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Rhiannon12866

(254,277 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 03:00 AM 5 hrs ago

Trump White House SPIRALS OUT of CONTROL as WAR SINKS TERM - Legal AF



Anthony Davis reports on the war between the United States and Iran, which has unfolded amid strikingly inconsistent messaging from the White House and growing questions about its underlying strategy. While the Trump administration has justified the conflict as necessary to neutralize Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, its explanations have shifted repeatedly, and evidence suggests diplomacy may still have been possible before military action began.

Controversies such as the deadly missile strike on a girls’ school in Minab, possible AI-assisted targeting, and the administration’s religious and ideological rhetoric have deepened concerns about how the war is being conducted. Taken together, the conflict appears driven less by a coherent long-term plan than by a mixture of strategic alliances, political ambition, and reactive decision-making—leaving the ultimate outcome and costs increasingly uncertain. - 03/10/2026.

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Trump White House SPIRALS OUT of CONTROL as WAR SINKS TERM - Legal AF (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 5 hrs ago OP
Like any not too bright bully who expects his victim to go down and stay down with one blow, Aussie105 3 hrs ago #1
War is hard to win jfz9580m 53 min ago #2

Aussie105

(7,823 posts)
1. Like any not too bright bully who expects his victim to go down and stay down with one blow,
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 05:16 AM
3 hrs ago

there is no plan when the bully's victim gets back up and starts punching back.

Like Putin invading Ukraine, thinking it would be easy - there was no plan B.

Iran blocking crude oil exports from the region, hitting at US assets in the area, unexpected and Trump is left floundering, he has no plan B.
Other than escalating of course.
With Bibi cheering him on.

jfz9580m

(16,910 posts)
2. War is hard to win
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 07:48 AM
53 min ago

The attacked population or person will not back down and it wastes the lives and time on both sides.
I have been thinking about the hogs and piggies thing. Our parasitic tech overlords/billionaires running the show bts and Trump/the GOP/all industry friendly politicians anywhere, pretty much all politicians and industrialists here in India want to subjugate people and bend them with malicious attempts to break the spirit of anyone who pushes back.

But militant regimes do not change. Zelenskyy’s Ukraine did not back down. And democracy isn’t easy to put back in the bottle. A human who was not raised in China or raised by a family of bootlickers won’t just back down.

They are all such corrupt dumb fucks…

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