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Also the Epstein files are still a thing
Operation Epstein''s Fury is ongoing. Use it.
Unfortunately, that's not true. The media has moved on to The Bachelorette and rah-rah war. Epstein will not return to the news.
This is the sort of thing you get when you elect an insane moron with the emotional maturity and attention span of a toddler.
Don't insult toddlers like that. Toddlers are capable of learning.
Toddlers can also be very warm towards other people.
And morons might have good intentions for people in general. Trump very clearly does not.
This is the party, not the president. This doesn't end with him.
The Reuters article isn't doing this justice in my view -- in part because they're still measuring the conflict by past US administration standards, not the new reality.
Last year, Hegseth and Gabbards chat leak, while they were bombing Yemen I believe, included negative remarks about Europe, and what they felt was the unfair role of 'world police' that the USA had in keeping the SoH open. Even back then, they wanted to pull back, to force Europe to pay more to maintain that trade route, to force gulf states to pay more for protection, etc. Their animosity/aggression towards Europe has not been subtle, they openly make claims that Europe faces civilization collapse as a result of 'too much multiculturalism' and so on. The US relaxing Russian oil sanctions, was done intentionally as part of the USA's open hostility and aggression towards the EU, and wanting to splinter the EU block. The US isn't just "not much of an ally" anymore, they're an active threat against western democracies.
Like Hegseth literally dragged all the generals into a meeting last year, and did a speech telling them to commit war crimes, not to be 'bound by rules of engagement'. Anyone who didn't like it, was fired. He likely setup a war crime tracker to measure as a KPI for the military -- blow up a girls school, sow terror, get a bonus. Hell, they blow up fishing boats in Venezuela, and joke/laugh about that war crime at the state of the union. This is America now.
So in terms of conflict goals -- destabilizing Europe has been pretty successful so far, though it is a long game. The US is also using the conflict to extort gulf nations for large sums of money to continue protecting assets, so they're getting paid more for their presence in the region -- another win, based off that leaked chat. The wars also quieted Trumps Epstein stuff domestically, so it's succeeded in his personal reason for the timing. Israel's using the cover to conduct even more brutal campaigns in places like Lebanon and the West Bank; the USA is using the cover from the conflict to try and pull a Gaza on Cuba. All progressing well, by the new American calculus. Media needs to revamp their scorecards, still measuring success by antiquated things like humanitarian relief/improving peoples lives etc. Pain and suffering for Iranians, Europeans, and anyone that's not a Republican elite, is likely one of the measures by which they deem the operation a success.
And Trump's broadcast repeatedly, clearly, that he doesn't respect military personnel. If you die in the Iranian conflict, you're basically a loser in Trump's view, just like POWs he's made similar statements to in the past. He doesn't give a shit if troops die, or are wasted, so long as they secure more money for oligarchs from rich gulf nations etc.
Hell, even something like the fluctuating oil prices -- a win for American oligarchs, given they just beat the shit out of Venezuela and are now pilfering their oil. "We secured a new source of oil by committing war crimes in South America, so now us Americans are ready to fuckup the oil trade in the middle east, as it'll mostly impact those stupid Europeans that we hate". Another "success".
Wow beyond the control of an incompetent pedophile surrounded by other unqualified narcissistic pedophiles ….who could have seen that coming
As early as 2016, some observers suggested that the president was a Russian pawn, an instrument to end American hegemony, to ruin America's ability to project its influence into the world.
It's funny how absolutely nothing that's happened since then contradicts the idea.
Good thing we DONT elect Emotional WOMEN in America! God knows what UNNECESSARY Wars they would Get us into!
Crazy how that was a winning message.
Also the most uninformed Lemmy user is likely far more informed than your average American voter. That's why that shit worked.
Democrats approved Trumps budget.
Please stop framing the democrats' decision to field the most unpopular corporate sell out running a status quo campaign as, the reason she lost. There are black woman that could have won, kamala was not one, and everyone outside the colon of the donors knows it.
Yup between the two she was definitely not the one to go for. I mean who could live 4 years with such an unpopular person. Much better this way! And that laugh omg! Shrugs
A sane person would look at this situation and be pissed that, for a second time, the DNC leadership forced someone so unpopular on us that it lead, also for a second time, to Donald Trump being elected president and that's after another unpopular interim candidate just barely defeated him with margins so narrow that it took months of recounts before it was decided.
A sane person might notice the common denominator here and choose to go after the root of the issue, while others inexplicably choose to attack powerless voters for the entirely predictable situation we find ourselves in and are doomed to repeat their mistakes until the end of time having learned absolutely nothing from their countless failures.
And nerds with plans lose student council elections to popular kids with charisma. Politics is a popularity contest. Always has been. Always will be. The objective superiority of your policy proposals matters jack shit. People aren't emotionless robots. They don't vote based on comprehensive utilitarian assessments. They vote with their hearts. Trump reached people's hearts. Kamala didn't. That's why she lost. Learn to choose candidates with a soul or you will lose next time as well.
Kamala would have objectively the better choice. But voters aren't rational. They're emotional. Because human beings aren't rational. We're emotional. You can bitch and whine about that, but you won't change human nature.
There are enough people today in the US that are so badly off that they'll vote for a person whose only real appeal is that they promise to seriously shake things up. That's why Trump won. Sure, some conservatives wanted him to advance conservative policy. But what really put Trump over the top was voters who just wanted some serious change. Think people stuck in wage slavery with no clear path to better their lives. Better to roll the dice on a complete toppling of the system than Kamala's offering of more of the same.
People are yearning for change. That is what they feel in their hearts. You can have objectively better policies, but people will vote for the candidate offering dramatic change.
Kamala was a shit candidate because she couldn't reach people's hearts. As a presidential candidate, your policy proposals are largely irrelevant, as you're extremely unlikely to be able to implement them anyway. Voting for Trump was an act of rebellion, a middle finger to the status quo that has left so many millions behind. Yes, Trump won't actually help anything, but that doesn't matter here. Politics is emotion, not reason. You can moan about it, but that won't change the rules of the game.
Now that fucking bastard raised a literal HOLY WAR, will have to face the heightened prospect of a revenge attack on the scale of 9/11, Beirut, or Oklahoma. Anyone anti-American will have a reason to be violent.
He blew up the old Supreme Leader, and replaced him with his much younger son, who lost not only his father in the attack, but also his mother, wife, and daughter. That guy will think of nothing but revenge for the next 30 years.
Even if this war ended tomorrow, we will face years of higher oil prices, until the bombed oil infrastructure is rebuilt, higher food prices due to the natural gas damage raising the price of fertilizers, and an much increased chance of terrorism.
Or, Israel and or their superfans, will find some mentally ill, and lead them to commit a terrorist act, to gin up further support for escalation.
I've had a reason even before November 2024. The difference is how wide the angle of my anger has grown since then.
I'm tired of winning...
That's loser talk! Pull up those bootstraps and earn your first few million. /s
Earn it by wheedling it from your Daddy, like our President did.
Just a small loan
That's kind of the way wars work.
No way...you didnt see the post where he tweeted that he TACO'd again?
Is it to be implied that he ever intended to control it to begin with?
I think he was surrounded by complete dumbasses that were telling it was going to be just like Venezuela and he's stupid enough to believe it.
he was surrounded by complete dumbasses
he surrounded himself with complete dumbasses
Are you implying Trump is smart? Dude, that's overreaching to assume he's surrounded by dumbasses who're dumber than him.
He wants just yes-men.
Oh I’m sure he intended to. Remember in the first term when he was going to get rid of Medicaid but then they looked at it and realised it wasn’t practical to do so and he gave that press conference where he said “who knew it could be so complicated?”
This is that, except this time all the adults have been fired and he is instead surrounded by morons who just say yes to everything he wants
Hang on, I thought it was gonna be over in a week?
He said he'll end the Russian war of aggression in 24 hours on his election on the 5. November 2024 which was 502 days ago. So assuming that his 24 hours are not over yet we can conclude that time goes at least 503 times slower for him. That means this war will go on for 3.521 days or approximately 10 years.
I thought there was gonna be No New Wars in the first place??
But he didn't say which week!
Article failed to mention the literal edge of the precipice latest ultimatum: Destroy Iranian energy over an extra $100-$200/bbl oil price retaliation, and despair in GCC puppets vs. the previous 24 hours earlier threat of a good time: US leaves and world figures out Straights of Hormuz. Literally simple, and the greatest favour US could do for humanity.
Rather than complaining that Trump is out of control, hope that he is grasping for options, and world can knock some sense into him.