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[changegonnacome]

On 5/27/2026 at 11:42 AM, dwy000 said:

Which brings me back to the point that this MOU is worthless and meaningless. 

 

Disagree....the MOU has a lot of value to both Trump and Iran. Its meaninglessness is the point. The MOU is the off ramp Trump needs to declare victory anything else, like a an actual deal with details, does not allow the ambiguity he needs to call a defeat a victory. In this respect kicking the nuclear issues down the road is a feature, not a bug. 

 

Its best not to put a strategic defeat in the headline....you bury the defeat or at best the pointlessness of Epic Fury in the boring nuclear details many months from now or never enshrine the defeat at all in a piece of paper.

 

The best can kick of all here for Trump is to the next administration.

 

 

Edited May 28 by changegonnacome

[Parsad]

13 hours ago, cubsfan said:

 

Yeah, nothing like taking your rape claim from an episode of "Law and Order" - and not being able to remember what year it happened.

 

She was such a credible grifter -  after she lied about Reid Hoffman paying her fees in a deposition.   Don't dare question her motives about lying though.

 

See the world is upside down to you Cubs!  You are praying to, or at the very least, worshipping a false idol...who certainly loves and is made of gold, commands all of the deadly sins, and on top of that portends to be Jesus!  All of his friends are happy to worship him and believe his lies as well.

 

So prosecuting and going after people like E. Jean Carroll is par for the course for the spawn of Satan.  He's going to the same island below as his best bud Epstein.  Based on what we are seeing, I tend to agree with all of the born agains that the Rapture is around the corner!  Cheers!

[changegonnacome]

On 5/26/2026 at 5:01 PM, Parsad said:

They are negotiating because they have no support. 

 

The US has no support. Because there was/is no imminent nuclear threat. Even if there was Trump did not build the case for war with Iran with the US population or with allies and was then surprised that neither supported the war!

 

He might like us to believe that the allies are cowardly - the reality is the allies can see what this was.

 

Trump launched the attack against Iran in the hunt for personal vainglory. Bibi didn't make him, Bibi simply provided the permission structure to allow him to attempt it. He wanted and wants to do historic things. He is sunsetting narcissist in poor health - he is racing around DC trying to build ballrooms & giant Arch's, putting his face & name on a newly invented $250 bills, government drug websites & IRA accounts for children cause well he's a sunsetting narcissist who's years left number in the single digits.

 

Iran is an edge out of the above (Cuba next)- he dreamed of toppling the Iranian regime, the same way he dreams of the ballroom being there long after he's six feet under...that somehow a ballroom, an arch, a toppled Iranian regime, a face stamped on a $250 bill is a back door out of the grave. It's the oldest delusion in the catalogue. The pharaohs built the grandest version of it in the desert.

 

Trump is in the Pharoah phase of his life and Presidency. And i don't think it ends with Iran. This is a compulsion and it's only going to get worse as it becomes clearer to him on every trip to Walter Reed how few days on earth he has left and how fewer still of those days overlap with being President.

 

On 5/26/2026 at 5:01 PM, Parsad said:

And I didn't say just bombing...he would have to send in troops in a large scale and there would be civilian casualties.  An unpopular war, but the long-term outcome would be worth it.  

 

This sits in the realms of fantasy IMO....first as per the above the 'case to attack Iran' to stave off some imminent threat never existed inside the US intelligence apparatus. Trump is the commander in chief and could have tried to ram through but in a country as divided as the US I have real question marks on how that would work domestically....I think you'd end up with more chaos in the streets of large american cities before you'd eventually get to unleash the same chaos on the streets of Tehran.

 

On 5/26/2026 at 5:01 PM, Parsad said:

This will happen all over again within 15-20 years! 

 

I seriously doubt it.

 

Iran, via this conflict, has demonstrated a deterrents regime that looks almost as foolproof as a nuclear deterrent to me. No US President would be dumb enough to try or allow Israel to try something like this again. The chance of success is so low and costs so high.

 

Epic Fury has essentially taken theoricatal Iranian deterrents and made them real. That will be the long lasting dividend of this war. Iran can shut the SOH at will as demonstrated - a thermo nuclear economic bomb. If that weren't enough. Then via regional escalation they have demonstrated the existential playbook - you attempt to send the Iranian regime to graveyard of history. They will take the worlds and the Gulfs energy, water, aluminium,  jet fuel, fertilizer supplies with them.

 

Iran IMO doesn't need a nuclear weapon.....via this conflict road testing their optionality they've essentially demonstrated a deterrents regime that functions similarly to the MAD nuclear one.

 

MAED - mutually assured economic destruction.

 

The defeat is twofold....the immediate obvious one which is the US and Israel tried their hardest and failed to topple the Iranian regime....the more long lasting defeat, the one that is sending alarm bells off in Tel Aviv for Bibi & the Israeli hard right that has dreamed about Iran's destruction for decades is that this Iranian regime in a very meaningful way is untoppable via conventional military action. Its a bitter pill to swallow I'm sure for Bibi to go from believing he was the Israeli PM destined to destroy Iran a short few months ago to finding himself the Israeli PM that cemented Iran's existence by demonstrating they have deterrents far in excess of what anyone thought.

 

Edited May 29 by changegonnacome

[73 Reds]

1 hour ago, changegonnacome said:

 

The US has no support. Because there was/is no imminent nuclear threat. Even if there was Trump did not build the case for war with Iran with the US population or with allies and was then surprised that neither supported the war!

 

He might like us to believe that the allies are cowardly - the reality is the allies can see what this was.

 

Trump launched the attack against Iran in the hunt for personal vainglory. Bibi didn't make him, Bibi simply provided the permission structure to allow him to attempt it. He wanted and wants to do historic things. He is sunsetting narcissist in poor health - he is racing around DC trying to build ballrooms & giant Arch's, putting his face & name on a newly invented $250 bills, government drug websites & IRA accounts for children cause well he's a sunsetting narcissist who's years left number in the single digits.

 

Iran is an edge out of the above (Cuba next)- he dreamed of toppling the Iranian regime, the same way he dreams of the ballroom being there long after he's six feet under...that somehow a ballroom, an arch, a toppled Iranian regime, a face stamped on a $250 bill is a back door out of the grave. It's the oldest delusion in the catalogue. The pharaohs built the grandest version of it in the desert.

 

Trump is in the Pharoah phase of his life and Presidency. And i don't think it ends with Iran. This is a compulsion and it's only going to get worse as it becomes clearer to him on every trip to Walter Reed how few days on earth he has left and how fewer still of those days overlap with being President.

 

 

This sits in the realms of fantasy IMO....first as per the above the 'case to attack Iran' to stave off some imminent threat never existed inside the US intelligence apparatus. Trump is the commander in chief and could have tried to ram through but in a country as divided as the US I have real question marks on how that would work domestically....I think you'd end up with more chaos in the streets of large american cities before you'd eventually get to unleash the same chaos on the streets of Tehran.

 

 

I seriously doubt it.

 

Iran, via this conflict, has demonstrated a deterrents regime that looks almost as foolproof as a nuclear deterrent to me. No US President would be dumb enough to try or allow Israel to try something like this again. The chance of success is so low and costs so high.

 

Epic Fury has essentially taken theoricatal Iranian deterrents and made them real. That will be the long lasting dividend of this war. Iran can shut the SOH at will as demonstrated - a thermo nuclear economic bomb. If that weren't enough. Then via regional escalation they have demonstrated the existential playbook - you attempt to send the Iranian regime to graveyard of history. They will take the Gulfs energy, water, aluminium,  jet fuel, fertilizer with them.

 

Iran IMO doesn't need a nuclear weapon via this conflict they've essentially demonstrated a deterrents regime that functions similarly.  

 

We've been through the "imminent threat" issue multiple times over.  The question is, who decides when there is an imminent threat, why anyone would want to wait that long anyway, and what parties are being threatened.  Raising the issue here again only eggs on those who like to pile on; yawn.  From my perspective, Iran hasn't demonstrated anything but the ability to extend its own misery.  There is nothing foolproof about a regime that lives underground and serves as target practice for our armed forces and those of Israel.  The only people who care about "support" for this endeavor are those who are, and have been against it from the git go.  This entire saga is now so far removed from Trump and all about change in the Middle East.  The World can potentially be much safer and more economically productive if the Iranian regime is toppled.  Otherwise, a nuclear threat has been removed for some indefinite period of time but the enemy  remains in power of an otherwise powerless population.  Why anyone would prefer the latter is something I cannot understand.   The idea that people would politicize this issue is why I now refuse to address some of them here on this site.

Edited May 29 by 73 Reds
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[Maverick47]

On 5/26/2026 at 9:05 PM, Parsad said:

He said exactly what I said...they were there to do crowd/riot control.  FBI is not trained for that but were sent.  Now you can read that two ways...and Patel didn't clarify either...were they there to be in the crowd or were they there to do crowd control? 

 

They weren't there before the riot according to them and Patel from what he heard, so they were there for crowd control since the National Guard were declined or not signed for by Pelosi.  They were not there for subversive acts.

On Jan 6th any FBI folks or confidential informants in the crowd would have been there at the behest of Trump’s FBI anyway.  Biden wasn’t in charge yet.  Not sure if blaming folks in the Executive Branch for some of the events of Jan 6th is the wisest conspiracy theory for Trump to broadcast when he was the chief executive at the time.

 

[changegonnacome]

4 minutes ago, 73 Reds said:

Why anyone would prefer the latter is something I cannot understand.

 

I do not prefer the latter....my preference is the complete destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran. But you dont always get what you want in life because reality gets in the way.....my post above is about the emerging reality on the ground in the Middle East.....and regardless of what you or I prefer Trump has clearly decided that he'd prefer this all to just go away now, the MOU being the first can kick to get the SOH open with many many more to follow I'm sure.

 

[cubsfan]

6 minutes ago, 73 Reds said:

We've been through the "imminent threat" issue multiple times over.  The question is, who decides when there is an imminent threat, why anyone would want to wait that long anyway, and what parties are being threatened.  Raising the issue here again only eggs on those who like to pile on; yawn.  From my perspective, Iran hasn't demonstrated anything but the ability to extend its own misery.  There is nothing foolproof about a regime that lives underground and serves as target practice for our armed forces and those of Israel.  The only people who care about "support" for this endeavor are those who are, and have been against it from the git go.  This entire saga is now so far removed from Trump and all about change in the Middle East.  The World can potentially be much safer and more economically productive if the Iranian regime is toppled.  Otherwise, a nuclear threat has been removed for some indefinite period of time but the enemy  remains in power of an otherwise powerless population.  Why anyone would prefer the latter is something I cannot understand.   The idea that people would politicize this issue is why I now refuse to address some of them here on this site.

 

It's real simple Reds - if you hate Trump - then nothing good he does will ever be admitted.

 

Many US Presidents have come before Trump.  All said that Iran can not possess a nuclear weapon, which most of the whole world agrees with.

 

Only one US President had the courage to act, while 2 US Presidents help Iran fund the nuclear nightmare and their terrorist campaign. 

[73 Reds]

Just now, changegonnacome said:

 

I do not prefer the latter....my preference is the complete destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran. But you dont always get what you want in life because reality gets in the way.....my post above is about the emerging reality on the ground in the Middle East.....and regardless of what you or I prefer Trump has clearly decided that he'd prefer this all to just go away now, the MOU being the first can kick to get the SOH open with many many more to follow I'm sure.

 

I'll take the other side of that bet.  Like him or not, Trump is no politician, a positive in my book.   The clock is ticking and he's got one chance to make a difference. 

[cubsfan]

3 minutes ago, Maverick47 said:

On Jan 6th any FBI folks or confidential informants in the crowd would have been there at the behest of Trump’s FBI anyway.  Biden wasn’t in charge yet.  Not sure if blaming folks in the Executive Branch for some of the events of Jan 6th is the wisest conspiracy theory for Trump to broadcast when he was the chief executive at the time.

 

 

You're are exactly right - the same corrupt FBI that lied to congress, lied to FISA courts repeatedly, spied on US Senators illegally, and spied on journalists.

 

That is the FBI we are talking about.

 

 

[changegonnacome]

1 minute ago, 73 Reds said:

I'll take the other side of that bet.  Like him or not, Trump is no politician, a positive in my book.   The clock is ticking and he's got one chance to make a difference. 

 

Possibly but not till next year and after the midterms......which is when Epic Fury should have been anyway....Trump has a short attention span, my gut is when he moves on from Iran he will have moved on for good....better to pick a fight with a true weakling like Cuba and get that paragraph secured in the history books.

[73 Reds]

12 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

 

Possibly but not till next year and after the midterms......which is when Epic Fury should have been anyway....Trump has a short attention span, my gut is when he moves on from Iran he will have moved on for good....better to pick a fight with a true weakling like Cuba and get that paragraph secured in the history books.

We'll see. Some people (not you, so much) far undersell Trump's abilities because they allow their personal ideologies to take over.  

[Lazarus]

1 hour ago, cubsfan said:

 

Many US Presidents have come before Trump.  All said that Iran can not possess a nuclear weapon, which most of the whole world agrees with.

 

Only one US President had the courage to act

 

He fucked this up majorly. Everyone agrees that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear bomb and anyone with half a brain knows that they are enriching uranium with that end in mind. But he didn't have the courage to truly commit with ground troops, or at least force the Israelis to be the ground troops in exchange for air support, etc.. 

 

[changegonnacome]

44 minutes ago, 73 Reds said:

We'll see. Some people (not you, so much) far undersell Trump's abilities because they allow their personal ideologies to take over.  

 

As we've discussed before people (incl. you) voted for Trump to be a politician that changed things up and instead of talking about doing things, he did them. That is a totally legitimate viewpoint & desire in a democratic system that has seemingly become sclerotic. Call me conservative but change comes with unexpected consequences....one of which is change doesn't automatically equal improvement.....in many cases it results in situation worse than the status quo.

 

he's a man of action thats for sure......just look at the White House below....only in the final accounting will we know if his hyper-activity was for the good or for the bad...you do so much we will undoubtedly have good outcomes...but this ill conceived Iran conflict is case a point...he did what no other US President had done before, as we sit here today the reality in the Middle East is a situation where the change in the status quo was not for the better but rather the worse.

 

I'll always give him props.....Trump's great contribution, the one he will remembered for is rightly switching America's posture towards China from engagement to containment in 2017....it was non-consensus but correct and in time we should all be thankful to him for that at least.

 

 

[cubsfan]

43 minutes ago, Lazarus said:

He fucked this up majorly. Everyone agrees that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear bomb and anyone with half a brain knows that they are enriching uranium with that end in mind. But he didn't have the courage to truly commit with ground troops, or at least force the Israelis to be the ground troops in exchange for air support, etc.. 

 

 

Well that's an excellent point - but shows you the limits of the MAGA promise - don't get Americans killed unnecessarily.  No occupation, no multiyear engagement.   Do it like Venezuela, Panama, and the coming Cuba - kick China out, limit their threat, stop narco terrorism, etc.  

 

But don't get a bunch of Americans killed. It definitely limits Trump - but this is a long way from over.  I'm very surprise the patience of the POTUS - not rushing to kill a bunch of Iranian thugs.   But I think it will come to that - he will destroy their infrastructure- once he is certain the Iranians are stalling - which they are.

 

Kharg Island and a lot of other infrastructure - dual purpose military/civilian will be gone. The SOH will be open. Once he's done, he'll send most of the fleet home - keep an aircraft carrier there for bombing runs to insure the IRGC doesn't disturb the nuclear remains.

 

Then it will be up to the Iranians, their neighbors and the cowards in Europe (who continually enriched the Iranians, just like Obama/Biden) to deal with the problem.   Iran will have been set back years in their military/nuclear ambitions - and the USA role will be done. 

 

Iran will try and wait the next 2 1/2 years out - but it will be a big mistake for the country. 

 

Gosh what happened to all the Iranian allies - China, N. Korea, Russia anyway???   They're all hiding under their beds watching the beating the paper tiger is absorbing....

 

Oh well.

[changegonnacome]

26 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

But I think it will come to that - he will destroy their infrastructure- once he is certain the Iranians are stalling - which they are.

 

The reason he never followed through on this....is not because he couldn't do it....but because in doing so it would get the whole regions energy & water infrastructure destroyed and offline for decade....practically guaranteeing a global economic recession which would spike the US fiscal deficit to 10% plus.....and quickly see our debt to GDP go to 110%, then 120% etc etc

 

I think you have a very rosy view on the options the President has from this position.....he has no good options, only terrible ones....but the proof is in the pudding here, he's more or less capitulating on an MOU to get the SOH open and kicking everything that matters out two months........if such rosy options exist, as you've outlined, you dont sign up for what he looks like he's going to sign up for.

[cubsfan]

19 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

 

The reason he never followed through on this....is not because he couldn't do it....but because in doing so it would get the whole regions energy & water infrastructure destroyed and offline for decade....practically guaranteeing a global economic recession which would spike the US fiscal deficit to 10% plus.....and quickly see our debt to GDP go to 110%, then 120% etc etc

 

I think you have a very rosy view on the options the President has from this position.....he has no good options, only terrible ones....but the proof is in the pudding here, he's more or less capitulating on an MOU to get the SOH open and kicking everything that matters out two months........if such rosy options exist, as you've outlined, you dont sign up for what he looks like he's going to sign up for.

 

Since when are there great options in war??

 

It's very rare, and that's why your cowards like Obama, Biden and Europe just showered Iran with money and hoped the regime would not fuck them - which is exactly what Iran did.

 

Trump is much different - and your "poor options" are going to play themselves out, much to the dismay of the Regime.  And Trump will have cut the balls off of a terrorist regime for years.

[ourkid8]

3 hours ago, cubsfan said:

 

Well that's an excellent point - but shows you the limits of the MAGA promise - don't get Americans killed unnecessarily.  No occupation, no multiyear engagement.   Do it like Venezuela, Panama, and the coming Cuba - kick China out, limit their threat, stop narco terrorism, etc.  

 

But don't get a bunch of Americans killed. It definitely limits Trump - but this is a long way from over.  I'm very surprise the patience of the POTUS - not rushing to kill a bunch of Iranian thugs.   But I think it will come to that - he will destroy their infrastructure- once he is certain the Iranians are stalling - which they are.

 

Kharg Island and a lot of other infrastructure - dual purpose military/civilian will be gone. The SOH will be open. Once he's done, he'll send most of the fleet home - keep an aircraft carrier there for bombing runs to insure the IRGC doesn't disturb the nuclear remains.

 

Then it will be up to the Iranians, their neighbors and the cowards in Europe (who continually enriched the Iranians, just like Obama/Biden) to deal with the problem.   Iran will have been set back years in their military/nuclear ambitions - and the USA role will be done. 

 

Iran will try and wait the next 2 1/2 years out - but it will be a big mistake for the country. 

 

Gosh what happened to all the Iranian allies - China, N. Korea, Russia anyway???   They're all hiding under their beds watching the beating the paper tiger is absorbing....

 

Oh well.

 

Seriously? I’m flabbergasted that you don’t see what’s right in front of you. 

 

The US failed to achieve any of its key military or secondary objectives in this conflict. As a result, the Navy is heading home — along with all other US military personnel in the region. (I’ll share pictures)
 

Iran has been setback years? US intelligence is saying the opposite! (I bet you are getting your facts from Israelis propaganda- we know when US listened to that rubbish what happened to them at the start of the war) 
 

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/iran-military-rebuild

 

I asked @73 Reds what portion of the reconstruction fund belongs to Israel. I’ll ask you the same: What’s the US share?

Edited May 29 by ourkid8

[changegonnacome]

3 hours ago, cubsfan said:

just showered Iran with money

you’ve seen the draft MOU, right? Trump is going to shower Iran with multiples of what Obama/Biden did….i know it’s the boring details….but never once were primary US sanctions relief put forward to achieve the JCPOA….the MOU Trump is about to sign has primary sanctions relief to be discussed. 
 

3 hours ago, cubsfan said:

Trump is much different - and your "poor options" are going to play themselves out, much to the dismay of the Regime.

Wow - You’d happily watch the gulf returned to a desert and the global economy wrecked to most likely have the IRGC still running what’s left of Iran?….i suppose the upside of destroying the gulf is that who controls the SOH wouldn’t really matter anymore

[cubsfan]

13 minutes ago, changegonnacome said:

you’ve seen the draft MOU, right? Trump is going to shower Iran with multiples of what Obama/Biden did….i know it’s the boring details….but never once were primary US sanctions relief put forward to achieve the JCPOA….the MOU Trump is about to sign has primary sanctions relief to be discussed. 
 

Wow - You’d happily watch the gulf returned to a desert and the global economy wrecked to most likely have the IRGC still running what’s left of Iran?….i suppose the upside of destroying the gulf is that who controls the SOH wouldn’t really matter anymore

 

Dude, sometimes I just don't get you.

 

So you deny that all that money showered upon the IRGC did not go to building out ICBM's, nukes and terrorist proxies.

 

Destroying Iran's capacity to wage war has always been the goal - but that seems to be lost on you.

 

 

[cubsfan]

1 hour ago, ourkid8 said:

I asked @73 Reds what portion of the reconstruction fund belongs to Israel. I’ll ask you the same: What’s the US share?

 

Kid - don't really know - and don't really care. I will leave that up to the President and his team. 

 

 

[Parsad]

10 hours ago, changegonnacome said:

 

I seriously doubt it.

 

Iran, via this conflict, has demonstrated a deterrents regime that looks almost as foolproof as a nuclear deterrent to me. No US President would be dumb enough to try or allow Israel to try something like this again. The chance of success is so low and costs so high.

 

Epic Fury has essentially taken theoricatal Iranian deterrents and made them real. That will be the long lasting dividend of this war. Iran can shut the SOH at will as demonstrated - a thermo nuclear economic bomb. If that weren't enough. Then via regional escalation they have demonstrated the existential playbook - you attempt to send the Iranian regime to graveyard of history. They will take the worlds and the Gulfs energy, water, aluminium,  jet fuel, fertilizer supplies with them.

 

Iran IMO doesn't need a nuclear weapon.....via this conflict road testing their optionality they've essentially demonstrated a deterrents regime that functions similarly to the MAD nuclear one.

 

MAED - mutually assured economic destruction.

 

The defeat is twofold....the immediate obvious one which is the US and Israel tried their hardest and failed to topple the Iranian regime....the more long lasting defeat, the one that is sending alarm bells off in Tel Aviv for Bibi & the Israeli hard right that has dreamed about Iran's destruction for decades is that this Iranian regime in a very meaningful way is untoppable via conventional military action. Its a bitter pill to swallow I'm sure for Bibi to go from believing he was the Israeli PM destined to destroy Iran a short few months ago to finding himself the Israeli PM that cemented Iran's existence by demonstrating they have deterrents far in excess of what anyone thought.

 

 

Not talking about the U.S...talking about Iran's regime going back to their old ways and then Israel does something as stupid...if not worse!  This starts all over again in 15-20 years if the regimes stay the same.  Cheers!

[Parsad]

7 hours ago, Lazarus said:

He fucked this up majorly. Everyone agrees that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear bomb and anyone with half a brain knows that they are enriching uranium with that end in mind. But he didn't have the courage to truly commit with ground troops, or at least force the Israelis to be the ground troops in exchange for air support, etc.. 

 

 

Yup!  He half-assed it like everything else he does.  The only thing that has worked out for Trump was securing the southern border.  He's losing everything else...like the judges halting the closing of the Kennedy Center, removing his name from the Kennedy Center, halting the slush fund, refunding tariffs, etc.  Cheers!

[Gregmal]

8 minutes ago, Parsad said:

 

Yup!  He half-assed it like everything else he does.  The only thing that has worked out for Trump was securing the southern border.  He's losing everything else...like the judges halting the closing of the Kennedy Center, removing his name from the Kennedy Center, halting the slush fund, refunding tariffs, etc.  Cheers!

There’s near unanimous agreement in the US that boots on the ground are entirely unacceptable. It’s never been a real option given the election cycle. You’d need an attack on US soil and it’d have to be at the beginning of a term to even remotely get public support for it. 
 

I think this was an instance where there were call options on a lot of stuff, and minimal downside otherwise. The deranged slants are of course always gonna be there. But again, guy one goes into guy twos house. Guy one is bigger, stronger, wealthier and has better connected friends. He destroys the yard, breaks the windows, and sets fire in the kitchen and leaves. Eventually he throws guy two a few bucks to say “my bad”. Not many rational people would say guy two was a big winner here…

[73 Reds]

3 hours ago, Gregmal said:

There’s near unanimous agreement in the US that boots on the ground are entirely unacceptable. It’s never been a real option given the election cycle. You’d need an attack on US soil and it’d have to be at the beginning of a term to even remotely get public support for it. 
 

I think this was an instance where there were call options on a lot of stuff, and minimal downside otherwise. The deranged slants are of course always gonna be there. But again, guy one goes into guy twos house. Guy one is bigger, stronger, wealthier and has better connected friends. He destroys the yard, breaks the windows, and sets fire in the kitchen and leaves. Eventually he throws guy two a few bucks to say “my bad”. Not many rational people would say guy two was a big winner here…

Yeah, boots on the ground in Iran are wholly unnecessary.  We can incapacitate them in other ways and Israel can take care of any dirty work.  But Trump delusion keeps bringing this issue back here.

[ICUMD]

Nice to see the war hopefully wrapping up. 

Enjoying my portfolio gains this year. 

 

This will also allow Trump to focus on more important tasks at hand.  So how's that ballroom coming along??!