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So far Trump has been very lucky in his military adventures - he lost military assets and wasted high-tech ammo, but no serious casualties.

Since the GOP-controlled Congress refuses to rein him in, he'll keep starting new military adventures until one of them goes sideways and many Americans die.

Danny devito in always sunny stating "you would have to be a real low life piece of shit to be proud to be an American."

pm yair golan is about as likely as pm ayman odeh tbh

I think states will regret weakening the taboo on heads of states not being targets during war

if real, extremely rare shahed w

americans are genuinely so fucking evil man

And some will take a look at what I'm saying and think, well the US would never attack Turkey or Saudi or Egypt. But look at how the Israelis speak of Turkey *today* and look at what the likes of the FDD and AEI are saying about Saudi *today*. Why is this not comprehensible?

Far likelier that the sheer emboldening of the US and Israel on the basis of being able to destabilize and balkanize any country they like at any time and for any reason will only lead them to do it to Egypt, or Turkey, or Saudi Arabia.

Those who speculate that without IRI the US will finally clamp down on Israel's transgressions in other arenas are deluded beyond comprehension. If one takes the likes of Blinken, Lew, Hochstein and McGurk at their word, which their word is nearly identical to that of Kushner, this will not happen.

The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.

Gaza, south Lebanon, the West Bank, southwest Syria, this is the model that Israel wants across MENA: weak, permanently unstable, incapable of infrastructural reconstruction or administrative cohesion.

Syria really is the best example until up last night, in my opinion. The Syrians overthrow a dictatorship which altogether was not very friendly to Israel and in response the Israelis invaded, occupied, and have in some ways already de facto annexed more Syrian territory while bombing Damascus.

🚨 BREAKING: Iran Launches Strikes on U.S. Bases Across the Middle East ▪️Explosions seen at the U.S. Naval Base in Al-Juffair, Bahrain, confirmed by Bahrain. ▪️Alarm sirens followed by up to four explosions in Kuwait. ▪️Massive explosions reported in Abu Dhabi. ▪️In Qatar, an official source at the Ministry of Defense told Al Jazeera that an Iranian missile was intercepted by the Patriot air defense system. Iran had warned that any U.S. attack would be met with attacks on American bases and interests across the region, with a goal of killing a minimum of 500 American soldiers.

🚨 Iran Launches Strikes on US Bases Across the Middle East

▪️Explosions seen at the US Naval Base in Al-Juffair, Bahrain, confirmed by Bahrain.

▪️Alarm sirens followed by up to 4 explosions in Kuwait.

▪️Massive explosions reported in Abu Dhabi.

▪️In Qatar, an official source at the Min. of Def...

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

@RepJeffries on X: Donald Trump promised to keep America out of costly and endless foreign wars. He is now doing the exact opposite in the Middle East. Congress must vote on a War Powers resolution immediately. 28 Feb 26

While Republicans fully support Trump's war with Iran, Democratic leaders do not oppose it. There is no effective opposition.

Hakeem Jeffries is merely demanding that the administration "must explain itself to the American people and Congress" and "provide an ironclad justification."

the specific years picked being "34" and "57" is good for a trivia/humorous post, but it's actualy pretty ridiculous in the context of a serious argument.

weird how it starts in 1992 for dems, when it could just as well start in 1980, and that's suddenly 46 years, and it doesn't look quite so good.

when i “whine” about dems being losers, its not because i think they’ve lost too many elections, its because i think they’ve squandered that power when they’ve won. is there a better case-in-point than the biden admin fumbling the response to a fucking coup?

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

In which people CHOOSE TO VOTE for a female plumber representing a party with broadly liberal values and an unelected life peer declares it to be the end of liberal democracy.

Hello darkness my old friend...

It’s not. Its political results are that of a standard European democracy in 2026, mediated through a worse electoral system.

All things aside, though, Goodwin's crashout might be funny, but it's also instructive about how Reform will react if they lose a general election and in that sense that is very bad.

"I will stage at the next general election" says Matt Goodwin. Funny, there appears to be a bit missing on the end of that sentence.

Good morning.

If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).

It wasn't even close.

40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.

🚨 BREAKING: The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton by-election from Labour

🟢 GRN: 14,980 (+10,170)
➡️ REF: 10,578 (+5,436)
🔴 LAB: 9,364 (-9,191)
🔵 CON: 706 (-2,182)
🔶 LD: 653 (-746)

Changes w/ 2024

🗳️ In 2019, Labour won 67% of the vote in Gorton and Denton. The Greens won a mere 2.5% of ballots.

Tonight, the Greens stormed to victory with 41% while Labour crashed to an all-time low of 25%.

Labour did everything the popularists like Matt Yglesias want. They cracked down on trans people and immigrants. They pushed austerity. They ended up fracturing their entire base and losing this seat to the left for the first time in nearly a 100 years.

I have to say, I am genuinely so happy. And most of all not for me. My daughter will turn 3 months on Sunday. She is my whole world. Raluca is an immigrant. According to Matt, this makes my daughter potentially not British. To be notionally represented by that man I would consider a genuine outrage

looking forward to the Rheinmetall Staatsräsoniale 2027 in Berlin, Germany

how much *she is