https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/peter-thiel-trump-iran-war-01131284Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he’s skeptical of the U.S. war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds with President Donald Trump over one of the administration’s defining foreign policy decisions.Thiel’s remarks, delivered on Oct. 12 at a private event, are his most explicit statements to be revealed publicly about the war with Iran and come less than two weeks before the midterm elections in which Trump’s party is grasping to maintain power in Congress. The audio of Thiel’s comments was obtained by Decoded by POLITICO from a lecture earlier this month.“I’m skeptical of [the war], I think we should not have done it,” Thiel said. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”Thiel added, “Maybe we don’t have the hard power. Maybe we’re going to lose the soft power war.”In the full lecture, Thiel made clear his strong opposition to neoconservatives and Middle East wars. Despite his criticism of the Iran war, Thiel highlighted his continued support of Trump and suggested he wanted to protect the president.Still, Thiel’s break over the war represents one of the most important examples to date of a fierce Trump ally sharing deep concerns about the conflict.
The comments were part of Thiel’s lecture series in Nashville, which Decoded has documented since their start this fall. In the latest lecture, Thiel issued extensive warnings about what he described as the unchecked power of the International Criminal Court, drawing on comments from Bush-era figures Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.“I read the Cheney family’s Trump derangement syndrome as an attempt to buy favor with the [International Criminal Court] and avoid prosecution. Probably too late,” Thiel said. “And I have come to suspect that the threat of an ICC arrest warrant is the sword of Damocles hanging over the Trump administration as it tries to persecute this war in Iran.”Thiel also discusses meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early 2024, after the Oct. 7 attack, where he said he asked the leader about his plans in Gaza. Thiel said Netanyahu told him, “I can’t just Dresdenize it,” referring to the Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden during World War II that killed roughly 25,000 people.The first big tech investor to back Trump in 2016, and then have a high-profile speaking role at the Republican National Convention that year, Thiel was also the biggest financial backer of super PACs supporting Vice President JD Vance’s Senate campaign in 2022. POLITICO reported in March that Vance was “skeptical” of the U.S. striking Iran in the lead-up to the beginning of the war.Representatives for Thiel and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Thiel has finally identified Trump as the true antichrist. Just in time for the midterms too!
>>1544149It's a given trump is the anti christ, but Thiel is still going to bankroll him for the midterms.
>>15441521. Theil literally wants the antichrist to bring about the christain apocalypse. When you say he's 'still going to bankroll him' that makes it sound like that's a bug and not a feature.2. The bible describes the antichrist as someone extremely charismatic and universally loved, who unites the entire world under a new religion. Thinking trump is the antichrist is significantly more retarded than just believing in the antichrist, which is already pretty fucking retarded.
>>1544147>about what he described as the unchecked power of the International Criminal Court, drawing on comments from Bush-era figures Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.War criminals complain about the authority that handles trying war criminals. News at 11!
>>1544162He's universally loved, by his cult. He also checks all the other boxes.
I guess it's safe to start taking distance from Trump now that he's about to become a lame duck
>>1544152Trump is running again until 2028, retard.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this headline. What gives him the gall to break decorum with the rest of the billionaire club?
>>1544185it's the economy, stupid.
>>1544185The majority of billionaires are Democrats.
>>1544170>Directly violating the constitution. Good luck getting the republican supreme court to spin that one.
>>1544185this gay retarded epstein golem says a lot of things
>>1544168>He's universally loved by a specific group of people.Yeah, and you're really smart at being a complete retard.
>>1544202The majority of retarded Epstein golems are Democrats.
>>1544210>no uShut up faggot, nobody cares.
https://goppredators.wordpress.com>The majority of retarded Epstein golems are the Gang Of Pedophiles and their defenders such as 1544210ftfy, projecting 1544210.
>>1544190>>1544210Where do you people get this shit from?
>>1544169I don't think anyone is going to allow them to forget who they voted for. Same shit when Podcast hosts try to pretend they never endorsed Trump
>>1544238Their script relies on being the underdogs even when they run all branches of government and have more money backing them than ever before.
>>1544287Clav has repeatedly said Vance is an ugly subhuman fat faggot, so I’m not sure what the plan there was
>>1544287Has Gorbo made a statement?
>>1544238Reality. Observation. Qeustioning.
15441901544210>Proof?1544335>>1544238>Where do you people get this shit from?Delusions. Blindness. Lying.1544335>QeustioningHi, esl shill.Notice how miggers refuse to question their own questioning of things, certainly question themselves, >>1544238?>QeustioningThis is how, certainly why, others can more than just question their wrong opinions that only deserve to be thrown into the trash, but their inferiority. The esl shill humiliating itself again via proving its own inferiority, thus others can point and laugh at that which is inferior to those it needs to question, when they already have the answers: not being migger esl shills with wrong opinions. Because those who point and laugh at esl shills are educationally superior.>QeustioningQED.>Reality. Observation. Qeustioning.Dial it back a little bit shill. You're making it way too obvious. They taught you better than this.Everyone will be crying with laughter at the schizo migger shill humiliating itself.
>>1544203You're claiming MAGA still doesn't blinding support him? You're projecting.
How did history's most anti war president get suckered into a pointless war? Is he secretly a Jew?
>>1544345He's not esl shill. I am. You've been crashing out all day, and I havent posted here since the weekend. SLAVE.
>>1544360Trump is pro whatever last thing a sycophant put in his ear. He has no stances other than to be pro himself.
>>1544360>How did history's most anti war presidentThe guy who bombed Syria multiple times, killed Russians in Syria, invaded venezuela, assasinated an Iranian and armed Ukraine is the most anti-war president in history?
>>1544192It needs to happen for a few reasons and most of those reasons are for my amusement.1. Liggerals are ridiculous pissbabies and continuously burn their credibility to GET dRUMPf!!2. Trumpington DJ (formerly Washington DC) needs to happen and no one but Trump will do it.3. The Democratic party with try to invalidate a Democratically elected president, thus making them the ultimate scummer hypocrites.4. FUCK YOU AND FUCK DEMOCRATS. They're supposedly a party but their reign of terror usually isn't very fun.
>>1544380>esl shill having a total meltdownClassic
Trump's and 1544380's political destruction will happen, and here's a few reasons which amuses everyone else:1. Miggers are ridiculous pissbabies and continuously burn their credibility to OWN THE LIBS!!!2. Washington DC will stay the same less than two weeks from now, and there's less than fuck all that Trump will be able to do about it.3. The Democratic Party are already superior, and those who think otherwise invalidate themselves with their eternally wrong opinions, to their own detriment with the number of Republican voters being anti-Trump in elections since late 20254. In soon to be Soviet America, MAGA Republicans fuck themselves over. They're supposedly a party but their reign of terror will end due to being scummer hypocrites, which Democrats will extract the maximum amount of schadenfreude from when Trump is gone in early 2029 and a Democrat administration replaces it. Then with all that tyrannical legislation brought into being by the previous Republican adminifrustration, why let that go to waste when it can be used against miggers that thought they could be tyrants, least of all think they had the right to have wrong opinions? Then the real fun begins. Can't take it, miggers - least of all you, Trump - you never had the right to dish it out in the first place.>Trump about to be given the BBC treatmentLet the lawfare begin.Dial it back a little bit, migger 1544380. You're making it way too obvious. They taught you better than this.>inb4 'Yo, is dis English?'Everyone will be crying with laughter at the retarded schizo migger esl shill humiliating itself.
>>1544393>metdownChernobyl has nothing on the esl shill.
>>1544408Can I get that translated to English, please?
>>1544210Wrong. 1/3 of the democrats and like 5 guys of the republicans are not sucking Satanyahu's cock 24/7.
>O-o-oh no! I can't counter what >>1544408 says which counters my lies in 1544380! I know! I'll lie about >>1544408 not being English!Or the projecting 1544533 can't understand what's said in >>1544408, thus 1544533 admits to not only being an esl shill, but a non-American foreigner that will never understand English due to being so inferior.
