With this posting, I'm starting a second thread today about Trump's war against Iran. The first is here: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116199851860183990

"If war is the extension of politics by other means, from the perspective of the United States, this war is the extension of Trump’s demented worldview by other means, not to mention his metastasizing megalomania. It will further degrade the United States, morally, economically and geo-strategically."

~ Jonathan Weller

#Trump #Iran #war
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https://jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/on-iran-playing-with-fire

William Lindsey :toad: (@[email protected])

"WE'RE" MARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE PERFORMANCE? "Last Thursday, March 5, Trump talked to ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about the war. 'I hope you are impressed,' he said. 'How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?'" ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity /1 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-2026

toad.social

"Each passing day will bring mounting death and destruction, with the likelihood of more instability, unpredictability and havoc to come.

These dangers are compounded by the reality that no president is less equipped to comprehend nor account for the consequences of his actions than the current one, nor are the feckless men he’s surrounded himself with."

#Trump #Iran #war
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"The death of the liberal order has been coming for awhile now and to watch it explode like this is both unsurprising and outrageous. There’s not a day now where I don’t think of the innocent people who have been killed as this barbarism has worsened and as the wealth and oligarchical classes continue the transfer of power over to the machines they have programmed."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/now-the-chaos-the-death-of-the-liberal

Now, The Chaos: The Death of the Liberal Order and Dangerous, Uncharted Territory

We've walked off the cliff. Now we fall.

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

"At this point, as liberalism transforms into authoritarianism, just as capitalism requires, it appears that we are speeding toward the fiery horizon."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley
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"This is the real manosphere. One whose edges we can’t even see because we’re living inside it. Our world is controlled by these men, their platforms, their alliances with nation states, technology-fuelled political power which is only accelerating and gathering strength. When I coined the word 'broligarchy' it wasn’t as a cutesy pun:"

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #manosphere
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-the-broligarchys-first-world

The Broligarchy's First World War?

AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

How to Survive the Broligarchy

"I used it to describe the confluence of Silicon Valley technologies and US state authoritarianism, and a warped toxic pseudo-masculinity that’s at its heart."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #manosphere
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"A new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are backing a drone company called Powerus that hopes to sell military drones to the Pentagon. The company reportedly plans to incorporate Ukrainian drone technology, the same technology developed during Ukraine’s war with Russia."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #EconomicElites #profiteering
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-updates-markets

Monday Afternoon Updates: Markets Tumbling, War Escalating, and Trump World Cashing In — 3/9/26

It’s Monday afternoon.

Meidas+

"So while American troops are deployed and taxpayers fund the war effort, the president’s sons are investing in companies positioned to profit from that military spending."

#Trump #Iran #war #broligarchy #TechBros #SiliconValley #EconomicElites #profiteering
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"On Sunday, Hegseth told 60 Minutes correspondent Major Garrett that the 'providence of our Almighty God is there protecting those troops' in the Iran war.

When asked directly if he saw the war in religious terms, Hegseth basically said yes, preaching at length his own version of a militarized Christian doctrine."

~ Ken Klippenstein and Jason Paladino

#Trump #Iran #war #Hegseth #ChristianNationalism #HolyWar
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https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/document-homeland-security-warns

Document: Homeland Security Warns of Iranian “Fatwa”

U.S. military issues its own Fatwa

Ken Klippenstein
@wdlindsy
Send him to the front lines ( #ThoughtsAndPrayers )…