{"id":328264,"date":"2026-06-23T05:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328264"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:58:40","slug":"president-trump-declares-that-there-are-no-limits-on-his-power-and-that-he-has-totally-defeated-iran-militarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=328264","title":{"rendered":"President Trump declares that \u201cthere are no limits\u201d on his power and that he has totally defeated Iran militarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 June 21, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/641858-trump-no-limits-power\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/641858-trump-no-limits-power\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is Trump delusional or is he deceiving his supporters by painting defeat as victory?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 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?<\/p>\n<p>It was Iran who pulled out of the negotiations last Thursday because of Israel\u2019s noncompliance. This is not the behavior of a country that has been totally defeated and surrendered unconditionally.<\/p>\n<p>Trump declared the MoU was Iran\u2019s \u201cunconditional surrender,\u201d a claim inconsistent with the fact that the MoU is based on Iran\u2019s 14 points.\u00a0 Iran has surrendered nothing.\u00a0 But the rah-rah America crowd will prefer the lie to the fact.<\/p>\n<p>Americans, indeed all peoples, have convinced me that they have trouble with reality.\u00a0 When reality is unpleasant, they retreat into fictitious reality created for them by their political masters, presstitutes, and corporations.\u00a0 They would rather be unaware and unstressed than stressed and informed.\u00a0 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\u2019s unconditional surrender and America\u2019s victory.\u00a0 I have lost subscribers by telling them the truth instead of what they want to hear. \u00a0They want to hear what makes them comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulcraigroberts.org\/donate\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Donate<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulcraigroberts.org\/president-trump-declares-that-there-are-no-limits-on-his-power-and-that-he-has-totally-defeated-iran-militarily\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have trouble with reality, writes Paul Craig Roberts. 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\u2019s unconditional surrender and America\u2019s victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328265,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328264\/revisions\/328265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}