How can anyone expect a good faith negotiation when one side says I am killing all possible leaders and their successors first? #NoWar
07.03.2026 03:16
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How can anyone expect a good faith negotiation when one side says I am killing all possible leaders and their successors first? #NoWar
MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.
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So dark and unhinged. The Trump regime is dropping thousands of bombs for clicks.
If you’re not horrified by this you have lost the thread.
Babies with COVID-19 develop more serious disease than those with RSV, US data reveal
Children under 2 hospitalized for COVID-19 are more likely to die or become seriously ill than babies with RSV, according to a new study.
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Veterans know EXACTLY what this kind of language turns into in real life.
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Should have voted for that then.
The way this works is that the U.S. now has to put troops on the ground, invade, overthrow the Iranian government and then nation-build OR Iran is going to withstand this aerial barrage and come back stronger.
That's the position these idiots have put us in. They've endangered the whole world.
Like there was any doubt.
Diesel has skyrocketed also. That means the price of anything delivered by truck will cost you more.
73 CENT JUMP! Cities with the largest average gas price increases over the last week:
Unbearable. Wtf are we doing.
Trump allows Russians to interfere in our elections. He does nothing when they pay bounties on our soldiers, and now he doesn’t care when Russia helps Iran kill Americans. A weak President.
Imagine the people we could feed and shelter, the children we could educate, the sick we could heal, and then ask yourself how anyone who thinks they are a Christian can support any war, really, let alone one started for no other reason than to satisfy the bloodlust whims of a decrepit madman
San Antonio's City Council voted to direct city staff to explore code and policy changes they could make to prevent or regulate ICE detention centers. bit.ly/4s2HtEe
Mumps.
(In case you were habituating to reports of measles; gotta change it up.)
Men such as Eisenhower and Marshall weren’t excited about killing people. They weren’t giddy. They thought it was their grim duty, and they went about their business with full recognition of its awfulness, whatever the necessity of it. That’s how leaders ought to be, I think.
As the Trump administration pushes to bring anti-Trump activists up on terrorism charges, it’s finding that Texas has already cleared a path. State prosecutors are using a 2023 anti-terrorism law to investigate and charge what the Trump administration has deemed an “Antifa cell.”
Within 24 hours
WaPo: "Russia is providing Iran intel to target Americans"
Bloomberg: "US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin"
"You’re just really being encouraged not to view these things as something that’s happening in the real world. You’re being told to think of it as it’s all just a game and you’re going to win." trib.al/s5Iy6TD
He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.
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Whatever happens, even miraculous Venezuela-like stability in Iran and/or Cuba, the end of US diplomacy as we knew it weakens the US. Diplomacy is a tool of power, we had the best, and we blew it up deliberately. These waters are plenty charted, and they are full of icebergs. 15/15
Blowtorching diplomatic and humanitarian capacity while burning through military capabilities and alienating allies is malpractice of the highest order by the Secretary of State, the nation's top DIPLOMAT, and by the National Security Advisor. It does not help the military to kill US diplomacy. 14/
And apparently now we are going to pivot to Cuba. Before Venezuela, Trump yelled at regional leaders, e.g. in Colombia. Zero evidence of any diplomatic effort now. He is just spouting to reporters that Cuba is next, and it's Rubio's dearest, longstanding wish. 13/
Whatever one thinks of the previous order in the Gulf, surely this is not the way to break it, with no capacity to rebuild it. In the most cynical sense, the US cannot get what it needs out of the aftermath without diplomacy. That's before you get to the human toll. And the loss of soft power. 12/
But you need actual people in post who know the region. You cannot rely on real estate magnates who do not understand what the adversary is offering and who only care about making money after the war. You need people who know how to play hardball and whom to call to reassure behind the scenes. 11/
Diplomacy is not weak. Achieving the Iran nuclear deal had real costs, e.g. to Iranians who suffered under sanctions, to Syrians. In war, diplomacy can help deconflict military ops, avoid/mitigate mistakes like sinking an unarmed Iranian ship that was visiting India, mitigate refugee flows, etc. 10/
The US did not even ask Ukraine for anti-drone help. Now the Gulf countries are talking to Ukraine. Who knows where that leads? The UK (the UK!) is also adrift defending bases and getting its people out. Alliance tensions are normal, starting wars without basic alliance management is not. 9/
