Is Trump going to war?

[kentuck]

Is he ready to put American lives on the line? Is it really in our national interest? Or is it in someone's personal interest?

The American people do not know. They were never told where our elected leaders were doing business? They could never retrieve the tax returns? They prefer to wander in the dark, it appears?

This seems like it should be a question that every American should be focusing on?

[mopinko]

1. imho, if he tries it would trigger a flat out impeachment.

dems are busy drawing a line in the sand about going to war w/o congress.
i also think it would bring the people into the streets.

[kentuck]

6. But, it would not matter that much, if he had already started a war...

What are we going to say to the people we bomb? "Sorry, we let the kid take the keys to the car?"

Suposedly, the National Security met today for about an hour? I didn't know they still had a National Security team? Didn't Bolton just get fired? Who replaced him?

I'm sure you are right that people would be in the streets. Unfortunately, it seems like there is nothing except total gridlock between the House and Senate and Democrats and Republicans?

[mopinko]

9. i dunno. i feel like the facade really has cracked.

hopefully the military will drag their feet pretty hard.
bolton, coats, brennan, plus walsh, weld and sanford, it might get pretty loud. i dont think he can get away w a sneak attack.

[Hoyt]

2. He knows it wouldn't go well. He might shoot a few rockets, but

invading Iran is unlikely.

[brooklynite]

3. No

He's good at bluster and threats. Not much else

[Thomas Hurt]

4. No, just trying to sound tough to keep the base drooling.

Got to keep up the tough guy big leader bee ess.

[global1]

5. Trump Is Desperate - He's Losing In The Polls & His Future Rests In Being Re-Elected......

or in some way maintaining his presidency. So is it a coincidence that there should be an incident that could provoke a war with iran? Is it a coincidence that John Bolton was fired by Trump just before this incident? Wouldn't Trump benefit from some sort of war with Iran? Being a war president - does he think that the American Public would come to his support for such a war? Or is he just thinking that maybe he could avoid having to be on a debate stage with the Dem nominee? Or is he just thinking that he could suspend the 2020 election?

I just don't trust anything that's happening on the world stage anymore least alone Trump. Desperate people do desperate things. This guy has his hands on the nuclear button. He only thinks about himself. I just hope that the people that surround themselves around Trump can hold him down.

This is really a scary period we are going through and i won't feel safe until the Nov 2020 election and a Dem is in charge. We need adults in the room and not some raving lunatic.

[kentuck]

11. Anybody that doesn't feel a little fearful at this time...

...may already be under the spell? To them, it's just another day in FantasyWorld.

[Initech]

7. Saudi Arabia can honestly go eat a bag of shit.

They brutally murder a journalist, not a peep. But attacking their oil supply? OMG!!! DECLARE WAR NOW!!!

[gordianot]

8. If he does start a war he would have the wartime succession argument.

A long shot maybe it might be his only hope. The counter would be Eisenhower and Nixon who claimed they would end wars if elected. Trump by now should know it may be his last card.

[genxlib]

10. Or...

Is he just toying with the stock market and oil futures? Would any of us put it past him?

[gratuitous]

12. Only if his pal Mohammed "Bonesaw" bin Salman says so

Isn't it curious how little we've heard from conservatives about Trump ceding the authority to put the military into action to MBS? Remember how jacked out of shape conservatives got when U.S. troops participated in NATO or UN military maneuvers because they might be ordered around by officers who weren't Americans? But going to war on the say-so of MBS is okey-dokey with them.

[kentuck]

13. That's about the gist of it...

There's money to be made in the Kingdom.

[htuttle]

14. It depends on what 'the Kingdom' tells us to do

Apparently, we added another Suzerain over the weekend. Now we seem to have at least two bosses. Putin and MBS.