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American conservatives, You need to ask yourself why so many of the "New Right" have spent the last year lying to you about the war in Iran by omitting its clear necessity, as Senator Kennedy made clear, as Trump always maintained, as Bibi reinforced, and as was obvious af.

Of all the dumb talking points I encounter, and I encounter a lot of them, the New Right (Woke Right) talking point that Iran has been "close to a nuclear weapon for 20 years," implying that's a false pretext and Trump lied, is perhaps the dumbest. Just astronomically fake. I can't believe Buck Sexton, ex-CIA genius, trotted it out last night, among so many others. There's no way he's this dumb as an analyst, so he must have other motivations for saying it. Let's explain how stupid it is, though. Iran wants a nuclear weapon because they're a lunatic terrorist-theocratic regime that's also a threat to everyone around them. That means they're trying to build one, and when they encounter setbacks and obstacles, they will keep trying to build one. So, if they wanted one 20 years ago and got close and got set back, say by Israeli or American or other intervention, that would be a setback, not a permanent end to the program. After a period of time, they would regroup and get close to a nuclear weapon again. If that gets stopped again, it starts over again too. This keeps happening until the IRGC is out of power because they can always dig another hole and start again, especially with a little help from their bad-guy friends in Russia, China, and North Korea. So, periodically, as long as the IRGC lasts, it will once again be close to a nuclear weapon and have to be stopped. It got especially close this time significantly because of a little bit of help from another one of their friends: Barack Obama. If this is too abstract and complicated for you, consider an analogy. You really want something, like new shoes or something. You work to get the money to get them, but then when you're close to having enough, something comes up, and you have to spend some of your money. That's a setback, but you keep working because you really want those shoes. Soon, you get close again, but your phone broke, so you have to spend your money to fix it and have to get back to working toward your shoes again later. Each time, you almost have enough money for your shoes. So, you keep almost having your shoes even though you don't have them yet. But you ain't quit, so you'll keep working to get them, and before you know it, you're close again. It works just like that. The IRGC really wants nuclear weapons. Israel and America keep stopping them from getting them, and they face setbacks like having their centrifuges blown up. So they get new centrifuges as soon as they can, put them somewhere new, and get back to it. Before long, they're close again because they want it. Let me try another analogous explanation for the cooked brains out there. Imagine you have an illegal immigrant jihadi cell that wants to do a terrorist attack in New York. They put together a plan, but the cops foil it and arrest some of them. But their parent organization really wants to do it, so they get some more guys and a new plan. The cops foil that too. As long as the parent organization, Muslim Brotherhood or whatever, still operates, the cops keep having to stop imminent terrorist attacks as they find out about them because the organization really wants to do one whether this plan or that plan gets busted or not. See, they got really close to doing a terror attack but faced a setback, so they regrouped and tried again. Then they got set back again, so they regrouped again. It's just like this. Exactly like this. Not at all different than this. I can't believe I have to explain this. I can't believe how fried people's brains are, including smart ex-CIA brains, that they either can't understand this or are willing to pretend they don't understand it for other reasons, publicly, in front of people. President Trump has never once changed his tune on why he struck Iran, either in June of 2025 or in February of 2026, starting the war: "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon." The intelligence suggested that they were getting close to it, along with long-range ballistic missiles. The claim was they were close to final enrichment for enough material for up to eleven warheads, and they might have them within two weeks. Just after Trump struck, they launched some long-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia and proved they had those and that intelligence was correct. For some reason, nobody who is "against the war" is willing to believe that the nuclear material claim, which would arm the missiles, which could hit European capitals, was also true. President Trump has never wavered and is even still doubling down on his reasoning here, which is clear, simple, and to the point. He said it again today, in fact. In all likelihood, it is true, and he did the right thing. That means he did not start the war. Iran did. That means the war was not pointless. It was to prevent the successful completion of nuclear weapons. That means the war that ensued was not pointless either. It is what followed because Iran wasn't happy about it. That means it wasn't Israel's war. It was humanity's war, and America's war too. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That means Israel didn't drag America into the war. Israel shared intelligence that our own services used and agreed with to inform the strikes. That means the war is America First, if you must use that insufferable, tainted brand to get your brain to do anything. That means the right reaction isn't punishing Trump or adopting more New Right crap. It is to say thank you and to be proud to be an American because your country provided an important service. My frustration with how many people are swallowing this absolutely idiotic New Right, Iranian, Russian propaganda nonsense could not possibly be higher. I cannot believe this has to be explained to people.

While we're doing these childishly simple explainers, no, Trump did not betray a campaign promise by starting a new war after promising no new wars. That's a false reading of a situation where Trump communicated poorly. Trump made two potentially contradictory promises. 1) No new wars. 2) Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. Under normal circumstances, these two promises are compatible, but Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapon. When it got close enough to a nuclear weapon to cross a red line, the two promises immediately came into conflict. Trump could not fulfill both promises the moment Iran got close to completing a nuclear weapon. Could not. Impossible. The two promises came into conflict and therefore had to be prioritized. Trump, like every sane person with a realistic outlook who isn't doing Russian or Iranian propaganda or something like it, correctly (practical) and rightly (moral) concluded that prioritizing (2) (Iran will never have a nuclear weapon) was the right and necessary thing to do. Stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon became superordinate to starting no new wars in the very instant Iran crossed a red line on nuclear weapon production. Every adult understands this, whether they like it or not. The mysterious part of this whole affair is that the New Right, like all foreign propaganda on the matter, pushed a hard line that Trump betrayed his voters with a new war without ever once explaining this conflict or the necessity of resolving it the way he did (by striking Iran, twice, the second of which dragged into a more protracted conflict). Never once. Does that not strike you as odd? All of the messaging on the point was that Trump lied, Trump betrayed his base, Trump betrayed his voters. All of it. Not once did anyone on the New Right sit down and tell their mostly young and inexperienced audience, who never experienced the nuclear fears of the Cold War, that these two promises came into conflict because of Iran's actions, and Trump had to prioritize them and to take the more important road. Not once. And weirdest of all, that line matched exactly the Russian line and the Iranian line, all of which benefit Iran over the United States while branding themselves "America First." How do you not realize this is suspicious behavior, if not treason? The post below, which invokes Buck Sexton, was the result of my replying to him with a shorter version of this, in which I said "a war came up," which he decided to mock, as if his ex-CIA brain couldn't understand what it meant. Here's what it meant, in case you're cooked: Iran crossed a red line on nuclear weapons production, necessitating military action, which spun into a war. And now, after the midterms, the whole New Right, including the Vice President and Don Jr., the president's own son, is repeating this nauseating line of propaganda against Trump and the necessary political and other sacrifices he made for the American people and the security of the world. It's disgusting beyond words. At some point, some of this might make you stop and wonder what's going on. I hope it does, anyway. It needs to.