"In the months-long run-up to Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran, the president was repeatedly briefed by senior administration appointees &intelligence officials about the wide range of scenarios in which Americans and others could likely die, if Trump were to start a new war and the Islamic Republic were to retaliate, two sources familiar with the matter and three others briefed on it tell Zeteo."

Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez, and Prem Thakker

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https://zeteo.com/p/trump-was-told-americans-would-very

"This weekend, Trump went ahead, all while claiming lately that the fight will be won 'easily.'”

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"A single person — Donald J. Trump — has released the dogs of war on one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and done it without the consent of Congress or our allies, or even a clear explanation to the American people."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-war

"Four days after delivering a State of the Union address in which he boasted of ending eight wars, and spent just three minutes discussing Iran and a preference for 'diplomacy,' we are now bombing, maiming, and killing.

Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused."

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"From the start of his political career, Trump campaigned against the idea of regime change. Upon winning the presidency in 2016, Trump pledged: 'We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.'

But even before then, Trump frequently spoke against the idea of war in Iran."

~ Zeteo

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https://zeteo.com/p/team-trump-iran-war-regime-change

"The most important thing for me is there was no imminent threat. There were alternative options. Right. And that's, I think, what we really, really need to remember in all of this. Not that the Iranian regime is a bunch of good guys, but there was no immediate imminent threat and there were alternatives."

~ Ilan Goldenberg

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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/breaking-news-a-recklass-war-in-iran

"A massive, unannounced, preemptive strike against a country with which one is in active, high-level diplomatic peace negotiations.

It’s harsh to say it, but it sounds an awful lot like 1941. Except we’re the good guys, right? And Roosevelt was still alive the next day to say those words about imperial treachery. ...

This does seem like the Epstein tale wagging the dog, doesn’t it?"

~ Gene Weingarten

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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/sneak-attack

"The first casualties reported by Iran were those from strikes on an elementary girls’ school."

~ Sharon Zhang

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https://truthout.org/articles/us-and-israel-launch-war-on-iran-call-for-regime-change/