Like if these reports are true we are pretty much locked in for a global energy crisis! And it’s not anonymous reporting, the president is tweeting “Iran! Remove your mines forthwith!” And it’s not even on the NYT front page
It’s not like mining will change the amount of traffic through Hormuz, which will go from zero to zero, but it immediately makes the fallout global and irreversible, by ensuring that traffic remains zero for the foreseeable future. Which is why it’s odd it’s getting only moderate press attention
Anyone else have the feeling that Trump has already floated the idea of the Navy escorting tankers through Hormuz (to the Navy) and they told him no, but he can’t admit that the threat is not eliminated?
The United Nations Human Rights Council has found the deportations and transfers of Ukrainian children are large-scale and systematic in nature and are carried out as part of an organized policy of the Russian Federation. They constitute war crimes.
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Hate on the Trump 1 "adults in the room" all you want, but Jim Mattis apparently stopped this war from happening in 2018 by saying, as soon as Trump left the meeting where he ordered strikes, "Gentlemen. We're not doing any of that shit."
Trump fired everyone who would have known what to do because they all kept telling him stuff he didn't want to hear like "you literally can't do this"
They ignored all the plans, and now refuse to talk to anyone?
I really just do not understand how this could be possible
i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency
1/ GIFT LINK. Especially enjoy the role the Supreme Ct played. With no authority to do so and 'course no explanation of why it thought it had any, it overrode fed'l privacy laws and SSA's partitioned data structure & data-handling rules, effectively authorizing the system's breach.
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Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strike
The number of Pentagon employees who focus on mitigating civilian casualties has dropped from 200 people to less than 40.
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5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
2019, Aragon received an anonymous email alleging the bodies of "two foreign girls" were buried near Epstein’s property. “Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex,”. The writer claimed to be a former staff member at the ranch. Aragon forwarded the email to the FBI, and the email is...
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
🇺🇦❌🇷🇺🇮🇷Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Russia has used over 57,000 Shahed-type drones initially supplied by Iran against Ukraine.
🇮🇷 Iran has begun laying a small number of mines in the Strait of Hormuz, - CNN
Only a few dozen mines have been placed so far, but Iran still has most of its mine-laying boats available and could deploy hundreds if it chooses.
Officials at DHS removed career staff at CBP after they refused orders to mislabel surveillance records to block release under FOIA.
Those forced out include CBP’s top privacy officer & FOIA director after a lawful disclosure angered political leadership.
#ProudBlue
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It's possible one could have been stolen or lost by them or by the US but he doesn't actually even deny that it was the US.
That's not a denial however.
Can't Congress subpoena somebody?
That’s why I’m fighting to pass a constitutional amendment to stop it. No president, of either party, should ever be able to get away with this.
The presidential pardon was never meant to be a billion-dollar favor factory. This is a president using the most unchecked power in the Constitution to reward the wealthy, protect his allies, and erase their debts to society.
Trump’s pardons have forgiven $1.5 BILLION in criminal debts. That’s money that was owed to victims and the government.
That number comes from the conservative Cato Institute, by the way.
Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"
This is just one of many reasons why tankies infuriate me. Yeah on paper the USSR was a dream, in reality it was a multidimensional original criminal system.
Tweet that Reuters has learned as many as 150 US troops are wounded in Iran.
As many as 150 wounded troops in the special military operation against Iran. What else is the administration hiding?
So it seriously was us.... How? How could that be possible? How many fuckups would have to happen? How compromised is our command structure? Is it now just Hegseth and a big red button?
