If You Were Wrong About Trump and Iran—You Owe Us All Silence Now
- john raymond
- Jun 21
- 3 min read
Donald Trump attacked Iran. Let that sentence sink in.
He didn’t hesitate. He didn’t flinch. He didn’t seek peace. He bombed Iranian nuclear sites in coordination with Israeli forces, and now the U.S. is fully engaged in another Middle Eastern war—one that serves Vladimir Putin’s strategic interests far more than America’s.
And yet, just days ago, the air was filled with smug denials:“He wouldn’t dare.”“He’s Putin’s puppet—he’d never touch Iran.”“He’s bluffing.”“He wants a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Those ideas were wrong. And misreading them wasn’t benign. It helped enable the war.
Let’s walk through the failures.
1. “He’s Putin’s Puppet—So Iran Is Safe”
This was the foundational misunderstanding. It was always assumed that Trump’s deference to Putin made Iran untouchable. But the strategic reality has changed: Iran has outlived its usefulness to Russia. As explained in our earlier analysis, Putin gave Trump the greenlight precisely because Iran now serves better as a scapegoat and a distraction.
The Russian Federation is bleeding in Ukraine. Operation Spiderweb has exposed its weakness. A war in the Middle East fractures NATO and forces the West’s attention to pivot away from Europe.
This isn’t Trump breaking with Putin. It’s Trump executing Putin's strategy. I and other tried to warn you!
2. “Two Weeks” Was a Stall, Not a Signal
For the thousandth time: Trump saying “in two weeks” never meant peace. It meant timing. It meant narrative control. It meant keeping critics guessing while consent was manufactured and airfields were prepared. The people who read this as indecision misunderstood not only Trump’s style, but his substance. His ambiguity isn’t uncertainty—it’s manipulation.
3. “Trump Is the Peace President”
A lie told often enough, it seems, becomes a segment on cable news. Trump is no peace president. He is a president who’s only ever craved dominance and distraction. Under his first term, he presided over reckless escalations, drone killings, and a literal assassination of an Iranian general. His restraint, when it appeared, was always conditional—contingent on his own standing, not on any moral compass.
The minute he needed chaos again, he delivered it.
4. “He Wants the Nobel Peace Prize”
Chris Hayes, among others, suggested Trump’s jealousy of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize might make him seek peace with Iran to claim one himself.
But Trump doesn’t want the Nobel Peace Prize. He wants to destroy it. He wants to mock it by claiming it after doing the opposite of what it stands for—just as he mocks the presidency itself. His entire political strategy is to degrade the very idea of peace, diplomacy, and competence. Pretending he wants the prize is like saying a vandal wants to protect the museum.
5. “He’s Too Cowardly to Start a War”
This was another delusion: that Trump’s cowardice would outweigh his ego. But Trump doesn’t need courage to launch missiles. He needs cameras. He needs chaos. He needs a campaign ad with fighter jets. And he needs Putin's permission, which he received on the "good conversation" phone call.
And now the risk is borne by others—the troops, the civilians, the allies. And in that calculus, cowardice becomes an asset: it insulates him from consequences and moral reckoning.
So If You Got It Wrong, Please Shut Up Now and Listen
This moment is not just about policy failure. It is about analytical failure. The people who told you this wouldn’t happen—who mocked warnings, who denied the buildup, who bought into narratives spun by power and ego—were not just wrong. They were dangerously wrong. And they have no business speaking with authority right now.
Because some of us did warn you. We saw the pattern. We knew the pivot. And we shouted about it while others chuckled.
The truth is here. The bombs have dropped. Trump has committed the act. And the next time someone tells you war is off the table—ask yourself who they’re really listening to.
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