, writing how “I was shocked to hear that the State of Israel, which has just had one of its Greatest Moments in History, and is strongly led by Bibi Netanyahu, is continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister! Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land. Anybody else would have suffered losses, embarrassment, and chaos! Bibi Netanyahu was a WARRIOR, like perhaps no other Warrior in the History of Israel, and the result was something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the World, and it was going to happen, SOON! We were fighting, literally, for the Survival of Israel, and there is nobody in Israel’s History that fought harder or more competently than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running politically motivated case…”
And so it goes, so much lying and dissimulation that one has to wonder what surprises will be on the table next week. The fog of war may have lifted for now and the phony ceasefire between Israel and Iran has paused the immediate bloodshed, but don’t be fooled. The respite is to allow an exhausted Israel to rearm with US provided weapons so the neoconservatives and the Israel Firsters aren’t done. The war drums are still beating, and Trump’s America First movement is starting to fracture under the strain, with a growing divide inside MAGA over America’s pointless wars for Israel. One group wants to stay out of foreign conflicts while the other is ready to back Israel completely, no matter the cost. Trump is either consciously or inadvertently playing his usual role of spewing contradictions and sowing confusion and instability every time he speaks or acts. Israel cannot retreat, it can only continue on its path of blood and slaughter, and Iran will not surrender. This might create in the near and long run the potential for a major false flag operation by Israel to draw the US in and trigger a full-blown war against Iran.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org
“…Trump, who was himself a draft dodger during the Vietnam war…”
Thanks, Phil.
We need to mention EVERY SINGLE TIME one of these “professional warmongers” initiates some operation involving combat of any kind.
The American political class is full of what the great reporter Mike Royko called War Wimps — people who want everyone to jump into war the minute they say so. But when it was their turn, they never went.
Even the Hollywood Hero Division. Sylvester Stallone couldn’t go to Vietnam because he was busy teaching at a girls’ school in Switzerland. And so on.
They want everyone to fight. Ask them why they didn’t.
Ziodrug adict King Kong loosing his temperature ?
Rixon, could you please recommend this post to Mr Visible?
I think Mr Giraldi is not on X so Les will miss it.
Thx.
Don’t worry about it, everything is under control.
As the Israel Overlords revealed on the 60 Minutes episode the ‘Pager Plot’:
“We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we’re the directors, we’re the producers, we’re the main actors. The world is our stage. We make like TRUMAN SHOW. Everything is controlled by us behind the scenes.”
Now you know, thanks to me.
‘giraldi’ another cia commissioned catholic dago mole playing his phony ‘populist independent analyst’ bit part for the Morlocks
https://english.alarabiya.net/amp/News/world/2025/06/29/trump-says-not-going-to-stand-for-continued-prosecution-of-netanyahu-
The Orange Man must protect his master at all costs. The question is: How much more kike cock can his fat ass take? Obviously not enough.
Phillip Giraldi – The Unz Review June 28, 2025
It is generally believed that you are a dumbass……
Be that as it may, the past five months have demonstrated that searching for an honest man (or woman) in the alternative media would require Diogenes and his lamp, with little hope of coming up with someone who was not alternately a bad joke, an incompetent, or a screaming psychopath.or a grifter .this possibility conveniently left out ?
TEHRAN EMERGES TRIUMPHANT FROM ISRAEL AND WASHINGTON’S WAR – By Mike Walsh on June 26, 2025
Were 4000 Zionists Killed in IDF Command Center Disguised As a Civilian Hospital? –
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/06/were-4000-zionists-killed-in-idf.html
This sounds too good to be true!!
If it isn’t true, it makes for a nice movie.
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Mohammad Marandi: Israel’s STUNNING Defeat to Iran Just Got Worse
Danny Haiphong
Mossad Chief Reportedly Killed in Iranian Strike
By County Local News | June 23, 2025
Apocalyptic Wars Erupting Across the Globe! – Sheikh Imran Hosein
Islamic Learning
Mossad Commander Killed‼️Iran Refuses to Make Peace Before Palestine is Independent?
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/06/mossad-commander-killediran-refuses-to.html
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War – Scott Horton
https://grizzom.blogspot.com/2025/06/provoked-how-washington-started-new.html
F*ck Israel. Zion Don the Con Chump deserves to be horsewhipped in the street, rolled in pig shit and salt, his tongue ripped out and stuffed deep up Hegseth’s ass, then given a lobotomy with a claw hammer.
Rakish, fakish Mr. Trump was doing a great deal more for Israel during his first term. His biggest service to the Greater Israel Project was the use of his administration to push through the Abraham Accords in late 2020 in order to normalize diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, in which “deals” had to be made in order to neutralize as many Muslim nations as possible before the planned conquering of Syria and Iran. The US never pulled troops out of Syria and they doubled down with their support for the terrorist insurgencies and the so-called Syrian “Democratic” Forces -recruiting, training arming, deploying, terrorizing, and killing, and the deal with Russia to abandon its defence of Syria.
Meanwhile the JSA (Jewish States of America) running the US deep state was busy in Iran fueling revolutionary causes and preparing for the war after the planned toppling of the Assad government of Syria.
Under the deep-state administration of Trump in 2019 the CIA-Mossad asset Zelensky and the very ZOG administration under him were “selected” to gear up the war against Russia in the Donbas and to double down on the de-Russification purges, after promising the people of the Ukraine “peace” with Russia in the Donbas and to mend relations. This was also done under the watch of the ZOG puppet Trump. Conveniently, Trump was stood down for a term to make way for the completely vacant Presidency of Joe Biden (the man in the anklet) starting in 2021. In February 2022, through a prearranged “deal” with Russia, and all of the deliberate provoking of Russia for the pretext, the Russian forces entered the war sone in the Donbas with the “express” intention to occupy the four Russian-speaking Ukrainian territories on their border, , or as we know now, “mainly both Ukrainian and Russian speaking” like in all of the eastern Ukrainian territories.
As said so many times before and also in February of 2022 during the Russian “invasion” (i.e. the covert ZOG JSA invitation) the purpose of inciting Russia to commit to an actual bloody war, was to prepare for their agreement to vacate their support for the Assad government of Syria. It was one more despicable deal essentially for Chabad Israel to scoop up Syria on their shopping list through the Levant and on the road to Iran. Like clock work as soon as the Russians had occupied and secured those 4 Ukrainian territories on its border, and right on the heels of the reelection of the “peace” President Trump in JSA, Russia abandoned its protection of Syria. They could not just trade Ukrainian turf in the open as the Ukrainians would certainly not have agreed. Instead they deliberately slaughtered some 1.5 million Ukrainians in the Russian meatgrinder as cover for the deal.
As for Iran, they thought that by staging a revolution they could get the place back, but the timing was not right, and so they pushed through with their Gaza provocation plans relying on the neutralization of major Muslim nations they had achieved with the Abraham Accords, and in other controls they had with nations such as Pakistan.
Phil Giraldi is a highly intelligent, honest man. This is obvious to those who listen to him speak.
RE: The “Truman show” crap mentioned above…I’ve listed on here before some of the people that I’ve known who were personally involved in WWII, including my mother-in-law, who lived in Thailand during the Japanese occupation there. She never got over the atrocities committed by them against the Thai people.
RE: The Vietnam war, mentioned in a comment above, I will add this: My mother’s best friend was a lady whose son was drafted and sent to the Vietnam war and killed there. So I guess Miles Mathis would say he “faked his death!”
RE: The Iraq war, I had acquaintances whose cousin was involved in that war…the man at that time was having recurring visions of the women and children he killed there in the course of his “service” to America…strolling through his house at night.
So you think you’re more intelligent and better informed than others because you spout that all wars are fake? Rather than deferring to Miles, you would be more intelligent to ask those who actually fought in and/or experienced these wars.
Psychologically, a faked war is nothing to get too excited about…it’s just being fibbed to…as opposed to having vast numbers of young men (and, soon to be, young women) slaughtered (sacrificed to Moloch) and laughing your ass off about it in a fit of Satanic ecstasy. So the “Elites” would like to have us believe they’re fake…to keep the lines to the slaughter house calm and under control and to keep us from getting together and using our superior numbers to bring them to justice. They’re using your ego to deceive you.
Something weird or repellent looking about this Trump guy. 10 to 1 Trump is a circumcised Yid masquerading as a ‘white man’.
@ Dwd..
Not necessarily…
..most wars are fake because the reasons for their advancement are not the reasons given..this makes them a fake war.. people die in fake wars..that’s non negotiable..but it also should give you pause to think…history must be protected, so they can recycle the con to kill more fuckers in the next fake war…
Giraldi protects the history…probably because if he doesn’t they’ll stop his pension… it’s all in the framing and the narrative…most of it fake and horseshit…because it’s all good and well talking about atrocities being commited and invasions far far away to arabs and orientals..well I guarantee that it will be happening in the invaded shithole you domicile in.. and guess what it will be arabs and orientals doing the invading..to other people..
because that’s the state of play..the whole shit show is war of one kind or another..one big meat grinder and we are all dead men walkin’..
you ..what will you do?.. probably nothing..am I right?..
Khamenei said it is not about nukes or enrichment or anything really, those are excuses… Trump demands Iran to surrender, and that is too big for his mouth! : ) Trump got badly offended : ) and now like a kid he has been posting on X…
It was clear that Zion also tried to kill Khamenei but failed. So all of this talk is just talk, they would have if they could have, simple as that. They might try again for sure.