As it’s been reported that, several days before the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump had told members of his Mar-a-Lago golf club that his administration would soon be delivering a “big” response to the Iranian regime, we can assume that the administration had time to plan not just the killing itself, but […]
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There was never a plan for navigating the aftermath of Soleimani’s killing
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged assassination, bad planning, Brian Hook, credibility, deescalation, diplomacy, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Gang of Eight, House Intelligence Committee, imminent threat, Iran, John McLaughlin, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mar-a-Lago, Mike Pompeo, national security, noise, Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of Defens, Senate Intelligence Committee, State Department, war 103 Comments
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: Appeasing Tyrants, Freeing terrorists and Endangering Allies to Achieve Maximum Chaos in a Post-Diplomacy World
When Donald Trump announced last week that, at the request of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, he would be pulling back American troops stationed in Syria, everyone knew exactly what would happen. We knew that our allies, the Kurds, would be wiped out by the Turks. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now. […]
Posted in History, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Ahrar as-Sharqiya, border security, border wall, chaos, Chuck Schumer, diplomacy, Donald Trump, enemy combatants, ethnic cleansing, Europe, foreign relations, Havrin Khalaf, Homeland Security, ISIS, jihad, Kurds, M4, mercenaries, murder, Qamishli, Richard Engel, Russia, Stephen Miller, Syria, Syria Future Party, Tayyip Erdogan, terrorism, threats to Democracy, Turkey, war, withdrawal 35 Comments
Spreading the gospel of white nationalism, alienating allies, and attacking a woman who isn’t Theresa May… just another day with Trump
This morning, our President, Donal Trump, shared three videos by way of social media that had originally been posted to Twitter by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, an anti-Muslim extremist political organization. The three videos appear to show a Muslim man destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, an “Islamist mob” shoving […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Doug Jones, emotional truth, England, far-right, fascism, fear mongering, hate crime, Jayda Fransen, Joe Scarborough, lies, murder, Paul Golding, Republican lies, Russia, Russiagate, Sam Coates, Sam Harris, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Scott Adams, tax reform, Theresa May, United Kingdom, Vladimir Putin, white nationalism 15 Comments