Oh, 1971 called...
Pay attention!!
First, the U.S. and Israel share a goal of degrading Tehran’s military capabilities. This means reducing Iran’s ballistic missile and drone arsenals, destroying Iran’s non-military nuclear program to prevent an imagined, future nuclear weapon, and otherwise eliminating Iran’s power as an influential military and political player in the Middle East.
Second, this war serves as both a demonstration and a consolidation of Israeli supremacy in the Middle East and U.S. supremacy in the world. Iran is the U.S. and Israel’s strongest challenger in the Middle East, so this war is meant to remove that obstacle. In recent years, Israel has assassinated 17 Iranian nuclear scientists, bombed the Iranian consulate in Syria in 2024, and in June 2025 — with U.S. participation— bombed Iran for 12 days, killing over 1,000 Iranians. So this war is the latest in a long series of escalations by the U.S. and Israel.
Third, the U.S. is experimenting with the Pentagon’s new weapons and military technology. The Pentagon is debuting, for example, cheap new drones that are clones of the Iranian Shahed drone. The U.S. is also using the Maven Smart System, which combines data gathered by the tech firm Palantir with AI built by Anthropic (despite a very public dispute with the latter company) to generate targets for U.S. bombing. This is the first time that this tool has been used in a war.
Finally, Trump is using this war to burnish his personal legacy. Coming after the U.S. attack on Venezuela and abduction of its head of state Nicolas Maduro, Trump is promoting himself as a president who uniquely does not just talk about using military force, but acts. He is fond of saying that he does things that no other president has done. As the first U.S. president to attack Iran on this scale since the CIA supported a coup against the country’s leader in 1953, Trump is working to establish himself as an historically militaristic leader. @ipsdc
And that, babes. is why Cankles and his handlers may be all for war...
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And yet he ran on not starting wars which only proves that every illiterate word that dribbles out of his syphilitic brain and falls from his flabby lips is a motherfucking lie.
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Actually, this war has much more to do with keeping Netanyahu out of jail (his corruption trial has been put on hold), and Trump's determination to keep the Epstein files hidden away. They are a lot like Putin, who thought Ukraine would fall in 3 days. Now, all 3 of them are going to get screwed, and while that happens, everyone in the world is going to get screwed as well.
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ReplyDeleteThat piece forgot to mention all the money he, his family, and billionaire buddies are further lining their pockets off this war.
The republican voters haven't learned a thing --- when even Faux News is telling them they're being scammed and they *still* vote for the Cankles supporters, they are as stupid as we've been saying.
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