"From all appearances, neither Donald Trump nor any adviser knows the purpose of his strikes against Iran."
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"From all appearances, neither Donald Trump nor any adviser knows the purpose of his strikes against Iran."
~ Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-war-underscores-his-massive
The war on Iran is spiking oil prices.
Low oil prices & the loss of customers was hampering Putin's funding for his wars.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/russia-and-iran-slashing-prices-to-china-as-oil-piles-up-at-seaWith higher oil prices, Trump just threw a lifeline to Putin.
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"The US State Department and Department of Defense apparently failed to anticipate a regional war as Iran’s defensive strategy—a failure of contingency planning, wargaming, and imagination."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-good-night-for-democrats-as-the
@wdlindsy They really don’t anticipate anything beyond whatever belly-rumble they themselves just came up with this particular instant. These are the galaxy-brains who are eating the crayons, every time
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The war on Iran is spiking oil prices.
Low oil prices & the loss of customers was hampering Putin's funding for his wars.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/russia-and-iran-slashing-prices-to-china-as-oil-piles-up-at-seaWith higher oil prices, Trump just threw a lifeline to Putin.
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Trump is also rewarding his fossil fuel donors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.htmlHigh oil prices benefits every member of the Epstein Class.
https://katiecouric.com/news/will-iran-war-cause-inflation-gas-prices/High oil prices, the inflationary gift that keeps on giving. To the 1%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/iran-israel-us-war-middle-east-conflict-oil-gas-lng-surge-central-banks-inflation-risk.html -
"You know who didn’t like all that talk on Monday of Israel pulling Donald Trump along for the bomb-Iran ride? Donald Trump. The president denied yesterday that Israel had 'forced his hand,' telling reporters that 'based on the way negotiation was going, I think [Iran] was going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen.'"
~ Andrew Egger, Benjamin Parker, and Jim Swift
https://newrepublic.com/post/207138/trump-coup-detat-midterm-elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/trump-cancel-elections-voting.html
https://www.vox.com/politics/478708/donald-trump-2026-midterm-elections-threat-take-over
Miriam Adelson paid Trump $250 million in hopes a war would be used as a pretext to cancel elections.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204532/trump-jokes-third-term-miriam-adelson
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-offered-250m-run-third-term-11226316
https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-880539
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/politics/miriam-adelson-trump-donors.html
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"Trump: 'I guess the worst case is we do this and then somebody takes over who is as bad as the previous person. That could happen.'"
~ Aaron Rupar
@wdlindsy … and billions of our tax dollars are wasted, while the GOP-led Senate continues to kowtow.
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"The Joint US-Israel attack on Iran has now expanded into a region-wide conflict involving 12 countries. For 40 years, the policy of the United States has been to prevent this very conflict. ...
This was a war of choice that I would certainly never have made."
~ Malcolm Nance
Malcolm Nance needs to read over his voice-dictated columns before publishing them or better yet hire a copy editor
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"It doesn’t appear that Donald Trump will be getting that Nobel Peace Prize anytime soon—at least not one he earned. The big story today is the growing global fallout as the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran enters its fourth day."
~ Adam Parkhomenko
@wdlindsy trump has already been permanently banned from ever getting a nobel peace prize by the nobel committee.
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"Satellite imagery shows an Iranian ballistic missile struck the AN/FPS-132 phased array radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. If the damage is as severe as the imagery suggests, Iran just destroyed a $1.1 billion piece of equipment that took years to build and cannot be replaced on any timeline relevant to this war."
~ Shanaka Anslem Perera quoted by Greg Dworkin
Trump's Epstein Class billionaires are indifferent to the cost of war.
Their attitude to taxpayer funded defense assets is "There's always more where that came from".
The funding for a replacement will come from where? Taxpayers
American national debt is already $38 trillion & expected to rise to $64 trillion by the end of the decade, and none of the Epstein Class pays any taxes.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/debt-dashboard
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"The Pentagon has announced that more U.S. forces are deploying to the Middle East as the war with Iran escalates. Let’s call it what it is: Donald’s war with Iran."
~ Mary Trump
@wdlindsy You mean donald's distraction from the epstein files. It is not working it makes me want justice even more.
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"NATO is now involved. It has shot down an Iranian missile heading into Turkish airspace. Turkey is a NATO member housing a major U.S. military base where the U.S. has nuclear weapons, including B-61 thermonuclear bombs. NATO’s Article 5 says an attack on one member of the alliance is considered an attack on all. ...
Trump and Netanyahu’s war is rapidly escalating into a global conflict."
~ Robert Reich
@wdlindsy Does NATO have the technical option of deciding not to engage?
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"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday it was necessary to bomb Iran because President Donald Trump had a 'feeling' the foreign nation would attack.
'The president had a feeling,' … Leavitt said."
~Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
https://newrepublic.com/post/207384/white-house-karoline-leavitt-trump-bombed-iran-feeling
@wdlindsy didn't know the #OrangeFelon had feelings.
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"Qatar’s Defense Ministry said an Iranian missile struck the Al Udeid U.S. air base, the biggest military base in the Middle East. No one was injured, the ministry said on social media early Wednesday local time."
~ Alyssa Lukpat
Glad no US personnel were injured owing to that Iranian missile attack on the biggest military base in the Middle East. But what damage was done to that US air base? Aircraft, hangars, runways, fuel depot, radar installations, other electronics installations?
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"You know who didn’t like all that talk on Monday of Israel pulling Donald Trump along for the bomb-Iran ride? Donald Trump. The president denied yesterday that Israel had 'forced his hand,' telling reporters that 'based on the way negotiation was going, I think [Iran] was going to attack first, and I didn’t want that to happen.'"
~ Andrew Egger, Benjamin Parker, and Jim Swift
Mushroom cloud smoke
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"From all appearances, neither Donald Trump nor any adviser knows the purpose of his strikes against Iran."
~ Jennifer Rubin
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-war-underscores-his-massive
@wdlindsy Because Netanyahu told Trump to do it
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