| second: American soldiers were given a pep-talk about the war in Iran. A U.S. combat-unit commander told them that the attack is part of “God’s divine plan." He said that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” for the specific purpose to ignite Armageddon.
Commanders are giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military.
The Christian nationalist theory that Israel has a God-given right to much of the Middle East is one espoused by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. In a speech at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem in December, Huckabee conveyed his purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the End Times.
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| second: President Donald Trump said the United States has a virtually unlimited supply of weapons that would allow Washington to wage wars “forever,” writing on his social media platform Truth Social. [go to link] “Forever” is at least 3 more years. Expect more countries to be bombed by Trump, the chairman of The Board of Peace which he created. |
| THG: Trump speaks lovingly about drapes as U.S. death toll in his Iran war rises |
| second: Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination.
On Saturday, the United States, in a joint operation with Israel, killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For the first time in the postwar era, Washington has succeeded in killing a foreign leader—shattering a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, and logistical concerns.
It is worth looking at why presidents of both political parties have long been wary of the state-sponsored killing of foreign leaders. [go to link]/ |
| second: Bill Clinton testified on Friday, becoming the first former president to do so under subpoena. During his testimony, he revealed Trump told him at a golf tournament in the early 2000s that he and Epstein parted ways over a land deal that went sour. Not due to Epstein's crimes, as the public was led to believe. A land deal. That upends Trump's public story entirely. [go to link] |
| second: Instead of bringing clarity to the strategic ends of the US decision to go to war, the administration trotted out a host of new justifications for the war during the last 24 hours. They are frantically looking around for a narrative that can explain what was really a decision by Trump to go to war for his own needs. [go to link] |
| second: Why are Americans so negative about this war? First, they believe it has been foisted upon them: Trump hasn’t bothered to give them a reason for it. Second, Americans – already disillusioned by false promises about DOGE (remember those) and tariffs – sense, correctly, that there is no strategy here. Third, the public senses, also correctly, that the little people will bear this war’s cost. There has, of course, been not even a whisper from Trump about shared sacrifice, about, for example, taxing billionaires to pay for the money being spent on missiles and bombs.
Ordinary Americans feel that Trump is setting billions of dollars on fire with no idea how that is supposed to work out, and that they will end up paying the price. And they’re right. [go to link] |
| second: Donald Trump has taken America to war, not only without Congressional authorization, but without even trying to make a case to the American people. Other than the hope that Iranians will rise up and overthrow the Ayatollahs’ regime, the war has no clear plan for either victory or exit. This strongly suggests that the rush to war was a Trump ego tantrum rather than a carefully planned campaign. [go to link] |
| second: On Sunday, Kuwaiti forces shot down three U.S. F-15s in a “friendly fire” incident. Such incidents are common in modern war. The shocking aspect of the story is the value of the equipment destroyed: A new F-15 costs U.S. taxpayers $97 million. So that’s almost $300 million lost in seconds. And we should think about what could have been done with that money other than launch a war without a clear plan or an exit strategy. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: You are finished. By mid-terms you're only going to have "none of the above" to vote for. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut up you stupid little faggot loser. You don't know a fucking thing about anything. |
| THG:
Iran hits Saudi refinery. Our economy was not prepared. Why this was all so stupid. |
| THG: Trump claiming Obama would start a war with Iran because he was weak and ineffective at negotiating
Jack and Trump are the same. They make shit up and change their opinions as the wind shifts. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: What makes you think Trump is taking orders from Israel, you fucking moron? We've been listening to your dumb fucking cunt bitch ass about Trump taking orders from everyone under the fucking sun for 10 years now. Shut the fuck up. Loser. Nobody needs to EVER hear another fucking word out of you. We've heard way more than enough of your nonsense. |
| 6ixStringJack: FIFY |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up. Loser. |
| second: 6ixStringJack wrote: "Shut the fuck up." Tucker Carlson met with Trump three times in the Oval Office over the past month, using the meetings—each lasting roughly 90 minutes—to urge the president against striking Iran. Carlson’s pitch to Trump was simple: “You need to stand up to Israel, or else you’re going to be destroyed and the country is going to be destroyed,” Carlson argued, according to someone familiar with the conversation. Israel is a country of 9 million people with no resources, Carlson continued. Why are we taking orders from them? In an interview with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl, Carlson called the decision to strike Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.” (The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the meetings.) [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up. |
| second: In January, the IRGC—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with the paramilitary Basij militia—killed as many as 30,000 Iranian protesters during the most brutal crackdown in the history of this violent regime. Most Iranians regard these forces with fear and hatred. No one can guarantee them the “complete immunity” that Trump offered over the weekend if they lay down their arms, and they won’t easily relinquish their power and corrupt wealth. His notion of spontaneous democratic combustion in a country of 90 million people, with its heavily armed military establishment still very much in control, shows sheer wishful thinking. Hopefully is the language of a leader without a plan.
If the regime changes the name at the top but not its basic character—who can believe that Trump will take any responsibility? [go to link] |
| second: In January, the IRGC—the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, along with the paramilitary Basij militia—killed as many as 30,000 Iranian protesters during the most brutal crackdown in the history of this violent regime. Most Iranians regard these forces with fear and hatred. No one can guarantee them the “complete immunity” that Trump offered over the weekend if they lay down their arms, and they won’t easily relinquish their power and corrupt wealth. His notion of spontaneous democratic combustion in a country of 90 million people, with its heavily armed military establishment still very much in control, shows sheer wishful thinking. Hopefully is the language of a leader without a plan.
If the regime changes the name at the top but not its basic character—who can believe that Trump will take any responsibility? [go to link] |