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Israel pounds Lebanon with heaviest airstrikes of the war as Hezbollah pauses attacks​

BEIRUT, April 8 (Reuters) - Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, even as the Iran-aligned group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week U.S.-Iran ceasefire.

Consecutive explosions shook Beirut, sending smoke billowing across the capital, as Israel's military said it had launched the largest coordinated strike of the war. More than 100 Hezbollah command centres and military sites were targeted in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, it said.

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This wont end in 2 weeks. Benji wont let it. Martin sees this going into 2028

 

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History you thought you knew...

Trump ENDS The Iranian Threat (Gen Holt)​

 

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I thought Bibi was dead...? Ai?

 

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JUST IN: Jesse Watters MIC DROPS traitors on the Left

"Trump's a war criminal...who stopped the war...because he's a chicken. I can't follow it!"

"Dems want to give 47 the 25th Amendment because he threatened Iran so hard, they signed a ceasefire!?"

"Senator Chris Murphy said Trump was losing the war, and he should stop bombing. So, Trump stopped bombing, and Murphy called him crazy for stopping!"

"Again, it makes no sense. I can't tell if the Democratic Party wants WAR or PEACE! I just know they want Trump to lose, and they want to lock him up for free speech."

"That's not usually how presidents speak. But most presidents don't usually win wars in 38 days. Maybe more presidents should speak like that. We wouldn't have been in Afghanistan for 20 years!"

 

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Iran signed a ceasefire last night and broke it before most Americans finished breakfast.

But that’s not the story.

The story is what Trump did while everyone was staring at the missiles.

The sequence: Iran signs ceasefire. Iran releases fake version claiming total victory. CNN runs fake version as real news. Trump calls it fraud. Iran launches missiles at Israel, Kuwait, UAE, and Bahrain.

Ceasefire lasts fewer hours than a domestic flight.

Everyone is asking the wrong question. The question isn’t “why did Iran break the ceasefire.” The answer to that is obvious. Iran has a political wing that wants to negotiate and a military wing that wants to die fighting. The IRGC operates 32 independent regional commands.

The politicians signed the paper. The generals launched the missiles.

Iran is a country negotiating with itself at gunpoint.

Trump already knows this.

This morning he posted that Iran has gone through “a very productive regime change.” He’s not angry about the broken ceasefire. He’s looking past the IRGC and talking directly to the political faction that’s still alive and desperate.

Then, minutes later, he posted a 50 percent tariff on any country supplying weapons to Iran. He didn’t name China. He didn’t have to.

Five Iranian ships left a Chinese port carrying sodium perchlorate, the chemical you need to make the solid rocket fuel inside every missile that just hit Kuwait. China trades $500 billion a year with the US. Russia trades under $500 million. The tariff isn’t about Russia.

So: one hand offers Iran reconstruction money and sanctions relief. The other hand prices China out of the Iranian weapons pipeline. Two posts, two targets, one table.

Meanwhile there’s a conservative commentator somewhere reading the CNN version of Iranian propaganda and telling you Trump surrendered.

My brother in Christ, he just set the opening bid for a meeting with Xi Jinping.

Are you paying attention?

 

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TRUMP'S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can't Stop​

Susan Kokinda argues that President Trump’s announced two-week, double-sided ceasefire with Iran signals a “civilizational” break from the long-running imperial system that has treated the Middle East as a managed cockpit of conflict. She highlights Trump amplifying Iran’s own statement confirming the ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and contrasts this approach with warnings from Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham, whom she frames as the “war party” pushing a Libya-style outcome. Kokinda says Pakistan, with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, mediated the ceasefire and that follow-up talks are set for Friday in Islamabad, likely led by Vice President JD Vance. She connects this to Vance’s Budapest remarks with Viktor Orbán about defending Western civilization against “nihilists,” and to Trump’s call with the Artemis II crew about establishing a permanent presence on the Moon and pushing on to Mars.

00:00 The Midweek Update - TRUMP'S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu Can't Stop - April 8, 2026
01:31 THE GAMBLE — Trump Bets on Iran's People
06:10 THE ENEMY — Vance Names the Nihilists
08:55 THE FUTURE — From the Moon to Mars

 

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We’ll Be Your Canada’: Brutal Reality Check for NATO Free-Riders | Victor Davis Hanson​

Germany’s invasion of France wasn’t our war, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt still sent military equipment, and later soldiers, to retake Western Europe.

However, Europe’s cold shoulder may not be out of spite, but an inability to help at all, explains Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words”:

“They have dreamed of utopia and a good life, and the result is that their fertility rate is 1.3. They are shrinking. They are aging. They’re not competitive. So they don’t have the manpower, even though they have a 450 million-person population. Europe is larger than us by 100 million.

“And even though they have a $22 trillion GDP, which is the third-largest, apparently they don’t want to invest that in their own defense, or they haven’t so far. They don’t want us to use it when we need it.”

00:00 NATO Crisis Returns
00:26 Iran Strikes And Allied Refusals
02:44 Why Europe Cannot Contribute
05:26 Moral Posturing And Base Politics
06:08 Let NATO Fade New Alliances

 

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