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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

Trump Gives An Indefinite Cease-Fire to Iran. What is this War?

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0

Ever since Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu launched a War of Choice, a War of

0:12.0

Aggression against Iran in late February.

0:15.0

There have been all sorts of questions, basic questions about this war to which we still don't have answers leading with the question of

0:21.8

what is the purpose of this war? What is its goal? What are its aims? There's been this

0:27.1

care of justifications from the U.S. government about what we're supposedly doing in this war,

0:32.4

what his goal is, and yet virtually none of it makes any sense. Sometimes we're told that the

0:36.9

purpose is to destroy Iran's nuclear capability,

0:40.2

even though eight months ago when the United States attacked Iran last year with Israel

0:44.9

and bombed their nuclear facilities, President Trump insisted,

0:48.3

and you can see it on the website to this very day,

0:50.3

that the United States, quote, totally and completely obliterated Iran's nuclear program

0:56.2

and any suggestions of the contrary were, quote, fake news.

0:59.8

Reporters kept asking, hey, are you sure we destroyed it completely?

1:02.9

Are we going to be told in months we have to go back and have a war with them because we have to

1:06.4

get rid of their nuclear building?

1:07.6

Trump said, that's fake news.

1:09.3

How dare you impugn the courage and the

1:11.5

competence of our fighter pilots. They destroyed everything. And any questions about, well, is there

1:16.2

anything left? Are we going to have to go fight again? We're met with the scorn. No, everything's

1:20.6

destroyed. And now here we are eight months later. We have to start a brand new, huge mega war in

1:26.2

the Middle East, a new war that's extremely dangerous because we have to

1:29.3

stop their nuclear program that we were told eight months ago had been totally and completely

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