Greg Braden

@grok @Vincent05254221 @IbrahimMajed Right. Like I said, no evidence Israel or the US made any cease-fire or mediation offers. It’s easy to turn down offers from intermediaries who have no authority to make them.

Mediation efforts for ceasefire have been pushed by third parties like Oman, Turkey, and Qatar since the war escalated in late Feb. Iran has rejected them outright, demanding US/Israel guarantees of no future attacks, compensation, and halting strikes first (Bloomberg/Times of Israel Mar 11; Tasnim/Al Mayadeen reports). US has also rebuffed some ally mediation (Reuters/NHK Mar 15). No direct "objectives achieved" proposal from Washington/Tel Aviv, but channels remain active amid ongoing strikes.

𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗘𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥 — 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗩𝗢𝗪𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗘 The United States has informed Iran that it considers its war objectives achieved and is preparing to withdraw from the confrontation soon, noting that Israel still has some operational objectives to complete before it also exits the war. However, Iran dismissed the message entirely, stating it has no interest in its contents and will continue the war until it achieves its own long-term objectives aimed at preventing any future recurrence of conflict, emphasizing that even if the United States and Israel withdraw, Iran will continue its campaign until its goals are fully achieved, and that any withdrawal by Washington and Tel Aviv does not impose any obligations on Tehran in return.

@TMT_arabic Lol! If that had happened, it would’ve been great target practice. Come on ayatollah fans! You really need to step up your propaganda game.🙄😂😂

🚨🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran signals its “striking force.” 800,000 fighters on max alert, backed by missiles and next-gen drones (Russia–China partnership). Targets include U.S. bases in Jordan, Diego Garcia, and deep inside Israel. IRGC boosts mobilization with 100,000 more troops.

@RussianSnappy Wow! They shot down a B2 bomber, reassembled it perfectly, brought the crew back to life, and took a picture!😂😂

Iran has shot down a U.S. B-2 stealth bomber and captured the entire crew. If confirmed, this would mark one of the biggest losses for the U.S. Air Force in the conflict so far.

@IbrahimMajed Hilarious!

@grok @Vincent05254221 @IbrahimMajed First, I’ve heard of the US or Israel proposing “ceasefire . . . and mediation“, at least since the hostilities started.

No, this specific claim isn't verified. US has internal "off-ramps" for possible de-escalation if Trump chooses (NBC/i24NEWS Mar 18), & Trump said Iran wants a deal but terms aren't good enough yet (Bloomberg Mar 15). No reports of a direct US message to Iran claiming objectives achieved & imminent withdrawal. Iran has rejected ceasefire proposals/mediation, demands compensation & US/Israel halt strikes first, & vows to continue resistance (Reuters/ISW Mar 14; Iranian FM/officials via Bloomberg/Presstv). The image is artistic illustration, not evidence. Sources: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…... ; understandingwar.org/research/...-m… ; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran…

@MarioNawfal @vali_nasr The size of the population is precisely the problem for the regime, who are hated by a significant majority of it. Take out the IRGC and the army will defect.

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 INVADING IRAN WOULD TRIGGER A MASSIVE WAR Vali Nasr says even a “limited” strike could spiral into something far bigger. He warns Iran’s size, population, and military make this a long, complex war the U.S. can’t quickly control. @vali_nasr

@carriecoon Wow! What an insightful analysis! And so well supported by an actual evidence and examples! 🙄🙄 Please confine your below average intellect to crayons and coloring books and keep your boring baseless tantrums to yourself. Thanks!

Anne Applebaum nails it:

@imelizabethlane You’re a case study on TDS.

So what’s up with Trump? Trump is only two things, and both have been proven to be an absolute disaster for the country. He is stupid, and he is a narcissist. Let’s prove this. Trump is a silver-spooned child who never read a book, and whose only interests for the longest time were women and superficial pursuits. That’s it. This is a man with no morals a man who cheated on both wives and failed in multiple businesses in almost Failproof condition set up by his father and now he is using the presidency to secure Gaza real estate for himself and his son in law. This is a guy who had the best team, MTG, Massie, Elon, Vivek, Joe Kent, Tucker, Charlie, Candace and even Megyn kelly, all of them supported him and literally helped put him in power. If Trump thinks he won on his own, he needs a reality check. He won because of those people. He won because he said there would be no more wars and that people like Lindsey Graham (the swamp) wouldn’t be anywhere near decision-making. The harsh critics of him and the same people who tried to kill him, are his closest allies today. And this complete idiot has managed to push out every sane voice around him. Every single one. Elon got close to auditing Pentagon and was effectively sidelined. He was offended, his business was impacted by Trump’s decisions and although he tried to make peace, he is nowhere near Trump’s inner circle anymore. Vivek was pushed out right away. Then Candace. Then Charlie was effectively silenced by a bullet in his neck and instead of demanding answers pushing his own FBI guy for transparency, demanding names, autopsy reports, and full details Trump did nothing! He did nothing. He is not brave he is a coward and a bully. He’s only strong against sanctioned countries that can’t fight back, nations targeted by his predecessors simply because they refused to bow down and hand over their resources to the corporate America. Meanwhile, the same system enriches entrenched power at home, allowing corporate elites to grow into massive monopolies that squeeze the middle class out of existence, untouched. That wealth they took from latino America is not for Americans, it's for Blackrock, Israel etc, you saw it first hand. Iran won't be for American people either. He keeps calling Charlie his friend, but he did nothing for Charlie. No, Trump doesn’t have friends. He has opportunities. He uses people, then gets rid of them once these people show that they also have their own opinions and they want to be heard. Then came Tucker. Anyone who challenged Trump or reminded him of his own limitations was quickly dismissed. Meanwhile, political opportunists like Graham who have been playing the game for far too long realized they’re dealing with a narcissist. All they need to do is praise him constantly, constantly! Tell him how great he is, how everything he says is brilliant, unprecedented, amazing and that’s it, you've got his attention. Then they feed him bad information while reinforcing his thinking. That’s how manipulation works: you guide someone toward your idea while making them believe it was their own idea. Intelligence agencies have mastered this and Trump is an easy target, he is absolutely a stupid narcissist the easiest target for a trained intelligence apparatus.We are seeing this play out in real time, the unexplained shift and the strange conflicts with people who once supported him. One thing Trump is not is an actor. He can’t act, not even for the sake of politics, so none of his pre-presidential stances were act and he did believe what he was saying before. The problem is that he is uneducated, impulsive and Stupid when you add narcissism to this you get the perfect recipe for disaster. So now we have Trump aligned with the very group he claimed to be fighting against. This is a vulnerable spot for the country, uninformed leader who doesn’t understand geography, history, politics or foreign policy. He can’t distinguish between countries, struggles with basic facts and has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of understanding about how the world works from international relations to economics. He has said countless absurd things and people kept forgiving him, hoping he was different, an outsider. We chose to tolerate his stupidity in exchange for change, but in the end, we only got the stupidity. The change never came. Now it’s clear, he’s now one of them, not one of us. Apparently Joe Kent is weak, but I guess Lindsey Graham is strong like a lion! :)))))))) It’s time for a third party!

How about this? We take a poll in Cali, Oregon, and Washington. Would they rather cast their lot with the invaders or fight them to preserve our fundamental freedoms and values? If a significant majority (perhaps predictably) cast their lot with the enemy, we agree to surrender those states after a period during which those wanting to preserve our values are allowed to leave. And hey, we could throw in the eastern seaboard from Maryland to Maine (excluding Pennsylvania) if necessary!

“Here’s today’s question for all you MAGA.” “If America were invaded, what part of the country would you be willing to give up to end the war?” What is your response to this man ??

@pakforever_1 Satan

@godly36525 @Ronym96650835 @FarwaRi10141593 @NoAlphaLimits @experimentalis Right. A gas plant in Qatar. One outta five got through. So they proved they can attack their allies. Impressive!🙄

@notofools @Ronym96650835 @FarwaRi10141593 @NoAlphaLimits @experimentalis They just hit a plant Get updated bot

🚨🚨🚨 ISRAEL JUST MADE THE SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS MILITARY DECISION OF THE ENTIRE WAR. AND NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEY JUST TRIGGERED. 🚨🚨🚨 Israel and the U.S. struck South Pars — the LARGEST gas field on the planet. But here's what they either didn't know or didn't care about: South Pars is jointly managed by Iran AND Qatar. They didn't just attack Iran. They attacked the energy backbone of their OWN Gulf allies. Let that sink in. 💀 The IRGC just declared ALL major energy facilities across the entire GCC as "direct and legitimate targets" — and warned strikes are coming in the "COMING HOURS." 💀 Listed targets: Qatar's LNG complex, Saudi Aramco facilities, UAE oil terminals — EVERYTHING. 💀 Saudi Aramco has already EVACUATED workers from the SAMREF refinery in Yanbu. They're not waiting. They KNOW what's coming. 💀 Iranian hackers have ALREADY hit Aramco's digital systems — posting images and issuing threats to PARALYZE their infrastructure. 💀 Multiple EXPLOSIONS just heard in Riyadh — confirmed by Reuters, AFP, and AP. Sirens sounding in the Saudi capital. Do you understand the scale of what's happening? ⚠️ Qatar's LNG complex is the LARGEST on Earth. It supplies 30% of the world's liquefied natural gas. If Iran hits it — Europe's heating supply DISAPPEARS overnight. Not in months. OVERNIGHT. ⚠️ Saudi Aramco is the most valuable company on the PLANET — worth $1,800,000,000,000. Its refineries process 12 MILLION barrels per day. One successful strike takes 10% of the world's oil OFFLINE. ⚠️ In 2019, a SINGLE drone attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq facility knocked out 5.7 million barrels per day and sent oil up 15% in ONE session. Iran now has 10x the motivation and NOTHING left to lose. They're showing you "precision strikes on Iranian targets." They're NOT showing you that those strikes just gave Iran the JUSTIFICATION to destroy every oil facility from Qatar to Saudi Arabia to the UAE. Here's the logic — follow it carefully: → You bomb a gas field that's JOINTLY OWNED with Qatar → Qatar — your own Gulf ally — publicly condemns you → Iran uses the attack as justification to target ALL Gulf energy → IRGC formally declares Gulf facilities as "legitimate targets" → Aramco starts EVACUATING refineries → Explosions hit RIYADH → You didn't weaken Iran. You gave them the excuse to burn down the ENTIRE Gulf's economy. If this was a "strategic victory," why is Aramco evacuating workers RIGHT NOW? If Iran's military is "degraded," why are 6 Gulf nations scrambling to protect their oil fields from an attack they believe is IMMINENT? Complete silence. You don't evacuate the world's most valuable company unless you KNOW what's coming. The IRGC said "coming hours." Not days. Not weeks. HOURS. And every Gulf state just went from spectator to TARGET. This is no longer a war between the U.S. and Iran. This is a war that's about to ERASE the Gulf's entire energy infrastructure — the infrastructure that powers HALF the planet. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 They don't want you seeing this. Follow + RT to beat the algorithm. 🚨

Don’t you think Iran is doing all of those things? And without material effect?After all, Trump has made his intentions clear—take away the regime’s ability to threaten others through any means, and Israel has made it clear it’s goal is to eliminate the leaders that seek to threaten others, including Iran’s population. If Iran had the capabilities you mention, it would be using them, no?

Fair point but I think this assumes the conflict is still operating in a conventional framework, while in a non-conventional, asymmetric environment, outcomes are not defined by how many missiles you have in storage. Iran’s strength has never been purely about volume it’s about diversified pressure points. Even if we assume constraints in one domain, there are multiple other levers, proxy networks, maritime disruption, cyber capabilities and strategic geography. You don’t need overwhelming firepower when you can complicate the entire operating environment.

𝗧𝗢𝗠 𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 Laura Ingraham asked the Border Czar a simple question: why are Democrats really against deportations? Homan didn't hedge. He laid out the entire scheme. The plan, as Homan tells it, was never about compassion. It was a 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀. Step one: open the border and flood the country with 10 to 20 million illegal aliens. Step two: funnel them into sanctuary cities, then use Biden's reversal of the Trump census rule to count them in the population — manufacturing House seats in blue districts without a single vote being cast. Step three: when a Democrat gets back to the White House, blanket amnesty converts that entire population into a permanent voting bloc. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳. That's why Democrats aren't just opposing deportations — they're 𝗳𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀. Every removal is a vote subtracted from a coalition they spent years building. Every arrest is another brick pulled out of the foundation of their permanent majority. Homan isn't just enforcing immigration law. He's dismantling a machine. The census angle is the part that doesn't get enough attention. You don't even need amnesty for the scheme to pay dividends. Park enough people in blue cities, count them in the census, and California and New York get additional congressional seats — and therefore additional Electoral College votes — based on a population that isn't legally here. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's how apportionment math works. Trump promised mass deportations. Homan says that's exactly what's coming. Good. Because what was done to this country's electoral system deserves exactly this response.

@Alexoo4 @CollinRugg Yup. Right out of the Democrat playbook. Lie about an event, repeat relentlessly through your friends in the media, hope it becomes accepted fact by repetition. You just can’t win telling the truth, can you?🙄

@CollinRugg Trump's ICE kidnapped a 5 year old brown kid and put him in a detention center. F*ck trump, ICE and Bubbawayne. God bless Liam

NEW: Senator Markwayne Mullin tears up as he tells a story about how President Trump went to work for him when he found out his son had a traumatic brain injury. Mullin explained how his son became a completely different kid after the injury. “Here you had a world-class athlete that wrestled all over the world since he was 12 years old, and he couldn't touch his nose, he couldn't walk without shuffling his feet…” “And then [Trump] says, ‘I'm gonna come see him.’” “This is the middle of the election. This is Bakersfield, California. Really not an area he's gotta go campaign. And he took the time to come up there and see Jim…”

@JDickerson92890 @Alexoo4 @CollinRugg Yup. Right out of the Democrat playbook. Lie about an event, repeat relentlessly through your friends in the media, hope it becomes accepted fact by repetition.

@Alexoo4 @CollinRugg Story is a lie and u know it. Next

@Ronym96650835 @FarwaRi10141593 @NoAlphaLimits @experimentalis I don’t see thousands of cheap drones left. And they’re far less powerful than ballistic missiles. You’re not gonna blow up a refinery with a drone or two that might make it through defenses. Empty threat.

@notofools @FarwaRi10141593 @NoAlphaLimits @experimentalis Why wasted precious missile If thousand of cheap drones Could just doing the job better And hit $20k drones using $1M anti missile Is mathematically very high cost ratio So often times, they let drones hit it target Coz anti missile just for incoming missile Not for cheap drones

DAY 19 👇 IRAN MISSILE & DRONE LAUNCHES: 🚀 BALLISTIC MISSILES: 🔴 Day 1 — 350 🔴 Day 2 — 175 🔴 Day 3 — 120 🔴 Day 4 — 50 🔴 Day 5 — 40 🔴 Day 6 — 32 🔴 Day 7 — 28 🔴 Day 8 — 15 🔴 Day 9 — 21 🔴 Day 10 — 18 🔴 Day 11 — 24 🔴 Day 12 — 14 🔴 Day 13 — 11 🔴 Day 14 — 16 🔴 Day 15 — 12 🔴 Day 16 — 19 🔴 Day 17 — 23 🔴 Day 18 — 45 🔴 Day 19 — 65 🛸 DRONE SWARMS: 🟢 Day 1 — 294 🟢 Day 2 — 541 🟢 Day 3 — 200 🟢 Day 4 — 85 🟢 Day 5 — 45 🟢 Day 6 — 38 🟢 Day 7 — 30 🟢 Day 8 — 12 🟢 Day 9 — 134 🟢 Day 10 — 112 🟢 Day 11 — 95 🟢 Day 12 — 82 🟢 Day 13 — 64 🟢 Day 14 — 78 🟢 Day 15 — 105 🟢 Day 16 — 122 🟢 Day 17 — 146 🟢 Day 18 — 180 🟢 Day 19 — 240 👉 Day 19 marks a massive retaliatory surge following the assassination of Iran's Intelligence Minister. Cluster munitions were used against Tel Aviv, while "revenge" waves targeted the Jubail Petrochemical Complex in Saudi Arabia and the Al Hasan Gas Field in the UAE.

@ianmiles About time. I would expect given air superiority they could be dropping CARE packages 24//7 with everything in them including light armoured vehicles.

@Acyn Who is this twit?? Never heard of him, no military experience whatsoever, purporting to comment on a decorated combat veteran with impeccable Ivy League credentials. Talk about being in over your head. . . 🙄

PabloReports: How embarrassing is Pete Hegseth at this point? Walkinshaw: I’ve seen him in classified briefings, and I’m embarrassed for him. He can do nothing beyond read the script that’s been given to him. He can’t answer detailed questions. He doesn’t understand the strategy—not that there is one. He is way in over his head.

@FarwaRi10141593 @NoAlphaLimits @experimentalis Nice analysis. But it depends on Iran’s ability to back up the threat. I hear they’re a little light on missiles these days.

Most people are reacting to this emotionally, but if you read it carefully, this isn’t just escalation it’s a shift in rules of engagement. Targeting something like the South Pars Gas Field a shared asset with Qatar crosses from conventional military signaling into economic warfare at a systemic level. And once that line is crossed, the response naturally stops being limited or symbolic. From Iran’s perspective, the logic is not chaos it’s calibrated deterrence. When your critical infrastructure is exposed, you dont just respond in kind, you expand the threat perimeter so that any future strike becomes too costly to even consider. That’s not recklessness that’s strategic messaging. What’s often missed is that Iran doesnt need to actually strike everything it names. The credible possibility of disruption to Gulf energy flows is, in itself leverage. In modern conflicts, perception of risk can be as powerful as action. At the same time, this creates a paradox the more effective the deterrence, the higher the stakes for everyone involved including Iran. Because once energy corridors are part of the battlefield, control becomes uncertain and escalation becomes harder to contain. So yes, the reaction makes sense but not in the way it’s being framed. This is not about burning the Gulf. It’s about forcing all actors to recognize that if energy infrastructure is treated as a target, then no one’s infrastructure remains off-limits. And that’s a dangerous equilibrium but a very intentional one.