Ron Paul Liberty Report's "Weekly Report: Just Get Out! Now" alleges President Trump launched a war against Iran without State Department or Pentagon input, driven by misinformation from Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff regarding nuclear talks. Despite warnings of Straits of Hormuz closures and oil spikes, the March 6th attack destroyed U.S. facilities, killed at least 14 service members, and cost billions, with allies refusing aid after Trump initially rejected UK help. The segment concludes that no conventional options remain, urging an immediate withdrawal from Gulf bases to avoid nuclear escalation and prevent further global economic collapse. [Automatically generated summary]
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Just get out now.
As is becoming clearer from President Trump's own statements and those of his staff, along with press reporting, the U.S. has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise the President on such matters.
The State Department, Pentagon, National Security Council staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NSA were simply bypassed because, as White House spokesman Caroline Levitt said, President Trump had a feeling Iran would attack.
The President's real estate developer, son-in-law, and friend reinforced that feeling when they returned from the second round of talks with the Iranian foreign minister and his team.
However, as the news outlet Responsible Statecraft reported over the weekend, both son-in-law Jared Kushner and friend Steve Witkoff appear to have misrepresented those talks in a way that helped push President Trump's toward war.
No State Department officials were on hand to ensure the reporting was accurate.
Also, arms control experts at home, according to the RS report, believe that the duo appear to have fatally misunderstood a series of basic technical and historical matters regarding Iran's nuclear programs leading to inaccurate information conveyed to the president.
Congress was completely out of the picture, seemingly uninterested in performing its constitutional duty, and no case was made to the American people that they must sacrifice and die once again for a war in the Middle East.
Trump's repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have turned out to be empty, and Republicans are set for a crippling defeat in the upcoming midterm elections.
Iran has been warning for months since the last U.S.-Israeli surprise attack in June that if they were attacked again, they would not hold back on the U.S. bases in the region and that they would close the Straits of Hermuz.
Trump and then Yahoo attacked anyway, and Iran was done what it said it would do.
Now, the Straits of Hermuz is closed.
Oil is about to go out of control, and the global economy, along with the U.S. dollar, seems about to implode.
On March 6th, President Trump refused a U.K. offer of help, saying we don't need help when we've already won the war.
Five days later, at a rally in Kentucky, President Trump repeated that we've won the Iran war.
It was his mission accomplished a moment because this weekend, just days after declaring victory against an obliterated Iran, Trump began begging other countries to send ships to help the U.S. open the Straits of Hermuz.
Thus far, every country has declined, understanding that such a mission has little chance of success.
Tragically, the war thus far has claimed at least 14 service members.
It is likely the toll is far worse than they are telling us.
Every U.S. military facility in the region is either damaged or destroyed.
Billions of dollars of radar and other equipment are destroyed.
Our allies in the region, because they allowed their territory to be used to attack Iran, have also seen massive retaliatory destruction.
This is surely one of the worst military disasters in U.S. history.
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There are no military options available beyond the unthinkable, the use of nuclear weapons.
The only viable option that remains is one that was often urged in the Vietnam War.
Just get out.
Now.
No return to U.S. bases, no security guarantees to Gulf states and the U.S. Empire in the Middle East and elsewhere.