Israel conducts preemptive airstrikes hitting Iranian targets

When will someone overthrow our leadership? When is our revolution? When will someone spread democracy to America????? The people are powerless!

 

Given how things are going, I expect Ahmadinejad to be running Iran as our puppet.

 

the stupidity is what gets me the most

1st, they’re writing to Trump as if he actually gives a sh*t about anything they’re talking about, and 2nd, how dumb do u have to be to believe that Trump and the republican party are all about “no wars” and peace? It’s almost as dumb as believing that republicans are good for the economy or create jobs

 

Salient point by Josh Marshall:

"It’s important to step back and recognize that there is really, literally no one in the inner discussion of U.S. foreign policy today who has any level of foreign policy or military crisis experience at all."

 

from the latest YouGov poll

Approval by age of Donald Trump's second-term job performance
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as President? (% who strongly or somewhat approve minus the % who strongly or somewhat disapprove)

18- to 29-year-olds: -39 approval
30- to 44-year-olds: -15 approval
45- to 64-year-olds: -1 approval
65 and older: -5 approval

• As Trump's overall job approval has fallen, so has Americans' approval of his handling of major issues
  • Net approval of Trump's handling of jobs and the economy (-12) and inflation and prices (-22) match the lows in Trump's second term; immigration (-8) sets a new low
  • Approval of Trump's handling of immigration fell sharply from last week, when 49% approved and 45% disapproved (+4); this week, approval of Trump's handling of immigration has fallen to 44% while disapproval is up to 52%

not even his cult is enough for him to get away with plunging us into another republican war

George Bush at least had 9/11 to kickstart his war mongering

 

Imagine if we had a president who could excel at diplomacy instead of being the instigator of chaos. He is the Antichrist.

 

statement from JD Vance

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:

First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal. The president has made clear that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment. And he said repeatedly that this would happen one of two ways--the easy way or the "other" way.

Second, I've seen a lot of confusion over the issue of "civilian nuclear power" and "uranium enrichment." These are distinct issues. Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they've enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They've been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.

It's one thing to want civilian nuclear energy. It's another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity. And it's still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium.

I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I've yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I've yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA's findings.

Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.

He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.

But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.

 

Ain’t **** happening. Iran won’t nuke Israel. And anything else will be a footnote buried in history.

 

Let Netanyahu deal with his attacks on his own then. Why should we help the guy who would rather bomb and kill than negotiate. He has no qualms bombing innocent women or children in aids centers in Gaza. He might not be an Anti-American regime, but that doesn't mean he has no qualms about committing war crimes to get what he wants. I doubt most Americans want to fight in these never-ending Middle East wars.

 

Taylor Swift performing at the DNC?

 

Why, other than your deeply rooted anti semitism? White skin bad, brown skin good , blah blah.

They are the only pillar for light in the Middle East. As an out and out democracy, they've been the model for modernizing countries like UAE, Saudi etc in terms of welcoming foreign investment and driving out radicalism. Mossad dominating radical muslims is a huge reason for our quality of life over the past 50 years. People have short memories and take it for granted but Israel is always at the forefront.

It is an absolute WORST case scenario if rogue groups like Hamas and the Houthi's have access to nuclear. That's game over for civilization. And Iranians were in fact building nuclear --- their uranium enrichment was in the 60-70% range which had the IAEA dropping red flags.

Nuclear power plants use 10% or less of uranium enrichment.

Once it goes past a certain level, there's only 1 desired outcome.

3 billion a year to Israel isn't a big deal, less than 1% of the US defense budget, but in this scenario you have to lend aerial and munitions support (neither country will do boots on ground) if it leads to the overthrow of the Ayatollah.