"From all appearances, neither Donald Trump nor any adviser knows the purpose of his strikes against Iran."
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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
I read on to the article below this one, also excellent, regarding penetrating the Gulf of Hormuz. Trump's wild promise.
The article makes the point of the strategic triumph, "If Iran manages to sink a tanker," but even little me, in an armchair in California, can see that the risk is if Iran were to sink a US battleship. Why take the risk?
Does Hegseth know enough about Iranian defense capability for the straits to risk a battleship group in defense of oil tankers?
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"Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied he said the U.S. had to strike Iran because Israel was about to attack, despite comments the previous day stating the U.S. acted preemptively because it knew Israel planned to strike Iran and expected Tehran would retaliate against American forces if the U.S. didn’t act first."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #MarcoRubio #Iran #war
/5https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-senators-sound-the-alarm-as
Can we just keep playing their own tape back at them at loud volume until they acknowledge that we are real people, and we can understand when we are being lied to, and that does not go away just because they steamroll over us and move on to the next lie.
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"Trump: 'Most of the people we had in mind [to succeed Khomeini] are dead [due to missile strikes]. We had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also. Pretty soon we're not gonna know anybody. I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept govt totally intact.'"
~ Aaron Rupar
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mg6alhgje52a
The President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen. Accept no substitutes.
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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
Why do they let him talk? Can they at least take the shovel away from him? People, many people, are dead, and all he can do is embarrass himself.
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"You have to understand: Just like any wartime president, Trump has also been preoccupied with the intense planning and logistics of his beautiful new ballroom. As he noted Monday, it was a real shame that American soldiers died in a reprisal attack, but also, how about those drapes?"
~ Marty Kelley
/s alert
https://www.wonkette.com/p/fifa-peace-president-would-evacuate
"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
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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
"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
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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
"The war continues to escalate. In one of the most significant developments so far, the U.S. Navy confirmed that an American submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian Navy frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka. More than 180 people were reportedly aboard the vessel, and dozens were killed.
It marks the first time since World War II that a U.S. submarine has sunk an enemy warship using a torpedo."
~ Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-updates-as-war?
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"The war continues to escalate. In one of the most significant developments so far, the U.S. Navy confirmed that an American submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian Navy frigate off the coast of Sri Lanka. More than 180 people were reportedly aboard the vessel, and dozens were killed.
It marks the first time since World War II that a U.S. submarine has sunk an enemy warship using a torpedo."
~ Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/wednesday-afternoon-updates-as-war?
"The war in Iran is costing taxpayers more than $1 billion everyday."
~ Aaron Parnas
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-update-republicans-break-and
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"The war in Iran is costing taxpayers more than $1 billion everyday."
~ Aaron Parnas
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-update-republicans-break-and
"He’s not Netanyahu’s puppet, no siree, he is the deciderer! And he’s decided to keep on bombing and just see what happens, like a dieter opening the refrigerator door."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/26https://www.wonkette.com/p/day-five-of-operation-epstein-fury
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"He’s not Netanyahu’s puppet, no siree, he is the deciderer! And he’s decided to keep on bombing and just see what happens, like a dieter opening the refrigerator door."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/26https://www.wonkette.com/p/day-five-of-operation-epstein-fury
"The objectives keep shifting. The dead stay dead."
~ Charles Kriel
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/operation-epic-fury-a-mass-of-shifting
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"The objectives keep shifting. The dead stay dead."
~ Charles Kriel
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/operation-epic-fury-a-mass-of-shifting
"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
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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 They really want to turn attention away from "Bibi told us to attack, so we obeyed."
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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
