US military has launched ‘major combat operations’ in Iran - Trump
Trump says the US military has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, saying the country had attempted to rebuild its nuclear programme.
Edit: Gift link to the NYT live coverage
Edit2: updated headline
why are you anxious? americans voted for WWIII.
This is actually one of the few shitty things the Trump voters didn’t vote for. Trump campaigned as anti-war. Just recently Americans polled at 70% opposition to military action. Even Republicans have a majority against it (53-35).
Which, to anyone noticing a pattern, is how you knew without doubt he’d start a war.
Yup. I remember George W. Bush saying that he was against “nation building wars” and then he started two of the fucking things, including the longest war in the history of the country.
If Republicans are against it then why isn’t Congress stopping him?
They’re cowards and/or bought by Israel. The Democratic leadership conveniently delayed a vote against military action until next week. Speculation is that either they get so much AIPAC money they’ll do whatever Israel wants or they think this will be such a big shit show for Trump they want to just let it happen for political benefit.
Also, realistically, Republicans are weak-willed morons. There will be a few days of uncomfortable confusion, but they’ll be cheerleading this by next week.
After all, they never met a middle-eastern war they didn’t like.
Killing lots of brown people.
Unlimited money for their defense contractor buddies.
Get to cosplay as patriotic for supporting the war effort and supporting the troops. (Words only for the troops, of course. Still cutting veteran’s healthcare budget.)
What’s not to like?
Trump won because of Zionist supremacist money. He won for “finish the job (of genocide)”. And because Netanyahu kept embarassing Biden on level of genocide, which made it hard for Chuck Shumer’s DNC’s mission “to keep the left pro Israel” that is a lot easier when their demonism isn’t on full display during election season. Trump won not only because all the Zionist money went to him, but because DNC also wanted the most pro Israel winner. Zionist funding of DNC was specifically a bribe to lose.
Trump also, to anyone with a functioning brain, campaigned as a rat fucking liar who’d go back on any and all promises when it was expedient for him, so they therefore voted for whatever Trump feels serves his own interests and by extension any such wars.