William Lindsey 
"Hegseth says today will be the ‘most intense day of strikes’ in war against Iran."
~ The Guardian
"The top story: Donald Trump says the war in Iran is 'very complete' and appears to be searching for an off-ramp after speaking with Vladimir Putin today."
~ Aaron Parnas
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-update-trump-says-war-is-very
Major Update: Trump Says War is "Very Complete" and Seeks Quick Off-Ramp as he Floats Taking Over Strait of Hormuz
Good evening everyone.
"He came up with the idea that the war will end during a phone call with murder hornet Vladimir Putin."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/memory-hole-meet-iran-war
"Reporters tried again. 'You said the war is "very complete.". But your defense secretary says "this is just the beginning." So which is it?'
'I think you could say both,' Trump replied.
~ Andrew Roth
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/trump-iran-war-over-pretty-quickly
"What this all comes down to is that the White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for 'unconditional surrender'."
~Josh Marshall
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-now-moonwalking-away-from-regime-change-as-fast-as-he-can
"Trump wants to be done because the conflict is getting too messy, Gulf allies are certainly privately asking WTAF Trump’s plan is and more than anything else Trump is realizing that he is triggering what has been the most reliable presidency killer in American politics for more than half a century: spiking gas prices."
"It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal with. It was supposed to look like what happened in Venezuela in January…."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"Most presidents announce foreign policy in measured phrases freighted with forethought and significance. Trump blathers, tumbling over proclamations as quickly as he can pronounce them. Perhaps Trump’s secret plan is to confuse everyone so thoroughly that they are frozen with doubt. Not a winning strategy, to be sure, but the only way to make sense of Trump’s whirligig fountain of nonsense that erupted on Monday."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/chaos-reigns-as-trump-blathers-incoherently
"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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"I think everyone in politics and finance and media who anticipated a fictional, level-headed version of Donald Trump succumbed to years of spin and misinformation and algorithmic propaganda on Twitter."
~ Brian Beutler
"And it’s only costing us around a billion dollars a day."
~ Sam Osterhout
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/oil-up-markets-down-trumps-war-spirals
Oil Up, Markets Down: Trump's War Spirals | Sam Osterhout & Iran Expert Dr. Sanam Vakil
The Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Is there an exit strategy?
"U.S./Israeli force mounted another series of strikes, these on oil storage sites across the vast city of Tehran. The effect was astonishing—a cloud of truly toxic smoke—and I think it needs more notice than it’s been getting, even amidst all the other horrors of this war. This was in essence chemical warfare, even if the chemicals were the (easily anticipated) result of 'normal' bombs."
~ Bill McKibben
#Trump #Iran #war #environment #ecology #ChemicalWarfare
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https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and-killing-cloud-over-tehran
"And it affected an almost entirely civilian population, that will be paying the price for decades to come. If we’re going to do this we should at least have to look at it."
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