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"A stunning poll from Politico — just released, but taken last month — confirms what I and other observers strongly suspected: America is now widely despised, despised like nobody has ever been despised before.
I don’t mean that we’re disliked, although that too."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #Europe #NATO #Canada #allies
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No, America is Not Respected
Thanks to Trump, we’re held in contempt even by our closest alliesPaul Krugman
"In the span of only sixty weeks, the military and economic alliances that shaped the 20th century, ensured relative* peace in the world, and signaled the arrival of a superpower unlike any the world had ever seen have been, functionally, broken."
~ Sam Osterhout
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #Europe #NATO #Canada #allies
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Winners & Losers | Small Men Want to Destroy the World
.Independent media Is our only hope.Sam Osterhout (Lincoln Square)
"It’s difficult to select one of Trump’s Cabinet members as the stupidest. But Pete Hegseth stands out for sheer boneheaded ignorance.
Pray for America and the world."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism #ignorance #BonheadedIgnorance
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"It turns out that Trump’s 'feeling' he could pull it off was baseless, perhaps a function of untreated malignant narcissism."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
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Trump’s War is the Worst Conceived in American History
Ignoring experts comes at a steep priceJennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"This is a very stupid man who imagines he can—not just bully enemies as military strategy—but abuse allies and they’ll keep coming back for more.
Consider: Poor Donald Trump got a no from the UK’s Kier Starmer about joining the initial strikes on Iran and hesitated sending aircraft carriers to the region."
Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
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The Stupidity of a Bully
When you abuse people and countries, they are unlikely to come running to help youSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"There are many ways a country can decline. It can become poorer and weaker or lose its alliances or its technological edge.
But there is another, more insidious form of decline: a country can become stupider.
That is what has happened to American policymaking under Donald Trump."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #stupidity #MalignantNarcissism
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The Stupidification of American Policy
There is no plan -- just Trump's "gut"Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
The gamification of war
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#gaming #war #WhiteHouse #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press #Iran #Venezuela #Pentgon
This guy is so hard on the eyes...
Pentagon Chief Propagandist Hegseth Whines About Iran War Coverage, Demands “Patriotic Press” Instead
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#Pentagon #Hegseth #propaganda #media #journalism #press #news #war #censorship #mediabias
Hegseth Whines About Iran War Coverage, Demands “Patriotic Press” Instead
The Defense Secretary also claimed Iran’s leaders were “underground,” despite video evidence showing otherwise.Chris Walker (Truthout)
Republican President Donald Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
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#war #rhetoric #Iran #Pentagon #USPol #Republicans #MAGA #GOP #Trump #politics #press
Trump's war rhetoric is coarse. It's also heard differently, depending on the audience
President Trump and other administration officials have projected confidence and power in Iran in a coarse tone that is unprecedented, according to experts in wartime rhetoric.Kevin Rector (Los Angeles Times)
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Don't think only professionals are harmed in the war with Iran.
Thousands of families in Iran have fatalities among their families and countless friends who are maimed for life.
But the war Trump started also hits closer to home. What do you think the parents of this kid experience at this moment?
How many more have to die to distract from the Epstein files?
Dead troops are fund-raising props for Felon Trump
#military #war #Iran #iranwar #Epstein #politics #world #America #Congress #senate #Europe #EU #tyranny #freedom #Canada #turkey #uk #resistance #tyranny #Sweden #India #newyork #Finland #spain #Germany #France #Italy #Japan #Australia #America #reddit #meidastouch #crime #ICC #international #corruption
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Trump fundraising email features photo of U.S. soldiers killed in Iran war
Earlier this week, Trump’s political action committee sent out a fundraising email promising donors access to “private national security briefings” and featu...YouTube
“This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump. Those who have never learned from history because they’ve never learned history…."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war #madness #insanity #stupidity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
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Marco Foster (@marco.foster) on Threads
Mary Trump on Iran: “This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump.Threads
"Whole regions in the Philippines—including the capital city of Manila—just forced employers to institute a four-day workweek instead of a five-day workweek specifically to try to save energy.
Gas stations in Vietnam have started to run out of fuel. …
What was all this for?
'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'
I’m sure they’re delighted with that."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/23
"The nation of Bangladesh just closed its universities because they need to conserve energy—they need to conserve electricity used by the universities—and they need to reduce the need for people to drive anywhere."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
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"A plastics plant north of Tokyo started to scale down production on Friday because they can’t get the raw materials they use in that production process—because they’re petroleum-based products.
It’s also aluminum and other commodities like that as facilities like smelters shut down for lack of fuel."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/21
"Huge amounts of fertilizer pass through the Strait of Hormuz—fertilizer bound for ports all over the world, for crops all over the world, for foodstuffs all over the world.
Raw materials related to the petroleum industry are also being choked off."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
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"In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force majeure—which basically means they’re saying, hey, act of God, outside our control.
We can no longer be held to any contracts we previously signed.
As they all radically scale down their oil and gas production.
And it’s not only fuel—it’s also food."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/19
"The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.
CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.
Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.
Iraq’s production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
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"The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing.
He said, quote:
'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.”
We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'
It’s actually hard to argue with that one. That one might actually be true."
~ Rachel Maddow
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/17
"Wars are not decided by social media posts or gut feelings. They are decided by logistics, strategy, alliances, and political resolve. Right now, the world is watching a conflict expand across multiple regions while the person in charge of the United States is posting fantasies about imaginary naval coalitions and claiming total victory over an enemy that is clearly still fighting."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #strongman
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Important Saturday News Updates — 3/14/26
In my Saturday afternoon update, I break down Trump’s increasingly desperate claims as the war with Iran spreads across the globe.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
Daily Kos features a sign hanging over a highway in deep-red Eagle River, Alaska — a sign suggesting that Trump's Iran war "excursion" may have something, at least a tiny bit, to do with the Epstein files.
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"Epstein files must be really bad" banner deployed in deep red part of Alaska
This banner was hung over the Glenn Highway (Alaska’s most travelled one) today near Eagle River, one of the reddest parts of the state. (I’ve been on Daily Kos since it's beginning, but I think this is my first post. Hope I did it correctly!)Daily Kos
"a war that will likely bankrupt the country; a war that will cause a global recession and worldwide suffering; a war that most Americans do not support; a war that began with U.S. planes killing scores of girls at a school; a war in which we have ceded the moral high ground to the fucking Ayatollah. ...
In this New World Order, the United States is no longer #1."
"We are just two weeks and a day into the Iran war—a war that has no discernible purpose; a war undertaken at the behest of a genocidal war criminal who as I type this is either dead, infirm, or in hiding like a coward; a war that seems intended to distract from the Epstein Files and forestall the release of proof of our president’s singular depravity;
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Netanyahu #Epstein #Iran #war
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Sunday Pages: "It's Up To You"
A musical collage by Steinski and Mass MediaGreg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"With nearly one-third of key fertilizer ingredients and a large share of global urea and ammonia exports tied to the region, attacks on ships and halted transit are driving up fertilizer, oil, and diesel prices—raising costs for farmers and potentially leading to higher grocery prices and lower crop yields worldwide."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
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"The war with Iran is threatening to raise global food prices as shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz stall fertilizer exports critical for agriculture."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
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"Kushner holds no official diplomatic title that would normally authorize such talks but titles are beside the point in the Trump era. What matters is proximity to power, and Kushner has that in abundance.
What he also has is a private equity firm called Affinity Partners, which is funded by billions of dollars in foreign governments."
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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"The meeting also included Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, another billionaire with vested personal financial interests, whose son runs the Trump family’s shady and opaque crypto fund, World Liberty Financial. The third notable figure at the meeting was Trump administration official Josh Gruenbaum.
The Florida meeting was ostensibly a discussion about ending the war in Ukraine."
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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"Kushner recently met in Florida with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a longtime financial emissary for Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev is not simply a diplomat; he is effectively Putin’s bag man."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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How Jared Is Selling Us Out to the Richest Autocrat
Why is Congress not investigating Kushner's massive conflicts of interest?Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
Robert Reich asks who’s getting the most out of Trump’s war. His list (it doesn't include the American people, by the way):
Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War”
Top military contractors
Larry Ellison’s Oracle
Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies
Big Oil
Jared Kushner
Vladimir Putin
#Trump #Putin #Hegseth #JaredKushner #ElonMusk #LarryEllison #PeterThiel #Iran #Israel #Russia #war #oil #gas
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Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money
Trump, his biggest backers, and Vladimir PutinRobert Reich
"Some of the winners are obvious: Russia and oil producers everywhere except in the Persian Gulf. The losers may come as a surprise: American consumers are being hit hard even though the US produces more oil and natural gas than it consumes, while China, despite its dependence on imported hydrocarbons, is relatively insulated from this shock."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Putin #Iran #Israel #Russia #war
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Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis
There are many losers, but also some winnersPaul Krugman
"I was talking to a few friends yesterday. We were talking about how every president, you know, for 46 years, ever since the Islamic Revolution, Democrats and Republicans have not really liked the Velayat-e faqih, the Islamic leaders, but none of them were dumb enough to actually be dog walked by Netanyahu and white Christian nationalists and attack Iran."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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How The United States Loses the Iran War and Our National Security...with Trita Parsi
Donald Trump and the warmonger class have no exit strategy from this disastrous war and severely underestimated Iran's resolve. The longer this chaos lasts, the more America loses.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"By 2024 and 2025, he was already under immense domestic pressure over his corruption trial, his extremist coalition partners, and his handling of the Gaza war. Commentators and analysts have increasingly argued that he has incentives to keep the region in perpetual crisis, framing himself as the indispensable wartime leader and delaying the electoral reckoning that would likely end his career."
"Netanyahu for years now has sold Israelis the same rubbish. Every crisis can be solved by bombing and strafing. Now that immoral 'strategy' is being manifested again, in Lebanon. ...
What makes this even more indefensible is how entwined this northern brinkmanship is with Netanyahu’s personal political survival."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Marching Lebanon And The Entire Middle East Toward The Abyss
all for his own self-preservationMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Putin, meanwhile, is watching the Hormuz chokehold deliver the oil price shock that relieves the central strain on his war machine, while American support for Ukraine quietly dries up, and Putin will soon be cashing oil checks from the US again.
Both men got what they needed by feeding one man’s need for a headline that gave him the love his parents never could."
"The reporting from journalist Neri Zilber on March 9 is instructive: they’re now on phase three, systematically working down a target list — air defenses, missile systems, the Iranian Navy, and now essentially all regime infrastructure. Whether there’s a fourth phase, and whether anyone has actually thought through what regime change looks like on the other side — that’s an open question. Netanyahu’s silence on that question is all the answer we need."
"Trump’s narcissism is a Trojan Horse. The men inside it have clearer agendas, fewer domestic constraints, and thirty years more patience. Netanyahu handed Trump a war Israel has wanted since at least 2007, one Netanyahu needed personally to stay out of court and in power — and Netanyahu is a tactical 'genius' who never underestimates what a fourth phase could be worth."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe
From Liberation Day to the Escalation Trap to Interdependence Day: How narcissistic delusion became the biggest unforced error of the decade (so far).L O L G O P (The Cause)
Military expert flags concrete proof #Scottish #airports helps #US bomb #Iran
US #military #planes have continued to use #Prestwick Airport almost every day as #war escalated
When asked , Philip Ingram, a former army colonel and intelligence officer, said it was concrete proof
He added: “The #Americans have been working for weeks and weeks, in fact months, to build up their military capability in the #MiddleEast.
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#WarCrimes #USAggression #USThreats #BoycottUSA
Military expert flags 'concrete proof' Scottish airport helps US bomb Iran
A MILITARY intelligence expert has flagged “concrete proof” that a Scottish airport has been used to help the US bomb Iran ...James Walker (The National)
