Pardon the Politics

US/Israel/Iran: We At War. For Real This Time


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The bombs have dropped. The Supreme Leader is dead. And Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck are breaking down the most significant geopolitical event since the Iraq War in real time, unfiltered, and without the corporate media spin.

In this episode, the boys cover everything you need to know about Operation Epic Fury. The coordinated U.S. and Israeli military campaign that killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wiped out dozens of top Iranian officials, and set the entire Middle East on fire. But this isn't just a news recap. This is three brothers who actually did the homework, sitting down and asking the questions nobody on cable news is asking: Why did we bomb a country we were literally negotiating with 48 hours earlier? Who's really pulling the strings — Trump or Netanyahu? What does regime change actually look like the morning after? And what does history tell us about what comes next?

From the Strait of Hormuz and the global oil crisis, to the girls' school that got bombed, to the War Powers Act debate heating up in Congress, to whether Iran might already have a nuclear weapon nobody knows about.

Plus: the Pickle of the Week, Spotlights, and the moment Manny drops the line of the episode: "The easiest thing in the world is to end a regime. The hardest thing is figuring out what comes next."

Trump says this can be over in two days. History says it's just getting started.

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Pardon the PoliticsBy LXI Studio