Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
After Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.
Iran’s theocratic regime aside (which the US is largely responsible for creating), why exactly are the US (and a handful of other countries) somehow more worthy of having nukes than others?
It’s some bullshit if you ask me.
The question of “do we really want X country having nukes?” seems to come off as: “it’s okay for country Y (the US) to have nukes”.
I for one, am not a fan of anyone having nukes, but if we’re not planning on getting that number to zero, not sure how it’s justified to say a certain country doesn’t deserve them, other than maybe North Korea who are completely unhinged, but how can we draw the line? The USA is literally just committing acts of war because they’ve unilaterally decided that Iran has nukes, without evidence, and that means they’re justified in doing pre-emptive strikes.
I don’t think any country is ever justified in pre-emptively striking another without extremely strong evidence.
I’m thoroughly unconvinced that any war the US has fought other than World War II has been justified.
There’s certainly no intelligence to be found anywhere in the Trump administration.
Oh FFS. We will know this orange fucker doesnt pay attention in any intel meetings he actual attends. And he can’t read the intel reports. He just makes everything up from what he sees on Fox News and the other conservative “news” networks.
Why not use the full word? “There is no intelligence” is much more apt.
Israel asked him to do it
“asked”. I’m beginning to think it is a lot more direct than that.
Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.
This may have been Trump returning his end of the bargain (or Trump is just a shortsighted and stupid piece of shit).
Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.
And biden/harris fell for it. they looked weak and complicit because they’re democrats and that’s their brand.
Well Biden/Harris could have pulled the plug for doing that. Instead they let Netanyahu publicly humiliate them by defying any requests, knowing they would send more weapons as a reward.
They really couldn’t. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.
Which is why Musk was able to dump over $70 million in exactly opposite attack ad messages to both Jewish and Muslim communities inside the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
If they pulled military aid on Ukraine, one of the most powerful lobbyists in a close election would’ve unleashed their funding, and Republicans too would have labeled Harris and Biden as Antisemitic. Netanyahu would have publicly stated that, “Democrats are putting Israeli citizens at risk from terrorist attack by leaving us defenseless!” In the worst case scenario, Netanyahu – already proven to be a psychopath who ignored obvious intelligence of an impending attack once – could have possibly staged a false flag attack similar to Putin’s past actions, and that would’ve sealed the deal. The public media would’ve labeled Biden/Harris as antisemitic and incompetent.
It’s why they literally had to toe the line between protecting Israel (because the inertia Israel has in our society, sadly), but also seek a peace deal and publicly advocate for a 2-state-solution, as Harris did. The media landscape was not favorable to Democrats, which is why they had limited cards to play.
Bibi’s got kompromat on him, Epstein may have been Mossad
lol Republicans don’t give a shit about anything he’s done or could do. They like Trump and there’s nothing in this world that could change that.
As evidenced by the other golden boy of the Party dropping that exact bomb, and nobody cared
The girl looked just like Ivanka. It would damage his relationship with his favorite child in an unfixable way.
The child he already repeatedly publicly made extremely creepy comments about?
Probably to pull the spotlight off them killing a bunch of people in their beds while they were sleeping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-iranian-nuclear-scientists-killed-225846643.html
“There is no intel” describes the entire regime
They weren’t based on vibes, they were based on orders. Trump’s foreign handlers told him what to do and he did it.
vibe coding and now vibe warmongering
Ten bucks says Grok told him to do it.
I guess we’re slowly entering the stellaris timeline. It’s terrifying
Can someone please impeach him… based on vibes?
They were based on Trump being pissed that his little birthday parade was humiliating.
Really nice knowing that Nuke country #1 is governed by absolute senile murderous freaks for over at least 10 years now
Vibe Warfare. Where Skynet doesn’t have control of the military, but everyone does what it says anyway.
I mean, if Israel has nukes, and Iran has nukes, that should lead to peace, right? But peace isn’t what Israel is after. This isn’t about peace. It’s about eliminating all that think and look different.
What a year, first we got vibe coding and now vibe bombing… I wonder what’s next
Hopefully vibe-heart attack.
Don’t forget about the vibe-based deportations
We’ve had vibe-based rape for ages. “She says no, but she clearly wants it”
But women are “too emotional” to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.
