Making you anxious is profitable

The war against Iran has brought into existence a plethora of “experts” who hold forth with opinions on the military, war, and history.  A multitude of talking heads on main stream media, YouTube vlogs, Instagram. TikTok, and X posts are full of expert opinions on the current war with Iran. These “experts” consist of retired military personal from generals and colonels to corporals who worked in the motor pool.  Other “experts” are social science professors who opine on the progress of the Iranian war by comparing it to some obscure battle between the Romans and the Parthians in 53 BC.  As Marshall McLuhan famously said, “the medium is the message”, and the message of these videos and posts is “trust the experts”.

According to these “experts” President Trump doesn’t have a plan for the war, and doesn’t know how to get out of the “quagmire” of Iran. The experts assure us with an air of having superior knowledge that even though it has only been sixteen (16) days since the war started, we are losing, and can’t win. They tell us that the USA is entangled in the war with Iran more deeply than it was stuck in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, and there is no way out. They tell us that Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz and the Department of War never planned for this contingency and has no idea what to do. They tell us that oil prices are skyrocketing, the price of gas will triple, and there........

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