Yeah, probably Netanyahu. He’s reportedly been trying to convince US officials that Iran had or would soon have atomic weapons since the 90s and the US needed to attack ASAP.
It’s only now somebody’s been dumb enough to believe him
Correct, according to the New York Times.
In the Situation Room on Feb. 11, Mr. Netanyahu made a hard sell, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change and expressing the belief that a joint U.S.-Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic.
Stolen from Threads:
“Iran is holding a strait, and Trump doesn’t even have a pair.”
Every day we get closer to the Clickhole article about Trump signing an executive order that just says “HOT CUBE” in block letters.
ICE deports a US Citizen
Brian Morales, 25 and born in Denver, was deported by DHS on April 7. The illegal deportation was reported by Sophie Clark in The Independent today.
Morales was working in Texas and was stopped by Customs and Border Patrol who refused to believe he was a US citizen and his explanation that he had documentation he could get at home. They threatened him with extensive prison time or deportation. According to Lidia Terrazas of Univision, Morales was threatened with either deportation or 5 years prison time (supposedly for fraud) following this traffic stop by CBP and he chose the alternative of signing voluntary removal papers. He has a young daughter and the thought of being locked up and away from her for 5 years was on his mind.
Morales was with his construction crew and did not have ID on him, but told CBP that he could get his Social Security number, birth certificate, and medical records from home to prove his case. They would not listen and deported him. Morales says his boss was also placed into ICE custody, despite being a U.S. citizen with proof of citizenship at home.
Those of us who are old enough to remember Vietnam know this very well.
Wait a minute, that war ended over 50 years ago. How did that happen?
I don’t know, I was born yet, grandpa…
His objective was to get people to stop talking about the Epstein files. In that he was successful until his wife chimed in.
This. Only this. No need to look anywhere else.
Go, Melania! 
And I’m pretty confident that the losses sustained by US forces are much, much larger than we’ve been led to believe by the Trump toadies, who lie like others breathe. I also suspect (with no proof) that the “rescue” of the mysterious unnamed crew in Iran was cover for an attempt to set up a forward base/runway and it failed spectacularly with resultant loss of many aircraft.
Maybe I’m just a cynical old man, but I don’t trust the Trump administration either. Even if the losses are greater than they’re telling us, I still think it’s most likely a very lopsided war in terms of loss of material and life. Though in the aftermath we’ll see a stronger Iran and a weaker United States.
It’s going to be the bestest arch ever!
About herself: yes. Always about herself.
There is further speculation (I’d mentioned the ‘overseas’ theory upthread) that it’s author Michael Wolff who may be the source of what Melania fears will be revealed. Wolff is tangled up in legal action against the Trumps and apparently revelations are expected. The Democrats posted this officially–it’s a Daily Beast article that offers a lot of details:
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TOTAL COINCIDENCE that his wife does something that infuriates him, and he posts a depiction of a wife being brutally murdered.
God, he’s transparent.
I would be willing to bet a huge sum, if I had one, that Melania wouldn’t understand that reference.
But if she had been trying to emulate Hamilton, she failed. He at least succeeded in refuting the ‘corruption in office’ charges. She, on the other hand, convinced exactly no one that she had no association with Epstein and Maxwell.
Wherever and whoever they are, I’d like to formally put these guys on notice:
Let’s just count through a few of those then.
The US objectives for this excursion are, at best murky, but there kittle evidence of progress towards any of whichever is the current “objectif du jour”. Even keeping a lid on the Epstein files seems problematic.
Sure there’s blowing up a navy (described in 2012 as Iran navy maintains “robust” capabilities by regional standards"); Qatar, Bahrain, UAE & Kuwait being well known for the capability of their aircraft carrier groups.
But causing regime change from the safety of 30,000 feet? Nope.
Winning the hearts & minds of the general Iranian populace? Nope.
Getting all those High Capital value assets into the Gulf? Maybe the US could pony up the USD2mil for safe passage through Hormuz?
There is launching upward of half a billion dollars a day from the US military arsenal at high grade military targets, if of course you don’t count hitting a girls school twice, amongst other war crimes.
There’s patrolling Iranian airspace with 100% air superiority, but still losing airframes. Again discounting losses to friendly fire.
There’s protecting US bases and infrastructure of American Gulf allies. Not so much.
They weren’t aware that the narrow width of the Gulf and the topography meant very short, low level trajectories of cheap drones that are exceptionally difficult to intercept and unlike SCUD missile launched 100s of miles at targets over a mountain range and with flight time measured in 10s of minutes rather than seconds.
The war in Ukraine hadn’t alerted them that Russian sourced drones would be highly potent in this theatre and shooting them down with Patriot batteries would not be sufficiently effective, and enormously expensive.
There’s a valiant rescue mission of a downed pilot of course, but the logistics of that venture don’t pass the sniff test. If that was what actually happened then surely the pilot would be publicly known, lauded, even paraded figure like say Scott O’Grady. The positive news cycle on this extraction lasted what, a couple of days, max? If 45/47 knew his name do you reckon there’s any chance he wouldn’t have blurted it out to claim some of the attention? This was a military incursion for some design that went pear-shaped.
This ill-considered and ill-conceived excursion has the hallmarks of some schoolyard thug doing a mugging for lunch money and coming away with a blood nose because the kid resisted. And as a consequence the school canteen to be closed and everybody else misses out on their lunch.
The winged creatures atop the above representation of the Epstein Arch scream “nazi stuff” to me.
Or even “White City”, which I guess can also fit.
Shame that it will never actually be built.
IMHO, most of what you list is much more a failure of strategy and policy (ie, the Trump administration) – along with the narrative being sold to the US and the world – than it is the effectiveness of the military.
I’d also argue that much of what you said supports that basic premise.
If that ain’t showing off one of the best pairs of rose tinted glasses known to humanity.
So your contention is that the bombing of a school is “a failure of strategy and policy”?
Or has the frequency of active shooter incidents in US schools meant that to you such crimes against humanity are merely the cost of doing business in the 'merkin lifestyle? Not even worthy of “thoughts & payers”.
That incident is the primary reason why I used the word, “most.” That was a colossal military failure.
ETA:
Nah. I hated everything about this military action and hate everything about the Trump administration. No rose-colored glasses here.
But if you tell your troops to fight uphill and take the hill, and they do, then the casualties are the responsibility of those issuing the orders, and if taking the hill doesn’t actually contribute to what should be clear and articulable objectives (policy/strategy), then that, too, is the responsibility of the civilian government in charge.
I’m beginning to think that Ambassador to the Shield of the Americas may not have been the high-profile posting it was made out to be.