Shitshow Macro Pod 3: Iran’s Proxy Wars and The Great Power Competition in the Middle East

Topics covered in this edition

• Introduction: my personal (and military) history with Iran, why many like me hate the Iranian Regime with a passion yet are counseling restraint at this time

• A Brief Background of the History of Iran (Persia), both ancient and modern, and the West

• The Story and Warpath of the Persian Empire

• Why Does Iran Hate the U.S.A?

• The Shah of Iran

• Iranian Hostage Crisis and Desert One

• Operation Cassandra

• Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA)

• Iranian agents currently (allegedly) in the White House & Pentagon

• The Houthis

• A Missed Opportunity

• Conclusion

For the Common Defense book

https://www.amazon.com/Common-Defense-Military-History-United/dp/1451623534

Mapcheck for Herat WRT Iran

Mapcheck for Karbala WRT Iran

Army Times article on War College “The Only Winner in the Iraq War Was Iran”

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/01/18/armys-long-awaited-iraq-war-study-finds-iran-was-the-only-winner-in-a-conflict-that-holds-many-lessons-for-future-wars/

Voodo van Inyaga Thread on the GWOT Experience

https://x.com/6Voodoo/status/1752866678491214090?s=20

Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson

Joe Kent on Red Pilled America Podcast

The Gates of Fire book by Steven Pressfield (Spartans vs Persia)

https://www.amazon.com/Gates-Fire-Novel-Battle-Thermopylae/dp/0553580531

The Virtues of War book by Steven Pressfield (Alexander the Great vs Persia)

https://www.amazon.com/Virtues-War-Novel-Alexander-Great/dp/0553382055

10th SFG(A) Unit Crest

Hardcore History King of Kings series (Persia)

The Prize by Daniel Yergin

https://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power/dp/1439110123

Reuters: US Increasing Venezuelan Oil Purchases

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelan-oil-gets-more-us-buyers-chevron-steps-up-loadings-2023-04-28/

Politico: Biden Iran Oil & Gas Prices

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/biden-iran-oil-gas-prices-00120924

Foreign Policy: The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/30/the-united-states-overthrew-irans-last-democratic-leader/

Politico: Operation Cassandra, How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

Eisenhower’s Final Address (warning of the MIC)

The President’s Daily Brief (PDB) Outlining Iran’s Proxy Terror Groups

Obama’s Interviews Contemplating a 3rd Term via Puppet

https://news.grabien.com/story-obama-id-be-fine-third-term-if-there-was-someone-who-wouldve

Journalist Lee Smith on X (fka Twitter)

https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC

Lee Smith JPCOA Articles Collection for Tablet Magazine

https://www.tabletmag.com/collections/iran-deal

The Hill Article re: Michelle Bachman Warning of Hezbollah in Cuba

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/173941-bachmann-warns-hezbollah-possibly-installing-camps-missile-sites-in-cuba/

Bachman Warning of Muslim Brotherhood in DHS

https://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/2012/07/17/rep-michelle-bachmann-r-mn-calls-for-investigation-of-muslim-brotherhood-infiltration-of-u-s-government/

Lee Smith Article on (alleged) Iranian Spy Ring in White House & Pentagon

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith

Mapcheck: Yemen and Saudi Arabia

Tenet Media (Tim Pool) w/ Experts on the Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire

https://www.youtube.com/live/HlUjvSdgCUY?si=j458Cqs6YoMK-bDv