Michael Doran superbly explains that regardless of the inner debates among Trump's appointees he alone determines policy-and what a welcome change it is from the failed policies of Obama Biden and Blinken policy of appeasing Iran and throwing Israel under the river
Maybe Trump did not get the latest message from Tehran?
Iranian paper repeats calls to 'shoot Trump in skull' Apr 6, 2025,
Iran’s ultra-hardline Kayhan newspaper, managed by a representative of the Supreme Leader, has repeated weekend calls to assassinate US President Donald Trump to avenge the 2020 killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
On Sunday, the daily expressed support for what it described as revenge for the drone strike in Iraq, ordered by Trump during his first time in office, just one day after a piece had warned "a few bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull of his".
Feb 4, 2025 — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.
Witkoff is a compromised clown who should have been sidelined lafter admitting he was hoodwinked by Hamas. He’s completely out of his depth and is an embarrassment to the Administration.
Trump likely has assured Bibi sub rosa that the tariff on Israel will eventually be lifted.
It would not help his case with other nations to be seen giving one country relief simply because we like them. It would encourage other "friendly nations" to simply wait it out until they get their own get-out-of-jail-free cards.
As for Iran, I doubt that an agreement satisfactory to the US can be made; they are simply unwilling to negotiate in good faith, and their "death to the Great Satan" attitude cannot be compromised with. But talks that break down due to intransigence on the part of the mullahs gives PR support to the necessity of eventual military action by Israel to take out Iran's nuclear installations.
Or, Trump wants more concessions from Israel. US already gives Israel $3.8B per year in military aid, and DJT mentioned that to Bibi. I anticipate Trump to cash in American hegemony w/ South Korea. Where ROK begins to pay the US for the continued US troops presence there. Something like this is likely what’s going on with Israel, too. Trump is resetting relationships with the entire world. Tariffs are the entry way to renegotiate everything.
"The Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy should be at the table telling his counterparts from the departments of Treasury, Commerce, and other agencies that we can longer countenance Wall Street listing Chinese companies on U.S. capital markets to fund the totalitarian police state targeting the men and women in uniform who serve under him."
This confused me greatly until I decided the word "NOT" may have been omitted. Or else the word "NO" belongs before "countenance".
Iran Delenda Est. At least the IRGC and the IRI and the Mullahs at the top, who will be decapitated. All accomplished without American boots on the ground. As Winnie might say: “Iran is the soft underbelly of China.” A side benefit: without Iranian oil and Iranian drones, Russia’s war in Ukraine nosedives. Before Pearl Harbor, FDR repeatedly assured the isolationist Americans: “I am a pacifist.” After 1942, the U.S. bombed Germany daily, while the RAF bombed nightly, destroying one German city after another. In March, 1945, a month before FDR’s death, the Army Air Corps fire bombed Tokyo, destroying much of the city and immolating 90 thousand to 100,000 Japanese civilians. The following August, Pres. Truman gave a “go” to dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing fewer civilians (respectively) than the earlier bombing of Tokyo. The destruction wreaked on Japanese cities, along with the USSR’s preparations to invade Japan’s home islands led to Japan’s (mostly) unconditional surrender to the U.S., thus ending the War with Japan.
I'm not sure about that. After all, the western world's main preoccupation about Iran has been its nuclear program, and I keep hearing about the latest advances in bunker-busting bombs that might accomplish that.
In addition, I can see bombing Iran's government and military command centers, but carpet-bombing the entire city of Tehran seems unwarranted and unwise. I guess I'm saying that because back in the 1960s I knew some Iranian students who were very nice, reasonable people, as long as you overlooked their skirt-chasing proclivities. And I'm sure there are still many of those, whose friendship we should seek after they overthrow the mullahs. I mean the people, not the skirts.
The carpet bombing was basically the poster’s historical reference to the methods used back then, and my saying “bomb them into the next century” was just literary license, I guess you could say.
I believe Trump cares deeply about the oppressed Iranians, who are desperate to join the rest of the free world. Nowadays our warfare capabilities are far more surgical and well beyond what they were during WWII.
Yes, you are right about that. And as you probably know, the carpet-bombing in WWII was to a large degree inevitable. The Americans made a great deal of propaganda out of the Norden bomb sight, but it was far from accurate.
To illustrate the method, the city of Cologne was pretty much flattened in WWII, but their great Gothic Cathedral was barely touched. So a journalist asked a WWII bomber veteran how they managed to do that. "O, that was easy," he said. "We aimed for it."
Would the program from the US Govt targeting its own citizens with direct energy weapons, havana syndrome like antics also be cut off? We are dying over here. Many voted for Trump just to get some relief being surveilled, tracked, followed by citizen vigilantes, being hit with sharp non stop tones all night and most of the day, having our characters assassinated everywhere we go and I mean even going to a supermarket you are followed, photographed.
How come the news outlets are not talking about this? It has been going on for many decades and now we are the guinea pigs for neural new technology. Ana Toledo from targeted justice dot com will fill you in with any question you may have. I dare any of you to write about it..
Michael Doran superbly explains that regardless of the inner debates among Trump's appointees he alone determines policy-and what a welcome change it is from the failed policies of Obama Biden and Blinken policy of appeasing Iran and throwing Israel under the river
Maybe Trump did not get the latest message from Tehran?
Iranian paper repeats calls to 'shoot Trump in skull' Apr 6, 2025,
Iran’s ultra-hardline Kayhan newspaper, managed by a representative of the Supreme Leader, has repeated weekend calls to assassinate US President Donald Trump to avenge the 2020 killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
On Sunday, the daily expressed support for what it described as revenge for the drone strike in Iraq, ordered by Trump during his first time in office, just one day after a piece had warned "a few bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull of his".
Feb 4, 2025 — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.
Witkoff is a compromised clown who should have been sidelined lafter admitting he was hoodwinked by Hamas. He’s completely out of his depth and is an embarrassment to the Administration.
Trump likely has assured Bibi sub rosa that the tariff on Israel will eventually be lifted.
It would not help his case with other nations to be seen giving one country relief simply because we like them. It would encourage other "friendly nations" to simply wait it out until they get their own get-out-of-jail-free cards.
As for Iran, I doubt that an agreement satisfactory to the US can be made; they are simply unwilling to negotiate in good faith, and their "death to the Great Satan" attitude cannot be compromised with. But talks that break down due to intransigence on the part of the mullahs gives PR support to the necessity of eventual military action by Israel to take out Iran's nuclear installations.
Or, Trump wants more concessions from Israel. US already gives Israel $3.8B per year in military aid, and DJT mentioned that to Bibi. I anticipate Trump to cash in American hegemony w/ South Korea. Where ROK begins to pay the US for the continued US troops presence there. Something like this is likely what’s going on with Israel, too. Trump is resetting relationships with the entire world. Tariffs are the entry way to renegotiate everything.
The article about Colby contained this line:
"The Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy should be at the table telling his counterparts from the departments of Treasury, Commerce, and other agencies that we can longer countenance Wall Street listing Chinese companies on U.S. capital markets to fund the totalitarian police state targeting the men and women in uniform who serve under him."
This confused me greatly until I decided the word "NOT" may have been omitted. Or else the word "NO" belongs before "countenance".
Let's not pretend to know what's actually going on. Negotiations involve three types of info:
1. plain old info
2. misinfo
3. disinfo
And two types of negotiators:
1. good cop
2. bad cop
But one person, who is orchestrating and/or tolerating the current jockeying by his staff, calls the shots.
Iran Delenda Est. At least the IRGC and the IRI and the Mullahs at the top, who will be decapitated. All accomplished without American boots on the ground. As Winnie might say: “Iran is the soft underbelly of China.” A side benefit: without Iranian oil and Iranian drones, Russia’s war in Ukraine nosedives. Before Pearl Harbor, FDR repeatedly assured the isolationist Americans: “I am a pacifist.” After 1942, the U.S. bombed Germany daily, while the RAF bombed nightly, destroying one German city after another. In March, 1945, a month before FDR’s death, the Army Air Corps fire bombed Tokyo, destroying much of the city and immolating 90 thousand to 100,000 Japanese civilians. The following August, Pres. Truman gave a “go” to dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing fewer civilians (respectively) than the earlier bombing of Tokyo. The destruction wreaked on Japanese cities, along with the USSR’s preparations to invade Japan’s home islands led to Japan’s (mostly) unconditional surrender to the U.S., thus ending the War with Japan.
How does carpet-bombing Germany and Japan relate to the Iranian nuke problem?
I believe his point was Trump saying to Iran, in effect, “I come in peace. But I’m also willing to bomb you into the next century if I don’t get it.”
I'm not sure about that. After all, the western world's main preoccupation about Iran has been its nuclear program, and I keep hearing about the latest advances in bunker-busting bombs that might accomplish that.
In addition, I can see bombing Iran's government and military command centers, but carpet-bombing the entire city of Tehran seems unwarranted and unwise. I guess I'm saying that because back in the 1960s I knew some Iranian students who were very nice, reasonable people, as long as you overlooked their skirt-chasing proclivities. And I'm sure there are still many of those, whose friendship we should seek after they overthrow the mullahs. I mean the people, not the skirts.
The carpet bombing was basically the poster’s historical reference to the methods used back then, and my saying “bomb them into the next century” was just literary license, I guess you could say.
I believe Trump cares deeply about the oppressed Iranians, who are desperate to join the rest of the free world. Nowadays our warfare capabilities are far more surgical and well beyond what they were during WWII.
In other words, we’re all on the same page.
Yes, you are right about that. And as you probably know, the carpet-bombing in WWII was to a large degree inevitable. The Americans made a great deal of propaganda out of the Norden bomb sight, but it was far from accurate.
To illustrate the method, the city of Cologne was pretty much flattened in WWII, but their great Gothic Cathedral was barely touched. So a journalist asked a WWII bomber veteran how they managed to do that. "O, that was easy," he said. "We aimed for it."
Oh Hah! 😉
Or did Trump whiff with Bibi
Would the program from the US Govt targeting its own citizens with direct energy weapons, havana syndrome like antics also be cut off? We are dying over here. Many voted for Trump just to get some relief being surveilled, tracked, followed by citizen vigilantes, being hit with sharp non stop tones all night and most of the day, having our characters assassinated everywhere we go and I mean even going to a supermarket you are followed, photographed.
How come the news outlets are not talking about this? It has been going on for many decades and now we are the guinea pigs for neural new technology. Ana Toledo from targeted justice dot com will fill you in with any question you may have. I dare any of you to write about it..