YouTube Notes:
Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman took questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers.
The press said Iran killed the talks. It didn’t. Israel did. When Netanyahu threatened to bomb Hezbollah in Beirut, Tehran walked from the table — and Trump got on the phone, turned the strikes back, and kept the settlement alive. The real question isn’t who wants peace. It’s who needs the war: the City of London faction whose last revenue streams run through a Middle East in flames and a blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
And it isn’t just one front. Russia is warning foreigners out of Kyiv as drones spill into NATO-member Romania, and strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Hegseth went to the Shangri-La Dialogue and laid out a sovereignty-based defense doctrine — declining to lead on Taiwan and rattling the China hawks.
It’s primary day at home, and Barbara unpacks the “fifth-dimension” cognitive warfare aimed straight at MAGA. The whole world looks like it’s on fire — so this week we ask who’s lighting the matches.
