Col. Trautman

@DD_Geopolitics UK based account. Have seat and deal with try bs your government is spewing

@DD_Geopolitics What a load of shit from a communist.

"Her attacker said, ‘I wonder how many Iranians we killed today.’" Zohran Mamdani on Iran War: At the heart of any war is dehumanization. And dehumanization never stays confined to the war. When you normalize killing abroad, you normalize cruelty at home. This is the dehumanization we are allowing to spread in our country. A young Muslim woman was attacked on a subway platform. Her attacker said, ‘I wonder how many Iranians we killed today.’

@MoreForFan5 @RetroCoast @KushDesai47 Why turn off comments, @MoreForFan5? Your intelligence is severely lacking—best of luck with your life choices.

@MoreForFan5 @RetroCoast @KushDesai47 And...... who would you want to lead the US?

President Trump has always been clear about short-term disruptions as a result of Operation Epic Fury, disruptions that the Administration has been diligently working to mitigate. Although gas and energy prices are seeing volatility, prices of eggs, beef, prescription drugs, dairy, and other household essentials are falling or remain stable thanks to President Trump’s policies. As the Administration ensures the free flow of energy through the Strait of Hormuz, the American economy remains on a solid trajectory thanks to the Administration’s robust supply-side agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, and energy abundance.

@RetroCoast @KushDesai47 Your intelligence is lacking.

@KushDesai47 Trump got his ass kicked by Iran 🤣🤣🤣

@RepJerryNadler You know what is morally repugnant? You, poopie pants.

Donald Trump’s threat that a “whole civilization will die” is dangerous and morally repugnant.  He openly called for our military to commit war crimes in Iran, putting in grave danger not only millions of innocent Iranian civilians but also our brave men and women in uniform.  His illegal and immoral war of choice must end now. While I welcome a two-week ceasefire, it is time to bring the whole conflict to an end. The House must vote to end this unauthorized and unjustified war. Donald Trump’s deranged rantings and irrational threats put the whole world at risk and further proves that he is unfit for office. It is time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment and remove him from office.

@SenWhitehouse @EPWCmte What a waste of time and resources. Climate change beyond the four seasons is a hoax. Just another excuse to tax something immeasurable.

As ranking member of @EPWCmte, I’ve been working to expose the looming climate-driven insurance crisis. As extreme weather worsens, insurance markets are feeling the strain — and your wallet will take the brunt of it. Our next #EEODayRI panel breaks it down.

The propaganda machine is out in full force, trying to rewrite history. Here’s what actually happened: Trump killed Iran’s leadership, deleted their Air Force and Navy, then gave them a deadline to capitulate, otherwise he would blast them to the Stone Age… And they folded. Under no circumstances did Trump lose in any capacity. Trump just wiped out Iran’s military capabilities, without putting boots on the ground, made them cry uncle, and forced them to stop sabotaging global oil markets, while they finish negotiating their surrender. Trump just pulled off one of the greatest negotiation moves of all time, and the result should be a unanimously celebrated, regardless of what side of the aisle you are on. However, the Left/MSM will take part in any level of metal gymnastics to avoid admitting this. They will lie, make excuses, and repeat talking points until they are blue in the face, but no matter how much they try to spin it, this is objectively a massive victory for Trump, and the world, and they know it.

@harryjsisson Where do you want him to go next? Venezuela - been there done that Iran - currently a clean up operation Cuba - yea, I could see him cutting a deal with them. What is next?

Trump has got to go.

@anthonyzenkus @VanJones68 Propaganda much?

@VanJones68 The US and Israel are bombing hospitals, bridges and schools in Iran - and THIS is what you're going on about? What a loser.

When you woke up this morning, your internet worked. You scrolled, you searched, you shared. But 90 million Iranians woke up — again — to total darkness. Their government has now imposed the longest nationwide internet blackout ever recorded in any country. Almost 40 consecutive days. That should alarm every one of us. Iran’s information blackout is a weapon against its own people. When governments can flip a switch and immediately disappear 90 million people from the internet, the rest of us lose our eyes and ears too.

@Littoria14 @JoeMora81373835 Maybe I missed that statement, where is it?

Trump seems to be telegraphing that he is going to order a nuclear strike on Iran. If true, the military needs to step in and remove him from power before it's too late.

Wrap your head around this… The Media is more angry about Trump saving a US Service Member in Iran than Biden getting 13 US Service Members killed in Afghanistan. Insane.

@gigabasedd @Crusader187 You really are lacking intelligence. Have a seat and watch the sun go down.

@Crusader187 Iran posed Zero threat to Australia or USA. Take your Hasbara and shove it up your ass.

Trump bitching about Australia not sending Aussies to fight Israel’s war on Iran. Fuck You Trump, we owe Israel NOTHING. Get out of our country. Stop using our satellites at Pine Gap.

@SenWhitehouse So you are ok with fraud at any level? Clowns gotta clown.

Remember Utah: two million voters checked; one non-citizen registration, zero non-citizen votes. Remember Kansas: in 19 years, 67 non-citizen registration attempts; 31,000 Kansans blocked from voting by law passed for the phony “crisis.” reuters.com/world/democrat…

NATO is really going to regret their actions.

The US has been engaged in active military operations against Iran for 38 days. 13 Americans have died. During that same period, 40+ Americans have died by homicide in Chicago. Media silence.... So spare me your fake fcking moral outrage!!

Reporter: “You called the Iranians ‘crazy bastards…’” Trump: “True.” Reporter: “What is your response to critics who say” Trump: “I don’t care about critics.” Zero apologies. Absolute legend

BREAKING NEWS: Judge Boasberg has ruled President Trump must return the US pilot and send 10 more pallets of cash to Iran.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States. Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan." This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States. The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.