Scott Horton: 250 Years of Empire — Iran, Cuba, Ukraine & What Comes Next?

Congress just did something it hasn't done before in this war: both the House and Senate passed a War Powers Resolution directing Trump to remove US forces from hostilities against Iran. Trump's response — "poorly timed and meaningless." He called the four House Republicans who voted for it "GRANDSTANDERS."

Meanwhile Ukraine's deep-strike drone campaign is now running on Palantir's AI — Karp met Zelensky in Kiev in May, and CNN has since shown command posts coordinating hundreds of drones at once into Russian territory. On the Russian side, Lavrov, Ushakov and Ryabkov have all said in recent days that the "spirit of Anchorage" has evaporated, accusing Washington of never following through on the Putin-Trump summit understandings.

And Cuba just got hit with fresh US sanctions targeting GAESA — the military conglomerate that runs roughly 40% of the Cuban economy — as fuel and medicine shortages deepen and the UN calls for the blockade to be lifted.

We sit down with Scott Horton — director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of the Scott Horton Show @scotthortonshow , and author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine — to talk Iran, Ukraine, Cuba, and 250 years of American empire.

🔸 First-ever House + Senate War Powers Resolution passed — Trump vows to ignore it

🔸 Only 24% of Americans think the Iran war was worth it, per Reuters/Ipsos

🔸 Palantir's AI now runs Ukraine's deep-strike drone command posts

🔸 Russia says the "spirit of Anchorage" is dead — accuses US of letting Kiev rearm under cover of talks

🔸 Fresh US sanctions hit Cuba's GAESA network and Castro's daughter-in-law

🔸 UN human rights chief calls for the Cuba blockade to be lifted

250 years in. Same playbook, new countries.

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