"We are talking about thousands of paratroopers, including the Immediate Response Force, being positioned in the Middle East for potential ground operations. That is how wars expand. At the same time, Marine Expeditionary Units are moving into position, the USS Tripoli is en route, and additional naval assets are following, including the USS Boxer."

#Trump #Iran #war #military #troops #Marines
/2

"This is a full-scale military buildup that points to something much bigger than the White House is willing to admit publicly.

All of this is happening as the situation on the ground continues to deteriorate in real time. ... What makes this even more dangerous is that Trump’s actions are making the situation harder to resolve, not easier."

#Trump #Iran #war #military #troops #Marines
/3

"Donald Trump’s administration is moving thousands of US service members to the Middle East East, amid the disastrous US-Israeli war on Iran. And, just as with the historic public opposition to the war, there is unprecedented dissent brewing inside the military – with some troops currently on their way to the Middle East seeking to refuse fighting."

~ Prem Thakker

#Trump #Iran #war #military #troops #dissent #ConscientiousObjection
/4

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-troops-iran-get-ready-invade

"High-profile alleged war crimes, including the strike on the Minab girls’ school, as well as the US attack of the Iranian Naval ship returning from an Indian training exercise, have disturbed many US soldiers, [Mike] Prysner [of the Center on Conscience and War] said. He told Prem his organization has seen a '1,000% increase' in new conscientious-objector clients since the start of the war in Iran."

#Trump #Iran #war #military #troops #dissent #ConscientiousObjection
/5

John Grosso reports on a fracturing of the alliance between MAGA (white) Catholics and MAGA (white) evangelicls over the Iran war:

"Traditionalist Catholics appear to be losing their place in the MAGA coalition."

As he notes, many MAGA Catholics do not buy into the theology driving the zionist, anti-Islamic holy war mentality of MAGA evangelicals, and this is causing major tensions between the two groups.

#Trump #Iran #war #HolyWar #MAGA #evangelicals #Catholics
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/maga-followers-have-new-enemy-traditionalist-catholics

"Donald Trump needs a way out of this war, and he is nearly out of lies.

The markets bought his headfake on Monday morning. But Iran didn’t. ...

The problem is Netanyahu, who needs this war to continue for reasons that have nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarkets #StraitofHormuz
/7

https://thecause.substack.com/p/one-simple-trick-to-try-to-end-the

"Meanwhile Brent crude this morning is $6 a barrel higher than yesterday’s mid-day lows."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #markets #StockMarkets #StraitofHormuz
/8

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trump-lied-about-iran-talks-dhs-minus

"Donald Trump’s war on Iran appears to be a fiasco, and speaking to reporters, he made a surprising claim: He insisted no one anticipated that Iran would attack other countries in an effort to widen the war. But this was indeed widely expected, and amusingly, in saying that, Trump revealed that he didn’t anticipate it."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
/9

https://newrepublic.com/article/208082/trump-accidentally-admits-epic-iran-blunder-war-takes-worse-turn

@wdlindsy Here’s the transcript of that article, so we don’t have to hear Trump actually speak:

https://newrepublic.com/article/208083/transcript-trump-blurts-epic-admission-failure-war-worsens