MAGA...
Things Go Haywire as Israeli Escalation Throws Iran Conflict into Dangerous New Phase
One thing’s for sure, the US has never before looked so vindictive, weak, and embarrassing all at the same time on the world stage. Trump has truly opened up Pandora’s box, and his attempts to bluff-and-bravado his way out of the ensuing consequences are unlikely to work.
And from The Guardian.
How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended Iran nuclear talks
... the bullshitter at the end of the bar.
The most entertaining two minutes I've watched today. pic.twitter.com/5Yzm2rcaO9
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From the NYT
Trump Can’t Spin His Way Out of This War
They call out Trump's Folly pretty well but fall into the same US Media BS we hear all the time. Basically, Iran is terrible and needed to go but Trump just did it wrong. Covering for years of US media lying to the American people. Here's the paragraph.
Despite all this, the war has had some tactical successes, and we believe it is important to acknowledge them even if they remain untethered to a strategy. Mr. Trump’s instincts about Iran were correct in a few ways. Its government is distinctly dangerous, having spent decades oppressing its own people, sponsoring terrorism, trying to destroy Israel, turning Lebanon into a failed state, protecting a horrific regime in Syria and pursuing a nuclear program. Mr. Trump also recognized that Iran’s regime was weaker than it pretended and could be weakened further through confrontation.
In my adult lifetime the Iranian government has been far less dangerous to the people around it than the US and Israeli governments. The paragraph above lists Iran's faults ...
Why doesn't US media ever say Maybe we could try getting along with these people. Support their economies. I don't know maybe just being friendly or at least not dicks.
They are just people like we have here in the US.
Yes, Trump is an idiot.
Yes, he's fucked this up just like everything he's ever done.
but still ... Fuck the NYT too.
Skyrocketing Gas Prices Threaten Political Order Across the Globe
I can see why Europe, Middle Easterners, and maybe the rest of the world, might hate US Republicans. Bush blew-up the middle east with his war and created a European refugee crisis that they are still struggling with. Now Trump blows up the Middle East and creates an energy crisis, for now, that the whole world must struggle with.
Two generations of dead or displaced Middle Easterners, Europe flooded with refugees, the whole world in an energy crisis, the US reputation shredded.
Heck of a job Republicans!
Also, Netanyahu played a huge part in all of this.
Trump bombing US-Arab relations back to the 70s
Two weeks of escalation have all but eliminated the possibility of a detente in the Persian Gulf
The US Seems to Be Deliberately Weakening its Global Position
Alliances Win Wars, Great Powers Do Not
Everyone knows Trump and his lackeys can open the strait by simply stopping the attack on Iran.
‘Not our war’: How the world has reacted to Trump’s call to patrol the Hormuz Strait
Trump is destroying the US's reputation around the world.
I'm sure the MAGA response would be "Fuck your feelings"
The reviews are in. It's not looking good, America.
Allies are giving the U.S. one-star and two-star ratings on its efforts to protect democracy and dependability in a crisis.
Peter Thiel has lost his mind.
Last year he held a similar series of talks in San Francisco exploring the possibility that the Antichrist - a figure who opposes or denies Christ - could emerge on the global stage.
In particular, Thiel has said he is wary that an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.
Thiel, 58, grew up in an Evangelical Christian family and has said Christianity shapes his worldview.
This is wild.
Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel’s military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account
