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Wrecker.

this is fucking CRAZY

I don't know, but as someone who values the freedom of navigation and thinks that a regime who killed ten thousands of it's citizens just this year (!!!) should have at least some sanctions placed on them, I personally do not "want a good deal for iran"

It is not hawkish to point out that Trump lost the war of choice that he started & it is not the duty of doves to defend a peace treaty that recognizes those losses

Michelle Obama: The lies about your birthright, your faith, your patriotism, the outrage when you stated the biological fact that if you'd had a son that he too would be black, yet you were unflappable at every turn, always focused.

Even at their most brutal and ineptly led, no other post-1945 European war of imperial retreat led to anti-colonial armies launching airstrikes on the imperial capital

its crazy how this guy has been out of office almost 10 years and we are just *now* beginning to see politicians who can, again, speak the language of American civil religion in ways that can grab an audience.

For all of the folks who looked at US foreign policy and thought, "this is easy, any idiot could do better" - any idiot has now tried and it turns out that, no, they didn't do any better. Although I'm excited to see how the populists attribute this to the establishment over the next few years.

Major instrument of surrender vibes

Glonzoism is a gateway to Omnicausism.

JCPOA got Iran to hand over nearly all its enriched uranium, take most centrifuges offline, pour concrete into its one plutonium-producing reactor, and verify this by accepting the world's most intrusive inspections regime, all without firing a shot. It was very good. Pro-Trump media bias. Again.

No smoke for the Secretary of State, huh?

oracle of delphi voice

A bunch of people unknowingly stanning for the shah in this misleading post 😵‍💫

Love that everyone memory-holes Stuxnet (a covert action fast-tracked by Obama to destroy centrifuges) that served the Iranians a stark warning prior to the kickoff of the P5+1 talks that resulted in the JCPOA.

The man placed service flags behind his desk in the Oval Office and takes Purple Hearts from vets, but when the moment he’s faced with hard consequences, commander-in-chief leaves the job description. A coward masked by bravado.

Oh man what a layup for an intrepid reporter: “You said Saudi has ballistic missile capability so Iran can have them too. Well, Mr. President, Israel has nuclear deterrent, does you same logic apply to Iran here as well?”

*3 months later* Mexico gets 300 billions dollars and control of the Gulf of Mexico

I’m sure he’s been told it’s Kuwait, not Qatar dozens of times, but Qatar is closest to Trump, monetarily.

Don’t worry about Hoover, Don. Historians will be debating Buchanan or Trump for decades!

How confidence-inspiring for shipping companies!

The strategic goals for Trump’s war are now plain to see: 1) A quick and easy win framed by the media as superior to JCPOA 2) A reinforced invincibility narrative 3) A cut from reconstruction/oil profits Needless to say, none of these align with the strategic interests of the United States

Heh. Oh he wants to learn just how sharp of a thorn Bibi can be? All presidents learn eventually…

Not optimistic that they seem to be preparing us for an MOU that's like "It is agreed that Iran has the right to collect tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, including the right to make the tolls payable in enriched uranium."

"We develop security cooperation to deter peer adversaries right?" No, you sit in that chair in the corner while CENTCOM uses all your strike munitions

What a week to announce this one lol

This is not happening, of course, but would STRONGLY encourage Dems to highlight Donald Trump’s massive strategic failure. The United States is weaker and Iran is stronger. Simple as.

3 months ago, this felt like going out on a limb but the hubris and idiocy of this administration has manifested it. A self-own for the ages.

Literally complete and total Iranian victory

@pt109.bsky.social's American Suez Theory undefeated

say what you will, the american civic religion pounds certain ideas bone-deep into all of us. one of them is that america is an experimental nation, built on the ideas of freedom and equality set out in the Declaration

Given the rate of oil draws from inventories, the difference between 'Friday' and 'two to three weeks' for the start of regular transits in the Hormuz could be really quite significant.

ngl, the space x IPO being largely successful immediately after elon musk spent a week fomenting racist pogroms in northern ireland is one of the more blackpilling events of the year for me

not sure the mainstream press has been played this hard since the bill barr book report on the mueller report

no guys you don’t understand it’s very offensive to describe any of this as trashy

We’re a creedal nation and this is blasphemous. The entire endeavor.

The Iraqi men’s national team is using The Greenbrier as their World Cup base camp. So if WWIII breaks out, they will be sole survivors.

The entire mil space is like "Look dude, we've seen the pathology, we know the type. Told ya." The entire progressive world "You war profiteers haven't repented enough to believe you." Us "Look we don't like Collins too, but you need another dude." Them "Okay war criminal."

My read on this: Trump is desperate to end this fiasco and is willing to give away the farm BUT only if it is reported as a massive win that’s Much Stronger than the JCPOA. This is an impossible condition to meet.

Nearly every sticking point during JCPOA negotiations leaked. There were daily tick-tocks near the end. If we were *anywhere* close to a final deal, we’d know it. This is what’s happening:

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I’d really love to know who he thinks he’s speaking to but I suppose we’ll have to wait for some A-list reporter’s book to find out.

Want to lift this up a bit because it highlights how the conversation around masculinity is centered around a lot of racialized assumptions as well.

The right is obsessed with imagery from the summer of 2020 and I think the reaction to Belfast reveal why: They falsely saw BLM summer as a pogrom on whites. They want to do it “right”

The police in Northern Ireland have called the rioters fascists. Journalists, you are now safe to do the same thing if you haven't been already.

Really worth watching to see how long Kilmeade coaches him and tries to interject to bring Trump back on topic. That’s impossible and he admits it by the end of the clip saying he never should’ve mentioned CA in a discussion re: Iran They all know he’s gone and they’re managing up a deranged person