U.S. military believes Iran will attempt to kill one of its commanders in ‘tit-for-tat’ response to the death of General Soleimani and expects a ‘major’ attack within two days
FTA:
The U.S. military has increased protection of its forces, particularly in Iraq. Officials said a number of the recently deployed soldiers from the 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division had moved into Iraq from Kuwait in order to increase security for Americans there. The U.S. military has stopped all training of Iraqi forces to focus on force protection, officials said.
As of Monday, officials said, there had not been a broadly distributed order or recommendation to increase security at military installations worldwide. Instead, decisions were being left up to the commanders.
2 Things This Morning
1. Bolton: Bolton was removed because his Iran strategy was, “Who cares...carpet bomb them.” This was never Trump’s plan. *Endless wars are a sign of weak leadership.* He was replaced by replaced by O’Brien (timing was !quick!) who is “helping Trump navigate the Iran provocations.”. If he testifies (he won’t) he will prove his loyalty to POTUS as he sees the office as more important than the man who fills it, especially the CiC function.
2. Pelosi & Impeachment: Pelosi has said, since winning the Speaker position, that impeachment wasn’t on the agenda. Ultimately she was forced into the situation by the “roar” of the members, led by de facto speaker AOC. She is choked by the passage as it was clearly a partisan vote, which confirms her earlier position on a bi-partisan impeachment. She was right and knows she is right. Pelosi, intelligently, withheld the Articles as a way to regain her power position over the “Squad”. The Senate will never see the articles while Pelosi holds the ability to move them out of the House. Her calls for a fair Senate “trial” as so much smoke and mirrors, allowing her to hold on to her power.
Just some WE common sense musings.