"WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: The United States is currently conducting active military operations in Iran while Israel runs a ground offensive in Lebanon with US backing, and US forces are managing proxy attacks on American assets across the Gulf."

~ Rudy Martinez

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #Lebanon #war
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https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-b86

The Rest of the World Report | April 2, 2026 — Evening Edition

Iran War & Beyond The day after Trump said the war was nearly won, it got worse. And while it did, he fired the Army's top general.

A Chicano In Paris

"The Army’s top uniformed officer was fired today, effective immediately, with no explanation, no transition period, and no confirmed permanent replacement. His interim successor is the Defense Secretary’s former personal aide. This is the latest in a fourteen-month pattern of removing senior military officers and replacing them with individuals personally trusted by Hegseth."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #Lebanon #war
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"The cumulative effect of that pattern — on institutional knowledge, on operational continuity, on the confidence of allied militaries — is a question that American media has not yet treated with the weight that military analysts abroad have been giving it for months."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #Lebanon #war
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“The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.”

~ Randa Slim quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376008/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Lame-duck-president-quacks-up

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Lame duck president quacks up

Washington Post: Americans have little appetite for sending U.S. troops to Iran, polls show Most want the war to end quickly, and opposition has hardened since it began, posing political dangers ...

Daily Kos

"The war hasn’t merely forced an oil crisis; we’re well on our way to an everything crisis, given the many supply chains disrupted by the strait’s closure."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #economy
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-trump-trying-to-lose-the-midterms-inflation-iran-war-prices-hormuz-tariffs

Is Trump *Trying* to Lose the Midterms?

Between rising prices and gilded ballrooms, Trump has practically giftwrapped oppo ads for Democrats.

The Bulwark

@wdlindsy

Trump isn't "trying to lose the midterms"; he's trying to buy the support of oil oligarchs & petrostate despots that will make the midterms irrelevant.

Trump is doing all he can to thwart the apparatus of elections & promoting every mechanism of election meddling ever invented.

These efforts are funded by the Epstein Class.

1. AI disinformation
2. Gerrymandering
3. ICE thugs as "poll watchers"
4. Voter Suppression
5. Voter rolls
6. Surveillance
7. Purging voters
8. Census chaos

@Npars01 @wdlindsy He doesn't have to do any of this. He has a democratic mandate to cancel the elections: "vote for me just this once and you'll never have to vote again".