And I still have a former Amerikan friend who “can’t judge Israel.” He has two daughters and has no problem with this. And no one dares cross the facist US government.
Too many “good people” have gone blind.
This guy is authoritarian and doesn’t know the difference between antizionism and antisemitism. This sub isn’t for them, and they definitely shouldn’t be a mod. I’m not sure if un modding them is enough, so I propose a permanent ban.
THIS HAPPENED THIS MORNING.
Not a leaked memo.
Not an anonymous source.
Senator Lindsey Graham.
On CBS News.
Face the Nation.
Margaret Brennan asking
the questions.
Live. On the record.
This morning.
He told the country the
deal his own president just
signed is expected to fail.
Then he told America
exactly what happens next.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HERE IS WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAID
Graham was asked directly
about the memorandum of
understanding Trump signed
with Iran last week.
His answer.
Let's try a diplomatic
solution. I think it's
going to fail. What
happens next?
He then said he spent
4 and a half hours with
President Trump on Friday.
And explained what that
meeting produced.
If this deal fails,
President Trump is going
to take the Strait of
Hormuz over by force.
The United States will
control the Strait of Hormuz.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HERE IS THE PART THAT
SHOULD STOP EVERY READER
Graham did not stop at
controlling the waterway.
He said the United States
will charge a fee for all
those who go through to
pay for the operation.
The same waterway carrying
20 percent of the world's
oil and gas supply.
A senator just described
turning it into an American
toll road. Enforced by
American military force.
Then he said this directly
to Iran's government,
on camera, this morning.
If Iran contests control
of the Strait of Hormuz
by the United States,
we will obliterate them.
Obliterate.
That is the word a sitting
US senator used on national
television seven days after
a peace deal signing ceremony.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HERE IS WHY THIS MATTERS
RIGHT NOW
While Graham was saying this
in Washington, US and Iranian
negotiators were sitting down
together at a resort in
Switzerland for round two
of talks.
The same morning.
Iran had declared the
strait closed again on
Saturday, accusing Israel
of violating the ceasefire
in Lebanon.
Vice President Vance pushed
back, saying ships were
still moving through and
calling the flow record
breaking.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
said 67 ships moved through
the strait Saturday alone.
Two governments. Two
opposite stories. Same day.
Same waterway.
And in the middle of that
exact confusion, a senator
who just spent 4 and a half
hours with the president
went on television and
said the diplomatic path
is expected to fail anyway.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ANGLE 1 — WHO PROFITS
IF THE US TAKES THE STRAIT
BY FORCE
Graham described charging
a fee on every ship that
passes to fund the operation.
That is not diplomacy.
That is the creation of a
permanent American military
presence generating ongoing
revenue from a waterway
that does not belong to
the United States.
We have told you the defense
contractors already collected
billions from 116 days of war.
A permanent occupation of
the strait is not a one
time cost. It is a recurring
military operation that
needs to be staffed, supplied,
and defended indefinitely.
That is not an ending.
That is a business model.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ANGLE 2 — WHO IS FUNDING
BOTH SIDES OF THIS STORY
On one side, Graham himself
admitted he reversed his own
position in real time.
Just nine days ago he wrote
that a 300 billion dollar
reconstruction fund for Iran
inside this same deal was,
in his words, akin to a
Marshall Plan for Germany
with the Nazis still in charge.
Today he defended that same
fund, saying he changed his
mind once he understood
Gulf states like Saudi Arabia
and Qatar would be funding
it instead of the West.
A senator changed a major
position on a 300 billion
dollar provision within nine
days, the same week he is
telling the country the
deal will fail anyway.
On the other side, former
Biden energy adviser Amos
Hochstein, sitting on the
same broadcast, said plainly
that Iran already controls
the strait, and that the
memorandum Trump signed
already concedes that point
inside its own text.
He called it remarkable that
the US gave that away before
negotiations even started.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ANGLE 3 — WHAT THE PATTERN
ACTUALLY TELLS YOU
We have spent weeks tracking
the gap between what officials
tell the public and what
actually happens on the ground.
Iran tells its people one thing.
The US tells its people another.
Now add a sitting senator who
just told you, in plain language,
that the public diplomatic
process you are being shown
this week may already be a
formality before a military
seizure plan that has reportedly
already been discussed for
4 and a half hours with the
president personally.
That is not speculation
from us.
That is a senator describing
his own meeting.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Talks in Switzerland continue
through this 60 day window
the memorandum established.
Germany's Defense Minister
Boris Pistorius said today
the closure of the strait
was caused by Trump's actions,
not Europe's, and called for
it to be reopened for the
sake of European energy security.
If the diplomatic window closes
without resolution, Graham has
now told the country exactly
what the backup plan looks like.
Military seizure.
A toll system.
A direct threat of obliteration
if Iran resists.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Nobody paid us to write this.
A senator said it on national
television this morning,
on the record, in his own words.
We are simply telling you
what he said.
Sources:
1. CBS News — Full official
transcript of Graham interview
confirmed published today:
cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-face-the-nation-transcript-06-21-2026
2. CBS News — Full Face the
Nation broadcast transcript
confirmed published today:
cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-06-21-2026
3. CBS News — Graham quote
diplomatic solution going to
fail confirmed published today:
cbsnews.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-us-trump-iran-talks-lets-try-diplomatic-solution-i-think-going-to-fail
4. CBS News — Live updates
US Iran negotiators Switzerland
confirmed published today:
cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-us-war-talks-suspended-trump-mou-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-fighting
5. The Hill — Graham predicts
Iran deal failure full report
confirmed published today:
thehill.com/homenews/senate/5933172-lindsey-graham-iran-deal-failure
6. Washington Times — Graham
predicts diplomatic talks
will fail confirmed today:
washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/21/sen-lindsey-graham-predicts-diplomatic-talks-iran-fail
7. Yahoo News — Full transcript
Lindsey Graham Face the Nation
confirmed published today:
yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/transcript-lindsey-graham-face-nation-160126304.html
8. NPR World News — Full
Switzerland negotiations
context confirmed today:
npr.org/sections/world
9. Breitbart — Graham full
quote transcript clip
confirmed published today:
breitbart.com/clips/2026/06/21/graham-diplomatic-solution-in-iran-is-going-to-fail
10. The Hill — Strait of
Hormuz oil flow back toward
normal Energy Secretary
confirmed today:
thehill.com/policy/energy-environment
Call me a commie or whatever but yeah, I wouldn’t mind having American tax payer dollars used to actually benefit the American public for once. If not this, then plz free healthcare!
But muhhh military industrial complex and socialism is baaaaaad 😒
Whatever. FTS 🃏
Shoutout to @lukestoptalking —> https://www.instagram.com/lukestoptalking
Here’s our stuff —> https://401jk.link