Typical straw man argument from Trump when Saudi Arabia has primarily defensive ballistic missiles, 30x fewer of them than Iran, and used none of them in the recent war when Iran launched 135 against them

 Trump On Iran Deal: "What Am I Going To Do? Let Saudi Arabia Have Missiles, But They Can't?"

This damn fool dithered for over two months AFTER the April 8 ceasefire before he finally figured out that the war he started was going to endanger oil supplies

 

No new wars

Says He Never Promised No New Wars...

Trump: "I Didn't Guarantee No War," "This Is Not An Endless War"

C-SPAN

The Times of Israel 

 

 

 

Update:

Trump storms out of interview after being challenged about election fraud claims, DOJ fund 

I have a hard time getting excited about bond yields surging 7% in the wake of the Iran war when they already surged 368% since 2020 to the end of February

100 days of the Iran war: How global markets and the economy have been affected, in charts

 ... Yields on U.S. Treasurys are among those to have surged in the aftermath of the war ... U.S. 30-year Treasury yields have surged ...

 

 

A war 6,338 miles away is OK though

 Trump On Taiwan: "The Last Thing We Need Right Now Is A War 9,500 Miles Away"

And yes, DC to Taipei is 7,864 miles, not 9,500. 

And, oh yeah:

Trump says Cuba will be 'next.' Here's what he doesn't get.

 

On day 60 Lizard Brain turns off the war as of April 7 to restart the 60-day clock again later whenever he wants

 

 Trump tells Congress hostilities in Iran ‘have terminated’ as War Powers deadline hits

... “The hostilities that began on February 28, 2026, have terminated,” Trump wrote. ... 

New narrative alert as Trump tanks in the polls: Iran War was about 6 weeks as Trump said it would be!

I mean, that's true right?

We are in week 8, and the two week ceasefire which expires tomorrow has been extended indefinitely because Trump says Iran is too divided to speak with a unified voice.

The truth is whatever Humpty Trumpty says it is.                                                       

Latest Polls: Trump Job Approval Falls to 2nd Term Low in RCP Average - 40.6%

 

Lawler: Iran War Lasted "About Six Weeks" As Trump Said It Would — Now Negotiating Uranium, Terror Financing

 

Trump extends ceasefire in Iran, citing ‘seriously fractured’ Iranian government

 

 

 

Welcome to week eight of Trump's four to five week war against Iran

 

Inflation, whether pandemic induced or war induced, has been berry berry good for hiding price increases to boost corporate profits

 

Corporate America Aims to Preserve Profit Streak During War in Iran:  Higher inflation is leading companies to raise prices without sacrificing margins

 

... Sonu Varghese, the global macro strategist at the Carson Group, a financial firm, said many of the companies he tracked viewed inflation pressures from “outside shocks,” such as this war, “as an opportunity to raise prices and boosts margins,” which can, in turn, raise profits.

“I think we’re actually going to get some margin expansion,” Mr. Varghese added. ...

 

The Nobel Committee needs to create a War Prize, stat

 PENTAGON RAMPS UP PLANNING OF MILITARY OPS IN CUBA...

Keir Starmer won't let America use UK bases to conduct actual war against Iran because actual war is a war crime now and he's a girlie man

 

CENTCOM boasts hitting 10k+ targets in one month of war, and yet Iran continues to wage it successfully against Israel, the UAE, and others

 The point of war is to stop the enemy's ability to wage it.

That clearly has not happened in one month of operations.

The reason is because, despite all the sound and fury, the U.S. and Israel are not waging a real war.

War means destroying Iran's country utterly, depriving it of food and water, electricity and heat, shelter, income from oil, and imports of materials.

They can't bring themselves to do that. They don't have the nerve.

Worse, Iran is successfully depriving its neighbors of some of those things. 

Sending in boots on the ground in these unacceptable circumstances is simply playing with more soldiers' lives.

Get serious or go home. 

 

 

Ann Coulter believes in an anti-war myth of her own making, says an anti-war Trump won a huge majority in the 2016 Republican primary in pro-war South Carolina when 67% voted for anybody else

... Waging pointless wars around the world and being the world's policeman. How many times do we have to vote on this?

 I mean, Trump was attacked for the things he said in 2016. Remember, he said, Jeb's father lied us into war. The Wall Street Journal and New York Post assured us that that was going to kill him in South Carolina, biggest military state in the country.

That was in the South Carolina primary. Next day, primaries hold. Who wins? Huge, huge majority. Donald Trump. We have voted on this over and over and over again. Now what? We've already had how many? Seven Americans die, not to mention 166 school children in our name for a war that does not make one American safer.

Here.

Even today, strong approval of Donald Trump is only a 30% proposition at Rasmussen Reports. 

 

 

The Grauniad wants you to worry about a far-right civil war in the United States employing drones because of one guy on Substack found by one analyst with a vivid imagination

 Alarm: Far-right extremists eye drones for domestic attacks...

 

 ... the far-right American terrorist movement sees off-the-shelf or home-built first-person viewer (FPV) drones as a critical weapon in their own future war against the US government ...

... talk is commonplace of how these cheap drones are revolutionizing current wars and will be the critical tools of a so-called second civil war ...

... Multiple sources told the Guardian that the FBI has major concerns about the accelerationist neo-Nazi sect on the far right – one calling for an insurgency against the US government – and other ultra-violent actors in the same ideological space, eyeing the use of FPV drones for domestic attacks. ...

... evidence has emerged of military-trained neo-Nazis with relevant skillsets having pinpointed the drones as a potential tool ...

... [Joshua] Fisher-Birch first spotted the Substack and vouched for its credibility. According to him, the writer’s alleged background is not only “significant” but “violent white supremacist groups would find his drone experience to be useful”. ...

 

  

Meanwhile Sean Davis' The Federalist is ground zero for the anti-war right, still ignoring what der Führer says

There isn't a single story on the front page right now at The Federalist about the Israeli-Iranian conflict, like it's not even news.

Americans Are Done With the Deep State's Forever Wars

Sean Davis, X

 

I search for "Iran" and get stuff like this:

 

‘Preventative War’ Against Iran Would Be Foolhardy And Unpopular With Americans

 

Why Conflict With Iran Over Iraq Can’t End Until America Withdraws

Trump's "movement" is divided because Trump doesn't agree with the anti-war side represented by Tucker Carlson

 

War, huh, yeah, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh

 

War is the father of everything awful

  

 War is the father of debt, and of the Navy Seal barbarians in Congress who know how to destroy but not how to build:

... a lethal band of expert killers ... the current generation of ex-SEALs, who mostly came of fighting age during the Gulf War and the war on terror, have eagerly embraced a more combative style of politics — one that favors partisan warfare, legislative brinksmanship and an open embrace of Trump. ... it draws on the combativeness at the heart of what several of the members called the SEALs’ “warrior mentality”: the sense the SEALs will do whatever it takes — short of opposing Trump outright — to achieve their objective. ... they see the objective of their mission as tearing down an irreparably broken system rather than working within that system to pass bills. Judged by this metric, the former SEALs have been diligent foot soldiers in the MAGA movement, especially insofar as they have green-lit the Trump administration’s more aggressive efforts to extend his authority over independent agencies created by Congress and concentrate policy making power in the executive branch. ...

More.

 

A libertarian wants you to know that accumulated losses in a war are "not sensible", as if war were ever sensible

 "Here, let's look at this completely irrational thing and apply some logic to it now that we're down 28 points in the fourth quarter".

Their tidy little world of dollars and cents makes no sense, either.

Imagine Winston Churchill saying this after Dunkirk.

 

 

The War Between The States never ended