Trump keeps acting like he wants to negotiate his way out of this war. It is kind of difficult when you killed the Ayatollah and many top Iranian officials, along with the people who you thought might be good replacements.
Trump is not just evil in what he has done. He has also shown just how stupid he can be. He completely underestimated the Iranian response and how difficult it would be to stop the conflict once it began.
Why doesn’t the government report on the damage done to U.S. air bases? Is it because they have been flattened by Iranian missiles?
You have to wonder if Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and other countries are questioning their relationship with the U.S.
The Trump administration was supposedly negotiating with Iran in 2025 when Israel bombed Iran. The U.S. joined in shortly after that. The “negotiations” were happening again this last time when both the U.S. and Israel struck Iran. If you were Xi or Putin, would you really want to talk to Trump or anyone else with the U.S. government at this point? It seems like Trump’s idea of negotiations is “we’ll just pull a sneak attack and bomb you in the middle of negotiations.”
We have no idea how much this will impact the flow of oil. Maybe a global depression will help offset the rising cost of oil.
The Ayatollah that was killed promised that Iran would never seek nuclear weapons. Now his son has replaced him after having most of his family killed. Do you think he might just be a bit more radicalized than his father? How many people wouldn’t want revenge?
When the U.S. attacked Iraq, Saddam and company lobbed a few scud missiles toward Israel. They could do a little bit of damage. They were not accurate. Iran is a whole new ballgame. The Iranian missiles are far more high-tech and powerful. They also seem to be quite accurate at times.
Tom Woods has had a saying for a long time now: “No matter who you vote for, you always get John McCain.” I am seeing variations of that appear a lot these days. Sometimes the people saying it don’t even know where it came from.
I have commented before that, with the MAGA/ America First crowd, we are not going back to the Republican Party of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I was completely wrong there. It is astounding how many “MAGA” people are supporting Trump’s war against Iran, along with all of his other bombings, invasions, and threatened invasions.
The good news is that a majority of people are against this war. While the hardcore MAGA bots have mostly stayed with Trump, there is a decent sized group who voted for Trump who don’t like what he’s doing now. Not everybody who voted for Trump identifies as MAGA. There were probably at least 10 million people who voted for Trump because they hated Biden and wanted to repudiate his administration. (Kamala Harris said in her campaign that she wouldn’t have done anything different from Biden.)
The U.S. empire weakens by the day. But like a wounded animal, it is very dangerous when fighting for its life.
I saw the warning signs of the Trump administration in March 2025. They started arresting/ kidnapping legal immigrants for being critical of the state of Israel. This is not what most people had in mind when Trump talked about cracking down on immigration. If the feds will arrest people for speech critical of Israel, it is a really bad sign for what’s to come. I don’t think this got enough attention at the time.
There are a lot of people on the left whom I find I agree with these days in their criticisms of Trump. Of course, they still get things wrong in what they say, and I don’t trust them for anything. They were still wrong and/or lying about Russiagate, Trump telling people to drink bleach, etc. Just because Trump is evil, it doesn’t make the leftists right on everything they say against Trump. It also doesn’t make everything wrong that Trump does. The left will use anything against Trump. It just so happens that starting a massive war and turning the entire Middle East into chaos is an easy issue to win for the left.
JD Vance is finished. There is almost no way he becomes president unless Trump dies in office or is impeached and removed as president.
Ask your MAGA/ Republican friends the following: What if Kamala Harris were president and started a war against Iran the exact same way that Trump has done and with the same results? Would you support her on this effort?