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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's New War, Day 3 - Ongoing Incoherence, Rising Oil Prices, Global Chaos, And Oops! We Are Already Sending In
Additional TroopsHopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg
Greetings everyone. I think we have to grow comfortable now with the reality that Trump may not have completely thought through his attack on Iran, didnt take the steps required to make success more likely, and/or somehow dismissed the risks, focusing only on the imagined rewards. That he just woke up last Friday, ailing and old, desperate and scared, flailing and failing, got some encouraging intel, checked with Jared, put on his crown, chomped on a Big Mac, called Raisin Caine, and told him to go for it baby!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump didnt build an international coalition to create legitimacy. Didnt prepare the American people for war. Didnt consult with or get Congress approval - as is required by US law and the Constitution. Didnt spend months building up stockpiles of weapons for a protracted conflict. Didnt help his business partners in the Middle East prepare for potential Iranian retaliation. Didnt prepare his own party for what happens if oil prices spike, inflation surges, the markets fall, our planes get shot shot down, and dead Americans keep coming home.
And here we are .
It was clear in those heady days after kidnapping Maduro he and the regime believed that they had found a way to make this terrible man STRONG and MIGHTY again. Like a young boy telling his parents that he can fly, watch! Trump went to the NYT to announce himself a monarch, no longer bound by anything but his own mind. The Hand of the new Iron Throne, Stephen Miller, went on cable news to proclaim the dawn of a new era of Trumpian POWER and MIGHT. They were heady days indeed, those early days of January, and the next target came into view - Greenland.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-new-war-day-3-ongoing-incoherence
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Trump's New War, Day 3 - Ongoing Incoherence, Rising Oil Prices, Global Chaos, And Oops! We Are Already Sending In (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
21 hrs ago
OP
They aren't going to stop with a bombing campaign. The IDF didn't stop with bombing in Gaza.
Klarkashton
21 hrs ago
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Klarkashton
(5,159 posts)1. They aren't going to stop with a bombing campaign. The IDF didn't stop with bombing in Gaza.
This is a war of choice. It's been a while since the last one, so here we go again.
calguy
(6,125 posts)2. The best day of any war is the first day
After that, things start turning sour real fast.
2naSalit
(101,828 posts)3. K&R