We got here by design — through years of undermining diplomacy, undercutting alliances, and mocking the very institutions that made American leadership possible.
The picture included in this post is extremely telling. Note that all 3 men are “manspreading” (using their leg position to take up extra room). Hegseth is the worst offender, although it allows him to rub knees with DJT and the grinning guy on his right (whoever he is). Years ago I dated a guy who on our first outing to a restaurant showed me what he had been taught by his first boss as a sales rep (he was older than me and offering this as advice). He surreptitiously moved various objects from his place setting further and further out until he had about 60% of the table area and I 40%. He was taught that if he controlled the table this way, he would have greater sway over his customer/negotiating partner. That struck me as absurd. I dated him for several years but it didn’t end well. I later looked back on that dinner as a red flag because most of our problems stemmed from him trying to exert control while seeming innocuous. Very manipulating. I see that same attitude across the Trump administration - manipulation and control instead of persuasion and compromise. I never read Dale Carnegie though DJT supposedly did and took it to heart. I’m now wondering what Carnegie taught.
The Orange Cheeto with his Nazi sycophants in the cabinet used the pretense that the Iranians had enough enriched uranium to make a bomb negating his own national intelligence that it was not the case Cheeto has claimed that this was the “final blow” to such a program but one Iranian observer has said that this will only deter Iranians for a year until the program will be back and running
Now the international geiger counters used by agencies to detect any emitted radiation that would be released from the bombing of the radioactive sites have detected nothing So it appears that the ruse that Cheeto made that the bombing strike would take out enriched uranium and suggests that it was a Bush “weapons of mass destruction” fantasy that satisfied no one but Netanyahu who has been saying for decades that an “Iranian nuclear bomb” was just around the corner Perhaps the enriched uranium had already been moved but we will never know
So Cheeto was stupid enough to buy what Netanyahu was selling…prior presidents have been dismissive but Cheeto was dumb enough to take the bait And now Iranian sleeper cells within the US could be activated as Iran
Hey folks this manufactured war that Israel and the US are waging against Iran is about the OIL and natural gas resources that are in abundance in Iran. Trump is about power and what greater power is there other than controlling Iranian oil reserves. This is about BP, Shell and Exon, not nukes. The former Shah of Iran has a Son waiting in the wings to restore Iran back to pre 1979. When BP had control over Iran's oil. So please don't listen to mainstream media. They are feeding us the nuke narrative which is false.
trump did another theater of the absurd because his poll numbers were cratering at home from his incompetent domestic and immigration policies. So why bot crater Iran, at least in a few spots, to play tough guy and try and get a GHWB Iraq poll bump. There is no strategy. When has trump ever had a long term strategy except to stay out of jail?
It's an Occam's Razor solution. Presidents that go to war are heralded for their decision to take out the supposed bad guys. This was a publicity stunt and nothing more. Polls go up, at least for a little while, and then reality begins to return to the minds of the celebrating war mongers that this time isn't different...
Now the cowardly, cowering, cretin, GOP congress has to pass the Big Billionaire's Bill, which will crush the lives of those whooping it up as bombs fall. It's Orwellian War is Peace nonsense again.
As SecDef Hegseth said recently, "The ball is now in Iran's court." What that means in fact is that The Iranians can take their time to work out a revenge plan, and we will be put on defense. On defense, we'll try to cover all possibilities but Iran only has to find a weak spot, a chink in the armor. They will have the advantage of the initiative, and they only have to get lucky once.
The BIG question we now face is Now what? Now that we cratered Iran's nuclear sites, what happens next? What if we didn't get it all? Is this the start of another endless war? I am inclined to believe as Winston Churchill said about the British victory over Rommel at El Alamein, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning. "
The picture included in this post is extremely telling. Note that all 3 men are “manspreading” (using their leg position to take up extra room). Hegseth is the worst offender, although it allows him to rub knees with DJT and the grinning guy on his right (whoever he is). Years ago I dated a guy who on our first outing to a restaurant showed me what he had been taught by his first boss as a sales rep (he was older than me and offering this as advice). He surreptitiously moved various objects from his place setting further and further out until he had about 60% of the table area and I 40%. He was taught that if he controlled the table this way, he would have greater sway over his customer/negotiating partner. That struck me as absurd. I dated him for several years but it didn’t end well. I later looked back on that dinner as a red flag because most of our problems stemmed from him trying to exert control while seeming innocuous. Very manipulating. I see that same attitude across the Trump administration - manipulation and control instead of persuasion and compromise. I never read Dale Carnegie though DJT supposedly did and took it to heart. I’m now wondering what Carnegie taught.
Cheeto’s “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
The Orange Cheeto with his Nazi sycophants in the cabinet used the pretense that the Iranians had enough enriched uranium to make a bomb negating his own national intelligence that it was not the case Cheeto has claimed that this was the “final blow” to such a program but one Iranian observer has said that this will only deter Iranians for a year until the program will be back and running
Now the international geiger counters used by agencies to detect any emitted radiation that would be released from the bombing of the radioactive sites have detected nothing So it appears that the ruse that Cheeto made that the bombing strike would take out enriched uranium and suggests that it was a Bush “weapons of mass destruction” fantasy that satisfied no one but Netanyahu who has been saying for decades that an “Iranian nuclear bomb” was just around the corner Perhaps the enriched uranium had already been moved but we will never know
So Cheeto was stupid enough to buy what Netanyahu was selling…prior presidents have been dismissive but Cheeto was dumb enough to take the bait And now Iranian sleeper cells within the US could be activated as Iran
Hey folks this manufactured war that Israel and the US are waging against Iran is about the OIL and natural gas resources that are in abundance in Iran. Trump is about power and what greater power is there other than controlling Iranian oil reserves. This is about BP, Shell and Exon, not nukes. The former Shah of Iran has a Son waiting in the wings to restore Iran back to pre 1979. When BP had control over Iran's oil. So please don't listen to mainstream media. They are feeding us the nuke narrative which is false.
Great and sadly, so true. What next? It is astonishing how we are blind and how helpless I feel.
trump did another theater of the absurd because his poll numbers were cratering at home from his incompetent domestic and immigration policies. So why bot crater Iran, at least in a few spots, to play tough guy and try and get a GHWB Iraq poll bump. There is no strategy. When has trump ever had a long term strategy except to stay out of jail?
It's an Occam's Razor solution. Presidents that go to war are heralded for their decision to take out the supposed bad guys. This was a publicity stunt and nothing more. Polls go up, at least for a little while, and then reality begins to return to the minds of the celebrating war mongers that this time isn't different...
Now the cowardly, cowering, cretin, GOP congress has to pass the Big Billionaire's Bill, which will crush the lives of those whooping it up as bombs fall. It's Orwellian War is Peace nonsense again.
Yes, what is the plan? Please cut out the chaos.
As SecDef Hegseth said recently, "The ball is now in Iran's court." What that means in fact is that The Iranians can take their time to work out a revenge plan, and we will be put on defense. On defense, we'll try to cover all possibilities but Iran only has to find a weak spot, a chink in the armor. They will have the advantage of the initiative, and they only have to get lucky once.
The BIG question we now face is Now what? Now that we cratered Iran's nuclear sites, what happens next? What if we didn't get it all? Is this the start of another endless war? I am inclined to believe as Winston Churchill said about the British victory over Rommel at El Alamein, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it may be the end of the beginning. "
Essential reading.
Good article
Vacuums IMplode under outside pressure which pretty much defines our current foreign policy.