EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: How Trump Camp Lost in Iran and the Middle East
US President Donald Trump speaks at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Garden City, New York, August 14, 2026 (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP) EA on WION and Express 24-7: Trump Camp’s Dead. . .
US President Donald Trump speaks at the David Mack Center for Training and Intelligence, Garden City, New York, August 14, 2026 (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)EA on WION and Express 24-7: Trump Camp’s Dead End in Iran WarI joined CEO Retort’s Tim El-Sheikh last Wednesday for an 80-minute deep dive into the Trump camp’s failure in its Iran War, with consequences for the US position in the Middle East, and into “positive politics” in America. In Part 1, I explain how the Trump Administration have run out of viable military options almost six months into their assault on Iran. Instead of forcing regime surrender, the war has destabilized the global economy, exposed American weakness, and put Tehran in control of the Strait of Hormuz. Where next in a limbo which is neither all-out war nor peace?0:00: Preview2:18: Climate Change and Political Delusion amid UK’s 5th heat wave of the summer5:00: How did the Trump camp lose leverage against Iran?11:13: Will there be a return to June’s Memorandum of Understanding?15:01: Israel’s war in Lebanon and violence in the Palestinian West Bank17:57: Escalation between Yemen’s Houthis and Saudi Arabia with threatened closure of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait24:41: Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan defense pact and reactions by countries such as UAE and Israel36:32: The demise of the Trump camp’s “Abraham Accords” between Israel and Arab states