Posted on 06/27/2025 5:12:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated that “I don’t agree with the president of the United States, do not, on many, many issues. But you have to admire that when the United States says all options are on the table, he just proved all options are on the table. And China and Russia and even North Korea have to step back, because that has a level of deterrence.”
Emanuel said, “[T]he one big loser, in my view, … is not just Iran…but is Russia. Russia, if you take a step back, all their weapons, the S-300 did not protect Iran. They’ve been proven to be a feckless ally. They didn’t come to their defense. They’ve been kicked out of Syria. [They’ve] now been shown to be weak, not only in Iran, they have a war going on three and a half years on a country 1/10 of their size they can’t win. Their intelligence was wrong about Syria. Their intelligence was wrong about Wagner. Their intelligence was wrong about Ukraine. They’ve become dependent on China. And they’ve lost Europe. They have had the worst record here strategically, militarily. And if the president would press the point, you could actually, not only end the war, you could actually set back Putin’s desires.”
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Good for him!
Rahm might be on the opposite side, but he’s a pragmatist.
the only people not deterred is the American left....
First off, breitbart published a FAKE HEADLINE. That is NOT what the soon-to-be-jobless moron said, as it's RIGHT THERE in their piece:
But you have to admire that when the United States says all options are on the table, he just proved all options are on the table. And China and Russia and even North Korea have to step back, because that has a level of deterrence.”
The corollary of that - which he will NEVER clarify and/or concede - is that - despite his phraseology "United States" rather than Donald Trump due to persistent TDS, echoed loudly throughout the remainder of his screed outlined by breitbart - under a democrat president the level of deterrence hardly exists.
"Feckless leadership" iow. Obvious application to his prior boss and the puppet who followed.
THAT is the reality of his statement, NOT the 'question' he leaves open to undermine said 'admiration'. Just a blowhard.
He'll never change.
And thumbs-down to brietbart.
Better analysis:
https://victorhanson.com/in-the-end-everyone-hated-the-iranian-theocracy/
Rahm, you cannot keep a good man down.
As the left goes further off the rails as we see in the NYC mayoral race, watch the MSM and Clinton wing of the Democrat party trot out “reasonable” and “pragmatic” Dems (leftists lite) like in this instance. They’re still leftists, don’t be fooled.
the only people not deterred is the American left....
This is the wording, so short, that shocks people into reality. The rest of the world realized just who Donald Trump really was. They did not get a fair image from the US media, Journ-o-lists, not from Foreign nations, not from the pundits, but directly from several events. The first was the Democratic (USAID supported, and likely three letter acryonym supported) lawfare attack that failed. The second was the (probably same group funding) attempt on his life where he stood up and told people to ‘fight’. The last is when he attempted every option to secure peace and security in the middle east, and when Iran played games he targeted JUST their Nuclear weapons program.
Now, the entire world realizes that this is not a man to be triffled with. The only people who can’t see it are the people that have listed to the Lies from the media for 10 years about Trump. They still want to do whatever the opposite of what Trump would do, and they are willing to double down on those things.
Yes, the left is undeterred, and NYC, most of California, and certainly Los Angeles will feel the full effect of the ‘contrary’ politic.
Great post
Yippie
Rahm is impressed
I’m not impressed by Rahm
Admiring an enemy still means they are regarded as an enemy.
Its absolutely nothing to get excited about. Words are extremely easy and mean zip.
Frig’ Rahm Emmanuel. Do not allow him to warm to you one bit. If he does decide to run, a crisis will be created that he will not allow to waste for his very own benefit.
He is a monster.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, heretic, heretic!!! Burn him!
Thou art cast out. Return your cult card. You said something, anything non-negative about the orange monster.
From here on out, it is plain to see, Trump is a force of nature that is impossible to contain. I thought him something of a curiosity, a one-trick pony who was just exercising a very expansive ego, back in 2015, and he would soon be swept from the stage. But by early in 2016, it was obvious to all but the most obtuse, he was something unique in modern-day politics, of the stature at least as great as that of Theodore Roosevelt. When he convincingly won the Presidency, over the “favored” Hillary Clinton, and Herself was for perhaps the first time in her life properly humbled, the American public was filled with excitement, and in some instances, great dread, both well justified.
Like Superman, Donald J. Trump seized the speeding locomotive hurling down the wrong way on the tracks by the headlight, lofted it into the air, spun it around 180 degrees, and set it delicately back down on the tracks, together with virtually the entire train of cars attached, sending the whole train in the opposite direction.
Of course, an uncommon number of the passengers were badly jarred by this experience, and they have been complaining bitterly since, as the train was no longer rushing toward their favorite gravy. And of course, those malcontents managed to organize a revolt and deny Trump a proper consecutive term, replacing him with the worst hack fronting for a regime (it cannot properly be called an “administration”, there was no identifiable person in charge, only a faceless oligarchy).
The interregnum actually sharpened and improved Trump’s determination and capability to return to the Presidency. Four years to plan, refine, and introduce the return of Team Trump, this time properly vetted and motivated.
And now these people are crying “Foul”?
Israel and Trump went after the leaders responsible for the evil. When the terrorists attack, they go after unarmed people in order to inflict terror.
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