Posted on 08/08/2026 2:36:09 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Face it.
POTUS is determined to lose this war.
Per Wikipedia:
“John Daniel Caine (born 1968) is an American general who ...served as the associate director for military affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2021 to 2024.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Caine
“privately” = typical anonymous anti-Trump bullshit from Communist News Network ...
this fake story has already been posted here once via Times of Israel, so paid ChiCom/Russkie trolls are repeating their lies ...
I wish the administration could present a more unified front. Trump needs backing so he can make believable threats. Having said that I hope that the administration is working other angles, like promising a homeland out of Iran for the Kurds. (Boy, would that upset Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Man, what a mess.) But the Kurds may be the best option for the Iranian people to be free of their oppressive government.
Two sources just ended their careers, unless CNN is lying while trying to take out Ratcliffe, Rubio, and JD.
UH As has happened for over a hundred years Military game plans EVERY conceivable outcome on any and all missions. The Allies even considered what could be done if Dday had failed.
BS, CNN is not a credible news source
So what was the point to going to war to begin with. See, Iran all they have to do is SURVIVE..you could lose 600 IRGC in one building but if ONE gets out alive, they won and that is what they consider a win
“Face it.
POTUS is determined to lose this war.”
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Hard to think that, but he never wanted to commit the military forces necessary to do the job properly because that would have required a lot of boots on Iranian ground.
Now, the whole debacle is going to string out until we can find some way to save face, declare victory, and remove our assets. Congressional candidates are already hearing about the unhappiness of their constituents, regardless of party.
No, the media that reports this sh*t are, and they are useful idiots of the IRGC. I hope Trump uses this info to set them up for another spanking.
Iran just listed 6 demands, they are coming off as the ones in charge.
50,000 Iranians who loved us were murdered.
This is miserable, worth a full out war??? I don’t know.
Maybe the Iranians learned from George Washington.
In the revolutionary war, we lost every battle where we fought toe to toe with England as they did, in line formations. We have up on that early.
So instead we did guerilla war, hiding in forests, raiding and running away, and George Washington led troops to repeatedly run away. We inflicted costs on England and survived by running away until they gave up.
England could do whack+a-mole, trying to hit us where we’d pop up and run away.
That’s the same situation we have trying to hit Iranian missile sites, whavk-a-mole
It will work itself out in November when the Rats take control of Congress. They’ve already waited it out for 4 months, they can go another 12 weeks stringing Trump along on ‘deals’. Trump thinks war is like making a deal for supplies for his hotels, all he cares about is ‘the deal’.
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Times of Israel reports the same.
Are you silly enough to also call them Communists?
Is it really even a war? Is Israel at war with them too?
“Just ended...”
So only yes men need apply or remain?
One needs a variety of opinions...
So when CNN reported 100% support among MAGA back in March, which Trump.liked to hear, they werent credible then?
Be careful to not slip into confirmation bias. The following was a famtastic poll that CNN reported on for MAGA support for Trump back in March 2026.
https://youtu.be/m4QdpbxJuVc?is=qJauIC5Y2ftuesxT
So Trump wasn’t committed to Bush Bot mission creep?
At one point, voices within the Trump administration openly discussed and threatened to target Iranian civilian and energy infrastructure—such as power plants, bridges, and water facilities—as a retaliatory measure during military escalations.
50k killed by the Iranian regime is/was awful.
But should the Trump administration have targeted the civilians to “help” the civilians? No.
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