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@MaxBlumenthal Now all Iran has to do is shoot down the other 600 or so.

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@JStein_WaPo Giant battle, my ass. This will pass easily. Maybe $300 billion.

SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress

@g68_john @propandco Yeah, no shit, but the point remains: One hit on an F-35 that didn't even destroy the aircraft or kill the pilot does not in any way mean the weapon doesn't "work brilliantly."

@Bill_LessThan3 @propandco Killed 1,000s of civilians and committed cowardly war crimes. America can't beat a foreign military, but America excels at bombing girls elimentry schools. If America goes man to man, soon you will enjoy watching incompetent US soldiers returning in tightly zipped body bags.

Wow. The F-35. Not so stealthy after all.

@JamesSurowiecki The Trump administration is nowhere near as incompetent as many suppose. They are pure evil. They are destructive. They are ruthless. They are monsters. And they are pretty good at all of it.

@JamesSurowiecki This actually makes total sense. The imperial objective is to destroy as much of the Iranian state as possible (and murder many Iranians). They don't care if Iran gets oil revenue. They need to maintain attacks for as long as possible, and minimizing oil price supports that.

So we're going to hurt the Iranians by lifting sanctions on the Iranians and letting them sell their oil at the market price? These guys.

@lrozen It didn't matter what he was obsessed with. The only purpose was to provide cover for a cowardly attack. Why do people pretend that there is genuine diplomacy going on? Or that war and imperial expansion aren't the entire objective of the US government?

Quite apparent listening to Witkoff interviews in weeks since that he did not understand Iran nuclear issues and was obsessed with the wrong things and he and Kushner needed an expert on their team

@mtracey You are correct. But they are mass-murdering scumbags, so... Fuck 'em. On the list of injustices in the world, falsely branding dead imperial murderers as pedo-lovers is relatively low.

This stuff is kind of despicable. Not that it's inherently impermissible to ever use dead US soldiers to make any sort of political point. Go ahead, if you want. But splashing around their photos, proclaiming they died for Jeffrey Epstein, is just uniquely and gratuitously sick

@hxhassan The Gulf countries are part of a coalition that launched a brutal unprovoked attack on Iran. What kind of moron are you? You started a fucking war.

I’m convinced most officials & specialists are too immersed in the moment to realize a certain basic fact about why Iran is striking the Gulf. When Iran was fighting in Syria & Iraq, its field commanders & their proxies (and their ecosystems in countries of Iranian influence) always promised that the next battle would be in the Gulf. This was conveyed, explicitly or otherwise, by Qassem Soleimani and allies like Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, Hassan Nasrallah and the Assad regime. It was part of a doctrine guiding Iran’s regional strategy, not mere passing comments. (The same language that Israel began using against regional countries only recently. “Qatar is next” or “Turkey is the new Iran” etc. Iran has used that language for many years.) Now, Gulf countries look at Iran and wonder: Why is Iran hitting us when we tried to talk Trump out of striking it? Iran knows we tried our best. Iran’s action is understandable if it targeted the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but why mediators like Qatar? Yes we have US bases, yes we can scream at the US, but it still makes little sense, even from a basic divide-and-conquer strategy. But Iran sees this war as having begun at least a decade or so ago, and the Gulf states played a vital role in getting Iran to where it is today. The Gulf is the problem, not just Israel or the US. Strategically reckless, but that is the plain IRGC logic. This is clear if those officials had followed the rhetoric over the last 1-2 decades and the nitty-gritty behavior of Iran on a ground level outside Iran.

@g68_john @propandco They've probably run more than 1000 sorties over Iran, killed thousands of people, and destroyed thousands of buildings. One plane gets hit and is able to reach base and land safely... and you're suggesting the weapon doesn't "work brilliantly?" Are you insane?

@propandco Have you noticed a pattern? US weapons work brilliantly in sales promotion videos. In real life, multi-billion-dollar US weapons are defeated by low-cost counterstrikes. The US weapons business is a fraud.

@BowesChay @SweeneySteve Doesn't your idiot friend know that Israel targets press? This has been years now.

My close friend and colleague Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve is nearly killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon. Their vehicles are clearly marked as Press. They wear Press markings. He's alive. What more can we say.

@samswey Yes, absolutely. In fact, if they told us something different, I'd say, "BS, it was probably a laundry fire that got out of hand."

Does anyone really believe this story about the largest warship ever built being taken out of commission by a “laundry fire”????

@JamesSurowiecki @CynicalPublius The notion that Democrats aren't 100% behind this violent, imperial endeavor is pure nonsense.

@CynicalPublius What's the "assigned mission" with regard to Iran?

Why do Democrats always want America’s military to fail in its assigned missions if a Republican is POTUS? I honestly do not understand this mentality.

@Glenn_Diesen Israel is attacking France now? Well, it was only a matter of time.

There is zero chance that the US did not support the reckless strike on South Paris, but Trump does not want responsibility for the consequences.

@ASkiba01 @jamessh22072221 @krystalball 100% decimated means 100% of 10% which is 10%. It doesn't matter what Trump said. He'll say a different crazy thing the next time. On and on we go.

@jamessh22072221 @krystalball Not the way he used it. Trump said 100%. You can argue semantics. But 100% means 100% completely destroyed. Means no military capability remaining.

Iran still doing a lot for a military I was assured was already decimated!

@krystalball Maybe look up what "decimated" means. It doesn't mean it can't "do a lot." Iran's military capacity may or may not be decimated, but it is certainly plausible that it is.

@JeninYounesEsq @peterdaou And the American Blue-Fascist Red-Fascist Coalition.

@peterdaou Weapons manufacturers and the Israeli government

GENUINE QUESTION: Who is better off from all this violence?

@caitoz Far Right Blue Party is evil.

FYI if your main reason for caring about Trump raining military explosives on Iran is that it will help Democrats in the midterms, you’re a piece of shit.

@AndreasSteno That's VERY good, if it's true.

Iran is firing MORE and they are hitting MORE per shot than during the first days of the conflict. Not good..

@MouinRabbani Iran already acted MORE recklessly than any other government in the world. They failed to acquire a credible nuclear deterrent.

Iran’s strategy is simple and straightforward: continuously demonstrate that it is ready, willing, and able to act just as crazy and reckless as the United States and Israel, with similar disregard for the regional or global consequences, and see who blinks first.

@SteveYo64309900 I love my country. I love all countries. I hate the mass murderers who run my country's government and their psychotic sycophants. And the foot soldiers who serve as mass murderers are all either evil or cowards or stupid. So fuck all of you mass mourning sickos.

@Bill_LessThan3 Bill, calling your country mass murderers, means you hate your country. Hater for sure.

Fine. congrats Geno.