Posted on 06/24/2025 1:07:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
AIR FORCE ONE - President Donald Trump woke up angry Tuesday morning, if he slept at all, and for good reason.
Overnight the Iranian regime broke a ceasefire announced Monday evening by shooting a missile into northern Israel. The move sent the Israelis into an immediate military response, scrambling jets and vowing consequences. Trump had a response of his own.
”They don’t know what the f*** they’re doing,” Trump said.
But a few hours later aboard Air Force One, Trump cooled down, made some calls, sent out some Truths and talked to the press about what happened.
“Have you spoken to Netanyahu today?” a reporter asked.
“Yeah. I said, you’ve got to turn back the planes. They [Iran] hit him [Netanyahu/Israel] very hard after we made the deal yesterday,” he said with Secretary of State Marco Rubio behind him. “It shouldn’t have happened.”
“There was going to be a retaliation this morning from Israel, and I said ‘You’ve got to hold back the planes. That’s enough.’ And they did, which I respect very greatly,” he continued, adding that Israel shouldn’t be punished.
The Iranian regime is still pledging to to pursue nuclear weapons, despite their sites being “obliterated” over the weekend by the U.S. military.
“Iran’s not going to have a nuclear weapon. I think it’s the last thing on their mind right now,” he said. “They’re not going to have enrichment, and they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. They’re going to get on to being the great trading nation. They have a lot of oil. They’re going to do well, and they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon.”
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Israel and Iran fatigue is real.
Iran fatigue will continue until the ayatollah’s head rolls along with 50-100 heads of his backers in the congress of Islamist mullahs.
If Trump really does not get that... he needs to get his cognitive abilities re—tested.
Like Trump said, Iran and Israel don’t know what the f*** they’re doing. They both crossed Trump. Not a good move.
And so....what did YOU accomplish in the last 12 days??
IDF: Earlier this evening, two UAVs that were approaching Israeli territory most likely from Iran, were intercepted by the IAF. The interceptions occurred outside of Israeli territory. Sirens were sounded in open areas in accordance with protocol.
I never believed Iran would respect the ceasefire, I’m nost surprised they did and I think they will violate it again, if they haven’t already. I haven’t seen the news today.
Carter and Iran had the Shah - imperfect, but a thousand times preferable to the Ayatollahs.
Carter dumped the Shah, then anointed the Ayatollahs.
Trump just dumped Israel and Mossad, and anointed the Ayatollahs.
Trump should be urging the Iranian people to wipe out the Ayatollahs.
Instead, he has ordered Israel to do nothing that will help the Iranian people.
No regime change?
All this effort, risk, loss of life, was completely meaningless.
The old men in robes wagging their finger and calling for ‘death to America’ should get a close up view of a tomahawk missile. Don’t blink though, it will going quite fast….
What kind of fever are you running?
Yikes. Thats alot of wishful thinking. This isnt 1776, revolutions are hard…. and the Iranians probably dont have the determination or arms to overthrow the current regime. So that leaves…. US troops or a “coalition of the willing”…. No thanks. Iran is isolated and injured. The nuke program is toast. Shahs Ayatollahs …. Prime ministers, Presidents? Doesnt matter…. Islamist is the only moniker that is relevant….. and the ME loves their Muslim fundamentalists.
How exactly do you purpose we accomplish that and end up with a Western-friendly democrat in Iran?
It's something we've been trying for at least 23 years.
Trump wants oil prices exactly where they are, or lower. An Iranian civil war would cause chaos in energy markets. But honestly, it wouldn't happen anyway even if he "urged" it. They simply don't have the muscle to take down the IRGC and other paramilitary groups under Khameni.
The Iranian people do not have a 2A where each person has two or three AR15’s and several thousand rounds of ammo. Just how is a regime change supposed to take place?
The most common method the last few decades is for the US to invade the country and force a regime change militarily. That has never worked out. It means thousands of good American lives lost and trillions of dollars spent.
I think that what Trump means, no regime change because we will have to do it.
Cooling down. Like the few times I simmer down to wanting my enemies dead isn’t of dead by slow torture death.
When I’m a moderate.
“They [Iran] hit him [Netanyahu/Israel] very hard after we made the deal yesterday,”
I think he’s got that backwards? Israel hit Iran hard, after Iran sent a missile caused no damage.
The real forever war pauses for now but will continue on.
Only an unconditional surrender stops a war.
So what exactly is the famous CIA good for?
“The CIA’s budget is not publicly disclosed as a single figure, but it’s estimated to be around $14.7 billion. This is part of the larger National Intelligence Program, which requested $73.4 billion for Fiscal Year 2025, according to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The CIA’s budget covers various activities, including human intelligence $2.3 Billion (HUMINT), signals intelligence $1.7 Billion (SIGINT), and covert action programs”.
Their probable top secret report conclusions: “A lot of people over in those foreign countries hate Americans and want to do bad stuff to us.”
“An Iranian civil war would cause chaos in energy markets.”
Iran is largely irrelevant to the world energy market.
China would be affected, as it buys below-market oil illegally from Iran, but who cares about them? I don’t.
As we saw since last week, not totally irrelevant, as a potential chaos factor with Hormuz. As soon as Iran feigned missiles at Qatar, oil fell 9% in 2 hours. The market was worried Iran might try and block the Straight.
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