The fuck? I’m certainly no military strategist or diplomat, but isn’t it kind of a bad idea to warn your opponents shortly before you attack? And then, having warned them, isn’t it a bad idea then not to go through with it?
I mean, I don’t want us to attack Iran. I think we’re in a corner due to Trump’s stupidity, and that we’re about to blunder into another stupid war. So, on the one hand I’m glad we didn’t go through with it. But this strikes me as just chaotic and amateurish. What the hell are we trying to accomplish?
Perhaps Trump is concerned that in other countries his stupidity is not fully realized like it is here, and he wanted to demonstrate it just for the record.
I kinda sorta see the rationale for this. If we destroy a missile launch site with no casualties, then that would be proportional to our loss of a drone. If there are casualties – especially, civilians – then we’ve escalated the conflict.
I think you’ve got it. Europe knows of his stupidity, Asia knows as well, but maybe he was worried that the Middle East hadn’t quite grasped his level of ignorance.
I could see that, yeah. Retaliation in specific kind (i.e. destroying equipment), proportionate response, that kind of jazz. Technically it also would have allowed Iran to prepare their defences, but then again anybody who thinks Iran’s 80s era, Soviet knock-off AA tech, even at its most extreme state of readiness, could hamper a motivated US strike, raise your hand please ?
Some military experts have gone on record saying the sequence of events Trump described is extremely unlikely—the idea that no one would have mentioned potential casualties until Mr. Brilliant Mind thought of it, is utterly ludicrous. When a military action is placed before a decision-maker, the projected number of casualties is one of the first factors mentioned.
Trump thought this was a great story. So much drama! It was about to go down, and only his wise intervention stopped a disproportionate military action! Such a brilliant commander he is! No one else thought about casualties or proportionality of response!
What a disgusting little turd he is, playing with his toys.
I saw him being interviewed, saying he called it off because it was bad this way and bad that way and he called it off because the buck stops with him, dammit.
Nobody (on this channel, anyway) asked him “Then why the fuck did you order it then???”
ICE says they’re going to target 2000 families in 10 cities on Sunday. Local authorities in the cities are saying they’re supporting the immigrants, or at least not assisting ICE.
If they get away with deporting 2000 families, look for it to be 4000 next time, then 20,000, then millions. And then they’ll start on citizens who were born here to undocumented immigrants (another of Herr Miller’s ideas). And then maybe legal residents or naturalized citizens from “shithole countries”.
We got mass deportations. We got concentration camps. What are we missing? Oh, I know! Skulls. We need skulls on our uniforms.
The blackmail theory seems a little wacky, although Trump would certainly do it, he could be his own J. Edgar Hoover. It may just be that the whole party, I mean the voters, are going so far right that any moderate can’t get elected.
Either way, in the long run, this is good. This is not a majority far right country. I mean hell, in Mississippi it is. But otherwise, the Republicans are going to increasingly marginalize themselves. I really don’t see a future wave of Young Republicans coming along.
Unfortunately this is going to take a long time. I hope I live to see the demise of the Republican Party.
Sure, if they can deport 2000 they’ll deport 4000 and then 20,000. But at a certain number, these deportations are going to start affecting the daily lives of white citizens. Anthony Bourdain once said that the restaurant industry in NYC could not survive without immigrants, legal and illegal. They are the one busing the tables and doing the prep work in the kitchens. And this is also true in El Paso. Soon the MAGA-hat-wearing-moron (can I trademark that, AFAIK I coined it) will have delays getting his food because the waiters have been deported or just ran away in fear, or will have to pay more at the grocery store because prices have gone up because crops are rotting in the fields because there is no one to pick them (which happened in Alabama a few years ago), or work in the meat processing plants.
I am not diminishing the threat we face or saying “it can’t happen here.” It can happen anywhere. But right now, most Americans are completely ignorant of how much immigrants, especially illegal ones, contribute to our economy. They are just going to have to find out for themselves.