00:10A former U.S. Marine is taking aim at President Donald Trump's Iran strategy,
00:17warning that the war has become a dangerous and costly failure.
00:21Marine veteran Brian McGinnis has publicly opposed the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran,
00:29arguing that Trump is wrong about the direction of the conflict.
00:33In March, McGinnis said bluntly,
00:36Right is right, wrong is wrong, and Trump's wrong.
00:40His criticism comes as the war, which began with major U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28,
00:48enters its sixth month.
00:50Trump initially presented the campaign as an effort to eliminate Iran's nuclear and missile threats
00:57and protect American and Israeli security.
01:00But the conflict has continued far longer than many expected.
01:04Iran has retaliated with missile and drone attacks,
01:08while the fighting has also disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz
01:12and contributed to pressure on global energy markets.
01:16And now, the question facing Washington is increasingly difficult.
01:20What has the war actually achieved?
01:23The Trump administration has claimed major military successes,
01:27but critics argue that Iran's government remains in power,
01:31and the conflict has failed to produce a decisive political settlement.
01:36A recent Reuters-Ipsos poll found that only about one in three Americans supported the war,
01:43while 69 percent said Trump had failed to clearly explain its objectives.
01:48That criticism is also coming from military and national security circles.
01:53Even some traditionally supportive voices have questioned whether airstrikes alone
01:58can deliver a lasting strategic victory.
02:02The pressure is particularly significant for American troops.
02:06So I'm walking through the traffic here in Teheran.
02:11And, uh, well, let's see here as I navigate my way through Revolution Square.
02:21America, it seems like you're starting to get it a bit.
02:25This war is for the Jewish state.
02:28And your president, he ain't my president, he also serves the Jewish state.
02:34And American service members are now dying.
02:37They're Marines like me.
02:39I used to be one of those guys, a 19, 20-year-old kid on a ship,
02:43getting prepared to go into the field of combat.
02:46At least the war I was involved in, which we won, by the way, which was to liberate Kuwait.
02:52Thank God I never had to kill anybody.
02:54Thank God I didn't feel guilty about the war crimes that I committed,
02:58so much so that I would come home and commit suicide.
03:01Do you know more Americans have committed suicide since the so-called beginning of the war on terror
03:06that actually died in combat?
03:08Why?
03:08Because they were sent to fight an unlawful, illegal, immoral war,
03:13and they felt guilty about killing women and children,
03:16like, say, for instance, Manab,
03:18where we intentionally, willfully sent two Tomahawk missiles
03:21to murder a bunch of children.
03:23America, get it straight.
03:25Sort out your government.
03:26They represent you.
03:28Your taxes are going to pay for all of this.
03:30It is time to stand up like the real patriots
03:34back in the day when they told King George III to go fuck himself
03:38and declare a Declaration of Independence.
03:41Be sovereign.
03:42Be moral.
03:43Be great for real.
03:45And fucking deal with the traitors inside the gate.
03:49The USS Abraham Lincoln has spent more than 240 consecutive days at sea
03:56during operations connected to Iran conflict,
04:00with families raising concerns about food, medical support,
04:04and the psychological strain of prolonged deployment.
04:07Trump has dismissed some of those concerns,
04:10while the Navy disputes claims of increased suicidal ideation aboard the ship.
04:15For critics like McGinnis,
04:17this is exactly the danger of entering another prolonged Middle Eastern conflict
04:22without a clear exit strategy.
04:25The United States is spending military resources,
04:28deploying troops for extended periods,
04:31and burning through critical munitions while Iran continues to resist.
04:35And the economic consequences are spreading far beyond the battlefield.
04:41Disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz have put pressure on oil markets,
04:45raising concerns about fuel prices and the cost of living for Americans.
04:49Now the Trump administration is increasingly turning toward economic pressure,
04:55sanctions, and isolation as it struggles to force Iran into a settlement.
05:00But that raises another question.
05:03If military force has not produced the desired outcome,
05:07can economic warfare succeed where bombs could not?
05:10The administration insists that pressure can force Iran to make major concessions.
05:17Critics fear the opposite,
05:18that continued escalation could trap the United States in an open-ended conflict
05:23with no clear definition of victory.
05:26For a former Marine like McGinnis, the issue is not simply politics.
05:31It is about what happens when American military power is committed
05:35without a clear path to ending the war.
05:38The Trump administration continues to defend its strategy as necessary for U.S. security.
05:44But as the conflict enters another month, the debate is becoming harder to ignore.
05:50Was this supposed to be a short military operation?
05:53Or has Trump created another long war in the Middle East?
05:57And if the goal was to force Iran to back down,
06:00why is the United States still fighting months later?
06:07They're going to be much bigger than those numbers.
06:09Aloha from Teran.
06:12You know, I just wanted to share some thoughts here.
06:17Number one, I know that they're lying about the death count of American service members.
06:23There is no doubt of this.
06:24The figures of Americans now dead.
06:28It's impossible to know the actual number,
06:31but my guess is based on empirical evidence,
06:36eyewitness accounts, military experts,
06:41and just an overall understanding developed as a Marine
06:46who has been deployed to foreign lands and based on ships and so on and so forth.
06:56It's in the hundreds.
06:58I believe the numbers are in the hundreds and possibly even a thousand.
07:04And if they're not those numbers yet,
07:07they're going to be much bigger than those numbers.
07:09So this is number one.
07:10You know, I burned my passport in Baghdad 22 years ago with a sign saying,
07:16Support your troops.
07:18Bring them home now.
07:23Why would I do that if I hate America?
07:25I don't want you to die for the Jewish state of Israel.
07:30And the fact that many Americans are learning to dislike the Jewish state.
07:38I'm telling you one more thing that none of the experts,
07:42even the ones that I respect massively, honestly,
07:47many good commentators are all getting it wrong on this one thing.
07:56That they're not telling you these policies being carried out by Donald J. Trump.
08:03These policies are not the folly of a narcissistic, horrendous, horrible,
08:11ghastly representative of America known as Donald Trump.
08:15It isn't that he is the egotistical narcissist on steroids
08:20that is behind the insanity and stupidity
08:24and the cannon fodder reality of sacrificing American sons,
08:29mostly, but daughters as well.
08:32Here's the truth.
08:33It isn't him or his delusions or his ignorance or any of that.
08:39It is because the chosen ones have decided long ago
08:46that once America served its purpose as a goyim slave state,
08:53that after America was done serving its purpose to die for the chosen ones,
09:00that then America, your beloved America, would have to be sacrificed.
09:06Yes, your nation is being bled dry, flushed down the toilet, purposely, willfully,
09:17so that Pax Americana can be replaced by Pax Judaica, Greater Israel.
09:26I have been saying this for decades, but now it's reality.
09:32So just know that as the entire economy of the world sits on the precipice of a cliff
09:38and falls off the edge, resulting in the death of millions, tens of millions, literally, willfully, chosen by the chosen
09:52ones,
09:53they will die of starvation and related diseases, from the lack of clean drinking water, the ability to grow food,
10:01and all of the things that will come from this 1929 crash on steroids here in 2026.
10:09The chosen ones own Donald J. Trump and my birth nation, and they are setting in the light and setting
10:17up the stage for a civil war, an anarchy.
10:23Here is my advice to you, America, since you did not listen for all this time that I have been
10:29shouting from the rooftops.
10:32Let us maintain the republic, maintain the constitution, arrest the traitors, now, and put them on trial with due process
10:42of law for treason.
10:44And then, let us celebrate their convictions and hanging according to the law I swore an oath to protect and
10:55defend.
10:56I say this from Iran because Iran is against the Epstein class.
11:01It is against the Jewish state of Israel, and has supported the Palestinian people, which have become my adopted family.
11:11That is why I am here. This country is on the side of God.
11:16I am on the side of God, and I pray that my birth nation finds the way of God, truth,
11:24and justice.
11:25I am on the side of God, truth, and justice.
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