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"What this all comes down to is that the White House is running as fast as it can from regime change and even faster from its demand for 'unconditional surrender'."
~Josh Marshall
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Trump Now MoonWalking Away From Regime Change As Fast As He Can
Yesterday UN Ambassador Mike Waltz announced that the US was moving ahead rapidly to achieve all its war objectives which he listed as 1) destroying Iran’s…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"Reporters tried again. 'You said the war is "very complete.". But your defense secretary says "this is just the beginning." So which is it?'
'I think you could say both,' Trump replied.
~ Andrew Roth
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Vague and contradictory Trump says Iran war ‘won’, but not ‘won enough’
After oil prices surged on Monday the US president sought – and failed – to offer a clear vision for when the largest US intervention in the Middle East in years will endAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
"He came up with the idea that the war will end during a phone call with murder hornet Vladimir Putin."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
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Memory hole, meet Iran war.
Donald Trump, speaking at a press conference at his golf club in Doral, Florida, because of course that is where you announce big decisions, today said that the war against Iran will end “very soon.”Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"The top story: Donald Trump says the war in Iran is 'very complete' and appears to be searching for an off-ramp after speaking with Vladimir Putin today."
~ Aaron Parnas
"Hegseth says today will be the ‘most intense day of strikes’ in war against Iran."
~ The Guardian
Exclusive: Up to 150 #US troops wounded in #Iran #war, two sources tell Reuters
As many as 150 US troops have been wounded in the Iran war, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The figure has not been previously reported & is far higher than the #Trump admin’s publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded US forces.
#SuckersAndLosers #ForeverWars #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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Chancellor Friedrich #Merz said Tuesday that he shares many of the aims of the #US - #Israel campaign against #Iran, but “more questions arise with every day of war.”
“Above all we’re concerned that there is apparently no joint plan for how this #war can be brought quickly to a convincing end,” Merz said.
He stressed that “#Germany & #Europe have no interest in an endless war” or in Iran’s territorial integrity disintegrating.
#ForeverWars #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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Trump's #Iran spin falls flat
#Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the #war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail.
Ten days in, Trump still hasn’t settled on a consistent rationale for why he went to war. Now, he’s hinting that peace might soon be at hand—even while he & top aides simultaneously warn the fighting might get more intense & last longer.
...last chance to get the white whale [aka #MobyDick] they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against #Iran.
A new #MiddleEastWar would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing #Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. #Iran is larger than #Iraq, #Syria, and #Afghanistan combined. A war would...
...extracted the text (via OCR) from the #X screenshot (to which I'm not linking back; I'm adding hashtags and pointers 👉, however, as always.)
Interestingly, he writes about a potential catastrophic #MiddleEastWar, despite focusing on #Iran, not on #Israel. Here's the text of the screenshot:
Charlie Kirk [with a blue checkmark from X]
@CharlieKirk11
It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. 👉The warmongers worry this is their..
Tehran Times runs school-bombing victims’ photos on front page
Tehran: Iranian daily Tehran Times has published a front page featuring photographs of children killed in a bombing…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #Bellingcat #bombing #DonaldTrump #factcheck #Iran #Minab #school #TehranTimes #TheNewYorkTimes
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Tehran Times runs school-bombing victims' photos on front page - Iran
Tehran: Iranian daily Tehran Times has published a front page featuring photographs of children killed in a bombing at a primary school in Minab, directlyEUROPE SAYS (Iran)
Just the earliest of the US strikes on #Iran cost the #UnitedStates $5.6 billion in munitions, #Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting only for the first 2 days of the #Trump #war is likely to intensify concerns in #Congress that #US forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
#ForeverWars #US #Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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The #US & #Israel now really have a friend in #Tehran.
In strikes #Mojtaba was wounded, while his father, wife and other family members were likely killed.
This new #Ayatollah guy is going to be super sympathetic to them!
They truly must have achieved their #war goal...
In case you haven't heard it, there is that old saying in #Iran:
"Kill somebody's family and (only) wife,
make a friend for life"
"Hearts and minds" eh?
#IranWar #News #middleeast #uspol #politics #military #Humor #Sarcasm
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“These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent … This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn’t it? To strut up and take what isn’t theirs with a vile arrogance…”
#israel #iran #gaza #palestine #franzFerdinand #IDF
Franz Ferdinand “Nauseous and Furious” After IDF’s Use of “Take Me Out”
Franz Ferdinand have condemned the Israeli Defense Forces’ use of their 2004 hit “Take Me Out” in a propaganda video posted over the weekend.Pitchfork - Kiana Mickles
"With new evidence emerging that the United States was responsible for the strike on a school in southern Iran than killed scores of children, President Trump baselessly blamed Iran for the attack."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity #lies #disinformation #propaganda
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Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens
INSIDE: Abrego Garcia ... Kari Lake ... Enrique TarrioDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"He’s even stated explicitly that this should be going how it did in Venezuela, where the next in command steps forward and agrees to an indefinite period of vassalhood under not so much the U.S. but Donald Trump himself. What remains of the Iranian state leadership does not seem interested in that."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Trump started this war as part of the international acting-out he’s been at for the last few months, a way of compensating for reverses at home. If we look at his statements and U.S. actions leading up to the beginning of the war, the impulse or the goal seems simply to be in charge, for Iran to do what Trump says."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/15
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Iran: It’s Hard to Know How to Exit When You Don’t Know Why You’re There
In discussions of modern wars, Americans obsess about “exit strategies”. How do you avoid getting “bogged down?” How do you know when the mission is finished?Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"House Intelligence Committee Chair Rick Crawford on Fox: 'We have been at war with Iran since 1947.'
… The Republican talking point is to claim that Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, so Trump’s bombings are just a continuation of that and are being done in self defense. But Crawford got it a little confused trying to follow the script."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos #PerformativeMasculinity
/14
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 323.
… Trump was widely criticized for wearing a campaign hat he’s selling on his website for $55 during the dignified transfer ceremony for the soldiers killed during his Iran War.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"In just over a week, Trump and top administration officials have given at least 17 different responses about why the war began. ...
Hegseth has described the war’s mission as 'very very clear' and 'laser-focused.' Rubio said the war had 'a very clear goal' and he didn’t understand why there was any 'confusion.' Leavitt said that Trump had laid out 'achievable objectives.'”
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #WarriorEthos
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"The situation is scary. And what’s even scarier is that the 'warrior ethos' gang in the Trump administration seem to have been caught completely off-guard by the fallout from their adventure, even though the military and the intelligence community tried to warn them about the risks."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity #WarriorEthos
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"Trump sees war as 'blowing things up.' Dealing with the bodies of soldiers he sent to war is—for Trump—an annoyance that delayed his weekend golf by a day, to Sunday, when he wore the same golf hat that he wore during the dignified transfer."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/11
"Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East. …
The longer we remain blind to the terrible consequences of war, the more we are risking the most precious gift God gave us: our humanity."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post."
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
/9
"As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: 'JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.'"
~ Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Catholic archdiocese of Chicago
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience”
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strik…Archdiocese of Chicago
"Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago excoriated the clip, pointing out that
a real war with real death and real suffering [is] being treated like it's a video game … It's sickening.'”
#Trump #CardinalCupich #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The Trump regime certainly frames the war in Iran as a particularly boneheaded and un-nuanced Hollywood film along the lines of 'Rambo' (1985). ... Perhaps even more tellingly, the White House X account posted a video collage of clips from the war intercut with footage from Hollywood action, war, and superhero films."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The US has a longstanding tendency to see wars as one-sided affairs, with American protagonists, American victims, and a cast of disreputable and/or sympathetic non-American side characters. This is perhaps most obvious in the mass of Hollywod Vietnam war films, of which only rare exceptions include a non-American main character."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime
America has blood on its hands.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
"On Friday, Trump promised Latin American soccer players that he was going to overthrow Cuba in 'a couple of weeks.'”
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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The Finest Funerary Trucker Cap: Tabs, Mon., March 9, 2026
News and things to read and watch!Marcie Jones (Wonkette)
“'Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way,' Trump told CNN Friday. 'I’m going to put Marco over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now.'”
~ Andrew Egger
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #Cuba #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Karl answered that 'nobody questions the success of the military operation, the concern is what happens next.'
'Forget about next,' Trump answered. 'They are decimated for a 10-year period before they could build it back.'
'We’re marching through the world,' Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) told a laughing Maria Bartiromo of the Fox News Channel this morning."
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"WE'RE" MARCHING THROUGH THE WORLD! HOW DO YOU LIKE THE PERFORMANCE?
"Last Thursday, March 5, Trump talked to ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl about the war. 'I hope you are impressed,' he said. 'How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #LindseyGraham #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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The US succeeds at regime change in Iran as Khamenei replaces Khamenei.
165 dead schoolgirls is sometimes the price you have to pay for such things.
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#us #israel #terror #regimeChange #iran
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader amid war?
Mojtaba Khamenei has succeeded his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated in joint US-Israel attacks.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
The #FelonsCrusade in #Iran is unlike any other #crusade in terms of #military #weapons. But is it *really* unlike the other #crusades in its motivation? 🤔 newrepublic.com/post/207228/do…
#Resist and #DoNotComply with #WarCriminals #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump and Benjamin #Netanyahu.
“Let’s Just Do It”: How Netanyahu Convinced Trump to Bomb Iran
Here’s the real reason Donald Trump went to war with Iran.The New Republic
"Israeli settlers have shot dead five civilians during invasions of Palestinian olive groves, villages and grazing land, in the brief period since Israel and the US launched a new war on Iran at the end of February. A sixth person died on Saturday after inhaling military-grade tear gas used by the Israeli army."
theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #WestBank #Iran
Israeli settlers and soldiers kill three Palestinians in West Bank village
Deadly attack near Ramallah is third in territory in a week as Israeli violence surges with global attention on Iran warEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
President Trump defies U.S. analysis, blames Iran for airstrike on girls’ school that killed at least 175 people. @Independent has more:
#News #WorldNews #War #USA #Iran #Trump
Trump blames Iran for strike that killed school girls - as US investigators point to American bomb
Michael Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, declined to fully endorse the president’s assertion that Iran had been to blame for the strike when asked SundayMike Bedigan (The Independent)
“By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale,” he added.
… consequences of this “environmental and humanitarian catastrophe” will not be limited to just Iran’s borders.
“These strikes constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—all at once””
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#Iran #USA #Israel #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Iran: US-Israeli strikes on oil depots 'intentional chemical warfare'
Iran says the US-Israeli attacks on oil storage facilities amount to intentional chemical warfare civilians.PressTV
"Beirutification” should become a word if it is not already. By that, I mean the slow normalisation of periodic attacks on a city by a capricious and violent state, until blasts and death become woven into the fabric of urban life. It is urban death by a thousand knives. It is the suffocation of imagination and the thwarting of any civil attempt at a better life, and the gradual dilapidation of a nation to the point where it can no longer stand again"
#Israel #Iran #US
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‘Don’t die’: the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now
In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran residentGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
