Robert Reich Repeats Racist Netanyahu Talking Points and Propaganda

Why He’ll Surrender Soon

But he’ll call it a great victory

Robert Reich

Mar 23, 2026

Friends,

No one knows what Trump is going to do from minute to minute, least of all Trump. But it’s looking ever more likely he’ll be exiting Iran within days, declaring his “excursion” into it (as he’s termed his war) a major victory — and then changing the subject.

On Friday, Trump posted on his social media site that “we are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East.”

What objectives? He never said what they were to begin with.

He’s about to wind down and exit because he doesn’t give a damn about anything except maintaining his wealth and power — and the war is now costing him both.

It’s hurting his financial backers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar — whose wealth has been seriously diminished by the war and whose vulnerability has been exposed.

It’s pissing off Trump’s wealthy political backers at home — who are getting pummeled as the U.S. stock market sinks under the weight of the war.

It’s infuriating American voters, as gasoline sells for nearly $4 a gallon — causing Republicans to become ever more anxious about a political backlash in the midterm elections. Most were elected on Trump’s coattails in the 2024 election, in which Trump promised to reduce prices and avoid foreign entanglements — rather than do the exact opposite.

So, forget regime change. Forget freedom for Iranians. Forget “obliterating” Iran’s nuclear capabilities (which Trump claimed he accomplished last June).

Trump will say he vanquished Iran’s military and defense capacities, destroyed its economy, and decapitated its leadership.

Job over. Mission accomplished. Iran obliterated (again).

Right now, though, he has to save face. Iran has rejected Trump’s threat that if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz by Monday night, the United States will strike Iranian power plants. Iran says if the U.S. attacks Iran’s power plants, it will attack energy, information technology, and desalination facilities across the Gulf.

So Trump will do some more bombing this week. He’ll then leave the job of opening the Strait to other countries, claiming that the U.S. doesn’t need it because we produce enough oil on our own (which is untrue because oil prices depend on the global market, and U.S. refiners depend on foreign grades of crude).

And he’ll leave the bombing of Iran to Benjamin Netanyahu, who’d rather continue striking Iran and Hezbollah’s strongholds in Lebanon than stand trial in Israel for bribery and corruption. (Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that the military campaign in Iran would “escalate significantly” this week.)

So what will America have gotten out of Trump’s “excursion”? Zilch. Actually, less than zilch because in many ways we’re worse off than when it started. We’ve lost blood and fortune.

Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed, and the war has cost the U.S. an estimated $18 billion so far, not counting the costs to American consumers of higher-priced energy and food.

The regime in Iran has changed, but there’s been no “regime change.” And the change that’s occurred has been toward a harder, more nationalist, more belligerent Islamic state.

Iran is still hiding its enriched uranium and is presumably more determined than ever to turn it into nuclear warheads.

Trump and Israel may crow about destroying Iranian launchers and missile stocks, but Iran is firing even more ballistic missiles and drones across the Middle East now than it did a week ago — launching new missile attacks on Israeli cities and damaging key energy installations in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates.

On Friday, Iran launched intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia military base 2,500 miles away. That’s far enough to hit much of Europe.

Iran figures that political and economic pressures are mounting against Trump faster than they are mounting against Iran. While Iran uses cheap drones to disrupt global supply chains, it’s generating huge profits on its sale of oil (mostly to China), reportedly $8.7 billion in additional oil profits since the war began, driven by a $47 per barrel increase in prices compared to pre-war levels.

Forget Iran negotiating with the U.S. over ending the war. Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for the Iranian Parliament’s foreign affairs and defense committee, says any talks with the U.S. are off the agenda as Tehran “focuses on punishing the aggressors.”

Other Iranian leaders are demanding as conditions for ending the war massive reparations from the U.S. and the expulsion of American military from the region.

They’re also talking about transforming the Strait of Hormuz into an Iranian toll booth controlling a third of the world’s shipborne crude oil.

We have no way of knowing whether America will now be more vulnerable to Iran-sponsored terrorism, but the risk seems greater than before Trump launched his war.

All told, there has been no American victory here, only tragedy — although the sociopath in the Oval Office will surely claim victory and lie through his teeth about what he has accomplished.

Make no mistake: This will be a surrender. As Vermont Republican Senator George Aiken suggested in 1966 when the U.S. found itself mired in another unwinnable war, Trump’s only real course of action now is to “declare victory and get out,” which I expect him to do momentarily.

Reich said: So, forget regime change. Forget freedom for Iranians. Forget “obliterating” Iran’s nuclear capabilities (which Trump claimed he accomplished last June).

The regime in Iran has changed, but there’s been no “regime change.” And the change that’s occurred has been toward a harder, more nationalist, more belligerent Islamic state.

Iran is still hiding its enriched uranium and is presumably more determined than ever to turn it into nuclear warheads.

We have no way of knowing whether America will now be more vulnerable to Iran-sponsored terrorism, but the risk seems greater than before Trump launched his war.

SituationPolitics.Com - Robert Reich is just another warmongering Persian-hating Democrat who lies on Iranians using Netanyahu's old shoeworn, racist, hate-filled propaganda.

SituationPolitics.Com - Let's start with Robert Reich's first lie:

Reich: So, forget regime change. Forget freedom for Iranians. Forget “obliterating” Iran’s nuclear capabilities (which Trump claimed he accomplished last June).

SituationPolitics.Com - Stop saying Iranians aren't free AS IF Robert Reich, Trump, Republicans and Democrats are trying to bring "freedom and democracy" to Iran.

Stop saying Iranians aren't free AS IF the great majority of Iranians do not support their Iranian government. Reich sounds like Benjamin Netanyahu and Christian Amanpour who shamelessly straight up lied to Amanpour's audience telling viewers that a majority of Iranians support regime change in their own country.

This lie is THE LIE that Netanyahu and US warmongering Democrats and Republicans use to try to justify the biggest war crime a government can commit: a violent unprovoked attack on a sovereign government and nation.

The fact is the U.S. and Israel executed the biggest war crime any government could ever commit when the U.S. and Israel launched an unprovoked military attack against Iran.

The fact is the great majority of Iranians do support their theocratic government.

The U.S. and Israel have long been conducting covert operations to instigate illegal regime change by sending foreign agents and massive firearms into Iran to propagate and incite violence against Iranian authorities and shooting Iranian police.

Israeli operatives were arming Iranian dissidents - a tiny, tiny number of dissidents -less than one per cent of Iranians seek illegal regime change in their own country despite what you've been told by western media and Israelis.

There's over 90 million Iranians in Iran and far less than one million Iranians seek a non-theocratic government.

Did you know that Iranians enjoy and hold free and fair elections ever since the Iranian people booted the US puppet, the Shah of Iran from power?

Did you know that Iranians hold elections for virtually every local and national position in Iran, except for the religious leaders who were appointed by an elected council?

Reich: Iran is still hiding its enriched uranium and is presumably more determined than ever to turn it into nuclear warheads.

SituationPolitics.Com - Reich lies again and again, falsely claiming that Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb so Iran can nuke Israel in 45 minutes.

Reich insinuates that Iranians may have the ability to launch a long range nuclear missile at the U.S.

Reich repeats Netanyahu lies that Netanyahu and Trump used to try to justify the US/Israeli illegal, unprovoked attack on Iranians.

Iran could have built a nuclear bomb long ago, but have no interest in building a nuclear bomb, precisely because Islam strictly prohibits the mass murder of human beings.

That's why the late Ayatollah issued a fatwa in 1993 prohibiting Iran from building nuclear weapons.

Furthermore, Iranians don't need a nuclear weapon to defend Iran because Iran enjoys missile superiority over Israel and the U.S.

Netanyahu and the western media is working hard to prevent Americans from finding out that Iran's hypersonic missiles defeated Israel's anti-missile systems during the 12-Day War, striking Israeli military bases and targets at will.

During the 12-Day War and even now Netanyahu and the IDF issued a written warning to Israeli media, DO NOT FILM ISRAELI MILITARY BASES or the skies above Israeli military bases.

Netanyahu didn't want the world finding out that Israel's Iron Dome, David's Sling and ARROW systems had been defeated by Iran's hypersonic missiles - but it's too late now for anyone with a pair of eyes.

Iran was negotiating the end of US sanctions on Iran by explaining to nincompoops Witkoff and Kushner that Iran OPPOSES building nuclear weapons and has no need to build nuclear weapons to defend Iran from the US and Israel.

So what did Witkoff and the US do? The US immediately ended negotiations and began bombing Iran.

Reich: We have no way of knowing whether America will now be more vulnerable to Iran-sponsored terrorism, but the risk seems greater than before Trump launched his war.

SituationPolitics.Com - Reich lies again, shamelessly repeating Netanyahu's violent rhetoric, falsely claiming that "America is vulnerable to Iran-sponsored terrorism" and the risk now is greater than ever.

Netanyahu, Trump, Republicans, Democrats and the US legacy media love to claim that Iran is the Number One sponsor of terrorism in the world.

The fact is the U.S. and Israeli governments are the Number One and Number Two sponsors of terrorism on Earth.

Who mass murdered over one million non-whites during the U.S. "War On Terror?"

Who mass murdered over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza?

How many people have Iran mass murdered? There is no comparison and anyone calling Iran the Number One sponsor of terrorism opposes Palestinian freedom from US-backed Israeli occupation, mass murder and the mass imprisonment of over two million Palestinians.

Show me someone who calls Iran the Number One sponsor of terrorism and I'll show you someone who supports US-backed Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, the Lebanese people and Syrians.

The sad fact is Robert Reich supports US-Israeli war crimes, US-Israeli regime change of sovereign nations and populations.

Robert Reich is completely unremarkable as Reich repeats Netanyahu talking points, propaganda and lies just like most Democrats and Republicans.

It is Robert Reich who has no respect for the international rule of law and handily ignores U.S. law that strictly prohibits the U.S. government frrom providing American weapons to any government who uses our American weapons in the commission of war crimes.