Chapter 1: What is causing the collapse of US defense infrastructure in the Middle East?
All hell is breaking loose as the United States defense infrastructure in the Middle East and across the entire world is falling apart. This air of invincibility that was once attached to the United States military and international defense apparatus
has been destroyed in record time by donald trump and his despicable regime our allies or i should say former allies in the middle east who would bribe donald trump with all that quid pro quo money believing that donald trump was able to provide this critical
defense capabilities and technologies for their countries, well, that's being exposed as yet another Trump fraud and grift because the Iranian Shahid drones, the Iranian unmanned vehicles that are in the water as well, that are attacking these boats in the Strait of Hormuz, these unmanned vessels, I should say,
This is causing a massive, not just disaster in the Middle East, but a total loss of confidence in the United States. And it is restructuring a world order. It's unfolding before our eyes with America no longer as a leader or a dependable ally at all. That's an understatement. I want to share with you what somebody by the name of Patricia Marins has been saying.
And I think that her description here is apt. Here's what she writes. The war exposed the collapse of American protection. And less than one hour after being hit by the U.S. and Israel, Iran responded with surgical precision, striking 17 American installations across the Middle East.
successive waves of missiles and drones forced u.s troops to abandon their bases and scramble for shelter in luxury hotels which then became targets themselves it has now been 12 13 straight days of continuous bombardments with multiple waves every single day and no sign of fatigue let me pause there in this description because i also want to be very clear
the United States and Israel have certainly bombarded Iran with missile strikes, tomahawks, and a massive, massive assault on Iran, not just in Tehran, but all across Iran. We also know that the United States and Israel have struck
elementary schools and hospitals and desalination facilities and other civilian facilities as well, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths, which have sadly rallied the Iranian people around their new Ayatollah, Mojaba, instead of rallying around the United States when there was such incredible hope, at least a little bit, I thought, in January when there were all those protests in Iran.
So the U.S. and Israel are striking Iran, but Iran is striking its neighbors. Northern Israel is being bombarded with these Iranian strikes. And it also seems that Iran has been able to develop, likely with the help of the Russians and the Chinese, all of these new weapons systems that have been more difficult for the U.S. patriots and thads to be able to strike down in the region.
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Chapter 2: How has Donald Trump's regime impacted America's military credibility?
They are hammering roads, airports, ports, hotels, and power plants. We saw the ships, three of them just yesterday alone in the Strait of Hormuz that was successfully hit by Iran. We saw off the coast of Iraq while you had the ship to ship. transfer taking place. There was a strike and one of them was, I believe, a Malta flag ship doing this ship-to-ship transfer with a Marshall Island flag.
The Malta, I believe, is based, is Greek-owned. The Marshall Islands, I believe, is actually a US-owned ship doing this transfer when this unmanned vessel of Iran struck and crushed it and put all of this oil into the water, which was a disaster. I mean, I think more water, more oil in the water there than the Valdez oil spill, it looks like. But anyway, I digress.
Let's just keep getting through this together. Evacuation orders exist on papers, but they are being carried out at a snail's pace because security is non-existent and far too many troops are still trapped under fire. Almost no one remains at the American bases anymore. Even the refueling aircraft that operated out of Saudi Arabia have been pulled out and relocated to Germany.
the message to the gulf countries is crystal clear the u.s can't even protect its own bases so you're on your own the sense of invincibility that lasted for decades has been shattered critical radars destroyed interceptors running on fumes bases bombed iranian missiles still launching the strait of hermos still closed and gulf allies left completely exposed all of this is being watched in real time by asian countries that until yesterday
were betting everything on American power to contain China. The red light is flashing bright. If the US couldn't defend the Gulf against Iran, what real chance do they have of protecting anyone against Beijing? Up until February 28th, American protection felt absolute. Today, it feels like something else entirely.
The collapse of that decades-long myth of absolute security is the deepest and most lasting indirect effect of this war. By the way, It's not over yet. This war is still raging with no sign of ending anytime soon. The one thing that I would only add is that you can have some, but I would edit a little bit. And I think it was a good description, though, by...
Patricia, right here, though, you can have the best weapon systems, the most powerful this, the most powerful that, but in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to wield it, even the most complex and advanced systems are not able to be used effectively. Remember that.
donald trump gutted the military right of its top leadership pete hegseth remember fired and pushed out some of our top generals and you had the peter principle or something even worse the pete hegseth principle which is even worse than the peter principle You had some of the best talent moved out and people who were loyal and sycophants rising to the top.
And so we've also lost some of our talent who knows some of the best military tactics. And when you have Hegseth and Trump running this, that's a big problem. When you have people like Doug Burgum speaking for the Trump regime, it's a big problem. The interior secretary talking about the war in Iran and saying that our Gulf state allies have never been happier.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Iranian drone attacks on US forces?
Here's what Burgum said.
When these Gulf states know their refineries being targeted and the oil storage being targeted, what do you say to our Gulf state allies at this time? What's your advice to them?
Well, I think our Gulf state allies have never been happier than they have now to have U.S. military presence in their country and to have a strong relationship, both economically and in terms of energy industry with the United States. They understand who supports them and who supports their growth and prosperity.
All right, now also the new Ayatollah, Monjaba, according to the Jerusalem Post. I'll read you what the Jerusalem Post here says. Monjaba Khomeini, the new Ayatollah, deadlier than his father. his ex-study partner of the Supreme Leader, tells the Post, this is an unmitigated disaster from every aspect of it as well.
Read you more from what Patricia Marans has to say here, because I think she has a number of, I think, very good insights in this point. how the American military cannot leave Iraq and what that tells us right now. So here's the article by ABC. U.S. struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq. American military cannot leave Iraq.
With an order to evacuate bases 10 days ago, military cannot leave and remain under intense fire from Iranian drones and local Shiite militias. Iran managed to open fire against almost all American bases in the region, to the point that the military had to abandon these bases in billion-dollar losses. Patriots were powerless in the face of the number of attacks.
However, I believe that the anti-drone systems of these bases were not strengthened for an eventual confrontation with Iran. She said later, I will write how this redraws the role of the American military presence in the Middle East and completely broke the confidence of Asian countries and the American ability to give them comfort. And we talked about that before.
And this risk now expands, by the way, across Europe. across Eastern Europe, across the world. So one of the things we know is that Romania is now granting the United States permission to deploy aircraft and up to 500 troops to support operations in Iran. Whereas Spain is saying, absolutely not, we're not doing that. The UK is saying, nope, you can't use us for offensive attacks.
France is saying, nope, you can't use us for offensive attacks. Why? These countries realize that if they give America the ability to do that, Iran's going to try to hit them with drones. And Iran is capable of doing that based on the distance right now.
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