Feb. 28, 2026

LM#70--Liberty is on the March: From Abraham Accords To A Fallen Supreme Leader

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A map doesn’t just change with borders; it changes when the rules do. We trace a straight line from the Abraham Accords through October 7, the region-wide June escalation, and the strike that removed Iran’s Supreme Leader to explain why the Middle East just entered a new era. The thread is simple but profound: normalization unsettled the status quo, terror tried to reverse it, and a coalition responded by targeting not just fighter...

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A map doesn’t just change with borders; it changes when the rules do. We trace a straight line from the Abraham Accords through October 7, the region-wide June escalation, and the strike that removed Iran’s Supreme Leader to explain why the Middle East just entered a new era. The thread is simple but profound: normalization unsettled the status quo, terror tried to reverse it, and a coalition responded by targeting not just fighters but the entire architecture behind them.

We walk through how the Accords quietly re-ordered incentives for Israel and several Sunni states, making open cooperation normal and isolating Tehran’s ambitions. Then we examine October 7 as a deliberate shock aimed at blowing up normalization, and how Israel’s doctrine shifted from “manage the threat” to “dismantle the network.” As Hezbollah, Iraqi and Syrian militias, and Hamas moved in concert, June’s escalation exposed a single grid of proxies. With U.S. backing, strikes expanded from rocket crews to commanders, infrastructure, and nuclear assets during Operation Midnight Hammer, turning a shadow war into a multi-front confrontation.

The final, startling turn—the killing of the Supreme Leader—breaks an old taboo and sends a message across every capital from Riyadh to Moscow: proxy violence no longer shields the regime at the top. We reflect on how this changes deterrence, why it hardens a loose coalition of Israel, Sunni partners, and the West, and what it means for global energy, great-power opportunism, and the possibility of more accountable politics across the region. Think of the Berlin Wall falling: a single event that announces a different world and forces everyone to rewrite their playbooks.

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Key Points from the Episode:

• Abraham Accords as a realignment, not a photo-op
• Iran isolated as Israel and Sunni states cooperate
• October seventh as a bloody backlash to normalization
• Israel ends contain-and-manage doctrine
• June escalation exposes a single proxy grid
• Operation Midnight Hammer against nuclear capability
• Strike authority expands to senior leadership and infrastructure
• Supreme Leader killed signals end of regime immunity
• New coalition hardens against Tehran’s network
• Berlin Wall analogy for a new geopolitical era

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00:00 - Opening Salvo And Stakes

00:46 - Laying Out The Four Dots

01:40 - Dot One: Abraham Accords Realignment

03:03 - Dot Two: October Seventh Backlash

04:12 - Doctrine Shift And Regional War

05:19 - Dot Three: June Escalation Unmasked

06:32 - Operation Midnight Hammer And Choices

07:33 - Dot Four: Supreme Leader Taken Out

08:31 - New Rules And Global Recalculation

10:13 - Chain Of Events And Trump’s Call

11:31 - Berlin Wall Parallel And Future Map

13:24 - Closing Reflections And Resources

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Those are the drums of liberty.

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Today's killing of the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, and 40 of his minions could possibly be the biggest shift in geopolitics.

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This is the fall of the Berlin Wall way back in 1989.

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Let's talk about it on this Liberty Minute.

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Welcome to the Theory to Action Podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books in less time to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life.

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Now, here's your host, David Kaiser.

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Hello, I am David, and welcome back to this Liberty Minute.

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What happened in the Middle East today, February 28th, 2026, is instrumental and pivotal for what is going to happen in the next opening chapters in our great world.

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Way back to the Abraham Accords and Trump's first term, to the October 7th attack, to the June wave of escalation with Operation Midnight Hammer, to the killing today of Iran's Supreme Leader and 40 of his minions.

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All of this presents us with the biggest geopolitical shift that we have seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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So let's connect those dots.

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So if you roll the clock back, we had the Abraham Accords back in Trump's first term.

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Arab states openly normalizing relations with Israel, signing deals, exchanging ambassadors, doing business in the open instead of in the shadows.

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For decades, the metal map was simple.

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Israel on one side, the Arab world on the other.

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The accords broke that.

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And suddenly you had Israel and several Sunni Arab governments moving towards each other.

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Israel sharing technology, intelligence, even economics, with countries that once wouldn't even say its name.

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Iran watching from the sidelines, realizing wait, my enemies are getting married.

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That shift between Arabs and Israelis warming up while Iran stewed is dot number one.

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It quietly rearranged the alliances and scared the people who live off that permanent conflict and have for decades.

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Then came Iran's monumental mistake.

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October 7th, 2023, they instructed their proxy Hamas to cross into Israel and carry out one of the worst massacres of Jews since the Holocaust.

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We covered it.

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Put a link in the show notes.

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Mass killings, kidnappings, shock and horror.

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One level it was most vicious terror attack.

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On the other, on another level, it was a message.

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The message said if the Arab states in Israel move towards peace, we will answer that with war.

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If normalization continues, we will blow up the table.

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That's what Iran said.

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Hamas, backed and armed by Iran, tried to drag the region backwards.

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And in doing so, they triggered something they didn't expect.

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They forced Israel to stop living with a threat and start to dismantle it systematically.

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Israel's response was not just we're gonna bomb Gaza and go home.

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The response was we're gonna go to war with the entire architecture behind this.

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Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iran network, all of it.

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Number two.

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The bloody backlash against the Abraham Accords and the moment Israel decided that their doctrine of contain and manage, that was over.

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That strategy was out the door.

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And then we fast forward to June, last June.

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And by then the war isn't just Israel versus Hamas and Gaza.

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You've got Hezbolla firing from the north, Iran, Iranian proxies attacking from Syria and Iraq, strikes, counter-strikes across borders, what everyone had quietly feared for years.

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A real regional conflict, not just isolated skirmishes.

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And all this starts to look very real.

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That June flare-up did two really big things.

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It exposed how integrated Iran's proxy network really was Hamas, Hezbollah, militias, how they're all plugged into the same grid.

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And it also gave Israel and its partners, especially the Americans, the political cover and the military justification to widen the target set.

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Not just fighters on the ground, but senior commanders, infrastructure, and eventually the people giving the orders.

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Last June is dot number three.

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It's the point when the Shadow War stopped being shadowy and turned into a multi-front confrontation.

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It's also when Operation Midnight Hammer was dropped, took out in three locations in Iran, their ability to constitute nuclear weapons.

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And what did they do?

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There was an off-ramp there.

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They could have, after the bombing, came back and said, We're no longer going to do that.

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And they probably would have been able to exist and been a tire tyranny, much like North Korea is now.

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And as long as they're not pursuing military nuclear weapons, then they would probably have been left alone.

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But they kept pursuing them.

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And our president said no more.

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And then we arrive at the most shocking dot of them all.

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Today's dot.

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Dot number four.

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The killing of Iran's Supreme Leader.

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So for decades the Supreme Leader was treated as untouchable.

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From Ayatollah Khomeini to Ayatollah Khamenei.

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He was the man behind the curtain.

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He was the funding and the arming of Hamas and Hezbollah.

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He guided the militias in Iraq and Syria, gave a spiritual umbrella to this whole charade.

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And he was really the one pushing the nuclear ambitions.

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Providing the chance, death to Israel, death to America, over and over after the Friday prayers.

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And he assumed no one would actually be able to touch him.

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The world got used to that certain role.

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You might get hit by the proxies, you might get hit by a general or a scientist, but we will not take out the top of the regime.

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Until this president said, I don't respect that rule.

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Everything is on the table.

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When the Supreme Leader is killed, it's not just a body count story, it's a signal.

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The head of the axis of the resistance is no longer safe.

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The separation between proxy violence and regime immunity is gone, and every capital in the region has to redo its risk calculations from scratch.

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And that is dot number four.

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The moment the unthinkable striking the very top of the Iranian regime and for every other tyranny around the world, that becomes thinkable and real.

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If you're against America, you have to think about that now.

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So let's put the chain together.

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The Abraham Accords began to realign the Middle East.

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Israel and Sunni Arab states inched towards open cooperation.

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Iran is isolated and threatened.

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October seventh is the bloody reaction.

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Iran's proxy Hamas tries to blow up the new order by dragging everyone into a war.

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Israel responds, dismantles Hamas, does an incredible pager attack to Hezbollah, then recruits its ally, the United States, and with the United States' firepower, last June's attacks and escalation shows the region that it isn't just Israel-Gaza problem.

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It's a multi-front confrontation with Iran's entire proxy network and Iran itself.

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And then the killing of the Supreme Leader today is the culmination.

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Proof that the response wasn't just going to stop at Gaza, wasn't going to stop at Hezbollah, wasn't even going to stop at the IRGC.

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Went to the very top, wiping out the leader and wiping out 40 of his lieutenants.

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Each step makes the next one almost inevitable.

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Once the Arab states move towards Israel, Iran felt concerned and cornered.

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Rightly so.

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Iran pushes its proxies to unleash October 7th.

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And Israel says we're going to stop playing defense and we're going on offense.

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We are hunting everyone down.

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They recruit the United States to do the same thing.

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They have a willing president.

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Once the war spreads in last June, the entire network becomes a legitimate target.

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And once that happens, this president, Donald Trump, probably the most consequential president since Ronald Reagan, perhaps even more consequential.

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Not sure.

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We're in the early days, the first 24 hours of this mission.

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But once that happened, the Supreme Leader himself is no longer off limits, and Donald Trump with a high risk, high reward mission, said go.

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So that's why I said in the beginning, we haven't seen a geopolitical shift like this since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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The Berlin Wall's fall told the world the Cold War order is over.

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And the map you grew up with is gone.

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Everything is changing.

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So what we're watching now in the Middle East is a similar kind of moment.

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The old fault lines, Israel versus the Arabs, is cracking.

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New lines are forming.

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Iran versus a loose coalition of Israel-Arab states in the West is hardening.

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Hopefully, we will have representatives of democracy, free, fair elections there, as they were for the most part before 1979.

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The idea that terror regimes can wage war throughout the Middle East or around the world through proxies and stay personally untouchable is off the table.

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We now have the technology to pinpoint these leaders and take them out.

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So just like 1989 reshaped Europe and Eastern European communism collapsed.

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What's happening now is reshaping the Middle East alliances, global energy politics, and certainly now the calculations in places like Moscow and Beijing, and how far they can push.

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So when you look at these events, don't see them as isolated headlines like peace deal signed, terror attack here, escalation there, leader killed.

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You gotta see them as chapters in the same story.

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The story of a region trying to move toward a post-conflict reality and a terror axis that is being dismantled with every missile strike, every sorty from U.S.

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and Israeli pilots, and every series of shocks that are forcing everyone to pick aside.

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From the Abraham Accords to October 7th to last June's region-wide escalation, Operation Midnight Hammer to the killing today of Iran's Supreme Leader.

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It's all coming to a head.

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And Liberty is on the march.

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So in today's Liberty Minute, we're not just watching news, we're watching the Middle East version of the Berlin Wall coming down.

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We hope it continues over the next days and weeks and months.

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The map is changing, the rules are changing.

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And the people who thought they could control the game from the shadows are finding out that in this new era, even the dictators at the very top are no longer safe.

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Liberty is on the march.

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And the world is safer for.

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God bless our troops.

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God bless Israel.

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And as always, keep fighting the good fight.

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Thank you for joining us.

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