Posted on 06/22/2025 1:44:49 PM PDT by Words Matter
President denounces GOP lawmaker's opposition to Iran strike as disloyal and harmful.
US President Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, sharply criticizing him for opposing recent US military action in Iran.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Violation of the NPT and a bomb worthy act, very bomb worthy.
Why does Trump even give Masshole the attention that he so desperately craves? He then just goes out and fundraises from libertarian wack jobs and Democrats. Say nothing and raise $20 million to primary the SOB.
Oh my. Quite a title. From must be wondering how this happened after he wrote a brilliant piece. 🤔😆
Seems Kentuckians consistently elect low-IQ bung holes. Must be a consanguinity thing - too much inbreeding in them thar hills
Massie may have learned something from the Iraq misadventure.
Everybody in Washington is political, so Massie's statements are still the statements of a politician. They always have a guy out front criticizing the president. Always. It's part of the program.
He's out there to give "patriots" somebody to rag on.
Meanwhile we don't talk about Iran's integration of a payment system with Russia. Or about the new rail line-trade route being constructed between Iran and Russia.
https://tlimagazine.com/news/inside-russia-and-irans-new-transport-corridor/ (Sep 2024)
The development of the Russia-Iran trade route has far-reaching geopolitical implications. By creating an alternative trade corridor that bypasses the Suez Canal, the route challenges existing trade routes and could potentially shift global trade patterns. For Russia and Iran, the new route serves as a strategic tool to counterbalance Western influence and reduce their dependence on traditional maritime routes controlled by Western-aligned countries.
...Moreover, the new trade route could provoke responses from other global powers, particularly the United States and European Union, which may view the project as a threat to their strategic interests in the region.
On the integrated payment system:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/russia-and-iran-launch-payment-system-alternative-swift(Jan 2023)
Iran and Russia have linked their banking systems, a senior Iranian official said on Monday, a move that will allow the two heavily sanctioned countries with deepening economic ties to trade and conduct business outside the US financial system.
The decision to create an alternative payment system is the latest sign that Iran and Russia are moving beyond a marriage of convenience in hotspots like Syria, to a more comprehensive partnership against the West.
It's nukes...nukes...nukes. But never geopolitics and money.
LMAO, absolutely stealing “Go pee in the Ceerios...”.
And what would be the “cost” should Iran manage to successfully complete its development of a long range ICBM (likely with the assistance of China or Russia) - armed with a low-to-mid yield fission weapon - and detonated over your town or city? Care to calculate that “debt?”
massie, fag boy baseball hack
“DONAKD” ... Is that like “Coffeffee?”
massie, fag boy baseball hack
It is reminiscent of when George Stephanopoulos asked, out of nowhere, a question about contraception to Mitt Romney during a Republican primary debate in 2012. The question's only purpose was to give the Democrats a talking point and the media a headline for the next few news cycles.
-PJ
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WHAT IRAN KNOWS ABOUT TRUMP
The mullahs of Iran join the bet that Trump always chickens out.
By David Frum
JUNE 21, 2025
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Hilarious as Frum bets that Trump will not take out Fordow Natanz etc
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June 21, 2025, 9 AM ET
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President Donald Trump is being pulled toward war in the Middle East by his predator’s eye for a victim’s weakness and his ego’s need to claim the work of others as his own. But since his “unconditional surrender” social-media post on Tuesday, other Trump instincts have asserted themselves: above all, his fear of responsibility.
Trump enjoys wielding power. He flinches from accountability. Days ago, Trump seemed to hunger for entry into Israel’s war. A dramatic victory seemed poised to tumble into somebody’s lap. Why not his? But as the hours passed, Trump reconsidered. Instead of acting, he postponed. He said that a decision would come within “two weeks.”
Time for diplomacy to work? Perhaps that might be the case in another administration. In this one, as attentive Trump watchers have learned, the “two weeks” promise is a way of shirking a decision altogether, whether on Russia sanctions (deadline lapsed June 11, without action), trade deals (deadline lapsed June 12, without result), or a much-heralded infrastructure program (deadline lapsed May 20, 2017, without action then or ever).
During his first term, Trump claimed to have taken the U.S. to the verge of war with Iran in the summer of 2019, only to cancel the mission (again, by his own account) 10 minutes before mission launch. The story, as Trump told it, can hardly have impressed the rulers of Iran with the U.S. president’s commitment and resolve. But the experience of 2019 could suggest to the Iranian regime a strategy for 2025:
Step 1: Absorb the Israeli strikes, as painful and humiliating as they are.
Step 2: Mobilize Russian President Vladimir Putin to dissuade Trump from military action.
Step 3: Agree to return to negotiations if Trump forces a cease-fire on Israel.
Step 4: Dawdle, obfuscate, and generally play for time.
Step 5: Reconstitute whatever remains of the Iranian nuclear program.
This strategy would play on all of Trump’s pressure points, especially his unwillingness to ever do anything that Putin does not want. It would leave Israel in the lurch, but over the years Trump has left many other allies like that.
Trump is vulnerable to the negotiate-to-delay strategy because he has not taken any of the necessary steps to lead the nation into the war he once seemed ready to join.
Trump has not asked Congress for any kind of authorization. The decision, he insists, will be his and his alone. Which will be feasible if the operation turns out as Ronald Reagan’s invasion of Grenada did in 1983: over in a few days with few U.S. casualties and at minimal cost. But Grenada was a nearby island nation with a population of less than 100,000; Iran is a regional power with a population of more than 90 million.
War with Iran will also need real money. The 78-day air war against Serbia in 1998 cost the U.S. and its NATO allies a comparatively modest $7 billion (about $14 billion in today’s dollars). Iran is likely to prove a more dangerous enemy than Serbia was. Israel’s air war against Iran costs about $1 billion a day, according to estimates published by Ynet News. A fight with Iran will likely require some kind of supplemental appropriation above the present defense budget. Congress may balk at funding a costly war it did not approve in the first place.
Trump has not put competent leadership in charge of the nation’s defense or domestic security. Trump’s secretary of defense is accused by his own former advisers and friends of playacting a role that completely exceeds his abilities. If Iran retaliates with terror attacks inside the United States or on American interests abroad, it will find the U.S. desperately vulnerable. Trump purged experienced leaders from counterterrorism jobs. He installed underqualified culture warriors atop the FBI, and appointed at the Department of Homeland Security a cosplaying partisan who diverted $200 million of agency resources to a “Thank You Trump” advertising campaign.
Matter of fact we know all about the BRICs coalition to take down the US Dollar. Trump obliterating Fordow etc. elevates the US Dollar and casts doubt on Rogue Russians and Iran pulling off their BRICs with China and Brazil etc.
But you don’t go public like this with displays of disunity on a military operation. Take it to Trump in private and work behind the scenes
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You’re saying Massie should be apologectic for following the Constitution.
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