"We are now a country at war. Donald got what he always wanted, despite pretending otherwise—he’s a war president."

~ Mary Trump

#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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marytrump.org/p/in-conversatio…

In Conversation with Norm Ornstein

4 March 2026

^{The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump}

(continued from /2)

"when a U.S. submarine sinks a foreign warship and sends it and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of the sea, when explosions topple buildings and civilians die in the fire and rubble, I thought, at least until today, that we could agree that we were waging war."

#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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"Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word
war.' ...

When you fire missiles and drop bombs and the leader of a foreign nation is killed, along with much of its top political leadership, when a girls’ school is hit by a bomb and more than 160 schoolgirls die, when six U.S. service men and women are killed,"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…

Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word “war.”

I have tried to avoid writing the following sentence for more than ten years, but the day is finally here:

^{Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)}

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If I'm reading the Foreign Minister's comments in this article correctly, Iran has insulated its military from attacks on national leadership by giving them advance directives and effectively isolating them from the rest of the government: english.elpais.com/internation…
Recent attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in the Middle East are presumably the result of military independence.
#politics #war #Iran #MiddleEast

Iran bombs infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, opening a direct front with the Gulf countries

Attacks on a Saudi refinery and a Qatari liquefied gas plant send hydrocarbon prices soaring in the European market

^{Joan Cabasés Vega (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

"The media thrives on war, and always has."

Margaret Sullivan looks at the major stories now being ignored by the media due to Trump's war: Epstein, the fact that the war is illegal, etc.

And:

"You can be sure that this drastic change of subject is all part of Trump’s plan."

#Trump #Iran #war #media #Epstein
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margaretsullivan.substack.com/…

When the media covers war, every other topic fades

Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

^{Margaret Sullivan (American Crisis)}

"It agreed to give up its program under Obama, and then Trump tore up the agreement. It is the countries that are attacking Iran -- Israel and the United States -- that have a nuclear arsenal. This confirms a lesson that Russia taught in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022: countries that have nuclear weapons are free to start wars of aggression. The only conclusion that can be drawn by others is that nuclear weapons are needed to deter such attacks."

#Trump #Iran #war
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"There is a law of war and by violating it and laughing at it we make the world more dangerous and ourselves more vulnerable in it. The serial imagination of enemies, the ones that feel good to attack, weakens the ability of the United States to defend itself against actual enemies. ...

The net effect of this war will be to spread nuclear weapons around the world. Despite what CBS News is telling its viewers, Iran has no nuclear weapons."

#Trump #Iran #war
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"Lying is an art, and Trump is an artist. But he is an artist of diminishing capacity; and he has now chosen to apply his art to war, a subject he finds appealing but about which he knows nothing except that he likes it.

Trump seems lost as to which lie he wants to tell. …

American power is being used to destroy the order that America made.".

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Iran #war
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snyder.substack.com/p/losing-t…

Losing the War on Truth

Iran and what to make of it

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

"The misadventures on the high seas of the Western Hemisphere, in Venezuela, and now in Iran are just the beginning of what is likely to be more cowboying abroad, as his lame duck status becomes increasingly obvious and his political power at home begins to wane."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #Iran #war
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morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom

INSIDE: Ayatollah Khamenei ... Pete Hegseth ... López Belloza

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

"This is the ultimate war of choice to 'solve' a problem he created when he blew up the Iranian nuclear deal "

~ Garrett Graff

#Trump #Iran #war
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doomsdayscenario.co/p/upheaval…

Upheaval in Iran Doesn't Work Out Well

Some thoughts and smart analysis about where we are — and what comes next.

^{Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)}

"No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years."

~ Axios

#Trump #Iran #war
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bsky.app/profile/axios.com/pos…

Oops! Looks like "the cloud" is vulnerable to missile damage.

health.aws.com/health/status

#aws #war #uae #iran

The Guardian: Private jet prices soar as wealthy scramble to leave Dubai

theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

#aviation #war #tourism

Private jet prices soar as wealthy scramble to leave Dubai

People drive to Oman and Saudi in hope of a flight, while most tourists stay stuck in hotels and on cruise ships

^{Pjotr Sauer (The Guardian)}

Breaker tower #Bahrain on fire after it was struck by an Iranian Shahed #drone.

The senseless destruction of #war.

It will take thousands of people thousands of hours moving thousands of tons of material to #repair, if a repair is even at all possible.

Meanwhile our planet is dying.

#Iran #Israel #USA #America #unitedstates #News #Fire #Military #Photography #Photo #Image #pacifism #peace #skyscraper #construction #us #world #environment #pollution #destruction