"It becomes clearer with each passing day that the people who took us to war with Iran had and have no idea what they’re doing — that they’re adolescents who think they’re playing video games while thousands die and the world careens toward economic crisis. The New York Times reports that Trump officials dismissed warnings that attacking Iran could disrupt world oil supplies."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/1
"If you want to understand how this country has degenerated to such a state, how we can be spending nearly $2 billion a day attacking Iran without a clear endgame in sight, while children go without healthcare, nursing homes are understaffed because their workers have been deported, home electricity bills skyrocket due to data centers, consider who benefits and who isn’t hurt."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/2
"This is a billionaire’s war, waged at everyone else’s expense."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/3
"If the road to Tehran required the sons and daughters of the billionaire & political class to march beside everyone else’s kids, would we still be there?"
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/4
https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-if-every-billionaires-and-senators-b21
"Observers have spent two weeks trying to discern the 'aims' of Trump’s war on Iran, and therefore what might constitute a victory or defeat. His every bizarre utterance about his war 'plans' — including wildly conflicting declarations that Iran has surrendered and the war must be expanded to defeat the regime — immediately move markets."
~ David R. Lurie
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/5
"The evident fact, though, is that Trump is completely nuts, and that he’s 'governing' the country — and has now taken the US to war — based on his impulses alone, without even the pretense of a strategy or goal."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/6
"He governs the country by a kind of manic coaxing which is at war with short-term memory and thrives on the ability to keep as many people fixated on the super dramatic crisis of the moment without remembering that it was preceded by an endless litany of other crises with similar branding."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/7
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/borderline-personality-trump-and-the-uses-of-press-myopia
"I suspect that Trump may realize deep down that his exercise in epic fury is nuts."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/8
"In the run-up to launching this regional bloodbath, Trump’s advisers 'fully briefed and prepped' him on how Iran’s government would likely respond by acting to explode oil prices – and damage the markets and our economy – if he went ahead with the war. Trump privately downplayed those warnings. Then he did it anyway."
~ Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/9
"In recent days, two Trump advisers and two other sources briefed on the situation tell me, US officials have delivered another dire warning to our batshit crazy president: They’ve informed Trump and his lieutenants that, based on American intel, the Iranian regime at this time isn’t breaking, isn’t ready to fold on the war or stop retaliating," (continued in /11)
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/10
(continued from /10)
"and that there are signs the war is causing significant rally-around-the-flag effects on the ground in Iran, including among some groups that hate the government in Tehran."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/11
"And yet – you guessed it – Donald Trump is going to keep doing it anyway, even in the face of mounting casualties on all sides of the conflict, the world economy on the brink, and gas and fertilizer prices surging, and increasingly disastrous poll numbers at home for this president."
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #EconomicElites #oligarchy #oil #gas
/12
"The media continues to focus on the disruption to oil supplies, but a bigger crisis may be looming in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. For technical reasons, it is difficult to stockpile LNG. For example, Taiwan is heavily dependent on LNG to produce semiconductors; LNG accounts for about 50% of Taiwan’s energy generation. Taiwan has a 100-day oil reserve but only an 11-day LNG supply."
~ Robrt Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #oil #gas
/13
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/gop-continues-dhs-shutdown-as-adminstration
"It feels to me, however, that much of the media is preoccupied with how many things the US blows up on any given day and is less focused on the intricate, interconnected, downstream effects of the war. Trump proudly boasted on Wednesday that the US is self-sufficient in oil production. That’s great, but if Taiwan can’t make chips to run our computers, TVs, cars, and precision-guided missiles, having a lot of oil may be irrelevant."
"Military analysts say reopening the Strait of Hormuz could require a ground operation to seize Iran’s coastline along the strategic waterway, a move that would significantly escalate the conflict and could lead to higher casualties for U.S. and allied forces, according to the Wall Street Journal."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #oil #gas #StraitOfHormuz
/15
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-iran-escalates-war-after-trump
Good morning, everyone.
"In his first public remarks as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called for national unity and said that all US bases in the region should close or face attacks.
The strait of Hormuz will remain closed in order to pressure Iran’s enemies, Khamenei said."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #oil #gas #StraitOfHormuz #Khamenei
/16
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also issued veiled threat to kill new Iranian supreme leader; US central command says aircraft lost in ‘friendly airspace’
"Yesterday, after Reuters reporter Phil Stewart reported that as many as 150 U.S. troops had been wounded so far in the Iran conflict, the Pentagon publicly revised its estimate of fewer than a dozen U.S. service members wounded upward to about 140. The wounds include brain trauma, shrapnel wounds, and burns. Seven service members have died."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
"It would be great if we could replace that regime. The problem with that as a military mission is that it's just very unlikely to work. It's never worked in the past, and we've tried this repeatedly, & we've tried it in different ways with a full-on occupation invasion like in Iraq, or just bombing like in Libya, or arming the opposition in Syria, or international coalition in Afghanistan, there are all sorts of ways."
~ Philip H. Gordon
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/forced-regime-change-doesnt-work
Foreign policy expert Philip Gordon tells us why
"The problem is you remove the regime, however bad, and then you just create a political vacuum. ...So the problem is the impossibility of the mission rather than the value of the mission if we could do it."
"For nearly two weeks, the US said it wasn’t responsible [for the killing of Iranian schoolchildren in Minab]. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that it was 'done by Iran' and called Tomahawk missiles 'very generic.' Defense Secretary Hegseth said the US 'never targets civilians.' The White House said anyone claiming otherwise was being 'irresponsible and false.'”
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children #lies
/20
https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-day-3b2
"Today, that story collapsed.
Reuters, NPR, CNN, PBS NewsHour, and the New York Times all independently confirmed the same preliminary finding from an internal US military investigation: a US Tomahawk struck the school, likely because the Pentagon was using outdated targeting data."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children #lies #disinformation
/21
"The killing of a reported 168 people, primarily schoolgirls, in the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab in Iran has shaken to its very core the conscience of the world.
The attack, carried out nearly two weeks ago when classes were under way, reduced the school building to rubble."
~ Gordon Brown
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children
/22
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/children-killed-school-graveyard-wartime-iran
There are rules and world leaders must insist they be honoured in practice and in spirit. After this atrocity in Iran, a more effective tribunal for crimes against children is essential, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
"Parents who had sent their daughters to school discovered minutes later that classrooms had become mass graves. ...
On Monday, a BBC investigation produced evidence of multiple US Tomahawk missiles fired and landing in the vicinity of the school, hitting, they believe, the school itself, as well as a medical clinic reportedly belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Minab #school #TomahawkMissile #children
/23
"Gaza really more than anything … feels like a preview to what we're seeing now in Iran. And it demonstrated the preference by that government, that regime under Bibi Netanyahu, for just cruelty, the preference for cruelty over restraint in the way that it wages war in order to demoralize the population that they're fighting and demoralize them into being too devastated and too morally devastated to fight back."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Gaza
/25
https://www.joyannreid.com/p/regime-lies-on-epstein-iran-come
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live video
"That also does seem to be the plan for Bibi the Butcher and Donald the Dumb in their war on Iran. ... The US and Israel are now jointly conducting a war that is already being, it is already triggering the same kind of disgust that the genocide in Gaza did."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Gaza
/26
if the admin wants to claim it's a strategy, they can pretend they meant to do "bad cop, good cop," all along
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