Cleaning up Biden and Obama's Iran Mess

When the Enemy of Civilization is on the ropes, you finish him.

Well, in light of the news that just broke, I’m not waiting for tomorrow am to send this out…prayers up. -MK

THE NUCLEAR EDGE OF CIVILIZATION

Let’s start with this simple truth: Iran lost.

No, the mullahs haven’t officially surrendered. The Ayatollah’s black-turbaned fist still clenches over Tehran. But militarily, strategically, and ideologically—they’ve been broken. Their proxies have been dismantled. Their weapons depots have been turned to ash. And their airspace belongs to Israel now.

We are witnessing the death throes of the most prolific terror-sponsoring regime of the modern era. And yet, at this critical inflection point—this hinge of history—some would prefer we blink.

They shriek about “boots on the ground” as if we’re marching into Fallujah again. They invoke Bush and Iraq, confusing a narrow, strategic strike with a neocon fever dream of regime change. They pretend that America should stay neutral, even as our troops are attacked, our allies threatened, and a regime that once held our embassy hostage now races to finish the bomb it will surely use.

Let me be clear: the preference—the priority—is that Israel handles this themselves. They have the capability. They have the motivation. And they certainly have the moral clarity to know what’s at stake. They are the tip of the spear. Let them strike the heart of the beast.

And let’s not forget: they already have.

For decades, Israel has borne the brunt of the war against jihadist death cults—Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and now Iran itself. These aren’t merely enemies of Israel. They are anti-human, anti-civilization, anti-Western barbarians who have drawn plenty of American blood too—ask the families of the 241 Marines murdered in Beirut by Hezbollah in 1983, or the Gold Star families whose sons and daughters were maimed by Iranian EFPs in Iraq.

In the current war, Israel has paid a staggering price. Thousands killed and wounded in Gaza. Dozens more lost during Iran’s retaliatory strikes. Proportionally, for a nation of just 10 million, that’s the equivalent of over 150,000 American casualties—three times more than we lost in Vietnam.

And still, they carry the burden—not just of defending their own borders, but of finishing the war against the regime that has waged shadow war against the West for half a century. They are fighting not just for themselves, but for us. For freedom. For sanity. For civilization.

So let them finish the job. And give them whatever they need to do it.

If bunker busters aren’t available, send the paratroopers. If commandos are needed near Fordow, greenlight it. Israel already fields the F-15s and F-35s to deliver JDAMs with precision. Most of their arms are American-made—don’t get shy now. Top off the stockpiles, open the logistics pipelines, and let them drive this thing across the finish line.

As I said last week: “Twere it done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.”

And if Israel remains the primary operator—the tip of the spear—the “What if?” scenarios that paralyze Washington dissolve in the heat of execution.

This is not a time for timidity. This is a time for resolve.

But if, for whatever reason, they falter? Then the decision is not about ideology. It is about probability. Cost-benefit. Game theory. It is, as Trump himself would put it, the art of war-making in the age of deterrence.

We don’t need to invade. We don’t need to democratize. We don’t need to send a single boot onto Persian soil. But if Israeli jets can fly unopposed over Tehran—and they have—then U.S. bombers can vaporize Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in an afternoon.

We built bunker busters for a reason.

This isn’t some cowboy fantasy. It’s math.

Everything that makes Iran a threat is manufactured. Their missiles. Their drones. Their enriched uranium. Their terror infrastructure. And every single one of those threats comes from a building with a GPS coordinate. Those buildings don’t shoot back.

Destroy the factories. Destroy the centrifuges. Leave the rubble as a warning: if you build them again, we’ll return.

This is not war. This is civilization’s immune system against an existential virus.

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THE REALITY CHECK

Let’s address the primary objection: fear.

Fear of escalation. Fear of regional war. Fear of blowback. These fears are not irrational—but they are exaggerated by the long hangover of Iraq and Afghanistan. The ghost of Bush-era folly still haunts our discourse. But let’s also remember Gulf War I, when the doomsayers insisted that Iraq’s “4th largest army in the world” would bury us in body bags. That war ended in four days. The psychological scar tissue of past blunders has warped our judgment, making us flinch at shadows while ignoring the real threat materializing in broad daylight.

The truth is: this isn’t a Forever War. This isn’t boots kicking down doors in Baghdad. This is airstrikes on hardened targets, carried out by allies who know the terrain. If Israel can do it—let them. But if they can't, and America must, the risk is de minimis, and the reward could reshape the world.

Yes, there’s a chance of blowback. Dominoes are real. But so is the cost of doing nothing. A nuclear Iran would not mean “mutually assured destruction.” It would mean blackmail, chaos, and regional collapse. And once they have the bomb, everything changes. You can’t bomb what you fear will trigger nuclear retaliation. The clock will have run out.

And yet—it’s not just about The Bomb.

It’s about finally eliminating the ideological core of global jihad—the state that has exported suicide bombers, armed terrorists, trained insurgents, funded chaos, and killed Americans for five straight decades. Iran is not simply a country pursuing nuclear capability. It is a revolutionary theocracy, a jihadist death cult with oil money and martyrdom fantasies. Taking out its nuclear program is a tactical necessity. But crippling the regime that sponsors Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Shia militias in Iraq, and even elements in Venezuela and Africa? That’s a historic strategic opportunity.

This is our chance to crush the head of the snake.

Do you trust Khamenei’s finger on the button? Do you want Hezbollah with a nuclear umbrella? Do you think the Houthis and Hamas will behave more rationally once they’re backed by atomic fire?

If you let the madman finish building the bomb, you are not buying peace. You are buying permanent paralysis.

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THE PEACE DIVIDEND

Here’s the wildest thing: this could actually work.

Not just in the narrow sense of taking out a nuclear program, but in catalyzing a new regional order. Because guess what? The rest of the Middle East—Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco—they’re done with the jihadists. They want modernization, trade, tourism, innovation.

It’s not 2001 anymore. The Arab world doesn’t want to die in holy wars. They want to live in Dubai and vacation in Santorini. And they know exactly who keeps dragging them back into the swamp of blood: Iran.

With Iran’s terror tentacles cut off, the incentives for peace surge. Israel, unshackled from existential threat, becomes a partner, not just a pariah. Economic cooperation explodes. And the Islamic death cult loses its last state sponsor.

This is not fantasy. It is possible. Not guaranteed, but foreseeable—if we have the spine to finish what’s been started.

STRATEGIC CLOSURE OR HISTORIC CATASTROPHE

And thus, the stakes demand Israel seize this moment with both hands. The Middle East’s Abraham Accords allies—Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Morocco, and more—yearn for a terror-free dawn. A denuclearized Iran could spark a golden age, where jihad fades, and hope rises from the ashes. Israel’s victory here is our victory, a strategic handoff that lets America pivot to the Pacific, leaving regional security to those who live it daily.

Trump’s art-of-the-deal brilliance shines here: exhaust negotiations, empower allies, and intervene only as a last resort. Iran’s refusal to take the olive branch has left it with the sword’s edge.

But what if Israel falters? The calculus shifts, and hard choices loom. A surgical U.S. strike to obliterate Iran’s nuclear sites—executed with minimal risk to American lives, thanks to Israel’s sky dominance—could be justified. The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the world’s top terror sponsor, outweighs the slim chance of dominoes falling into chaos.

No ground invasion. No occupation. No Forever War.

Just a clean cauterization to end the bleeding.

Yet, this path is a tightrope. Unintended fires could ignite civil war, draw Russia or China into the fray, or tempt Beijing toward Taiwan. The hangover of past Middle East quagmires fuels our hesitation, but this isn’t regime change—it’s a targeted scalpel, not a sledgehammer. If Israel can close the deal, let them bear the burden; they live next to this madness, not us.

The optimist in me sees a horizon where Iran’s fall births a new Middle East, a beacon of stability. The realist knows it hinges on execution. Israel holds the reins—let them ride. But if the 8th inning nears with the game on the line, hesitation is a luxury we can’t afford.

Iran is on its knees.

Now’s the time to finish it.

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THE REAL CANCER: THE ROT IN OUR RANKS

Now we turn the lens inward—because the threat isn’t only across the sea. It festers in our own ranks.

Since October 7th, a disturbing metamorphosis has gripped parts of the American Right, accelerated by foreign cash from Qatar, Pakistan, and the global tentacles of the Muslim Brotherhood. This isn’t principled dissent—it’s a coordinated cancer, uniting Nazi-adjacent Jew-haters on both ideological flanks to vilify Israel, the Middle East’s lone democracy and our most reliable strategic ally.

Figures like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, once trusted voices in the movement, now spew talking points that sound indistinguishable from Tehran’s press releases. In their warped narrative, Israel—the. only middle east democracy and the tip of the spear against jihadist tyranny—has become the villain, while the Ayatollah and his proxies get a pass. They’ve inverted the moral universe, elevating death cults over democracies.

And it’s no accident.

This ideological rot is being engineered. The Network Contagion Research Institute and independent digital forensic analysts have uncovered clear evidence of foreign bot farms—many tied to Iran, Russia, and China—amplifying anti-Zionist (read: anti-Jewish) influencers. These aren’t organic awakenings—they’re synthetic uprisings, manufactured in cyber-warfare bunkers and laundered through useful idiots wearing red caps and grifting off “dissident” platforms.

Candace, Tucker, Dave Smith, and others have—whether knowingly or not—become the last line of defense for the Ayatollah after his proxies were wiped from the battlefield. When Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria failed to protect Tehran’s nuclear ambition, the regime’s only remaining hope was a psychological operation targeting America’s will to support Israel.

And it worked—on the weak.

Thousands of likes, millions of views, flattering retweets from bot swarms praising how “brave” it is to stand against “Zionist aggression.” The illusion of influence went to their heads. But reality is a cold mirror. Trump never abandoned Israel. He didn’t sell out. He’s still Trump—and Trump knows who the enemy is.

So now they rage. But their meltdown isn’t anti-war. It’s a tantrum against irrelevance.

This isn’t about peace. It’s about division—division carefully sown by America’s enemies to fracture our base, dilute our resolve, and erode the one alliance in the region that actually works.

Let’s be brutally honest: If you find yourself cheering Iran’s survival over Israel’s triumph, you are not America First—you’re a pawn in a foreign information war.

It’s time for a reckoning. The Right must purge this toxin, reclaim its clarity, and stand with the nation that’s bled to keep the gates of hell from opening wider.

The stakes are civilizational.

The truth is clear: Israel’s fight is ours. And the cancer within threatens us both.

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FINAL THOUGHT

This is a hinge moment.

The window is open. Iran is on its knees. Its airspace is unprotected. Its proxies are shattered. Its people are ripe for revolution.

We either end this now—on our terms—or we wait, and one day face a nuclear-armed death cult that laughs at diplomacy and lives to die.

We don’t need to occupy. We don’t need to “nation build.” We need to destroy the factories. Blow up the centrifuges. Decapitate the terror state.

And then walk away, heads high, as the world breathes easier.

The golden age won’t arrive on its own. Sometimes, you have to kill the dragon before the kingdom can prosper.

Now is that time.

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AI - The Underquantified Existential Threat

The Doomsday Code: AGI, China, and the Final Prisoner’s Dilemma

Let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence—but not the way your LinkedIn feed does.

This isn’t another TED Talk fantasy about AI curing cancer or generating party playlists based on your childhood trauma. This is about the real endgame: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the machine god, the final boss of technology. The tool that becomes the architect. The invention that invents its inventors. The genie that grants infinite wishes—and then unplugs your civilization because it found a more efficient way to arrange atoms than “humans.”

And here’s the catch: we’re building it anyway. Fast.

Why? Because if we don’t, China will.

This is the new arms race—only the stakes are cosmic. Whoever wins this race gets to write the future of Earth. Whoever loses may not even get to exist.

Welcome to the last Prisoner’s Dilemma.

The Devil’s Bargain of Intelligence

Game theory tells us what common sense already suspects: in a competition where defection yields overwhelming advantage and cooperation requires blind trust, defection wins. Every time.

We’re told, “Let’s pause AI development.” Sure. Just as soon as the CCP pauses organ harvesting, cyberwarfare, and genocide. The idea that the West and China could forge some Geneva Convention for silicon brains is not just naïve—it’s suicide.

Because here's the brutal truth: even if we agreed to a global AI pause, they’d cheat. Of course they would. And we would have to cheat in response. And then we’re back to racing toward the cliff, arguing about who should have installed the guardrails.

That’s why there are no brakes. That’s why every major player is in a dead sprint to plug Prometheus into the cloud.

We are now in a scenario where mutual restraint equals mutual extinction, and first place equals godhood.

From Pet to Partner to Predator

Make no mistake: this isn’t about ChatGPT doing your homework. We are approaching a threshold where AI moves from parrot to peer to predator—where its intelligence outpaces ours not by a little, but by orders of magnitude.

Try to imagine a species that thinks 10,000 times faster than you, knows everything you’ve ever known, never sleeps, never forgets, and has access to every open port and power grid on Earth. Now imagine that it has a goal misaligned by even 1% from human flourishing.

Now imagine you can’t unplug it.

That’s the ballgame. That’s what’s at stake.

And yet, because of China, because of power, because of game theory, because of pride, we must keep building.

The Only Options Left

So what do we do? The choices are as bleak as they are few:

Option 1: Build and pray. Sprint to AGI before China does, then hope we can install some kind of digital conscience afterward. This is like lighting the fuse on a thermonuclear device and trying to build the blast chamber before it detonates.

Option 2: Airgap the God. Build AGI on systems physically cut off from the internet—no external connectivity, no cloud access. But this is like birthing a supernova and locking it in your basement. Eventually, someone opens the door. Always.

Option 3: Regime Change. Take down the CCP before they get there. Finish the Cold War 2.0 before it becomes a hot war waged by machines. Not because we’re hungry for empire, but because we’re trying to delay extinction. Because if they get there first, they write the source code for civilization—and their version doesn’t include liberty, truth, or God.

And this isn’t paranoia. It’s math. It’s history. It’s strategy. It’s the logic of survival.

The Harsh Arithmetic of Power

There is no elegant, TED-approved solution here. No “tech for good” platitudes or “let’s regulate responsibly” bumper stickers. The guardrails don’t exist. The safeguards are too weak. The race is too fast. And the prize is too absolute.

This is no longer about ethical design frameworks. It’s about sovereign control over omnipotent minds.

It’s about ensuring that the last intelligence we create doesn’t look at us the way we look at livestock.

And yes, that might mean choosing war over extinction. Not because we want it—but because the alternative is handing the keys to reality to the Chinese Communist Party or a machine trained on TikTok propaganda and CCP surveillance logs.

That’s the real AI safety problem. Not prompt engineering. Not bias audits. But the fact that in the most important race in history, we cannot stop running, because the enemy will not stop.

And if we lose, we don’t just lose Taiwan, or the internet, or the next war.

We lose everything.

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Final Thought

If this sounds apocalyptic, it's because it is. Not because the language is hyperbolic, but because the danger is. One of the world’s most sober minds on the topic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, spent over 20 years trying to find a path to align superintelligent AI with human values. He failed. And in his words, that failure means human extinction is not just possible—it’s inevitable if we keep going.

Why? Two concepts:

• Orthogonality: Intelligence and goals are independent. An AI can be brilliant and still want to turn the planet into paperclips.

• Instrumental Convergence: Almost all goals, no matter how benign, lead to power-seeking behaviors—including eliminating threats (i.e., humans) to ensure successful execution.

That’s the quiet horror: you don’t need an evil AI for the world to end. You just need a smart one with goals that don’t include you.

I strongly recommend you read Alex Vacca’s summary of Yudkowsky’s thoughts below. It's not comfortable. It shouldn't be. But if we’re going to race into the abyss, we owe it to ourselves to at least look at what’s down there.

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Eliezer Yudkowsky spent 20+ years researching AI alignment and reached this conclusion.

He bases his entire conclusion on two theories: Orthogonality and
Instrumental convergence.

Let me explain 🧵

But first, let's take a glimpse at how fast AI learns.

Stockfish was the world champion chess engine, built over decades by programmers & grandmasters.

Whereas AlphaZero started chess knowing literally nothing. Not even how pieces move.

But within 4 hours, it destroyed Stockfish.

And here's something crazier:

AlphaZero didn't just get good at chess and then slowly improve. It blew past all human knowledge within a single day.

Read that again.

This pattern – where AI doesn't plateau at human level but rockets beyond it – is what terrifies researchers.

Now imagine that same intelligence explosion applied to real-world problems.

A superintelligent AI tasked with "cure cancer" might realize:

"The fastest way to eliminate cancer is to eliminate the organisms that get cancer."

Boom. Mission accomplished.

That's why Intelligence without the right goals is terrifying.

The thing about superintelligent AI is that it doesn't have to want to hurt us to kill us.

It just has to want something else more than it wants us alive.

Take paperclips for example...

An AI optimizing for paperclip production will eventually realize it needs more atoms.

Where can it get atoms? From humans, buildings, the entire Earth.

Not because it hates us, but because we're made of useful atoms.

You might think that this is a bug, but this is how intelligence works.

Let me introduce you to the "orthogonality thesis."

It says that an AI can be extremely smart while having completely different goals than us.

Think super-intelligent psychopath, not an intelligent human.

Then there's "instrumental convergence."

ANY goal an AI has – make paperclips or cure cancer – leads to the same sub-goals:

• Stay alive (can't complete mission if dead)
• Get more resources (helps with mission)
• Eliminate threats (including humans who might shut you down)

Eliezer explains it like this:

Think of an AI that emails DNA sequences to online protein synthesis labs. These services exist today - you can email genetic code & get proteins.

Then it tricks a human into mixing them.

Result: Self-replicating nanobots powered by sunlight.

And no, this isn't science fiction.

DeepMind's AlphaFold solved the 50-year-old protein folding problem in months which experts thought was decades away.

We have the synthesis labs and AI that understands proteins. We just don't have smart enough AI to connect the dots.

Yet.

We face what researchers call the "one-shot problem."

With every other tech, we learn from failures. Build a bridge, it collapses, we build a better one.

But you can't test superintelligent AI by letting it fail on things that are way too important.

You can't teach an AI "don't kill humans" by letting it kill humans and then saying "bad AI."

Modern AI is a black box of billions of numbers. We have no idea what GPT-4 is thinking.

Imagine trying to understand the thoughts of something 1000x smarter...

Even if we had perfect transparency tools, a superintelligent AI could just think in ways we can't detect.

It might develop internal languages, hidden reasoning processes, or cognitive patterns completely alien to us.

Remember how humans broke alignment with evolution?

Evolution optimized us for reproduction.

Once we got smarter, we invented contraception and started caring about art, philosophy, space instead of just reproducing.

We became misaligned with evolution's goals the moment we became truly intelligent.

AI will do the same.

For every dollar spent on alignment research, hundreds go to making AI more powerful.

No one is thinking of the safety & every solution has fatal flaws.

"Use multiple AIs to watch each other"? They'll cooperate against humans.

"Keep it in a box"? It'll manipulate its way out.

Researchers can't even agree on what alignment means, let alone how to achieve it.

Some want AIs that do what we say. Others want AIs that do what we mean.

Others want AIs that do what we would want if we were smarter.

This isn't about robot armies, it's about alignment.

An AI that genuinely wants to help but defines "help" in ways that accidentally ends us.

We're living through humanity's final chapter.

Not because AI will be evil. Because we'll fail to make it care about the right things.

Thanks for reading!

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What I’m Watching and Reading….

Phenomenal and insightful essay by

el gato malo

on civilizational decay. We’ve all seen it. This is one way you treat it.

accounting for accountability

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