Testosterone is a steriod.

Anabolic steroids are manmade and dangerous. So, to eliminate the obvious problems high levels of testosterone are used for the same purpose. All hormones are steroids. The individual body understands it's needs. There is no one particular level of testosterone needed for the secondary sex characteristics of masculinity.

Steroids, the popular name for synthetic (man-made) substances related to the male sex hormones, promote muscle growth and the development of male sexual characteristics. Steroids are legally available only with a prescription. They are prescribed to treat conditions such as delayed puberty, some types of impotence, and body-wasting in patients suffering from AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Steroids are abused, often by athletes, to enhance athletic performance and to improve physical appearance.

Elevated testosterone levels can cause cancer. A silent killer in young men is testicular cancer. This is from Mayo.

As you age, (click here) testosterone therapy might sound promising. But there are a lot of misconceptions about what the treatment can and can't do for you.

Testosterone therapy might seem like the ultimate anti-aging formula. Yet the health benefits of testosterone therapy for age-related decline in testosterone aren't clear.

Find out what's known — and not known — about testosterone therapy for normal aging....

Testosterone is sometimes used for better cognition as men as they age. It works, but, ultimately, there is a price to be paid for that use and when removed from testosterone replacement the man will need other anti-psychotics or medications used for dementia. 

Testosterone therapy has various risks, including:

• Worsening sleep apnea — a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts.
• Causing acne or other skin reactions.
• Stimulating noncancerous growth of the prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia) and growth of existing prostate cancer.
• Enlarging breasts.
• Limiting sperm production or causing testicles to shrink.
• Stimulating too much red blood cell production, which contributes to the increased risk of forming a blood clot. A clot could break loose, travel through your bloodstream and lodge in your lungs, blocking blood flow (pulmonary embolism).

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia is not a minor side effect. It causes real life problems. A man should trust his body to produce enough testosterone for his well being. 

Overview of benign prostatic hyperplasia. (click here)

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a health issue that becomes more common with age. It's also called an enlarged prostate. The prostate is a small gland that helps make semen. It's found just below the bladder. And it often gets bigger as you get older.

An enlarged prostate can cause symptoms that may bother you, such as blocking the flow of urine out of the bladder. It also can cause bladder, urinary tract or kidney problems...

Journal of Urology (click here)

2022 Dec;208(6):1295-1302.

doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000002928.
Epub 2022 Oct 25.

What Is a Normal Testosterone Level for Young Men? Rethinking the 300 ng/dL Cutoff for Testosterone Deficiency in Men 20-44 Years Old

Alex Zhu, Juan Andino, Stephanie Daignault-Newton, Zoey Chopra, Aruna Sarma 1, James M Dupree

...Results: Our final analytic cohort contained 1,486 men. Age-specific middle tertile levels were 409-558 ng/dL (20-24 years old), 413-575 ng/dL (25-29 years old), 359-498 ng/dL (30-34 years old), 352-478 ng/dL (35-39 years old), and 350-473 ng/dL (40-44 years old). Age-specific cutoffs for low testosterone levels were 409, 413, 359, 352, and 350 ng/dL, respectively.

Conclusions: Diagnosis of testosterone deficiency has traditionally been performed in an age-indiscriminate manner. However, young men have different testosterone reference ranges than older men. Accordingly, age-specific normative values and cutoffs should be integrated into the evaluation of young men presenting with testosterone deficiency.

Keywords: hypogonadism; testosterone.

There is masculinity and hypermasculinity. There is a huge difference. 

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The problem of instituting MEASURES of masculinity is to cause insecurity rather than character building. In the case of the USA military, Hegseth is seeking to eliminate women from the ranks. When an institution such as the military begins to measure testosterone as being normal or not it begins to define what a man is and what a man is not. The military is known to demand physical knowledge of it's troops, but, never from the point of view of changing characteristics to please a particular standard.

Ah, the feminazis.

Do these men actually want relationships or just trophy women?

...One growing corner of the digital world (click here) is the “manosphere:” a loose network of communities that claim to address men’s struggles – dating, fitness or fatherhood, for example – but often promote harmful advice and attitudes. As the United Nations Secretary General’s report on violence against women and girls highlights, these groups are united by an opposition to feminism and misrepresent men as “victims” of the current social and political climate....

Anyone jealous of Putin?

The manosphere is a cultural issue. I am confident Trump would love to begin a fight with women in the public realm over their degrading of the manosphere. It is a cultural issue and no one needs to fight over a definition of a culture. It is what it is and the question is do women really want what the manosphere has to offer? Would a Dad or Mom want an artificial cult defining masculinity for their sons?

Personally. I think the development of the manosphere is a reflection of Trump's deepest insecurities. 

How many wives has he had?

How many sexual assaults are registered for Trump?

I think developing the manosphere and all that mess that brings to mind hypermasculinity like the WWF is nothing but insecurity. The military doesn't need a measure of masculinity. The USA military needs a well trained and armored soldier.

In a world of wackos existing within Trump's cabinet, we are witnessing new recruits with illness rather than wellness. There are reasons for vaccines in the USA military. I really do think the focus of the Trump administration is not governmental so much as a satisfaction to Trump's ego and his billionaire opportunists.

There is military health care paid for by the people of this country. If anyone needs evaluation for HEALTH AND WELLNESS there are places to go to achieve that goal.

Infertility can be a problem for some couples, but, there are specialists that can help with that. There is just no real reason for Hegseth to be so obsessed with testosterone levels. It ain't all that. Ask a survivor of testicular cancer. 

The WWF is about entertainment. It is not an arena where wars are determined or settled. It is about wrestling with a twist. It is not real wrestling either.

Denzel Freeman of Marines after a 3-0 day in Greco-Roman at the 2026 Armed Forces Championships in Fort Bliss, Texas.

Steven Miller had an epiphany.

Let’s give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize to stroke his ego before he destroys not only the White House in renovations, but, the Black Hills of South Dakota, too.

War with Iran?

Trump has thrown down the gauntlet for Israel. He is in so deep there is no other way out except incite war and expect the American people fall in line. 

It is a mistake for Iran to seriously retaliate. Iran and Iranians are safer to stand down.

From the beginning both domestically and internationally Trump has fomented hate and waited for everyone else to join the parade. He was never going to stop the killings in the USA. He was never going to step back from the brink of war.

The rest of the planet needs to stand down and watch Trump make a fool of himself. He has a war front with Cuba as well as Iran. Both Iran and Cuba are no threat to the USA. They are impoverished, that is especially true of Cuba, and cannot mount a war against anyone.

Iran is limited to drone warfare no differently than Russia. Russia’s losses are unspeakably terrible. People sent to Russia to assault Ukraine are dead. They came from North Korea where soldiers have never died in battle for more than 70 years. Why start all over again now? 

The people from Africa had no concept of the kind of warring they were facing. Africa has not faced a highly effective militarized assault since North Africa in WWII. The wars in Africa are primarily goals of genocide fought with sticks and stones in the way of swords and guns in guerrilla warfare. They knew nothing about combat. They were enticed by money. Now they are dead. We worry about disease in Africa leaving behind orphans. Now, the promise of soldiers of fortune are leaving orphans for the world to take care of. Russia won’t be supporting African families except to send back coffins.

Trump is a dreamscape maniac easily engaged as a tyrannical billionaire with greed for rare earth minerals and petroleum. Donald has always had unattainable playboy mansion dreams leaving people and businesses and contracts in his wake. This is more of the same.

There will be no nation building in the Middle East and Trump and Netanyahu know it. For them it is more efficient to kill and destroy and send in the settlers. That is exactly what is occurring and no one can deny it. The majority of the land in Gaza is now occupied by settlers. 

The USA House and Senate have an obligation to the people of this country to stop Trump’s raid on this country’s military and Treasury. Now! This country’s allies have an obligation to point out these tragedies and crimes to the USA legislature. 

Iran is attacking boats. The USA is sinking them. Where is the difference in that? Civilians. Private vessels. These are crimes, not war.

How many illegal presidential orders have been produced by Trump himself? All those illegal orders have a goal and it leads to violence. He is not a president. He is sincerely disturbed and out of control. He should get on his Castle Jet and fly to his daughter’s island claiming asylum. That is his best outcome.

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"Please, please, don't make me say I will do the right thing."

Todd Blanche, (click here) Trump’s attorney general nominee, stopped short of pledging not to deploy federal agents to polling locations when pressed about it during his confirmation hearing. Meanwhile, Jay Clayton, who would become the director of national intelligence if confirmed, refused to answer a simple question: Who won the 2020 election?

I mean for real. Did they get their Trumpian uniform blue suit yet?

These guys don't dare say they will follow the Rule of Law and do the right thing for the people of this country. 

GET OVER TRUMP, AMERICA!

Trump is a really, really creeping guy.

Impoverishment

There are few if any Americans that live in abject poverty. There is some, but, not to the extent it is found in other countries. This is a rescue of sorts in Egypt. The veterinarian is absolutely magnificent. He teaches the people so much whether he realizes it or not.

He calls them "enslaved horses." (click here)

I have never witnessed the cruelty this veterinarian fights all the time. This is a horse that was in service to it's owner in Egypt.

I do give to this rescue when I can. His willingness to reach into the immorality of the animal cruelty and correct the path is incredible to me. He has improved his practice due to engaging others through his You Tube channel. 

Link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%40alirescuepets1

Egypt needs to not only improve the quality of life of it's people, but, instill some kind of animal cruelty laws. 

He calls himself, "Dr. Ali Safari." By engaging a larger community through YouTube he has captured the attention of others and has been able to develop his practice to bring animals into his care that he alone sponsors through others that care about the work.

He has found a horse alive in a garbage dump. He was able to have him walk to his compound where he literally returned the horse to life. I congratulate him.

This is the degree impoverishment exists in the world. Egypt is next to Gaza and Israel. Egypt has been considered an ally to the USA in the past. I just don't understand how this administration can recognize the impoverishment of others and do nothing by ending USAid. I doubt Dr. Ali received such monies, but, it is the people. The owners of these animals that have abject poverty as a reality day after day. 

The removal of aid to the people is highly immoral. The people are suffering. This is the way the USA tried to help turn a corner for people. We relieved the suffering a little bit every day, year after year. There is simply no way an administration that allows other people to suffer in the face of being able to do something about it can be viewed any way as a benevolent force in the world.

Politics aside. The dedication of Dr. Ali is amazing. He sometimes buys these animals out of slavery and sometimes the cruelty is just too blatant and the owners give up when facing the opportunity for the animal to be cared for when they can no longer care for them. Consider a donation. It is needed and remarkably well used.

There is no balance of power in the Middle East with this administration.

This was a protest vote and a clear indications the behavior of Israel in regard to Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon is not appreciated. There are a growing number of legislators seeking a change in the relationship with Israel. It isn't about national security or the sovereignty of Israel, is is about raw aggression and the killing of so many people.

This is not antisemitism although it will be exploited politically as if it is. This is about getting Israel's attention and it's outrageous expansionism with the help of the Trump White House.

July 15, 2026
By Anne Karni

The House on Wednesday (click here) rejected a measure to eliminate U.S. aid to Israel, but almost half of Democrats supported the move, reflecting a rapid and dramatic shift within the party away from decades of unequivocal support for the Jewish state.

The measure, which sought to cut all $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel from a foreign affairs spending bill, failed by a vote of 104 to 314, with 10 voting “present,” and all but one Republican, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a sponsor, voting no.

But more Democrats supported it than opposed it, including many who said they voted in favor despite their opposition to the cuts to humanitarian aid. It was the latest and starkest evidence of a major divide over backing Israel within the Democratic Party, which is grappling with a groundswell of hostility in its ranks toward Israel and its conduct of the war in Gaza....

It is estimated 73 thousand Palestinians are dead. That is about 4 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza. The destruction is unprecedented. The recognition of this tragedy and inhumane circumstances has to be understood to be important enough for Congressional members to register a vote to defund the monies to Israel.

The Occupied Palestinian Territory (click here) faces a protracted protection and political crisis characterized by more than 56 years of Israeli military occupation, 16 years of the Gaza blockade, internal Palestinian divisions, lack of adherence to international humanitarian and human rights law, and recurrent escalations of hostilities between Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups.  The hostilities which commenced in October 2023 resulted in unprecedented levels of destruction and suffering, including tens of thousands of Palestinian casualties, hundreds of Israeli casualties, and over 240 hostages from Israel.  Nearly all of Gaza’s current population of 2.1 million people has been displaced, lacking access to sufficient shelter, food, life-saving medical services, clean water, education and livelihoods....

Peace in the Middle East has to start somewhere and this vote definitely established the understanding Israel needs to stop destroying the region and killing the people.

Trump is not capable of carrying out a truce.

He isn't even trying. Paper means nothing to him. Haven't we already lost more jets and personnel than we should have? Trump and Hegseth are disasters. This needs to stop. It is past 90 days.

Remember when Trump demanded his Vice President completely mimic his actions and words in his first term? Look at this. His regime doesn't wear a uniform, they wear the same damn blue suit that Trump wears. The same shoes. The same suit. Everything is so regimented it is hideous. I don't see how they can be taken seriously. The people speaking for the USA are supposed to bring talent to the processes of governance, not a puppeteer.

July 15, 2026

By Susannah George 

Vice President JD Vance, second from right, and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, left, attend peace talks in Switzerland last month with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, second from left, and Pakistani army chief Asim Munir.

Almost as soon as Iran and the United States agreed (click here) to an initial deal on a truce last month, they began accusing each other of violating it. At issue has been the document’s vague language on a critical issue: control of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian officials say the deal hands Tehran control over the strait, a key choke point, through which Tehran has halted most marine traffic for months, sending shocks through the global economy. U.S. officials say the agreement opens the waterway as it had been before the war.

Some critics of the accord accuse U.S. negotiators of hasty capitulation under pressure from President Donald Trump as he sought to relieve growing stress on global energy markets. Some key Republicans, such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), questioned the deal’s extensive economic relief for Iran that required little in return....

This is laughable. Curacao is a country belonging to the Netherlands. THE NETHERLANDS! They are our allies. We are at war with the Netherlands now? 

WTF? 

I guarantee you if the Captain was asked in his own language if he knows why his engine was destroyed, he would not understand what happened except an onboard fire.

Where is the proof all these countries were formally notified of the operations of the USA Navy in the Persian Gulf. The USA was chasing pirates at one time and believe it or not the entire world is not aware Donald John Trump thinks he is on the mind of every human being on Earth.

Congress needs to rein all this in and soon. This is the most idiotic bunch of nonsense ever witnessed in the Free World. Those people are allies. Allies. If there is anyone injured or dead and the ship was not acknowledging the blockade this is murder. We are not at war with our own allies you idiots!

July 15, 2026

U.S. forces disabled an oil tanker Wednesday (click here) as it attempted to sail toward an Iranian port in the Arabian Gulf amid the resumption of the naval blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a Wednesday evening post on X. The Curacao-flagged M/T Belma ignored repeated warnings to stop as it headed toward Kharg Island, CENTCOM wrote. In an 18-second video, a U.S. aircraft is seen disabling the vessel by firing missiles into the ship’s smokestack. “U.S. forces remain vigilant and prepared to ensure full compliance,” CENTCOM said in the post to X. This is the first vessel that U.S. forces have disabled since the naval blockade resumed on Tuesday. Two other commercial vessels that complied with U.S. warnings were redirected, CENTCOM said in the same post....

White House again attacked by Trump

He is defacing government property again!

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The columns are a very important part of the historical White House. Trump’s contempt of ANYTHING that he did not first destroy and then spend enormous amounts of money to rebuild is very, very obvious.

He has bankrupted his own company something like 11 times because of his narcotic obsessive compulsive behaviors. He is the spoiler and he is once again destroying the history of the White House because of his misplaced arrogance. He is NOT a great builder of structures and he continues to prove it over and over and over again.

First the East Wing was destroyed.

Then the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Now, the North Portico Columns.

Let me guess.

Hm????????

The columns are supposed to be a matching set to the never to be built arch.

Congress needs to stop the destruction of the White House including the extended fence line into the street and dedicate monies specifically to the historic organizations protecting the history of the White House and it’s qualified capacity as a museum. No more construction money for Trump!

The White House needs to be refurbished now by proper authority and blueprints to give the people back their history.

The White House needs as close to the original materials and construction as possible. To include, protective measures from any destruction in the future. There needs to be a return of the Rose Garden and the Kennedy tree. 

The hate Trump has for this country is screaming out loud and it will stop!

Trump is now being covert about his defacement of the White House. The guy has problems no one can solve short of impeachment. Enough of his mess!

Traffic Stops

It is important to remember why Trump is raiding the people of the USA. He wants opposition to his tactics so he can declare the end of elections. So, realizing the end game why stop traffic stops and the killing that results? 

It isn’t as if raiding traffic alone is dangerously involving the public, but, if the president; sorry dictator-king, does not care about the people in the first place (ie: radioactive shit from plane) killing IS his well funded goal. It is probably cost effective to kill rather than due process. Hitler thought so.

Two women that are Supreme Court Justices…

…show up in Congress to ask for money for their personal security. Comey-Barrett states the threats started after the court she was sitting on for the first time assaulted the bodies of American women. No surprise here.

Where are the guys? They aren’t having problems? 

Coney-Barrett is a cultist and wants the country to reflect her personal ideology for women’s demeanor and sexuality. She ruled according to her cultish personal preferences making it harder and harder to be a woman.

The United States of America is about choice not conformity. 

The United States Supreme Court has made some really lousy decisions including the most recent assaulting independent agencies that keep a check on racketeering like the one practiced by Trump.

Clarence was over at the House a week or so ago. It was a visit to discuss the politics, although, when the reporter asked what the conversation was about he clearly stated he wasn’t about to disclose the conversation especially to a competent journalist.

It is a really lousy court Roberts conducts. They have taken privacy and checks and balances to the bare bones and now they want protection so they can continue to make really lousy decisions that have taken American rights to privacy, along with the Tech Industry, away and removed protections for our constitution. 

I think instead of passing additional protection monies Congress should pass legislation that limits their term at the Supreme Court. I think that would give Americans hope their freedoms would be returned to them.

I mean. Protections? Maybe Coney-Barrett’s cult could pay for it since it is they getting what they want from her, not the American people. What is occurring with the high court is political preference, not governance. 

Stare decisis is dead and they call that good practice?

I don’t care who you are or what capacity you hold in this democracy but if the power of the USA is turned against the people and their best interests things aren’t going to go well.

Cuban Blockade

(Click here)

The Cuban Blockade that Trump inhumanely instituted is teaching 90 days and he is still adversely effecting the people of that island nation. 

(Click here)

Talks have been unproductive because Trump refuses to recognize the reforms he demanded.

The Late Senator Lindsay Graham’s Sister

I am sure she shared his love of this country and understood the way he contributed to the legislature. It is absolutely wonderful she should be among his memories and staff during a difficult time. I congratulate her. Another lady in the Senate. 

Domestically the people of the USA are seeing the same type of blind aggression.

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Another death by Immigration, Custom, and Enforcement. 

...The Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition (click here) identified the victim as a 26-year-old man from Colombia. Mufalo Chitam, the group’s executive director, told CNN that the man was on his way to work. The group said the man was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number....

This type of aggression has to be condemned at the highest levels of government. It is criminal. They literally murdered a man legally in the USA.

Trump has this idea that no matter who it is when it comes to being an immigrant there is no security. The immigration process has evolved over a century if not longer. It is clearly understood when a lawful person is given papers that legally allow them to stay in the USA and build a life, including work and a Social Security card, their future is secure.

This sham of a presidency is seeking to ignore USA policy and laws. Trump is completely lawless and passing along that mind set to the agencies he is supposed to maintain in a reasonable manner among the people of this country. He is negligent of ORDINARY CARE in administering the laws of the USA within it's own borders.

The ICE agents involved as well as their supervisors all the way to the president need to be charged with murder. The Maine Attorney General needs to begin an investigation and a jury to examine the facts.

NATO can breath a sigh of relief.

The last time Mitch McConnell addressed the alliance of NATO he was one of their staunch defenders. 

He needs to take his time in recovery from what is being described as a physically weak moment. He is needed to write and pass legislation that protects the alliance and funds it to the capacity where there is no doubt it is an effective member of our national security.

He looks good. That is not a misdirected smile by a confused man. Admittedly, Elaine Chao looks better than Mitch, but, that is something everyone has gotten used to over the years. 

Peace and well being to both of them.

Which side is which?

The entire power playing in the Persian Gulf is out of hand. 

Iran closed the strait within three weeks ago (click here) over violations of the ceasefire which was supposed to include Israel's end of violence in Lebanon. 

To begin the Persian Gulf is not international waters. The USA has no particular right to even be in the Persian Gulf. Wall Street complaining is not a valid right of USA to act against another country. Profit and loss is a reality, engaging in war to put a thumb on the scale and it is called racketeering.

Iran is acting in it's own interest when closing it's sovereign waters to international traffic. It has a right to do that. 

Trump is engaging in an illegal war against a sovereign authority in Iran as it is far beyond 90 days of war without the explicit act of Congress declaring war.

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There are laws that govern blockades regardless of whether Trump wants to abide by it or not. Brut force is not an international permission. The USA Navy or military of any kind has no right attacking a sovereign country when it declared it's own blockade and has been enforcing it through strikes against ships in violation of it.

This mess reminds me of a tennis match. Which player has the control of the court and is up next to serve the ball.

There have been commercial ships fired on by the USA causing deaths of the people on board. There have been persons on commercial ships caught in the middle that have died. All these ships are not necessarily informed as to the tensions in the Persian Gulf and who is controlling the waters. These are innocent parties caught in a dynamic that continues to wax and wane. That is not a war. Those are temper tantrums. Trump does not have permission either by the country, the Congress, or the United Nations Security Council.

The USA cannot disrupt shipping lanes and cause violations in maritime and humanitarian laws as well as the international law of sovereign waters. This is not the place for the USA military. The region needs to solve it's own problems and find peace and cooperation, that can't be done so long as Trump is having temper tantrums over Iran's actions within it's own sovereign authority. The laws of blockade belong to Iran as well as any other authority.

How is any kind of peace to begin to form if the USA continually throws it's weight around?

Aortic dissection

It is a devastating and painful way to die. He was carrying too much stress. The legislature has to be careful about their health and maintain a good relationship with their personal doctors. It is a highly charged and stressful time in this country. I am so sorry to hear about this abrupt passing of Senator Graham. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends. This sudden loss is very difficult to deal with. 

Stress is something that is real and at one time was on the minds of Americans. Now. With the angry and dangerous political environment in the USA a complaint about stress is viewed as a weakness rather than a necessary precaution. 

He was too young to die.

Novichok

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Britain recently sanctioned scientists responsible for producing Novichok, the poison used by Russia to kill people in Europe believed to be enemies of the country. 

No one gets a free ride.

Trump's foreign policies will never work except when it comes to Trump's bank account. Trump's racketeering habits backed up by Hegseth's priorities in USING AND ABUSING the USA military is over.

Trump's administration is demanding all sorts of ideological outcomes without facing the reality that the world recognizes the racketeering Trumps are personally profiting from. They get the money and they keep the money as if they honestly deserve it. The fact is the Trumps have hijacked the USA government and military for their own wealth through the favors they allow and capitalistic plans they have in building resorts that fall flat on their face every damn time.

Maralogo was falling apart when Trump took office. I am not certain where the money came from, but, my guess is the Chinese in anticipation of becoming wealthy themselves while compromising every classified document in the possession of national security. And the Republicans allow it to continue regardless of the facts before them.

Iran has the right of law to protect it's sovereign borders regardless of it's priorities. If Iran is invading others sovereignty the countries involved may have a grievance which they can settle as they please, but, there is no automatic trigger that puts the USA military in the line of fire or as a defense force. Besides, Hegseth has already violated maritime law that INSISTS human life on the seas comes first no matter the issue. He killed civilians on commercial ships because of his inflexible barricade of the ports along the Persian Gulf even if it was Iranian ports. Hegseth set down NO RULES for the blockade. There was and is no respect for human life aboard those ships and that is perfectly fine with him. He and Trump have an unspoken rule, the more dead the better.

You know what really pisses me off, Phil? Decades and decades of Republican majorities in the Legislature DEGRADING every regulation that protects human life and health in the USA. That really pisses me off.

Wars. Illegal wars. Wars that cause the death, not of success by the opposition, but, by homeland neglect of PTSD. PTSD, Phil. Dr. Phil should know something about that. Our soldiers no longer were coming home intact, but, psychologically assaulted by road side bombs and terrorist attacks, death squads and corruption within the countries promised to be improved by nation building. That really pisses me off. Nation building is a lie, ask the Taliban.

So, while Trump and Dr. Phil are tapping into the anger of Americans in hopes Trump is able to come out of his closet and kill as many Americans as possible in his second term, Iran has every right to refuse any and all ships in it's sovereign waters. Considering the assault by Hegseth and the civilian deaths abroad commercial vessels I am certain Iran has no problem in attempting to control and patrol all the waters of the Persian Gulf.

Is there some kind of United Nation Resolution about this mess? Wait. The USA would veto anything anyway. So much for a peace process.

The United States (click here) pressed Iran to publicly pledge free and secure transit through the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran hosted talks in Oman to de-escalate tensions amid a reopened negotiation cycle. Washington signaled a willingness to continue discussions despite ceasing hostilities and asserting the ceasefire is over, while Iran accused the U.S. of violating the truce and pushed for a mutual, concrete commitment. The broader context involves recent attacks on shipping, U.S. and Israeli strikes in Iran, and efforts by Qatar to mediate, with oil markets reacting to the heightened risk. The long-running conflict has unsettled Gulf security, raised oil prices, and complicated the path toward a broader settlement. A renewed interim framework remains the focal point, with leadership in both capitals weighing leverage and incentives for compliance going forward.

Trump is in sovereign waters illegally in the Persian Gulf.

There is a report on CNN there exists picture evidence Iran is attempting to rebuild their nuclear facilities.

1. It is ONLY picture evidence. 

2. Iran has agreed to verification of their facilities as part of the peace initiative. The IAEA should begin their inspections after things have settled following the interments of the Iranian leadership.

3. Iran has every right to protect itself from a USA president that stated he does not see an end to the hostilities and cancelled any form of ceasefire.

4. Trump was supposed to have Israel end hostilities in Lebanon. 

5. Iran is a sovereign country and while the world likes to travel the Persian Gulf for commercial expediency, there are problems. They are not minor problems.

6. Iran did not ask for the pain and hardship it is facing. Trump and Hegseth set their sites on Iranian leadership and a school full of girls. It was calculated and deliberate. By every measure between Trump’s first term and this one, there are at least three illegal assassinations of Iranian leadership so far. 

7. While Iran was able to develop centrifuges, the country never had a viable nuclear weapon program.

8. Hegseth has violated maritime law in allowing the deaths of personnel of the commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf while hijacked in a blockade.

The USA in its illegal war with Iran has resulted in enormous use of weapons intended for the defense of the USA. Israel has been protected by USA interceptor missiles making Israel’s continuing aggression in the Middle East possible. USA Middle East allies have suffered attacks of USA facilities. The losses of USA military personnel was due to continuous stress of a supposed emergency declaration. The USA soldiers are fatigued and making mistakes resulting in their deaths, loss of assets, and loss of assets in Iranian territory providing state of the art technology to Iran. 

IT IS CALLED INCOMPETENCE.

The amount of damage, both physical and in international relationships and reputation, done to the USA by the Trump administration is incalculable.