Escalation? US/Iran Exchange Fire As Yet Another ‘Breakthrough’ Announced

by | May 28, 2026

: Is it really a breakthrough this time, or just more market manipulation? The pattern has been obvious: talk up a deal and oil drops then threaten “annihilation” and it rises. Is this diplomacy, saber rattling, or more market manipulation?

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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