Trump's War Against Iran

So how are things going with Trump's war against Iran?

• It's going great! 
• We're ahead of schedule!
• We're winning! 
• We have won! 
• It's nearly complete!
• It is complete!
• We're done! 
• Why are you still here? War's over!
• Where are you going? We've got a war to fight!
• We've only just started! 
• We've destroyed the Iranian leadership!
• The Iranian leadership better watch out!
• We're gonna destroy Iranian leadership again!
• It's not a war, it's an "excursion"!
• Iran started this! 
• It's Joe Biden's fault!
• The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe! 
• We're not worried about the Strait of Hormuz!
• What burning oil tankers?
• Higher gas prices are not something to worry about!
• It's not against Iran, we wanna help Iran!
• Iran must be destroyed!
• Iran is already destroyed!
• We're gonna keep destroying Iran!
• Kill! Kill! KILL!!!!!

Hopefully that helps you get a handle on things.

Congratulations! You understand this... war thing as well as Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Lindsay Graham and the whole gang!

Donald Trump as well as a lot of Republicans in general operate under an over inflated sense of American might.

The United States has the biggest, most bad ass military ever and our mere arrival on the scene somewhere should cause our enemies to immediately prostrate themselves before us and give up. 

Making that assumption is a bad idea.

Because it never works.

Der Führer and his minions never anticipate that whoever we're attacking may not like being attacked.

And will do something about it.

Yes, the United State's much vaunted military is totally bigger and stronger than Iran's.  

That doesn't mean Iran will roll over and play dead. Whatever shit they've got, they will use it to fend off the invader.

What Iran's got is a shit ton of drones.

And they're using them. 

American military service members fighting this war may be doing so from a distance but not out of reach of Iranian drones.

Which has resulted in American dead.

There's been a cavalier attitude towards American losses and pain. 

The self described "Secretary of War" Pete Hegesth declares coverage of American war dead is designed to make Donald Trump look bad.

Hegseth is a bratty child playing a game of war with real lives and real bullets. His press briefings are not informative but rife with jingoism and propaganda. 

He's also taken issue with our press photographers take pictures of him.

You mean photos like this one? 

That looks less like a leader of the Pentagon and more like a toddler who's lost his binky.

While Hegseth and Trump are playing games with this war like it's some kind of real life "Call Of Duty", Americans are having to deal with some real shit.

With the Strait of Hormuz jammed up by Iranian drones and blocking the transport of Middle Eastern oil, oil companies have immediately jacked up the price of gas. 

Trump and his minions are telling us to stop whining, gas has only gone up a little bit and it's only temporary and we need to make sacrifices for some ill defined, inadequately explained greater good. 

Higher gas prices are a small price to pay to not have Iran hit us with a nuclear bomb any minute now. 

Assuming Iran was really going to nuke us any minute now.

Would it be a surprise to know there was no credible evidence that Iran was going to nuke us any minute now but der Führer certainly thought they were.

So there! 

We're at war because Trump felt like there was a threat.

And presumably this war will end when Trump feels like it. As he said in an interview on Friday, the conflict will end “when I feel it, feel it in my bones.” 

How can he feel his bones through all those layers of fat?

To add further Trumpian insult to American injury, the same people who slashed safety net programs for food and medical assistance because we couldn't afford them are perfectly OK spending BILLIONS of dollars a DAY for this so- called "excursion" into Iran.  

Whatever this thing with Iran is called, war was always inevitable.  With a thin skinned ego maniac in the White House desperate to show off how strong he is and an over funded military apparatus just sitting there under the name "Department of WAR", well, it was only a matter of time before we declared war on somebody. 

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By the way, how are things going with that other country Trump is at war with?

Sorry, haters of political shit but there's a 2nd post coming up today:  Trump's War Against America.