February 26, 2026 | Thursday
Tags: pam-bondi, donald-trump, howard-lutnick, jd-vance, larry-ellison, steve-witkoff, bari-weiss, jared-kushner, david-ellison
US-Iran nuclear talks collapse in Geneva as Iran rejects demands to dismantle key facilities and surrender its uranium stockpile amid a looming US ultimatum. David Ellison’s Skydance acquires Warner Bros. Discovery for $31 per share, merging it with Paramount assets under Larry Ellison’s Oracle-backed empire.
The third round of US-Iran discussions on Iran’s nuclear program convened in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday morning, where US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff presented unchanged demands: Iran must dismantle its three primary nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan; commit permanently to zero uranium enrichment with no sunset clause; and surrender its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium directly to the United States. These terms, reiterated since 2018 and formalized in talks last Tuesday, rejected Iran’s counteroffers, including diluting portions of the stockpile, transferring half to a third party like Russia, or temporarily restricting high-level enrichment. Iran flatly refused, insisting on immediate, massive sanctions relief to restore electricity, water, food imports, and infrastructure investment, with no contingent relief from the US side. The Wall Street Journal reported the talks concluded without agreement, both parties remaining irreconcilable, though Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi and a US official claimed progress warranting technical expert talks in Vienna next week. This follows Trump’s 10-day ultimatum issued nine days prior, expiring tomorrow or Tuesday at latest, amid a massive US military buildup: two carrier strike groups, over a dozen warships, multiple fighter squadrons, half of deployable US air power repositioned, soldiers evacuated from vulnerable sites, and at least two dozen jets crossing the Atlantic to Middle East and European bases per flight-tracking data. Iran warned any strike, even limited, triggers all-out response.
Prior rounds yielded minimal framework—first in Oman narrowing focus to nuclear issues excluding missiles and proxies, second in Switzerland delivering the US ultimatum—while US preparations accelerated two weeks ago with Trump’s Truth Social post demanding nuclear capitulation or destruction, patience limited to weeks. Iran’s President and Foreign Minister expressed optimism, but Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei distrusts the US after the 2018 JCPOA withdrawal, requiring his approval; US Senate ratification needs 60 votes amid opposition from Lindsey Graham, John Fetterman, and Israel-aligned Republicans. Omani mediation continues with a minister’s DC visit tonight and Trump’s 3 PM meeting tomorrow, but positions hold firm: US offers minor, compliance-tied sanctions relief; Iran rejects facility destruction, stockpile forfeiture, or permanence. Deployment of defensive systems and asset protection underscores readiness, with no US budge despite headlines of “constructive” dialogue echoing pre-June Israeli strikes on Iran last year.
These demands form an ultimatum, not negotiation, positioning Trump for strikes this weekend or next as the deadline lapses, delivering regime change benefiting Israel’s regional hegemony over oil, gas, trade routes through Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, and Eastern Mediterranean infrastructure linking Asia, Europe, Africa. US history shows regime change failures—Afghanistan to Taliban, Syria to al-Qaeda, fragmented Iraq rejecting presence, failed Libya—costing trillions, American lives, equipment sunk as opportunity cost against real interests like first island chain or Latin America. Miriam Adelson’s $100 million to Trump since 2016 funded JCPOA rip-up, Qasem Soleimani killing, proxy bombings, now war enabling Israeli expansion post-October 7, 2023, status quo shift from 1979 Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah, Camp David. Netanyahu hailed Trump as “Cyrus the Great” for Persian defeat; Mark Levin demands American deaths for Israel on Fox News. JD Vance pushed hard punches on Iran, Israel glove removal at Quincy Institute. Institutional capture—State Department, NSC, Pentagon, GOP, billionaires—drives this, not America First, demanding 2028 candidates vow disempowerment, no new wars, sovereignty over foreign puppeteering.
David Ellison’s Skydance, backed by father Larry Ellison’s Oracle, secured Warner Bros. Discovery for $31 per share after Netflix withdrew following a seven-day waiver to review the superior bid, announced today pending regulatory approval. This merges Warner’s assets—Warner Bros. Studio, HBO, HBO Max, CNN, TNT, TBS, Discovery Channel, Food Network—with Skydance Paramount’s holdings from August’s Paramount acquisition: Paramount Pictures, CBS, CBS News, Paramount Plus, local TV stations. Larry Ellison, Oracle chairman and CEO with $200 billion net worth, holds significant TikTok US equity, algorithm, and data post-2024 forced ByteDance divestiture under Trump, finalized last year. Previously, Skydance’s Warner bid triggered open auction; Netflix’s board-approved deal from December faced DOJ scrutiny under Pam Bondi for anti-competitiveness, enabling Skydance’s comeback. Larry Ellison, Netanyahu confidant vacationing his family on Ellison’s island, bailed Netanyahu from investigations via lawyer Arnon Milchan influence, donated millions to IDF, offered Netanyahu Oracle board seat.
Post-acquisition, Skydance installed Bari Weiss as CBS News editor-in-chief for $150 million Free Press buyout, shifting Israel-Gaza coverage pro-Israel amid 2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates controversy. Warner process opened last year after rebuffed Skydance overtures, positioning the conglomerate against Disney, Netflix, Amazon; Ellison deemed Paramount insufficient alone. TikTok’s US arm independence gave Oracle data control, algorithm modification rights. DOJ review stalled Netflix, clearing Skydance path.
This crowns Larry Ellison’s year-long media capture under Trump, vertically integrating CBS News, CNN, HBO Max, Nickelodeon, Paramount Plus, Warner studios into Zionist control, friend of Netanyahu advancing pro-Israel narrative amid Middle East wars. Trump administration aided: DOJ sabotaged Netflix-Warner; forced TikTok sale to Ellison; Department of Education withheld Ivy League funds—Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, UCLA—securing anti-Semitism measures, faculty firings, Palestine group bans, speech curbs like “from the river to the sea.” State Department, DHS deport social media Israel critics, bar entry; new Israel MOU, aid bills advance. Ronald Lauder, World Jewish Congress chair, son-in-law Federal Reserve chair nominee; Larry Fink replaces Klaus Schwab at World Economic Forum; BlackRock, Ivy recapture follow campus revolts. Contrasts stalled border wall, half-million deportations, tariffs, infrastructure despite promises, exposing junior partnership where Zionist gains—media, universities, TikTok algorithm curbing pro-Palestine virality, Iran regime change—leverage white conservative votes via larp as nativists (Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner, Howard Lutnick). GOP must face hostile takeover: infiltrate college Republicans, campaigns, demand America First or destruction, mirroring Trump’s 2016 leverage threatening independent run against Never Trumpers fine with Hillary win.