Johnny BCCB

I think I need to pin this to the top.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

I just don’t think that’s possible. We’ve never stopped any state that was committed to getting a nuclear weapon from doing so, and that includes Israel (which JFK was opposed to, along with supplying conventional weapons, before he was bumped off), as well as NK, China, Pakistan, etc. We can’t control the planet like a goddamn puppeteer. We’d be better off using diplomacy and soft power except in cases of outright revanchist aggression. We still have the MAD principle in effect to deter nuclear attacks, which has worked for 75 years.

@JohnnyBCCB TACOing would be way worse. As a lawnmowing operation, it's been extremely successful. We should let Israel complete their objectives to make it more than that.

If Trump TACOs before Israel completes their objectives, this will be a disaster.

@bre929596 @Ken_LoveTW Oh fuck off

This is Trump's Art of the Deal in action. By putting maximum pain on the table with a 48-hour ultimatum threatening Iran’s energy backbone, then strategically pausing for five days after “productive” talks, Trump is forcing the Iranian regime to choose between compromise and collapse. Iranian society is already under immense pressure. People are deeply dissatisfied with years of sanctions and conflict. If the country experiences nationwide blackouts and infrastructure collapse, daily life would become unsustainable. At present, many Iranians may resent the regime but remain silent out of fear, as the government still holds coercive power. As long as life remains barely tolerable, people hesitate to rebel. If key power stations are destroyed, recovery would be slow or even impossible, leading to long-term, irreversible consequences. This would be a fatal blow to the regime’s foundation. Why? Because electricity is the backbone of modern society. Faced with hunger and survival, people will overcome fear and rise up. Washington isn’t rushing into another Middle East war. It’s testing whether effective diplomacy can deliver results faster and cheaper. If talks fail, the threat remains credible. If they succeed, Trump walks away with a strategic win with minimal cost.

This is what passes for international diplomacy and leadership today. An all caps misspelled rant from a sundowning old man is posted by the Department of Defense as an official order. 35 years ago I had just fought the last battle of Desert Storm and GEN Schwarzkopf met our enemy in a tent in the desert to lay out their withdrawal from Kuwait as thousands of coalition troops waited for our orders. Today a mentally unstable narcissist posts on his personal social media company his brain dump and our troops are left scrambling to decode it all. This is the most incompetent leadership I’ve ever witnessed at any level.

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

@Pro__Trading Because you’re a dope.

We've achieved 90% of our objectives in Iran. We have decimated their nuclear program and their military in general. It's going to take them decades to rebuild. The only thing that remains is agreeing to a peace deal moving forward with strict monitoring enforced. Like I have said from day one, while most people panic, I trust President Trump.

@BrendonLeslie @rainwrappedWX Lol, he’s manipulating it in the immediate short term so that his cronies can play the market. It will go back up once everyone realizes that he’s bullshitting with these announcements, and regular Americans won’t benefit.

@rainwrappedWX And you’re complaining about cheaper gas?

BREAKING: President Trump is pausing military strikes on power plants in Iran as we continue to negotiate a deal to end the war in the Middle East A big win for 45/47 and a big L for the podcasters!

@BrendonLeslie You’re a fucking gullible, low IQ moron.

@mattforney You stupid dickhead. Trump makes most of these statements up these days, and this appears to be no exception.

The Iranians have caved. Trump won the war. Trump won. Iran lost. Blackpillers lost. Brownoids lost. Ziggers lost. Turd worldists lost. Trump always wins.

@NewReaganCaucus Sure, but it seems hugely unlikely since it didn’t happen right away. These types of things tend to foment revolution quickly, if they’re successful. The longer it goes on, the less likely it seems. I have no idea where your optimism on this comes from. Trump does nothing well.

@JohnnyBCCB They're only on phase 2. You can't say it won't succeed yet.

Israel's focus on facilitating a revolution isn't being reported on enough. There's been real progress, and there are many surprises to come.

@MichaelQuercia3 @johnkonrad @PeteHegseth Yeah, those. The guy who’s had his entire family killed, for instance. Unless we get them out of power, which appears increasingly unlikely, facing a wounded dog that happens to have a vengeance motive isn’t an ideal situation.

@JohnnyBCCB @johnkonrad @PeteHegseth The ones still alive you mean.

We’ve cleaned out Iran’s nukes and drone factories, and gutted their navy. If the Strait reopens without a single U.S. naval casualty… will every Dem here finally admit @PeteHegseth is doing a good job… or just gaslight us again?

@vixie29 @brodigan The question was basically rhetorical. No, it isn’t oil. It isn’t 1995 anymore. The US doesn’t need Iran’s oil anymore, though others do. The reason we’re attacking Iran is Israel.

@JohnnyBCCB @brodigan Oil

Trump is a dick. I voted for him knowing he was a dick. I wish he wasn’t always a dick. I don’t care about the Muller post. Dems are inflicting massive pain on Americans at airports while thinking it’s fine for Iran to possess ballistic missiles, and that’s just this week.

@CB10891481 @EYakoby ROI isn’t even a relevant metric for most countries because we don’t give billions in perpetual aid (tens of billions per year over the last two years) to anyone else. And again, it isn’t even clear that we get any “ROI” from Israel. That’s an unsubstantiated claim.

@JohnnyBCCB @EYakoby Name another nation we get ROI from. I’ll wait.

The U.S. gains roughly $48 billion in return for its $3.8 billion investment in Israel. That’s a 1,200% return on investment. This is what America First actually looks like. Anyone saying otherwise is either lying, paid, or both.

@DC_Draino Half the time, these announcements are based on nothing but Trump’s own senile or otherwise disingenuous delusions (e.g. claiming some President told him he wished he’d done the Iran war and immediately having all living Presidents deny it). Decent chance Iran denies all this.

POTUS announces a 5 day ceasefire against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. Looks like a deal is close.