Mike Adams – Natural News July 29, 2026
The War Is Over — and We Lost
Today is a pivot point in the conflict. As of today, I believe the United States has decisively lost the war with Iran, and we are now in a fighting retreat. This is not speculation or defeatism but a sober assessment based on undeniable evidence. Colonel Douglas McGregor and other military experts have been warning for years that the U.S. military machine cannot win a sustained conflict against a determined, geographically-gifted and technologically capable adversary like Iran. Now their predictions have been validated.
Former US counterterrorism chief Joe Kent, a Green Beret and CIA paramilitary officer who served 11 combat tours, resigned in March 2026 in protest against the war. In his resignation letter, he called on Washington to withdraw its forces and abandon its bases in the Middle East, arguing that months of confrontation have demonstrated Iran’s strengthened regional position [1]. The mainstream media and the administration spin this as a tactical pause, but the reality is strategic defeat. From destroyed bases to offline radar, every indicator points to a loss that the American people have not been told about.
The Evidence Is Overwhelming: Bases, Radar, and Interceptions
All US bases in the region are damaged or destroyed; radar installations are offline, leaving us blind. The Pentagon claims we intercepted most Iranian missiles, but that is laughable. As I detailed in my earlier analysis of Iran’s war strategy, their approach is to blind, deplete, and overwhelm our defenses [2]. Centcom’s assertion of near-perfect interception rates is contradicted by experts like Ted Postal, who put actual interception rates in the single digits (percentage-wise).
Yesterday’s surprise ballistic missile attack on US bases in Jordan shows Iran is now picking targets while we react. As one Middle East analysis put it, the war on Iran has been a strategic disaster for America and Israel [3]. The US and Israel appear stuck in a doom loop of their own making, with Iran imposing terms on the battlefield that Washington cannot counter. We have lost the initiative, and our military credibility is shattered.
Chess, OODA Loops, and the Iranian Advantage
It looks to me like the US is trapped in the OODA loop, forced to react to Iranian moves while Iran initiates. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern noted that the United States appears to be using Israel as a proxy to wage war on Iran, much like Ukraine was used against Russia [4]. But that proxy strategy has backfired spectacularly. Iran’s methodical, patient strategy stands in stark contrast to the chaotic, spur-of-the-moment decision-making and desperate media spin from Washington.
As Andrei Martyanov explains in The Real Revolution in Military Affairs, modern warfare between technologically advanced opponents is defined by drone deployment, hypersonic weapons and new realities that render immense budgets meaningless [5]. Iran has the discipline to endure losses and wait for the right moment, while US leadership is erratic and often driven by ego. The consequence is that Iran now has more incentive to resist US demands, even if war restarts, as Israeli think tanks have admitted [6]. In other words, Iran is fully committed to standing by its demands, and it will never surrender to the United States military, no matter what conditions unfold.
The Strait of Hormuz: The Lie We Can’t Admit
Trump has repeatedly claimed we control the Strait of Hormuz, but that’s never been true. Iran controls it. No US naval vessel has successfully transited the strait under fire; we can’t even escort tankers. The economic catastrophe of the closure has triggered shortages in oil, gas, helium, and fertilizer, leading to supply chain chaos [7]. The US is bluffing, and the world sees it.
The reality is that Iran’s position in the strait is unassailable. Bombing Iran is like trying to bomb the geography off the face of the Earth, and it won’t work. Thanks to a series of unwise decisions at the highest levels, our military credibility is now all but gone, and the Strait of Hormuz is the tombstone of American naval supremacy.
What a Fighting Retreat Means — and What We Should Do
We are conserving what’s left, but the war is lost. The only rational path is peace. I call for the US to leave the Middle East immediately, stop propping up Israel, and focus on self-sufficiency.
Since peace is unlikely to break out any time soon — because truly insane people are in charge of the American empire right now — prepare for supply shocks, higher prices, and war escalation. Decentralized living is the key to survival.
As Dennis Kucinich said in our interview before the war, we must embrace peace and reject the war machine [8]. America must learn from its hubris and recognize that the era of global domination is over. It’s time to rebuild at home, not bomb abroad.
References
- US must recognize Iran as major regional power – Trump’s ex-counterterror chief. RT.com. July 20, 2026.
- Iran’s War Strategy: Blind, Deplete, and Overwhelm — NaturalNews.com. March 2, 2026.
- The war on Iran was a strategic disaster for America and Israel. Middle East Eye. June 24, 2026.
- Mike Adams interview with Ray McGovern. January 29, 2024.
- The Real Revolution in Military Affairs. Andrei Martyanov.
- Iran Now Has More Incentive To Resist US Demands, Even If War Restarts. ZeroHedge. May 19, 2026.
- The Economic Catastrophe of Trump’s Iran War. NaturalNews.com. June 30, 2026.
- Mike Adams interview with Dennis Kucinich. July 30, 2025.
- 2025 09 24 BBN Interview with Michael Yon . Mike Adams.
- What if we actually nuked our way around the Hormuz blockage? Responsible Statecraft. March 21, 2026.
- Trump’s U-turn on Iran war has ended Israel’s Middle East dream. Middle East Eye. June 17, 2026.
- Health Ranger Report – fuel shortages hit America. Mike Adams. May 11, 2026.
Explainer Infographic
It must be hard, after decades of bombing the helpless, suddenly picking a fight with someone who can and does fight back.
> Decentralized living is the key to survival.
No, standing up en masse is the one and only way you will survive, which is why you’re already dead, because you never will.
> As Dennis Kucinich said in our interview before the war, we must embrace peace and reject the war machine [8]. America must learn from its hubris and recognize that the era of global domination is over. It’s time to rebuild at home, not bomb abroad.
And that’s one of the many reasons you have “immigration”. You can’t “rebuild” because “your” country is now occupied.
You’ve gotta laugh at all those [references to other baiters]. It’s like saying “I’m absolutely and utterly right [1] and you’re not [2]”.
[1] “How right I am”, (wikipedia.org/howrightIam).
[2] “How wrong you are”, (wikipedia.org/howwrongyouare).
Ah yes, the Mr Joe Kent, 20,000 combat tours or some such thing, from the “CIA’s paramilitary “ group, just an actor of course. We find him “warning” congress about getting out of those bases, so this fraud and faked war, can continue to look raging and brutal , with Joe acting the part. From a script. With Iran in on the joke.
The US is a military bastion. It thrives on wars just as the Rothschild financial system essentially thrives on wars for its debt-rigging, money making, and asset acquisitions. The US is the force behind Jewish supremacy. It is a nation owned and controlled by international Jewry right from Wall Street, to Las Vegas, to LA. However, its neocon establishment is not just a “Wag the Dog”, or a Jewish one. It has the same rapacious and ruthless driving force in its very soul, which in fact does make USrael the Great Satan of the world.
Apart from all of the fake official narratives, the US deep state, its major thinktanks, and its oligarchic money power actually believe that “war acts as a primary catalyst for technological innovation, state-building, and economic expansion”. The doctrines of “Productive War Theory”, “Military Revolution Thesis”, and “Military Keynesianism”, do not stem from a single source, but they span across the entire US historical, sociology, political-science, and economic landscape. It is a nation which is the perfect fit to impose a full-spectrum dominance over the entire planet for exclusive ends. No doubt, chosen by “the chosen” for this task.
It is also not true to say that the US has not won a war since WWII. In every war and threat of a war, the US war machine has grown enormously. Viet Nam had nothing to do with checking communism. The war machine needed both a training ground for real combat, and as a testing ground for logistics and weapons, as well as for increased funding for R&D . It wanted growth and enormous funding, which in fact it got. Each and every one of their wars in the Middle East they have eventually received the controls and the deals they wanted, with all of their stooges left behind to control the conquered lands.
It is the US military and their bases around the world which the US, and much of the West relies on to keep the goods flowing their way. Now that Iran is resisting its takeover and dissolution, creeps such as Sid Rosenberg, who represent the mainstream of American military and establishment thinking, are now saying that the only solution for Iran is its “unconditional surrender”, no matter the cost of human lives, and even that of American soldiers. After all, what are soldiers for in a nation which lives for and by war? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR4gXdLNpUo
No, the war is not lost. It has only just begun, and what the US is doing is simply nursing public opinion at home and abroad along, saying that they are doing badly, and that Iran is a real threat to peace and to the existential interests of the rest of the world. By appearing to be outmatched and suffering some losses, and by putting their own troops in harms way, and maybe even to pulling off another 9/11 false flag, the US is steadily becoming more and more entrenched. That is the obvious plan of these most evil bastards. Then, when it appears that they have enough support simply to get the job done, and “save lives”, the bastards will use their huge array of sophisticated high-tech weaponry to obliterate any Iranian resistance, and proceed to destroy the entire nation.
We know there are Americans who oppose US war policy, and who oppose the war against Iran, but we have to wonder if they are not unwittingly being used as controlled opposition. With not real anti-war movement allowed to get off the ground, it appears that the war critics are being given just enough exposure to put a human face on the monster which has become the USA. What else can be done, but to mount a general strike against the US and Israel, with a complete economic and social shunning by the rest of the world, and a prayer that Christians wake up and join in with a Islamic resistance?
DayGlo Donnie’s doing his biggest ever real estate deal.
By the time he’s done all of the Middle East will have moved back to Western Asia.
He’s just too dumb to realize it.
Trump dreams of nukes, what Satanjahu wants .