"Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word
war.' ...
When you fire missiles and drop bombs and the leader of a foreign nation is killed, along with much of its top political leadership, when a girls’ school is hit by a bomb and more than 160 schoolgirls die, when six U.S. service men and women are killed,"
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/1
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/five-days-of-bombs-over-1000-dead
(continued from /2)
"when a U.S. submarine sinks a foreign warship and sends it and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of the sea, when explosions topple buildings and civilians die in the fire and rubble, I thought, at least until today, that we could agree that we were waging war."
"We are now a country at war. Donald got what he always wanted, despite pretending otherwise—he’s a war president."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/3
https://www.marytrump.org/p/in-conversation-with-norm-ornstein
"And somebody called it on social media because I don't want to claim it. Somebody said, Like, look at the wargasms that these men are having right now. Called it a wargasm. And it's a thousand percent correct.
The hype that they have around murdering children, around turning cities into rubble is absolutely depraved. We need another word for depraved. It is sick and twisted."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
/4
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/democracy-ish-the-texas-primaries
"Hegseth wants maximum lethality with minimum legality or no legality That’s a recipe for disaster. I don’t know if he’s too stupid. or too reckless to understand any of that. But Hegseth comes across like a 14-year-old punk trying to be a strong man.”
~ Glenn Kirschner
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm #PerformativeMasculinity #masculinity
/5
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/glenn-kirschner-on-trumps-illegal
"Trump and Israel’s disastrous decision to start an illegal war with Iran is now reverberating across the globe, spiking escalation, religious extremism, and threatening to embroil Europe and the Middle East."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/6
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/world-war-iran-how-trump-and-israel
"We have to begin with the war of choice that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran. The conflict has now entered its fifth day and is rapidly spreading across the region, something anyone with even a minimal understanding of the Middle East could have predicted."
~ Mary Trump
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/7
"We now have the faces and some of the names of the Iranian children who were killed in what apparently were double tap airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel. A clear war crime. Double tap means they hit it once and then as people tried to flee, they hit it again. And these are just six of the nearly 200 children who were killed as a result."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/8
https://www.joyannreid.com/p/wtfus-jasmine-and-al-green-out-world
"We also have video from Reuters. that shows the graves that are being dug for the nearly 200 victims of an airstrike that for sure, for sure, will be deemed a war crime. … So, that is your tax dollars at work. Bombing a school for girls. Killing nearly 200 little kids. Is that not a war crime?"
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
/9
"This is happening as there is a report that the United States military, that military leaders are telling troops that that the Iran war was anointed by Jesus to bring about Armageddon. This is a real report. A watchdog agency, a religious freedom, a military religious freedom organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says it has received widespread complaints" (continued in /10)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
/9
(continued from /9)
"that they are being told by some military leaders that this war on Iran that was started by us for no reason whatsoever other than Israel told Trump to do it, is being designed and ordered by Jesus and sanctioned by Jesus to bring about Armageddon."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
/10
"They use the religion as a tool to basically carry out foreign policy decisions that affect billions of people around the world."
~ Rula Jebreal
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
/11
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/world-war-iran-how-trump-and-israel
"A good place to find out what military types think of Secretary Shitfaced is the Military Reddits and subreddits. They have a lot to say, and spoiler, none of it is good. It’s probably safe to say no Defense secretary has ever been viewed with such contempt by veterans and those currently serving as Hegseth."
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #HolyWar
/12
https://www.wonkette.com/p/guess-pete-hegseth-thinks-dead-american
"The fact that the Senate failed to pass the War Powers motion does not mean that the war against Iran is legal. It simply means that, as a matter of partisan politics, Congress refuses to perform its constitutional duty. That is the steady state for the Republican-controlled Congress under Trump."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Iran #war #Senate #Republicans #Congress
/13
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/house-calls-bondi-over-missing-epstein
"By joining with Israel in decapitating and destabilizing the Islamic Republic, the Trump administration didn’t just invite Middle Eastern chaos in the future—it destabilized major portions of global commerce now, even as the administration was already facing widespread voter disenchantment about the sluggish economy and the cost of living at home."
~ The Bulwark
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #economy #GlobalEconomy #gasoline
/15
"Global natural gas prices soared this week after Qatar’s state-owned energy company announced it would temporarily halt production of liquid natural gas following Iranian attacks on its facilities."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #economy #GlobalEconomy #gasoline
/16
"Gas prices in the U.S. are rising as the war with Iran escalates, with the national average climbing to about $3.19 per gallon and analysts predicting an additional 20–30 cent increase due to supply disruptions and global uncertainty. Higher fuel costs are expected to ripple through the economy by raising transportation, grocery, and travel expenses, adding pressure on consumers already facing rising prices."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #economy #gasoline
/17
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-furious-with-kristi-noem
Byline Times notes that the Netanyahu-Trump war against Iran revives the Israeli plan to remake the Middle East that drove post-9/11 invasions:
"President Donald Trump’s war on Iran resurrects a 30-year-old Israeli-American regime change doctrine that drove the post-9/11 invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and is part of a wider strategy to destabilise seven countries across the Middle East."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war
/18
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trumps-iran-war-revives-israeli-plan
"Byline Times can reveal that the network behind the 1996 ‘Clean Break’ strategy — originally drafted for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and subsequently executed through the Bush administration’s wars — has reorganised under a Washington-based organisation called the Vandenberg Coalition."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war
/19
Simon Rosenberg shares a post in the comments section of Financial Times that has been making the rounds of social media, due to its incisive criticism of how the Netanyahu-Trump war on Iran and lack of planning for it will affect lots of things including the economy.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-idiocy-is-strong-with-trump-and
More on the theme of wargasm (see /4 above) and the gleeful macho posturing of the Trump regime (see: Pete Hegseth) as people's lives are obliterated:
"There is, everywhere, a sense that our current leaders are aroused: aroused by one another, as in the case of Noem and her sordid alleged affair with Corey Lewandowksi;" (continued in /22)
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
/21
(continued from /21)
"aroused by war against America’s enemies; aroused by doing violence to the political opposition, especially as ICE is doing; aroused by domination and the thought of domination; aroused by resistance; aroused by their anger; and, perhaps ironically, aroused by their own internal revulsions."
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
/22
"So we are treated to our president, who is also an adjudicated sex offender, giving semi-erotic rants about violent crime and wounded soldiers. We are forced to endure the mentally pubescent antics of a Secretary of 'War' who boasts about the death and destruction created by his rippling 'war fighters.'”
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
/23
"We must endure the spectacle of women like Kristi Noem and Nancy Mace, doctored to fit a ghoulish notion of femininity, as they parade bodies for our scorn and entertainment.
It is a fitting culmination for Trumpism."
Trump, MAGA, white Christian nationalism are, put starkly, an eroticized death cult.
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
/24
"Because the political press continues to struggle to cover Donald Trump and his tenuous relationship with the truth, they are failing to hold him accountable for just how incompetent his execution of a war of choice has been. ...
Virtually all political journalists happily serve as data mules for his carefully packaged tweets."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #Iran #war #media #LegacyMedia #MainstreamMedia #lies #disinformation
/25
https://emptywheel.net/trumps-gut-and-promises-of-free-flow/
"Donald Trump is batshit. He, along with several of his advisors, are under the delirious belief he is all powerful and can effect his will simply by issuing a tweet.
Until that becomes the story, Trump will dodge accountability for the most reckless decision in recent history."
#Trump #Iran #war #media #LegacyMedia #MainstreamMedia #lies #disinformation
/26
"Without intervention, Trump will do to Tehran what Netanyahu did to Gaza, not because of a nuclear program, but because Trump needs a grandiose gesture to restore his grandiose self-image."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war #strongman #PerformativeMasculinity
/27
https://www.mind-war.com/p/vibe-war-i-the-president-had-a-feeling
"Virtually all reporting on the Iran war has included reminders that in his 2024 victory speech, Donald Trump said: 'I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.'”
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/28
https://www.editorialboard.com/trump-cant-win-a-war-he-cant-sell/?ref=the-editorial-board-newsletter
"The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a Democratic-backed measure to halt hostilities with Iran, as Republicans cleared the way for Donald Trump to continue the conflict that has drawn in countries across the Middle East, but criticized as having unclear goals."
~ Chris Stein
#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #war
/29
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/us-house-war-powers-resolution-vote
"During an interview with Axios today, Trump essentially argued that he should have a say in who becomes Iran’s next supreme leader. According to Trump, the choice of Iran’s new Ayatollah is 'unacceptable' unless it aligns with his vision for the region.
'I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy [Rodriguez] in Venezuela,' Trump said."
~ Ben Meiselas
