Nick Kirsch

Retired Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham said it clearly on PBS: threatening to bomb every bridge and power plant in Iran is itself a war crime. Not just reckless talk. A crime. Why? Because terrorizing a civilian population through rhetoric violates the law of war. And the law of war is U.S. law. Here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud: our own State Department used this exact legal standard to condemn Putin for targeting Ukrainian power plants. Same act. Same law. Different flag. Words have consequences — and so does hypocrisy.

No matter what you say, no matter what side you take, one thing is absolutely clear to me: Iran is, by far, one of the most daring countries in the world right now. It is standing against the United States, a nation with the most advanced military power. It is facing Israel, again one of the strongest and most technologically superior forces. It is dealing with pressures across the Middle East… and doing all of this without direct backing from China or Russia. Even after massive strikes, leadership losses, and continuous attacks, Iran is still standing, still responding, still refusing to bow down. And honestly, I don’t remember the last 20 years where any country showed this level of sheer courage and defiance. Say whatever you want about outcomes, politics, or consequences… but one thing is certain in my eyes: Iran has shown a level of boldness that very few nations would even dare to attempt. And no matter how this ends, history will remember Iran as a country that had the courage to stand its ground when almost no one else would.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around today to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom that our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's really an indictment not just of the electorate but of our whole system of government. We're ruled by a mad king.

The @POTUS says he ripped up the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement "without much thought." That much is true. Under that agreement, Iran surrendered 97% of its enriched uranium, retaining a small amount of low-enriched material; D/Ced 13k advanced centerfuges and a heavy-water reactor; and submitted to intrusive inspections. They're program was enfeebled and frozen. When Trump ripped up the agreement, they resumed enriching uranium to much closer to weapon grade. Maybe a little forethought would have been a good thing???

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

🚨 🇺🇸 Breaking: An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman will lead the great US military to ruin."

If Iran wanted to inflict harm on the US in the past, all they had to do was shut down the Strait of Hormuz - they didn't need a nuclear weapon. The fact that they never did it - until we and Israel bombed them - clearly shows they weren't a threat. We are run by idiots.

>We’ve moved in to the firing the Generals stage of the war

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

@MykhailoRohoza MBS is smarter than Trump. MBS needs to protect Saudi Arabia with Ukraine's proven effective anti-drone drones. But Trump keeps kissing Putin's stinky ass and Americans don't know why. It's doesn't bother Senate Republicans who know Trump and Putin conspire against Americans.

Before the war: 1) Iran didn't control the Strait Of Hormuz, now it does 2) Iran oil was sanctioned, now it's not 3) Iran was not building a nuke, now it will 4) US bases in the Gulf were assets, now liabilities 5) Inflation was declining, now increasing Definitely winning!

Americans couldn’t handle wearing a mask for a few weeks

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war. The stupidest war in history.

It’s quite peculiar that Americans and Arabs are both in denial about Russia’s assistance in bombing Americans in the Gulf States. 🤔

Oh wow today's Anthropic hearing is going to be brutal for the government.

The mad king wasn’t feared because he was powerful, he was feared because no one could predict what he would destroy next. - Game of thrones

So…Trump’s war goals now boil down to: —Getting Iran to agree to what it had agreed to before he scrapped the agreement in 2018. —Getting Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, which was open until he started the war.

Looking at Donald Trump pushing the world economy into the abyss and incoherently conducting a senseless war, it is impossible not to think of the well known Shakespeare quotation : “It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Macbeth.

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