Editorial: If the ceasefire holds, Donald Trump’s ill-starred foray into the Middle East will have left the Iranian regime stronger than it was before the conflict
there were no clear objectives to begin with. Not even unclear political objectives. It was a war of choice for the sole purpose of distracting the world, and especially US citizens, of all the fucked up shit he was doing. Like Immigration and covering up the Epstein files.
And guess what. It worked.
now people are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and the war and not about epstein or his concentration camps.
Yeah I haven’t bought this argument since day one of the whole thing. Trump didn’t go to war to distract from Epstein or ICE, at least not as directly as you make it.
Pre-war polling saw that Trump’s popularity was pretty much unchanged with likely R voters even through last summer, the December vote, and Bondi’s firing. He’s made it very clear he doesn’t feel like he needs to win over new supporters, either, and with both houses still R at least through November, there wasn’t much reason for him to care about Epstein. It was already out of the news and voters were buying the Bondi-scapegoat story.
The idea that Trump was actually super upset that people were mad about ICE and wanted a distraction is just funny. The show of force, shock, confusion, and coverage was the point, Stephen Miller said as much from day 1, and to reiterate: Trump wasn’t losing any R votes over these policies.
Right wing media had both of these under control with a good spin on them. There was literally no reason to do something so obviously doomed and tank the one thing every American (apparently) cares about, gas prices, to distract from either of these stories that were already on their way out.
Trump started a war with Iran because 1) it’s the thing Israel has been begging anyone to back them up on for fifty years and 2) he felt bullet proof (militarily and petrologically) after Venezuela.
/rant. I had a much better version of this typed up and then refreshed the page and lost it all :-)
Naturally.
there were no clear objectives to begin with. Not even unclear political objectives. It was a war of choice for the sole purpose of distracting the world, and especially US citizens, of all the fucked up shit he was doing. Like Immigration and covering up the Epstein files.
And guess what. It worked.
now people are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and the war and not about epstein or his concentration camps.
Yeah I haven’t bought this argument since day one of the whole thing. Trump didn’t go to war to distract from Epstein or ICE, at least not as directly as you make it.
Pre-war polling saw that Trump’s popularity was pretty much unchanged with likely R voters even through last summer, the December vote, and Bondi’s firing. He’s made it very clear he doesn’t feel like he needs to win over new supporters, either, and with both houses still R at least through November, there wasn’t much reason for him to care about Epstein. It was already out of the news and voters were buying the Bondi-scapegoat story.
The idea that Trump was actually super upset that people were mad about ICE and wanted a distraction is just funny. The show of force, shock, confusion, and coverage was the point, Stephen Miller said as much from day 1, and to reiterate: Trump wasn’t losing any R votes over these policies.
Right wing media had both of these under control with a good spin on them. There was literally no reason to do something so obviously doomed and tank the one thing every American (apparently) cares about, gas prices, to distract from either of these stories that were already on their way out.
Trump started a war with Iran because 1) it’s the thing Israel has been begging anyone to back them up on for fifty years and 2) he felt bullet proof (militarily and petrologically) after Venezuela.
/rant. I had a much better version of this typed up and then refreshed the page and lost it all :-)
And don’t forget, crippling middle east oil exports made a lot of US oil companies a LOT of money.
He was acting under orders from Netanyahu
Israel stole even more of Palestine, as well as significant amounts of Lebanon
They’ll keep stealing more while the rest of the world looks uncomfortably at their shoes for fear of being labelled antisemites
We can talk about more than one thing.
We can.
But the mainstream news doesn’t.