I hope this isn’t a Major Mistake for America….
Trump evidently feels that beating down Iran WILL drive Iran to sitdown and talk….
Internal Iranian politics may keep THAT FROM happening….
Israel gets what it wanted….
The US helping it in it’s Middle East policy moves….
Trump picks on a weak Iran….
Leaving Ukraine mostly on it’s own against Russia….
President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, bringing the U.S. directly into Israel’s war with Tehran.
“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Saturday.
It was not immediately clear what damage the strikes caused or how significant a blow was dealt to Tehran’s program. It could take some time before the results are clear. Trump said the U.S. used “a full payload of BOMBS … on the primary site, Fordow,” which is also known as Fordo.
The strikes mark the most significant U.S. military attack on Iran in modern history and will have a defining impact on the legacy of Trump’s second term in office.
Trump said all planes are “safely on their way home,” and out of Iranian airspace. Trump had said Thursday he would take two weeks to decide whether to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites to give diplomacy a chance.
“NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!,” he said in the statement….
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One U.S. defense official said that there has been some concern in the Pentagon that significant open-ended deployments could bog down forces in the region and impact their readiness if they were kept there for an extended period of time. They added these worries weren’t a reason for launching the strikes, but some military officials suggested a relatively quick decision on any possible strike in order to avoid keeping forces tied down with no clear mission….
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Israel has been lobbying the U.S. to get involved in the military effort against Iran’s nuclear program for months, stepping up the effort after it launched unilateral strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites earlier this month….
Note…
We wait to see if US assets will attack anything else….
I DID NOT think this was a Good move….
I STILL DOIN’T….
Update…
- President Trump, who announced the “very successful attacks” on Truth Social, told Axios in a brief phone call that “Israel is much safer now.” He plans to deliver an address to the nation at 10pm ET.
Why it matters: Trump’s decision to intervene directly in support of Israel’s effort to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program marks a historic escalation in the Middle East.
- It’s an intervention fraught with risks and uncertainty — one that Trump and many of his predecessors had sought to avoid, including through diplomacy with Iran.
- The attack, which came on the ninth night of the unprecedented war between Israel and Iran, could provoke retaliation from Tehran against U.S. troops and military installations across the region.
Behind the scenes: Trump met with his national security team in the White House Situation Room on Saturday evening.
- An Israeli official said the Trump administration notified Israel in advance of the U.S. strikes in Iran. A White House official told Axios Trump spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the operation.
- Another senior Israeli official told Axios that B-2 stealth bombers were used for the strike….
Members of Congress who were NOT pre- notified of the US Military action are NOT Happy….More..
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“President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğa quietly sought to arrange a meeting between senior U.S. and Iranian officials in Istanbul this week amid Israel’s escalating war with Iran,” Axios reports.
“But the effort collapsed when Iran’s supreme leader — in hiding due to fears of assassination — couldn’t be reached to approve it.”
“New details of this backchannel effort reveal the extent to which Trump was pushing for a direct meeting with the Iranians — even offering to attend himself, if necessary — in hopes of striking a nuclear deal and avoiding U.S. military intervention.”
Update….
Trump: US Israel “worked as a team”
Trump thanks Netanyahu, saying they “worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before”, and gone a long way towards “erasing this horrible threat to Israel”.
He says the Israeli military has done a “wonderful job”, and he praises the American military and particularly the pilots that flew the “magnificent machines tonight”.
“Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity.”
Trump to Iran: Make peace or face future attacks
Trump says Iran, which he calls “the bully of the Middle East”, “must make peace”.
“If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel.”
Trump says Iran has been “killing our people, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs”, he says more than 1,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and around the world “have died as a direct result of their hate”.
Trump speech – Iran facilities “obliterated”
Donald Trump is now addressing the nation, confirming the strikes on the three nuclear facilities.
“Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horrible destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility.
“The strikes were a spectacular military success,” he says, saying the key enrichment facilities have been “totally and completely obliterated”.
Trump says Irans nuclear facilities have been “ completely and totally obliterated.”Pentagon officials used the term “ severe damage.” Then ,on an interview this morning VP J. D. “Jed” Vance says that “Irans potential to build a nuclear weapon has been set set back substantially.” He also weirdly claimed that” We’re not at war with Iran.We’re at war with Irans nuclear program.”Jed then gratuitously said the Presidents who came before Trump as “ dumb.”
I’m gonna guess-severely damaged ….
Imagine dying for these tricks! But I encourage all Republicans to sign up!
Pricks!
Given Trump’s psychology, vanity and need to be liked—which eclipse whatever professional advice and intelligence he’s given— I think this is similar to what he did to the Iraqi Kurds (withdraw so that Erdogan could move against them) and his disbelief in the intelligence that Russia was playing the 2016 election. Similar to his ditching of medical advice and public-health measures (distance, masking) when his base started believing Alternate Science about Covid.
In this case, I think that Benjamin Netanyahu, who also talks American and is fighting legal threats, has played hm like a violin. Netanyahu has been very much trying to manoeuvre Trump into pulling Israel’s chestnuts our of the fire by playing “Let’s you and him fight”, first by the disastrous decision to pull out of the six-nation Joint Common Plan of Action in the first term, and now being persuaded bypass U.S. intelligence and start this disastrous war.
Excellent DSD…..