Well, yes.  This has eaten up too much time.

We’re past the stage whether we think of true or false.  There is enough evidence to say that it is false (but then again, it becomes nuanced as I (and others) believe that Iran could have some form of nuclear weapon very quickly should they choose to).  Prof Marandi toward the end of a video with Glenn Diesen just a few hours ago, explained it well.

For me it is a question of what did Pepe fall into.   Was it one of those massive Israeli influence operations?  Is it a lone guy feeding them things that sound good?  Those are just a start of questions for me.  And why did he believe something that for most of us was highly suspicious from the start.  Who paid to make this story?  Who was the rat?

For me, I smelt it immediately mainly with the casual way that the issue of the Fatwa was treated in the first video.  And then there were so many ‘tells’.  Like a nuke is not just a nuke.  It needs some delivery system.  Sure Larry should know these things.    So, who was the rat?

But yes, it is eating up too much time.

The big story of the last three days or so has now fallen apart.  CENTCOM forces shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. U.S. forces subsequently struck Iranian coastal surveillance radar sites in Goruk and on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks. American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense.

I started with that yesterday but put it aside as I was just tired.  I’ve started this now.  There are some other comments from Michael as well.  Yikes … busy!

The two gentlemen were caught in a lil’ trap.  At the end of the day this is going to turn in “intelligence sources believe with x probability that Iran has the bomb.”  They both know they’ve been snookered.