The US is still on track. It is still a very powerful empire, but so far, all of the major initiatives undertaken this century seem designed to help bring it down. This latest war is no exception.
I am done with Bonner's leftist kindergarten analysis. Waste of my time. Here's one quote from Bonner's column:
"That is probably not the situation in Iran. The Ayatollah has been martyred. Iran has 90 million people. Many of them are smart. And many of them won’t forget the unprovoked attacks by Israel and the US. They may find ways to get even."
Bonner writes this as Iranians are celebrating the death of the Ayatollah not only in Iran but all over the world! Clueless leftwing propaganda as always from Bonner. But he has his sycophants on this page - the America Last crowd. Goodbye. Enjoy your stay at The Bonner Insane Asylum.
I know brother John, I just can’t take the constant BS and negativity against the only President who has done more positive things for America in a year, against the past four idiots who have brought the US and the entire West to the brink of extinction. Even more horrifying than Bills obvious contempt for America, are the new deranged leaches who now follow him.
Couldn’t agree more! The only difference is we now have a President Trump who, not only isn’t under constant attack from the lies of the corrupt leftist, but has learned from his mistakes in his first term and is now on such a winning streak, that the same leftist who tried to overthrow our government, are now running scared like the vermin they are.
Don't start celebrating before the final buzzer. Remember Little Bush's "Mission Accomplished" and his idiot advisors regarding costs and duration of the war? Here's a great one : "The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990... it certainly isn't going to last any longer than [five months]". Paul Wolfowitz.
Damn Atom, you are spot on! I couldn’t agree more, which is something I very rarely do with you. But just a small reminder, the Bush cult, and all the globalist who followed, are the reason America, and the West are where we are. Just the fact that 9/11 was allowed, like 10/7, just to push their agenda. Thank God President Trump is playing the globalist like a Stradivarius. Brilliantly beautiful 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Since you like DT so much and he is willing to so readily use force, I wonder how you'd like a couple of F-18s screaming over your neighborhood letting loose with a couple of Mk-82s. You know, dropped on your head while your kids are blown to bits before your eyes or are maimed so badly they'll die a miserable death, your neighborhood is flattened, your friends and neighbors buried beneath tons of rubble and dust while they suffocate to death. Death would be a welcome relief. Or maybe you'd prefer to be firebombed ala Dresden. Sounds like a good way of how to make friends and influence people. Call up Trump and ask him to give you a chance to experience it. You might like it.
Mr. Roberts, So to you, being a military veteran is all important in analyzing or guiding U.S. war efforts. So you obviously agree with veterans VP Vance and Sec. Hegseth that this present intervention is correct? And you also agree that veterans Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld, who convinced Presidents Johnson and (G.W.) Bush to go to war (in Vietnam and Iraq) did a splendid job resulting in tens of thousands of U.S. troop deaths, with nothing to show for it. Correct? I mean to you it appears that being a veteran is all important in these matters. And to you, the Commander and Chief of the U.S. military should always be a veteran? Presidents LBJ and GW Bush were veterans.
So in the future, when you decide to make flippant remarks, you might want to expand on those remarks to provide some context. Just a suggestion.
Do you have sources for the celebrations? I've seen massive demonstrations in Iran supporting the regime. Plus a video from Bahrein with people cheering as the US base there was bombed.
I know you are one of those “cheering” for anyone or anything who hates America. It’s just too obvious in your writing. Exactly why you are such a staunch supporter of Mr Bill. It’s all good my friend. Just sit back and enjoy the ride, because you and yours are about to jump off, due to America making a historic comeback 💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
So Trump loves America? Remember he's a draft dodger who is putting our military in harm's way to satisfy Netanyahu. He was talking about statues and his big beautiful ball room before the dead soldiers are even in their graves. He declared war at his estate in Mar O Lago while his rich buddies were partying. Sorry to tell you this but in the words of George Carlin - they don't give a **** about you, Steve.
So since you opened that can of worms, It is worth noting that using student and medical deferments was common among men of his generation and social class. Other prominent figures from that era—including Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton—also received multiple deferments that prevented them from serving in Vietnam. So what is your point? Those connected can F us, on both sides? OK - So now what?
Finally, I absolutely agree with you, “they" don't give a **** about you, not one of em, (D) nor (R). So again I ask, now what?
No idea what happened next. How about you? I was recently watching the film "The Iceman Cometh" and Robert Ryan that he had taken a seat in the "grandstand of philosophical detachment". There's some great dialogue and acting in the film. Especially impressive is that Ryan had terminal cancer at the time of the filming.
So simple and naive? Not naive enough to believe this war isn't for Israel. Little Marco Rubio just said Nuttyyahoo was ready to attack Iran so we had to join them. Nutty has been drumming up war with Iran since 1995. But maybe it is naive to believe there is a connection between the countries listed for regime change in Nuttyyahoo's book and the list that was given to General Wesley Clark at the Pentagon after 9/11 just because they coincide.
Steve, you have a strange way of "getting away": can't stop slinging personal insults, calling names, profanity, sarcasm, etc., etc. Seems like you really want to stay here and display your Trumpian mannerisms.
Steve, Steve, Steve, wait a minute. Trump loves America? He parades his love for the $1.4 billion that he and his crooked family made off you, me, all of us here on these pages, and every USA citizen. He obviously loves lying to us and revels in murdering people he's decided not to like (70,000 minimum Palestinians, and now Iranians). Do you think for a minute he wouldn't mow down you or any of us down in exchange for another million in his pocket?
On the other, more important, side of "America"--the principles upon which it is based such as respect for existing written laws, separation of powers, actual competence over political favoritism, etc--do you honestly deceive yourself into believing he loves those aspects which created and built America. And outside of America itself, do you really endorse his ridiculing of virtually every other country leader on the globe?
Next, but not even all, since when did banging and protecting bangers of 13 year-old enslaved females and working hand in glove with Israeli blackmailers become part of your (and his and Netanyahu's) love-definition of America? You're in a rapidly shrinking minority which defines America and Americans with such weird beliefs, made even worse with your constant attacks on those of the opposite interpretation of what "America" was intended to represent.
Trump has most likely totally screwed the pooch on this deal! People are never going to trust us in any negotiations because every time the US negotiates with somebody lately they attempt to kill the people they are negotiating with during the negotiations!
The Big Man was warned that we don’t have enough people or munitions for any prolonged war! He took the wrong advice!
The pentagon, and probably the Congress are going to be willing to throw him under the bus if necessary!
Alex Krainer said that he is awed by how stupid this move was by Trump! This will be his legacy! Americans have already started dying and you probably don’t have the full story yet!
This was a totally unnecessary, unprovoked war! It was clearly about regime change, which doesn’t appear to be working out well!
more bullshit, we have been negotiating with those dirtbags for 47 years, met their requirements and been “F’ed” every time. No one will have trouble with this except you leftist. But if Obama did it, it would be the saving grace of society. Get lost.
How about the families of the military killed or injured? Easy for a draft dodger like Trump to put service members in harm's way. Maybe Baron should enlist to show the Trump's family support for his war.
I did three years in the Army in the mid 70s. But from what I've learned over the years I'd be developing a case of Bone Spurs if I were of draft age now, just in case. My metamorphosis included War is a Racket by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. Have you read it? Show me one war since 1960 (I know very little about the Korean War) that was conducted to defend the US.
Thank you for your service, I as well did almost 10 years.
I was there at the start of this Iran bullshit in 1979, was there for the failed rescue mission in 1980. In away, I know it's a stretch....but I feel closure after 47 years of failed negotiations.
What is most ironic is in 1977-78 I left my command in Scotland for Great Lakes. We were training the Iranian Navy sailors. One year later I was steaming off the coast in the Persian gulf where we were suppose to engage and potential kill those we trained. What was unknown was the fact that the Iranians (Navy) was not going to engage. They loved us, they loved our training.
To this day I am still in touch with a couple of those guys (we found each other on FB) and I can tell you they are jubilant over the latest turn of events. The People are in the streets celebrating. I
Here is one of the posts I received today (He now lives in the Los Angeles area): "Thank god to president Trump, we have been terrorized for over four decades"
It was a long time coming.
I can also tell you, despite Bill Bonners ignorant statements, we tried diplomacy and negotiations for 47 years. Every time, even when giving in to their demands, as Obama did with the pallet of cash, every single time, we got F'ed. The regime is full of liars. It is no secret that the koran is specific, you may lie to non-muslims if in the end you get what is what you are after. Wording to that effect.
I know it's hard, war is hard, casualties are hard. Sometimes there is just no other option. Lets not forget they killed over 30,000 of their own civilians just for protesting.
In my view we took the long way, through diplomacy and failed negotiation to get to this point.
And let's shed lots of crocodile tears for those 30,000 and say nothing about the 27,000,000 foreign deaths caused by these dozens of interventions in the affairs of foreign countries--including Iran.
And no offense intended for your sincere affection for the Iranians you trained. You would, however, be well-advised to study what the US did in 1953, when it decided to overthrow and assassinate, on behalf of our oil companies and Israel, the first (and last for Iran) elected government in the Middle East. You witnessed first-hand the nasty aftermath of the implanted and massively cruel Shah, who was at least smart enough to know he wasn't welcome any more (as if he ever was--as a pawn of Israel) and who left the country just prior to your arrival. Where are the tears for the millions of Iranians who suffered under the Shah? Please read and study the post by Chris below.
No, I’m actually listening to a number of former CIA advisors, professors and a lot of colonels and former diplomats and financial people!
I never said all was lost! There was no reason to become engaged in this war, none whatsoever, none! If you don’t mind having a bunch of Americans get killed for no good reason, then keep justifying this!
yes, the same shitheads who told us the sky would fall before we went in. Bunch of f'ing pansies whom have no idea of that which they speak. none at all.
Even worse, Linda, it was really about protecting our Big Man from having to read comments about his abuse of a 13 year-old slave girl and probably more. But all that will be fine for his True Believers on these very pages and the lowlifes surrounding him like Vance, Rubio, Miller, etc. and most of all, Netanyahu, who really piloted this insane war and who seems to be our actual Secretary of State. Right now Cuban-heritage Rubio is employing Netanyahu's Gaza tactics against Cuba.
Oh you are talking about Biden now, you know, sniffing the hair and saying the shit outta Chris Coons daughter, taking showers with his own daughter....I guess that 's Ok cause after all he is a (D). Last time you posted she was 16, now she is 13...hmmm, do I hear 10?
haha. You know it all. Please tell us. I have been known to make mistakes, but it seems that the real motivation for this war has been to change the conversations in Washington.
Yes, you and tom massie believe that. Soon as the DOJ comes out to prosecute say a big (D) figure, then you distract conspiracists will say it is political. There really is no way to win with you folks, no way at all.
That may be true, Ed, but this is probably going to create a much bigger backlash than most people realize!
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - “Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people familiar with the matter said.”
Just hedging their bets for when they have to throw him under the bus? You don’t think they’ll do it?
But Trump HAD to increase the military budget! It was about to be overtaken by interest expense and pushed down to THIRD PLACE in the federal budget, and that simply could NOT be permitted! Fortunately, even with all we spend, it seems to me that we get less than we pay for, and that's a good thing when it comes to military spending.
As much as I have admired your often contrarian POV's, your latest assessment forgets a key tenant of today's world order. Historically, there have been 3 countries that count: Russia, the PRC & the US. Today the first two are like a couple of cripples wobbling towards insolvency. And, in the land or rotting garbage this country still smells the sweetest.
Trump is the only President with the fortitude to "clean up the neighborhood". Although liberals whine he is starting another "forever war". Far from it. He is finishing a war started by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 when he order the taking of out embassy and the imprisoning of our staffers.
What if Trump isn't cleaning up the neighborhood but stirring up a hornets nest. Case in point is Bahrein- in 2011 there were massive anti-government protests which required a Saudi military intervention. I've seen footage of people there cheering the attacks on our base. What if the war unleashes another mass protest and complete chaos? Interestingly while our officials speak of regime change and democracy for Iran, Bahrein has significantly more political prisoners as a percentage of the population. What if the governments realize we can't protect them and drop their US support? Some Saudi officials are already complaining about that.
Most perceptive. How rare to find someone (else) who understands that (all to often) past is prologue. What you project can in fact develop from the current situation. However, for the moment I think the Saudis have decided that for better or worse Trump is someone with whom they can do business... and if cooperating with and even diplomatically recognizing Israel is the ticket to admission, then so be it. The Crown Prince may be ruthless when dealing with opponents, but he also knows on what side of the bread his butter lies. Getting rid of a mullah led Iran is the primary objective for him and by extension for all the other Gulf states.
No Trump, is cleaning up the Democrate Jimmy Carters disastrous decision to cut off support for the Shar and allowing the Mullahs to seize control.
Finally a President willing to act!
He hadn't even followed Obamas policy of sending pallet loads of cash or Biden/ Blinkens releasing $6 billion in frozen money to the Mullahs to help then fund their terrorist puppets all around the world.
You have things slightly twisted: want to see crippling? Just travel to any city.in the US. It's worse off today that it was 30 years ago and 1 year ago. Travel to any city in. "crippled" China today, 20 years ago or 45 years ago (1981--when it was in the bottom 3% of the world. Vast improvements, which even continue today as it sees the urgent need to prepare to ge attacked. It's not easy to vastly improve streets and bridges and trains and landscapes and, at the same time, produce as much electricity as the US and all of Europe combined..
If it wasn't going to hurt us peons so bad Kevin, I would be laughing, chuckling, and watching the U.S. accelerate its decline. Unfortunately, it is going to be horrendous but not as horrific as it was for the wel over 150 children the Orangeman killed at the school. One wonders - how does he sleep at night? Probably doesn't and that why he looks like crap!
thought you were going to live in Cuba, there you can experience the failure you are wishing upon the United States. Maybe the ruskkies will have you, i don ’t know
1st Palestine never existed, and the Philisteins have been at war with the Israelites for thousands of years. However, if that crooked as the day is long Obama was doing it, like killing the American terrorist (despite the constiturion), and no noise was raised, well that would be ok in your mind.
What good is money when you’re at the mercy of nuclear annihilation blackmail or, closer to home, domestic terrorists admitted across our border by other money grubbing sellouts? I’ll take my chances with Trump. I see the pattern that’s unfolding. He’s rolling back threats to both our economy and the lives of our people and he’s pursuing a very clever and credible order of priority in doing so.
Speaking of nuclear annihilation blackmail have you heard of the Samson Option? Also speaking of blackmail what about the Epstein blackmail operation? There are many sources indicating that Epstein and Maxwell were working for Mossad.
Not sure your point. I see nothing tying Epstein to the Iranian Mullahs or militant Islamists. Are you saying that pedophiles are more prevalent amongst Mossad? Not sure what you’re trying to say. Simply a diversion from the subject at hand ?Trump taking the most prominent purveyors of a religious Death cult bent on genocide off the face of the Earth? Explain.
Simple. First, the Samson Option of Israel. If they see themselves heading for defeat they will use their nukes against their enemies. What if they use their willingness to use nukes to blackmail the US, e.g., do this or we go nuclear. Second, various sources indicate that Epstein and Maxwell worked for Mossad which is using their files on the DC and elite pedos to force our government to support their wars?
Speaking of pedos here's a headline from an Israeli newspaper: Israel Becoming a 'Refuge for Pedophiles,' Warns Advocate for Child Sex Abuse Victims.
This incessant Jew bashing if not so tragic a history would simply be an absurd exercise of imagination. I’ve never understood antisemitism as presents to the world. What I do see is at one with a general anti-American sentiment that I have witnessed in my travels, worldwide, over decades. The only thing that adequately explains both antisemitism and anti American sentiment, is envy. Class envy.
You must mean that the Big Guy is threatening our economy, destroying farm exports, our very profitable higher education, tourism and soon the automobile industry, while enriching himself and his friends into the trillions of dollars total, increasing the national debt, and destroying the most basic of principles on which the US was founded and developed.
Ed, I see Trump trying to roll up foreign aggressors without engaging in putting boots on the ground or any neoconservative nation building projects. The danger I see is China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. I see Iran and Venezuela as relatively minor players, although, in the case of Iran, one that came dangerously close to setting off a nuclear arms race across the ME. Trumps dealing with that now.
China encroaching on our hemisphere militarily. Trumps dealing with that as well. If he can do this by using quick-reaction forces and proxy allies while also spreading peace with his furtherance of the Abraham Accords and without committing American troops on the ground - it's a win-win for us and the entire world.
No guts-no glory. Far better than sitting helplessly in the cuck chair as our enemies' bloody us up and run circles around us like so many past pacifist administrations had done. All of which, over time, had put us on the defensive in an increasingly vulnerable state as we played a never ending and expensive game of whack-a-mole with Islamists terrorists Something had to give.
I think Trumps way is the superior way, Show your teeth and in a strategically clever, and ultimately effective way. Iran, as a forty-seven-year-old "undeclared war", nonetheless costing blood and treasure, is now being rolled up. I sense Tehran will ultimately be another hotspot in a ME Arab/Israeli run oversight project like the Gaza planning envisions Their religious, tribal animosities to remain as it has for thousands of years but will not be allowed to spread violence and otherwise call the shots for the rest of the world. This is how to end forever wars. Get in, set conditions, and then, get out.
You people cry every day about how difficult it is to read BB. Why don't you just stop and spend your time listening to the ignorant, paid-off blowhards on radio?
When Congress directs military spending everyone loses. Years ago Schwartzcolf wrote about closing bases, a Senator stated ‘Not in my district.’ Most Brass are bright people and can manage a budget than any Congressman or Congresswomen.
Which bases? We have 800 or so all over the world. Next closest country? Russia-13. Hmm! Who is the problem. US defense budget? More than the next ten or so countries combined and yes that includes Russia and China. It would be more appropriate to call the Pentagon the Dept of Offense although Dept of War certainly applies as the US has invaded more countries than any other country on the planet since WWII with virtually no one else even close as a contender. Again I ask, who is the problem? Under Trump the US has become a rogue nation. Before you hammer me know that I served in the Marine Corps as an officer. I love America. It's the idiot warmongers who run this country that I detest. I wonder how many woman, children and elderly they have murdered already? Certainly in the hundreds and maybe thousands. We've lost a few servicemen already and what are we going to gain? Nothing!! Just as we won nothing invading Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Iraq except a lot of dead and maimed people. Ruined lives for what? Sad and hard to come to but the US is a Rogue nation with a Zionist Jew controlled bonehead at the top.
Chris, what you have attached is the most thorough, shocking and understandable analysis of the reasons for the current state of affairs in our nation that I have ever read. Thank you.
You're welcome Ed and thank you for the kind comment. I just hope more Americans would read this and with an open mind to see just who controls their gov't at the highest levels. There is a lot more of this type of info out there. Hopefully more Americans wake up and see it. Who's responsible for the crime in Gaza? We are. Israel couldn't commit this criminal action without the US backing it. Of course I'll probably catch a lot of vitriol for this as well. Israel is on stolen land. Stolen from the Palestinians. If people think I'm crazy then I suggest they look into the Balfour Declaration, the Nakba, the expulsion of jews from Europe post WWII. The Jews who currently occupy Israel aren't biblical Jews but are descendants of Khazarian Jews from Eastern Europe. Look into the Rothschilds, Warburg and other big bankers, Theodore Herzl and the beginning of the Zionist movement and so much more. Stuff you will never be taught in an American history class. Here is another link you might enjoy. It's a long documentary that can be watched by episode. Another eye opener that helps explain why we're here today. Feel to pass these along. Most Americans are blind to it all. I apologize for the long response
I would be giddy not for the demise of the US but to see the DC swamp cleaned up for good. Run all the lobbyists out of DC and shut down the Fed. Maybe a cherry on top would be to see Baron Trump enlist in the military - especially since both Donnie and his grandpa were draft dodgers.
Trump is certainly encouraging giddiness in the rest of the world. We will soon join Israel as the second pariah nation in the world--if we're not there already.
So Angry, someone has learned how to read minds . Could You or somebody show Me how this is Done? Then I could play the stock market and be a billionare.
You are saying what would -so and so country do . I am saying that You do not know the future of any country in this world, not what they will do. Hope this is enough to clarify.
So true. The True Believers here can't, while parading their deep Christianity/religious superiority deny even the most basic human calculation: Do unto others.....!
Trump could re-empty the strategic reserve and keep prices down, like someone did before for no reason. He should have just done what Biden and Harris both did, tell them "don't". Only three days in, let things shake out a bit.
"Only three days in, let things shake out a bit". My guess is what the "Brass"
we're saying at the beginning of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine etc. Our best chance is the "news that all sides are running out of weapons". Maybe there is a God!
My American (the worlds greatest) warfare leaders couldn’t even agree on and get the individual soldiers rifle correct for the Vietnam war and we lost so many young men due to stoppage during the heat of battle. This keeps coming up in the memoirs of survivors being read on my tours through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. USA makes too many basic mistakes: Bush and J. Paul Bremer and team destroyed much of the Middle East while Think Tank experts on the subject of disarming the Iraqi army were told to sit in the corner. We have idiots at the helm. That is my opinion.
i think it was obama who bombed the most countries (8) since ww2 and not trump with (7) as near as i can tell. i think obama bombed Libia for like 8 months and the left was fine with that just ask nancy p.
Why define it as left and right? Obama dropped more bombs than Bush. Trump has bombed 10 countries during his 5+ years as president. Someone wise man once said that no matter who you vote for you get John McCain.
Americans have been incentivized by the cool embrace of mass media that they can spend their way into happiness and put it on credit or on real estate home equity loans, and live “the good life” that they are convinced they are entitled to.
The quote you cited from Naked Capitalism, Bill, had four! paragraphs! with exclamation! points! Four! Think they were having trouble making their point with words alone?
Rock and a hard place position due to decades of bad policy, bad immature humans and most recently, Iranians enabled by releasing billions of frozen Iranian assets so they could finance October 7th and more terror through an 8th century religious mindset.
My bet is there are demonstrations and believers of similar proportions on both sides of the issue inside Iran. Some cheering the USA, Some cursing the USA. It’s never cut and dry.
Civil wars or dividing Iran back to tribal regions is next. (Think Persia, Kurdistan, etc.) aka reversing the nation building that upset the Mideast apple cart. It will not be pretty. Hopefully non nuclear.
Regardless of the above, nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran that has vowed to annihilate the USA and Israel are not a good idea.
Our past policy provokes, but the Jewish/islam conflict goes back to the Old Testament. Neither justify using nuclear weapons which the Iranians seem to espouse.
Just imagine moving forward without interrupting the nuclear plan of Iran?
Imagine what weapon they would be shipping via drones to all their neighbors then?
Perhaps finally biting the bullet now and dismantling nuclear capability is an expense we cannot afford but better than waiting?
The whole mess, started long ago, is immature backbiting and very disturbing to say the least.
I see both sides of the story. But removing the nuclear threat is most likely the lesser of evils. IMO.
PS
And I hate taxes and the organized crime family that we call our government.
Which “seven prominent foreign leaders” has Trump participated in assassinating?? Just wondering. Normally I agree with most that Bill says, because he is usually fact based and back his “facts” up, but…
TDS at its best. Bill, wake up. Iranians all over the world including in Iran itself are celebrating the elimination of their terrorist regime. Even in our bluest cities the Iranian descendants are in the streets celebrating. This will end in peace in the middle east when all is done. As for the debt it is destined to collapse the dollar eventually and Trump will bring on a new gold backed currency. So adding a few more fiat dollars to the pile won’t make a bit of difference. The debt was a ponzi scheme by the central bank planners (your deep state bubbies)anyway so we should tell them to eat it. FAFO.
I am done with Bonner's leftist kindergarten analysis. Waste of my time. Here's one quote from Bonner's column:
"That is probably not the situation in Iran. The Ayatollah has been martyred. Iran has 90 million people. Many of them are smart. And many of them won’t forget the unprovoked attacks by Israel and the US. They may find ways to get even."
Bonner writes this as Iranians are celebrating the death of the Ayatollah not only in Iran but all over the world! Clueless leftwing propaganda as always from Bonner. But he has his sycophants on this page - the America Last crowd. Goodbye. Enjoy your stay at The Bonner Insane Asylum.
I know brother John, I just can’t take the constant BS and negativity against the only President who has done more positive things for America in a year, against the past four idiots who have brought the US and the entire West to the brink of extinction. Even more horrifying than Bills obvious contempt for America, are the new deranged leaches who now follow him.
The past four idiots were Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. I agree with you 100%! The Four Clowns of the Apocalypse.
Couldn’t agree more! The only difference is we now have a President Trump who, not only isn’t under constant attack from the lies of the corrupt leftist, but has learned from his mistakes in his first term and is now on such a winning streak, that the same leftist who tried to overthrow our government, are now running scared like the vermin they are.
Don't start celebrating before the final buzzer. Remember Little Bush's "Mission Accomplished" and his idiot advisors regarding costs and duration of the war? Here's a great one : "The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990... it certainly isn't going to last any longer than [five months]". Paul Wolfowitz.
Damn Atom, you are spot on! I couldn’t agree more, which is something I very rarely do with you. But just a small reminder, the Bush cult, and all the globalist who followed, are the reason America, and the West are where we are. Just the fact that 9/11 was allowed, like 10/7, just to push their agenda. Thank God President Trump is playing the globalist like a Stradivarius. Brilliantly beautiful 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Since you like DT so much and he is willing to so readily use force, I wonder how you'd like a couple of F-18s screaming over your neighborhood letting loose with a couple of Mk-82s. You know, dropped on your head while your kids are blown to bits before your eyes or are maimed so badly they'll die a miserable death, your neighborhood is flattened, your friends and neighbors buried beneath tons of rubble and dust while they suffocate to death. Death would be a welcome relief. Or maybe you'd prefer to be firebombed ala Dresden. Sounds like a good way of how to make friends and influence people. Call up Trump and ask him to give you a chance to experience it. You might like it.
You are a good soldier in Trump’s MAGA army.
My guess is you are not a real veteran much less one who has ever fired a weapon in combat. But you are literate.
It means you recognize the fiscal mismanagement DJT displayed in his first Administration and his abuse of our Constitution in this one.
Mr. Roberts, So to you, being a military veteran is all important in analyzing or guiding U.S. war efforts. So you obviously agree with veterans VP Vance and Sec. Hegseth that this present intervention is correct? And you also agree that veterans Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld, who convinced Presidents Johnson and (G.W.) Bush to go to war (in Vietnam and Iraq) did a splendid job resulting in tens of thousands of U.S. troop deaths, with nothing to show for it. Correct? I mean to you it appears that being a veteran is all important in these matters. And to you, the Commander and Chief of the U.S. military should always be a veteran? Presidents LBJ and GW Bush were veterans.
So in the future, when you decide to make flippant remarks, you might want to expand on those remarks to provide some context. Just a suggestion.
OMG, Frank. Your comment is pure gold!!!
OK. I’ll heed your suggestion.
Thank you for reminding me of another side benefit to quitting this page - I don't have to read your idiotic replies to my posts anymore!
Its good that you quit this page, it seems to have given you more time to comment on it.
Your blood pressure will drop too.
Do you have sources for the celebrations? I've seen massive demonstrations in Iran supporting the regime. Plus a video from Bahrein with people cheering as the US base there was bombed.
I know you are one of those “cheering” for anyone or anything who hates America. It’s just too obvious in your writing. Exactly why you are such a staunch supporter of Mr Bill. It’s all good my friend. Just sit back and enjoy the ride, because you and yours are about to jump off, due to America making a historic comeback 💪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
So Trump loves America? Remember he's a draft dodger who is putting our military in harm's way to satisfy Netanyahu. He was talking about statues and his big beautiful ball room before the dead soldiers are even in their graves. He declared war at his estate in Mar O Lago while his rich buddies were partying. Sorry to tell you this but in the words of George Carlin - they don't give a **** about you, Steve.
So since you opened that can of worms, It is worth noting that using student and medical deferments was common among men of his generation and social class. Other prominent figures from that era—including Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton—also received multiple deferments that prevented them from serving in Vietnam. So what is your point? Those connected can F us, on both sides? OK - So now what?
Finally, I absolutely agree with you, “they" don't give a **** about you, not one of em, (D) nor (R). So again I ask, now what?
No idea what happened next. How about you? I was recently watching the film "The Iceman Cometh" and Robert Ryan that he had taken a seat in the "grandstand of philosophical detachment". There's some great dialogue and acting in the film. Especially impressive is that Ryan had terminal cancer at the time of the filming.
So simple and naive? Not naive enough to believe this war isn't for Israel. Little Marco Rubio just said Nuttyyahoo was ready to attack Iran so we had to join them. Nutty has been drumming up war with Iran since 1995. But maybe it is naive to believe there is a connection between the countries listed for regime change in Nuttyyahoo's book and the list that was given to General Wesley Clark at the Pentagon after 9/11 just because they coincide.
Steve, you have a strange way of "getting away": can't stop slinging personal insults, calling names, profanity, sarcasm, etc., etc. Seems like you really want to stay here and display your Trumpian mannerisms.
Steve, Steve, Steve, wait a minute. Trump loves America? He parades his love for the $1.4 billion that he and his crooked family made off you, me, all of us here on these pages, and every USA citizen. He obviously loves lying to us and revels in murdering people he's decided not to like (70,000 minimum Palestinians, and now Iranians). Do you think for a minute he wouldn't mow down you or any of us down in exchange for another million in his pocket?
On the other, more important, side of "America"--the principles upon which it is based such as respect for existing written laws, separation of powers, actual competence over political favoritism, etc--do you honestly deceive yourself into believing he loves those aspects which created and built America. And outside of America itself, do you really endorse his ridiculing of virtually every other country leader on the globe?
Next, but not even all, since when did banging and protecting bangers of 13 year-old enslaved females and working hand in glove with Israeli blackmailers become part of your (and his and Netanyahu's) love-definition of America? You're in a rapidly shrinking minority which defines America and Americans with such weird beliefs, made even worse with your constant attacks on those of the opposite interpretation of what "America" was intended to represent.
Trump has most likely totally screwed the pooch on this deal! People are never going to trust us in any negotiations because every time the US negotiates with somebody lately they attempt to kill the people they are negotiating with during the negotiations!
The Big Man was warned that we don’t have enough people or munitions for any prolonged war! He took the wrong advice!
The pentagon, and probably the Congress are going to be willing to throw him under the bus if necessary!
Alex Krainer said that he is awed by how stupid this move was by Trump! This will be his legacy! Americans have already started dying and you probably don’t have the full story yet!
This was a totally unnecessary, unprovoked war! It was clearly about regime change, which doesn’t appear to be working out well!
more bullshit, we have been negotiating with those dirtbags for 47 years, met their requirements and been “F’ed” every time. No one will have trouble with this except you leftist. But if Obama did it, it would be the saving grace of society. Get lost.
How about the families of the military killed or injured? Easy for a draft dodger like Trump to put service members in harm's way. Maybe Baron should enlist to show the Trump's family support for his war.
Did you serve?
I did three years in the Army in the mid 70s. But from what I've learned over the years I'd be developing a case of Bone Spurs if I were of draft age now, just in case. My metamorphosis included War is a Racket by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler. Have you read it? Show me one war since 1960 (I know very little about the Korean War) that was conducted to defend the US.
Thank you for your service, I as well did almost 10 years.
I was there at the start of this Iran bullshit in 1979, was there for the failed rescue mission in 1980. In away, I know it's a stretch....but I feel closure after 47 years of failed negotiations.
What is most ironic is in 1977-78 I left my command in Scotland for Great Lakes. We were training the Iranian Navy sailors. One year later I was steaming off the coast in the Persian gulf where we were suppose to engage and potential kill those we trained. What was unknown was the fact that the Iranians (Navy) was not going to engage. They loved us, they loved our training.
To this day I am still in touch with a couple of those guys (we found each other on FB) and I can tell you they are jubilant over the latest turn of events. The People are in the streets celebrating. I
Here is one of the posts I received today (He now lives in the Los Angeles area): "Thank god to president Trump, we have been terrorized for over four decades"
It was a long time coming.
I can also tell you, despite Bill Bonners ignorant statements, we tried diplomacy and negotiations for 47 years. Every time, even when giving in to their demands, as Obama did with the pallet of cash, every single time, we got F'ed. The regime is full of liars. It is no secret that the koran is specific, you may lie to non-muslims if in the end you get what is what you are after. Wording to that effect.
I know it's hard, war is hard, casualties are hard. Sometimes there is just no other option. Lets not forget they killed over 30,000 of their own civilians just for protesting.
In my view we took the long way, through diplomacy and failed negotiation to get to this point.
And let's shed lots of crocodile tears for those 30,000 and say nothing about the 27,000,000 foreign deaths caused by these dozens of interventions in the affairs of foreign countries--including Iran.
And no offense intended for your sincere affection for the Iranians you trained. You would, however, be well-advised to study what the US did in 1953, when it decided to overthrow and assassinate, on behalf of our oil companies and Israel, the first (and last for Iran) elected government in the Middle East. You witnessed first-hand the nasty aftermath of the implanted and massively cruel Shah, who was at least smart enough to know he wasn't welcome any more (as if he ever was--as a pawn of Israel) and who left the country just prior to your arrival. Where are the tears for the millions of Iranians who suffered under the Shah? Please read and study the post by Chris below.
Or that REALLY and TRULY benefitted the perpetuators of the any of those wars?
Linda, two days and all is lost?. What and who are you listening to. Must be Bill.
No, I’m actually listening to a number of former CIA advisors, professors and a lot of colonels and former diplomats and financial people!
I never said all was lost! There was no reason to become engaged in this war, none whatsoever, none! If you don’t mind having a bunch of Americans get killed for no good reason, then keep justifying this!
yes, the same shitheads who told us the sky would fall before we went in. Bunch of f'ing pansies whom have no idea of that which they speak. none at all.
Well, I guess it’s good that you’re available for consultation with your vast knowledge base! I’m sure you can start expecting a lot of calls!
Indeed.
Even worse, Linda, it was really about protecting our Big Man from having to read comments about his abuse of a 13 year-old slave girl and probably more. But all that will be fine for his True Believers on these very pages and the lowlifes surrounding him like Vance, Rubio, Miller, etc. and most of all, Netanyahu, who really piloted this insane war and who seems to be our actual Secretary of State. Right now Cuban-heritage Rubio is employing Netanyahu's Gaza tactics against Cuba.
Oh you are talking about Biden now, you know, sniffing the hair and saying the shit outta Chris Coons daughter, taking showers with his own daughter....I guess that 's Ok cause after all he is a (D). Last time you posted she was 16, now she is 13...hmmm, do I hear 10?
haha. You know it all. Please tell us. I have been known to make mistakes, but it seems that the real motivation for this war has been to change the conversations in Washington.
Yes, you and tom massie believe that. Soon as the DOJ comes out to prosecute say a big (D) figure, then you distract conspiracists will say it is political. There really is no way to win with you folks, no way at all.
That may be true, Ed, but this is probably going to create a much bigger backlash than most people realize!
WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - “Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people familiar with the matter said.”
Just hedging their bets for when they have to throw him under the bus? You don’t think they’ll do it?
I’ll leave you to your delusions!
But Trump HAD to increase the military budget! It was about to be overtaken by interest expense and pushed down to THIRD PLACE in the federal budget, and that simply could NOT be permitted! Fortunately, even with all we spend, it seems to me that we get less than we pay for, and that's a good thing when it comes to military spending.
Oy! Have you read the tea leaves wrong!!
As much as I have admired your often contrarian POV's, your latest assessment forgets a key tenant of today's world order. Historically, there have been 3 countries that count: Russia, the PRC & the US. Today the first two are like a couple of cripples wobbling towards insolvency. And, in the land or rotting garbage this country still smells the sweetest.
Trump is the only President with the fortitude to "clean up the neighborhood". Although liberals whine he is starting another "forever war". Far from it. He is finishing a war started by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 when he order the taking of out embassy and the imprisoning of our staffers.
What if Trump isn't cleaning up the neighborhood but stirring up a hornets nest. Case in point is Bahrein- in 2011 there were massive anti-government protests which required a Saudi military intervention. I've seen footage of people there cheering the attacks on our base. What if the war unleashes another mass protest and complete chaos? Interestingly while our officials speak of regime change and democracy for Iran, Bahrein has significantly more political prisoners as a percentage of the population. What if the governments realize we can't protect them and drop their US support? Some Saudi officials are already complaining about that.
Most perceptive. How rare to find someone (else) who understands that (all to often) past is prologue. What you project can in fact develop from the current situation. However, for the moment I think the Saudis have decided that for better or worse Trump is someone with whom they can do business... and if cooperating with and even diplomatically recognizing Israel is the ticket to admission, then so be it. The Crown Prince may be ruthless when dealing with opponents, but he also knows on what side of the bread his butter lies. Getting rid of a mullah led Iran is the primary objective for him and by extension for all the other Gulf states.
It seems like their misplaced loyalty (at the end of rifle) is to Israel.
No Trump, is cleaning up the Democrate Jimmy Carters disastrous decision to cut off support for the Shar and allowing the Mullahs to seize control.
Finally a President willing to act!
He hadn't even followed Obamas policy of sending pallet loads of cash or Biden/ Blinkens releasing $6 billion in frozen money to the Mullahs to help then fund their terrorist puppets all around the world.
You have things slightly twisted: want to see crippling? Just travel to any city.in the US. It's worse off today that it was 30 years ago and 1 year ago. Travel to any city in. "crippled" China today, 20 years ago or 45 years ago (1981--when it was in the bottom 3% of the world. Vast improvements, which even continue today as it sees the urgent need to prepare to ge attacked. It's not easy to vastly improve streets and bridges and trains and landscapes and, at the same time, produce as much electricity as the US and all of Europe combined..
My but our Clown World is expensive.
If it wasn't going to hurt us peons so bad Kevin, I would be laughing, chuckling, and watching the U.S. accelerate its decline. Unfortunately, it is going to be horrendous but not as horrific as it was for the wel over 150 children the Orangeman killed at the school. One wonders - how does he sleep at night? Probably doesn't and that why he looks like crap!
thought you were going to live in Cuba, there you can experience the failure you are wishing upon the United States. Maybe the ruskkies will have you, i don ’t know
Would you have moved into the Gaza slaughterhouse? That's what's now being cooked by the Trumpanyahu "administration" in Cuba.
1st Palestine never existed, and the Philisteins have been at war with the Israelites for thousands of years. However, if that crooked as the day is long Obama was doing it, like killing the American terrorist (despite the constiturion), and no noise was raised, well that would be ok in your mind.
All of these demons are sleep-deprived: https://mileswmathis.com/test.pdf
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What good is money when you’re at the mercy of nuclear annihilation blackmail or, closer to home, domestic terrorists admitted across our border by other money grubbing sellouts? I’ll take my chances with Trump. I see the pattern that’s unfolding. He’s rolling back threats to both our economy and the lives of our people and he’s pursuing a very clever and credible order of priority in doing so.
Speaking of nuclear annihilation blackmail have you heard of the Samson Option? Also speaking of blackmail what about the Epstein blackmail operation? There are many sources indicating that Epstein and Maxwell were working for Mossad.
Not sure your point. I see nothing tying Epstein to the Iranian Mullahs or militant Islamists. Are you saying that pedophiles are more prevalent amongst Mossad? Not sure what you’re trying to say. Simply a diversion from the subject at hand ?Trump taking the most prominent purveyors of a religious Death cult bent on genocide off the face of the Earth? Explain.
Simple. First, the Samson Option of Israel. If they see themselves heading for defeat they will use their nukes against their enemies. What if they use their willingness to use nukes to blackmail the US, e.g., do this or we go nuclear. Second, various sources indicate that Epstein and Maxwell worked for Mossad which is using their files on the DC and elite pedos to force our government to support their wars?
Speaking of pedos here's a headline from an Israeli newspaper: Israel Becoming a 'Refuge for Pedophiles,' Warns Advocate for Child Sex Abuse Victims.
This incessant Jew bashing if not so tragic a history would simply be an absurd exercise of imagination. I’ve never understood antisemitism as presents to the world. What I do see is at one with a general anti-American sentiment that I have witnessed in my travels, worldwide, over decades. The only thing that adequately explains both antisemitism and anti American sentiment, is envy. Class envy.
Just read the post below by Chris
You must mean that the Big Guy is threatening our economy, destroying farm exports, our very profitable higher education, tourism and soon the automobile industry, while enriching himself and his friends into the trillions of dollars total, increasing the national debt, and destroying the most basic of principles on which the US was founded and developed.
Ed, I see Trump trying to roll up foreign aggressors without engaging in putting boots on the ground or any neoconservative nation building projects. The danger I see is China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. I see Iran and Venezuela as relatively minor players, although, in the case of Iran, one that came dangerously close to setting off a nuclear arms race across the ME. Trumps dealing with that now.
China encroaching on our hemisphere militarily. Trumps dealing with that as well. If he can do this by using quick-reaction forces and proxy allies while also spreading peace with his furtherance of the Abraham Accords and without committing American troops on the ground - it's a win-win for us and the entire world.
No guts-no glory. Far better than sitting helplessly in the cuck chair as our enemies' bloody us up and run circles around us like so many past pacifist administrations had done. All of which, over time, had put us on the defensive in an increasingly vulnerable state as we played a never ending and expensive game of whack-a-mole with Islamists terrorists Something had to give.
I think Trumps way is the superior way, Show your teeth and in a strategically clever, and ultimately effective way. Iran, as a forty-seven-year-old "undeclared war", nonetheless costing blood and treasure, is now being rolled up. I sense Tehran will ultimately be another hotspot in a ME Arab/Israeli run oversight project like the Gaza planning envisions Their religious, tribal animosities to remain as it has for thousands of years but will not be allowed to spread violence and otherwise call the shots for the rest of the world. This is how to end forever wars. Get in, set conditions, and then, get out.
Bill, you have become unrecognizable and unreadable and I only read the first two paragraphs of today's missive.
You people cry every day about how difficult it is to read BB. Why don't you just stop and spend your time listening to the ignorant, paid-off blowhards on radio?
Ouch harsh; I stopped listening when Rush passed.
When Congress directs military spending everyone loses. Years ago Schwartzcolf wrote about closing bases, a Senator stated ‘Not in my district.’ Most Brass are bright people and can manage a budget than any Congressman or Congresswomen.
Which bases? We have 800 or so all over the world. Next closest country? Russia-13. Hmm! Who is the problem. US defense budget? More than the next ten or so countries combined and yes that includes Russia and China. It would be more appropriate to call the Pentagon the Dept of Offense although Dept of War certainly applies as the US has invaded more countries than any other country on the planet since WWII with virtually no one else even close as a contender. Again I ask, who is the problem? Under Trump the US has become a rogue nation. Before you hammer me know that I served in the Marine Corps as an officer. I love America. It's the idiot warmongers who run this country that I detest. I wonder how many woman, children and elderly they have murdered already? Certainly in the hundreds and maybe thousands. We've lost a few servicemen already and what are we going to gain? Nothing!! Just as we won nothing invading Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Iraq except a lot of dead and maimed people. Ruined lives for what? Sad and hard to come to but the US is a Rogue nation with a Zionist Jew controlled bonehead at the top.
Chris, what you have attached is the most thorough, shocking and understandable analysis of the reasons for the current state of affairs in our nation that I have ever read. Thank you.
You're welcome Ed and thank you for the kind comment. I just hope more Americans would read this and with an open mind to see just who controls their gov't at the highest levels. There is a lot more of this type of info out there. Hopefully more Americans wake up and see it. Who's responsible for the crime in Gaza? We are. Israel couldn't commit this criminal action without the US backing it. Of course I'll probably catch a lot of vitriol for this as well. Israel is on stolen land. Stolen from the Palestinians. If people think I'm crazy then I suggest they look into the Balfour Declaration, the Nakba, the expulsion of jews from Europe post WWII. The Jews who currently occupy Israel aren't biblical Jews but are descendants of Khazarian Jews from Eastern Europe. Look into the Rothschilds, Warburg and other big bankers, Theodore Herzl and the beginning of the Zionist movement and so much more. Stuff you will never be taught in an American history class. Here is another link you might enjoy. It's a long documentary that can be watched by episode. Another eye opener that helps explain why we're here today. Feel to pass these along. Most Americans are blind to it all. I apologize for the long response
Sorry. Couldn't get the link to work.
For your info the documentary is titled "Europa"
...the idiot warmongers are all over the globe.
The U.S. is simply the largest.
Thank God!
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Seems to me you are omitting important motivations that may warrant military intervention.
What would the CCP do with the Panama Canal should they decide to retake Formosa?
What would the Russians do to Ukraine?
How would you deal with rogue nations out to destroy you?
Do you wait until they accumulate power and weaponry?
Do you conclude China and Russia are friendly nations and their adventures in South America are altruistic?
From your read you'd think our adversaries are benign innocents and the U.S. the monster.
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So many on this site claim they "love" America.
But if you read much of this tripe aloud, you'all seem giddy about her demise...
I would be giddy not for the demise of the US but to see the DC swamp cleaned up for good. Run all the lobbyists out of DC and shut down the Fed. Maybe a cherry on top would be to see Baron Trump enlist in the military - especially since both Donnie and his grandpa were draft dodgers.
Trump is certainly encouraging giddiness in the rest of the world. We will soon join Israel as the second pariah nation in the world--if we're not there already.
So Angry, someone has learned how to read minds . Could You or somebody show Me how this is Done? Then I could play the stock market and be a billionare.
...I'm sorry Don, I can't read your mind.
If Someone has learned how, ask them?
And quite frankly I don't understand that of which you are referring to...
You are saying what would -so and so country do . I am saying that You do not know the future of any country in this world, not what they will do. Hope this is enough to clarify.
...it's evident the U.S. is thwarting attempts by China to take back Formosa and Russia to completely occupy Ukraine.
It's not predicting the future, it's telling what would happen if the U.S. weren't a strong aggressive military.
Oh, and I forgot this. I challenge you to read this and to the end. Then come back and tell me I am.
OOPS! I didn't add the link so here it is. Enjoy!
https://phantompain1984.substack.com/p/israels-doctrine-of-succession?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
So true. The True Believers here can't, while parading their deep Christianity/religious superiority deny even the most basic human calculation: Do unto others.....!
Excellent stuff, Chris.
Trump could re-empty the strategic reserve and keep prices down, like someone did before for no reason. He should have just done what Biden and Harris both did, tell them "don't". Only three days in, let things shake out a bit.
"Only three days in, let things shake out a bit". My guess is what the "Brass"
we're saying at the beginning of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine etc. Our best chance is the "news that all sides are running out of weapons". Maybe there is a God!
My American (the worlds greatest) warfare leaders couldn’t even agree on and get the individual soldiers rifle correct for the Vietnam war and we lost so many young men due to stoppage during the heat of battle. This keeps coming up in the memoirs of survivors being read on my tours through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. USA makes too many basic mistakes: Bush and J. Paul Bremer and team destroyed much of the Middle East while Think Tank experts on the subject of disarming the Iraqi army were told to sit in the corner. We have idiots at the helm. That is my opinion.
i think it was obama who bombed the most countries (8) since ww2 and not trump with (7) as near as i can tell. i think obama bombed Libia for like 8 months and the left was fine with that just ask nancy p.
Why define it as left and right? Obama dropped more bombs than Bush. Trump has bombed 10 countries during his 5+ years as president. Someone wise man once said that no matter who you vote for you get John McCain.
lindsay graham would bomb everybody. the bushes the clintons and the obama's are all from the davos crowd and the one world gov no borders crowd
Americans have been incentivized by the cool embrace of mass media that they can spend their way into happiness and put it on credit or on real estate home equity loans, and live “the good life” that they are convinced they are entitled to.
The quote you cited from Naked Capitalism, Bill, had four! paragraphs! with exclamation! points! Four! Think they were having trouble making their point with words alone?
Rock and a hard place position due to decades of bad policy, bad immature humans and most recently, Iranians enabled by releasing billions of frozen Iranian assets so they could finance October 7th and more terror through an 8th century religious mindset.
My bet is there are demonstrations and believers of similar proportions on both sides of the issue inside Iran. Some cheering the USA, Some cursing the USA. It’s never cut and dry.
Civil wars or dividing Iran back to tribal regions is next. (Think Persia, Kurdistan, etc.) aka reversing the nation building that upset the Mideast apple cart. It will not be pretty. Hopefully non nuclear.
Regardless of the above, nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran that has vowed to annihilate the USA and Israel are not a good idea.
Our past policy provokes, but the Jewish/islam conflict goes back to the Old Testament. Neither justify using nuclear weapons which the Iranians seem to espouse.
Just imagine moving forward without interrupting the nuclear plan of Iran?
Imagine what weapon they would be shipping via drones to all their neighbors then?
Perhaps finally biting the bullet now and dismantling nuclear capability is an expense we cannot afford but better than waiting?
The whole mess, started long ago, is immature backbiting and very disturbing to say the least.
I see both sides of the story. But removing the nuclear threat is most likely the lesser of evils. IMO.
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And I hate taxes and the organized crime family that we call our government.
Which “seven prominent foreign leaders” has Trump participated in assassinating?? Just wondering. Normally I agree with most that Bill says, because he is usually fact based and back his “facts” up, but…
TDS at its best. Bill, wake up. Iranians all over the world including in Iran itself are celebrating the elimination of their terrorist regime. Even in our bluest cities the Iranian descendants are in the streets celebrating. This will end in peace in the middle east when all is done. As for the debt it is destined to collapse the dollar eventually and Trump will bring on a new gold backed currency. So adding a few more fiat dollars to the pile won’t make a bit of difference. The debt was a ponzi scheme by the central bank planners (your deep state bubbies)anyway so we should tell them to eat it. FAFO.