Leo Hohmann – Leo’s Newsletter Feb 24, 2026
President Trump has painted himself into a corner that leaves him with only two options: lose or lose.
As a larger-than-life political figure who lives for the opportunity to brag about “wins”, he should have seen this coming. Being boxed into a no-win situation like Trump now finds himself in is a product of one highly overlooked truth. The man ran for a second term under false pretenses. He sold us a bill of goods that were not valid.
He ran as the “peace president.” He ran as the anti-globalist and anti-neocon who would take on the establishment – those entrenched Washington and Wall Street-based insiders who profit off of endless foreign wars, coups, revolutions and rebuilding efforts – while the rest of us get handed the bill in the form of America’s $40 trillion debt. This billionaire-funded club of pro-war politicians is made up equally of Democrats and Republicans, but the voting public gets thrown off by clever marketing campaigns and slanted news reports meant to keep hope alive in the system. If we can just “throw the bums” of one party out, the other party will somehow right the ship.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with an Israel-first foreign policy if that’s what you want to run on. Claim it. Own it. Be up front about it. But they know such a platform would be roundly rejected by American voters.
Instead, Trump dishonestly promised he would be different. He said he would end this financially rigged system and return our country to its taxpaying citizens by putting America’s interests above those of any foreign country.
Trump, since retaking office for a second term, has shown us that he was never serious about “America first.” If so, he would not even entertain ideas of making war against Iran. I can’t think of one benefit to America by invading Iran, but I can think of many detriments, things that will make us weaker, poorer, and less respected in the world.
Trump’s statements about putting America first were bogus, designed to win votes from a war-weary American public. He had no intention of actually affecting real policy changes. His policy manual would be written by his biggest donors, and they are all Israel firsters.
Just look at who funded his campaign and who he chose to serve in his inner circle once he took office.
People like the billionaire casino heiress Miriam Adelson, who Trump himself said could not make up her mind whether she was more loyal to America or Israel, while hinting that he suspected it was Israel.
People like New York billionaire hedge-fund managers Bill Ackman, Paul Singer and John Paulson.
People on the political level like Lindsey Graham, and on the corporate-business level like Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Howard Lutnick, Marc Andreesen, and Peter Thiel. All of these men have extensive political and/or business interests in Israel.
These are the donors and advisors Trump is beholden to, the people who own him and who inform him.
He either risks disappointing those of us who make up the America-first anti-war wing of his party, or he risks disappointing the powerful foreign interests who make up the neocon wing. Which do you think he will choose?
Trump told us on July 16, 2025, what he thinks of us. He said he doesn’t need or want our support, that we are “stupid” and “weaklings” because we wanted the Epstein files released and pedophiles brought to justice. He said we were “foolish” to fall for what he called a “Democrat hoax.” Remember that? I think he made his decision back then who he would bow to if push came to shove, and it wasn’t us.
It will be the same with his soon-to-be-started war with Iran. His donors and top advisers want it, and he will deliver Iran to them on a silver platter.
But it will come with a cost.
Because he ran under the false pretense of “America first,” he now has to face the music with the voters when they are asked to go back to the polls and support his list of preferred candidates in the upcoming November election. He will be forced to dance to a bitter song, because he has no good choices set before him on the situation with Iran and whether he should start a war with that country. Even his own chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Caine, is reportedly urging him not to attack Iran or to make it a “limited strike” if he does. That’s because Caine knows what Trump should know, that Iran, unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, actually has a real military force ready and willing to defend the country. Either way, Trump and his MAGA movement come up losers.
Trump, in a lengthy post to his Truth Social account on Monday, stated that the story about General Caine was fake news, that “nobody wants war but…” Caine is ready to fight it if given the order by his commander-in-chief.
Trump’s statement that “nobody wants war” is a blatant lie. Those in the neocon wing of the Republican Party absolutely want a war with Iran. They’ve made no attempt to hide how much they want it. And they will be beside themselves with anger if Trump doesn’t launch this war and take it to its bitter end, which for them is regime change, not a negotiated settlement of any kind.
As long as the government is overthrown, these rabid neocons haven’t given a second thought to what comes next. What is the exit strategy? What happens, for instance, if the government falls within a few days or weeks, but Iran devolves into chaos and civil war for years to come? What happens when the refugees begin to pour out of Iran and into Europe and America? These are questions they don’t like to address because they have no good answers.
Trump can decide to invade Iran and lose the half of his base that voted for him largely for his promise of “no more endless wars.” Or, he can decide to pull back the massive armada he has assembled within striking distance of Iran and call off the invasion, opting instead to rely on diplomacy to settle whatever score still needs to be settled with that country. If he chooses the latter, he will infuriate the donor class along with the portion of his voting base that count themselves as ardent Zionists, whether Jewish or Christian.
Peter Thiel is another big Trump backer whose interests are tied to Israel. Thiel co-founded Palantir Technologies, which creates the digital-surveillance kill chain for the IDF’s war in Gaza and has multiple government contracts with the military-industrial-intelligence complex that runs through Washington and Tel Aviv.
Either way Trump decides, the political movement Trump founded known as MAGA is utterly dead. It’s finished. As a result of that movement being hopelessly splintered over the Israel-Iran issue, the Republicans will get slaughtered in the midterm elections this November. The Democrats will win sizeable majorities in both houses of Congress. That’s a given, because people who thought he was going to be the peace president got the war president instead and they are not going to the polls to vote for a bunch of Trump-supported neocons.
It’s mostly the same people in Washington, by the way, who are itching for war with Iran that have been advocating for continuing the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. The latest, on that front, is that Britain and France are actually talking about giving nuclear weapons to Ukraine to use against Russia. Pure insanity.
In short, the neocons were able to hide in 2024. Large numbers of low-information voters didn’t know who they were or what they stood for, so they voted for them en masse. But in 2026, they have been outed. Their masks are off. They are for getting the U.S. involved in any war that the Israeli government says it needs to fight.
Having allies is one thing, and there’s nothing wrong with Israel as an ally in the Middle East. But when the interests of the ally supercede those of America, we’ve got a problem. This is not the action of your typical ally. They own our politicians and they’re calling in all favors over Iran.
Polls show anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of Americans do not want to go to war with Iran. Why would they? Iran has not attacked us. But because our foreign policy is shaped by an Israel-first mentality, and that should have been obvious when Trump took millions from the likes of Miriam Adelson and then named arch-neocons like Marco Rubio as his secretary of state and John Radcliffe as his CIA director, Trump will not and cannot back down from the many threats he’s made against Iran. He has to attack and I believe he will attack. Otherwise, he will be seen as weak and no one will ever listen to another word when he starts his signature saber rattling and gunboat diplomacy.
Interestingly, the globalists, who I believe will win in this grand theatrical production, seem to be hedging their bets by positioning JD Vance as their plan B.
Vance is being positioned as the adult in the room who is advising the president against war with Iran.
This makes sense from the globalist neocon perspective to court Vance and insulate him from the blowback should Trump decide to launch the war and it ends up going badly, dragging on for months or years and resulting in thousands of American deaths.
Even though Vance is every bit the globalist neocon as Trump, the globalists can throw their 2028 money behind Vance, who will then be able to tell voters that he urged the president not to invade Iran because he knew it would be a disaster. Then, once in office, Vance will continue the exact same policy of Trump, putting Israel first in every foreign policy decision.
The moral of this story is that Trump may have been dealt a lousy hand in this manufactured crisis regarding Iran. But he has no one to blame but himself.
If he had told the truth in 2024 and explained exactly what he meant by “America first”, maybe he wouldn’t be boxed into a place where he has only lose-lose options.
The master of spin has run out of spin. He will have nothing left to claim as a “win” if he attacks Iran and we are still at war with Iran come August and September.
But if he opts to back off from his numerous and haughty threats and not pull the trigger on the Iranian regime-change operation, then he gets mocked as a paper tiger who has lost his mojo.
Both of those options spell disaster for November 2026.
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‘We won’t be bullied’: Mum’s defiant message to Mahmood over ‘war zone’ migrant camp
Story by Ciaran McGrath •
defiant mum has warned Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood her community “won’t be bullied” into accepting a migrant camp she branded a “simulated war zone” on the edge of town and a protected forest.
Kim Bailey, 44, a mother of four and director of the Community Interest Company Crowborough Shield, is spearheading a legal battle against the Government’s decision to house up to 600 asylum seekers at the former cadet training centre in Ashdown Forest.
Speaking exclusively ahead of a crucial High Court hearing on Wednesday, Mrs Bailey said: “She’d already evicted the cadets from the training centre. This is not a disused army barracks, as she was claiming; this is actually the most-used cadet training facility in the Southeast.” The site, owned by the Ministry of Defence and managed by contractor Clearsprings, was repurposed under emergency provisions typically reserved for wartime or natural disasters. Mrs Bailey argues this bypasses democratic processes and ignores local planning laws that strictly limit development in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. defiant mum has warned Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood her community “won’t be bullied” into accepting a migrant camp she branded a “simulated war zone” on the edge of a protected forest. Kim Bailey, 44, a mother of four and director of the Community Interest Company Crowborough Shield, is spearheading a legal battle against the Government’s decision to house up to 600 asylum seekers at the former cadet training centre in Ashdown Forest.
READ MORE: Migration madness as town forced to sue Government over dumping asylum seekers there.
The trouble with Hohmann is that he “believes” in the system. He actually believes that Americans chose Trump as their President and that he was not put in for this very purpose of completing the latest Western crusade to take back the Middle East, and perhaps doing so even with the blessings of hierarchs of various Christian denominations, or is not then through some kind of blackmail or coercion ensuring their neutrality. At least the more autocratic and subservient Russians know that they have little say in the choice of their leader, or in any of the important political decisions. Their present leader was probably “put in” simply because he had the perfect name for the job. Americans, on the other hand, no matter how blatantly their elections are rigged by the powers at the top of their corrupted political structure, they seem to have to believe they actually select their leaders in open and honest elections. Perhaps their fear is that if they don’t believe they are a free and democratic nation they will no longer be able to believe in themselves, and their flag waving and fantasy will end.
The official narrative of the American “deep state”, or that mysterious club of controllers running the nation who are so very adept at rigging elections for their plans and interests, is that Trump lost the 2020 election, not necessarily fair and square but that those wicked Democrats stole it. That election was indeed stollen but actually rigged by the ruling club of the entire empire. They intended and saw to it that the voting was so rigged in the match that Biden would be a lame-duck and interim figure head saving the resurrection of their Israel-First puppet for 2024 selection, such that he would be the “leader” to finish romp through the Middle East and take back Iran.
The deep-state Trump administration during his first term was clearly used to set the stage for the planned invasion of the Ukraine by Russia beginning in February 2022, with Trump out of office. However, until the end of his first administration Trump was mainly busy securing the Abraham Accords with the major Muslim nations under Western controls, to ensure there would be no general uprising for the very planned Israeli invasion of Gaza, and the planned capitulation of Syria. The timetable for the planned regime change of Iran was clearly known to the US control club during Trump’s first term, and they knew they needed his smarm, brazenness and BS after 2024, and after Russia had secured and occupied the gift of the eastern oblasts of the Ukraine and would honor its end of deal and withdraw its support from Syria.
Even though the US selections for the top positions of power are so fixed around such geopolitical interests by both the globalist and neocon factions of the actual ruling club, they were still able to dupe the American people that their votes were to get them out of the forever wars and to improve economic and domestic conditions.
Trump, Clinton, Biden, and Harris were never candidates of the people, by the people, or for the people. They were all totally compromised and controlled stooges of the same ruling class, such that to most of the people during the various elections they had to hold their noses in casting their votes – ballots which even if they were tallied for their choice of the lesser of evils, they knew in their hearts that truck loads of fake ballots would descend in various polling stations, or that the electronic voting machines would be rigged, to ensure the choice of the ruling powers would in any case be “put in”.
Even if we admit that running such a huge economic, financial, and political empire cannot be left to the foolishness and fickleness of the hoi polloi, and US elections are only a pretense to sustain the belief of the people that they are living in a free and democratic system, and not a dictatorship, why is it that the Americans have to spread their poisons in other nations insuring their electoral systems are as fake and corrupt as their own? Why cannot they leave the people of other nation alone to choose their own leaders and destinies? Why do they have to rig everything everywhere they go?
The reason is not just that they are running a huge empire and they don’t want other clubs to interfere with their plans. It is because more universally their rulers know that if there was one nation in their sphere of control which was truly free and democratic and not totally corrupted with all of their brainwashing fakery, technocratic controls, and institutionalized crime, that such an example would in fact wake up the American people to take back control of their nations, and kick all of the bums running the place out on the street.
LOL..
Orange donny has been a deep state asset all his miserable life…from his lol, grooming by by gayboy Roy Cohn all the way to his resorts international rockerchild/CiA laundering op..
the funny thing is he’s never actually had a traditionally ‘successful’ business..he turned bankruptcy into his modus operandi… because that’s what all his useless projects were bankruptcies..
he used to brag he’d turned his fathers four million into 4 billion..but really he’d just squandered his fathers 4 hundred million and kjlled his brother..
what a cock jockey..probably quite literally..
but until now he is little better than corrupt
sniffer Biden . Biden made the most damage
for america + europa !
“…..there’s nothing wrong with Israel as an ally in the Middle East” Really? Nothing wrong with that?
Talk smack about Trump all you want. He’s still our guy, and we will vote for him anytime he runs. Besides who else do we have? The Dims? You have to be kidding. They’re a collection of loose screws and morons whose sole purpose is destroy the US. And Putin is a great man. You wouldn’t make a mole on his ass. European leaders prove the obvious: Crazy people ruin everything. Shit happens if you let it.
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University feared expelling black migrant killer because it could have caused him stress
Story by Tom McArdle
university feared expelling Nottingham killer because it could have caused him stress
and he would sue them for racism
Story by Tom McArdle The victims’ families have accused university bosses of washing their hands of Calocane,
despite knowing the “serious risk” he posed.
University staff said they hadn’t tried to remove him from his mechanical engineering course because they thought it was
“potentially very risky as he was so dangerous ”.
The public inquiry – which is examining the “events, acts and omissions” that allowed Calocane to be free to kill – heard that the university never asked him to undertake a “fitness to study” assessment, which could have resulted in his removal from his course.
Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar were killed by Valdo Calocane in 2023 – Nottinghamshire Police/PA
Claire Thompson, who was the university’s associate director of student wellbeing at the time, said the university did consider using the process in early 2022.
By then, he had scared a woman to the point that she jumped out of a window in 2020 before attacking his flatmate in January 2022.
However, in a statement detailing their reasons against trying to expel him, she said: “We are aware if we had used the fitness to study process, it would have caused stress for Valdo, which could have impacted on his mental health and increased his risk.to others”
Angela Patrick, representing the bereaved families, questioned whether the university’s primary concern in February 2022 was Calocane’s stress and wellbeing, rather than other students’ wellbeing, who were afraid of him
Legal advice is being sought to Sue Kier Starmer for importing in people like him
Trump abuse allegations withheld from Epstein files
Story by Memphis Barke Trump abuse allegations withheld from Epstein files
Story by Memphis Barke
The department of justice (DoJ) did not initially respond to questions from National Public Radio (NPR), which uncovered the missing files, about why they had not been published.
Israel says if trump does not go through with the attacks on Iran and Turkey they will publish film of him with a 13 year old girl
Iran says if he goes through with the attacks, they will publish the film of him with the 13 year old girl
The Trump administration has already been accused of summarily deleting files from the release despite a law mandating the release of the entire government archive.
On Tuesday, Democrats in the house oversight committee said they could “confirm” that the “DoJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with rape survivors”.
Opinion: Zack Polanski is the biggest creep in British politics, equal only to Kier Starmer
Opinion by Susan Greene •
As Keir Starmer limps from one U-turn to another and his financially illiterate Chancellor plunges us all into a growth-stifling tax-and-spend abyss, I often find myself thinking: how can things possibly get any worse?
The answer, of course, is Zack Polanski, whose emergence on the political stage is the equivalent of discovering a rather nasty wasps’ nest in your roof, or realising that a rat has died under your floorboards.Zack presents himself as a nice, harmless guy who’s just trying to make the world a better place. He’s homosexual, Jewish (pretends to be pro-Palestine), vegan. He buys his clothes secondhand from Vinted and is charmingly self-deprecating about his very English teeth. He doesn’t drive, he doesn’t fly.
He talks about ‘hope not hate’. ( soap not cake) not realising they are an extremist Soros org’.
He wants to legalise drug taking and pedophilia in some circumstances
God help us. Because the truth is, far from being a nice guy, Polanski is the biggest creep in British politics.
His carefully curated persona is in stark contrast to his stated policies and beliefs. He is, bluntly, a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
And just like Starmer, he will say and do anything to pander to his base and get himself elected.
This week saw a classic example of this. The Green candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Hannah Spencer, released a promotional video voiced entirely in Urdu aimed at Pakistani Muslim residents in the area.
Urging voters to unite against the Reform candidate, Matt Goodwin, it painted him as a far-Right Trump supporter, and heavily referenced Gaza. This was no party-political broadcast. It was a naked piece of propaganda, designed to do little except stoke fear and deepen division.