Samuel Thornsen

This is what childhood looks like in Gaza.

Israel killed little Riyadh in Gaza. He died of his injuries today.

Not a scene from a movie 💔

At this point, a unilateral US de-escalation is still theoretically possible. They'd need to cobble together a face-saving series of fabricated narratives to do it. - "Iran has agreed not to produce a nuclear weapon." The Iranians are unlikely to make any public statements contradicting this. - Lift sanctions on Iran and claim we're going to make money in exchange. Say Iran has promised to give us a cut of Hormuz tolls. Create some kind complex financial arrangement out of the billions in frozen Iranian funds held by the US and other countries. Say we'll make a trillion dollars over ten years. Americans won't look into this in any detail. - Spin the abandonment of US bases across the Persian Gulf as a win, pretend like you did it on purpose because the Gulf states need to "pay for their own defense," similar to the messaging around NATO and Europe. Again, Americans won't look into this. With these narratives as cover, they could withdraw from the region. The issue with this is that the Israelis won't cooperate. Resolving this would require Trump going above and beyond Reagan's direct confrontations with the Israelis in the early eighties. Threaten to abandon them permanently, cut them off from all military aid, and sanction them into oblivion if they don't play ball. Given Trump's relationship with the Israelis, this seems impossible.

If Tom Cotton’s “Israel Merger” bill had already passed, Israel would have had access to behind-the-scenes info about the Iran negotiations, which they would have leaked, sabotaging peace. These bills are a National Security threat of the highest order.

Hezbollah publishes a video documenting the Radwan fighters engaged in the Battle of Haddatha on the 19th and 20th where they thwarted the fourth attempt by the 401st Brigade to take the town. "A new defeat for the enemy at the gates of Haddatha, despite all the firepower, intelligence efforts, and four attempts to occupy it. Haddatha has become a new landmark of the enemy's humiliation and another village in the proud south that has taught the world a lesson in sacrifice, defiance, and the rejection of injustice, no matter how high the price".

Another B-52 just crashed right after takeoff at Edwards AFB This is what endless war profiteering looks like, Boeing and the Pentagon flush billions into these aging death machines while our troops pay the price Enough. Defund this corrupt machine now!