Paul Craig Roberts – June 21, 2026
https://www.rt.com/news/641858-trump-no-limits-power/
Is Trump delusional or is he deceiving his supporters by painting defeat as victory? I don’t know. What I do know is that it was not Iran who asked for the ceasefire. If Trump and Israel were winning, why did they need a ceasefire?
It was Iran who pulled out of the negotiations last Thursday because of Israel’s noncompliance. This is not the behavior of a country that has been totally defeated and surrendered unconditionally.
Trump declared the MoU was Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” a claim inconsistent with the fact that the MoU is based on Iran’s 14 points. Iran has surrendered nothing. But the rah-rah America crowd will prefer the lie to the fact.
Americans, indeed all peoples, have convinced me that they have trouble with reality. When reality is unpleasant, they retreat into fictitious reality created for them by their political masters, presstitutes, and corporations. They would rather be unaware and unstressed than stressed and informed. So Trump keeps them with him by placing them at ease by turning the astounding defeat of the US and Israel by Iran into Iran’s unconditional surrender and America’s victory. I have lost subscribers by telling them the truth instead of what they want to hear. They want to hear what makes them comfortable.
Don’t tell anyone wearing a MAGA hat that Trump lost the war and had to ask Iran for a ceasefire unless you are looking for a fist fight.
> When reality is unpleasant, they retreat into fictitious reality created for them by their political masters, presstitutes, and corporations.
Which you support. Have you ever called for their removal?
> They would rather be unaware and unstressed than stressed and informed.
Because only you know the “truth”.
> So Trump keeps them with him by placing them at ease by turning the astounding defeat of the US and Israel by Iran into Iran’s unconditional surrender and America’s victory.
No one’s “with him”. They all hate him, like everyone everywhere hates all these filth.
> I have lost subscribers by telling them the truth instead of what they want to hear.
Of course you have. In reality, you tailor what you write to maximise your income, like all the other baiters.
> They want to hear what makes them comfortable.
It sounds like you’re frustrated because people don’t bow down to your omnipotence.
> Don’t tell anyone wearing a MAGA hat that Trump lost the war and had to ask Iran for a ceasefire unless you are looking for a fist fight.
With all these “articles”, you may as well jump to the last line, because that’s the payload. Here he’s trying to make you think that anyone who wants to Make America Great Again is a trump supporter and therefore some kind of loser. Trump lied. What’s hard to understand in those two words?
The “raging war” that has gone on and on, unrestrained, is so phony. A massive fake, and you certainly do not help when saying we won or lost. And exactly which trump are you referring to ? The 335 pound one with full blown dementia, or one of his pretaped versions , or the orange colored one ? Craig is simply promoting a fake war with his gibberish.
So where and when did the self-delusional Americans go wrong, or is it an acceptable “new normal” human trait to put excessive self interest over and above reality and the truth?
Of course if we do not think Americans are more deluded than other people in the way they choose and tailor their facts then we would have to ignore all of their mountains of propaganda and bullshit which because of the wealth, power and self interest of that nation appears to dwarf all of the much smaller piles from other lesser nations.
Look what the Americans have done with an economic belief system built on so-called “free enterprise” which they inherited from the British. Despite the fact that the word ‘greed’ still means “an intense, selfish desire for something—such as wealth, power, or food—well beyond what a person actually needs or deserves”, their line of thinking has been to say that because people are naturally greedy, the function of the ruling class ought not to be to suppress the vice, or even regard it as a vice, but to harness, guide and channel it for the greater purpose of the alleged “common good”, really meaning their own good. David Hume and Adam Smith in the 18th century Britain, along with the Masons were the primary progenitors of this concept. Then in more recent and “developed” times we hear the same idea echoed by economist Milton Freedman and the New York Times arguing not to “ban greed” but to “harness it”. Somehow in that process, “greed” which is clearly a vice became a good thing, such that what we see as greed in the common person is “harnessed” but also greatly amplified for the self-interest of entire nations and those with an insatiable lust for power and wealth. We now have the much-magnified “insatiable avarice” of nations, billionaires, and large corporations, and the modern “new normal” with those with the most power and wealth walking over the faces of the weaker in their midst in their make-believe “harnesses”.
Well done you secular people who have done away with God and his laws in your lives and especially you of the hallowed British-empiricist tradition following Hume. You have begun with a false premise. Working to improve your lot or even to make a profit is not greed and never needed to be he harnessed by yourselves or anyone else. If someone is actually greedy it should not be considered as a virtue for any kind of reward. Most certainly, you did not have to expand the real meaning of the idea of ‘greed’ as if it encompassed such natural self interest for ones needs and betterment, such that you could actually endorse the imbalance of actual “greed” and that you could harness and channel it into various forms of exploitation, imperialism. and corporate monopolies. Congratulations, you have just blown up the entire planet with your ideas of harnessing all forms of evil, by blurring the lines between all vices and the balance of the virtues.
How about the fact that people appear in their behavior to be “naturally” dishonest. Well have not all of the ruling classes of the West not “harnessed” that human trait as well into the biggest and most pervasive brainwashing and bullshitting machines in history? Governments and people in authority now openly lie to the people. They have in effect endorsed lying and deceiving people as an absolute right and a good – something they deem in their infinite folly as for the common good. Like a false religion, if your nation is powerful then you have to believe its lies and bullshit supposedly for the interests of the people in the nation. Even through it is not at all true that the Arabs did NOT do 9/11, the politically-correct belief of most Americans remains that it was an unprovoked attack by Arab terrorists. Then if you really want to lose American friends just say that the moon landings were all Hollywood bullshit.
People of less nations whose ruling classes in fact do not really have that much power on the world stage regarding mass deceptions, of course have far less in the way of official bullshit to sustain in their belief systems, but nevertheless that does not stop the local ruling class from constantly lying to the people as a kind of a right. They know that full disclosure, on virtually anything you can point to, would mean their own demise. For instance, just look up into the skies over your large cities. This has been going on for decades and decades and still the people have no right to know anything about what they are constantly spreading or why. If fact that issue is very much like throwing pearls to swine. Most people simply do not care and are still even satisfied with the lie they are contrails.
Or take any other vice and former crime. In the same way as with want they did to the vice of “greed” they have harnessed them supposedly for the “common good” and “human flourishing”? Does anyone really believe that. Are we not now a totally decadent civilization? Are not the kids coming out of our schools unable to distinguish between what is a vice and what is a virtue?
In the secular world the vice of lust as been totally harnessed and channeled mainly to increase for sexual proclivities as well as for the harnessed vice of avarice. Also since the 1960’s it has been harnessed and channeled into sexual behaviours totally away from procreational ends. Lust which serves to destroy marriages and the rearing of well-adjusted children is now seen a good and the norm. “After all, are we not sexual beings?” In fact that vice is so promoted that not only has it led to the legalization of virtually everything to do with sex, such that virtually any foul appetite has been turned into an industry, with the only real justification being that there is money in it. The way we are going child trafficking will become legalized once the Satanic bastards can sufficiently lower the age of consent.
Take the American leader Donald Trump as the embodiment of virtually everything which was once considered a vice, and the fact that the ruling class which he directly reflects are equally depraved, yet the people still “believe” in him as their leader:
Pride – Has anyone ever heard of someone so boastful, vain, with such an excessive love of self? He wants his name on everything. He even wants sole credit for things he did not make, earn or invent.
Greed -Was there ever a President with such an insatiable want for more and more that he is totally unable to distinguish his personal interests from those of his nation and the rest of the world? Yet, he is totally “harnessed” by the doner class which endorses and controls him through his many vices.
Lust – Only a fragment of the Epstein files have been released concerning Mr. Trump. He clearly has a very uncontrolled libido, or dick.
Envy – This is not a vice to Mr. Trump, as it again is one of those recast modern human traits they have harnessed and turned into a virtue to support personal incentive.
Gluttony – His girth certainly testifies to that one, and the man do doubt is very good with a knife and fork.
Wrath – No major leader other than Hitler in modern times has ever exploded with such insane wrath threatening to kill negotiators and destroy entire nations when they do not agree with him.
Dishonesty – Thanks to mainly to the errors by Scholastic theologians some 800 years ago, the West seems to have demoted this vice to be only a “daughter” of what they considered as the more capital ones, no doubt for the purposes of mainly harnessing it for interests and pragmatism of the ruling elites. What we have in our history ever since is not only a history of lies, but even the field history for the most part being a pack of lies. Trump, himself, in being the projection of the very essence of ruling class, in fact is the big lie. Nothing he is saying makes sense. Like the blatancy of the genocide in Gaza he now openly lies about virtually everything as if words and promises are all just meaningless noise. Bribery, blackmail, brainwashing, mass deceptions, promise breaking, insider trading, pay-for-play, graft, cheating, stealing are all now totally Kosher and aspects of the vice of Dishonesty, which is the denial of truth, and all of which are embodied with Mr. Trump and still propagated by the failing American empire. .
Edit @ Fred B
Dishonesty – Thanks mainly to the errors by Scholastic theologians some 800 years ago, the West seems to have demoted this vice to be only a “daughter” of what they considered as the more capital ones, no doubt for the purposes mainly of harnessing it for the interests and pragmatism of the ruling elites. What we have in our history ever since is not only a history of lies, but even in the field of history, for the most part it has become a pack of lies. Trump, himself, in being the projection of the very essence of ruling class, in fact is the “big lie” the people are forced to swallow. Nothing he is saying makes any sense. As with the blatancy of the genocide in Gaza, he now openly lies about virtually everything as if words and promises are all just meaningless noise:. Bribery, blackmail, brainwashing, mass deceptions, promise breaking, insider trading, pay-for-play, graft, cheating, stealing are all now totally Kosher and aspects of the vice of Dishonesty, which is the denial of truth, all of which are embodied in the person of Mr. Trump and propagated by the failing American empire. .
Americans and their leaders have always had problems with reality. That is nothing new and a lot of it has to do with simple geography since the rest of the world is, and always has been, far away and not only literally, but culturally, politically and historically, with two great oceans as barriers that insulate and prevent them from seeing things as they really are.
Woodrow Wilson, for example, entered the First World War with no clue about European political, military and demographic dynamics. He intervened in a great European civil war with only the vague idea of ‘making the world safe for democracy’ which meant exactly nothing. If Wilson had taken the time to read up on the history of the continent he was invading, he would have seen that the British and French empires did not treat subject peoples ‘democratically’ and that their intentions viz. Germany were anything but. And the same went for the corrupt and autocratic Czar, as well as Kerensky and the communists that succeeded them. As a matter of fact, Wilson’s uninformed meddling set in motion a chain of events that would eventually kill tens of millions yet, to this day, America’s intervention is commemorated every November 11 as some sort of moral victory without which we’d ‘all be speaking German’.
The same was true with the wealthy and sheltered Franklin Roosevelt, who knew nothing about the dangers of malignant bolshevism and the true nature of the man he affectionately called ‘Uncle Joe’ and who willingly and deliberately handed Uncle’s murderous and cruel regime a complete and total victory and the incredible spoils that went with it Even today, America’s insulation from reality is illustrated every ‘VE Day’ where Roosevelt’s memory is commemorated and cherished, mainstream media personalities and historians painting him as a brave and noble crusader against the evils of Adolf Hitler while at the same time, hypocritically overlooking the crimes of Stalin and the communist ideology as a whole, crimes which remain, for the most part, unknown and unappreciated, again, all because of the two oceans that separate Americans from bloody reality.
The Vietnam debacle is another case in point with America embarking on another ‘crusade’ with absolutely no understanding of the character of the Vietnamese people or the dynamics behind Southeast Asian politics. The corruption and totalitarianism of the South Vietnamese regime they were defending was simply ignored. All Americans were told was something about a ‘domino’ theory and the ridiculous possibility of Australia being the next victim, a preposterous scenario honestly believed in by many uninformed Americans who rationalized it all by saying, “My country right or wrong”.
And we see that same thing today, America’s leaders again barging in to the affairs of other countries without a plan, a coherent strategy or even a clue about why they are doing so and killing millions in the process – all this while the average American in the streets consumes a steady diet of escapist entertainment, pornography, phony news and blatant propaganda as their cities literally crumble all around them, where it is now too dangerous to even consider walking down the street to pick up a carton of milk and where institutionalized racism openly discriminates against the majority population.
America’s geographical position used to be a blessing. Now it’s a curse and a very grave danger to humanity.
Zion Don the Con’s tongue getting riveted to his own chin, a giant mechanical rubber fist jackhammering his asshole, and a loop of rope cinched tightly around his neck would give even a criminally insane bloviating shit rag like him an idea of the limit of his “power”.
The American masses are stupid. Not as stupid as the British masses, but stupid just the same. Very few see Trump for what he is.
“Americans, indeed all peoples, have convinced me that they have trouble with reality.”
Well look who’s talking, a person who up until quite recently ignored the fat orange bastard’s unhinged, traitorous, criminally insane behavior and strongly supported the creature for reelection in 2024 even though it was obvious since at least early 2017 that the creature was mentally and morally unfit to hold any political office, let alone the office of president.
Some trump-lovers call it “100-dimensional chess”
25 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQy8OIlrD7g entire crowd dumping drumpf in the middle of his 250th Anniversary Speech / Ben Meidas Touch Meiselas…
25 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITP_7CM4uk “…people leave en masse as drumpf rants & raves like a lunatic how the economy is in A plus position….” / Adam Mockler
25 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlERbdYIiFo drumpf (with gensec Nato Mark Rutte sitting nxt to him) blablabla to the press…./ Harry Sisson
https://murderbydecree.com/2025/09/01/historic-trial-of-top-world-leaders-commences-today/#page-content list of indicted personas…..Mark Rutte (watch his bizarre pic/ right after atendance to a Ninth Circle ritual ?)
“An explosive aspect of the trial is that one of the primary defendants is the Nato Secr.General Mark Rutte/ who has been identified by Ninth Circle insiders & survivors as a participant in its rituals in Zwolle, Holland/ during 2012 and 2014.
As the world gears up for possible war between Nato and Russia, the evidence against Mark Rutte, drumpf + other high-ranking western politicians constitutes a geopolitical powder keg”
rec earlier: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359284114_Enabling_Putin%27s_war_The_ties_between_Amsterdam%27s_financial_centre_and_Gazprom The Amsterdam offshore financial centre aka the Financial Mile/ Gazprom’s mailbox infrastructure in Amsterdam
with a better readable letter https://www.somo.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Gazprom-in-the-Netherlands.pdf?trk=public_post_comment-text “….the spotlight on all of Putin’s enablers: accountants/ tax lawyers/ trust service providers & regulators/ foremost the Dutch Central Bank (DNB)/ the tax authority & the Dutch Ministry of Finance.”
So/ of course Mark- Of The Beast- Rutte longest serving PM of the Netherlands (2010 – 2024) + his various cabinet ministers knew about this financial construction taking place on Dutch soil…. no mention of it with the slightest nano iota in the controlled msm & no questions in the Dutch parliament….
21 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FenVnuGg-RI British Tom Walker in his satiric role of Jonatam Pie “brutally bashes drumpf in brilliant takedown”/ by really American Host Kenny Hesse
23 June https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_n2LJilzCc drumpf hides health crisis Gets ‘Secret Treatment At Camp David/ Kyle Kulinski…
Anyway every body anywhere
h,a,n.d. have a nice day
CIA O
It is called Cognitive Warfare in which victory/failure and field realities may be totally out of sync. You can make any claim, produce any audio or video even visibly fake ones and still people would “want” to believe, the only thing that is not deterministic and thus unpredictable is true “human resistance” and it has nothing to do with the two satanic fake concepts of freewill and freedom.
1- Iran “regime” kills tens of thousands of “peaceful protestors” in just two nights apparently using cold and light weapons! Enemy mass media keeps repeating various different numbers from 10K all the way up to 70K dead! They provided no evidence, Iran “regime” however provided a list of the dead which is about 3K combined and provides their national ID numbers and names! But does it matter? of course not they need to make Iran look as bad as Israel so to sell their war.
2- Then in the 12 day war and the Ramadan war, after all the bombings and missile attacks, Iran lost some 6K people. Interestingly after US bases got hammered in 13 countries and some US military personnel hid in hotel rooms and those hotel rooms were targeted too and also they launched a ruse pilot-rescue operation south of Isfahan to steal Iran’s enriched uranium and they failed there too… in total they claim that only 13 US soldiers were killed.
3- The economics of war is also weird, Iran’s military budget is just nothing compared to the combined budget of Iran’s enemies. As the idiot Pezeshkian said: “We gave 20 million barrels of oil to IRGC to defend Iran”. Yes, and they did it beautifully, that’s the amount that normally would pass the strait each day and it was your responsibility to do much more you moron! He is now saying: “I have the vote of the people and they are tiered of war!”
But numbers don’t mean anything… Instead of Trump opening the strait of Hormoz, they put a blockade on it! Something that really didn’t matter much anyway as Iran could transfer all vital needs from land or the Caspian sea in the north. They created a fake card to play called the Naval Blockade, it is just like creating money out of thin air!
However let it be known that Iran’s current supreme leader just like his father was against all negotiations with the US (“imposed ceasefire”) and the current Iranian team (Pezeshkian) is proceeding with the negotiations against the guidance of Khamenei and the wishes of the people who have been holding the streets since the beginning of the Ramadan war. Indeed the war is not finished and there is only a “temporary silence” in the field. But price of oil could have been much higher had there be no negotiations.
They now know that Iranians are immune to “Economic Pressure”, “Decapitation Strikes”, “Civil Unrest” and “Cognitive Warfare”… why? because they believe in Allah and the unseen and one of the hardest beliefs in the unseen is: “belief in the promise of victory”. You can not defeat the chosen one’s mentality in Zion unless you are equipped for that. It is in this sense that Resistance Axis and Iran are the only hope for the world to eventually cleanse it of Zion. In fact we saw the American war machine and it wasn’t that bad, we continue life, even the Iranian opposition would agree that life moves on and that “aura of terror” that US has a God like military has been shattered. IRGC wrecked that American Idol and the worshippers still can’t believe their eyes.
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