AkaSci 🛰️3d ago

Netanyahu said today - ""Iran now has 'no ability to enrich uranium and to create ballistic missiles'.

So, why does the "annihilation" of Iran continue non-stop? And why does the U.S. Dept. of War need an extra $200 billion?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/19/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-gas-field-strikes-pentagon-more-funds-trump-news
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Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu says Israel acted alone in Iran gasfield strike and denies ‘dragging’ US into war

Israeli prime minister says US president has asked Israel ‘to hold off on future attacks’ and dismisses claims Israel bounced US into attack as ‘fake news’

the Guardian
Show threadAkaSci 🛰️3d ago

“The American administration’s greatest miscalculation, of course, was allowing itself to be drawn into this war in the first place,” wrote Badr Albusaidi, the foreign minister of Oman. “This is not America’s war, and there is no likely scenario in which both Israel and America will get what they want from it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/19/israeli-strike-iranian-gas-field-trump
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Strike on Iran gas field exposes US-Israel rift as Trump claims he did not know

US president says he told Netanyahu ‘don’t do that’ as he distances himself from attack that has angered Gulf allies

The Guardian
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@AkaSci

IIRC the US started the war, not "was drawn into it"?

Mar 19 at 8:57pmWeb