Trump Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East

[SamuelTheThird]

Wall Street Journal, paywalled

this is in addition to 5000 marines and thousands of paratroopers

[Irish_Dem]

1. Military industrial complex must be paying big bribes to the Trump Crime Syndicate.

And Iran is not handing over all of its land, oil, gold, cash to Trump.

[allegorical oracle]

2. Chris Hayes is discussing this right now with Jake Sullivan, Biden's Ntl

Security Advisor. Sullivan's saying this was likely necessary because more manpower is needed -- and he says we'll likely take "heavy losses." He also said that we should all be asking "What for?" Maybe we should be calling our Congress members and asking that question.

[Dave says]

4. Didn't T say at his press conference ...

… that Iran was 2, maybe 4 weeks away from building a nuclear weapon and planned to drop it on is?

Wait, I thought we obliterated Iran’s ability to build a weapon last summer? If it’s that easy to restore that ability, the world is in a lot of hurt. More likely it’s a made of excuse by this administration. For the life of me, I have no idea why we attacked Iran.

We the people really need to know why. We deserve to know why. Even if the answer is it was simply at the command of an addled, demented Prez.

[yellow dahlia]

3. When things happen that he doesn't like - he acts out.

There is a lot happening that he doesn't like:

The mistaken release of Jack Smith memo from DOJ identifying the greed motive of the grifter in stealing classified docs.

Despite what he says - he is NOT winning the war.

His grift is covered by the media - daily.

...and as always - Epstein files.

And on Saturday he will be pissed when millions show up to protest his existence.

Twilight Zone episode w/ Billy Mumy.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Epstein files.

Suggestion: All those in favor of this shit should enlist.

[ecstatic]

6. this is incredible that one man could do this. Absolute insanity

And there's really no way out.

Iran has all the cards. smfh.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. This will weigh on markets in the days ahead

like beginning tomorrow morning

[think4yourself]

8. Once there's boots on the ground

any suggestion of not funding this debacle will be considered treasonous. Remember “We can’t cut and run” and “Don’t you care about the troops?” or the classic “SURRENDER MONKEYS!”

This is the Rubicon.

[Tetrachloride]

9. trial balloon

a soldier came up to me with tears in hus eyes


“please send me to Iran so i can be a martyr”

and thereafter on every Saturday and Sunday afternoon, the Orange got a hole in one, except on Epstein days

[Jack Valentino]

10. Our peak deployment in the Iraq 'regime change' was about 170,000 troops...

so the numbers they are deploying right now are so pitifully small, compared to Iran's claimed million-man force---
that to put such a small number into the country sounds like a suicide mission to me!

Also, Iran has a much larger population than Iraq did and covers more area. Per Google:
"Iran’s current population is roughly 3.5 times larger than Iraq's in 2003, with over 91–93 million people in Iran (2024–2026) compared to approximately 25 million in Iraq at the time of the invasion. Iran also covers a significantly larger land area (591,000 sq miles) compared to Iraq's 168,000 sq miles"

Maybe they are thinking about some kind of "quick in and out" like in Venezuela---
but Iran isn't Venezuela and Venezuela was caught by surprise---
but there doesn't seem to be any real plan, and even GOP congresspeople are complaining about it
after their classified briefings which really didn't tell them ANYTHING....


I sure wouldn't want to be a member of the 82nd Airborne division right now,
subject to the orders of a demented madman Commander-in-Chief
who doesn't give a shit about our soldiers and described them as "losers" !!!

[CanonRay]

11. X10, X10, X10, X10

and more is what would really be needed.

[Hugin]

12. To do what?

What’s the mission?

As usual, there is none. No point.

Pathetic.