Lisa Eberle

@micyoung75 @RadioFreeTom So well written. So true. So scary.

Tom Nichols wrote this on March 6. Read it now, after the Golden Age of the Middle East post at midnight Wednesday, and every word lands harder. Victory disease: victory in battle encourages leaders to seek more battles, then to believe that winning those battles means winning the larger war - right up until they realize they have overreached. Nichols lectured military officers about it at the Naval War College. The condition is especially dangerous when a leader has exceptionally capable forces at his disposal, because the temptation to keep using them is almost irresistible. When ABC's Jonathan Karl asked Trump what happens next, Trump said "Forget about next." When CNN's Dana Bash asked how the war was going, Trump rated it a 12 or 15 out of 10. When pressed on war aims, Trump pointed at the military's performance. "How do you like the performance?" he asked twice. Nichols is precise about what this means strategically. Military operations are taking place in a strategic vacuum. Pilots and planners can execute missions with courage and professionalism. They cannot make those missions make strategic sense. Operational excellence and political wisdom are not the same thing. Xerxes had excellent armies. Napoleon had excellent armies. The French in 1870 had a military they were proud of. The Axis had remarkable early victories. All of them fell prey to the same confusion: what you do well in the field is not automatically connected to what you are trying to accomplish as a nation. Now we have a two-week ceasefire and a midnight Golden Age post. The Strait is not yet confirmed open. The regime is intact. The enriched uranium status is unclear. Congress never voted. Thirteen Americans are dead. And the president is "hangin' around" to make sure everything goes well.

@GretchenCarlson I feel the same. But I’m trying to have grace and think about how important all their listeners are. Even if they “ find out” through dishonest the messengers at least there is room for some reasonably thinking. Nothing has worked so far?

@GuyDealership @BillAckman @X I agree with your 1st post and thought it was wise input. But then you seemed to back pedal a bit? Just an observation. I follow you as well- you’re excellent. Trust your instincts.

@sentdefender I think he’s getting ready to go all out “ apocalypse now” on the Hormuz. How else can this make sense?

In another post on his Truth Social app, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has said that Iran’s actions, as it relates to charging fees for transit through the Strait of Hormuz, is “not the agreement we have.” President Trump also called the measure “dishonorable.”

@BarakRavid Really?? It feels like he’s just learning this information. Come on now. We are big trouble - the world reacts to comments placed online. How can that ever be ok. I’m doing it- your reading it and forming an up or down opinion. Now run the world.

🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!

@FaytuksNetwork And Iran says “ make us” great US foreign policy. My God ..it feels so scary right now.

@AaronParnas @MeidasTouch I feel like it’s a bit of an act of defiance by her. This is the way these kind of people communicate - through the press. It’s feels strange to normal people.

The Melania Trump statement on Epstein is not just odd in timing, but it is odd in substance. The DOJ is required to interview survivors, not Congress. Melania admits others were involved with Epstein, breaking from Trump's DOJ. And why now? Doing it during the war is, something...

@Timodc Or to get in front of some news story about to break? These people do NOTHING for nothing.

Strong move to refocus on Epstein in order to distract from the Straight of Hormuz disaster.

@rgoodlaw Ryan thanks for sharing - excellent.

The current situation in the Strait of Hormuz is untenable. The Strait is not "open." The Iranian toll-collection regime, left in place by Trump-Hegseth deal, is "in flagrant violation of the law of the sea.” Read this learned piece by former Navy Commander @marknevitt 1/

@NotHoodlum They are so winning in the troll dept

@DropSiteNews How can any agreement be made that gives up the straight? Would we?

🚨 BREAKING: A senior Iranian official tells Drop Site that Pakistan’s two-week ceasefire proposal mirrors earlier U.S. efforts Tehran has already rejected. Iran has already delivered its terms for negotiating an end to the war, the official said, adding: “A balanced proposal, endorsed by all mediators, has already been conveyed to the American side… Washington now has at its disposal all the elements required to reach a decision.” The response comes after Pakistan’s Prime Minister urged a two-week ceasefire and called on Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying diplomacy is “progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully” and “earnestly request[ing] President Trump to extend the deadline” that the U.S. President set to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure.

@fitsnews @SCFreedomCaucus @SCHouseGOP How can we vote these folks back in? the roads are absolutely the worst in the South. I overheard people discussing at a rest area traveling back to CHS from Fl. It’s embarrassing. No new roads and so much growth. Unacceptable.

@elerianm @EdConwaySky @SkyNews Excellent presentation. Thank you for sharing.