In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald examines the renewed escalation between the United States and Iran after the collapse of a ceasefire framework. At the center is a provocative question: How can a president who promised to end endless wars now be continuing the war against Iran himself?
Greenwald analyzes the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, the risks to global energy markets, Iran’s ability to retaliate, and the political pressure pushing Trump back toward escalation. He argues that this conflict is not just another “limited strike” — but part of a much larger pattern of ongoing U.S. wars.
This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 10th of July, 2026. We have translated it into German and are republishing it today to help build opinion on this issue in Germany and beyond.
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Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021). Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.
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