This is stunning, but this is the plan Trump just enunciated: We’ll just keep doing what we’re doing. Like, what could go wrong with that—just look at how well doing what we’re doing has worked so far!
President Donald Trump said the conflict with Iran is “going well,” detailing how U.S. forces are “hitting them hard” and predicting Iran will “eventually” have “no choice but to go home.”
“It’s going well. All you can do is keep winning, then eventually something will happen. But we’re hitting them hard, knocking them out for a loop, and we just keep winning. Eventually they’ll have no choice but to go home,” Trump told Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich on Friday.
Wait a moment. Isn’t Iran already at home? Whereas:
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“The IRGC undermines freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz”
So, in the last 24 hours Iran hit two tankers and turned back four. They were using unapproved routes, and one of them was a Qatari LNG tanker. Then the US turned back a Qatari LNG tanker that transited Hormuz using Iran’s approved route. Hormuz appears to be shut tight as a drum. How does that help anyone on the US side? And Iran struck Kuwaiti "vital and military" facilities last night. And this will make Iran “go home”? Maybe Trump needs to go home.
Make this make sense:
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In other words: Trump block U.S. ally’s LNG shipment to another U.S. ally.
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This shipment of Qatari Liquefied Natural Gas was destined to Pakistan, to “ease a deepening energy crunch”, per Bloomberg words.
Trump doesn’t care, PR victory matters much to him than millions of people’s well being.
Generating good will everywhere—NOT. But following orders.
And have you been following the other story about Trump and USrael attacking a NATO ally—Spain? By having Morocco flood Spain with people.
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What’s happening in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta? The pro-Israeli Moroccan regime is trying to pressure Sánchez’s anti-Israel government by flooding Ceuta with unemployed Moroccan civilians, hoping that pro-Israel far-right movements will gain political points from the situation.
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Spain, which never misses an opportunity to lecture Israel, has declared a state of emergency in Ceuta following the crisis over its immigration policy.
Maybe before it continues lecturing us, it’s time it explained to the world why it still maintains colonial enclaves in Africa.
Readers added context
Spain’s central government has not declared a state of emergency in Ceuta over migration, though local authorities requested it. Ceuta is an autonomous city and integral part of Spain, not a colonial enclave. reuters.com/world/africa/l… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuta
Continuing a losing non-plan while antagonizing the entire world—except for Jewish Nationalists—doesn’t strike me as any sort of plan. The clock is ticking and time isn’t on Trump’s side.
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 The U.S. is pulling its missile shields out of its last base in Iraq.
American forces have started drawing down the last troops around Erbil airport, and the Patriot batteries that knock down incoming missiles and drones are already gone, moved to an undisclosed location.
Erbil is the only U.S. base left in the country, which makes it the first thing Iran or its proxies would aim at if they wanted to hit Americans.
Stripping its air defenses before the troops finish leaving is a strange order to do it in...
The official plan has everyone OUT by the end of September, ending 23 years of U.S. presence in Iraq.
Last time Washington cleared out completely, in 2011, the vacuum it left was filled by ISIS...
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 The U.S. is pulling its missile shields out of its last base in Iraq.
American forces have started drawing down the last troops around Erbil airport, and the Patriot batteries that knock down incoming missiles and drones are already gone, moved to an undisclosed location.
Erbil is the only U.S. base left in the country, which makes it the first thing Iran or its proxies would aim at if they wanted to hit Americans.
Stripping its air defenses before the troops finish leaving is a strange order to do it in...
The official plan has everyone OUT by the end of September, ending 23 years of U.S. presence in Iraq.
Last time Washington cleared out completely, in 2011, the vacuum it left was filled by ISIS...
What we're starting to see is Iran taking the offensive:
NYPost: "President Trump demands Iran agree to a cease-fire before peace talks can advance, placing the next move squarely on Tehran."
Wait--I thought Iran called Trump begging "very nicely" for a ceasefire?
Next move Tehran:
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No U.S. attack on Iran reported last night.
Iranian Armed Forces attacked this morning with Kamikaze Drones the Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait, targeting:
- Fighter Jets hangars
- Sat Com systems
- Equipment depots