Dizzying Week with Iran/US & Russia on the Back Foot | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
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The episode also covers Ukraine’s growing edge against Russia, drone warfare lessons the West still needs to absorb, and Iran’s internet control through “white SIM cards” and regime-monitored access.
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00:00 — Start
00:31 — Iran “ceasefire,” tanker stops, UAE strikes, and Project Freedom fallout
04:17 — Middle East air defense gaps and the drone threat allies are worried about
06:05 — Why Patriot and THAAD struggle against cheap Iranian drones
08:20 — The hidden global economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz crisis
10:37 — Israel’s reported base in Iraq and the sovereignty debate
14:09 — Preemptive self-defense, international law, and Israel’s Iraq history
15:38 — Iran war endgame: Strait of Hormuz, sanctions relief, and a tougher JCPOA
20:42 — Why the Trump administration’s Iran diplomacy looks stuck
22:58 — Right-wing pressure on Trump to resume the war
24:00 — Covert action, regime change, and arming Iranian opposition groups
29:06 — Non-nuclear Iran vs. regime change: what is the actual U.S. goal?
31:51 — U.S. intelligence gaps, Israeli HUMINT, and the Iran collection problem
37:11 — Trump-Xi summit: China’s leverage over Iran and the U.S.
41:04 — Russia’s drone support to Iran and the growing Ukraine-Iran link
44:59 — Ukraine turns the tide and trolls Putin’s Victory Day parade
50:05 — Drone warfare lessons from Ukraine and why the West needs to catch up
51:59 — Iran’s “white SIM cards,” internet control, and regime surveillance
54:15 — Could a U.S.-backed satellite internet network break Iran’s information blockade?
01:01:00 — Whitefish Security Summit, books, Patreon, and closing thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Eyes on Geopolitics. I'm here with Mark Polymeropolis, Mick Mulroy, Andy Milburn, and Jonathan Hackett. Three Marines, I don't like it. And a Greek. Uh, the walk into a bar. Two Greeks. Yeah, walking to a, it's like a start of a joke. Happy Mother's Day to everybody's mom's out there, wives, you know, all that. |
| 0:37.5 | Enjoy your day. Have fun. You got to do what you got to do. So grin and bear it. You got to go to brunch. Hopefully you got some flowers and stuff for mom. And everyone enjoys it. A lot happening this week as usual. It's been pretty dizzying. I had like a ton of notes, and it's just like I don't even know where to begin, you know. |
| 0:43.2 | Supposedly we're under a ceasefire. |
| 0:44.5 | We have a ceasefire going on with Iran right now. |
| 0:47.0 | Obviously not. |
| 0:47.8 | Iran's been shooting missiles and drones at the UAE. |
| 0:51.3 | We've been stopping tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:55.3 | We had the Operation Project or whatever was called Project Freedom Fries or whatever |
| 1:00.0 | it was called that lasted probably 18, 24 hours before that ended. |
| 1:05.5 | Saudi Arabia was not happy with us. |
| 1:08.0 | They denied us use of their bases. I think that's part of, like you guys |
| 1:12.9 | can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's part of the reason why we got rid of or we paused |
| 1:17.3 | Project Freedom. And we all know the reason why Project Freedom and it's not Operation |
| 1:23.0 | Epic Fury is because they're trying to make a case for the 60 days in Congress, like whether or not |
| 1:29.1 | we're able to use military force or not. |
| 1:32.8 | And then a couple days ago, there was a one-page memo, like it was drawn up on a back |
| 1:37.8 | of a napkin that people were taking on their advisement. |
| 1:40.1 | There was some talk about possibly an end to the war and like an agreement to start talking about |
| 1:46.9 | the nuclear issue after the fighting has subsided or the war ended or whatever you want to call it. |
| 1:54.2 | It's just chaos, frankly, the messaging is chaos to just now right before we started going. |
| 2:00.0 | It was all over Twitter being reported saying that, like, Iran gave Pakistani mediators |
| 2:06.7 | their response. |
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