"The situation favors Iran, which has learned how to absorb a great deal of pain after decades of US sanctions and is prepared to endure much worse rather than fold to Trump. ...
In the face of this humiliation on the world stage, Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, are throwing scapegoats from within the US war machine under the bus."
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/22
"Trump’s war on Iran is currently mired in an interminable stalemate. Iran is still firmly in control of the Strait of Hormuz (and, by extension, the international energy market) and negotiations to end the conflict have stalled, though a shaky ceasefire remains in place."
~ Jeet Heer
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/21
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-hegseth-military-purge-john-phelan/
"Venezuela got him thinking, Hey, this war stuff is kinda fun. So he figured he’d be the guy who toppled the hated regime. A few bombs. Easy-peasy."
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/20
"He’s the one who made Iran strong. Then, eight years later, he comes back to us and says, Bad Iran! They broke the terms of the deal! They’re too strong. We must invade them.
But it’s actually even worse than that. Because we didn’t invade Iran because they broke the terms of the deal. We invaded Iran because Trump, having conquered (in his mind) America, needed to conquer farther reaches."
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/19
"He and he alone created the conditions that made war possible. He and he alone created the chaos that, he then told the American people and the world, made war necessary. ...
Trump made this problem. Entirely and solely. By pulling out of the JCPOA in 2018, he ensured that Iran would start breaking the terms of the deal.:
~ Michael Tomasky
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/18
"Fox News is embracing the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as an economic boon for U.S. petroleum exports — even though the closure will further increase American gasoline prices."
~ Zachary Pleat
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/17
Fox News is embracing the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as an economic boon for U.S. petroleum exports — even though the closure will further increase American gasoline prices. Fox has already tried to downplay the increasing fuel prices that have resulted from the closure, which is currently straining both the U.S. and global economies in numerous ways, including threatening famine and global recession.Fox’s embrace of Trump’s disastrous war echoes how the network previously supported the president’s illegal tariffs scheme — with full-throated backing of the policy and claims that it would help the U.S. economy, even though in reality the tariffs resulted in further job losses for the industries they were intended to support, higher inflation, weaker economic growth, and, ultimately, effectively zero revenue due to court-mandated refunds.
"And top GOP senators tell Politico that Trumpworld is bracing for more purges of senior officials, with one senator confiding about Trump: 'He’s in a bad mood, so he’s letting a lot of them go.'”
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/17
"A new Fox News poll contains crushing findings for Donald Trump. His approval on the economy is at 34 percent with 66 percent disapproving. On inflation, those numbers are even worse, at 28–72. Importantly, the poll also finds Democrats with the advantage on the economy for the first time in years—a milestone."
~ Greg Sargent
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/16
https://newrepublic.com/article/209461/trump-hit-brutal-fox-poll-aides-scramble-he-bad-mood
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