Step-by-Step Instructions
Three Easy Steps
- Listen to Netanyahu
- Set conditions impossible for Iran (any nation) to accept
- Launch an attack with Isreal
In retrospect, it’s one easy step: Listen to Netanyahu.
Major Trump Corollaries
- Ignore the overwhelming opinion of US citizens
- Listen to the Neocons
- Ignore the fact that you have already declared total destruction of Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons
- Ignore the fact that regime change by bombing alone has never been successful.
- Ignore that fact that all regime change efforts by the US have failed, many spectacularly
- Ignore the advice of the international community
- Ignore your own statements on the futility of war in the mideast
- Ignore the statements of Vice President JD Vance
- Ignore the advice of US military leaders, former leaders, and politicians who once made sense.
- Ignore history and what happened in Iraq and the cost of Afghanistan
- Ignore the fact that replenishing weapons will be very costly and drive up budget deficits
- Ignore repercussions in the oil markets despite the number one concern of US citizens is inflation
Going back to the top, one has to wonder “What does Netanyahu have on Trump, or is this war simply more neocon madness?”
Regarding Corollary #8
VP Vance Facebook Reel
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1496192831934163
“Our interest is very much is in not going to war with Iran.”
Regarding Corollary #3
Regarding Corollary #9 Someone Who Once Made Sense
Regarding Corollary #7 Trump’s Own Advice
The Pro-Peace Ticket – Corollaries 7 and 8
To repeat, one has to wonder “What does Netanyahu have on Trump, or is this war simply more neocon madness?”
This war is as nonsensical as the War in Vietnam, the War in Afghanistan, and the second war with Iraq by George W. Bush.
All signs point to this being a war of choice, sponsored by Trump, with pressure from Israel and the neocons, always demanding war.
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Glen Greenwald does a great job explaining what the war is about.
February 28, 2026: Trump Does a Complete 180 on Wars, MAGA Cheered Then and Now. Why?
Does anyone find it strange how Trump did a full 180 but didn’t even try to convince you why?
Important Historical References
For historical reference, please consider my September 9, 2013 post U.S. Going to Kill Syrians to Show Syria that Killing Syrians is Wrong.
Quote of the day goes to Abby Martin who says “We’re killing Syrians to Show Syria that Killing Syrians is Wrong. I just cannot wrap my head around that“.
Galloway was discussing this: Village ‘liberated’ by rebels… who then forced Christians to convert to Islam.
Also recall my June 15, 2014 post Tony Blair’s Disingenuous, Self-Serving Analysis of Iraq
Blair is now out to revise history in an attempt to absolve himself of guilt.
In October of 2015, I noted Tony Blair Apologizes for Creation of ISIS
Blair acknowledged that there are “elements of truth” in the view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the principal cause of the rise of ISIS.
Guilty as Charged
That is as big of a “We f*d up!” admission from a high ranking bureaucrat as you will ever see.
Don’t expect the same admission from president Bush, even though Bush is the single person most responsible for that inane war and this mess.
Don’t expect any apologies from president Obama either for his role in the mess. While we’re at it, don’t expect any apologies from warmonger Hillary Clinton either.
If I failed to offend you, then hopefully it’s because you correctly understood from the beginning how stupid that rush to war really was.
My position has been consistent, clear, and correct.
I opposed the Wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, the second war in Iraq, and the misguided toppling of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (sponsored by Hillary) from the beginning.
Trump is either a liar, a converted neocon, or both.
Step 2 does not really apply.
FM Araghchi actually uttered the words (no nuke in perpetuity) of which Trump said he hadn’t said the magic words.
There is another reason for Trump to wage a war, same reason he imputed to Obama: polls.
Trump is throwing the dice hoping he can turn the polls around by finally pulling something off that US Presidents have not dared to execute for 50 years.
Complete desperation. All or nothing.
Iran told all their proxies to prepare for war and await further instructions. Iran planned to have a nuclear weapon first for self protection. All proxies would attack with rockers and men at the same time—HAMAS attacked early thus destroying Iran’s plans
You missed the most important reason for this war – Trump has a newly-named department of war; what’s its use if it’s not active? This is one rare time you won’t see anyTACO.
“Miriam Adelson has been a significant financial supporter of Donald Trump, donating over $100 million to his campaign efforts, including substantial contributions to his 2024 election bid. She has consistently backed Trump since 2016, making her one of the Republican Party’s largest individual donors.”
…some strings attached
the scary part is that if Trump decides to end this today and claims the objective was always to get rid of Khamenei and blow up the missile production sites etc… MAGA will believe him and Fox and the MAGA media verse will spin that story all day long and declare this a massive victory.
One easy step: vote uniparty.
I don’t agree with most of what Trump does, the question that I ask myself is in the minds of extreme religious zealots like the leadership of the Iranian Government, what would be the highest achievement they could hope for? I think without question the answer is the total destruction of Israel. If that really is their highest goal and desire in life, than the ONLY thing stopping them is to keep them from getting the material to create a Nuclear weapon.
If they truly believe what they say about their desire for the destruction of Israel than most likely as soon as they can build a Nuclear bomb they will use it. Not use it as a deterrent, not use it as a defensive weapon but actually use it to wipe a Nation off the face of the earth. Is it just talk? There is no second chance if it isn’t just talk.
A couple of Khamenei quotes.
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.
There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.
From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this… The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.
Under that premise they would only need one. They have had decades & the national wealth to purchase a few or more nuclear weapons a much easier path than building them from scratch.
Just a quarter of Americans support Operation Epstein Fury: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5762380-public-opinion-us-iran-conflict/
Figures, around 25-30% supported the continued coverup of Trump’s pedo crimes, so this fits hand in glove.
Asian stocks getting hammered. Airlines stocks getting hammered. I’m anticipating oil stocks rallying hard tomorrow and it will be a great time to sell calls.
I hate profiting like this but what else can I do but bank coin?
Of course Israel launching more attack now on Lebanon. This thing could spiral out of control fast. Got Puts?
Got exit strategy?
The test of our navy now is, “can you get oil tankers through the strait of Hormuz without the Iranians sinking them?”
X Iranian missiles – Y American interceptor misslies ~= number of tankers sunk.
Tankers are slow, soft easy targets. They are a huge bubble of oil wrapped in tinfoil.
Y is actually American interceptor missiles that successfully intercept Iranian missiles. Many of them won’t intercept anything.
In the meantime oil price jumped above 79$.
Russia and China condemned US and Israel illegal war against Iran.
By the way,
Putin said “Thank you to fund my war effort in Ukraine” to Trump.
Xi said “Thank you for lifting our EV industry and Green Energy industry
to next level” to Trump.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
On February 27, 2026, oil prices rose, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures closing around $67.02 per barrel and Brent crude opening around $70.83 per barrel.
Another commonality with Putin … Kiev and Tehran will fall in 72 hours .. the people will rise up to support the liberators … what a projected delusion … The Russian people have their uni party government, police state, and can’t do much about Putin; but the Americans have relatively strong state-based voting institutions encoded their 250 year old constitution going into Nov 2026 elections … Time to change horses in the middle of the stream.
That “Kiev in 3 days” crap all came from the US. Yes, Russia expected Ukraine to fold quickly – which they were poised to do until Boris Johnson convinced them they could defeat Russia. Once Russia saw that Zelenskyyyy chose to do things the hard way, it took Russia a while to gear up. Russia usually takes a while to gear up.
Hmmm they’ve been fighting Ukraine now for longer than they fought the Germans in wwii
Half of the “Ukrainians” are ethnic Russians and the rest are still fellow Slavs. Contrary to Western media assertions, Russia is doing their best to minimize casualties among civilians. If they ever have to fight western Europeans, it would be an entirely different manner of warfare, as they have tried to explain to the Europeons – who refuse to listen.
Well there’s some bullshit
It’s been 4 years. They’ve geared up, and Kiev stands yet.
Of course it does. Kiev was the birthplace of Russian civilization, for fuck’s sake. They don’t want to level it. Carpeting bombing is how Americans do war.
It will be called The Fall of the Ranians. I-Ranians and Uka-Ranians.
Yea, I said it.
King Donald and King George … at least Parliament intervened to stop further lost of British treasure in the 1780’s.
Mish, I see below that you say that something is wrong even if it allegedly works. I see you also ban somebody, what for I don’t know because you have apparently blocked the post you banned him for. I have had the honor of being banned by Caitlin Johnstone: I suppose you don’t know who she is, but she is a very fierce Australian Communist girl who is occasionally published on <rense> and <zerohedge>.
I don’t see how you can say something is wrong even if it works. If that were so, we would have to TRY TO overthrow all governments, because government is inherently a criminal activity. We would have to defund the police as the leftists want. We would have to demand that our mixed-up, brainwashed population suddenly become experts on morality who could read and intelligently discuss Machiavelli and Nietzsche. AND they would have to be strong enough physically to hold their own in a fight, because there would be no police to take our responsibility for self-defense off us.
I am not happy about the Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians, but here in Australia, as in America, we seem to accept that Jews are nice, civilized people, like us, but Palestinians are savages and undeserving of consideration. The fact that Palestinian refugees are not wild tribesmen but are farmers who have been driven off their land doesn’t matter.
If I were being cynical, I might suggest that Semitic Israel and Semitic-controlled America, now joined it seems by the Semitic Moslem states of Arabia, have united to destroy Aryan Persia. The word “Iran” is their version of our word “Aryan,” I understand.
The Chinese, who I think see America as stolen Chinese property, with the Jews as the thieves, must find all this rather amusing.
The great thing about Trump is that what he does, does work. It might take him more than one try sometimes. Like Bismarck, he will probably leave plenty of problems behind for his successors to deal with. Let us hope that his successors aren’t as stupid as Bismarck’s successors were. We might also hope that they won’t be as stupid as President Reagan’s successors and Baroness Thatcher’s successors were.
If anyone can point out any errors in my thinking, I may not be pleased but I shall eventually be grateful.
That’s quite the word salad. Iran didn’t pose a threat to the US and didn’t do anything to us, so attacking them was wrong. Simple as that.
Closing Strait of Hormuz insurers backing off & shipping rerouting. Escalating the pain globally to most first world & other nations via pocket books as oil prices increase & dominoes fall.
You voted for a pedophile dipshit, give it a rest
“I don’t see how you can say something is wrong even if it works. “
Here’s an example:
You annoy me.
I don’t want to be annoyed.
So I shoot you in the face.
Problem solved.
Sound good?
Murdering someone is wrong, even though it works (it accomplished the goal of making them dead). Do you want to apply your absolutist logic in support of murdering people? It’s right, because it works?
Yes listen to a war criminal and just a plain old criminal in his own country.
I guess Trump can identify with him in at least one respect.
Now they’re betting on it, and doing pretty well:
https://www.notus.org/democrats/polymarket-kalshi-war-iran-democrats-chris-murphy-allege-trumpworld-insiders-betting-prediction-markets
A world full of dumbasses will still take the other side of the next bet, too.
France has reportedly dispatched an aircraft carrier to the gulf area. That’s when the Colonial War III starts.
Of course he’s a liar because he’s a politician. How can you tell politicians are lying? Their lips are moving.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” (Mt. 5:9)
The corollary is that warmongers will be called the spawn of satan. Akin to great satan, as the ayatollahs are known to say.
By god, them beardy bastards were onto something!
The harder they come, the harder they fall!
You think Iran needs their navy to close the straight? It’s only 20 miles across. They can pop off missiles from the shoreline like the Houthis – except they have a lot more missiles and a lot more people to fire them. And once they destroy the Gulf Arabs’ ports there won’t be any oil coming out anyway.
This one thinks Iran will be the thing that makes it ok he voted for a pedo.
“As long as one never admits defeat, they aren’t wrong?”
My guess is that Israel has a lot on Trump via Epstein, who was probably working for Mossad. Compromising videos. I don’t buy that Epstein was working for Moscow, it was Mossad. He was introduced via G Maxwell whose father was undoubtedly funded by Mossad.
In no other way does this military action help Trump’s domestic popularity. So I agree with Mish there is something else going on.
Russaians were getting drones for Ukraine from Iranian factories, so I would think they would not want them blown up. If they had something they would have used it.
What real Iranians have to say!
There is no hope for you and the millions like you who have swallowed the kool-aid. Sure, the perfect way to get the “people” to love you and overthrow their government is to murder their spiritual leader (and this is a spiritual country) and murder over 100 young school girls. Brilliant….
If we don’t kill their children, how will they become angry enough to overthrow the heavily armed government that we don’t like, with their bare hands?
Don’t forget, Trump expects them to not only overthrow their own government, but also to align themselves with the same people who bombed them – and who, of course, are the same people who overthrew their elected government in 1953, foisted the Shah (and Savak) on them, gave Saddam mustard gas to kill Iranians and sanctioned them for decades. Israel doesn’t expect the Iranians to do anything. Israel just wants all the countries in the region to lay in ruins.
After they’re done with Iran, I wonder which countries Israel will have Trump bomb next. They have Trump for 3 more years.
They’ve already said Turkiye is next. Eventually “Saudi” Arabia. That’s their plan anyway. The best laid plans… Trump may not last 3 more years.
Hope these plans become mislaid!
Trump won’t see 2028
They will have to sacrifice everything, but thats a sacrifice trumpstien is willing to make.
Bret Stephens? Really? C’mon Shlomo.! You can do better than that.
“Everyone” is not happy starting off with a lie.
Goebel On Strategy & War: He expressed that “Total War is the Quickest War” (1943) and regarding the British, noted they “follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it”.
On Propaganda & Deception: Often misattributed, the phrase “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” summarizes his methods. He directly noted that “Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing”, and “The moment one becomes aware of propaganda, it loses its effectiveness”.
Any more Trump gobbling and you’ll become a turkey.
Brett Stephens doesn’t sound like a “Real Iranian” name
What does the public relations confidence man netanyahoo have on know nothing warmonger trump?? Itz called compromising photographs pictures aka epstein files!!
Market predictions for tomorrow?
Oil at $75-80, Gold & silver up 5%, Crypto down 5%, Dow/S&P down 3-5%, 10 yr yield up 10 basis points.
Another way to think of this beautiful attack is we finally have achieved retribution for 1979. The USA never forgets!
We’ve been bombing and sanctioning them for nearly 50 years.
What makes this one so special?
In 1979 Israel supplied replacement parts for Iran’s military as they held the US embassy hostage.
We need retribution against Israel.
Indeed… we are on the wrong side of this.
I would have thought giving Saddam chemical weapons to kill thousands of Iranians would have been retribution enough, but I’m not Jewish.
Mike is describing the new era of Israel first. I’m sure the Zionist snake handlers in MAGAville will be happy while they wait for the Jews to convert. Of course, the bloodthirsty neo-cons in DC will all share a drink at the Capitol Hill club. How many Americans will need burial benefits or lifetime VA care?
So if Iran’s theocracy is toppled, does this postpone the Rapture? Who then becomes Gog? Or is it Maggog? Maybe the enemy is simply ZOG!
Gozer the Gozarian shall return and rain Watermelon Jolly Rancher candies on the faithful!
OPEC digging deep to help contain any sharp oil price increases:
Oil markets open soon. Pre-market action currently indicates a 15% price increase. Not a prediction. Too much volatility to make predictions.
Every day that the flow of oil through the strait of Hormuz is impeded, will put increasing pressure on both prices and supplies.
I will likely be selling portions of my positions over the next week to lock-in gains, as I don’t expect this to last more than a week or two.
Those that were predicting a glut of oil this year and were short the market are going to take a beating.
The big question, of course, is whether this is a one-and-done affair, which is assumed by American Exceptionalists. However, the behaviour of Iran is different this time – taking out radar and logistics facilities across the region: that is a strategy one would employ in anticipation of a long conflict. This could be the perfect opportunity for China: American ships are in the Persian Gulf. They have no escape unless Iran is beaten. The US will have to expend resources that they cannot spare, from around the world, to sustain the war, to protect their assets and avoid a political disaster. Can Iran sustain the war long enough? With China’s assistance, they certainly can. What has China got to lose? What have they got to gain? Everything. A prolonged war would see oil well in excess of $100. That would hurt China, but hurt the US/West more. Much of the “inventory build” in oil is oil either owned or destined for China, which the US SPR is empty. Like you, I have a major position in oil and services, and gold, and market shorts, in anticipation of this inevitable (Zionist-driven) event. I am just not sure of the timeline or extent, and whether to take profits. Is the market being too complacent based upon past experience? Or is it greedy to wait for the “bigger play”? I honestly don’t know, but I suspect this is a bigger event than the markets and pundits are expecting, as evidenced by some of the comments here. Good luck.
There are a lot of bases close enough for them to bomb. They know trumpstien is only hanging on by a thread and the hope he can subvert the elections.
They have a lot of options. Meanwhile we’re maintaining a city’s worth of people halfway across the planet. We bring them home, Iran can hit the bases and make them come back. Russia will be backing them.
My expectation is a one to two week partial disruption in oil shipments. 4 weeks at most.
There are no winners here among countries, no matter what they may say.
China can tap its strategic oil reserves for a while, but a lot of their oil imports go through the strait of Hormuz from Saudi and others. They do not want this to go on too long.
The US is burning through a lot of money and resources. The longer this lasts, the more it costs Trump politically.
Iran has only so many available munitions left. They can’t last more than a few weeks.
Within a month, this will mostly be over, and nothing much will have changed in Iran, though Trump will crow about his amazing success there. There will be some kind of regime change, perhaps for the better for Iranians. But who knows how long that will work out.
The focus will then change to Cuba and Greenland.
I will be taking “some” profits over the next few weeks, because I expect oil prices to go back to the low 70s once this is done. Though who knows what the next crisis will turn out to be.
Nothing like walking right up to a teetering, rickety, sagging structure and giving it a solid shove… that’ll set it right for sure!
Prepare for the Golden Age!
Egads! Just the same whining , hair pulling and foot stomping across at least 3 posts from most posters here.
It’s truly sad how low IQ Mish’s followers have become. Can’t anyone post anything intelligent other than calling Trump names?
“the same whining , hair pulling and foot stomping”
Project much? perfectly describes everyone of your posts
The way you’re posting every two minutes seems desperate.
Somebody slapped his inner child.
Almost as if he was being PAID.
I don’t think so… the paid ones don’t wig out like that.
Glenn Greenwald has summarized, “For decades, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have dreamed of only one foreign policy goal: having the United States fight a regime-change war against Iran. With the Oval Office occupied by Donald Trump — who campaigned for a full decade on a vow to end regime-change wars and vanquish neoconservatism — their goal has finally been realized.”
Two good things will come out of this. Quid pro quo. First it made it open season globally on governmental leaders & politicians enabling this nonsense instead of the unwashed. Second Iran didn’t fold and keeps attacking.
Assassinating The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could turn into a jihad. Iran has a population tenfold more than Israel.
[rotflol] 🤣
Dude, you need to go back to zero hedge for a while, among your people. They’ll affirm you, and you’ll feel better.
I know you love us, but we are only good for people like you in small doses.
Come back when you feel better.
You can have an outburst of laughter here! This is Unit 8200’s War Room!
Is this going to be another Iraq? Knock off the current bad leader and create a power vacuum so ISIS or some other worse dude can takeover. Shouldn’t the US have had some group waiting in the wings to try and put together a friendly government before just coming in with guns blazing?
I don’t think this guy can see past his short dick.
Regime change in 1945 worked pretty well.
I think Bush’s version didn’t work mostly because Dick Cheney was whispering in his ear. It might not work this time either but it will have cost a bit less to fail.
Really? European nations were displaced as the world’s most influential powers with the US and Russia becoming the world’s most influential powers; each with over 5000 nuclear weapons. And a decades long cold war began.
That’s what you think worked out pretty well?
Depends on whether you are asking Europeans or Americans/Russians – LOL
It only worked out for the Soviets.
Well, it hasn’t all blown up yet, which you gotta admit is pretty miraculous.
I suppose. The world is always a mess. It doesn’t seem to matter who the players are.
If there is a god, he don’t keep the pet cages clean.
Vance’s political career is over. Only way he salvages it is when Trump gets stomped in midterms, then he pushes Trump out with the help of the Democrats. In other words, he helps get Trump impeached and campaigns as the common sense, no war President that Trump pretended to be. Trump is finished.
I was gonna write “nobody’s going to believe a guy that calls trump hitler and then in 6 months has a trump flag sticking out his ass”
But then I remembered all the trump supporters that ardently wave the trump flags sticking out of their asses, and I reconsidered.
He’s got the charisma of a teen’s crusty sock. The only place he’ll be going is for a tell all book deal when all is said and done.
Yes. Or maybe a seat on the board of Turning Point.
Lol
Some PAC will buy up his books to get him on the best seller list to make a point.
Nobody will read them. Not even his wife.
And none too soon. He was always a phony. It’s just more obvious.
It’s not just the immense cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that come to mind, the example of Libya may be even more pertinent. It all started with high-minded regime change by bombing from the air, and it ended with a completely destroyed country run by warlords and worse.
Unfortunately, the brain dead Obama fans still think Obama is a great president. They are no different than the brain dead MAGA crowd. This is why this country is doomed.
Compared to what we have now, Obama was Elvis, Ghandi, Jesus, and George Washington rolled into one.
I completely disagree with these actions and the supposed reasons given for them. Though there is a fair bit of ignorance about Iran being displayed in the comments here.
Iran is a vastly different society that Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria. Those countries were countries that had minimal social fabric and were held together by dictators.
Iran has extensive social fabric and a educated and sophisticated population. A large percentage of whom do not support their theocratic leaders. Regime chance has a much larger chance of ‘working’ here than say in Afghanistan.
Though that alone is not a great reason for war. I know another country that beats and shoots it citizens in the street. Another leader who has flagrant regard for democracy or any care about the citizen of the country.
Greater good would have been accomplish by getting rid of the Trump government and installing a functional government that governs for their people rather than themselves.
What’s your evidence that a “large majority” of the population does not support their theocratic leaders?
“Attitudes toward President Pezeshkian were as positive in October 2025 as they were in the honeymoon period right after he took office. Almost two-thirds regarded him favorably, and majorities remained confident he could advance most aspects of his agenda. Roughly half trusted the authorities of the Islamic Republic. Three-quarters of respondents still want policymakers to take religious teachings into account. However, two-thirds of respondents said that women who do not observe hijab should not be confronted.”
https://cissm.umd.edu/research-impact/publications/iranian-public-opinion-soon-after-twelve-day-war
Do the smart people have the guns?
The President has 4 buttons on his desk: “Bomb Now”, “Bomb Now”, “Bomb Now”, and “Bomb Now”, sometimes he spends hourd pondering which one to press.
Thank God he deliberates like that. We’re on good hands. /s
That Wharton education was not wasted.
First is drop a few bombs let them know I’m serious pay attention. Second drop lots of bombs. Third is drop all the conventional bombs. Fourth do those nukes really work? He pressed the second button.
1) Tariff Someone
2) Tweet / Press conference about Winning
3) Send ICE to different City
4) Bomb Country / Capture Foreign Leader
Hey, we could make this into a real game.
You forgot the Diet Coke button.
I wonder how many more countries must suffer before he gets that Nobel Peace Prize.
Does he need 2?
Three ways to prevent upcoming violence in three effortless steps and ensure the world is safer place.
1) Let radical Islam go from the Mediterranean Sea to the Galilee and create the second holocaust. No Jews – no problems.
2) Let Iran have a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles to threaten Europe and potentially the US. Watch the rest of the Mideast turn into a nuclear playground with crazy religious zealots that are not afraid to die and take their population with them. Think 13th Imam. Think of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE and Jordan with nuclear weapons.
3) Impede Israel from defending themselves like the Biden administration to prolong the war and suffering of the people of Gaza before aid can be brought in. Stand back and order the military not to do anything while the thugs of Gaza steal food and fuel intended for its people.
This sounds like a better plan.
Netanyahu would not even be in power today if Biden’s handlers did not continuously supply aid.
‘Well Mish the wars with an among Muslims has been going on for 1400 years, get used to it while playing cowboys an aliens, legal an illegal. I gather you were for Truman’s undeclared Korean adventures as well as Biden’s 10 million illegal aliens for more free trade melting pot adventures and no go zones.”
When you post idiotic lies about what I was for you get banned.
Goodbye
Sarcasm is the greatest form of free speech and the best test of logic. Replace the affirmative with the negative and the world becomes less black and white and more grey.
Well, it may be true the world is safer when 80-year-old leaders die, We just don’t know yet.
We are all praying for the holy big mac of Antioch. It’s like a hand grenade but holy hand grenades are best used against rabbits.
I’d like to see one of his slave girls strangle him like Leah did Jabba.
Trump totally owns this, it will blow up in his face. There will be no regime change, how long will the bombing continue? How many Iranian operatives came to the US under Biden’s open border policy that will result in major terrorist attacks in the US? Rising gas prices will add to the working and middle class’s affordability misery. Everything this fool does guarantees a midterm drubbing of Republicans, deservingly so.
You’re overlooking another vector. The way you create terrorists is you create desperation. Take away enough housing, food, income and we won’t be importing terrorists. We will be birthing terrorists.
They’re trying to kill Social Security all together, which will a population of heavily armed old people with nothing left to lose.
There’s a limit somewhere, and they’re gonna find it.
We are more likely to import dangerous radicals if we “liberate” Iran and open the doors to massive refugee resettlement as we always do after these “victories”. The most dangerous ones are the children of the refugees who get radicalized here.
Canada’s Carney backs Trumps attack – and will not get involved.
Perhaps Carney does not want to get attacked? where have I heard that “Appeasement” rationale before?
Musk’s Tesla ~ 0 to 1939 in four seconds once he was implicated in the Epstein files…
History is rhyming in a sad pattern of death, hyperinflation and war. I remember the “Good old Days”,
I just take heart in that I got to live through the peak in the 90s.
Too late, we were involved from the get-go:
You polite bastards are behind it all somehow, I know it!
Americans have been brainwashed to accept the idea that it’s OK for the U.S. and Israel to have nuclear weapons, but it’s not OK for Iran (or whatever other countries) to have them. It’s bizarre thinking.
The whole nuclear weapons thing is a ruse anyway. War is never about what they say it is. The war on Iran is about oil and China.
Speaking of oil, the Strait of Hormuz is now closed for all practical purposes, no matter if Iran did or did not say so officially. I hope MAGA is ready for record high gasoline prices. Can’t wait to see how they defend that.
What does Netanyahu have on Trump, or is this war simply more neocon madness?
Or have neocons always been loyal to Israel in the first place.
Our sick lying “Bomber in Chief”!
Bombing 8 different Countries in one year. My Arse he “deserved” the Nobel Peace Price, etc, or anything but handcuffs.
This is what happens when crooks are not held accountable. They keep escalating crooked acts as they’ve seen they can ge away from them.
The first victims of war are the children and elderly. They die horrific deaths and their suffering and blood is on the hands of the aggressor.
In this case the aggressor is BiBi (Israel) and his Epstein pawn: Trump.
The vast majority of the U.S. is against this war. Iran was no threat and Trump already declared that their nuclear ambitions were “Obliterated”. Iran can not defend itself, nor can it attack the U.S. in any meaningful way.
There is no rationale for this war, no authority, and no endgame. Trump is in the wrong and all Americans will pay for it.
China has ended all shipments of rare-earths and strategic materials to the US.
Trump is actively bringing about the downfall of the U.S.
WHY?
> Trump is actively bringing about the downfall of the U.S.
He’s just accellerating what was going on under the previous administration. Perfect front man for the end game.
> Trump is in the wrong and all Americans will pay for it.
We will all pay for it. USIS is basically attacking 2.5 billion muslims. You don’t take out one of their more influential religious leaders – murder in plain daylight, including relatives, daughter,…- just like that.
The repercussions this will have on the fast dwindling group of ethnic whites / caucasians / Europeans and what is left of Christianity boggles the mind. The most hated two countries in the world. Satan w i l l be pleased.
Glad to have been around in the good days.
The first victims and the central victims are young men brainwashed into military service. At least, they aren’t forced to serve as drafted slaves.
On Monday – Gold price will go up
Oil price will go up
Treasury yield will go up
Stock will crash.
Ohhh what a bad combination.
Oh sorry, what a worst combination.
Hmmmmmm TACO again.
According to some reports (coming from Israel, of all places!) he already tried to TACO and asked for a ceasefire through (probably Italian) mediators and Iran’s response was NO.
LMAO
The US and Israel are going to get it good and hard, this time around…
“My position has been consistent, clear, and correct.”
Maybe you should re-read your many articles on the NATO – Russia war in Ukraine and the (aggressive and violent) options that you thought the US had at its disposal to force Russia at the very least to a ceasefire but Trump was too indecisive and weak to take…
Well, let’s look at the bright side of this umpeenth American war: it won’t be a superpower like Russia or China but a (strong) regional power like Iran to show the many people (like for example you and most of your readers) still under the influence of Western propaganda and brainwashing the real state of the rapidly declining superpower that the US truly is…
I don’t know what you know or think you know but the Iranians are hitting relentlessly Israelis and Americans throughout the whole region, they have hit and closed, among the others, the 4 biggest airports in the region including the second biggest in the world by volume of passengers: DXB. They have closed the Strait of Hormuz (can’t wait for the markets to open tomorrow). They have just hit even a French naval base in Bahrein. The Americans have just admitted to have sustained the first losses.
As I wrote in the comment section of your first article on this new Judeo-American war: this is going to be the USA’s FAFO moment. FINALLY.
And I’m stoked.
So far absolutely nothing has been hit that won’t be replaced (minus of course dead people) in 5 minutes once Iran stops firing what little they have.
Russia in Ukraine is what a declining super power looks like. The US looks nothing like that.
You are exactly the kind of misinformed, malinformed, brainwashed folks I was talking about. I can only imagine the shock once reality, eventually, fully hits you in the face…
Meanwhile, enjoy a stock market downturn, higher fuel prices, higher utility bills and a restart of inflation from tomorrow morning.
Oh, and the sight of your countrymen coming back home in body bags for the sake of your Zionist masters…
You have no idea what Iran has.
No but I know what the US has and given it spends about 100x as much a year as Iran does I’m not particularly worried.
This is why all Americans should dissuade their family members from joining the US military. History has made clear that they are likely to be used in an immoral foreign war.
My family member joined in 2000. Went to Bosnia, then Iraq, then South Korea, then Iraq again. Caught a sniper’s bullet in Iraq through his spinal cord at the ripe old age of 25 and has been a quadriplegic now for over 19 years. It was reassuring watching the land he was patrolling change hands about 5 times after he was injured. A place not 99 in 100 Boobus Americani could find on a map if you just asked them to point out the country. And the lower quality of life he has “enjoyed”, and which we as his family members have had to accept has so totally been worth it.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
I’m very sorry. And sorry that changes nothing. BUt I do appreciate his giving for others.
Very sorry. Bush needs to br tried as a war criminal. Iraq was a flat out deliberately lie and should have never happened. Bush had Osama cornered within the first six months and could have killed him but instead deliberately let him escape. We could have withdrawn at that point.
We love our country, but fear our government. Not a good situation!
And we often have supported too many Better dead than Red leaders who were horrible and autocratic, raping their citizens. Example: How did we end up with the Ayatollah (sp?), et al? He milked his country. in the ’70’s my brother worked at Lear Jet. He had stories of the oppulence the Shah or Iran was wasting on his Lear Jet. E.g. he had a SOLID gold toilet put in! I’m sure these kind of things played well bacl home. Not! Thus the public flipped to the other extreme.
A person joining the military is being told he is being patriotic, defending his country. In reality, he’s signing up to kill whoever the corrupt politicians tell him to kill. He’s joining organized crime.
This isn’t a new thing. All US wars since the War of 1812 have been wars of choice, properly analyzed. And since FDR manipulated the US in WWII, the US has been the most war-like nation on the planet.
My position has been consistent, clear, and correct.
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This is like being a vegetarian and expecting not to get eaten.
This wont just be a war. It will be a world war.
Nope, China will sit back and continue trading with the entire world while Trump drives all nations but Israel away from doing business with us.
Expect another downgrade of U.S. debt, higher inflation, civil unrest in our cities, global acts of violence against our military and an escalating loss of civil rights.
You never know how this will play out. China and the U.S. are on an inevitable path toward military confrontation with each other. I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime, but I have changed my mind about that. This war with Iran could lead to a chain of events that speeds up an inevitable war with China.
Agreed. And from a US point of view, the sooner the better since at the moment the US maintains a vast military edge that China is gradually eroding.
This plus Venezuela and recent oil field developments in Iraq using US companies (over China and Russian ones) makes me think the US is moving to restrict oil shipments to China to retaliate for rare earths.