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Posted on 06/06/2026 8:56:50 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Today, I want to speak plainly for myself as a veteran and a soldier who has seen firsthand the high cost of war. As someone who serves under President Trump's leadership, I have experienced the promise of peace...
The old Washington way of thinking is something we hope is in the rear-view mirror and something that has held us back for too long. For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building.
It was a one-size-fits-all approach of toppling regimes, trying to impose our system of governance on others, intervening in conflicts that were barely understood, and walking away with more enemies than allies. The result: trillions spent, countless lives lost, and in many cases, a creation of greater security threats, the rise of Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS.
We've heard President Trump and Vice President Vance speak just last week about their hope that the Abraham Accords will continue to grow and expand to allow for a true lasting regional stability and peace. This is what President Trump's America First policy looks like in action, building peace through diplomacy, with an understanding that there cannot be prosperity without peace...
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But it's still jarring to see these words in retrospect even just less than a year out.
Tulsi was shown the door.....she brilliantly foresaw the Iran
debacle before it flopped.....and would not go along with it.
She sounded just like Trump did. Now she's trash and Trump is great around here.
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Syria, Bosnia/Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt, Libya... were all wars of corrupt intent. There is a major difference between Iran and our other wars: With the mullahs in charge, Iran had BOTH the means and intent to do us grievous harm, to the point of complete disregard for their own personal survival. To my mind, there is no negotiating with such people, which is why Trump is focused upon negotiating with their political element and not the mullahs. In that respect I think he’s mistaken, that once we committed to war with Iran in bombing those nuclear facilities we should have completed the job last year as fast as possible with the mullahs and the IRGC/Basij out of power. It would have saved the world a lot of grief.
To that I would add that scrapping the four minesweepers we had in Bahrain in 2025 was very dumb, as was failing to cut off land transport into and out of Iran before the blockade. Almost as concerning is that we only have one HELIOS equipped ship in Japan. If one is going to war against drones and mines, one had best possess the means to handle them.
The interwebs world is a funny place.
If I was in her shoes I would have resigned in a very public way as soon as I realized that a foreign leader like Netanyahu had more influence on my boss than I did.
It’s disappointing to see FR filled with so many people who are either dishonest or gullible enough to believe that.
Poppycock. I opposed all of those other wars I listed.
Sure, sure, whatever you say! lol
Carlson/Gabbard 2028
Restore America
If I was in her shoes, I would have resigned in a very public way, soon as I realized
that bomb-happy foreigner Netanyahu had more influence over my boss than I did.
The first clues came from the “all-seeing, all knowing” Mossad getting Netanyahu
to dupe Trump into bombing Iran by assuring Don The Mideast Believer:
<><>Iran’s ballistic missile program could be “destroyed” in weeks.
<><>The regime would be “too weak” to close the Strait of Hormuz.
<><>Street protests — with Mossad help — would “trigger a western-leaning uprising.”
<><>Kurdish fighters from Iraq could “open a ground front” in the northwest.
(None of which happened.)
Tulsi may have also heard:
Congress quietly plotted to integrate US and Israeli militaries
FR Posted on 5/29/2026, 1:25:05 PM by Ultra Sonic 007
In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together.
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.
Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.
Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.”
In other words, tax-paid US military data could soon be
Israel’s military’s data...(to sell to America’s enemies).
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long read
NY Times
By Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
Reporting from Washington
June 6, 2026
Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel
Says Israel is spying on senior American officials
The US Defense Department has increased the counterintelligence threat assessment to its highest level, as Israel is believed to have eavesdropped on American negotiations with Iran.
Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran, amid rising concern over a more general counterintelligence threat by Israel.
The United States has long known, and tolerated, Israeli spying. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about US positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials.
The reports include concerns that Israel has stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop on senior American officials, including spying on Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and one of his main deputies, Michael P. DiMino IV.
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more on NY Times web site
President Trump offered a glimpse into his private conversations with Netanyahu,
suggesting that recent disagreements had prompted the president to call Netanyahu “crazy.”
The relentless drone attacks by the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group have exposed cracks in Israel’s defenses, shocking its public and forcing a rushed search for solutions by its military and political leaderships.
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