Rich people don't give poor people stuff, even if it means they get more stuff too. They aren't rational actors. They have what should be already, and will one day be, classified as a mental illness.

I wish I could see Iranians as some sort of freedom fighters standing up against the Zionist agenda.

Unfortunately, Iran's leadership means the country is even worse than Israel.

He meant he's the president who wants his piece (of gaza)

Between the bribes and blackmailing, it's hard work for Bibi as well

The Trump Epstein Andrew BondiAG files?

I really don't think that's the play here.

1. He's very unlikely to get a formal declaration of war out of Congress in the first place. More likely, they'll be sneaking this action through by legal chicanery that basically requires some kind of "Special Military Operation" nonsense.
2. There is an absolutely ungodly amount of precedent for the US continuing to hold elections while at war. Courts would straight up laugh at the proposal that war with Iran is sufficient reason to cancel elections, but WW2 wasn't.

Yes, Trump wants to cancel the mid-terms. We know because he's told us, several times. No one is arguing with that. But at some point Trump's plans do go through the phase where he tells a bunch of people to make it happen, and there's no question that those people told him this angle isn't going to work.

Look no further than their pivot to "Taking over" elections instead of cancelling them. This is the usual result of Trump's bad ideas. A room full of horrendously corrupt people basically come back and either say "Yeah we can probably get away with that despite how horrendously illegal it would be," or "No, there's no way for us to get away with that, but here's a horrendously illegal / immoral / corrupt thing we can try to do instead." This one was clearly the latter.

The more obvious play here is to hope for a war president bump, like Bush got. Generally Americans don't like to vote against war presidents. But for Trump that's far less likely to work, because he specifically made a point of running as an anti-war president. That wouldn't matter if it was only the usual right wing bullshit that they can just discard when it's inconvenient, but in this case Trump was actually tapping into a deeper well of anti-war sentiment that was already there, as part of a broader move towards isolationism that's happening in the US right now. That's why all his fascist expand the borders BS is going over so badly, even with MAGA. They don't want Greenland, they want better jobs and cheaper groceries.

Of course, the other potential benefit to a protracted war in Iran is that it eats a lot of headline space, which is less room for the Epstein files, so that's another possible motivation. And it can easily be both.

Well you see, …. Frantically looks for talking points from their propaganda machine.

Does that make the Argentinian chap Franco then?

McCain just might get his wish.

I doubt the US would try to occupy or "nation build." I assume they'd just bomb a bunch of people and do some small operations with special forces. The goal is to probably set their nuclear program back significantly, and try to do the same thing they did in Venezuela (cut the head off of government, replace with someone they can control, and literally steal their oil for the oligarchs).

FIFA Peace Prize winner and second owner of lightly used Nobel trophy.

I keep thinking back to the tombstone scene in the "How to spot a fascist".

Mm probably not, Israel bought a president and they intend to use that to it's fullest.

TIL oil barrels are held together by giant Phillips head screws.

We held elections during both World Wars and the US Civil War. There's no war he could start that would justify the suspension of the election.

It's just more attempts at distraction. A blitz of fake information and real information so that we don't exactly know what they're planning on doing. It's both bullshit and "I said I would" at the same time. We won't know until we know.

I mean look at Afghanistan, after $20 trillion USD and decades, the whole crap collapse in lass than a week! I bet you the other puppet governments in the Middle East will face the same fate which is why the US keeps mounting pressure in the region via Israel to maintain the USD hegemony

They can't change regimes in Iran. They can assassinate leaders, blow shit up, it will just unite the country more against the attackers as they rally around the flag. There is not a chance of a regime change without a monumental physical invasion and that would be a failure to acheive anything better.