Afshin Rattansi CHALLENGES former CIA Advisor: ‘The Afghanistan War WAS IN VAIN.’

Afshin: ‘Sacrificing all those American soldiers, let alone countless Afghans, was not in vain? What did it achieve?’

Dr. Michael O’Hanlon: ‘We have not been attacked again by Al Qaeda on the homeland.’

Afshin: No one from Al Qaeda was Afghan.

Afshin: ‘The original 9/11 Al Qaeda attackers, as you correctly note, were from the Middle East. But my point is that by showing the Taliban government that we were prepared to overthrow them and fight them for 20 years if necessary…

Once they gave Al Qaeda safe haven within Afghanistan to help plan those attacks, the Taliban has not associated itself closely with Al Qaeda since then and has not allowed Al Qaeda to plan attacks against the Western world since then.’

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Oliver Stone on Going Underground in 2020:

'The intelligence agencies grasped the reins of the US government...look at their role in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, there's no end to the messes they get us into, Syria and Libya...it's getting worse.’

It got a lot worse. Washington provoked the Ukraine proxy war, armed a genocide in Gaza, supported Israel’s wars of expansion across the Middle East, and now the US government is stuck in a disastrous quagmire for Israel in Iran.

Afshin Rattansi: ‘The United States went on to support Al Qaeda in Syria…the United States’ strategy is to create Al Qaeda and ISIS-Daesh.’

Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon: ‘The Obama administration was reluctant to support the Syrian opposition very much because it knew there were Al Qaeda sympathisers within that group.

And even though declared American policy was to try to help overthrow the President Assad in Syria, there was never that much enthusiasm behind the mission in the United States.’

Afshin Rattansi: ‘We have the leaked document from Jake Sullivan to Hillary Clinton: Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.

It was a covert support for Al-Qaeda just as it was covert support for what would become al-Qaeda that created 9/11. It was covert support that would lead to ISIS-Daesh beheadings and al-Qaeda.’

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“Do you now realise what you have done?”

Vladimir Putin to NATO nations in 2015 after they destroyed Iraq, Libya, and Syria in regime change wars where they backed Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups…

Eventually leading to blowback terror attacks across NATO countries.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon on the Ukraine proxy war:

‘The United States made policy mistakes that made it more likely Russia would react this way, but Russia’s reaction was still wrong. Russia’s reaction was criminal, but it was also foreseeable.

It was foreseeable that in the Russian state there would be this sense that if we got too close to Russia’s own territory, there would be a strong Russian reaction.

I think we should have understood that better than we did, and approached the idea of NATO expansion in a fundamentally different way.

I wrote a book in 2017 proposing a different security architecture for Eastern Europe because I didn’t think we would do well in our future relationship with Russia if we continued down the path that we were on.’

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Former CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon:

‘My hope would be a negotiated end to the Ukraine war that allows for a real detente.

If you look over 250 years, more often than not, the United States and Russia had been friends and partners rather than adversaries or rivals.

I would like to get back to the day when that’s possible again.’

Full interview: https://rumble.com/v7egm6k-afshin-rattansi-challenges-ex-cia-advisor-on-the-legacy-of-americas-wars-su.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a

Afshin Rattansi: ‘You wrote ‘US strategy has created the most stable, peaceful, and prosperous world order in human history.’

38 million have been killed just by U.S. sanctions between 1970 and 2021. How is it stable, peaceful, and prosperous?’

Ex-CIA Advisor Dr. Michael O’Hanlon: ‘We have not had World War III, and the great powers have not fought each other directly, since the United States and China fought in the Korean War, and that’s impressive by the standards of world history…

I can criticise a lot of specific American decisions, but still think that we’ve been a positive force in the world and make that broader argument.’

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Ken Silva: ‘There will probably be MORE ASSASSINATION THREATS against Donald Trump.’

‘There probably will be more assassination attempts because there's been no reforms at the Secret Service.

In fact, a lot of the people who were responsible for the failures at Butler and Palm Beach and beyond have received promotions.

The former director of Trump's personal detail is now the director of the entire agency. It's got a bigger budget, more agents, more power.

So even if you don't want to get conspiratorial here, it's almost like built-in incentives for these institutions to fail.’

—Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’ joins us for Monday’s season finale episode of Going Underground

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Ken Silva: ‘NO EVIDENCE Iran was behind the Trump assassination attempts in Butler and West Palm Beach.’

‘There's absolutely no evidence for this although I'm sure there are people, including in the Iranian government, who would like to see Trump dead, there there's been no evidence of any legitimate threat.

A lot of people in conservative media, the Israeli government and even Congress people like Mike Waltz have drawn disingenuous ties between Iran and the Butler shooting, or the Ryan Routh case that happened two months later.

When they talk about the Iranian assassination threat, they'll have pictures of Trump at Butler like raising his fist, trying to get people who don't who don't read past the headlines just to make that connection.

If you talk to people who are serious about arguing that the Iranian threat is legitimate though, they'll cite various cases where the FBI has arrested so-called operatives working on behalf of Iran who were plotting to kill Trump, although there was no threat.

The most famous one of these was a guy who was bizarrely arrested the day before Butler on July 13th 2024. He was arrested July 12th.

The case was announced about a month later, and everybody automatically assumed that there was some connection to this case involving a Pakistani man named Asif Merchant And Butler.

The timing is bizarre, but if you look more closely, this was a very highly controlled FBI sting operation, where they were monitoring him before he even entered the US.

Israel gave the US intelligence that this guy might be a threat. He might be working for the Iranian government. They let him into the country on purpose, connected him to an FBI informant who was driving him around, giving him money.

The informant introduces him to two undercover FBI agents who were posing as hitmen, and they took him to a strip club where they did have some sort of vague meeting about possibly assassinating US politicians or committing other crimes.

And the target, Merchant said, “Well, we'll give you the real plan in September. Meet me in Pakistan.” And then the FBI arrests him when he is attempting to leave the country on July 12th.

That’s the case that most people cite as a legitimate threat. He might have had intent, but he had absolutely no capacity. This was something totally manufactured by the FBI.’

—Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’, on the latest episode of Going Underground

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Reminder: Israel had the President of the United States hiding in a catering truck to get out of Air Force One and switch planes, after fabricating an Iranian assassination plot to derail a US-Iran deal.

Despite the CIA reportedly being skeptical and having ‘low-confidence’ in the Israeli assessment, Donald Trump believed Israeli intelligence over American intelligence.

No Iranian assassination attempt occurred. Humiliation.

Ken Silva: ‘Fabricated Iran assassination threats are an Israeli PYSOP on Donald Trump.’

‘We’ve gotten another story in the New York Times where the Israelis told Trump that Iran is plotting to kill him again, and this is right before the war heated up yet again.

So there seems to be a pattern here, and this does date back to 2024. Not only do we have the Merchant case, but after he’s almost killed in Butler, and then there’s another attempt on his life at his golf course in September 2024…

They tell him that the Iranians have smuggled surface-to-air missiles into the US and that they want to shoot down his plane, Trump Force One, which is just a ridiculous conspiracy.

There’s no evidence for this, no documentation, no witnesses, no arrests. You know, if this were true, the war would have started a lot earlier.

it was almost a psyop on Trump. They’re really trying to make him seem, or think, that this is a legitimate thing that Iran’s trying to kill him.’

—Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’, on the latest episode of Going Underground

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The consequence of Israel constantly making Trump fear for his life with fake intelligence about Iranian assassination plots:

Trump hates Iran so viscerally, that he has brought the US economy to the brink of disaster, with US crude oil inventories collapsing to their lowest levels in 5 decades.

While Trump digs in and waits for the Iranian economy to implode and cause state collapse with his blockade and ‘Economic D-Day’…

Iran digs in and waits for the US economy to implode as the Strait of Hormuz WMD progressively causes more global economic crises.

Ken Silva: Thomas Crooks, responsible for trying to assassinate Donald Trump, MUST HAVE been on federal law enforcement’s radar.

‘In June 2024, Thomas Crooks was still making plans to attend a four-year university that fall. Less than a month before he turns up dead on a roof, he's asking about getting his diploma from his community college.

So it's really bizarre. The information referenced by Tucker Carlson is social media data that he obtained from 2019 and 2020 when Crooks was only 16.

Crooks was openly talking on YouTube videos about assassinating US politicians and bombing federal buildings and committing other acts of terrorism. And he's also conversing with an account called Willy Tepes, who is on a State Department terror watch list.

They're talking back and forth about what's the best way to, overthrow the US government, which tells you that he had to have been on federal law enforcement's radar in some capacity, even though this is four years before the attack.

You don't get to make violent comments like that on a platform like YouTube without the FBI being notified.’

—Ken Silva on the latest episode of Going Underground

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The Trump assassination plots, what you haven’t been told: Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was conducted by the same medical examiner sent to ISRAEL after OCTOBER 7TH.

‘Thomas Crooks’ body was kept on the rooftop until the next morning after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, and then it was taken from Butler County to Allegheny County.

Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt character is the medical examiner, and they conduct an autopsy and immediately release the body for cremation before it can be examined by Congress.

They collected several specimens from Crooks, like his blood, urine, eye bile, an envelope of hair, but they didn’t test them all, or they didn’t include the results of the tests on the report, which, these specimens would arguably have shown the presence of maybe psychotropic drugs or something like that.

The toxicology report was incomplete. And then the autopsy report shows that he released the body for cremation With bullet fragments still inside of it, so really it seems I would argue mishandling of evidence, and so I do, we need to know who this Goldschmidt guy is.

I’m not necessarily accusing him of being a part of an Israeli conspiracy, but because he’s such a key player in this case, and because I do think he really botched this, it is worth noting that yes…

This is the same guy who after October 7th happened, he apparently volunteered to go over there and help with the IDF and the Israeli government in identifying these victims of the Hamas attack.

And he worked with a guy named Chen Kugel who was one of the sources of these dubious claims about beheaded babies. And then like nine months later, he’s doing Crooks’s autopsy. It’s a bizarre coincidence.’

—Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’ on the latest episode of Going Underground

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Ken Silva on would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s Ukraine and Israel connections:

‘Ryan Routh is a multiple-time felon. He was in Ukraine in early 2022, recruiting Afghans and Syrians to fight against Russia, and he says in his own self-published book that his best partner in this initiative was an Israeli guy.

This activity gets put on the radar of at least seven different federal or international agencies:

The FBI, Customs, Interpol, the CIA, the State Department even opened an investigation into him for arms trafficking regulation violations, and that investigation was open at the time of his assassination attempt.

So to me, it raises grave questions about how he was able to operate with impunity and almost get a shot off at Trump again, while he's on the radar of so many agencies who are investigating him.

His whole rationale for the attempt is he thought that he thought Trump would hand Ukraine over to Russia, and he was kind of one of these turbo liberal guys who was fighting for NATO and everything like that.

I think he was probably radicalised by the pro-NATO crowd while he was in Ukraine. He felt like he needed to kill Trump for the good of democracy.

You know, we've got rhetoric about him wanting to kill Putin too.

So he seems to be a guy with delusions of grandeur, like he wanted to be a hero, and he'll be serving you know the rest of his life in prison for that.’

—Ken Silva, Author of ‘The Trump Assassination Plots’, on the latest episode of Going Underground.

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HALF A YEAR OF THE WAR ON IRAN: 180 days of confirmation of the end of US empire.

Half a year of utter failure on every single objective. The US and Israel began the war thinking Iran’s system would implode following the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, expecting the surrender and capitulation displayed by Venezuela.

They believed air superiority and dropping tens of thousands of bombs would silence the missile and drone arsenals of the Iranian military. Donald Trump was reportedly surprised when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, something it has threatened to do for decades in case of a US attack.

6 months later, we can see how detached from reality the neocon foreign policy of the second Trump Administration is. Ayatollah Khamenei was replaced by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian military still has the capability to strike the US’ regional assets, and the Strait of Hormuz is still shut.

6 months of threats of annihilation, bombing, economic sanctions, have proven completely fruitless in fulfilling any US objectives. Iran has imposed a strategic defeat on the United States.

US power has been embarrassed and exposed to be in deep decline. Its $1 trillion+ military was defeated by a regional power with a home-grown defence industrial-base.

The world has suffered the consequences of Washington’s war, and not since the end of the so-called Cold War have so many people across the world viewed the US as a desperate and dangerous rogue state that will rip up all the ‘rules’ of the ‘rules-based order’ to maintain its empire.

Billions are facing higher prices, economic crises, and economic disaster after Trump and Netanyahu’s attack led to Iran shutting the Strait of Hormuz…and now Trump’s legacy has a real possibility of being a global economic depression.

At home, Trump betrayed his own base after promising ‘no more wars’, and instead launched a war that Tel Aviv dreamed about. The unpopularity of this war and the fact that it is so nakedly a war for Israel’s interests has caused the largest backlash against the Israel lobby and its grip on US foreign policy.

More and more Americans are learning about Israel’s history of genocide and barbarism, and are increasingly sick and tired of their tax dollars being used to support it, and the fact that their politicians seem utterly beholden to the Israeli lobby.

After 6 months, US imperial power is cracking violently, the world sits on the precipice of economic disaster thanks to the actions of fanatical pro-Israel neocons in Washington, and billions around the world increasingly understand that the era of unipolarity must decisively end for the good of humanity.