05/29/2026
Lies, half-truths, and scams. The Iran War information operation vs. reality.
I have remained mostly silent on the Iran war, but, as a veteran it is time to start posting the reality behind the lies of Trump and his regressive administration. The lies about negotiations with Iran are comparable to the lies that Trump spreads about election fraud so there is a tie here.
I am a former infantry and air defense artillery officer, a qualified foreign area officer, a Brigadier General Benjamin H. Grierson Awardee for Excellence in Strategic Studies, a Harvard National Security Fellow, and an MIT Seminar XXI fellow. I have served at the highest levels in the US military with service in the Pentagon and multiple Joint and Army four-star commands.
At the Naval Post Graduate School, I spent two years in a master's program studying international security relations, at Harvard I spent a year studying global energy policy, at MIT I spent a year wargaming US national security. I list those qualifications to establish my credentials.
Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, Bessent, and CENTCOM are lying to you. Every announcement of a breakthrough in negotiations or the conduct of operations against Iran is pure, unadulterated bu****it.
There is a cycle tied to the oil futures market and the stock market. Every week a new announcement about negotiations or operations, every week a new fluctuation in the market. Why does Axios always have the scoop? Why is Senator Warnock investigating oil trades? Why was Hegseth's Morgan Stanley broker trying to buy into Blackrock ahead of the war? Who is behind the trades and who is feeding information to Axios to sustain the cycle? Who is profiting?
Where are the rescued pilots? You can't tell me that this shyster of a president wouldn't parade the two rescued pilots in a media op. You can't tell me that he wouldn't award them the CMH in an event at the White House. It is long past time for them to be in a condition to talk, for their names to be released, for the administration to use them as a photo op. There is no national security reason not to.
Why haven't they? because I believe that the pilot and REO don't exist. That the operation to "rescue" them was really a failed SOCOM operation to try to seize Iranian Nuclear materials. A repeat of "Desert One" with the same outcome...complete failure.
The mainstream media just regurgitates everything the Trump administration tells them...and the markets react. It is all lies. There is shuttle diplomacy going on through several intermediaries, but if you want to get closer to the truth, you need to check the Iranian news agency and Al Jazeera.
Not that they don't have an agenda as well, but it is pretty sad when the Iranian national news outlet is more accurate than ours.
Your gasoline prices fluctuate with the scam, and they are only going to get worse.
Stand by for more on this topic as we analyze what the Iranian position and timeline is and how that will impact US and global inflation.