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8:07Now PlayingFormer US Marine Luke Thomas says Trump's disastrous US
The Iran war may have shattered the entire U.S. security model in the Gulf, exposing just how fragile America’s alliances, military posture, and global energy strategy really are.
Listen to a former US Marine's brutal assessment of whether the U.S. has actually made the region more dangerous, more unstable, and far less confident in American protection. The conversation argues that bombing campaigns and overwhelming force do not automatically produce surrender, and in this case may have done the opposite by pushing the conflict outward across the Gulf in ways Trump cannot control.
At the center of the discussion is a terrifying possibility: Gulf states that built their entire future on U.S. protection may now be realizing that the shield was never as strong as advertised. If that assumption is breaking, then the consequences go far beyond oil prices. This is about regional survival, collapsing deterrence, shaken alliances, energy chaos, and what happens when the world starts to see American power as overextended and unreliable.
Listen to the full conversation over on Luke’s Substack
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