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EndlessWire

(7,876 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 02:34 AM 13 hrs ago

I think that Netanyahu

always planned to have the US back them up. He wanted to drag us into the war, and it looks like we're going there.

I felt really shocked and miserable after the Hamas attack on Israel, but when Israel just didn't stop pounding the civilians, and has the intention of exterminating everyone in Gaza, I felt that Israel is not exactly on the up and up. And, Netanyahu consorted with Trump, and that's enough to make me want to vomit.

I think we are going to deliver the bunker buster bombs, because Israel doesn't have the means to do that. I have mixed feelings about the whole scenario, but I don't want to see the civilian population of Iran treated like Israel is treating Gaza.

I think we should fight the Houthis off from terrorizing the shipping, but we don't get a choice when Israel's war is dependent on our assets. We do have troops in the area, and protecting them is a priority.

I think that rump is being led by the nose. And, what was all that crap about Putin at the G7? What's he trying to do there?

None of these current cabinet members have a clue about how to handle a war. We are so vulnerable. You can't tell millions of noncombatants to vacate the city, and then say, "Well, I told them to get out."

This sucks. Every day a fresh hell.

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I think that Netanyahu (Original Post) EndlessWire 13 hrs ago OP
Bringing checkers to a gun fight. Can't end well. usonian 13 hrs ago #1
Trump is playing a cynical game C_U_L8R 12 hrs ago #2
There's nothing worse than watching Trump try to handle a crisis. thought crime 11 hrs ago #3
It's not going to be trump in charge: just like bush jr., just like reagan. C Moon 10 hrs ago #4
Trump is a traitor. As for backing Putin, who knows? Maybe there really is a peepee tape. Joinfortmill 10 hrs ago #5
P tape, not pee. usonian 3 hrs ago #6
Isn't Iran a Putin ally? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago #7

usonian

(18,379 posts)
1. Bringing checkers to a gun fight. Can't end well.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:02 AM
13 hrs ago

He needs the chaos. One after another.

What an opportunity, with these players.



How can he serve Putin and be an enemy to Putin's client state, Iran?

His "art" of playing both sides can't last long in this situation. It worked on idiots. These are full-on villains.

Reposting his chaos strategy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220295160

His "base" loved the isolationism. Of course, only a few will stick to that, as the tune changes.

C_U_L8R

(47,532 posts)
2. Trump is playing a cynical game
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 03:32 AM
12 hrs ago

to avoid getting Congress' approval (until it's too late)

thought crime

(356 posts)
3. There's nothing worse than watching Trump try to handle a crisis.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 04:51 AM
11 hrs ago

Or ...well, I guess it could get worse.

Joinfortmill

(18,221 posts)
5. Trump is a traitor. As for backing Putin, who knows? Maybe there really is a peepee tape.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 05:26 AM
10 hrs ago

Or, maybe Trump just wants to be another, Dictaor Dick.

usonian

(18,379 posts)
6. P tape, not pee.
Tue Jun 17, 2025, 01:04 PM
3 hrs ago

You know what the P stands for.



Only that kind of blackmail explains his desperate need for power and money. Putin may be raising the ante, and playing two sides will be Vulgar the Flatulent's undoing. It works with idiots, not Putin.




Cats play with mice before they



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