This week is all about objectives: what does Israel want? What does Trump want? Why did Travis shave his beard?! We talk with lawyer and civil rights activist Kaveh Shahrooz about Trump’s last claims of cooperation with the “totally new” regime and why we should all be leery (or maybe terrified) of Reza Pahlavi. We round everything out with an uplifting look at how JD is telling truth to power. Ha! JK, as if.

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https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/why-we-should-be-leery-of-reza-pahlavi-as-a-leader-of-iran-kaveh-shahrooz-in-the-globe-and-mail/

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2034313538399850671?s=20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRPLCso0Sw

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This week we dig into Kharg Island– what it is and why it’s critical. We also respond to the rumors of boots (or in this case sandals) on the ground there. Does Trump have any idea what he’s doing? Don’t bet on it. We also ask WTF Kenyans are doing fighting for Russia, WTF the US is doing in Ecuador, and WhoTF JD thinks he’s fooling with his evasions. Lots of questions this week with not as many answers….but double the jokes. Not a bad bargain.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DV9YbTtgAxh/

https://youtu.be/hLa9NvRVp4E?t=851

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVefpj4k_zQ/

https://youtu.be/e684xvtdVEQ?si=XsZjS4H3csuy0tfs&t=154

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russia-kenya-agree-that-kenyans-will-no-longer-fight-russia-ukraine-minister-2026-03-16/

https://youtu.be/Dl-K61juIm4?si=FR8pZe0h_k55-zA1&t=52

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03/jd-vance-just-refused-to-say-what-he-really-told-trump-about-going-to-war-with-iran.html

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The U.S. is bombing Iran with shifting goals, a new hardline supreme leader, acid rain over Tehran, and a War Powers vote that just failed in Congress, and nobody in charge seems to know what winning actually looks like. Seena and Travis break down the moving target of war objectives, profile Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and trace the growing fractures inside MAGA over a war Trump swore he'd never start. This is the episode that connects the dots between a rudderless military campaign and the domestic political fallout nobody's fully reckoning with yet.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/world/asia/afghanistan-pakistan-taliban-airstrikes.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/2/27/pakistan-afghanistan-release-conflicting-death-tolls-amid-open

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/2/27/what-we-know-about-clashes-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/5/un-warns-of-humanitarian-collapse-in-cuba-as-us-seeks-to-block-oil-supplies

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/2/27/trump-says-friendly-takeover-of-cuba-possible

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/politics/trump-cuba-regime-change.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1216288957377562

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-humiliated-as-donald-trump-freezes-him-out-over-iran-split/

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