Donald Trump today, in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, stated that his goal for the current war with Iran is unconditional surrender. Specifically, he wrote: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” 

Moreover, Trump specified that the US will have final say on “the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s).”

In stating all this, however, Trump is essentially announcing that the US will be at war for an extended period. 

Back in the year 2000, before George W. Bush was even elected, Lew Rockwell already had the Republicans’ number. Having lived through numerous GOP presidents before, Lew knew what was coming. In a column titled “Dreading Republican Rule,” Lew wrote: 

Whenever taxpayers object to being forced to bankroll research they consider immoral, the standard retort arrives on cue: “Don’t politicize science.” But public funding is already the politicization of science. The moment research is financed by compulsory taxation, it is no longer a purely scholarly enterprise, it becomes a state project—filtered through bureaucracies, grant incentives, and the ideological needs of the regime that signs the checks.

December numbers were also revised way down. The US economy now has fewer jobs than it did 9 months ago. 

FT: “Donald Trump’s decision not to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve drained by his predecessor Joe Biden has left consumers exposed to an oil price shock.”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: In less a week, the quick victory promise has given way to increased calls for a US ground invasion. 

The US taxpayers so far have paid more than 6.5 billion toward the Iran war.