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In this installment of the Elsa Kurt Show, we track how fast today’s headlines move while the deeper patterns stay stubbornly the same, from Iran’s stalled negotiations and Strait of Hormuz tensions to US politics and media double standards. We also weigh what accountability looks like when officials resign, narratives spin, and public safety risks … Read more
My dad used to commandeer the television to watch 60 Minutes back in the day. I’m talking late sixties, early seventies, when the thing was just getting started. I was just a kid, but I watched it too. Hailed as hardcore investigative journalism, it demonstrated that networks could make money on news as entertainment. The … Read more
For centuries, the French Republic has struggled to define its relationship with the Islamic world, often oscillating between colonial control and strategic avoidance. Today, President Emmanuel Macron embodies the latest – and perhaps most dangerous – iteration of this failure. While his rhetoric claims to defend laïcité (secularism), his actions reveal a deep-seated political cowardice. By obsessing … Read more
Iran’s IRGC is in it for the long haul, while America thinks in the short term, and politicians must face a quickly bored public. As the dust settles over the ruins of IRGC headquarters and the smoke clears from the latest round of precision strikes, a dangerous narrative is taking root in Washington. The narrative … Read more
This week, on GrokTALK!, we share a great piece by Michal Doran at Tablet Mag, fisking and debunking the Left’s “Iran myths” and Mr. Maggie Goodlander (Jake Sullivan’s) left-wing approved disinformation campaign. There was a plan, and it’s clear as day if you aren’t befuddled by your TDS. We lay it out, follow Doran’s logic … Read more
The Turkish Republic no longer functions as a sovereign state; it operates as a family-run arms bazaar. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has forged a throne out of shrapnel and drone circuitry, turning the machinery of war into a private ATM for his inner circle. Erdoğan has transformed Turkey from a mere NATO outpost into a global … Read more
The marble halls of the Swedish Riksdag echoed with the footsteps of a man who carries the weight of a thousand-year throne and the hopes of a fractured nation. Reza Pahlavi did more than walk into a legislative chamber; he reclaimed a seat on the global stage. While the clerical regime in Tehran trembles behind … Read more
The horizon over Tehran has changed. It is no longer defined by the minarets or the sprawling concrete of a revolutionary capital, but by the jagged, smoldering silhouettes of a shattered industrial base. The “Thirty-Nine Days of Fire” – a campaign of kinetic intensity unseen in this century – has concluded in a fragile, two-week … Read more
Real Clear Wire The past month delivered something rare in national security: real-world evidence of how artificial intelligence performs in conflict. Not in theory, not in demonstrations, and not in Silicon Valley pitch decks – but in the messy, high-stakes environment of modern warfare. What works in a demo doesn’t always survive first contact with … Read more
The Left has found an alternative to the old-fashioned rose-colored glasses of optimism. The new version is the smokey-gray colored glasses of cynicism and pure hatred. This new relationship phase that has come about with the ever-widening divide between the Left and Right goes far beyond the tongue-in-cheek chatter about Trump Derangement Syndrome. TDS started … Read more
How does it compare to Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan? This week, on NE TAKE, A. J. is joined by Middle East expert Jason Pack, of the Disorder Podcast and NATO Foundation, to break down the geopolitical state of the Iran military conflict and how it compares to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Does Trump have this … Read more
The President addressed the American people on Wednesday night, but listening to the supposed experts on CNN and MSNBC afterward showed they missed it. Nicolle Wallace was brought in for the recap because of her political expertise. Please, she spent her segment basically laughing at the President and his address. Kaitlin Collins on CNN was … Read more
Horizontal escalation occurs when a state at war widens the geographic and political scope of the conflict, rather than intensifying it vertically in a single theater of operations. It is especially appealing as a strategy for the weakest side in a military contest. Instead of trying to defeat a stronger adversary head-on, the weaker side … Read more
In the arid mountains of Iran, a terrifying engineering marvel has been carved into the bedrock. In the arid mountains of Iran, a terrifying engineering marvel has been carved into the bedrock — not for the benefit of the people, but to ensure the survival of a regime. While 2026 finds the average Iranian family struggling … Read more
The corridors of power in Brussels and the grand palaces of European capitals have served as the ultimate stage for a 47-year betrayal. Since the black day of the 1979 Revolution, while the Iranian people bled under the lash of a medieval theocracy, European leaders have played the role of the willing enabler. They trade … Read more
I recently got an email from someone who is concerned that President Trump is getting us into another “quagmire” of a war in the Middle East. Here was my response: I’m sorry, but I feel very differently about the Iran war. Iran has been at war with America since it took the hostages from the … Read more
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) is a parasitic anomaly. To call them Iranian is a tactical error and a historical lie. They are a cult of ideological mercenaries who severed their veins from the Iranian motherboard decades ago. They do not represent a political movement; they represent a decommissioned weapon system, repurposed by foreign … Read more
The resignation of Joseph Kent is not a “protest” – it is a confession of moral and strategic bankruptcy. While the United States and Israel finally move to cauterize the nuclear cancer growing in Tehran, Kent has chosen to retreat into the fever dreams of the antisemitic fringe, trading his duty to the nation for … Read more
The UK appears to have reached a point where it has so ruined itself that the only way to preserve any sense of unity is to have its own great Satan. That Alinsky-esque target you freeze and isolate in your people’s minds. The cause of all the ills that you must unite to defeat. In … Read more
The “Deep State” is not just corrupt US politicians. It’s a transnational criminal organization that has embedded itself within governments around the globe and leveraged entire nations to do its bidding. Or as JFK called it, a “secret society” and a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and … Read more