Particularly because I believe Trump gave the go-ahead because his military parade was a bust and the G7 leaders laughed at him and Fox News ridiculed his "two weeks" mantra so he just said "I'll show them!"
Yeah that must be the reason 🙄. Not sure where you are getting your news or opinions from, but may I respectfully ask you to re-think your twisted interpretation of world events based on your TDS? An oppressive regime on its own people that has repeatedly called for death to Israel and America is close to having a nuclear bomb. And you’re still on the “Orange man is bad” treadmill? In what reality do military enemies tell the world when they will attack?? It’s called war and there is no truth in any communications on warfare. Wait until the dust settles and the truth will reveal itself.
Several high-profile people believe "the likely explanation is that the attacks fit perfectly with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his multiple failures at home: the on-again-off-again tariffs that have spooked financial markets while eliciting no meaningful concessions from other nations (especially China). An immigration crackdown that’s been stymied by federal judges. The so-called “big beautiful bill” that’s in deep trouble in the Senate. Trump’s embarrassing tiff with Musk. His failures to achieve peace in either Ukraine or Gaza. And last weekend’s record-breaking “No Kings” demonstrations as compared to his scrawny military parade. Besides, there’s nothing like a war to help a wannabe dictator like Trump justify more “emergency” powers. people believe that"
Perhaps Iraq is a long time ago, the principles still apply. There does not appear to be consensus on how advanced Iran was, in fact people were much certain at the time of Iraq. People that are defending the strikes on Iran are using the same arguments, we cannot wait till there is a mushroom cloud. Or, regime change alone is already worth it. The motivations by Israel and the US are suspect as domestic reasons seem to play a role.
What is different though is the capability of Iran vs. Iraq. The enemy gets a vote, and Iran has options to strike back.
"It’s fucking absurd to make the actions of a Republican President about Democrats"
In my mind, it is absurd to make this about a Republican President (some "individual", or political corporate brand) rather than about the United States specifically and Anglososphere systems (culture, policy, worldviews, etc) generally.
It is the same critique I have of those noticing things that "The Carney Government" is doing (things that would make Harper blush), when the policies being implemented (IE: primacy of resource extraction and enforcing conformity to executive/government interests, over any other considerations) is consistent with the Dominion of Canada governments since their imposition on this continent with the UK government's passage of the first British North America Act in 1867.
Pointing fingers at some other brand (corpate political party, corporate executive) is a distraction from ever recognizing and/or fixing any of the cultural, structural, or other systemic problems.
Particularly because I believe Trump gave the go-ahead because his military parade was a bust and the G7 leaders laughed at him and Fox News ridiculed his "two weeks" mantra so he just said "I'll show them!"
Yeah that must be the reason 🙄. Not sure where you are getting your news or opinions from, but may I respectfully ask you to re-think your twisted interpretation of world events based on your TDS? An oppressive regime on its own people that has repeatedly called for death to Israel and America is close to having a nuclear bomb. And you’re still on the “Orange man is bad” treadmill? In what reality do military enemies tell the world when they will attack?? It’s called war and there is no truth in any communications on warfare. Wait until the dust settles and the truth will reveal itself.
Iran has been “close” to getting a nuclear bomb for years now.
Several high-profile people believe "the likely explanation is that the attacks fit perfectly with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his multiple failures at home: the on-again-off-again tariffs that have spooked financial markets while eliciting no meaningful concessions from other nations (especially China). An immigration crackdown that’s been stymied by federal judges. The so-called “big beautiful bill” that’s in deep trouble in the Senate. Trump’s embarrassing tiff with Musk. His failures to achieve peace in either Ukraine or Gaza. And last weekend’s record-breaking “No Kings” demonstrations as compared to his scrawny military parade. Besides, there’s nothing like a war to help a wannabe dictator like Trump justify more “emergency” powers. people believe that"
That, and I don't understand how the use of TACO targeted at a Reality TV show bully personality can ever be useful.
Perhaps Iraq is a long time ago, the principles still apply. There does not appear to be consensus on how advanced Iran was, in fact people were much certain at the time of Iraq. People that are defending the strikes on Iran are using the same arguments, we cannot wait till there is a mushroom cloud. Or, regime change alone is already worth it. The motivations by Israel and the US are suspect as domestic reasons seem to play a role.
What is different though is the capability of Iran vs. Iraq. The enemy gets a vote, and Iran has options to strike back.
"It’s fucking absurd to make the actions of a Republican President about Democrats"
In my mind, it is absurd to make this about a Republican President (some "individual", or political corporate brand) rather than about the United States specifically and Anglososphere systems (culture, policy, worldviews, etc) generally.
It is the same critique I have of those noticing things that "The Carney Government" is doing (things that would make Harper blush), when the policies being implemented (IE: primacy of resource extraction and enforcing conformity to executive/government interests, over any other considerations) is consistent with the Dominion of Canada governments since their imposition on this continent with the UK government's passage of the first British North America Act in 1867.
Pointing fingers at some other brand (corpate political party, corporate executive) is a distraction from ever recognizing and/or fixing any of the cultural, structural, or other systemic problems.
Do you think that there is a possibility that Trump, Vance were not told when the attack was to happen.
No.