cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47351758
“Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.”
The strikes come just hours after Trump said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely.”
God it’s so simple people.
The Iran war cannot end until MAGA consolidates power. They are slowly doing it, but aren’t at the point yet where they can just rip the mask off.
They can’t go to full on war because they’re afraid of being chased out of office while there are still functioning democratic mechanisms. They can’t just retreat, as Israel will just step in and cause point 1 to be an issue.
This back and forth, “deal is imminent” BS is an obvious ploy to buy time, nothing more. The rest of the world is getting impatient but can’t control the situation at all.
This has 0 to do with Iran, or nuclear weapons/material, etc. This is 100% a distraction war being delicately balanced to last as long as possible without blowing up completely. As soon as MAGA feels enough of the fix is in, they’ll abandon Israel and the Middle East and leave it to go to shit.
It’s May 26. Six months at the most until no one can deny MAGA is a full blown fascist regime.
Or do you really think Trump is building a survival bunker ballroom that he’ll only use for a handful of weeks if at all. Or you think Trump is doing it “for future presidents” lol.
I’m not sure how attacking Iran is helping their power grab, if anything it is making them look bad and pissing off their base with high domestic prices.
I think it more likely that they were feeling invincible after Maduro was captured, and since they installed Yes Men as top military brass, no one had the heart or the brains to point out how big a fuck up it would be to attack Iran.
How much are you hearing about progress on the Epstein situation lately?
How much were we hearing just before they attacked Iran?
Also, they obviously do not give a fuck about the Epstein files, at all.
They are going after Hasan Piker instead of doing even the least amount of anything against any of the Epstein Class.
As a for example…
This war is only making it more difficult to consolidate power, and they all know it too. Israel forced them into it. Because the president is Israel’s bitch.
I agree Israel fooled MAGA into it. I don’t know about force, just manipulated.
I don’t see how it’s making it more difficult to consolidate power though. From what I can see, the Epstein files were heating up big time, just before the war. If they lost control of the narrative and Epstein stayed front and center Trump could have been impeached by now easily.
I’m not sure how many flip flops it’s going to take for people to figure it out. It’s also why the Cuba situation is deteriorating right as the Iran situation is appearing more positive. With mediators and many other stakeholders sucked in, MAGA can’t control the Iran narrative as tightly anymore. They have to try to pretend to be interested in an end to the war.
All IMO obviously
Epstein was an Israeli honeypot, they have video of footage of these guys banging kids and are using it to keep that critical mass of lawmakers in line with everything else they do.
So I am saying the president is being blackmailed into it.
I reaalllly want to believe that but I haven’t seen anything in the way of evidence. I mean it’s not out of the question though.