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@hammurhed @adamjohnsonCHI Do you think it's at all possible that Trump has surrounded himself with terrible people because he himself is terrible?

@adamjohnsonCHI he’s n control but he’s surrounded himself w terrible people (of multiple faiths) so the output flows directly from the input. he’s showing all the signs of early onset alzheimer’s so we shouldn’t b surprised when nothing he does makes sense.

Ok but Trump is asking Congress for $200 billion not Israel. Clearly Israel seeks the same outcome, and AIPAC et al will push Congress for the funding, but it’s very strange how Trump is repeatedly presented as a passive observer to his own war of choice

@ggreenwald There is deep continuity between Trump 1 and Trump 2 as far as Iran goes.

Again: the key to understanding the second Trump term is Jared Kushner.

@CurtMills They are responding to their constiutents. The only overwhelmingly pro-Israel constituency in America are Republicans.

Amazing the slavish devotion of Hill Republicans to literally whatever Israel wants. Ordinarily, this is the preeminent mercenary, election-minded, news-driven species on Earth. But, on this, it's as if they're saluting Netanyahu for vaporizing their marginal comrades in autumn

@jeremyscahill Hahahaha, could not happen to a more deserving group. JCPOA doesn't look so bad now, does it? Morons.

Wall Street Journal: "America’s Arab allies are now fuming that they don’t seem to have any influence with the Trump administration despite heavy investments of time and money."

@PDahu @HeerJeet Yes there is! There's the fact that they conducted a ton of strikes without a single jet being shot down. Had Iran demonstrated the capacity to shoot down Israeli planes, this war would not be happening today.

@Goodstyle42 @HeerJeet There was no evidence that Israel heavily over Iran consistently

The maddening thing here is the key fact (the resilience of iranian regime and their ability to keep punching back) was already known to military planners and demonstrated in the 12 Day War. Given this knowledge, the US/Israel decision to go to war was an act of incredible recklessness.

@USA_Polling Blaming boomers instead of Republicans is a cope.

Net-Favorability Of Israel: All: -14% 18-29: -27% 30-44: -23% 45-64: -17% 65+: +16% GOP: +43% IND: -34% DEM: -50% YouGov / March 16, 2026

@joquji5n324il @HeerJeet Agree with this, just disagree with the idea that Iran established real deterrence before. It didn't.

@Goodstyle42 @HeerJeet Nobody forced Israel and the US to attack. There was no imminent threat. It's their mess.

@michaelbd OK, yes, he campaigned as an anti-war president and a lot of credulous people bought that, but anyone who actually paid attention to his actions in his first term didn't. Why do you think Fuentes didn't endorse him in '24 and Shapiro did? They knew what they were getting.

@Goodstyle42 Sure Jan x.com/gop/status/185…

It’s really funny watching people who have been seething about Trump’s foreign policy for a decade now pretending to be the gatekeepers.

@michaelbd Like, what has Trump done to make the people who like this war seethe at his foreign policy? He was never an anti-war President!

@michaelbd Ben Shapiro has loved Trump's foreign policy since term 1. In fact, Trump's Iran war is really consistent with his approach in term 1, this is just a culmination of everything he's done (shredding JCPOA, maximum sanctions, Abraham Accords, killing Soleimani etc.).

@HeerJeet Iran's response to Israel, which was to kill about 30 or so civilians, shoot down no jets, and barely damage any military infrastructure, was just not enough of a punch to deter them. It wasn't even close. We're in this mess because of Iran's gigantic failure in the 12 day war.

@HeerJeet The opposite was demonstrated in the 12 Day War. Israeli jets were able to fly over Iranian air-space uncontested for days at a time and pick off targets at will, including many high ranking leaders. Trump sensed weakness from that.

@Osint613 Israel is just doing what America asked here, he's trying to establish a "good cop/bad cop" dynamic in order to cow Iran, but Iran is just going to keep attacking.

U.S. President Donald Trump: "Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar - In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so."

@BrndnStrssng ... This isn't actually true.

@Osint613 I wonder if Iran will actually be cowed into opening the Strait.

WSJ REPORT 🔴 President Trump is opposing further strikes on Iran’s energy sector after the South Pars hit, believing Tehran has already “gotten the message.” Not confirmed from Trump admin.

@gulyas069 @HeerJeet Most of those missiles are hitting other countries. Netanyahu wants a coalition of Gulf countries to bear down on Iran.

@HeerJeet Genuinely, what's Netanyahu's plan here even? Israel's long-term position doesn't seem good. Get the US to fully commit Vietnam style? Seems like an extremely unlikely card play vabanque with

Same trajectory of 12 Day war, but with no obvious or easy off ramp. Just catastrophic.

@HeerJeet Not really. 12 Day war was way more devastating, this speaks to a ramping up of drones, missile firing rate still not great because Iran is targetting far more parties.

The person who most has to worry about Joe Kent's resignation isn't Trump, but JD Vance.

@CalltoActivism Lmao

🚨THIS IS INSANE: Markwayne Mullin starts his appeal to be confirmed DHS Secretary telling Rand Paul, “I can understand why your neighbor did what he did.” Rand Paul was beaten so severely his lung was removed. Not one single vote should go to this f*cking lunatic.

@ALemppu @Mishka__1 @AnalyticaCamil1 They lost half their territory and most of their rocket production capabilities. They aren't gone, but are definitely in worse shape than before Oct. 7th.

@Mishka__1 @AnalyticaCamil1 Hamas has been estimated to have close to as much fighters (~20k) as before Oct 7. Rockets are not good measure for strategic success.

Hamas notably still exists, Nadav — as does Hezbollah.