"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
/2

https://popular.info/p/planning-to-fail

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
/3

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-top-trump-official-resigns

"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
/4

"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
/5

https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-495

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
/6

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united-states-is-now-stuck-in

"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
/7

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-many-many-wars-fought-by-the

(continued from /7)

"from which they can shoot missiles or launch drones at anything in the water that floats, most especially oil tankers carrying 20 percent of the world’s oil to countries such as Japan and China and Indonesia and yes, the United States and Europe."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
/8

"And Iran has the Strait of Hormuz, which makes drone launching and missile shooting by Iran even easier, because it’s only 21 miles wide, and those oil tankers are the proverbial sitting ducks of warfare.

One of the ways you can solve military problems is with alliances."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
/9

"With the exception of Israel, Donald Trump didn’t bother making alliances before he went to war against Iran, and now when he wants other countries ally themselves with his war effort and help him protect the Strait of Hormuz…well, let’s just say they’re not standing in line to volunteer."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
/10

"Trump claimed he spoke with a former president who said he wished he had bombed Iran, repeating the assertion publicly but refusing to name who it was. However, aides for George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden all denied to NBC News that any such conversation took place…."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity
/11

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-top-trump-official-resigns

"Germany’s defense minister spoke for many European countries when he said,

'This is not our war, we have not started it. What does Donald Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in the strait of Hormuz that the mighty US navy cannot manage alone? This is the question I find myself asking.'"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #Europe #NATO #allies
/12

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/us-allies-decline-trumps-invitation

"Today, all of us are obliged to endure a kind of moral injury when we see our government’s response to the news that the United States accidentally bombed a girls’ school in Minab, killing 170 people, mostly children."

~ Mona Charen

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-war-psychology-iran

"The prosecution of Trump’s war has been a massive, blood-caked scandal and crime. Beyond the moral and practical abomination of the operation, the president and ruling party dove backwards into this without even the appearance of a clear mission or plan, and tried to sell the American people a pack of lies to justify the war."

~ Asawin Suebsaeng

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
/14

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-iran-latest-first-draft

"And as the bodies pile up, the White House is propagandizing about carnage as if it were nothing but a violent, nihilistic video game. The casual talk of mass-death and the meme-ification of a regional bloodbath underscore the advanced depravity that drives Trump administration policies, at home and abroad."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
/15

"So it’s no wonder that the man at the top is talking like a serial killer when it comes to how he speaks to the press and the voters about his dumb 'little' war."

#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #megalomania #MalignantNarcissism #stupidity #morality
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