Video taking off 10x its usual first day

Hawk listens as a war critique links Iran, Vietnam and Iraq

The split-screen Short draws an unusually large audience while an unnamed speaker challenges Western accounts of foreign conflicts.

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Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk Story of November 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 308,099 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (29,842).

Both parties lie about war

Hawk stays silent. In "Both parties lie about war," the argument comes from the woman beside him on screen, who opens with Iran before moving through decades of government and media accounts of foreign conflicts.

The reaction Short has reached about 265,000 views in seventeen hours, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for Shorts. Its comment section is also nearly six times as busy as a typical full first day.

The woman cites the Gulf of Tonkin incident, testimony about Kuwait before the Gulf War and the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as examples supporting her accusation of dishonesty. She then references documents about Afghanistan, arguing that officials exaggerated progress despite knowing the war was not winnable. Hawk listens and gestures without adding spoken commentary.

Viewers are discussing the human cost of military intervention, the interests they believe drive it and what public spending could provide at home instead. Those responses extend the video's central question: how much trust should the public place in official justifications for war?

The clip moves on through Colombia, Venezuela, Libya and Syria, then cuts off as the speaker begins mentioning Yemen.

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