Fears that decision to strike could be open-ended as Trump comes under pressure to spell out his vision for the country

Donald Trump is under pressure to spell out his vision for Iran amid the ongoing attacks on the country and reports of the first American casualties since the launch of unprovoked US and Israeli military strikes.

Trump’s critics are demanding that the White House provide greater clarity about what comes next. Opponents and analysts say the lack of a clear plan outlined so far has created a danger of the US being sucked into a long-lasting conflict of the sort that Trump repeatedly vowed to avoid.

“If the administration has a game plan, they have yet to reveal it, frankly,” said Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow and Iran specialist at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

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      It’s unfortunately hard to find out the sum total of spending spurred by executive orders. Which you think if we had a real free press would be something someone was tracking.

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    It goes right into the living rooms of all the morons we still have left from 2004 who insisted “you can’t change presidents during a war!”

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    It goes to a false flag attack on NY, triggering a “National Emergency” around the Fall of 2026. Would this government bomb its own people?

    What would this government not do to stay in power?

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    Lack of clear plan? It’s clear…US attack. Iran Defends. US is the one without much more of a plan than to distract from the EpstinenFiles.

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      In this case, its more than just a distraction from the Epstein files. Trump was captivated with the idea that Ukraine had to suspend elections while engaged in war. He is going to try and pull that same shit here, just watch.

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        Same thing with Israel, they are declaring another war so they don’t have to leave if/when they lose this year’s elections. (If that happen at all)

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          Calling them accelerationists is giving them too much credit.

          They don’t want to see it burn, they just want to feel like their “team” won. Whether it burns and hurts them doesn’t matter as long as they think it hurts the “woke libs” more.

          People who lack empathy simply can’t understand that lifting others up will pay back in kind and lift themselves up, too. It’s all a zero sum game to these pricks.

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    Presumably this is the oligarchs’ backup plan to their bubble economy created around AI slop.