"Source close to the admin: 'He ended up saying, "I just want to do it. He grossly overestimated his ability to topple the regime short of sending in ground troops.”' The source said Trump was 'high on his own supply' after last summer’s quick strikes in Iran and January’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-329-31626
"More than two weeks after the war started, its goals remain unclear. Is it to degrade Iran’s conventional missile capabilities? Is it to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program? Is it regime change?
Ultimately, the administration’s failure to plan for the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is part of a broader failure to plan for anything beyond 'shock and awe.'”
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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Aaron Parnas features a resignation letter Joseph Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, just sent to Trump:
"President Trump,
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today."
Kent is, by the way, an antisemite and conspiracy theorist.
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-top-trump-official-resigns
We have breaking news this morning a top Trump official has resigned in protest over the war in Iran.
"I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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"This is the reality Donald has created. Not strength. Not victory. Just chaos. And we are only three weeks in."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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Wajahat Ali talks with Robert Pape, who says Trump has entered an "escalation trap" with Iran:
"Pape believes this is just ACT 1, and the world must buckle up and prepare for a year of immense pain, uncertainty, and reverberating 'shocks' to our economy, supply chain, and national security."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united-states-is-now-stuck-in
Trump's disastrous decision to join Israel in an illegal war with Iran has already placed the United States in an unwinnable "escalation trap" with devastating shock waves that could last years.
"More wars, more weapons, more military problems. Donald Trump has a huge problem right now. With all the bombs and missiles and jet planes and aircraft carriers and destroyers and submarines at his disposal, Iran has a coastline that runs hundreds of miles along the gulf," (continued in /8)
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-many-many-wars-fought-by-the
Donald Trump is not the first ruler who thought he could push around Iran, which used to be known as Persia, and before that was an area of the world ruled by the Akkadians, the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the Medes, the Scythians, the Babylonians, the Archimedeans.
William Lindsey 
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