US president is said to expect renewed strikes after midterms

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[–] [S] 42 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump is like the kid in the schoolyard who got punched in the nose, yet claims that it was he who won the fight.

That’s Trump. Talking s#%t about the other kid, while secretly hoping that kid doesn’t come back and punch him in the face again.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Seems like Iran knew he wouldn't take the deal and it would only hurt the midterms even more.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    They've played him incredibly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's not hard when you don't give a shit about his handlers/owners opinions.

    Since the same billionaire fucks run both sides of US politics in their favor, using social issues to divide while having all the politicians do what they want economically, they are forced to maintain some sort of perceived balance.

    Iran doesn't care about any of that.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Trump is a convicted felon

    He has incentives not to retire because then he will be sentenced for tax fraud. I'm sure he's considered the possibility of freezing elections because of being in a war...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    We should be fully expecting either a preemptive strike on Cuba on October 22 because of "intercepted communications of imminent attacks on Florida legislature" or full on false flag drone attacks from Cuba on mostly Florida. Bonus points if he willingly sacrifices Cuban/American Marco Rubio in the attack.

    Either one happens because it will be an excuse to skip the elections and have trump become a wartime president.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago

    Somebody needs to tell Trump to make a deal. He hasn't got the cards, and he's making the lives of everyone globaly significantly worse.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Part of the deal was that Israel had to stop bombing Lebanon. That is probably a big part of why Trump rehected it.

    The first ceasefire deal included the US handing Iran $300 billion. The current rejected ceasefire deal only wanted $12 billion in funds unlocked, withdrawal of forces and no more Israel bombing Lebanon.

    The $12 billion can't be the deal breaker becuase of the previous $300 billion offer. The withdrawal of forces probably isn't the deal breaker because most deescalation deals would include something like it. This leaves stopping Israel bombing Lebanon as the reason to reject the deal.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    Israel had to stop bombing Lebanon.

    It's a mistake for Iran to ask for that as part of deal, because US/Trump do not have direct authority over Israel. Iran has no direct authority over Hezbolah, Hamas, or Al Ansaralah, and its too big of an ask to force US and Israel to become enemies over that element of the deal. Israel only cares about destroying Iran at whatever costs to US/world it entails, so that there is no longer any opposition to greater Israel future conquest plans, and it just sets them up to veto any negotiated deal.

    The first ceasefire deal included the US handing Iran $300 billion

    The $300B was investments/reconstruction in Iran offered by GCC states.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    as long as epstein is in the background he will never stop.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    It's amazing how a few weeks to an upcoming election changes politicians and the events they direct. Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump, and Trump isn't gonna bomb Iran until after the elections. Perhaps we should have continual elections?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    That would involve the US president convincing Israel to end its attacks on Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, a tall order,

    Fuck you, Guardian.

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    [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Please dont use the word schizophrenic this way. It's not synonymous with crazy and it has nothing to do with Trump's self-interested foreign policy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Schizophrenic:

    1. adjective Of, relating to, or affected with schizophrenia.
    2. adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.

    I’d be more inclined to believe OP is discussing the latter, though maybe OP can clarify

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm not expert on classifications, and more obscure precision would detract from headline/text, but...

    there is a serious mental illness involved in setting up a war escalation vs withdrawal decision as that "antagonistic elements" in one persons head. The first time he brought up the meme, he explicitly set it up as a crazy decision making process with "you never know with me."

    If its just a cute way to save face by making the (peace) outcome obvious to anyone who knows game theory to avoid talking about defeat before mid terms, then that's just cute. No longer cute when telegraphing self/national harm as the outcome. When there is no input from experts on the costs of doubling down on defeat, and only the art of the deal "always project victory" and do so even louder when defeat is extreme, the country/constitution itself is broken, and military needs to do a coup.

    Military review of the suitability for office is appropriate. Despite any rationale for making Israeli objectives, US military ones, no matter the cost to the US, it is a clear strategic mistake to telegraph the move, destroying any Iranian trust in a negotiating process to prepare for yet another treacherous surprise deception, and in setting up any coalition building propaganda (black flag) event, to get coalition to support global economic/environmental destruction, and their own self harm.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Military review of the suitability of office is appropriate.

    I agree, and while not American, my understanding is that the military actually takes an oath to the constitution. Blatant disregard should be more than under review, it should be their obligation to take some sort of action. The president, being the commander in chief, should be held to the same standards of all military personnel. Acting against the constitution, my guess, would be grounds for a court-martial. Public justice isn’t enough, and by showing the state of the SCOTUS can even be ignored by the commander so is woefully insufficient to hold any accountability. A letter of the law should be made and upheld by those service members who are trusted with upholding their constitution. The American public spends a lot on military, it shouldn’t be a pipe dream to actually derive protections in a meaningful way.

    The reality of bombing brown folks to ensure an abstract belief that American/Western values must stay salient is not helping no one no where. Why not actually protect your people with concrete solutions to real domestic issues?

    Oh yea, money…

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

    the military actually takes an oath to the constitution

    The constitution is no threat to the US government. Despite the oath of "enemies, foreign or domestic", its technically obedience to whoever president says is and is not an enemy. Military coups never concern themselves with constitutions, which all include clauses that prevent the disobedience of a coup. The military will not launch a successful court case pleading the right to kill every last of the motherfuckers in the white house. It will just do or do not. An existential threat to the United States and the prosperity/sustainability of the nation's people, is reason to stop a madman surrounded by sycophants from pursuing national suicide. A plurality of politicians supportive of Israel supremacism, and America(ns) are a sacrifice the Farquat/Mossad Epstein coalition are willing to make is an imperative for military intervention in US governance.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

    US military needs to depose Trump/cabinet before any orders are given to carry out "annihilation". Israel first bipartisanship, makes Israel an enemy occupier of US, and cooperating politicians, domestic enemies. Netanyahu's 5x bigger version of Epstein files is coercive control over American politicians/establishment class. Democracy is an impotent solution, when the process is rigged, and state media promotes its participants.

    Military control over US, as blue print for new constitution/democracy is only path to staving off collapse and more Israeli wars.

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