🇺🇸🇮🇷 Hegseth cornered on Iran narrative
One hearing, 3 conflicting claims.
Hegseth: “Our goal is ensuring Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”
Van Hollen hits back:
- You said the strikes already "obliterated" their nuclear capability
- Tulsi Gabbard testified Iran wasn’t even trying to restart the program
- Trump just said Iran committed not to build one
So which is it?
Writer: Val
"The Iranians are mad because we killed their Supreme Leader, his wife, his family, and 137 of their leaders.
That's like killing our president, first lady, the first family, most of the cabinet, and 1/3 of Congress."
Robert Pape has advised every White House since 2001, and taught targeting strategy to the U.S. Air Force.
His read on night 10: this isn't a tit-for-tat, it's a spiral.
The munitions argument, he says, is right on facts but wrong in its conclusion. Patriots and THAADs are indeed depleting fast...
But that constrains the air campaign, it does not stop it.
If the smart bombs run out, 3 aircraft can still saturate a kill box with 240 dumb ones, and a dumb bomb becomes a poor man's JDAM for 20 grand.
He sees the past few days of U.S. targeting as prep for a ground seizure on Iran's southern coast. More likely than not, in the coming weeks. If not sooner.
Just 30% of Americans back this war, and almost all are proud members of Trump's base, bound to him as "a winner." Fold, and he's a lame duck before the midterms.
And Tehran isn't going to gift wrap him an exit strategy…
A must listen conversation, as always, with @ProfessorPape
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'I asked Witkoff, have you ever been in a meeting where there was a chance of being BOMBED at any moment?'
Araghchi adds Iran wasn’t scared by US threats:
'This isn’t Venezuela where you take 1 person and everyone else gets scared and backs down'
"This is as criminal as it gets. This is jewish. I've never seen anything like this and it's just unthinkable that a president would do this"
Nick Fuentes calls out Trump for his complete CORRUPTION. This is worse than anything Biden or the Clintons ever did.
Prof. John Mearsheimer:
The Iranians are clearly going to win. But what Trump will do is declare victory and all of his acolytes will say it is a great victory.
The question is: can he convince most Americans? I think he will not.
You have to ask yourself — do you believe what we see with our own eyes, or do you believe what President Trump says?
Before this war, hardly anyone thought the Iranians would do as well as they have.
I don't think anyone fully understood — including the Iranians themselves — exactly how well Iran would do against the United States.
Trump used a primetime national address to push the same old election claims while the war with Iran continues to go badly for him.
Instead of dealing with the present, he ran back to 2020, dropped redacted documents, and tried to plant the fraud narrative before the midterms even happen.
When major networks refused to air it, he threatened their licenses from the presidential podium.
This is what desperation looks like.
LOSER
#AheadOfTheLoss #Trump #Iran #Midterms #SacredDefense
Mehdi just said what the mainstream media won't. Lindsey Graham was a war criminal. He pushed for endless wars. He cheered for genocide. And now that he's dead, the media wants to sanitize him.
"Lindsey Graham said awful, genocidal, racist things. He argued for the Iran war that killed 100 schoolgirls on day one. He argued for the Iraq war that killed over a million people. He never met a Middle East country he didn't want to invade. The man has blood on his hands, and we shouldn't forget that."
🚨🇮🇹 BREAKING: Paolo Maldini signs in as new Italian National Team technical director, here we go!
Agreement done and confirmed for Maldini to lead new Italy project with Giovanni Malagò as FIGC president. 🫱🏻🫲🏼