{"id":331166,"date":"2026-09-17T06:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331166"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:24:07","slug":"truth-about-iranian-missile-strikes-on-u-s-airbases-finally-emerges-and-it-doesnt-line-up-with-what-trump-and-hegseth-have-been-telling-us-about-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331166","title":{"rendered":"Truth about Iranian missile strikes on U.S. airbases finally emerges and it doesn\u2019t line up with what Trump and Hegseth have been telling us about the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Sept 16, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>We are into the seventh month of the U.S.\/Israel-Iran war and the true cost in terms of damage to U.S. airbases is finally starting to leak out, no thanks to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose job it is to make sure the American public gets accurate information about the state of the military in which their sons and daughters serve.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers have been sending anonymous photographic images of U.S. bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to the media and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/2099986765612274069?s=20\">CBS News has published some of them<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>One soldier&#8217;s words: \u201cWe&#8217;re not defending these bases. We&#8217;re just watching them get destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the short clip below (<em>for those desiring a deeper analysis see Col. Douglas MacGregor\u2019s insights in the video embedded at the end of this article<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HO-9dGpUCJw?si=c9zsj7gYrtpZryjC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>If you listen to Hegseth and Trump, U.S. interceptors shoot down 98 percent of incoming Iranian missiles and every now and then a \u201csquirter\u201d slips through the ironclad shield. This is pure nonsense. And now we are only starting to see the damage caused by Iranian missiles, delivered with pinpoint accuracy right into aircraft, buildings and other military targets. If they will lie about the damage, or refuse to acknowledge it, why wouldn\u2019t they lie about the number of human casualties on these American military bases?<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when a presidential administration goes to war without the support of the people, illegally, under false pretenses, and without proper authorization from Congress. They inevitably will hide the truth about how well the war is going. Because it\u2019s <em>their war<\/em>. It\u2019s not the people\u2019s war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has declared more than 40 times that this war is essentially over and has already been \u201cwon\u201d by the U.S., and that any remaining operations are essentially mop-up duty.<\/p>\n<p>I am here to tell you, it\u2019s all lies. U.S. bases in the Middle East have been decimated and the U.S. is on the verge of being kicked out of the region altogether, which of course is Iran\u2019s goal. This is a goal that Iran probably never envisioned being attainable until Trump came along and made it possible.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump won\u2019t go quietly. And for this reason, the war is far from over. The worst is yet to come. The next phase of this war will cost more lives and involve more countries than we\u2019ve seen to date.<\/p>\n<p>Something big is in the works, militarily, and I think it will take place before the midterm elections, perhaps as an \u201cOctober surprise?\u201d But we can only guess as to the timing and it\u2019s also possible it might be put off until after the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>There was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/triggledger.substack.com\/p\/flash-briefing-the-germany-summit?publication_id=9137186&amp;post_id=215932491&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=qrouj&amp;triedRedirect=true\">reportedly a secret meeting in Germany<\/a><\/strong> last week between the head of CENTCOM, Bradley Cooper, and the top military commanders from Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE. You only meet in person like this with military chiefs of staff to solidify serious battle plans and iron out any potential conflicts to make sure everyone is on the same page before a large-scale military operation.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, look at the military package the U.S. just announced for Israel. We are talking about $2.8 billion worth of weapons, including 40,000 2,000-pound bombs and 20,000 1-2000 penetrator warheads designed to punch through soil, rock and concrete before detonating, according to a New York Times report. This mass assemblage of lethal firepower was not sold to Israel, it was given to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The 2,000-pound bombs have a lethal blast radius exceeding 1,000 feet and leave a crater up to 50 feet deep. Similar U.S.-made bombs have repeatedly drawn criticism over their use by Israel in densely populated urban areas of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a plan to shift the war effort against Iran from the U.S. to Israel? That could certainly serve as a work-around if Congress pulls its support for the war, as it looks like it\u2019s doing given the war powers resolution that passed yesterday in which seven House Republicans joined all Democrats in a vote to put limitations on Trump\u2019s ability to conduct the war.<\/p>\n<p>Or, more likely, Trump is not worried about Congress and will just ignore any restrictions they attempt to place on his ability to wage war against Iran. In this scenario, Trump still needs to send his arsenal of weapons to the Middle East and position the assets for the next big attack on Iran, which involves dropping bombs on civilian targets in a final attempt to break the will of the Iranians and get them to rise up against their government. In this scenario, Israel is simply serving as an aircraft carrier for U.S. weapons, a convenient dropoff point for U.S. troops to place them in position for mobilization against Iran. And let\u2019s face it: Iran has destroyed all the other dropoff points in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Iran has at least one more big test coming of its will to survive as an intact sovereign state. And I\u2019m afraid this one will be designed to kill many more innocent civilians than the previous waves of airstrikes and bombings conducted by the globalist leaders of the modern Babylonian financial system based out of London, New York and Washington, D.C. If this next round of strikes fail to achieve the mission of toppling the Iranian regime, look for modern Babylon to resort to its most evil final solution \u2014 a thermonuclear solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bDo not wait for mainstream news to confirm the strikes after the fact. Prepare your families now for the possibility of disastrous war-time economic and physical hardships.<\/p>\n<p>For a deeper dive on the true state of the U.S. debacle in the Middle East, watch Lt. Col. Daniel Davis\u2019s interview with Col. Douglas MacGregor below.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsfK_LwfXpo?si=Cza1SQfM72bhsyGn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n<strong>IMPORTANT NOTE: <\/strong>Fundraising fell off a cliff this summer so I\u2019m hoping it will pick up this fall. Not accepting a dime in corporate ad money allows me to be truly independent; but it also means I\u2019m ENTIRELY dependent on readers like you to keep this newsletter going. Please become a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/subscribe\">paid subscriber<\/a> <\/strong>or make a one-time or occasional <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givesendgo.com\/LeoHohmann\">donation of any size to my GiveSendGo<\/a><\/strong><em>. <\/em>Those preferring to send a check can do so<em> c\/o Leo Hohmann, P.O. Box 291, Newnan, GA 30264. <\/em>Thank you \u2014 Leo<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/subscribe\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Upgrade to paid<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/p\/truth-about-iranian-missile-strikes\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of devastating strikes on U.S. bases leaked by American soldiers on the scene, as U.S. appears to be planning another big attack on Iran using 2,000-pound bombs. An October surprise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"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":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331166","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\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331171,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331166\/revisions\/331171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}