One day after saying ‘We’re Not Putting Troops Anywhere’ comes this announcement.
Thousands More Marines Headed to the Mideast
The Wall Street Journal reports Pentagon Sends More Troops to Middle East
The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East, in the second deployment of Marines to the region in the past week. Roughly 2,200 to 2,500 Marines from the California-based USS Boxer amphibious ready group and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are heading to the U.S. Central Command, U.S. officials said.
As the war neared the three-week mark, Iran projected defiance, with the new supreme leader declaring that “safety must be taken away” from the country’s enemies and its armed forces vowing to pursue them even in tourist spots.
President Trump again lashed out at NATO members for not joining a U.S. effort to open the Strait of Hormuz, calling the alliance “A PAPER TIGER” on social media.
Paper Tiger Rant
Truth Social: Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran. Now that fight is Militarily WON, with very little danger for them, they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER! President DONALD J. TRUMP
NATO Pulls Troops from Iraq
WSJ: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Friday that it had pulled all its personnel from Iraq and moved them to Europe. The staff are focused on training security institutions in the country, which shares a land border of roughly 1,000 miles with Iran and has recently come under attack from its forces.
Iraq has had NATO troops posted there since 2004, and the deployment in recent years has been “a non-combat advisory and capability-building mission” for Iraqi security operations and forces, NATO said. Several hundred personnel were evacuated, a NATO official said. They will now work from a NATO command center in Naples, Italy, NATO said.
NATO Message
Q: What’s the message here?
A: If you don’t want to get involved in needless, stupid wars, don’t put troops in harm’s way.
Reducing troops in the region is a huge slap to Trump’s face.
Trump Seeks $200 for the War, Says ‘We’re Not Putting Troops Anywhere’
Yesterday, I noted Trump Seeks $200 for the War, Says ‘We’re Not Putting Troops Anywhere’
It’s $200 billion today, how much tomorrow?
I am Pleased. Are You?
I’m am sure pleased that the military fight is already won. That’s why we don’t need to send more troops and warships to the Mideast.
Then again, “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you, but I’m not putting troops, and we will do whatever is necessary” to keep the price of gas and oil down, Trump told reporters.
In this case, it’s obvious those extra troops and warships are going to a tea party (which does not constitute as “anywhere”).
The bond market must be equally pleased by the news off troops not going anywhere. Let’s do a fact check on that idea.
Wait! What?
The 30-year yield is up 10 basis points to 4.948 percent.
I thought the bond market would be pleased the war is “militarily won” and “troops are not going anywhere.”
Action Needed
I demand action. I want to see Trump lecture the bond market in a Truth Social post.
That would surely get the bond market in line in a hurry.
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President Trump did this. I discuss five Reasons.
“When you have already lost a war, double down on your failed strategies, and victory will be yours!”
Don Tzu
B R E A K I N G N E W S!
Has he got permission from BB?
Iran will buy supplies and munitions from China
As the article states, Iran will have great difficulty getting their hands on the money (due to remaining sanctions). Possibly, a future Dem President similar to Obama or Biden, will give them their $billions back with interest to appease their terrorist state loving voters.
No…Iran already uses the Chinese CIPS system to transfer funds, they will continue to use it, and they won’t have any difficulty.
What customers are Iran selling oil to…..mostly (if not all) to China.
Your comment is as idiotic as Bessents’s.
Likely outcome from a relatively unbiased source…
Summarized from an Indian military analyst:
The United States has already lost its war with Iran in West Asia. The analyst argues that the US entered the conflict without a clear, viable military objective or proper planning, mistakenly focusing on regime change rather than securing the Strait of Hormuz.
Key Points Discussed:
Who is this specialsource? How do we know it is “relatively unbiased” (whatever the hell that actually means)? Take your word Mr. Armchair? 🤣
You might want to read up on what happened to Churchill in WW1 in his brash younger days, broaden your perspective a bit
Is that your unspecified source? Historical figures?
Sounds entirely probable to me, as a logical outcome.
Your objections….I don’t think Iran, China and Russia care what you have to say.
America is bankrupt anyway, so the sooner we realize we have no money for all those “excursions” the better.
I hope we can just leave and get back to Epstein files. People deserve to know, no more hiding.
Busier than you’ve never seen before.
No time for Ep. file.
Thanks for paying attention to this matter.
I think it’s a reasonable summary, but probably AI slop.
Trump has no other choice than continuing the war. Stopping the war means withdrawing from the Gulf and becoming the worst president in US history. Teheran refused Trump’s offer of ceasefire knowing that the US is ill-prepared for longer conflict and has no strategy, only brutal force.
Trump’s gamble that decapitation strike produces regime change didn’t work. His another gamble, that closure of Hormuz Strait outrages the world and he would become a leader of global anti-Iranian coalition didn’t work either.
What’s left is another Afghanistan. The US military is going to win almost every fight but it will lose the war.
Iranians are clever. Hormuz Strait is not closed, it has become a toll booth where Iran charges every tanker $2 million unless it is linked to USA or Israel. Paying $2mio when carrying cargo of $100 million is not a big deal mainly the crude oil at home is running out.
When US Marines come to Hormuz it will be Trump who will close Hormuz Strait because his move will result in fighting and ships will stop sailing. That will upset the world because the world can live with Iranian toll booth.
becoming the worst president in US history
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
And even were that true, what difference does it make? The age of the Scarlet Letter was centuries in the past.
“Trump has no other choice than continuing the war. Stopping the war means withdrawing from the Gulf and becoming the worst president in US history. “
Of course Trump has a choice, but instead of stopping the war he’ll probably double down because he’s probably convinced himself (or been convinced) there is no other choice. He’s like a gambler who is down to their last dollar. Fancy that, being a casino owner should have taught him something.
6x bankruptcy Casino Owner that is…
If Trump idiotically tries to take Kharg island, why wouldn’t the Iranians make good on their promise to decimate oil infrastructure across the Middle East? They only need a few missiles to get through and they’ve proven they can do it.
I assume the island has already been boobytrapped with mines and anti-personal devices
There’s no need to booby-trap the island when Iran can see them coming and wipe them with missiles and drones from hundreds of miles away.
Sounds like Gallipoli II to me. No idea is so stupid that Trump can’t order it done.
As he has obviously never read a history book, nor cares that he hasn’t.
It’s incredible how can a moron be allowed to destroy so many lives ….
I do not know what the hell is wrong with congress….impeach this guy already..25th Amendment is perfect for this situation, old age senility
Bond market is cracking.
Oil price is rising again.
I think it won’t take a month to a real crisis.
I heard the siren sounds.
Stay away from markets.
Middle East will never never be the same again.
Regime change in Iran is unlikely.
Mullah is still in firm control.
Real change can happen in other Arab countries such as
Saudi Arabia as the war drags on.
Muslim Brotherhood?
Everyone is always in firm control until they are not.
The new leader can’t show his face to the sun or he’ll be killed instantly like all the other leaders who are being killed. Who wants to live in a bunker for decades? We thought Bin Laden was in a cave but he was living nicely in a home in Pakistan.
Everyday things get worse for the Iranian people as more and more things are destroyed. Soon food and water will run low along with many other things. Then we’ll see about firm control.
You know nothing about the Shiites. Suffering for their cause is part of their religion, martyrdom in the cause is welcomed. They will endure 10 X the hardship Americans will, and they won’t waver. Every night they are on the streets in pro-Government protests, against Israel and the US. It’s called the ‘really-around-the-flag” effect, and it can clearly be seen.
I watched a video of a live newscast on the street in Tehran, a missile struck a building very close by, and nobody even moved, the interview went on, the crowds shoted “God is Great” and so on, and no one looked panicked or worried in the least. Now contrast that reaction to that of Western citizens if a huge explosion happened a few hundred yards away…they would scream and run in panic, I am sure.
Shut up, know nothing Trumptard
I have a funny feeling that this will end up being the US Empire’s “Operation Barbarossa”.
Caligula and his controller, Israel’s antichrist are determined to create a democrat landslide and impeachment. It’s a marvel to watch.Very biblical.
I’ll be betting you are proven wrong!
In the 70s, we had to raise interest rates all the way to 20% due to the oil shocks. They were nowhere near as big as the upcoming one if Trump doesn’t get out of the Iran war now. This is a proxy war, the US against Iran, Iran being the proxy of Russia and China. Really dumb on Trump‘s part.
Current news that matters: In 48 hours, Iran attacked 6 refineries across 4 countries. It will take as much as 5 years to bring much of this infrastructure back online.
Maybe this will be the motivation to get working harder and faster on making fusion power a reality, so that we can make oil for energy a thing of memory.
Sure, in 10 years you might have a reactor built…how to survive till then, though?
Barron first
I hear two Russian tankers are heading to cuba. If true how is trump going to stop them.
Torpedos?
Trump in the Don Knotts role in The Incredible Mr. Limpet. Bebe as the brother-in-law.
Not true.
NATO is not even a tiger on paper.
As for the USA, it itself is the paper tiger.
Unable to fight a war, let alone win. Certainly not against a peer.
It’s all bluster and narrative control.
Raining down terror from the sky on defenseless civilians below.
Sort of like Russia in Ukraine, yes?
That would be what Ukrainians do – shoot civilians in the back for trying to flee, conduct terrorist acts in Moscow, and otherwise terrorize regular people. If Russia behaved as U.S. / Israel have the past 3 weeks, there wouldn’t be a structure left standing in Kiev. To the Kremlin, it is still an SMO, not total war. Between Iran and Israel, it is shifting towards total war, and people are going to be shocked how bad it gets.
While the United States gets deeper into the quagmire of an unjust war with Iran for Israel, the Israelis have pivoted to invading Southern Lebanon and are now genociding Muslims and Christians unlucky enough to be living there — all on our dime. More winning apparently, more 5D chess. More Americans dying for Greater Israel.
🤣🤣🤣 “Unjust” and “genociding”, indeed. Time to crawl back into your hole, fool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
The link is lavishly sourced, including over 600 cites, many from Israeli leaders.
Put it another way – if the Israeli cause were so righteous, why does Israel murder so many journalists, more than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined?
For that matter, why the need to threaten ICC judges?
She’s a troll. Best not to feed it.
Only one fool on here , blindly following the supreme Liartollah.
No doubt Israel pre-planned this real-estate acquisition deal in Lebanon to coincide with the war on Iran.
FOX is now broadcasting that we are now conducting operations to reopen the Strait. Go baby!
You first!
Why haven’t you volunteered to be the first to die on Kharg Island then?
Armchair warrior idiot.
Scary, each side seems just as desparate as the other. Didn’t the other Arab countries negoiate the number of American troops during dessert storm? There appears to be thousands of Marines about to be deployed. Ho Chi Minh said backwards Vietnam coukld defeat the Americans. They were poor already and lived without luxury theor whole lives. If they succeed in taking Khag Island and can pump oil into tankers, will Trump hold the world hostage for not coming to his aid lst week? You didn’t help me so I’m not going to help you. I can’t think of any President who could actually have guns and butter. Something needs to give….
If Iran lost Kargh Island, wouldn’t they just quit pumping oil to it so the occupiers couldn’t fill any tankers?
Modern warfare has too many rules and makes it difficult to win.
I keep saying, Trump needs to do a Genghis Khan. Send in 200k troops, kill all the IRGC and their families that can be found. Then stabilize Iran for a few years before allowing a new government to be elected (that is not an Islamic theocracy).
Genghis was an uncivilized Barbarian. I prefer civilization.
I think easier and much quicker way to resolve this mess is just invoke 25th amendment. Next all US troops leave and whoever is next just blame it all on Trump dementia.
Okay now explain how that works in reality. Oh, you can’t! Because Soviet Russia tried that in Afghanistan and was promptly whipped so badly it was the end of their nation. That’s why we don’t do that anymore.
Modern humans are wimps. Perhaps the Terminator robot armies coming will do what needs to be done.
“I’m a wimp” – Jojo, 2026
Oh and also: if you send 200k troops to go die there China gets Taiwan for free
[Shrug]. DOn’t much care about Taiwan. Musk set to make a major announcement tomorrow about a new TeslaFab that will replace TSMC.
Don’t cry when terrorists strike back.
Hopefully, you are in the middle of it.
Totally uncalled for. Go eff yourself.
200,000 troops??? We had 325k against Iraq, with a military less than 1/3 the size of Iran’s and nowhere near as well armed.. Iran is as big as Western Europe. Look at how much trouble Russia has had with Ukraine, and Ukraine is 1/3 the size and population as Iran…Any reputable analysis I’ve read from retired high level military leaders and analysts have noted it’d probably take 3-4 million troops to successfully invade and do a Genghis Khan to Iran because of the fortress-like military configuration of the country. Small numbers are gonna be in and out missions. Trying to take and hold Kharg Island is a fool’s errand, a suicide mission, and will get a lot of American troops killed. It’s the path to a quagmire. Very foolish assessment on your part. Iran can and will crash the Western financial system if this isn’t stopped yesterday.
Fully agree. Also, Iraq is flat. Iran is mountainous as hell. Can’t just roll tanks across it.
Neutron bombs easily take care of mountains and caves. Kills all living things with radiation, doesn’t destroy land or infrastructure.
Because again, we refuse to fight wars to win, which means killing as necessary including men, woman and children.
America has never had issues killing women and children. The girl school bombing is proof enough. However, America also doesnt win wars, because it doesnt understand what it takes to achieve their goals and time runs out on them. Iran is in no hurry. It can wait for decades and fight on until Americans give up, like in iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Scott Ritter spoke of how when he was at the Pentagon around 1990 he was tasked to come up with an invasion plan for Iran. After scrapping the first attempts, and almost 2 years later, he had a Plan: 1.5 M troops, every ship, plane, tank and artillery piece from the US and NATO, a year + to assemble the forces, and chance of success in the end….low.
Maybe a much smaller force than 200k troops is fine… If the soldiers are real men on a mission! People like you, Jojo! I sincerely believe that you should stop talking, and just go invade Iran yourself already!
I would need to be cloned. Need many more like me!!
He would need 2 million troops and would lose half of them in the first 48 hours
you are too stupid to be commenting on thsi Blog, or any other
Interfering in Iranian governmental affairs hasn’t got well in the past, read your history, hence we are in this mess.
What is this? We’re going to go there with all this firepower and manpower etc and blow up everything around it, secure it for ourselves and our ships, and then what go home??
Yeah right we’re going to have to stay there long-term. What could go wrong??
Meanwhile: Asymmetric economic war: Iran challenges US dollar, demanding oil be sold in Chinese yuan, as it targets US corporations
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2026/03/17/economic-war-iran-petrodollar-oil-yuan/
I think the idea isn’t so much to blow everything up, or to stay long term, as to kill all the messianic religious leaders (and no doubt scare the living daylights out of everyone else), so that a more sober-minded government will come into existence. It could still happen. Assassinating leaders is sometimes considered not to be a nice way of fighting, but it was made into a system by a Moslem, the Old Man of the Mountain, who sent his boys out to kill rulers, on the understanding that they would have a quick trip to Paradise and lots of nice girls.
Religious leaders are such evil people that I think I can forgive Trump for assassinating them.
Have you looked at a map of Iran…..obviously not.
You must be a Trump voter, this comment is so stupid
Everyone needs to realize trump is afraid of losing the mid terms and getting impeached also whatever is in the Epstein files. He is getting desperate and will do more desperate things to hold power
“I lie about everything and everything I say is a lie!”
Trump sent in ships before negotiations began. I think he’s sending more ships as to make Iran an offer it can’t refuse. I doubt it will work because Iranian leadership has been defiant for so long. Other countries are going to escort oil shipments to keep their hands clean of war.
Recession has arrived with inflation. Mass layoffs are next and vicious cycle pending
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Very good! This will provide an potential opening for an AI takeover.
The request for $200B will likely be voted on before many primaries for House candidates. Anyone who votes “yes” should be voted against in the primary – and in the general.
In August 2013, Obama was on the cusp of striking Syria with cruise missiles – until people melted Congress’ phone lines with their opposition. It was the biggest show of public opposition in years – maybe ever. In response, the airstrike was called off and a diplomatic deal was reached.
I’ve called my congresscritter and both of my senators. Have you?
No Iran War Funding!
IIRC, what scotched the escalation of The War On Syria was that the UK House of Commons unexpectedly voted “no”.
Nobody of influence and authority cares what the peons think or like or want.
Except in that case, the peons were the House of Commons. If Americans hadn’t raised holy hell, Obama would have hit Damascus with cruise missiles.
I think Dems are going to be in a tough spot on this one. Yes, the American people are strongly agaisnt this war, but that doesn’t mean they are against providing the military with what it needs to fight a war that the military has been handed by Trump. You know how a no vote on this will get spun in Nov., particularly in areas that Trump won previously and the Dems are now hoping to pick up. Of course, a yes vote is problematic because then they could lose the Dem base. Going to be a tightrope to walk, and I wish there was someone better than Chuckie to lead the Dems on this.
Correct. Every no vote will be called out whenever a body bag appears along with a caption that says we could have saved this soldier if you had voted yes.
Or, more likely…..this dead soldier is due to Trump. Vote Trump, vote for more dead soldiers!
An election winner for sure
I’d call my Congresscritter, but he’s an admitted Zionist. I know how he’ll vote.
For those of old enough to remember, this is like Vietnam, although playing out at about 100x speed. The same clueless, belligerent US leadership, and a determined adversary defending its sovereignty. The same fear that an unbalanced US President might resort to nukes. The same lack of defined objectives with little chance of success. The same compliant US news media spewing propaganda, at least in the beginning.
The next test will be whether the Administration will be willing to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of US Troops to avoid admitting its mistake.
I gotta wonder how many troops are going to let themselves be sacrificed. The smart ones have some idea of how wrong this is, and the dumb ones might be wondering why Jesus hasn’t shown up yet after they obediently rang the Jesus Bell.
If you know people that age, talk to them about it.
Looks like the sailors on the USS Ford said ‘nah, this ain’t our fight’.
Pro Tip: Always remember to clean the lint trap after every dryer load
Possible sabotage by sailors. Possible strike by Iran. Reportedly took 30 hours to extinguish. That’s one helluva laundry fire – if you believe that.
Its easy to get an 18 year to jion the army. Gets harder to convince someone older.
History does not repeat itself but rhymes
Time to MFGA….Make Fragging Great Again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
It almost seems closer to Cambodia in 1970 and the “carpet bombing” of the country by Nixon
Bob, it is also like Vietnam in the Gulf-of-Tonkin-like lie used to start the war.
One big difference is the harm to the global economy from this barbaric catastrophe, which should alter the way it plays out.
I think drones and missiles are going to make a world and 50 years of difference from Vietnam. I remember in 1972 learning how to set up an ambush using m-16s, m60s and Claymore mines. I also remember the lessons about what to do if caught in an ambush, not fun.
The island in the Strait is a kill box waiting for our marines with nowhere to hide when the explosions start and the air is filled with death.
I don’t think this is anything like Viet Nam, yet. If you remember, the French got kicked out of Viet Nam after a long guerilla war. Kennedy then intervened to save the Catholic establishment that the French had left behind in Saigon.
Then Kennedy was killed. Johnson was corrupt, and kept the war going and expanded it in order to benefit arms manufacturers. American support of the Catholic establishment in Viet Nam forced the majority Buddhists into the arms of the Communists, and things degenerated from there. Eventually, Nixon did the sensible thing, packed up and went home.
Kennedy wouldn’t have been stupid enough to do what Johnson did. Trump isn’t stupid either. I know you leftists like to pretend he is corrupt, because he knows how to make money and has a healthy fondness for women. I don’t see it.
The fact that retarded people can’t see that Trump might have a realistic objective, and the corrupt media will take good care not to explain it to them, doesn’t mean that Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. I might wish that he wasn’t so much tied to Israel, but Kennedy was tied to the Vatican. All politicians have their connections. Trump has apparently chosen to side with the Jews against their Semitic brethren, the Arabs, in their age-old sibling rivalry.
One might also argue that a Semitic nation, Israel, and a Semitic-controlled nation, the United States of America, are joining up to destroy an Aryan nation, Persia. The other Semites, the Arabs, are going along for the ride, not that they have much choice. Perhaps Europe is not sufficiently Semite-controlled.
It makes me laugh, here in Australia, to see our Jewish citizens crying because civilization can’t protect them from the evil Moslems who object to their massacre of the Palestinians. Jews have always been at the forefront of efforts to breed down civilized races and destroy humanity. Now they are starting to pay the price. If the Chinese succeed in destroying and replacing the rest of humanity, as they believe is their right and duty, then the Jews will be destroyed along with the rest of us.
Show me a single flaw in my reasoning, you sons of Moloch.
Take your medicine Grandpa.
He is a pedophile that raped a 13 yo child. I hope you die….today.
We don’t know what JFK had planned. He did send a thousand advisers to Vietnam; it appeared he was gathering intelligence for an invasion. Rewind to his inauguration speech, the fool would pay any price to spread democracy. JFK was a cold waw idiot , like LBJ, it’s hard to imagine he was wiser.
I think that just as you can’t take everything that Trump says literally, you shouldn’t have taken everything that JFK said literally. I know he said some pretty wild things in his early campaigning days (was it really his inauguration speech?), but politicians do that. Sometimes they come to regret it.
Remember that in those days, there did seem to be a real possibility that Communism would take over the world. For people who aren’t consumed by class hatred, that is a pretty frightening possibility. Recent decades have shown what Machiavelli knew five hundred years ago, that democracy is no guarantee of individual rights, either. But even now, although there may be many improper laws, there are still processes. If you don’t stand on your rights but make a discreet withdrawal, and perhaps if you don’t live in a state like California, you can usually survive. You may not be able to have much self-respect, but you can survive. If Communism was as bad as it sounded to us, living under Communism would have been even more degrading than living under feminists and racial-equality fanatics.
Raping under age girls is now a “healthy fondness for women”? Remind me to keep a distance from you.
You lost me at “Trump isn’t stupid.
Kill a commie for Christ or take out a Muslim girl school. History repeats.
Nutty Yahoo has complete control over this war’s trajectory. The US will do whatever is required by Israel. Looks like Israel wants troops on the ground, so off we go. How long will this go on and how will it end? It’s up to Nutty Yahoo. He literally has the whole world in his hands.
Hey, wait! I though saying “dying for Israel” was an antisemitic canard…
…and yet here we are.
It will continue, unless and until stopped.
Moral arguments are wasted on sociopaths such as Trump or Netanyahu. Reward and punishment are the only language that they understand.
So then kick back and enjoy the ride instead of complaining!
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I’m not clicking that, but I’ve heard about it. I would buy a Trump coin if it were made of tin, and featured monkeys flinging poo at him.
More blood plasma centers coming to middle class Amerrica. People are giving plasma to survive.
We all have spare kidneys and a few other parts, and each kid also comes equipped with spares.
Organ farming can get a family on the housing ladder.
My kidney might be worth about $1.87. My liver is definitely shot.
Time to spawn then.
45,800….come to Papa
LOD 45,799….Lolz
Where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
Trump didn’t decide to start this was, the Global Bond Market did. Rates were going up regardless of what the talking head Feds say. Instigating war is a classic tried and true geopolitical move to keep the plebs in the dark, while the waxed wings of the current crop of financier’s melt away. Only to be replaced by the next iteration of Let’s Rule the Word technocratic maniacs. Time to hunker down. This one is gonna hurt.
100 Trillion in promises are about to get broken.
Netanyahu stated yesterday that ground troops would be needed. He is likely convincing Trump’s bones that American heavy casualties will result in patriotic fervor against Iran and improve his chances in Nov 2026.
NonTrumpist republican congressman need to sever the cord, put their collective feet down, and immediately and quickly inform this American Israeli administration: NO funding for Iraq/Afghanistan-like quicksand wars.
OIF 32-year Navy veteran.
I suspect that Netanyahu was saying, “Step it up, bitch!” to trump.
The Republican party is dead as far as I’m concerned. Someone just needs to put real conservatives under a new name and flush the rest to the sewers where they belong.
All those congressman will be bought off to ensure they don’t vote against the war.
They all get paid by insider stock trades and knowing which companies will profit after this finally ends (ie rebuilding projects) will be their payoff.
How long will it be before we hear, “boots on the ground?”
It will be a thrilling, successful operation by special forces teams, or we will hear that our heroes were slaughtered by the evil Iranians who aren’t playing fair.
2500 is definitely on the low side of thousands, and added to the 2500 already there it still couldn’t take on 92 million people armed with rocks, even with air support.
Their unrestricted version of ChatGPT has probably told them that powning Kharg island is the way out of this mess, and congratulated them for the way their incredibly insightful questions led to this brilliant conclusion.
I’ve found ChatGPT to get things wrong a lot more often than the other LMs I use, to the point i cancelled my subscription because the free alternatives were better.
It’s terrifying ChatGPT is what these decisions are being made with. They fired the competent people, and the dumbasses are using it to look smart.
Nothing good will come of this.
Maybe he can call our allies cowards for not helping, as if our allies are the same lapdogs as Kegsbreath. What? He already did? Color me shocked.
Looks like Trump has shorted the market to make money off the backs of Jim and Jill Smith on Main Street
1500% tariffs on all of ya, and all yer prime ministers have ugly wives! Bunch of cheese sniffin’ soccer watchin’ public railway ridin’ sissies!
Thank you for your attention to theis matter.
Those allies who don’t help will be frozen out of the rebuilding of Iran after the war. In other words no European companies will be allowed to bid on such projects.
Iran will probably demand that the US and Israel pay for the reconstruction of Iran or they will not let ships through the strait. And they will require construction to be done by Chinese companies because they don’t trust US or Israeli companies.
Not if Iran becomes a slave state to Israel. BiBi’s announcement that the oil will be piped through Israel, guarantees that the US will build it for Israel on the backs of American taxpayers.
Did they finish rebuilding Afghanistan already?