oh Goody Donny is at it again!
Well as usual this ‘conflict’, if we can call it that, is on again….after a lull because, according to Donny and his idiots, the talks were going well….and then as if by design (probably was) the US once again is attacking Iran.
What is word about this round of stupidity?
US Central Command announced on Wednesday night that it began launching airstrikes against Iran, hours after President Trump threatened a response to an Iranian missile attack on a US base in Jordan.
CENTCOM described the attacks as a “powerful response” to the attack in Jordan, though the extent of the US strikes remains unclear at this point. Trump has reportedly been mulling a significant escalation compared to the airstrikes the US was launching against Iran earlier this month.
On Wednesday morning, Trump told Fox News reporter Trey Yingst that the US was going to “beat the f-cking sh-t” out of Iran in response to the Jordan attack.
“We’re going to beat the f-cking sh-t out of them,” the president said, according to Yingst. “We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating.”
Trump described the strikes as a “surprise attack” and said that US troops had just “minutes” to intercept the missiles. During heavy US airstrikes on Iran earlier this month, Iran was pounding US bases in Jordan in response, and at least three US troops were killed, and more than 100 were wounded in the attacks.
The attack came after several days of a lull in US airstrikes against Iran, though the US military has still been enforcing a blockade against Iranian ports, and the Iranian military warned on Monday that it would consider the continued blockade an “expansion of war in the region” and vowed a response.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the strikes on the US base in Jordan were a response to “aggressive actions by the child-killing American army.”
“Until threats against the Islamic Republic of Iran continue and the illegal and mischievous actions of American forces against our interests are ongoing, resistance will continue as well,” the IRGC said. “Threats by American officials and illegal interventions against our interests must stop.”
The Iranian attack came after Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House to discuss the Iran war, and the two leaders described the talks as very positive. “It was a meeting with full cooperation, with mutual support, with understanding on the joint goal that Iran won’t have nuclear weapons, and also other goals,” Netanyahu said. “It was one of the best conversations I’ve had with our friend, US President Trump.”
(antiwar.com)
My daughter brought up a good point….are they on Kalshi and betting on this shit?
How many more Americans will Donny get killed to play his game?
He , Donny that is, is a pathetic POS and the sooner he gets out the damn better for the country and the world.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
As for your Kalshi question, you can be damned sure that they are. Or are using insider information to rake in massive profits on the commodities markets and stock market. There are reasons why one of the first things he did when he got into office was to gut the SEC, the IRS, and every other agency in charge of investigating financial fraud.
As for Iran? Oh, it’s worse than Iran now. According to news stories I heard yesterday he and Hogsbreath are now striking targets in Iraq as well.
Meanwhile in Israel – I’ll just throw this out for what it’s worth: Israeli “settlers” have now been discovered building illegal “settlements” inside of Syria.
I read those Iraqi strikes are against ISIS an old enemy….but I am thinking that is just a smoke screen. chuq
Chuq, from what I’ve read, the U.S. strikes in Iraq targeted Iranian special forces which are setting up drone and missile sites throughout the region in an effort to disperse their offensive assets as a means to lessen its vulnerability and to expand its tactical reach.
From a strategic standpoint, Iran is outsmarting the U.S. Iranian leaders know that they have cheaper and more plentiful weaponry than America does, that U.S. military stockpiles have been depleted in recent years (especially its defensive missiles), that the U.S. is politically hamstrung by needing to limit its casualties, and that U.S. forces are logistically constrained by having to fight a war so far from home. Iran also knows that Trump will act impulsively and without due consideration of these circumstances.
The situation is not dissimilar to the Vietnam War. When faced with an aggressive enemy consumed with the hubris of its perceived superiority, the most effective strategy is to lure them deeper into the war past the point of their capabilities.
Robert I agree….I was in Vietnam and Uncle Ho’s strategy worked well for years. Iran is taking a page from Uncle Ho. chuq
“When a war breaks out, people say: ‘It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.’ But though a war may well be ‘too stupid,’ that doesn’t prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.” —Albert Camus, The Plague
People say a lot of things and none of it accurate most of the time. chuq
Grouchy has got it right. Insider trading, gambling, boasting from Trump, it’s all about money, a ‘Greater Israel’, and chutzpah. Funny how they don’t like it when an ‘enemy’ shoots back, isn’t it?
Best wishes, Pete.
It kinda pisses them off when a country will not roll over for Donny…..chuq
No doubt that this little “Excursion” will be extended until it is the biggest war that we have ever been involved in bar none …..
John that is a good possibility but it will be hard to beat the Afghanistan in duration. chuq
what really bothers me about all of this, John, is that over the years we seem to have learned absolutely nothing about these armed “interventions” if you want to call them that. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan… In every single case our intervention has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars, killed thousands of US soldiers and uncountable numbers of innocent civilians, and ultimately they accomplished absolutely nothing and even made the situations worse than they were originally.
Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA). 745 replies. I’ll never forget an ex-Trump cabinet member telling me: “He is truly the most evil person I have ever met.” We cannot make this mistake again.
Jerry I still shake my head that we made it this last time. chuq