Justin Robert Young

4 days ago | politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young

World War III is canceled — at least for now. That’s where we are after one of the most dramatic weeks I can remember. The United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Israel followed up with its own strikes. Iran responded with missile attacks on CENTCOM in Qatar. And somehow, through all that, we’ve landed at a ceasefire. It felt like this was going to spiral — like this was going to be Qasem Soleimani times ten. Instead, it fizzled.

6 days ago | politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young

We’re fresh off one of the most consequential weekends of the Trump presidency. The United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran — a strike that’s been years, if not decades, in the making. The big question now isn’t what happened — we know what happened. The question is what happens next. And no one, not even the experts, seems entirely sure. We’ve knocked out Iran’s enrichment capacity for now, but what does Iran do in response? They say they’ll close the Strait of Hormuz.

1 week ago | politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young

The big headline, of course, this week is Iran. The White House says Iran has everything it needs to build a nuclear weapon. That’s where we are. Trump has about two weeks to decide whether to launch an attack. The reporting right now focuses on what kind of strike it would take to actually stop the program — could our bunker busters get the job done, or are those centrifuges buried so deep we’d need to soften the ground with conventional bombs first?

1 week ago | politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young

We’re at one of those moments where everything feels like it’s accelerating. The pressure on Trump, the Senate, the economy — all of it’s tied together, and none of it is happening in isolation. Take Iran. What started as a standoff is inching toward something bigger. Trump is openly posting that he has control of the skies, that he knows where Khamenei is hiding, that surrender is the only acceptable outcome.

1 week ago | politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young

A weekend so profound in it’s news that I am going to push this beyond the paywall. Let’s start abroad… The military confrontation between Israel and Iran intensified over the weekend, pushing the region toward a broader conflict. After Israel initiated Operation Rising Lion, Iranian ballistic missiles and drones pierced Israeli defenses, leading to 13 fatalities and hundreds of injuries.