You wouldn't think one of Trump's MENSA goons would f*ck up their interpretation of NATO's Article Five, but HERE WE ARE

[Miles Archer]

AS WE ALL KNOW, Iran did not INITIATE THIS by ATTACKING THE U.S.

THEY WERE ATTACKED, and RESPONDED, which does NOT obligate NATO to rush to Grampy's aid.

TRUMP WAS THE INITIAL AGGRESSOR. Amazing how the White House is attempting to white-wash that and shame our allies.

One of Donald Trump’s confidants has launched into a scathing tirade against NATO after allies refused to join the president’s war in Iran.

“These motherf--kers always talk about Article Five, Article Five, Article Five, Article Five, Article Five,” the person, described as “a Trump ally close to the White House,” told Politico Wednesday, referring to provisions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that treat an attack on one member as an attack on all.

“OK, well, Iran has been blowing up our soldiers and ripping their wings off for, you know, half a century,” they continued in a fury. “We finally responded, and now they’re f--king going after all our major non-NATO allies and the United States.”

The aide was not done. “You guys are like, not only saying we’re not going to help, you’re closing your airspace to us,” they raged. “Really?”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-aide-launches-vile-f-word-rant-at-allies/

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Shame we can't find out what he said. Paywall.

We were not in any immediate threat of an attack. Trump admitted that he approved the attack first, because he believed that Iran would soon attack. He was wrong on all counts. The fact that he had to go back in history to pile on reasons says that he knew that he overreached.

[Miles Archer]

2. https://archive.ph/

I was made aware of this by another DUer:

https://archive.ph/

Although the ongoing performance of the site can be erratic, if you go to that link and enter the link from a paywalled article, it will return the archived copy of the article.

I also use the WATERFOX BROWSER...set in private mode. If you go to Daily Beast, it will serve up your "one free article," and when you close the browser, it wipes out history, cache, cookies, etc, so that when you go back, you're in "one free article" mode again.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Nice information! Thanks!

[Swede]

4. More like Densa goons. sic

[Renew Deal]

5. Wonder either was

It’s clearly someone close to the situation. Maybe a B tier true believer.