Description:
Garland Nixon talks with Andrei Martyanov about NATO weapons stocks and the collapse of the US industrial base. Martyanov says Washington cannot rebuild heavy industry or a working defense sector on a political timetable, and treats Trump's 2030 steel-mill pledge as empty.
They also cover Ukraine as a spent Western proxy, Russian manpower without a new mobilization, Iran after US pressure, and what a NATO war with Russia would mean for Western capitals.
The neocon project is crashing into the wall, and Garland Nixon joins Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou to explain why the collective West has hit the limits of its power. From Russia's air campaign over Kiev and the standoff with Iran in the Strait of Hormuz to the Houthis, Saudi Arabia, German elections and the US midterms, they trace how elites who can no longer win and refuse to negotiate are losing the trust of their own people. Will the breaking point come abroad, or at home first?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction with Garland Nixon
00:00:46 Neocon project crashing into the wall
00:01:55 Limits of US power: China and Iran
00:03:38 Elites vs the people at home
00:05:50 Russia's air campaign shocks the West
00:07:36 West cannot match long range strike capacity
00:10:25 Iran after the midterms, Houthis and Hormuz
00:12:05 Nuclear option against Iran
00:13:56 Europe's escalation talk on Russia
00:17:34 Elites ignore cost of living anger
00:21:11 German elections and youth pushback
00:23:48 Kiev under strikes, Merz and NATO generals arrive empty handed
00:27:03 MBS, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis
00:30:12 The April US Iran deal that was abandoned
00:33:22 Green eggs and ham diplomacy
00:35:57 Are neocons protecting liberal democracy
00:41:00 German GDP sleight of hand, elections ahead
00:43:36 Internal or external smashup
00:45:37 America's mood before the midterms
00:49:13 Will the US leave Europe
Description:
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and geopolitical commentator Garland Nixon join to react to Trump's hints at striking Pickaxe mountain and the signs that the Iran war is set to escalate big.
CIA analyst Ray McGovern and independent commentator Garland Nixon discuss Israel's Channel 14 reports that Iran is preparing to expand its offensive with a massive attack on Tel Aviv as Iran's missiles have changed the game in the Persian Gulf. The US Navy and military is in full panic amid evidence that the Strait of Hormuz is fully lost.
