CAN A CLINT EASTWOOD CLASSIC RESOLVE IRAN’S DEADLY NUCLEAR THREAT?

LESSONS FROM THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

What can a sixty-year-old spaghetti Western teach us about the threat of nuclear war between Iran and Israel?

Weirdly, much more than our legacy media and intelligence community seem able to do.

If you’ve never seen “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” here’s the ending that probably is the best explanation for what is actually about to happen as predictions of nuclear Armageddon get bandied about. The good news is that Donald Trump, our president, the cool, confident leader of the MAGA movement, has assumed the role of Clint Eastwood’s character, The Good.

Meanwhile, the Iranian regime is The Bad, while Netanyahu and Israel can’t help but be cast as The Ugly.

Here’s the clip. And yes, it takes place in a desert. Yes, they are ready to kill each other without an inkling of guilt or remorse. And yes, their motivation is simple: There’s a treasure hidden in the graveyard. Clint is the only one who knows where it is. He said he wrote the name of the hiding-place grave on a rock he’s set in their midst. The rules are simple: Whoever survives, claims all the treasure.

I love that line, “See, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns. And those who dig. You dig.”

It’s not like Trump is ever going to speak to Netanyahu like that, but there’s no question that in this fight, America has the World’s best loaded gun. Nor is there any doubt that it is and will be the Israeli military doing the heavy lifting. They have to. They don’t have a choice. Trump knows this.

And so far, Israel, thanks to their friend America, is winning. Israel rules the air. The Iron Dome is holding. No one is coming to save Iran. And that means the Iranian Bad Guys face certain death. The mullahs either die in a ditch or make a deal.

This bodes well for a deal.

Having supported President Trump almost from the beginning of his candidacy and having worked in his White House for a year, I know his most predictable trait: He’s smart, and he wants everyone to know that.

Donald Trump will never—NEVER—allow his presidency to be compared unfavorably to Bush’s, or Obama’s, or Biden’s. So, no matter how insistently the pro-Israel influencers call for regime change, or the anti-Israel influencers fear it, President Trump will not send American troops into Iran.

It’s not happening—because that’s what his predecessors did, and they were stupid.

He’s not them.

But there’s more to this than just looking good. What, after all, is the real motivation for these decapitation strikes? Just like in the movie, it’s the treasure of Iran’s legendary oil reserves.

And Donald Trump likes him some treasure.

Like the stolen gold in the graveyard, oil is the hidden treasure that’s at the heart of the standoff. And no one in the media or intelligence community is talking about it. They can’t. MAGA populism will not tolerate it. There’s no way Trump would greenlight a blood for oil campaign such as Bush perpetrated in Iraq. There’s no way Israel can remain Israel if it takes over Iran’s oil reserves. Netanyahu knows that.

But the question remains: Who gets Iran’s oil wealth when The Bad guy dies in the ditch?

America? China? The long-suffering Iranian people? How about Exxon? Frankly, it’s too early to tell. However it winds up, though, I think that will be worked into the deal.

By the way, where that Iranian oil wealth winds up will tell you all you need to know about how our modern world works.

Now, here’s me explaining how “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” shootout scene relates to our current Middle East standoff on Emerald Robinson’s show The Absolute Truth yesterday. Note the extra domestic political twist I add to it. That’s also an unmentionable in this standoff.

The mullahs are about to lose. No question on that. The ramifications of that loss will flare up around the world for the next sixty years. Best case would be it satiates our rising global populism. Venezuela should pay close attention to Trump’s deal with Iran. They’re on his list.

Israel is about to rid themselves of a hated enemy. They’ve all but annihilated Middle East terrorism. They get safety, security, and international recognition, but no treasure.

Trump, America, the Good guy with the big gun, gets the treasure. He gets the win. It will be one of many.

Clint Eastwood gets a win, too. He gave the world iconic American characters for decades. His path through Hollywood was MAGA long before there was MAGA. Good movies (untainted by CIA manipulation) reflect our values as being worth pursuing. Clint Eastwood never made a bad movie.

Here’s my full interview with Emerald. She does a great job. I’ll have more on my quest to testify about Joe Biden’s and Jake Sullivan’s crimes in future posts.

Mike Lindell with his LindellTV is another American hero. I sent him a small donation to help defray his legal costs. He’s helped Make America Great Again. with pillows.

Is this a great country or what?

My new website, thanks to my fiend and designer Erik Weems, is now operational. It lists all my books, including 15 Years A Deplorable: A White House Memoir. Here’s a screenshot and the link.