ISRAEL V IRAN: Trump just warned everyone should evacuate Tehran

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

18 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

International economic sanctions would serve as the carrot and the stick. A “kinetic” approach shouldn’t be necessary because the IAEA found Iran fully compliant during the JCPOA v1.0. Iran’s era of non-compliance began after Trump suddenly reneged on the deal.

 

I don't know, Kay, because while Iran was potentially compliant during v1.0, they clearly were not compliant after being compliant.  In addition, it seems logical to question the arbiters of compliance, given Iran's wax on/wax off approach rot being good international citizens.  It seems more likely to me that they are playing a big game, moving forward with the intent to secure nuclear capability. 

 

18 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

“Intervening via low-key revolution and king-making” is still letting the Iranians decide for themselves how they want to be governed. ~80% of Iranians are already dissatisfied with a theocracy. Basically, Iranian women can come visit me in NYC and watch my TikTok videos on how to wear bell-sleeved floral-patterned skater dresses while haughtily flipping one’s hair out in public, on the way to one’s appointment to abort one’s rapist’s baby. Iranians will want to live like Kay because who wouldn’t?? This is the extent of the revolution fomentation: simply opening up channels of communication (internet, travel, etc.) that promote the awesomeness of secular humanism and the American Bill of Rights. Iran’s government would theoretically agree to this because it would be part of the prospective international peace deal.

 

And while I’m proposing theoretical solutions, allow me to expound on an additional carrot we are morally obligated to dangle in front of Iran: the full dismantlement of the genocidal Zionist project…a new one-state solution, under equally full IAEA surveillance as Iran, and with all Israeli government war criminals sent to The Hague. This would make the Houthis and Hezbollah happy, too, to go along with their Abraham Accords brethren and the rest of the Middle East (if they’re all being honest with their feelings about the psychopathic country that is Israel).

Ah, so you were not talking at all about the US government/intelligence apparatus covertly encouraging regime change.  It seems to me that a fundamentalist regime like Iran would not be comfortable as all with allowing the Tok (et al) and western decadence into the homeland.  CKA shows way too much skin for the average extremist, I would think, and they view that as a whorish non-negotiable and far beyond the pale. Maybe, though. 

 

As to Israel, you've beaten that drum loudly and clearly, and at some point to me you cross from sensible citizen of the world to...well, to something I'm not interested in debating.  

 

 

[Big Blitz]

Side note - we used to be taught in America that in regimes like the Soviet Union or North Korea, if anyone fled and saw what was happening or had happened in the real world, they would have absolutely no clue about any of it.  
 

Having been fed revisionist history their whole lives.  
 

What if that is us:

 

 

 

[nedboy7]

But the tensions surrounding Ms. Gabbard are now in the open, as Mr. Trump considers mounting a military strike on Iran. Ms. Gabbard, a critic of overseas entanglements, has privately raised concerns of a wider war. And on Friday Mr. Trump said “she’s wrong” when he was asked about her testimony in March that Iran had not decided to build a nuclear weapon.

After the video was posted, the president also told Ms. Gabbard that he was disappointed in her, and wished she had used better judgment, according to one of the two people briefed on the conversation. He told Ms. Gabbard that he believed she was using her time working for him to set herself up for higher office. Mr. Trump told Ms. Gabbard that if she wanted to run for president, she should not be in the administration, one of the people briefed on the meeting said.

 

Gabbard with the TDS brewing...

 

“The president needs someone who will give him the right intelligence information, whether he likes it or not,” said Daniel L. Davis, an analyst at the think tank Defense Priorities, which advocates a restrained foreign policy. “If you put someone else in there, they might only tell him what he wants to hear.”

Mr. Davis, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, was Ms. Gabbard’s choice for a top intelligence role before criticism from Republicans over his skepticism of Israel’s war in Gaza forced her to rescind the appointment.

Edited 10 hours ago by nedboy7

[Homelander]

14 hours ago, Doc said:

Yeah, it was inevitable.  If a Dem had been President, travel wouldn't have been curtailed early for fear of being "racist" and the number of infected coming in would have made it exponentially worse.  Remember all the whining by Dems when Trump restricted travel?

 

And would a Dem President have gotten the vaccines, which were so instrumental, out as quickly?  BTW, no one said they were "useless," just that they weren't as perfect as they said and probably led to a lot of complacency.

 

Then again, maybe if a Dem had been President, the superspreader Summer of 2020 riots would have been curtailed?

 

You’re truly delusional but predictable. Nothing screamed ‘pandemic leadership’ like bleach cures, anti-mask meltdowns, and promising it’d vanish by Easter.

[Homelander]

Putin's going to be pissed with his is Lassie.

 

 

[Big Blitz]

Trump should call for an evacuation of Saint Paul, MN.