Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps. Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival.
So close to greatness… Should have been a pic of Jeff and Donald
Semper pedo!
Gee…
Maybe we shouldn’t have had presidents from both parties normalize “support this other country no matter what” for decades…
And that presidents from both parties didn’t say anything when Israel canceled annual elections the last five years. Like, Israel isn’t a democracy anymore, considering they’re the reason we’re having war in Iran again, they’re obviously just going to keep doing this as long as it works.
And trump has openly been saying for years he loves the idea and wants to do it to.
Even if this calms down by our midterms, he’s gonna start new shit before the election because he’d rather be at war and in power than out of office and in jail. Hell create whatever chaos and damage keeps him in power, there’s no line.
Just like Bibi, their only goal is to die in office. And they don’t care how many of us die in the process
How do they know there is no plan?
There is always a plan. The pentagon has plans for every conceivable scenario sitting on a shelf.
This administration is pretty incompetent and making a mess of execution and messaging.
Regardless, these are some dark times and there is no way to justify the atrocities being committed by all those who are complicit.
Having a plan for every scenario is for risk management, not for running a country.
It’s “whatever happens we have to be ready”, it says nothing on whether the scenario makes sense or is desirable.
The US government decides to send a team to the Vatican and capture the Pope? I’m sure there is a plan for that. It doesn’t mean the idea isn’t completely idiotic.
A basic comprehension of the American political situation.
Israel has made a calling card of using the prospect of peace as a tactic to prosecute wars against its enemies. In June, during the last round of US-Iranian negotiations over the nuclear file, Israel killed Tehran’s chief negotiators and tried to decapitate the civilian government on the first day of its twelve-day war against Iran, which the United States joined on the last day. In September, when diplomacy over the Gaza war was nearing a ceasefire deal, Israel attacked Hamas’s political wing in Doha.
From the US perspective, negotiations with Iran have been framed by Trump’s desire to win a deal more advantageous to the United States than the “terrible” deal Barack Obama finally negotiated in 2016, after over a decade of diplomacy between Tehran and the world powers. During his first term, Trump unilaterally exited the deal and has since assumed a maximalist position in negotiations with Tehran consistent with the long-standing Israeli demand that Iran must be denied its right to enrich any uranium.
Jesus. This is about that same deal taco backed out from years ago?
