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Writer. Scholar. Cultural critic who reshaped how we understand feminism, love, power, and liberation.

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How seriously does Trump take the War he has illegally started? He launched it from a shitty golf resort. He's that "serious."

Not to take away from it but the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was an 85 year old man with health problems at the end of his lifespan. The contingency for his death was already written out and being implemented while he was alive.

And that thought doesn’t even address Iran’s proxies located in strategic locations worldwide

I appreciate these kind of posts so much. Important insight into a foreign structure I would not know to ask specifics about about.
(Of course, was asking 'who's in charge next?' But I never would have known to go this direction.)

There is NO regime change in Venezuela, just the extraction of Maduro...

Many deaths over the duration of this mess. Military and civilian. And the gop doesn’t care.

I mean the guy was 86, of course they had a contingency plan.

its what i been saying, they removed him, but left EVERYONE else in place. lol

Duh, this is what the CIA leakers were trying to get across - “we told him! Not our fault!”

So Trump stepped in it, how long before he pussies out, thought he would bluff the IRGC to giving up, ha ha. Start taking bets on how long before he moves on to a new shiny object like Cuba. He must have most idiotic advisors, "little marco"

Yeah, Americans never talk much about trump installing a new dictator in Venezuela with an agreement that America will steal their oil. Despicable.

He will be replaced with an ideological clone or worse because this is how authoritarian regimes roll.

I'm worried who slides into the power vacuum spots now.
Are they going to be better for the people, or just more compliant to the ones who cleared the way for them?

I'm happy for them but also paranoid that these times has NO happy people anywhere in the world anymore.

I believe Netanyahu has the compromising info on Trump from Epstein. This is a completely comprised President who is being led around by bribes from Saudi Arabia and videos from abusing girls. How terrible to have this guy in office with so little trust.

Ali Larijani, as wartime leader amongst the rest of the multi layered succession planning, according to David Hearst at Middle Eastern Eye.

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Good read. I had the same questions. Like what happens now? How is the leaders death going to affect anything, etc

Might have to release the Epstein files just to distract from the mess they’ve made

Thank you for sharing this.
Very scary reality.😞

& you can bet nobody near Trump cd think to say this, was aware enough to say this, or was brave enough to tell big man that this is idiotic. It will be so much worse than his pie in the sky fantasies abt being a big bad guy & forcing people into humiliated surrender. Believe me that’s his fantasy.

No shit Sherlocks of the Dipshit Admin

More needless bloodshed for sure.

Has it even been 24 hours yet? Nobody knows where this is going and how it will end

Khameini was about 86 or 87 as far as I can tell. I expect his successor was already in the driving seat.

He already has at least two other targets in mind: Greenland and Cuba.

Trump isn’t in this based on strategy. He’s in it to declare a victory and be lauded. He has zero interest in peace. He won’t get what he wants, tire of it by Tuesday, and then? Whether he knows it or not, likely not, he has painted himself into a corner. Then he’ll start some bs somewhere else.

I thought combat always looked for the weaknesses in the enemy. The US's weakness is far greater on home soil than desert sand. #Trump has extensive security, his family doesn't. He puts them all in danger for his own narcissistic glory and power. So be it.

The most valuable lesson I learned at Command and Staff College was to ask, “and what then?”

We have a lot of Persian families with relatives still in Iran.
They used to come here to visit frequently.
They’re our friends, our neighbors.
And we’ve allowed our President to kill them and make the future for the survivors worse.

Trump just got waist deep in the big muddy.