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The #US lost 3 F15 aircraft..

..by friendly fire

Never has war with the US been that easy, just do nothing and wait. With this current administration it will destroy itself it seems

#USPol #war

Before I have to read another "hot take", let me make something clear: Nobody thinks Iran is harmless. We just aren't stupid enough to believe that ISRAEL and the USA are harmeless and get to decide who they want to overthrow with their "harmlessness".

#cdnpoli #abpoli #uspol #iran #War #fascism

"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
/5

"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
/5

"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
/4

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
/3

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
/2

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
/1

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#Trump addressed a range of topics in the interview, including the expected length of the conflict, his surprise at Iran’s widespread retaliation [idiot] & the country’s expected succession plan.

Asked whether the #US is doing more beyond the #military assault to help the #IranianPeople regain control of their country from the regime, Trump said, “Yes.”

“We are indeed. But right now we want everyone staying inside. It’s not safe out there.”

#Iran #war #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers

#Trump told CNN in a 9-minute phone interview Monday morning that the #US #military is “knocking the crap” out of #Iran — but that tthe “big wave” is yet to come.

“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I think it’s going very well. It’s very powerful. We’ve got the greatest military in the world & we’re using it.”

#war #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast

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

Today, #Bahrain was under heavy bombardment by #Iran again.

Drones and rockets were coming in all day.

Heavy smoke is rising from a #US military base in the capital Manama.

stripes.com/theaters/middle_ea…

#News #military #Live #Us #Usa #israel #Unitedstates #america #war #conflict #breaking #exclusive #fire #smoke #photo #photography #journalism #world #burn #military #army #navy

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"Economic sanctions now: the EU is Israel’s largest investor"

Notice where the Netherlands stands.

Research Report cited in Dutch newspapers:
📄 somo.nl/economic-sanctions-eu-…

#Nederland #Europe #Israel #Genocide #InternationalLaw #Apartheid #Occupation #Aggression #War #Civilians #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Lebanon #Iran #Netherlands #Lubach #Trouw #Volkskrant #NRC #SOMO #D66 #CDA

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"No country invests as much in Israel as the Netherlands."
"Aucun pays n'investit autant en Israël que les Pays-Bas."

➡️ Trouw: trouw.nl/binnenland/geen-enkel…
➡️ Volkskrant: volkskrant.nl/economie/nederla…
➡️ NRC: nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/15/neder…

#Nederland #Europe #Israel #Genocide #InternationalLaw #Apartheid #Occupation #Aggression #War #Civilians #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Lebanon #Iran #Netherlands #D66 #CDA #Trouw #NRC #Volkskrant

Onderzoek: Nederland op papier ’s werelds grootste investeerder in Israël

Banden met Israël: Volgens De Nederlandsche Bank is zo’n 12 procent van de investeringen in Israël afkomstig van zogeheten brievenbusfirma’s.

^{Lara Lamie (NRC)}

🇳🇱 Kijk dit ⬇️
🔥 youtube.com/watch?v=oZHUlszOnt…

EN:
"Owing to the Zuidas, on paper the Netherlands is the world's largest investor in Israel."

Note: The Zuidas is Amsterdam's business district (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuidas)

@D66

#Nederland #Europe #Israel #Genocide #InternationalLaw #Apartheid #Occupation #Aggression #War #Civilians #Gaza #Palestine #WestBank #Lebanon #Iran #Netherlands #Lubach #D66 #CDA

Don't believe the #news ...

#meme #trump #war #epstein #epsteinfiles #epsteingate #epsteinfallout #children #abuse #crime #law #justice #politics #democracy #media #journalism #press #usa #america #maga #qanon #conspiracy #fail #society #mainstream #worldorder

♲ Joyce Donahue - 2026-02-28 13:22:31 GMT

#news #war #school #colateraldamage #civilians #children #killed #humanrights #fail #problem #death

♲ Joyce Donahue - 2026-02-28 20:28:47 GMT

At least 80 children dead in US/Israeli attack on Iran

The cost in innocent human lives when we go to war because the President is "not happy" with negotiations (and seeking another distration from the Epstein files.)

theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…

The number of missiles and Shahed drones flying towards #Bahrain has dramatically increased.

It's a convenient target for strikes due to the proximity to #Iran

Air defense is working.

Impacts are reported all over.

People in the region believe the exchange of fire will take at least a few more days.

#News #military #Live #Us #Usa #israel #Unitedstates #america #war #conflict

🚨 🚨 🚨 Exclusive: Iranian Shahed Drone Strike on S-Hotel in Bahrain's Capital Manama 🔥

Casualties are unknown. Emergency services are working on the scene.

Let's hope nobody was hurt!

The final convulsions of the Ayatollah #Khamenei regime before his reign ended?

#Ayatollah Khamenei is reportedly dead!

youtube.com/watch?v=Plu-BIyMG2…

#Bahrain #war #breaking #news #exclusive #iran #shahed #drone #dronestrike #fire #strike #military #video #youtube #manama #live #world #hotel #skyscraper #emergency

In keeping with his penchant for renaming things, #Trump would like you all to know that his " #BoardofPeace" is henceforth renamed "Bored of Peace"

#Iran #USA #War #Peace

"This war with Iran is his latest distraction, and it is a real phenomenon called " Wag the Dog, which describes the act of manufacturing a distraction — typically a foreign crisis or military conflict — to divert public attention from a domestic scandal."

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #Iran #war #Israel
/31

wearespeaking.net/p/the-choice…

The Choice: Wag the Dog

When Fiction Becomes Fact

^{Pamela Hilliard Owens (We Are Speaking)}

"Fascism is the moment where the concentration of wealth and power becomes so strong that they don't even have to hide their anti-human, anti-democratic aspirations. They can simply say the quiet part loud. People are going to die. We're going to revel in the cruelty of things."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Trump #Iran #war #Israel
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jaredyatessexton.substack.com/…

Trump Starts War With Iran

A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video

^{Jared Yates Sexton (Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton)}

"Donald Trump, reeling from the Epstein pedophile scandal, soaring inflation, and rotten poll numbers, launched an unprovoked regional war without congressional authorization — let alone a coherent rationale for the strikes across Iran."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Iran #war #Israel
/29

contrarian.substack.com/p/trum…

Trump Launches Another Illegal War

Americans desperately need a Congress that can stop his reckless violence.

^{Jennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)}

"The strikes on Iran that began Friday were initiated unilaterally by the Trump administration, but are not unilateral internationally: Israel is also participating in the action. It's not surprising, given Trump's relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it comes in the immediate aftermath of new Gallup polling showing how much more skeptical Americans are of Netanyahu's nation."

~ Philip Bump

#Trump #Iran #war #Netanyahu #Israel
/28

howtoreadthisch.art/this-way-m…

This way madness lies, but you knew that

It's the most relatable thing in the world: You've just put your weekly data-visualization newsletter to bed when the president of the United States unilaterally decides that the country is going to launch a war against a foreign country.

^{Philip Bump (How To Read This Chart)}

"What is there to say, really? More full blown Mad Kingism. No clear rationale, no consultation or approval from Congress, no discussion with the American people, no Coalition of the Willing (meaning no allies). Like with the tariffs, there is no version of what Trump is doing in Iran that can be considered faithful to the Constitution, US Law, or International Law."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#Trump #Iran #war
/27

hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-add…

Our Addled, Failing, Desperate Leader Wags The Dog, Goes To War

Oh, by the way, the inflation data on Friday was terrible

^{Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)}

"There’s a sense that the rich – the Epstein class – can act with impunity while everyone else pays the price. If Donald Trump doesn’t change the subject, his presidency, and perhaps more than his presidency, will cease to be as it is once the Congress is turned over to the Democrats."

#Trump #Iran #war
/26

"The point is creating a made-for-TV war that makes Trump look like a big, tough war president. He’s doing this for obvious reasons: things are going badly for him, very badly, at home. Freedoms are being violated. The middle class is being immiserated."

~ John Stoehr

#Trump #Iran #war
/25

editorialboard.com/trumps-self…

Trump’s self-serving made-for-TV war with Iran

Taking a page from Netanyahu’s war-crimes playbook.

^{John Stoehr (Editorial Board)}

For live coverage of the Trump-Netanyahu attack on Iran, see The Guardian.

#Trump #Iran #war
/24

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

"Representative Thomas Massey, Republicans, his lawmakers intend to, intended to hold votes next week to prohibit Trump from authorizing strikes without consulting with Congress. Well, Israel and the United States and the Trump administration made sure that's not going to happen because now the United States, folks, has joined Israel in advanced military strikes against Iran."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Iran #war
/23

thelefthook.substack.com/p/isr…

Israel and US Strike Iran!

The Trump Administration has joined Israel in illegally attacking Iran and is asking Americans to die for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his genocidal regime.

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

"Zero plans for what comes next. Except for a moment, he will feel strong again. And then the weakness will seep back, like the desperate, insatiable slogan on his hats, slobbering over a past that never existed, always demanding more."

#Trump #Iran #war
/22

"The timing wasn’t an accident. As Marcy Wheeler noted this morning: one of the reasons they struck today, rather than next week, is because the House is planning a vote early next week to restrict strikes on Iran. Trump had to shift the dynamics of that vote."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #Iran #war
/21

thecause.substack.com/p/two-we…

Two Weak Reasons a Weak Trump Attacked a Weakened Iran

He bombed to stop a Congressional check on this. This may be the greatest constitutional crisis in American history.

^{L O L G O P (The Cause)}

"Trump’s Truth Social reference to Iran interfering in the 2020 and 2024 elections was ominous. It came early Saturday morning as he launched a war on that country without congressional authorization. One cannot help but wonder if he could use this or similar pretexts to declare a nonexistent emergency and take control of elections."

~ Norman Eisen

#Trump #Iran #war
/20

contrarian.substack.com/p/trum…

Trump Can’t Use War or Other Excuses to Take over American Elections

The Contrarians won't let you — Publisher's Roundup 56

^{Norman Eisen (The Contrarian)}

"Trump also posted a story from the right-wing news site, Just the News, with the headline: 'Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.'”

#Trump #Iran #war
/19

"The bombing marks the eighth military intervention for Trump in a little more than a year. ...

After he was inaugurated for a second term in January 2025, Trump said: 'We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.'”

~ Susan J. Demas

#Trump #Iran #war
/18

lincolnsquare.media/p/breaking…

BREAKING: U.S., Israel Begin 'Major Combat Operation' in Iran, Tehran Strikes Back across Middle East

Trump says there likely will be American casualties in the conflict.

^{Susan J. Demas (Lincoln Square)}

"America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation (the Arab states of the Gulf, who fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack), and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about 'imminent' threats that require 'preemptive' strikes. But we should dispense with such statements: Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel."

~ Tom Nichols

#Trump #Iran #war
/17

theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran

A few paths to success, many to failure

^{Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)}