Martin Jay – Strategic Review April 16, 2026
The failed talks between the U.S. and Iran surprised no one. But what is surprising is how there seems to be no safety catch on Trump’s foreign policy. Except Lebanon.
What did we just witness when the talks between the U.S. and Iran failed? For many, the whole show was as surreal as it was disingenuous. Were the Americans ever serious? Or was it a case that they were simply delusional from the start about their position in the talks? J.D. Vance’s statement to the cameras afterwards had a tone of delusional idiocy, with references to Iran not “accepting our terms”. How is it that the entire world — even America — can see that Iran is the dominant one and the U.S. the weaker party that needed the ceasefire more? Only Trump’s cabal of underqualified so-called negotiators kept the dream alive that the U.S. has the upper hand.
Team Trump were never serious about agreeing to Iran’s ten points. They just used it as a decoy to get a ceasefire so that the markets could calm and Trump could edge himself away from the havoc of at least one failed military mission which lit up the internet. The Black Hawk Down scenario — where a military mission fails but the rescue mission also fails — was enough to convince Trump that his ideas and plans were woefully unrealistic, so he needed an off ramp. Many of his critics actually predicted he would declare a victory and then move out, which is what we are seeing now, but few could have guessed that Iran would have played along with the game, knowing full well that nothing he offers can ever be taken seriously as he breaks his own promises almost as quickly as he makes them. For Iran, there is simply no point agreeing to any of these terms anyway when they control the Straits of Hormuz and the shipping. Regardless of the fake news video clips that presumably Israel produced of U.S. destroyers sailing through untouched, the reality is that two ships attempted to do so but quickly turned back when Iran warned them they were about to be blown out of the water.
For the moment, the price of oil is stable but still a tad too high at around $95 USD. But low enough for the markets to function and remain bullish, although consumers all over the world are already feeling the pinch from the disruption to trade. This is Trump’s signature on all of his failed ventures: higher prices for poor folk, with markets in turmoil while he plays golf and tells reporters that everything’s great.
The ceasefire between the U.S./Israel and Iran is holding, although Lebanon is paying the price for this as Netanyahu continues his bloody campaign there with no respect whatsoever for human life.
For the GCC countries, they are still in a quagmire, and Trump is no longer rushing to their aid or holding press conferences where he produces huge cardboard diagrams of their investment. Qatar has, according to some reports, asked for its gifted $400 million jet to Trump to be returned, while other reports circulate that Doha wants U.S. troops out of the peninsula. Others, like the Saudis, have already stated their intentions to look elsewhere for protection rather than the U.S. What is preventing them from going all out and dumping the U.S. altogether is how Trump keeps the dream alive that there is still hope to take back control of the straits via an international armada made up of 30 countries, but it’s unclear whether this international coalition is actually going to go in and attack Iranian forces with a view to taking control of the straits or simply arrive in the region and carry out a blockade. This more recent idea is the riskiest yet for Trump, as China has indicated that this would be an act of war if its ships were stopped and seized, which leaves Pakistan, India and Japan as the main players who have sought agreements with Iran. And France. Would Trump really be so stupid as to confiscate oil from these allies?
Another reason why the markets aren’t in too bad a shape and oil is at $95 a barrel is that the people they employ to do a deep dive on the crisis believe that the U.S. and Iran will soon go back to the table. The problem, of course, is that the U.S. is actually a pawn here and the weakest of the three main players. Iran and Israel are really the only ones negotiating, and as long as the U.S. is prepared to be the servant of Israel in the region and wants to play hardball, then the talks will only be a sideshow to what really matters: Lebanon.
Lebanon now is the main theatre, and the game that Israel is playing there is incredibly risky for Netanyahu and Trump. One has to ask the question: how long will Iran accept a ceasefire when Lebanon is being pounded by Israel’s forces? For that question to be really unwrapped, it is worth asking how long Israel can sustain its present level of losses, both to its troops and perhaps more importantly to its tanks, which Hezbollah claims to have destroyed around 100. Given that Israel only had about 200 in operation, this is a decisive victory for the Lebanese Shia group, and Iran may well figure to let them continue before Netanyahu has to, like Trump, accept a defeat and withdraw.
But there is only lies and deceit on the U.S. and Israeli side. Nothing we are seeing on social media is true, as Israel in particular has mastered the dark art of professionally mastered fake video clips which are very convincing and fool enough people to generate a momentum of reposts which gathers credibility. Even the talks with Iran in Islamabad were far from honest, not just in the fact that they were staged to get the ceasefire that Trump needed, but also in that there was a very real possibility that the entire Iranian delegation would be hit by America with a bomb. When news of this plan reached the Iranians, they organised a completely different, last-minute change to their trip back on their planes, fearing a U.S. strike. It’s hard to imagine how Iran can take the Trump camp seriously under such an atmosphere, or even for that matter how the rest of the world will tolerate Trump’s sensational stupidity when playing wargames like a child amusing himself in the preposterous belief that America is still running the world. George Conway, whose wife ran Trump’s 2016 campaign, put it aptly.
“I’m just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but to the detriment of the planet. … It’s like how much more of this can the planet take?”
In 2016 Gordon Duff of Veterans News said that Trump was bankrupt and nobody was going to bail him out.
Nobody but Israel.
So they told the Donald — go to the White House. We’ll pay for your campaign and say it was your money. We’ll keep your properties and all that. Just get the presidency and work for Zion. That’s it.
Trump has been an able servant ever since. As a bonus, he’s destroying the USA and pretending it was natural, but it was all arranged.
The USA will be bankrupt and there will be starvation in the big cities before Christmas. There will be lots of preppers joining militias, and the best-armed people in America will neither be the cops nor the military.
And the Zionist entity will move out of the falling USA — as they said they would — and set up shop in Canada, Argentina, Australia, and wherever they’ve sent their advance men with the money.
Itz almost here, gang!
What is the total effect of trump (or anyone else) on the world? What effect has he had on you? The effect he has or ever will have is so small as to be zero, just as the effect of anyone is. All that he does would happen anyway. Unless you think he’s a loose cannon and the rest of the blight house doesn’t know what to do about it because he’s the “president”, not to mention the “senate” and all the rest of the chabad lubavich’s. They’re all “helpless”. The only question you should be asking is what is the net effect of what he does. And that is to enable the jews to rake in whatever sheckels you have left to “keep you safe”. Which was the point. Not to “defeat the big bad iranians” or “save americans from being blown up by bombs”.
Operation Myopic Fury.
Proving yet again that there will never be peace in the world as long as the criminal entity referred to a “israel” is in existence.
Unfortunately, the Congress entrusted with a third of the power under our republic has capitulated and are now, like Trump just a gaggle of paid whores serving Israel’s interest! Nobody in power cares about American interests cause the AIPAC checks keep coming and the illegal insider trading tip’s keep materializing, making them all wealthy At Americans expense! The criminal Epstein class that run America for Bibi is simply too compromised to reign in a narcissistic megalomaniac who holds the world hostage!
this oldie from bishop williamson tells us like it is
see it here
predicting the anti christ
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It is all planned and some of the pundits like Simon Dixon may be right that the regime change in Iran was a done deal before the war broke out again. However, there is no “blundering” regarding the Zionist takeover of Israeli and US policy. How could such a tiny radical faction ever control the ubiquitous Rothschild money-power, the almighty US nation, and the entire Jewish ownership class, and especially with that faction actually using Zionist Nazi polices, unless it was a special cat’s paw to do the dirty work for the actual power moguls?
Also, there is no blundering in plugging up the Straight of Hormuz from the point of view of the globalist Great Reset plans. Any outcome will have to allow the globalist powers great leverage over the flow of fuel and fertilizers to the entire world, and especially to eastern Asia, keeping that trade in the very hands of the same money powers which spawned Israel, the New World Order, and the Great Reset, squeezing us and the rest of the world more and more into their totalitarian and technocratic control grids.
From what we have seen in the take-overs, thefts, wealth transfers, and social-engineering polices since the 1960’s, and the devastation of our civilization, it all has come from the very core planning of the entire top-down NWO globalist movement which is made up mainly by the international banking cartel. the multinational corporate ownership class, as well as all of their puppet governments running our nations, and their psyops. Instead, most people would much rather live in a world where our basic rights are inviolable, where we have a chance to be ruled by truth, freedom to make rational decisions for self determination and the common good, and justice for all with no one above any laws which actually come from and are for everyone. The guarantee of of ownership and protection of all national sovereignty rights, ought also to be a priority and a product of governance based on truth, freedom and justice and not on deception, fear, and oppression. Nations not adhering to those principles have to become outcasts to the nations united in the trust which comes from those principles. That would mean that if we were to have a UN, the nation to be most sanctioned, and even invaded on the basis of self-protection would be Israel. Next on the list would be every major power including the US, China, and Russia, and any other person, institution, or nation behaving as if they are above OUR laws, while spreading about their greed, poisons, divisions, destabilizations, and wars.
“This is Trump’s signature on all of his failed ventures: higher prices for poor folk, with markets in turmoil while he plays golf and tells reporters that everything’s great.” .. Zion Don the Con deserves to get his tongue nailed to a tree stump, the business end of an oversized driver shoved up his ass and jack-hammered like a plunger in a stuffed toilet, then pelted with rocks dipped in pig shit.
The Jews will not allow Trump to back out of sacrificing US troops and material to degrade the Iranian stance for their own benefit. As soon as any “ceasefire” is announced, the IDF instantly attacks a hospital, a press group, etc. ruining everything. The only thing that’s going to get him out of this is a bullet, leaving someone else to try and clean it up. He’s literally destroyed the entire post WW2 international structure that took 80 years to build in 3 weeks.