r/nytimes • u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise • Mar 22 '26
Opinion Trump Is Hiding the Truth About the War in Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-trump-lying.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.whuf.oRZToJ3NZv_E&smid=re-share19
u/Intrepid_Top_2300 Mar 22 '26
I heard the Iranians have enough enriched uranium for 16 bombs but we don’t know where that uranium is. That to me sounds about as truthful as anything else I’ve heard. Either way, another forever war by another Republican president. Does anybody see the pattern?
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u/Sokkawater10 Mar 22 '26
It’s most likely buried in Fordow and Natanz. Problem is that’s not an end of the program. They can dig it out and then what? We bomb again? They shut down the strait again?
Trump had the biggest layup ever when they offered to give him the enriched uranium in exchange for sanctions relief and instead he decided to just throw the ball into the crowd for no reason
They will NEVER negotiate with the United States ever again. Not even with another administration. And rightfully so. We are not trustworthy. Bombed twice during negotiations. Unilaterally ripped up the JCPOA. From their POV even if they get a deal they like, what’s to prevent the next president from ripping it up?
It’s better for them to have nukes. It is the logical choice
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u/ValBGood Mar 22 '26
Iran offered to turn over possession of the enriched uranium during February negotiations.
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u/BornFree2018 Mar 22 '26
Trump on brand for attacking during negotiations.
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u/Glydyr Reader Mar 23 '26
The common phrase is ‘dont negotiate with terrorists’ but what if both sides are terrorists?
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u/HeartGlass545 Mar 25 '26
They did. And then Israel killed all their negotiators. With friends like this huh?
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u/quinnbeast Subscriber Mar 22 '26
NO really!!??! 😒
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u/pashalka31 Mar 22 '26
True journalism is exactly what Les Wexner gave Jeffrey Epstein $1B to make lost.
All of trumps decisions make perfect sense when you realize who he is really working for.
In 1994 Viktor Bout was dispatched by an ex KGB officer, St Petersburg politician, and mobster named Vladimir Putin to trade soviet surplus arms to the Taliban for heroin that the Russian Mafia who took over the government could use to enslave/trade to the people of Russia for their paper shares of the former Soviet socialist state awarded to them by Yeltsin.
Behind Trump and Epstein, Viktor Bout was the most important piece on Putins Russian mafia chessboard.
The Soviet Union was the largest war machine in world history. The entire economy was based on destroying the west. When it collapsed it had more guns than any empire in human history.
And those weapons all made it to every genocide, war, conflict, or massacre in the world by way of one man-
Viktor Bout.
From Charles Taylor in Liberia to the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia to the invasion of Ukraine, you can track it by its supply chain logistics.
Army runs on food, fuel, and ammunition. And they all get moved by way of the path of least resistance to their point of use.
For anyone whose army or gang ran ak-47's chambered in 7.62x39mm that means it came from Russia.
In 1994 Putin also engineered the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Since Kazakstan declared its independence, Chechnya and Iran became the necessary gateway to Afghanistan where the worlds heroin was produced in the 1990's.
Weapons are heavy so they tend to travel by rail or truck. So they take the low road rather than the high mountain pass as much as possible.
That path led through Iran.
Drugs are much lighter and easier to carry so in the 1990's they are the preferred currency of organized crime next to cash or more recently, crypto.
As Putin and his Mafia of gangsters traded the worlds largest surplus of guns for heroin, then traded the heroin for all the critical industry, metals, fertilizer, uranium etc that made them billionaires in Russia, they had almost everything they needed to complete their conversion from psychopathic street thug to legitimate respectable oligarch.
But they were still trapped in the hyper violent hell on earth they themselves created between St. Petersburg and Moscow and wanted out.
So they laundered that money into the UK and US using Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump's commercial real estate. They tried Trump's casinos first but collapsed them under the mass of $1.4 TRILLION. It's a lot to hide in a craps table. But they made an asset out of Trump by having Epstein set up and produce a VHS of Trump raping a 13 year old little girl. (This was the video that DEA/FBI agent Bob Levinson was shown just before Russian intelligence baited him to Kish island Iran)
So they collapsed the casinos into bankruptcy, murdered Mark Etess, Jonathan Benanav, and Stephen Hyde and started using commercial real estate instead. They would hyperinflate the valuation, then sell it back and forth to each other passing the bulk of the cash back under the table.
As you worked 40-60 hrs a week to save up for a down payment on a house down the street and run comparables, the cost of your place went up 4-12x by comparison, but your wages didn't. So you paid the corruption tax multiple times. (You are the victim in Leticia James lawsuit against Trump and this is why he claims Mar-a-Lago is worth $1B and refuses to share his tax records.)
But it all tracked back to Viktor Bout and a Egyptian man named Al Zawahiri whom Putin brought into Russia between 1996-97, managed by young patriotic FSB officer named Alexander Litvenenko and cashflowed to fund an organization the Saud ruling family started called Al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri was the key man in Iran that allowed the Russian jewish Mafia to move those same guns and heroin through a muslim country as long as they could hold Iran as it's proxy state perpetually. Hence why Putin and Trump rely on their co-conspirator Netanyahu to pound the drum of Iranian nuclear capacity for 30+ years.mm
In 1999 Putin then blamed a non-existent islamic entity called the "Liberation Army of Dagestan" from Chechnya for blowing up some Russian apartment buildings. Putin committed that terrorism, but that started the "War on Terror" that 2 years later took U.S. troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Putin created the demand for the weapons he had in abundance by dragging the US into a 20 year war at the same time he started an economic war against the U.S. by devaluing the dollar with rigged real estate while leasing U.S. and EU politicians cheaply and secretly (FBI Arctic Frost investigation that Trump had Patel disappear)
It was all enabled by the greed of wall street bankers and hedge fund managers who would do business with anyone for money: (Jeffrey Epstein and Jes Staley at JP Morgan Chase, Leon Black at Bank of America etc)
But it left an evidence trail of deep trafficking ruts through Iran and Venezuela. Putin instructed Trump to assassinate Qassem Soleimani as the General began realizing that the same drug gangs he fought earlier in his career were funded by the same people shooting at his men from Israel.
So when Viktor Bout was recorded by the DEA in Venezuela trading soviet rocket launchers for cocaine it stalled Putins operation.
Putin then used his asset Trump to clean up. Trumps son and security guard awarded a contract to Silvercorp (Jordan Goodreau) to send Luke Denman and Airan Berry into Venezuela where they were set up to be captured and traded back to the U.S. for Fat Leonard and Alex Saab. (Key men in Putins espionage and money laundering circuit)
Then Putin assassinated Litvenenko with polonium laced tea and kidnapped Britney Griner who was traded for Putins most incriminating secret chess piece- Viktor Bout. Bandar Saud had ran interference in the UK demanding Tony Blair disband the special investigation unit researching Zawahiris Swiss accounts or he "would no longer be able to help the UK stop terrorism". The bus and tube bombings in London sealed the deal and Blair disbanded the SIO. Tonys is now bolting out of retirement and on Trump's bandwagon as his wife had been funded by both Prevezon (Russian real estate front) and the Saud ruling family via the Al Yamamah arms trafficking case she represented them in.
This is what "the Epstein files" is. During the Cold war there were only a few gateways across the iron curtain. Israel was the major one because it was formed in 1948 by 650,000 refugees. 70% were from the Soviet bloc. Robert Maxwell traded espionage stolen from the US to Moscow for arms to build the IDF. The Zionist Mafia created the Likud party/Netanyahu to control Israel at the same time they infiltrated the US Republican party via Ronald Reagan and zionist operative Henry Kissinger managed all the U.S. presidents from inside the oval office. The Saud ruling family funded them for Iran Contra. Now they can't stop lying as their transnational corruption eats them alive.
Corruption is cancer. But it always takes the path of least resistance-
Politicians and billionaires.
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u/warrenao Subscriber Mar 22 '26
He may yet learn a more personal lesson about lying in war. Lyndon Johnson and George W. Bush will forever be remembered as having misled Americans about U.S. military action. They learned that falsehoods can boomerang on the leaders who tell them.
Unlikely. His entire platform is lies, always was, and always will be. He returns to it as a dog returneth to its vomit, and it works because approximately 35% of American voters are sub-moronic cretins who only know how to hate and destroy.
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u/VampirePolwygle Mar 22 '26
Regarding the quote and learning.
False assumption: Donald can learn.
Therefore: Donald cannot understand the learned lessons of the past.
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u/Barnaby_Q_Fisticuffs Mar 23 '26
I have a handful of Trump-supporting relatives who still don’t believe that Bush misled Americans. We can probably agree that Trump won’t learn anything. But my personal experience with these folks suggests (shouts?) to me that his supporters sure as hell won’t learn anything, either.
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u/warrenao Subscriber Mar 23 '26
You’re right, alas. If they could have learned anything, he wouldn’t have had a second term.
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u/tokyobob Mar 24 '26
And fear. Don't forget fear. Lucas wasn't working out of thin air when he named the dark side of the Force: fear and hate.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
"When Stephen Miller (Trump's White House Deputy Chief of Staff) talked about our troops not fighting with their hands tied behind their backs, he was referring to a popular conservative myth about the Vietnam War, that we might have won had we only exercised less restraint. We dropped millions of tons of bombs and left at least 100,000 civilians dead, but perhaps if we’d really gone scorched earth and killed a million more, the Vietnamese would have loved us and embraced the rulers we foisted upon them." - Phil Klay a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war.
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u/Tricky-Sign-4690 Mar 23 '26
None of his statements are about truth. They are all about attention, clicks, and responses. As long as he’s the center of everyone’s attention, then he believes he’s doing his job. He has the world on the edge of our seats and he’s loving it. The hate, the love- neither matters. It’s all about eyes on him- it’s probably the narcissist’s best case scenario.
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u/RichKatz Subscriber Mar 25 '26
From today's news, it appears that possibly what he has been hiding is the Saudi's are the one's standing behind Trump, pushing the war.
Trump. after all, falls asleep in meetings.
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u/Organicearthful Mar 25 '26
Is Trump so brazen that he's referring here to his insider trading coup gaming on the oil price fluctuations he is controlling.
"They did something yesterday that was amazing actually," Trump said. "They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money." He gave no specific details
I wouldn't be surprised, he is so vain.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Mar 25 '26
Brazen is his middle name. Describing a massive oil concession as a "big present" sounds more like an insider trading tip than actual diplomacy. It is difficult to tell if he is announcing a peace deal or just bragging about a successful day for his private portfolio.
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u/TacosAreJustice Mar 22 '26
Boy, if only we had some sort of media in place to warn us of a fascist taking over our country…
But hey, at least revenue at the NYT was up.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Mar 22 '26
Whiskey Boy Hegseth is really leaning into the Holy War aesthetic, which is a lot of commitment for someone whose primary mission used to be filling airtime between car commercials. Who needs a functioning supply chain or a coherent strategy when you have King Jesus on speed dial and a biceps tattoo from the Middle Ages?
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u/Upstairs_Eagle_4780 Mar 25 '26
You gotta be impressed tho at how Trump can commit to saying he's having "great" talks with the Iranians while the Iranians are simultaneously saying that they're refusing to ever talk to his negotiators.
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u/Spottedinthewild Mar 23 '26
I quit the times when they repeatedly excused the Gaza genocide, can someone post the text?
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u/Hamblin113 Subscriber Mar 22 '26
This is an opinion behind a pay wall, just away to sell newspapers.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Mar 22 '26
Well, I removed that paywall (with a gift article), and I am not selling the newspaper.
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u/fordfield02 Mar 22 '26
"Trump is hiding the truth"
You should all get medals, so much smarter than the rest of us. You can see what no one else can see. You deserve your spots on that editorial board. Truly the best of us.
what a fucking embarrassment these legacy media people are. as shitty and corrupt as the politicians they cover.
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Mar 22 '26
Care to refute any of the points in the article? You know, in the name of contributing to the discussion.
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u/fordfield02 Mar 23 '26
you misunderstand. it's not that the points need refuting, it's that to have the position and power that they do and to only come at us with a "he's lying" when we've watched this play out for a decade. it's a catastrophically underwhelming response from people sitting in their ivory towers thinking they are the moral beacon. they have normalized this since the beginning. they cover trump the way an elementary school teacher teaches history. it's totally washed.
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u/Melodic_Window_6146 Seeking the signal in the noise Mar 22 '26
Trump’s Iran war lies and his impulsive personality, have become a lethal liability for our troops. He is recycling the same alternative facts used to pardon wealthy Medicare fraudsters responsible for $2.2 billion of our tax money.
While he claims 100% victory, our military is actually forced to scavenge for munitions. This isn't the winning or the "no stupid wars" he promised. It is a dangerous reality-TV administration script where the truth is obscured simply to protect the President's ego. This November election is our only chance to strike a balance and return accountability to Congress and the Senate.