Also you say you’re considering “winding down” the operation on the same day it emerged you’re sending more warships and troops to the region, which seems a touch incoherent
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Sam Clench
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Sam Clench
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Sydney, New South Wales Katılım Haziran 2012
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Like shattering a super expensive vase, making a cursory effort to put the pieces back together, declaring you didn’t need the vase anyway, and bouncing, leaving it for someone else to fix
Except the vase is a lynchpin of the global economy and you’re not a toddler anymore
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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If Trump has already won the war, doesn't need NATO, and seizing Hormuz is a "simple military maneuver" that is "so easy...with so little risk", then why is he so upset?
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Tucker Carlson Loses On ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ After Guessing ‘Israel' On Every Puzzle buff.ly/5jiSFz1
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What did Trump think the situation would look like by now when he started the war? And what does it actually look like? The gap between those two things is one measure of whether or not it’s going well, and that gap is WIDE
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The capacity of some folks to look at the mess in the Middle East, and the growing economic crisis, and the lack of any exit strategy, and the way America’s insulting of its own allies has blown up in its face - to look at all that and say “this is going great!” - is impressive
HughHewittShowLinks@HHSLinks
What is wrong with American media? The U.S.-Israeli militaries are crushing the IRGC and the terrorist proxies of #Iran but you wouldn’t know it from the coverage. @SethMandel of @Commentary Magazine and pod joined Hugh to discuss. youtu.be/JIcXkNXuYxE
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And that is a critic’s job ultimately, to tell people whether a product is worth their time and money. Stop acting like babies whenever you don’t like their opinions
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-a game’s audience does not stream for hours a day. Most players are normal people trying to sneak an hour in here and there between life responsibilities. If a critic is finding a game’s mechanics obtuse or its difficulty unfair, you can guarantee those people will too
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Is there a more childish, lazy take out there than “critics are giving middling scores to a game I was hoping would be good because they’re not skilled enough”?
1. Have you seen the scores for say, Sekiro? Nioh? Hard games get very high scores constantly
2. The majority of-
Soul King@SoulKingLives
Let me get this right people are making fun of Crimson Desert for getting a 77 Metacritic score????! The same critics that need training wheels for everything??!!
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The actual historical analogue would be “why didn’t the Japanese tell the Germans about Pearl Harbor?”
And it’s worth noting that the Japanese didn’t tell the Germans, and the Germans were furious.
Kaitlan Collins@kaitlancollins
Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"
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"He can't be that ugl-"
Melly@MocaIsSoLoca
all this build up to reveal the ugliest creature known to man
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Ok so y’all DO need help again, do you? Because the guy in the photo keeps changing his mind
The White House@WhiteHouse
📰 @nypost US allies need to get a grip — step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz
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Does he mean it preaches death to nonbelievers? Because yes, sure, but the Bible also has sections calling for violence against nonbelievers. That’s a feature of lots of supposedly holy books
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Ok I mean come on now. The Quran was written about a millennium before America even existed
Eric Michael Garcia@EricMGarcia
I asked Tuberville about him calling Mamdani the enemy at the gates and if he thinks Mamdani is the enemy. “100% because, because he preaches and teaches Sharia law and he goes by the Quran. He was sworn in on the Quran. Look at the Quran. It preaches death to Americans.“
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That’s not the military’s fault. It doesn’t mean the generals were negligent. It means the civilian in charge of them launched a war without caring enough about doing his job enough to even read his briefings properly
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There was a report the other day about Trump getting frustrated at the military for being unable to clear the strait in a day. He thought it would be easy. That suggests he hadn’t bothered to gain even the most basic understanding of how the Strait of Hormuz works
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Total straw man, this. Everyone knows the US military would have considered different scenarios and advised Trump accordingly. The question is whether their political leaders, i.e. Trump and Hegseth, listened, or whether they just said “oh it’ll be fine” and blundered on in
John Spencer@SpencerGuard
For the love of all things holy, if you still see self-appointed "military experts," or whatever derangement syndrome X-perts claiming (whether they served in the military or not) that the U.S. military did not plan extensively for the vast range of possible scenarios in the Strait of Hormuz. STOP FOLLOWING THEM. These are not the experts/analysts you are looking for. War is politics by other means and there is plenty political happening but to claim the U.S. military did not plan is just straight dangerous ignorance.
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I know events have moved on since early in the war, when Trump was flailing around searching for a justification for it that would stick, but it shouldn’t escape our notice that two of the reasons offered - nuclear weapons, imminent threat - appear to have been total fabrications
Acyn@Acyn
Ossoff: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Gabbard: The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president. It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. Ossoff: It is precisely your responsibility. This is the worldwide threats hearing where, as you noted in your opening testimony quote, you represent the ic's assessment of threats.
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Trump: Iran was two weeks away from having nuclear weapons
US intelligence: Iran wasn’t even rebuilding the enrichment facilities we hit last year
Imagine the reaction we’d have had if Biden had hallucinated something so outlandish, contradicting his own government
AFP News Agency@AFP
US intelligence concluded that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel, contradicting a key justification by President Donald Trump for his ongoing war. u.afp.com/SL8j
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