So USA. The most incompetent bankruptcy prone billionaire who can’t complete a sentence gets to prove his Islamophobia by bombing another country with oil to rank with his sentence completing predecessors.
Is there any sense of resistance anywhere in the Democratic Party beyond the dozen or so voices who have called for a halt to arming Israel? And with the entire Democratic Party to the right of Tucker Carlson, is there any effective resistance or even friction within the US military, diplomatic, or intelligence operations?
Does the Pentagon’s plan address the possibility that China opens a military base in Iran? I ask because a lot of experts and pundits are saying that we’ve entered a second Cold War, and that would seem like the most obvious Cold War-style countermeasure possible.
In the past, I always used to look for the locations of aircraft carriers as a key indicator of the likelihood of war. Is that still a relevant metric given Iran's missile capability, or would we expect to see a reduced naval deployment in the region as a signal of war, rather than an increased deployment?
Sorry for all the questions (but you did invite them), does the US readout of the Trump-Putin meeting (https://ru.usembassy.gov/president-donald-j-trumps-call-with-president-vladimir-putin/), which oddly focused as much on Israel/Iran as it did on Ukraine, suggest that Trump is offering Putin an Iran-for-Ukraine deal? The language seems pretty direct:
"The leaders spoke broadly about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts. They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application. The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel."
Doesn’t this strategy urge *more* countries to invest in potentiel nuclear weapons? Sure the fallback would be whatever the US is planning with Iran, but considering the US has shown to be an unreliable ally… isn’t this just Saudi Arabia pushing for an intervention in Iran the same way they did with Iraq? Add Israel into the mix and you have an insane cocktail of influence over US politicians.
I can see several reasons why Trump would want a war (with anyone frankly) to at least superficially legally justify his unconstutional acts to suppress the freedom of Americans who oppose him.
I can also see why Russia would be salivating at the prospect of driving even more of a wedge between our NATO allies because l can't see any way NATO would support this (much less participate) and allow the US to use bases in their countries to operate from, much less the citizens of these countries who rightly hate Trump and his collusion with Russia.
"I can see several reasons why Trump would want a war (with anyone frankly) to at least superficially legally justify his unconstutional acts to suppress the freedom of Americans who oppose him."
Can we acknowledge that Biden also found that incredibly useful? In terms of neutering the left, one of the great moments was when the Squad sent a letter to Biden calling for him to push for peace after Ukraine knocked Russia onto the back foot. The Dems organized an outpouring of hatred that caused them to withdraw the letter and apologize. It was one of the event that helped give the Biden Administration confidence that it could remove the threat from the left and turn to the right, leading to the disaster of an election that we saw.
Hey all, will answer any questions you have here.
So USA. The most incompetent bankruptcy prone billionaire who can’t complete a sentence gets to prove his Islamophobia by bombing another country with oil to rank with his sentence completing predecessors.
Don't think it's Islamophobia, Trump et al. get along with the Gulf monarchs just fine
Why isn’t he shipping 2000lb bombs and F16s to Ukraine then?
Ukraine is an ISIS chopper with the same paternity.
Do you think they’ll be able to handle that and the war with Canada at the same time?
yes, Canadian politeness should balance out Iran's hostility for us
Is there any sense of resistance anywhere in the Democratic Party beyond the dozen or so voices who have called for a halt to arming Israel? And with the entire Democratic Party to the right of Tucker Carlson, is there any effective resistance or even friction within the US military, diplomatic, or intelligence operations?
Nope
Does the Pentagon’s plan address the possibility that China opens a military base in Iran? I ask because a lot of experts and pundits are saying that we’ve entered a second Cold War, and that would seem like the most obvious Cold War-style countermeasure possible.
Not that I've seen
In the past, I always used to look for the locations of aircraft carriers as a key indicator of the likelihood of war. Is that still a relevant metric given Iran's missile capability, or would we expect to see a reduced naval deployment in the region as a signal of war, rather than an increased deployment?
For sure, and we have had a heightened carrier strike group presence since October 7
Sorry for all the questions (but you did invite them), does the US readout of the Trump-Putin meeting (https://ru.usembassy.gov/president-donald-j-trumps-call-with-president-vladimir-putin/), which oddly focused as much on Israel/Iran as it did on Ukraine, suggest that Trump is offering Putin an Iran-for-Ukraine deal? The language seems pretty direct:
"The leaders spoke broadly about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts. They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application. The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel."
Seems like it, yes; but Trump disputes the transcript's characterization. Not sure who I trust less lol
Doesn’t this strategy urge *more* countries to invest in potentiel nuclear weapons? Sure the fallback would be whatever the US is planning with Iran, but considering the US has shown to be an unreliable ally… isn’t this just Saudi Arabia pushing for an intervention in Iran the same way they did with Iraq? Add Israel into the mix and you have an insane cocktail of influence over US politicians.
I can see several reasons why Trump would want a war (with anyone frankly) to at least superficially legally justify his unconstutional acts to suppress the freedom of Americans who oppose him.
I can also see why Russia would be salivating at the prospect of driving even more of a wedge between our NATO allies because l can't see any way NATO would support this (much less participate) and allow the US to use bases in their countries to operate from, much less the citizens of these countries who rightly hate Trump and his collusion with Russia.
"I can see several reasons why Trump would want a war (with anyone frankly) to at least superficially legally justify his unconstutional acts to suppress the freedom of Americans who oppose him."
Can we acknowledge that Biden also found that incredibly useful? In terms of neutering the left, one of the great moments was when the Squad sent a letter to Biden calling for him to push for peace after Ukraine knocked Russia onto the back foot. The Dems organized an outpouring of hatred that caused them to withdraw the letter and apologize. It was one of the event that helped give the Biden Administration confidence that it could remove the threat from the left and turn to the right, leading to the disaster of an election that we saw.