Not sure what all the tit-for-tat is about Russia helping Iran. I can't work out if you are arguing or agreeing.
Iran supplies/supplied Russia with lots of drones in their war against Russia. Iran is one of Russia's top allies along with Belarus, China, India, and North Korea. Of course they are going to help Iran kill Americans. Based on history ... Putin will probably tell Trump that it's not true and based on Ukraine talks and the 2016 election, Trump will believe him over his own US intelligence community.
What I think are some of the bigger issues -
1. The war is illegal based on international law. Maybe that's not a big deal to some but I think it matters. From the web - Winston Churchill, along with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, initiated the foundational principles of the United Nations through the Atlantic Charter in August 1941, four years before the war ended. This joint declaration outlined a postwar world of international cooperation and self-determination, serving as the blueprint for the formal UN Charter signed in June 1945 --- this has been the basis of peace for 80 years. What trump (and Israel) are doing undermines this and makes the world less safe. Like the actions taken against Venezuela - it empowers Russia with former territories USSR. It empowers China with Taiwan. It breeds future hatred of the West by Iran.
2. This is a war of choice. There is no compelling reason to go to war with Iran. There is no imminent threat.Iran being bad actors is not a justifiable reason to go to war. After Venezuela I looked up how many dictatorships there are in the world. It's nearly 100. You want to go regime change all of them? Madness.
3. We did this with Iraq - it was a disaster that made the world LESS safe than it was before we went in. Thinking democracy and a stable country and government will spawn from reigning death and destruction from the skies is lunacy. Apparently the European leaders are more acutely aware of recent history and what a disaster Iraq was than the US. "you break it you own it" ... what follows is all on the USA and Israel. Anyone thinking this is going to have a positive ending is deluding themselves. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan - all examples of the USA trying to police the world and failing miserably. And all of those examples were carried out by administrations that were more thoughtful and strategic than the idiot currently in the WH.
4. Iran - a country of 90 million - is unlikely to capitulate. Who knows how long or how many deaths will result from this war of choice. US personnel, allies, Iranians. . . I see the usual fake Christian cheering this action on. 75 thousand deaths of mostly innocent women and children in Gaza wasn't enough to satisfy their blood lust.. so on to Iran.
5. How many refugees and asylum seekers is the USA willing to take after we've bombed cities and displaced mass parts of the population? None. But it will create another humanitarian crisis in the middle east and across Europe. Just wait for the numbers of assylum seekers to sky rocket as they flee a country being ravaged by war. And then listen to all the right win politicians talk about how countries should keep them out. Hell we already have Trump and Vance criticising EU countries for their immigration policies. Just a little ironic how the USA is going to create 100,000's more for the region to deal with.
I'll ask again - what does success look like? In a month from now. A year? 5 years? .... what other countries do you want to add to the list where you support Americans implementing regime change?
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
It seems people forget we have been dealing with the Iranian problem for over 45 years. I am glad we finally took the position that enough is enough.
I am glad we are taking the position to put an end to it once and for all. This is far better than releasing tens of $billions back to them. That was idiotic.
After 45 years, a week at this point isn't too long. Some people need to quit their beaching and jump back to the American side.
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If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
Hell, for a guy who ran on NO MORE FORIEGN WARS- killing bad guys in Caribbean, killing in Pacific, killing in Venezuela, killing in Gaza, killing in Iran, on and on and on.....reminds me of Country Joe and the Fish song--" Whooppee We're All Going to Die". Trump, the businessman reminds me of Robert McNamara, the businessman who was so smart he thought his business way of winning the Vietnam War was brilliant. Trump is the smartest man in the White House ever, just ask him....God knows who we will start killing next. Peace.
Country Joe and the Fish,,,,,,, Epic
There is a time and place for Business execs.. Business can be kinda cold. Has to be. But in Government, by the people for the people isn't the same. We pay taxes for the government to help us, not own us.
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. Some people need to quit their beaching and jump back to the American side.
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. Just my opinion Peen .... But this comment shows you just how much you've been groomed and conditioned how to think. The idea that it's Un-American to question the legality of this war and what it means, asking hard questions somehow puta you on the other side? That is just so wrong on so many levels.
You said one week. You're absolutely in cloud Cuckoo land. This thing is going to be going on in 6 months time. And longer.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
After 45 years, a week at this point isn't too long. Some people need to quit their beaching and jump back to the American side.
That's a very odd thing for you to say. Russia invaded Ukraine and trump's answer is to reward them with parts of Ukraine. Russia gives Iran intel through their satellite system to target our troops and not a peep from any of you. FATE is actually trying to play it off as if it's nothing to defend and downplay the actions of Russia. That sounds a lot like Russia's side. If that's what you call "The American side" have at it.
If you think the actions of trump always represent "the American side" I think you are sadly mistaken. Trump ran on no wars and spoke against regime change. Was he on America's side then or is he on America's side now. You people need to make up your minds. It can't be both.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
What word would suit you best? Dismissed it? Downplayed it? Mocked it?
Not so much as one word was uttered by this administration to admonish Russia for their actions and you've been acting like that's perfectly fine. So you can call that anything you like. It's all posted here.
So you say that blowing it off as if it was nothing isn't a form of defending it? Well alrighty then.
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It seems in trumplandia their silence is supported.
So you think that a nation aiding our enemy by supplying our enemy with our troop locations and satellite intel which directly threatens the life of our troops should be met with silence?
What happened to you man?
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I've stated many times that I'm unqualified to be president. That however doesn't mean the man that is currently president is qualified to be president either.
I don't have a staff that prepares statements and the proper response to people aiding our enemies. But according to you it seems there shouldn't be one.
Here's what I do know. If any judge rules against trump he calls them "radical left judges" even if they were appointed by a Republican president. He attacks people within his own party any time one of them vote against his policies. He calls every member of the house and senate who are democrats names. He has called every leader of foreign nations he dislikes names. But only the weak nations.
He has supported Russia's side in peace negotiations with Ukraine by endorsing almost every demand Russia has asked for. He has taken Putin's word over our own intelligence community.
Maybe if Putin had said trump's hair looked bad or that trump was fat trump would have spoken out against him. It seems like trump cares more about being offended or questioned than he does about Russia sharing intel that threatens the lives of our troops.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
And you've spent two days defending him saying nothing about Russia sharing intel with Iran that threatens the lives of our troops. Your point is?
I've explained this to you quite clearly. Yet you have zero response to that searching for some gothchya moment. Maybe you should try to defend your position that trump should say nothing about the acts of a foreign nation aiding our enemy by sharing intel that threatens the lives of out troops? But really you can't can you?
Maybe you should explain the chain of events and pattern where trump has supported Russia's side in peace negotiations with Ukraine by endorsing almost every demand Russia has asked for. He has taken Putin's word over our own intelligence community. And now this.
But you won't. You instead think it's up to me to prepare a statement that should be put out by our government.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
So, you have neither the brains nor balls to come up with a single sentence for the very thing you've peed your pants about for two days.
And, again, you wonder why no one posts in your troll palace anymore. You've literally, singlehandedly, ruined this board with the same daily wash/rinse/repeat.
I ruined it for you and your kind. Once trump was elected there was nothing left for you to do other than make up fake BS and resort to typical trumpian type ignorance like this....
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you have neither the brains nor balls
And now you come here in your desperation and rather than call for him to do the right thing you throw a trumpian like temper tantrum defending the indefensible.
Of course you blame me for calling trump and his cronies out. Of course you blame me for expecting at least some modicum of accountability from this administration.
But in your usual cowardly act of desperation you have no defense of him and act like pointing out what he's doing and saying, or not saying as the case may be, is somehow me invading and ruining what you once considered your own little cocoon.
You have no answer for any of this.........
Trump is siding with Putin in regards to giving him what he wanted on peace talks with Ukraine. Trump took the word of Putin over our own intelligence community. Now he remains silent as Putin supplies Iran with our troop locations endangering the safty and lives of our own troops.
All facts. And you got nothing.
Put on your big girl panties and stop acting like a 10 year old.
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