Dave Smith

The Pakistanis backed up the Iranians early on when the ceasefire was first tentatively reached.

That, yes, this was also part of it.

Donald Trump weeks ago had made a big show of announcing that he is forbidding Israel from attacking Lebanon.

And as we've been covering over the last week and a half, Israel's response was to light Lebanon the fuck up.

So Israel's been given an opening, in a sense, to sabotage these the peace deals.

Israel does not want peace.

They want regime collapse in Iran and they want to conquer southern Lebanon.

So this is working out great for them.

Again, we already knew who we were in bed with for many, many decades, let alone Donald Trump during the 12 day war.

He experienced this attacking the same country with the same partner, with the same dynamic.

Nothing new here.

Over the weekend, a lot happened.

So number one, Israel attacked southern Lebanon again.

Iran responded by attacking Israel.

Donald Trump then attacked.

said that israel is forbidden from responding to attacking iran and israel shockingly rob responded by attacking iran donald trump has now responded to that by saying hey you both got it out of your system we're all done everyone's ready for peace negotiations now and interestingly the iranian government's official response was absolutely let's negotiate

You know, there's a lot to kind of break down here.

And maybe this is a major theme of kind of what's going on that I could elaborate on more later.

But it is amazing how much just in terms of just the optics, the public relations of this whole thing, the larger propaganda war.

It is amazing how much Israel is caught with their pants down right now.