This harebrained idea appears to have originated with Mark Levin.
Mark Levin on Uranium Yesterday
Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran’s Uranium
The Wall Street Journal has this “exclusive” tonight: Trump Weighs Military Operation to Extract Iran’s Uranium
President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, according to U.S. officials, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.
Trump hasn’t made a decision on whether to give the order, the officials said, adding that he is considering the danger to U.S. troops. But the president remains generally open to the idea, according to the officials, because it could help accomplish his central goal of preventing Iran from ever making a nuclear weapon.
The president has also encouraged his advisers to press Iran to agree to surrender the material as a condition for ending the war, according to a person familiar with Trump’s thinking. Trump has been clear in conversations with political allies that the Iranians can’t keep the material, and he has discussed seizing it by force if Iran won’t give it up at the negotiating table.
The president and at least some of his allies have said privately it would be possible to seize the material in a targeted operation that wouldn’t significantly extend the timeline of the war and still enable the U.S. to be done with the conflict by mid-April, according to the person familiar with the discussions.
Trump referenced Iran’s uranium on Friday during an address in Miami, noting that the material was a central reason for starting the war. “I call it the nuclear dust,” Trump said.
The Uranium Operation
Any move to seize the uranium by force would be complex and dangerous, former U.S. military officers and experts said, ranking among the most challenging operations ordered by Trump. The potential operation, which would likely trigger retaliation from Iran, could also lengthen the war well beyond the 4-6 week time frame that Trump’s team has publicly outlined.
Teams of U.S. forces would need to fly to the sites, likely under fire from Iranian surface-to-air missiles and drones. Once on site, combat troops would need to secure perimeters so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for mines and booby traps.
The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That could fill several trucks, said Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and a former nuclear negotiator with Iran.
Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out. The entire operation would take days or even a week to complete, experts said.
“This is not a quick in and out kind of deal,” said retired Gen. Joseph Votel, the former commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.
Trump has declined to publicly say whether he would order the uranium-retrieval mission. On Saturday, he urged his followers on social media to watch Mark Levin’s Fox News show, during which the conservative commentator advocated for Trump “to get the uranium.”
Trump and Hegseth on the Greater North America
I interrupt this silliness with a word about Helium.
Where’s the Navy
Trump Wants to Seize Iranian Oil
President Trump said he wanted to “take the oil” in Iran, possibly seizing the export hub of Kharg Island, the Financial Times reported
The WSJ Reported this as Some Damage
Trump Says He Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
Are They in the Room Now?
Great News – Iran Has Been Defeated
“Iran has been defeated militarily. Any violence beyond this point will be because Iran refused to understand they have already been defeated.”
LOL
Meanwhile we are preparing for an invasion of Iran with inadequate numbers of troops.
How Many Troops Needed?
For discussion of the above question, please see.
- There’s a 63 Percent Chance the US Invades Iran by April 30
- Who Has the Upper Hand in the War? Iran, the US, Anybody?
The former UK intelligence chief says Iran Has the upper hand.
All this war analysis day after day, so many people thinking they know the next move, who’s winning, what should be done and by whom. This whole mess is distraction entertainment and you’ve totally fallen for it. Lies, injuries, deaths are the prices paid by the plebs so that the connected can line their pockets without the plebs realizing what’s happening. Always has been, always will be, unless the plebs wake up – but I see no sign of that. Wake me up when it’s over.
Sounds like you are all being “Art of the Deal” with.
This is a bluff that will never happen but will get everyone’s knickers in a knot. Then when the real event happens, possibly as we speak, of troops to hold the gulf islands and coast to secure the shipping lanes, everyone one calms down and says, “Oh well at least it’s not a full scale invasion into the heart of the country.”
This is also a good example of why people need to stop listening to every inane idea Trump farts out of his mouth. Follow his actions. His words are meaningless.
And very often they are worse than meaningless, they are half baked distractions to keep his ego pumped and people guessing and freaked out all the time.
I have a prize out of my box of Cracker Jacks that I will give to Trump.
If you spray paint it gold you could drop it on the floor and he will crawl under a table to get it.
While he’s under there?
Take your pick!
maybe Iran will give Trump what he wants just to shut him up.
a special ops raid would likely have the least American deaths out of any other options we are considering so sure why not.
if the dumbass can pull it off, then we go home hopefully.
Trump’s Israeli master would not be satisfied.
Along with yourself and the other ankle biters here.
You’ve been bamboozled by Hollywood to think that the Usonian military is worth its price. Special operations personnel die like flies all the time. That’s what they’re for. And, no, they don’t do what a division can’t; it’s just sabotage work that helps, but is far from turning the tide of any war.
Stealing Iran’s oil, why did Trump not tell us on day one that this is how to free the Iranian people from their religious leader oppressors? /s
It is call reparations. Notstealing. Or spoils of war. A rose by any name is still a rose.
the goal is to free the oil from the religious leaders oppressors.
looks like we will need to rebuild the oil production infrastructure first.
I wonder if Trump has a plan for the sure to be insurgency as he tries ti take the oil, assuming we can get to that point.
Perhaps He will send boots to Stockholm for that prize He covets?
er I think you will find its Oslo. Back to skool for you Lisa.
But Trump would definitely send the troops to Stockholm for that.
Mia culpa. The Non-Nobel “Piece” non-prize is indeed managed by Oslo>
You misspelled “is owed, and everyone and their dog knows it”
Perhaps she is thinking of Trumps victims having “Stockholm Syndrome”?
Look at Rudi… Look at all the suicides of women abused in the Epstein files.
Thousands of US young men are going to die as a sacrifice in Iran. How do I know? Because Trump and Co. are trapped and have no options. Therefore, they will send Marines/Airborne troops into certain death – in an attempt to rally public opinion for an all out war. They will fantasize that they can create a Pearl Harbor reaction – that they desperately need. These people are completely amoral and this will emerge as the only way out. Military people need to accept responsibility for their own lives in this – or suffer the consequences, along with their families.
Yeah the Pearl harbor thing makes no sense. It was a surprise peacetime attack on us soil. Did successful North Vietnamese attacks on us soldiers increase or decrease support for that war? No one who already opposes the war in Iran will be swayed; we (already the majority) will just see it as more evidence of the foolishness of the pursuit. People will be furious about it.
Not a fan of ground troops outside of Kharg. The enemy is the IRGC and they are hiding in holes or have left Iran.
I suggest we keep knocking off IRGC leaders until we get one who will act rational. He will appear as an internal selectee and even organic to the IRGC.
That sort of thing hardens people, not softens them.
How’d that go in Afghanistan? Actually, I guess we could call the Taliban right now and ask since they kicked us out.
I suggest we change POTUS until we find a rational one.
Trump’s M.O. is to assume that America is a nation of morons. I’m not sure he’s wrong.
Look how many people talk about the 1979 hostage crisis amd never once ask why we might not be loved.
I’m wondering if the US and Israel might be considering used enhanced radiation warheads (neutron bombs) to detonate underground to denature the uranium and impede attempted recovery by creating a subterranean radioactive hot zone, though surface radiation levels would be much lower.
The US has deactivated all of its ERWs but Israel is believed to have a large stockpile. Perhaps this will be how Israel publicly enters the nuclear club.
Note, I DO NOT ADVOCATE THIS. I’m merely suggesting they are they are crazy enough to consider it.
Hitting even 60% enriched uranium with ERW seems like a bad idea, as you said. I want the IRGC neutered and not Iran sunk into the ocean because of a large physics experiment.
If the material is stored in canisters of UF6, there is no chance of them going critical. That’s why they are stored that way. Even if converted to metallic form and in an assembled warhead, the pieces are not stored as a critical mass. While the neutron pulse from the ERW would fission or transmute the U235 to a non- fissionable isotope other than U235, the fission rate would decay exponentially.
This reminds me of Hitler ranting about the next capital of the world, Germania. The Fuhrer even had models of the capital he proudly showed to sycophants. Trump showing off his new ballroom brought back these images.
..the next capital of the world
And Jerusalem new capital of the world. Couple of years old already so certainly outdated in parts.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/israel/
If Soerensen ever got something wrong it was his blind belief in Dr Strangelove.
The real estate guy has models of real estate he is building with his personal funds. My, how Hitler like is that?
builders, Hitler was architect.
Trump is getting frustrated because he can’t figure a way out of the mess he started.
So this morning he repeated this rant, where he negotiates through the press, which I paraphrase:
Negotiations are going very well with the new regime. They are very reasonable and have already agreed to most of our 15 point plan. They gave us a gift of 20 ships sailing through the strait. This could be over, very soon.
But if they don’t open the strait within 2 days, we will take over Kharg island, take their uranium, take their oil, destroy all their power plants and desalination plants and then leave them with the mess we made.
Iran’s response also remains the same. We are not negotiating.
Interesting that he announces this just before the markets open Monday morning.
He’s bat shit crazy
Can Iran pump oil to the island if the powerplants are destroyed?
He is offering sticks or carrots. Pretty obvious and simple.
Yes, I’m sure there is record of that in the Epstein files too
Mark Levin. One of the most — if not the most — carcinogenic & irritating personalities ever to pollute the airwaves. He does not belong on the air. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Two fire-breathing pipsqueaks. Yet here they are. How does this happen? Who decided “Mark & Ben are great! Let’s cancel the other guys and promote them!”
When they screeched onto the radio dial, I tuned out. Why didn’t anyone else?
it is not USSR. USA is still free contry
there is a knob on your tv, called channel switcher
learn how to operate
There have always been odious personages on the air.
Ya just tune them out.
Yeah, uh… you two know how to read, but clearly not to the end. Try doing that before hitting “post comment”…
I called this on your March 30 post about the odds.
We have,conquered and crushed Iran so many times this month, Trump gets all the peace prizes.
I wonder what happens when they rocked. Will they still be of Warrior Ethos or suckers & losers?
What no analyst seems to grasp: an elderly madman – a heartbeat away from eternity- cannot be stopped by anything short of an outright coup – AND he is going to wreck the US and global economy. Impeachment is over a year away and unlikely to remove him. His corrupt delusional cabinet will not remove him (25th Amendment) as they depend on him for power. The Adelson’s bought him ($250 million), Epstein evidence has him cornered. And our “brave” military doesn’t offer condemnation of his suicidal policies.
The military can’t express political opinions.
And the POTUS – whoever they are – is their commander-in-chief.
The military will gladly get combat pay, get some medals and advance their careers. Remember the racket that they ran in Afghanistan, cooking the reports to extend the war to their own benefit?
As of this instant, 12 up votes and no down votes. Informing, no?
Anyone starting to detect mission creep with this expedition.
I’m sure US taxpayers are thrilled at that very expensive AWACS aircraft being turned into the raw material for cat food tins.
Chump change. We were expecting one or two destroyed aircraft carriers.
Clown World!! This is Biden’s 2nd term!
I am quite enjoying watching all of you pull your last hairs out and turn red from elevated blood pressure in your inability to have any effect whatsoever on Trump no matter how frequently you post or how hard you beat your keyboard! 😂😂
Quite true.
But the other side of this is that Trump is making the US look pathetic, destroying relationships, tanking your economy and showing 35% of America up for the racists that you are. Great legacy for your kids that he is building.
[Shrug]. Allow me to share a 2500 year old Greek quote that you should use for future guidance:
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
Good to see he is bringing that bit of joy into the world! It’s something at least.
And your comment explains Maga very well: happy to cut of the nose just to spite the face. Nothing constructive, ever.
You are projecting again. You aren’t enjoying this at all because you took the time to post a comment that makes no sense. Your comment drips with concern and impotence. It’s YOU that can’t do anything about the upcoming changes to America and the waning support for Israel that likely has you concerned. Yup, it’s going to happen whether you like it or not. The world has had enough of Israel.
Trump has 1027 days and he’s gone forever. he may be an impeached lame duck in 218 days and after that things will change dramatically.
https://unherd.com/2026/03/the-west-is-turning-on-its-jews/?edition=us
Got exit strategy?
If Harris wins the MTG special election, the end may be accelerated.
Amazing how you’ll simp for every one of Trump’s lunatic, demented decisions all because he “owns the libs”.
Sir! I have a plan!
[standing up from his wheelchair]
Mein Führer! I can walk!
Great movie!
The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks.
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out of curiosity WHY USA PLANNERS THINK THOSE CYLINDERS are in same place, not dispersed all over country?
each time i read such drivels (by generals and such) i vividly recall famous story created by russian-ukraine author named N. Gogol
it is called = notes of madman. =
alx
Given how Iran has prepped for something like this for years, I think the material has been disbursed and probably enriched beyond 60% and likely already fashioned into a workable nuclear device that could be deployed on land as Israel had on standby in the 1967 War to deter an Egyptian counterattack or Soviet intervention. The difference being is that at least Iran enriched their own uranium instead of stealing it from the US as the Israelis did.
If the material has been dispersed, the question is are US and Israeli intelligence aware of this.
In another post I speculated that the US and Israel might consider using neutron bombs detonated underground to spoil any enriched uranium and make access difficult.
Agree. They say it’s 1000 lb of uranium, most likely packed in cylinders that look like scuba air tanks. They could be literally anywhere.
This could be like Stalingrad for the United States.
What’s harebrained about it? Unless you think that Americans are ALL now incapable of doing anything. I would suggest that it is only Democrats and leftists who are incapable of doing anything. In fact, if you look at it carefully, it may be that a lot of people become leftists because they think they can’t do anything.
It was about regime change, it’s not about regime change. It was about oil, it’s not about oil, it was about ballistic missiles, it’s not about ballistic missiles. It was about opening the Straight of Hormuz (which was open before we attacked), now it’s not.
It’s now about parachuting in and finding uranium. Until it won’t be tomorrow. Trump has surrounded himself with the dumbest of the dumbest, so all this flailing looking for any rationale, anything he can use to declare victory would one funny if the world economy wasn’t getting crushed.
And a few months ago Trump declared “the uranium” buried deep underground and that it could never be used after his banker buster air strikes.
Considering they mined and processed millions of tons of material to get that 1000lb of refined uranium, the idea that it could be buried beyond use is absurd.
Trump keeps Izrail happy by allowing endless time to hit Iran.
All this from a country that is apparently running out of fuel.
…and there you have it in a post why the rest of the world is laughing at the US right now.
I’m more concerned about what Iran is capable of doing. After being destroyed repeatedly they still hold the majority of their drone capability.
Trump has proven nothing other than he can talk a lot, drool, and likes naps. Biden wasn’t this brain dead.
brilliant binary. Either we can’t find 50 canister in a country the size of Europe or we can’t do anything. You’re some kind of Socrates aren’t you?
Interestingly the blue states are the most productive ones. It’s the red farmer states that need constant subsidizing.
To the extent that is true, it is the result of programs inaugurated and supported by democrats such as Social Security, Medicare, SNAP, EBT etc. plus military spending (most remaining military bases are in the South). Further, many Social Security and Medicare recipients were incentivized to relocate to the South because of high taxes in the blue states.
So which programs do you want to cut to end this inequitable situation?
And will you also stop whining about how the Civil War was a moral act that was necessary to preserve the Union? And admit the the industrial revolution in the northern states in the US, as in Great Britain began with the mass production of textiles and consumed great quantities of cotton produced un the south?
Spoken like a true Southern racist on welfare
I may be a racist but I am definitely NOT a southerner. I had the unfortunate experience of living in South Carolina for 4 years and endure endless inquiries about what church I attended. I don’t! Your typical southerner is deathly afraid of being a racist even in private conversation. They love their negroes as some of them may turn out to be college football stars.
You New Englanders like to consider yourself as so open minded but you are just as bigoted in your own ways as the dreaded redneck. I noticed you didn’t even try to refute what I said but immediately launched into an ad hominem attack based on assumptions which you had no way of knowing whether they were true or false.
Get over yourself!
The military and the Army Corps pf Engineers are democrat programs? The Department of Agriculture?
Most of the military facilities eliminated by the defense cuts in the 1990s were in the blue states. There were plenty of financial sweeteners to get local representatives to go along with it.
The Dept. of Agriculture was a minor department until FDR’s New Deal started crop subsidies. Then there is the school lunch program. Which proves my point.
“And will you also stop whining about how the Civil War was a moral act that was necessary to preserve the Union?”
This guy is apparently having a conversation in his own head, no one is mentioning the Civil War let alone whining about it unless i missed something.
It’s (barely) coded racist language
Stop! You’re making me sad!
Well, they like to whine about subsidizing red states which could have been avoided if they just let the South go.
Are the lights still on down by you?
So we have have a MAD MAN in charge of the US Department of WAR and there’s no one there to stop the destruction of the US.
$$. Not for you or me. For someone else. And they’re calling the shots. When Orange Thing is gone, they’ll still have their gunnite swimming pools and Bentleys. Fear not.
It gets worse. Congress is very likely to approve the $200 billion request by the Mad Men in the Pentagon. There are 58 house members retiring. All but 4 have received funding from the Israel Lobby, some received as much as several million dollars. Even removing those running for other offices such as senator or governor, there are a lot of bought politicians with nothing to lose by voting YES on their way out the door to the gratitude of those remaining to vote NO without putting their future cash flow from the Israel Lobby in peril.
If the material was in one or more of the facilities that were bombed, the material is potentially lying under mountains of rock. It could take weeks, even months to reach it. If the Iranians were smart, big if, they dispersed it, long ago, in small containers.
exactly! i posted same
Might consider using neutron bombs to denature the material in situ (kind of lime what Goldfinger had in mind for the gold in Fort Knox). Crazy, but here we are.
That would be nice. But we don’t have any.
Israel reportedly has a considerable inventory.
It will be a complete and disaster if Trump sends troops into Iran.
Trump is far too stupid to understand this and he has surrounded himself with yes men unwilling to tell him otherwise.
Trump is the slave of one yes-man, and that is the crazed criminal Bibi who’d be sitting in jail right now if he hadn’t waged war on everyone to stall the corruption case against him. Its SUCH a saving grace that October 7th happened just as the entire country was in the streets protesting him and his attempts to flout justice by changing the courts in Israel. I;m sure if he believed in any other god than himself, he’d give thanks. As it is, HE is god, and Trump is his impotent servant.
I think a psychopath like Trump would gleefully use a nuke on Iran, mostly because it hasn’t been done in a while and it lets him make a big splash and stroke his infinitely inflated ego. Meanwhile, he’d call it an action of peace.
Not “on Iran” but UNDER Iran.
it’s blatant armed robbery
our current definition of winning is restoring what was before
They were offering to hand it over before we sucker punched them… now it will cost thousands of lives, a trillion dollars, and probably just end up buried by a bunker buster. Then we’ll never know for sure if it’s down there.
Winning!
The definition of winning is when Trump walks away with a billion dollars.
Like
Replacing Taliban regime with Taliban regime ( takes 20 years )
Replacing Ayatola regime with Ayatola regime ( takes 1 day )
Performance is awesome.
1 trillion military budget to train to improve.
someone snuck a successful run of Castle Wolfenstein into his daily 2 minute war video
He would have cried at the death of mecha-Hitler at the end.
“Too many requests. Please slow down.” I tried to upvote 🙁
Am I awake? Please, someone pinch me. Or maybe it’s a cartoon show I have never watched previously. It can’t be reality I am experiencing. Run for the hills if I am wrong. Hide and be very frightened. There is a lunatic in the house.
The lunatic is in the hall
the lunatics are in my hall
the paper holds their folded faces to the floor
and every day, the paper boy brings more
=Please, someone pinch me.
if you are nice good looking lady 20+ something i am all yours for pinching.
I’ve decided we’re living through Dr Strangelove at this point.
Jack Keane is guarding his precious bodily fluids.
“Any violence beyond this point will be because Iran refused to understand they have already been defeated.”
Our apparent lack of a strategic plan at this point reminds me of that Mike Tyson quote : “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Trump might as well have been punched by Tyson; his mouth is still running but nothing is connecting upstairs.
From the reality based world a few weeks ago
The enriched uranium is believed to be stored deep underground in structures designed to survive bunker-busting bombs. When such structures collapse, they create dense layers of debris requiring heavy engineering equipment to clear.
“To reach the uranium, forces would not only need rifles,” Ailam said. “They would need hydraulic excavators, diamond drills and engineering teams working for weeks.”
Conducting such an operation in hostile territory would be extraordinarily risky, he added, since heavy excavation would likely attract the attention of foreign intelligence satellites, including those of Russia and China.
Even if a force could reach the uranium, transporting it safely presents another challenge.
Iran typically stores enriched uranium in the form of uranium hexafluoride gas inside large industrial cylinders.
“These are not light suitcases,” Ailam said. “Each standard cylinder together with its protective casing can weigh between five and ten tons.”
Moving such cargo would require heavy transport helicopters hovering over the site while the containers are attached—a process that would expose aircraft and crews to both military and environmental hazards.
“In addition, even a few minutes of exposure to a damaged cylinder without heavy shielding would be a death sentence,” Ailam warned.
Rather than attempting to remove the uranium, some experts believe a more practical strategy would be to neutralize it where it lies.
Ailam described the possibility of injecting neutron-absorbing materials such as boron or gadolinium into underground storage areas through drilled boreholes.
“These materials act as poison for a nuclear reaction,” he said. “Once the enriched uranium physically mixes with these substances, it becomes useless as a weapon.”
Restoring the material for military use would then require building an entirely new chemical separation facility, a process that could take years and would likely be detected by Western intelligence.
Ailam said future diplomatic arrangements should focus less on removing the uranium and more on ensuring it remains permanently buried and monitored.
“The correct strategy is sealing and monitoring,” he said.
Such an approach could include filling storage shafts with boron-infused concrete and embedding sensors capable of detecting drilling or excavation attempts.
“It is much easier to bomb a bulldozer attempting to dig than to try to steal the uranium ourselves,” Ailam said.
Modern satellite technology would make concealment difficult, he added.
For now, Ailam believes the buried uranium poses less immediate danger than headlines might suggest.
“Right now, the uranium is not a ticking bomb,” he said. “It is more like an expensive grand piano buried deep inside a collapsed building.”
The very discussion is disingenuous.
Of course but bibi wants more land in Lebanon.
That’s all way, WAAAAY too long and boring.
Iranians are not stupid. You make some good points
Uranium just another smoke screen, same as regime change. Should be clear to all by now.
The US will continue to drill until they finally get to the secret caves of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They will be so surprised.
Did anyone else notice (or was it just me?) that as soon as the U.S. got control of Venezuela’s oil, the “narco-terrorist” threat vanished from the news cycle?
Well, it’s the same thing with Iran. It’s about the oil, not about nuclear weapons.
Of course, now that we killed the anti-nuclear weapons Ayatollah, maybe there’s an actual possibility that Iran might want a nuclear weapon at this point in time to defend itself from Israel and the U.S.
Iran will stop shooting missiles and drones once Israel stops bombing them. It’s entirely up to Israel (not the U.S.) to stop the bombing. Only then can negotiations begin to open up the Strait of Hormuz.
That’s not going to happen though. I think the next thing the U.S. will do is to start blocking Iranian oil exports to try to force them to open up the Strait. It’s not going to work, it’s just going to escalate things even further to the point of no return.
> to try to force them to open up the Strait..
fake news. 20 vessels under Pakistani flag currently passing through – easily verified by AIS. Most probably paid up the commission in CNY/RMB.
Just another convenient lie by Dr. Strangelove, representing Rothschild & Co, purposely drawing world into depression. Impossible not to see what’s going on.
There is no way to predict what verbal vomit is likely come out of taco’s mouth at any point in time.
Do you all casually give your toddler the keys to the car ?
How about the nuclear launch codes to your 4-year old?
Because this is the level of maturity of America’s rulers.
25th Amendment and / or impeachment are the only “off-ramps”. But few would have the guts or want to derail the MIC gravy train. .
Or another Snowden, Assange, Binney etc. hacks and makes public the blackmail evidence that Bibi is holding over T’s head.
What did Snowden, Assange, Binney, etc accomplish, other than wrecking their lives for a nation undeserving of them?
“The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.” (Edward Snowden)
Yes, that’s how the Trump administration gets its ideas, from Right Wing X, tiktok and Right Wing pundits. This episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver reviews the many ways the administration is driven by what’s going on on social media.
https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?si=BJXr18WMZTon5gYs
5D dumb – Five full dimensions of dumb on display, far beyond what the normal mind can handle but perfectly clear in the MAGA cult mind.
This weekend I stocked up on paper towels for all the profits I’m going to be gushing on massive profitgasms.
I don’t even care what goes up or down, the volatility is amazing for options traders, just buy calls or puts low and sell ’em high! Rinse and repeat.
Get ready for soaring food, energy, electric and other prices across the board. Lol, remember when Trump wanted the Fed to cut and now all I hear are rate HIKES! Yikes!
Three star Mishelin award granted for witty observation and likely triggering of some regular clown commenters.
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
Nikkei down 5% so far. What a bloodbath!
This ridiculous idea is the only face-saving exit strategy for Trump. If he can proclaim that his Delta Force guys removed Iran’s enriched uranium he will have at least accomplished something in Iran.
Of course it is doomed to failure, but Trump could always just proclaim that the mission was a success, regardless of the reality. Who can prove him wrong (other than Iran, who has no incentive to do so)?
If he turns tail afterwards and leaves, proclaiming victory, maybe he can exit and come out not looking like a total idiot to his base.
Trump is just now claiming he has accomplished regime change, even though the reality is has killed all the moderates in the regime
There are no moderates in the Iranian regime. The problem is they can’t surrender else the populace will Mussolini them from the lampposts. That makes getting a deal hard.
Best hope is Putin can broker a deal that leaves the mullahs in power, gets the nuclear material removed so Trump saves face and pretend he got a win and Europe will be sidelined as Putin will become the biggest winner.
Oh, another internet expert on Iranian public opinion!
Yeah very special special forces.
Immune to radioactive toxins.
Fly in and stay a week in contested air space & territory.
Build air strip, move in excavating equipment to dig around.
Discover the damned Iranians split it up into 12 different caches around the country.
And fly out again after their little excursion.
Hare-brained doesn’t begin to describe this.
Puerile, childish, immature day-dreaming.
Things are bad in America but you still can’t hide dead troops.
Depends on the numbers. Maybe not “troops” but CIA or army wearing a foreign country’s uniform. We’ve been doing it for four years in Ukraine. They die in “training accidents”. Sorry about your dad, kid. Training accident.
Hell, Trump is so full of it, he might just fake a uranium extraction operation to buy time, and when the Iranians deny it, he can just say they are too embarrassed to admit they no longer have the material.
He can have his drones make a flashy AI video, and award himself the congressional Medal of Honor after.
I’m reminded of Carter’s hostage rescue fiasco…
It was not a fiasco, it was a weather influenced operation going sour due to sand storms.
And what is congress doing? The Republican party is enablers of a narcistic psychopath who only cares about his ego and enriching himself.
Not only is the war wrong. It shows how broken the United States democracy is.
Democracy worked fine but idiots decided they wanted a sociopath clown as President. They deserve everything that’s coming.
Got exit strategy?
MPO45v2…
You sure about that. US democracy places a single person as head on the country. Not only that it places them as Commander in Chief of the military.
Most robust democracies don’t work like that. Concentrating power in one individual is highly risky for a healthy democracy.
The checks & balances on the President are broken. This isn’t a country run by congress it is a country run by ONE individual. Didn’t the US try to avoid ‘kings’ ruling the nation.
Got a starship?
The shitblizzard will not be confined.
Democracy is not scalable. It breaks down over large geographical regions and diverse populations. It then remains as a veneer over an authoritarian system required to keep the population in line and the elite to profit.
Agreed, but understand most of Congress — including many democrats — secretly support this action, especially if it’s Trump who’s the only one getting all the blowback.
Remember, the voters get you elected, but the donors dictate policy.
Something like 54 out of 58 retiring house members got funding from the Israel Lobby. On their way out the door and with nothing to lose, how many will vote YES on the $200 billion Pentagon request giving cover to those up for reelection in November?
Because Congressmen are narcissistic psychopaths who only care about their ego and enriching themselves.
Electrical grids and desalination plants are now under attack. It seems WW3 is possibly inevitable.
But hey, Alabama is a great place to live right? Lol. I hope you have your radiation pills and bunker ready.
You reap what you sow. How’s Trump working out for ya?
Bullcrap.