Countdown to War! Final Hours Before Trump's Ceasefire Ends with Iran w Prof. John Mearsheimer
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Iran war negotiations, Trump bombing threat, Strait of Hormuz blockade, Israel lobby influence — Professor John Mearsheimer joins Redacted to break down why the US has effectively lost its war against Iran, how Netanyahu and Mossad chief David Barnea convinced Trump a shock-and-awe strategy would topple the Iranian regime, and why the ongoing naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is sabotaging peace talks in Islamabad.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the countdown is on as President Trump made an appearance on CNBC today, which is the |
| 0:06.4 | stock market news channel, by the way, appropriate, basically declaring that bombs are ready to fall |
| 0:12.8 | again. So we are watching as the ceasefire, whatever sort of ceasefire was there in the first |
| 0:19.5 | place is falling apart. and the next stage of this |
| 0:23.1 | looks about to unfold. |
| 0:24.6 | Oh, we're going to continue to talk about global energy shocks as it is, we are bracing for |
| 0:29.4 | it economically. |
| 0:30.4 | So hopefully you are too. |
| 0:32.0 | We've been talking about this for a long time. |
| 0:33.9 | We're also going to talk about these energy refineries being destroyed at a time when |
| 0:38.2 | the global economy is at risk because of war. And we're also going to talk about the most |
| 0:44.7 | moral army because IDF soldiers are reporting moral injury. Do you know what that is? Moral |
| 0:50.6 | injury. Have you ever heard of this? When you smash a Jesus statue with a hammer? |
| 0:55.1 | Well, I guess that could cause moral injury. What else, Philip? |
| 1:02.8 | No. Okay, whereas, so you might or may or may not know this, but PTSD was developed. It was created |
| 1:09.6 | to explain the trauma experienced by American Vietnam vets and the constantly reliving of these horrors, whereas moral injury is something that is basically shame for what you have done yourself, what you've done to other people against your own morals. |
| 1:28.0 | You've done something horrible, killed a child, for instance, and now you can't live with yourself. Your morals have been injured. Okay. All right. So we're going to talk about that. We are going to talk about that. Yeah. A lot to say about that. I'd love to hear what you have to say about that, what you think about it. All right. Well, we have a very busy show because Professor John Mearsheimer is going to be |
| 1:46.2 | joining us here in moments to talk about all these oil refineries being destroyed, energy shocks, |
| 1:51.5 | and war crimes by this administration, and what is happening with Iran. We're going to get there |
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