The media keeps insisting an Iran deal is imminent. Read the terms and it's obvious no one in Tehran would sign — not after being surprise-attacked twice mid-negotiation, including the killing of their own leader. Matt and CJ start there and end up somewhere bigger: what a declining empire does when it stops believing in limits.

From Trump threatening to "blow up" Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, to Beirut bombed over the weekend, to boats destroyed off South America with Cuba teed up next — this is a foreign policy with no brakes.

CJ brings the history: Eisenhower ending the Korean War in under a year because he understood limits, and Thucydides watching Athens chase the mad dream of conquest. Then a full breakdown of the Libertarian Party's disaster convention, the LPNH purge, and where the liberty movement should actually be fighting.

In this one:

• Why Iran negotiates from strength — and why no concessions means no signature
• The economic bill coming due: gas, inflation, fertilizer shortages, famine
• An empire that can't stop: Oman, Lebanon, Cuba, the neglected hemisphere
• Eisenhower, Thucydides, and leaders who once understood limits
• The LP convention meltdown, the 15–2 disaffiliation of LPNH, and the Massie question

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The Israel lobby just spent $32 million to remove Thomas Massie from Congress. AIPAC bragged about it on X within hours. A sitting Defense Secretary flew to Kentucky to campaign against him — federal law be damned.

And here's the kicker: the three most expensive House primaries in US history were all decided by the same foreign lobby, all against members who criticized Israel.

Matt and CJ work through the central question: at what point does this stop being lobbying and start being an act of war?

Plus: the generational collapse in support for Israel (75% to 40% among under-30 Republicans), the IHRA laws now embedded in 38 states, Mark Levin's "Nazis and jihadis" rant, the Epstein angle, the Charlie Kirk timing, the "political dark matter" framework for understanding Trump's 180s — and why Americans killing COVID tyranny by refusing to comply is the template for what comes next.

CJ Killmer of the Dangerous History Podcast is back after a brutal few months, and we walk through where the United States actually stands two and a half months into the war with Iran.

The blockade is theater. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Every justification the administration has given has shifted, and every objective they set is unreachable. Trump is in Beijing this week asking Xi for help on a war he says he doesn't need help with.

CJ takes us back to 1948 and walks the full history of the Israel lobby's grip on American foreign policy. Truman's reelection calculation. Eisenhower at Suez. Kennedy on Israeli nukes. Reagan's one and only pushback. Carter's Camp David walkback. Why Netanyahu's time preference is shorter than Trump's term.

We get into the Massie primary, the Tucker apology, the Charlie Kirk void, the campaign promises Trump has run against, and why the midterms are going to cream Republicans.

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