While we don’t know whether Trump will decide to attack Iran, these are exactly the movements we’ve been expecting, but so far not seeing, in advance of a sustained operation, both defensive and offensive.
While we don’t know whether Trump will decide to attack Iran, these are exactly the movements we’ve been expecting, but so far not seeing, in advance of a sustained operation, both defensive and offensive.
Feckless Wonder will edge this for a year.
Troops deployed in the holding pattern spots should buy condos and save money.
I hope you are right but all indicators as far as I am concerned point to war.
No, me being right is not better.
Look at how this dipshit operates - everything is about exerting pressure for performative leverage. Under no circumstances does he just get the job done, let alone get the job done quickly or with precision.
Build up will sit there accumulating massive costs and risk for a year, goading and destabilizing. Which, to be fair, THAT is a valid tactic. But only when you know that the people you’re goading can’t drop a single nuke on all your built up forces and wipe them out.
It’s already been decided because Iran is not popular in the US. Neither is trump. Trump bombs Iran into oblivion to look like the lesser of two evils.
Prolonged wars in the middle east aren’t popular either as we only very recently ended two of them, but this administration has no imagination and is just copying what W Bush did.
I agree it has already been decided as we’re seeing the very same manufactured consent in the media as we did before Iraq and Afghanistan, and Democrats are always willing to jump on board with whatever the Republicans want, so there isn’t really anyone around to stop it from happening.
An easy win against an unpopular country will get you at least 4% approval rating Mr trump.
It just feels a lot like the boys.
Well the midterms aren’t going away otherwise.
Yeah, this is not going to happen. The best guarantee of this is that Russia won’t want it to.
No, I never said not going to happen. I’m saying it will be a year of sitting right there as a persistent threat to try and get something (what, exactly, no one knows, because WTF knows what this idiot thinks). Then, just like Putin, he can’t have a build up and then just take his toys and go home. So you’ll get a $1 trillion in debt every 30 days (right now it’s 100 days) to once again hold a huge ad hoc military base in the Middle East for a while, then finally go in one day.
I think Russia would love a distraction from the embarassing mess their military has become at the frontline.
Sacrificing their only remaining ME ally is definitely not worth a transient distraction in the news. Losing Syria was a huge blow for them.