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Even More News: War With Iran, But It's Not A War, But Yes It Is And They Started It

March 3, 2026·32 min·2 clips

The U.S. and Israel launch Operation Epic Fury, killing Iran's Ayatollah, but is it a war or not?

War, apparently, is peace now. Katie Stoll opens on the U.S. and Israel assault on Iran, with Cody Johnston and Jonathan joining a fast, grim scramble through it. The setup is absurd right away. Depending on which official mood ring is glowing, the attack is not a war, has always been a war, or somehow ends one. The hosts are not buying it. They treat the euphemisms as part of the violence, because calling escalation peace does not make the bombs quieter. Operation Epic Fury comes up early. The transcript describes aerial bombardment, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed, senior members of the regime killed, civilians killed, and an estimated 180 young children killed at a girls' elementary school in Manab. Then the information sludge rolls in. The hosts mock video-game nonsense spreading online, using that ridiculous detail to show how quickly war fever eats verification. Hegseth becomes the setup. He warns against revealing military timetables, only for Trump to float a four-week idea soon after, as if secrecy is another prop. That contradiction matters. The episode keeps circling the frightening gap between people wanting war with Iran for years and the chaos of actually running one. Trump looks lost inside it. The hosts argue that he is used to simple wins, while Iran confronts him with consequences, contingencies, and decisions he cannot bluff through. Venezuela becomes the cautionary comparison. It was simple for him, they argue, but not for Venezuelans, and that distinction lands with the usual Some More News snap. The ending widens the panic. Turkey, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Katie Miller, and the joke of a war against the world all become pieces of the same imperial tantrum, funny until the room remembers it is real.

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War rhetoric, shifting timelines, and the uneasy business of calling escalation peace.

Even More News moves quickly through the U.S. and Israel's assault on Iran, the shifting timetables, and Trump's vague motivations. It keeps circling the gap between the escalation itself and the peace language used to describe it.

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If you need the Iran war spin stripped bare, this one does it fast.

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