donald trump's rhetoric on iran now confronts harsh reality this morning hours after his primetime address defending his decision to enter into an armed conflict with Iran, the conservative National Review issued this blunt critique. Quote, Trump's speech didn't make the case. The New York Times noted that the president's failure to, quote, define a clear path out of the conflict was determinative.And the Wall and Wall Street also experienced volatility in both oil and stocks after the president bizarrely c ...

Btw: this isn't meant to be a dunk on @phl43, as I know what he meant. He's saying the (inherited) logistics infrastructure of the US is so impressive that it can seemingly wage endless wars overseas without any impact on the homefront.And that has indeed been the case in the past. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya...all were essentially watched on a TV screen without much impact on daily life within the US.However, the head of the International Energy Agency has said this is the largest disruption in history ...

with a hugely consequentl defeat for secretary of defense Pete Hegseth. We cover this a bunch on the show when it happened. But back in October, Pete Hegseth put some what I would call Kremlin-esque press policies in place at the Pentagon.I mean, he basically put a policy in place that said the Pentagon could revoke the credentials of any journalist who solicited information that the department did not explicitly authorize for release, even if that information was unclassified. And listen, I dealt with repo ...