Donald Trump has once again stepped up his threats to entirely wipe out Iran, but it somehow isn’t forcing Iran to make the deal he wants. The emptiness of the threats is embarrassing enough. But now, CBS News has published a series of extraordinary photographs of American bases and equipment abroad badly damaged by Iranian attacks. These pictures were leaked by anonymous U.S. service-members who did this because the truth about Trump’s war is being suppressed. As one put it: “This is major damage to our ba…
The only response we are going to get from the administration is to go after the soldiers who leaked the photos… all the while calling the pics ‘fake news’
It was never supposed to be successful in the first place. Trump and his merry band of criminals already got exactly what they wanted out of this.
He’s on record stating he doesn’t give a shit about what people are going through because of the war, the tarriffs, or any of his schemes designed to line his pockets.
The price of Russian oil is all that really matters. It doesn’t look like it’s going to even help them though. That and getting the Abraham Lincoln away from the Baltic.
The extremely non strategic retreat from the Middle East is kind of wild though. I’d have thought Trump was the very definition of blood for oil.
It does seem like they’ve gotten away with six months more than they expected to.
These are the kind of idiots who think they can win a fight by just wildly swinging their arms in every direction. Meanwhile, the opponent just keeps his distance, takes a few easy swings when there’s an opportunity, and waits for the Idiot to wear himself out. Then the opponent steps in a finishes the job. Or maybe the Idiot just falls down out of sheer exhaustion.
Either way, we’re the Idiot.
The CBS article with the pictures in question: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks/
“These are not ‘squirters’ getting through,” the service member added,
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
That was supposed to be off the record!
imagine raising a kid for 18 years only to have him/her go overseas and get blown up in the most pointless bullshit war in history. for the purpose of making a whiny weak loser con man reality tv failure look like he’s tough
Also to distract from the discussion about how he molested children.
Didn’t that discussion happen already and nobody cared?
To me, donnie was always just a washed-up never-was with a big mouth. A rapey and racist failson. And that’s before he was given that reality TV show.
He’s only devolved since.
Even worse, Trump’s doing the bidding of a genocidal foreign leader who had been trying to get the US to do this for decades. Trump was the only president ignorant and gullible enough to fall for it
Believe it or not, Israel is the puppet of Amerika’s ruling class, not the other way around. And this isn’t just on Trump. One person, even the president, cannot mobilize the war machine without substantial approval from the capitalists. These wars have all been long-term goals of the ruling class, they just now have a deranged idiot to take the fall for the high costs.
As Biden said, if Isreal did not exist, we would make it exist
As pointless bullshit wars go, this one’s pretty mid.
" choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are hard, but because we thought it would be easy"
"We choose to invade Iran in this decade and do the other fascist things, not because they are hard, but LEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRROYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY mmmmmmmmmmJJJJJJJEEEENNNNNKKKKKKIIIIIINNNNNNNSSSSSSSS!!!
Don’t intend that as a correction, just more my take of how this shitty administration does shit.
And then failing to realize that purpose.
Before finally giving fully into the sunken cost by continuing to support the grifter who sent your child to death.
Just here to say I love this photo of him.
here, for your wallet:
If I didn’t know he was Sleepy Don, I might suspect he was veerrryyyy skeptical of something.
He never fully recovered from that 4th of July stroke, did he?
With this headline, you could replace “Iran” with “pants”
I clicked to see which leaks we were talking about here
When I close my eyes and fantasize, I see punishments with extreme prejudice ruining the life of every piece of shit Senator who voted yes to confirm Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
Iran has one percent of the US’s military budget and they are kicking the state’s ass with it.
Wasn’t Iran’s military complete destroyed like a year ago as well? According to the white house of course.
They want to win a lot more than we do. War is just business to us, no one is hyped up about this. For them tho, this is an opportunity decades in the making.
For the USA it is to steal other countries ressources, for Iran it is a matter of the survival of the state and their civilization
And the USA has a lot more toy to lose than Iran.
Y’know, I’m all for electing someone who puts this guy in jail but with all this forced demilitarization… I think I’d run on that momentum and downside the US military presence. It’s literally required if we want to reduce the deficit, but “rebuild the bases” is absolutely not something the next leader can afford.
I’m all for electing someone who puts this guy in jail
Just a reminder that you can’t. Or rather, you cannot elect someone who puts him in jail. That requires ⅔ of Congress, specifically the Senate. So you’re not talking about one race for one office, you are talking about 538 races. Or, well, more like 100 I suppose. But all 538 because you need both chambers.
The pride of an empire will not let a president get jailed. It would also open a Pandora box where none of the previous war criminal American politicians will be safe from jail
Demilitarization is just a (admittedly big on account of how counter to the long running paradigm it would be) single step.
The next 5 presidents will have a lot of work to do over the next 20 years…in the as of now extreme hypothetical thought exercise where the country is steered towards actually being an honest member of the global community.
This hypothetical can’t even happen as long as the fascism is on active display mind you, so that means it would have to be thrown back into the shadows (most likely imo) or finally fully eradicated (I fucking wish).
But after all that, the next 20 years of US history would need to be a lot of demilitarization, a lot less meddling in the affairs of other countries with the sole goal of “How does the US come ahead of absolutely everyone?” and a hitherto unknown for practically the entire country’s history period of “What do we negotiate to make a better world in which the US thrives because the world was made better?”.
In addition to a lot of work and money spent to recoup any semblance of soft power back, and a lot of loss in easy political wins.
The soft power can’t even begin to pretend to be restored without a lot of spending on public education and I don’t just mean schooling for children.
Extensive outreach to deprogram the ‘might is right’ and other assorted fascist/racist bullshit out of the population would be required, because it’s easy as shit for other countries to see when there’s no political will in the American people to force its leaders to carry through with something.
Fuck, I could stay here all day, but it’s also kind of depressing. It’s not impossible, none of it.
But the hurdles to fix this fuckery? Hella.
Maybe with some dragon gold hoards in the people’s Treasury, and some nice and fancy dragon scale armor, it would be easier. Grinding boss fights for XP tends to make the journey easier 🗡️.
That probably should be one of the earlier steps and sure would show the world some commitment.
Considering that next leader might have tk ask for permission, there is no guarantees US can rebuild the bases.
Might have already been rented out by Chinese.
I keep repeating that I assumed American empire will fall but that it will fall during my lifetime and in this manner… Not in my wildest dreams.
In the end, this is gonna turn into the pedofuhrer Vietnam. Keep going Donnie!
It’s already more unpopular than Vietnam.
If the USA invade it will definitely be at least twice worseesrow a year than Vietnam
