'Trump Is Losing Control of the Widening Conflict:
His lack of planning has left the administration with dwindling influence over the direction of the Iran war.'
These two statements are both beyond understatement. Trump is not just 'losing control' of this madness, he has not had any control since the first hours of this shockingly stupid, brazenly illegal and immoral attack.
I wish directors of 'advisory firms', like this writer, could stop saying things like ' The war has been costly, resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. service members and wounding of hundreds, and caused vast economic damage' - without acknowledging the massive death and destruction the US/Israeli war has brought to the region.
In Iran, there have been anywhere from 3500-6000 people killed and tens of thousands injured. In Lebanon, at least 4000 people have been killed since March, tens of thousands more injured, and a million people have been made homeless by Israel's flagrantly illegal occupation. Many more have been killed across the region.
Amen. This article seems to re-state the obvious in very bland terms.
Trump HAS LOST the war.
Iran IS CALLING all the shots.
The war HAS EXPANDED with numerous incidents throughout the Middle East.
(Iran has not recently made new cease-fire demands expanding on previous statements, they have been asking for virtually the same conditions since the beginning of discussions. Never mind Trump's ongoing self-conflicting series of statements that render each other meaningless.)
Own up, America ! The nightmare that we are living through - abroad as well as here at home - is the direct result of your stupendously stupid decision to return this vengeful and increasingly demented psychopath to the White House.
Don't blame me. I'm a former Republican and it amazes me that there are so many people who are NOT former-Republicans. We're aiming to get this idiocy fixed come November though it may take a bit longer than just counting the votes. The USA has completely LOST the USA/Iran war with no possibility of winning so the only real option with any credibility is to pack up and leave, declaring the loss.
The sad truth is not "Trump is losing control" it's that "Trump never HAD control".
He has started WW III for quite literally ZERO geo-strategic or geo-political reason or gain. He has begun the toppling of what will be called a global golden age in hindsight... and he did it either to distract from the Epstein Files and his pedophlia, or as a favor for a friend. A friend who is now throwing Trump under the bus in pubic.
He gained nothing and ruined what remained of his reputation with MAGA by starting this war. He lost any remaining global good will by starting it with a sneak assassination of a world leader and his cabinet and most of his family.
The scale is smaller than Pearl Harbor, but the treachery is the same. And the world most certainly did notice.
Does anyone know the daily cost of the US Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force to maintain troops, ships, and planes in a hostile part of the world? How much does it cost to park an aircraft carrier every day? How about the daily cost of jet fuel to fly around and blow up things? Or maybe the daily cost of munitions to defend ourselves from daily attack? Anyone? Anyone have a clue??
Maybe the Contrarian could look into this and start a daily chart of our budget being destroyed every day we sit and fight the Iran War. How many scams is the Trump family running right now in every part of the world? Buying islands in Albania, building golf courses and resorts in Vietnam after imposing insane tariffs, managing defense contracts for Tungsten mines in strange countries, just to mention a few, proposing resorts to redevelop Gaza, encouraging treasonous Texans to drill for oil in countries that aren't ours, like Greenland.
Maybe we could get a chart together to share with our citizens during the 2026 election period showing all of the crimes the nation's Number 1 criminal family is dedicating its efforts toward. The Trump family does not do anything that benefits us or the country since they don't want to pay any taxes as they enrich themselves.
Everything is being done in the open, yet the public can't seem to grasp the size of the daily treason being heaped on our backs! It is time to chart the cost of the daily grift from the greediest species of criminals we have ever seen in our lives. Let's chart it, and charge it in our fraying judicial system. Let's put the Trump family (save Mary) behind bars for the rest of their miserable cockroach lives!
As long as the orange convicted felon is making money off this war and the no-balls majorities in congress let him get away with it, he has no interest in ending this war.
What's the loss of thousands of lives compared to his unending grift?
His motto "No Trumps were harmed in the making of this war." He and his pack of cowards called the Trump KKKlan would never get within 100 miles of a location where they might be forced to deal with the consequences of their own incompetence.
Iran is no Venezuela. Iran has a strong leadership structure, both religiously and militarily, that has bedeviled the US for nearly half a century.
Venezuela was closer to home with a corrupt "President" and military. Geographically and economically, it didn't present the vulnerabilities found in the Strait of Hormuz and, most recently, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
p47's whole approach to everything in his life is "Ready. Shoot. Aim." And surrounding himself with unqualified, incompetent sycophants has made his administration, and, for that matter, America, the laughing stock of the world. p47, has not only lost control of the Iranian war, but his entire presidency.
It looks like his only option domestically is deflection. With every horror-show "renovation" and installation of lackeys into offices of great responsibility, he hijacks our attention to the war. But the high cost of his ridiculous building projects--which he could just as easily do in the private sector without our money--only adds to tax resistance. And siccing the justice department on innocent Americans is getting awfully close to home, and the natives are getting restless.
Own up, America ! That vengeful and increasingly deranged psychopath made no secret that a return to the White House would be his "retribution tour" -- and in your stratospheric stupidity you STILL voted for him. NOW, WE ARE LEFT TO SUFFER THE INCREASINGLY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES, AT HOME AS WELL AS ABROAD.
Approximately half of us stupid Americans did not vote for Trump. There's not a whole lot we can do, given that the other half did vote for Trump. The Republicans who hold power in the House of Representatives and the Senate are the spineless fools who ultimately will have to take responsibility for this disaster. We are holding our collective breath for a sane result this November.
Excellent summary... thank you. We have to end this by stopping Trump and his regime. Vote in November like your life depended upon it because it does. Make sure your vote will count by supporting those who are working for that on the front lines. With an anti-Trump Congress we can stop this madness. Trump and his regime, is our worst national security threat. The rest is commentary.
There was never a threat. We had a treaty now we have a huge, inflated EGO that can't even go Bankrupt. He is the greatest disaster the world has seen.
Rex Tillerson (remember him? He used to be Don the Con's Sec'y of State, who got fired while sitting on the crapper) described it best when he didn't call Don the Con a moron-- he called him a f***ing moron.
The only thing I don't like about that quote is that it's insulting to all the other morons out there.
Well Donald this is not just a one-and-done, Its not Venezuela. The Iranian regime is deplorable, and if you intend to change the regime and help the protesters, it is not going to happen. You were told the Iranians would close down the oil flow, and you didn't listen; that's not new. You don't listen to anything but your vacant head. Are they going to build a nuclear bomb?, You bet they are, your action has made them stronger and more determined to join the nuclear class. Now that you have the entire Middle East smouldering, you're going to turn tail and declare victory. I understand Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have allied; attack one, you attack all. The Houthis should beware. The folks on the USS Abraham Lincoln would like a bit of shore leave.
The entire middle east, now that they have formed a defensive coalition, will soon realize that the USA is the true enemy. It is just a matter of time before they turn their weapons on American positions, and then maybe, just maybe, on the continental USA. This is the future your Orange Chief Magat has brought you.
While the facts of this post aren't in dispute, I really hate it when people write things like "Washington apparently had no thought-through plan for [the Iran war]". Washington is a city. It does not plan anything, and such usage hides who is actually at fault. The DOD surely DID have plans, but Trump and Hegseth fired the best and brightest from our military, because both of them hate being around people who are smarter and less corrupt than they are. Then they ignored any such plans, which Trump 100% never read, and launched their war with no plans whatsoever, and NEVER had control of the conflict from day one.
Unless the plan was to empty our armories and weaken the nation.
'Trump Is Losing Control of the Widening Conflict:
His lack of planning has left the administration with dwindling influence over the direction of the Iran war.'
These two statements are both beyond understatement. Trump is not just 'losing control' of this madness, he has not had any control since the first hours of this shockingly stupid, brazenly illegal and immoral attack.
I wish directors of 'advisory firms', like this writer, could stop saying things like ' The war has been costly, resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. service members and wounding of hundreds, and caused vast economic damage' - without acknowledging the massive death and destruction the US/Israeli war has brought to the region.
In Iran, there have been anywhere from 3500-6000 people killed and tens of thousands injured. In Lebanon, at least 4000 people have been killed since March, tens of thousands more injured, and a million people have been made homeless by Israel's flagrantly illegal occupation. Many more have been killed across the region.
Amen. This article seems to re-state the obvious in very bland terms.
Trump HAS LOST the war.
Iran IS CALLING all the shots.
The war HAS EXPANDED with numerous incidents throughout the Middle East.
(Iran has not recently made new cease-fire demands expanding on previous statements, they have been asking for virtually the same conditions since the beginning of discussions. Never mind Trump's ongoing self-conflicting series of statements that render each other meaningless.)
"And now we'll go after the Cuban people!"
As I see it, Tump made two massive errors from the get-go:
1) He thought Iran was another Venezuela. It is not.
2) He failed to take into account The Law of Unintended Consequences (a close relative of Murphy's Law). One wonders if he's ever heard of either one.
Own up, America ! The nightmare that we are living through - abroad as well as here at home - is the direct result of your stupendously stupid decision to return this vengeful and increasingly demented psychopath to the White House.
Don't blame me. I'm a former Republican and it amazes me that there are so many people who are NOT former-Republicans. We're aiming to get this idiocy fixed come November though it may take a bit longer than just counting the votes. The USA has completely LOST the USA/Iran war with no possibility of winning so the only real option with any credibility is to pack up and leave, declaring the loss.
The sad truth is not "Trump is losing control" it's that "Trump never HAD control".
He has started WW III for quite literally ZERO geo-strategic or geo-political reason or gain. He has begun the toppling of what will be called a global golden age in hindsight... and he did it either to distract from the Epstein Files and his pedophlia, or as a favor for a friend. A friend who is now throwing Trump under the bus in pubic.
He gained nothing and ruined what remained of his reputation with MAGA by starting this war. He lost any remaining global good will by starting it with a sneak assassination of a world leader and his cabinet and most of his family.
The scale is smaller than Pearl Harbor, but the treachery is the same. And the world most certainly did notice.
Does anyone know the daily cost of the US Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force to maintain troops, ships, and planes in a hostile part of the world? How much does it cost to park an aircraft carrier every day? How about the daily cost of jet fuel to fly around and blow up things? Or maybe the daily cost of munitions to defend ourselves from daily attack? Anyone? Anyone have a clue??
Maybe the Contrarian could look into this and start a daily chart of our budget being destroyed every day we sit and fight the Iran War. How many scams is the Trump family running right now in every part of the world? Buying islands in Albania, building golf courses and resorts in Vietnam after imposing insane tariffs, managing defense contracts for Tungsten mines in strange countries, just to mention a few, proposing resorts to redevelop Gaza, encouraging treasonous Texans to drill for oil in countries that aren't ours, like Greenland.
Maybe we could get a chart together to share with our citizens during the 2026 election period showing all of the crimes the nation's Number 1 criminal family is dedicating its efforts toward. The Trump family does not do anything that benefits us or the country since they don't want to pay any taxes as they enrich themselves.
Everything is being done in the open, yet the public can't seem to grasp the size of the daily treason being heaped on our backs! It is time to chart the cost of the daily grift from the greediest species of criminals we have ever seen in our lives. Let's chart it, and charge it in our fraying judicial system. Let's put the Trump family (save Mary) behind bars for the rest of their miserable cockroach lives!
As long as the orange convicted felon is making money off this war and the no-balls majorities in congress let him get away with it, he has no interest in ending this war.
What's the loss of thousands of lives compared to his unending grift?
His motto "No Trumps were harmed in the making of this war." He and his pack of cowards called the Trump KKKlan would never get within 100 miles of a location where they might be forced to deal with the consequences of their own incompetence.
And he is literally blowing up tax funds with every ineffective strike and continued military presence.
Iran is no Venezuela. Iran has a strong leadership structure, both religiously and militarily, that has bedeviled the US for nearly half a century.
Venezuela was closer to home with a corrupt "President" and military. Geographically and economically, it didn't present the vulnerabilities found in the Strait of Hormuz and, most recently, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
p47's whole approach to everything in his life is "Ready. Shoot. Aim." And surrounding himself with unqualified, incompetent sycophants has made his administration, and, for that matter, America, the laughing stock of the world. p47, has not only lost control of the Iranian war, but his entire presidency.
It looks like his only option domestically is deflection. With every horror-show "renovation" and installation of lackeys into offices of great responsibility, he hijacks our attention to the war. But the high cost of his ridiculous building projects--which he could just as easily do in the private sector without our money--only adds to tax resistance. And siccing the justice department on innocent Americans is getting awfully close to home, and the natives are getting restless.
But at least nobody is talking about those files any more. Einstein? Eisenstein? What *was* his name anyway?
Jeffrey Epstein.
Own up, America ! That vengeful and increasingly deranged psychopath made no secret that a return to the White House would be his "retribution tour" -- and in your stratospheric stupidity you STILL voted for him. NOW, WE ARE LEFT TO SUFFER THE INCREASINGLY DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES, AT HOME AS WELL AS ABROAD.
Approximately half of us stupid Americans did not vote for Trump. There's not a whole lot we can do, given that the other half did vote for Trump. The Republicans who hold power in the House of Representatives and the Senate are the spineless fools who ultimately will have to take responsibility for this disaster. We are holding our collective breath for a sane result this November.
No real leader uses threats and insults to try and win a war.
Excellent summary... thank you. We have to end this by stopping Trump and his regime. Vote in November like your life depended upon it because it does. Make sure your vote will count by supporting those who are working for that on the front lines. With an anti-Trump Congress we can stop this madness. Trump and his regime, is our worst national security threat. The rest is commentary.
There was never a threat. We had a treaty now we have a huge, inflated EGO that can't even go Bankrupt. He is the greatest disaster the world has seen.
Rex Tillerson (remember him? He used to be Don the Con's Sec'y of State, who got fired while sitting on the crapper) described it best when he didn't call Don the Con a moron-- he called him a f***ing moron.
The only thing I don't like about that quote is that it's insulting to all the other morons out there.
Well Donald this is not just a one-and-done, Its not Venezuela. The Iranian regime is deplorable, and if you intend to change the regime and help the protesters, it is not going to happen. You were told the Iranians would close down the oil flow, and you didn't listen; that's not new. You don't listen to anything but your vacant head. Are they going to build a nuclear bomb?, You bet they are, your action has made them stronger and more determined to join the nuclear class. Now that you have the entire Middle East smouldering, you're going to turn tail and declare victory. I understand Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have allied; attack one, you attack all. The Houthis should beware. The folks on the USS Abraham Lincoln would like a bit of shore leave.
The entire middle east, now that they have formed a defensive coalition, will soon realize that the USA is the true enemy. It is just a matter of time before they turn their weapons on American positions, and then maybe, just maybe, on the continental USA. This is the future your Orange Chief Magat has brought you.
While the facts of this post aren't in dispute, I really hate it when people write things like "Washington apparently had no thought-through plan for [the Iran war]". Washington is a city. It does not plan anything, and such usage hides who is actually at fault. The DOD surely DID have plans, but Trump and Hegseth fired the best and brightest from our military, because both of them hate being around people who are smarter and less corrupt than they are. Then they ignored any such plans, which Trump 100% never read, and launched their war with no plans whatsoever, and NEVER had control of the conflict from day one.
Unless the plan was to empty our armories and weaken the nation.