Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Topic 2056
Barack Obama just admitted what many have long suspected: the Iran nuclear deal could have been saved, and Trump's rejection of the JCPOA had nothing to do with uranium enrichment. Alex Christoforou breaks down Obama's appearance on Colbert, where he confirmed that 97% of Iran's enriched uranium was removed without a single shot fired — and why that inconvenient truth exposes the real agenda behind the current conflict. Saudi Arabia is now pushing a Helsinki-style non-aggression pact to stabilize the region, but as The Duran analyzes, a non-aggression pact falls far short of the genuine security architecture the Middle East actually needs — the same kind Russia proposed to Biden in 2021, only to be ignored. Meanwhile, Latvia's prime minister has become the latest casualty of the so-called Zelensky curse after Ukrainian drones crossed her airspace en route to Russia, bringing down her entire government in a single day. Is the West's unconditional support for Kiev finally starting to crack under the weight of its own contradictions?

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00:00:00 Intro and Trump on Iran Nuclear Talks
00:01:07 Video opens — Athens update
00:01:45 Saudi Arabia's non-aggression pact proposal
00:03:22 Helsinki Accords model and regional security
00:04:45 Russia's 2021 security architecture proposal rejected
00:05:57 Obama defends the JCPOA on Colbert
00:07:38 Trump on why the US is fighting Iran
00:09:33 It was never about nukes regime change argument
00:11:41 Trump explains Xi's declining nation comment
00:13:38 China's concessions and the Strait of Hormuz deal
00:17:00 Trump and Xi's private garden meeting
00:19:39 Latvia PM resigns the Zelensky Curse strikes
00:22:04 Ukraine drone strikes and Zelensky's retaliation order
00:24:14 Rubio's claims about Russian losses and Ukraine
00:27:35 Clown World: Yermak's fortune teller consultant
00:30:04 Fox News gets a parking ticket in China
00:31:30 Ben Wallace added to Russia's wanted list
00:33:20 Closing remarks and Duran links