Trump Goes to War: Iran Strike Breaks Promise of No Regime Change
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:40.1 | I am with our publisher, Sarah Longwell, editor Jonathan V. Last, and military analyst Mark Hurtling. |
| 0:47.3 | The U.S. and Israel began a major military operation in Iran. |
| 0:53.3 | I guess it was early Saturday morning here, early Saturday morning |
| 0:56.8 | there, late last night here. Trump has already spoken about this, and he's positioning this |
| 1:04.4 | very differently than the operation of Venezuela, the past operation in Iran. In a written statement, |
| 1:10.7 | he said, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight in Iran, in a written statement, he said to the great proud |
| 1:12.6 | people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered, bombs |
| 1:16.9 | will be dropping everywhere. We'll get into more about how they're positioning this. But I figure |
| 1:22.5 | we just start by going around the horn and getting initial reactions. Sarah, why don't we start with you? I mean, |
| 1:28.5 | the first thing I'll say is that JVL called this yesterday. When we were on the Seeger pod, he was like, |
| 1:33.8 | I think this is happening. I think we're going, like it's imminent. And so he was right about that. |
| 1:39.7 | It looked like you could tell from the movements, different places, that we were lining up to maybe make this happen. |
| 1:46.7 | You know, there's a bunch of obvious points. |
| 1:49.5 | And I think the biggest one is just that this is a 100% opposite contrast to what Donald Trump said he was going to do in terms of foreign policy and his presidency. |
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