UPDATE
• Trump: US to Blockade Hormuz
• Pakistan talks failed
• Trump: All or nothing
• US, Iran delegations left Islamabad
• UAE: Hormuz’s “not Iran’s to close”
• Israel prepares for war to resume
• Israel strikes Lebanon, raid in South
• Ceasefire expires04/22
in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive
This is the president of the United States of America.
US director of national intelligence whose job is to assess imminent threats tells Congress that it's not her job to assess imminent threats
IE we couldn't invent intel that Iran was about to attack the US so... we just let DJT do his thing
www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-us-...
You can see which lobbying meetings he is taking in real-time
Some words, as usual, on Jordan! More words soon, in other places, on the Iran war
You've been an inspiring candidate! Esp. to those of us living in establishment (D) strongholds in dire need of grassroots, progressive, and assertive candidates capable of engaging this moment of democratic regression.
Never stop fighting.
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Our US policy of non-interventionism is so non-interventionist that we'd like to determine how a theocracy selects its next theocrat while bombing it and arming rebels against it
www.axios.com/2026/03/05/i...
The GCC states shot down 5 warplanes today
3 were American
2 were Iranian
Trump just clarified he may order "boots on the ground"
Yep, war's going exactly as planned!
www.jpost.com/internationa...
"This is not a so-called regime change war"
Sorry what now, your boss said the precise opposite about 500 missiles ago
www.npr.org/2026/03/02/n...
Winning!
"Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first." www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
1.5 days after the war for "regime change" in Iran started... Trump says he'll talk to its leaders to end the conflict. He refused to promise help for a popular uprising (that hasn't happened)
This is the demonic baby of a neocon-populist shotgun wedding
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Folks, the munitions may be running out for the Iran operation, and it will affect plans for the Pacific theatre. Some of us have been warning about this repeatedly.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
The SAVE Act is so petty it tries to block students and Native Americans from voting. Many tribal IDs do NOT have an expiration date (because why would they? Tribal status doesn't expire).
And student IDs, even issued by the state, specifically don't count
I realize that "Orwellian" is over used but come on.
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
The ones in Washington who clamor hardest for war are the ones with the least to lose. They're not fighting or dying. For them it's abstract strategy and ideological signaling and media pandering.
It's always lions being led by lambs.
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-top-s...
That's right, the son of the last deposed Iranian dictator (overthrown by a popular revolution that needed no foreign intervention to succeed) and who's been exiled from Iran for 50 years is actually the only logical choice
Ahmad Chalabi syndrome
www.axios.com/2026/02/28/u...
Yes, that's right. This is how you show democratic solidarity with the Iranian people and, to the world, justify the latest "this time is different" war of regime change in the Middle East.
By bombing schools.
www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...
Trump’s strikes on Iran are an illegal war of choice—and Europeans should say so: ecfr.eu/article/trum...
It's also a perverse tactic to signal virtue without blame
Strikes --> successful domestic uprising: US is white knight, takes all the credit for paving the way
Strikes --> no/failed domestic uprising: US is white knight, not its fault people didn't take advantage and fight for freedom
"We may have casualties... that often happens in war."
FTFY: "Hope is my strategy"
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Of the many theoretical explanations and rational debates of this US/Israeli strike on Iran, has anyone considered the possibility that nobody knows what the f*** they're doing
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Preamble to every US military intervention:
"I understand concerns about major military operations in the Middle East given past entanglements. However, the voices who counsel against getting entangled seem to ignore the consequences of letting evil go unchecked"
www.axios.com/2026/02/22/g...
