Posted on 07/01/2026 6:19:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump shouldn’t waste time chasing a final Iran deal — and instead prepare Americans for resuming military operations by targeting Tehran’s economic lifeline, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told The Post.
“[We should be telling Americans] the fight’s not over. It’s going to take a day or two — buckle up,” Kellogg, a former Trump adviser, said in an interview Wednesday. “The American people are great about that … if they explain it to them, they’ll understand it.”
Kellogg is skeptical of the ongoing 60-day US-Iran talks outlined in the memorandum of understanding signed by Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian last month.
If the talks fail, Kellogg said the administration should consider taking Kharg Island, the critically important energy hub through which 80% to 90% of Iran’s oil exports flow.
“This is when you go to someplace like Kharg Island,” he said. “You can take it, wholly control the oil.”
Kellogg said Trump deserves credit for trying diplomacy first — and for boldly acting to denuclearize Iran — but argued the MOU talks are unlikely to change the behavior of a regime that has spent decades using negotiations to buy time.
“They think differently,” said Kellogg, who served as the National Security Council’s chief of staff during the first Trump administration. “They use negotiation as a tool. They don’t see negotiation the same way we do.”
Kellogg’s comments come as Trump has discussed resuming full-scale war with Iran, but is opting to stay the course with diplomacy — for now.
The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Trump has spoken to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about abandoning peace talks and launching additional strikes against the Islamic Republic, but has decided negotiations are currently the best way to ensure...
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This clown is obviously living in some kind of Beltway bubble. Every American I know has no interest in supporting these stupid wars in Third World sh!t-holes.
Day after day nearly every retired military guy on all the TV networks say
don’t trust Iran,
don’t lengthen the ceasefire because that’s exactly what Iran wants,
and get the bombing going again-—which was stopped much too soon.
I never saw one say “all we are saying is, give peace a chance.”
Gas is finally under $4/gal in my neck of AZ so I’m good. I don’t worry too much about the future these days because I’ve learned over my 72 yrs that whatever is meant to happen…happens.
Meanwhile, the B-52s that were flying bombing missions out of the UK are returning home, quite likely signaling no intent to return to what Trump calls “full scale war”.
Went thru same with Iraq for 12 years before we finally had to invade in 2003. Sunnis and Shia social revolutionaries. They’re just bad faith negotiators and KGB tools who will never keep their agreements with Infidels.
And Netenyahu will never keep agreements with goyim.
This clown is obviously living in some kind of Beltway bubble. Every American I know has no interest in supporting these stupid wars in Third World sh!t-holes.
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The war hawks live in their own little bubble, where they share information and theories with like minded ideologues.
Eventually, political, economic, and military reality will burst their bubble.
“It’s just a matter of time.”
Maybe Trump can give that 2 Billion he made while in office which looks really bad in my opinion to the American People for the high prices?
Load up!
$2,000,000,000 ÷ 350,000,000 U.S. residents = $5.71 per resident
What will you do with your windfall?
Maybe Trump can give that 2 Billion he made while in office which looks really bad in my opinion to the American People for the high prices?Not until Congress volunteers all the money they've made from insider trading. 😡
You Antisemites are the reason that this site didn’t make the money deadline. Bitter decrepit old man. And stuff your comeback up your sss also.
You’re hallucinating again.
Better smoke some more dope, pardner.
You stepped over the line from ligitimate criticism of Israel into Antisemtism. But then, you dumbass cucks always do.
I know who you are, and where you are heading for if you continue on your present course.
I am so impressed with how intelligent and articulate you are.
Surely you can illustrate my "Antisemitism."
You sound psychotic, and you appear to be making threats.
No threat. Counting on your present course without repentance, will sadly lead to a very hot place.
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