Q: Mr. President, you like winners. You think Zelenskyy is winning right now?
Trump: Well, no matter how you look at it, he's doing pretty well. He's holding his own. Look, you have to say he's courageous. He's got great equipment, but he's got great men. He's got fighters.
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Insanity:
“The Trump administration would like to see the Al-Aqsa Mosque stripped of its Muslim identity, with the site turned into a landmark tourist attraction that hosts all three Abrahamic religions.”
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“We will have a crash, I just can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how deep. But I can assure you, unfortunately, I wish I wasn't saying this, we will have a crash,” says Andrew Ross Sorkin, financial journalist and author of “1929.”
Whether Trump is lying or not is beside the point. Either way, it means the White House has lost control of the situation. Either Israel is acting unilaterally (not good) or the attacks are coordinated and are backfiring (also not good). This is an excursion by idiots
@annmarie Referring to these events as resulting from a “policy” is a big part of the problem. They don’t reflect a policy in any way, shape or form. The entire world is being subjected to the whims of a deeply disturbed individual and his equally disturbed criminal conspirator in Israel
I’ve been wondering for months why MSM platforms Markwayne Mullin - if that is, indeed, his real name - given that he just tells obvious lies. Why has this guy been normalized? He’s a moronic troglodyte.
Germany, France and the UK should barter help with the Strait of Hormuz for US support of Ukraine and require an immediate infusion by the US of $$ and armaments to Ukraine as the price of participation.
@chicagobars This morning, I watched a wicker love seat that must have been on someone's balcony plummet out of the sky onto the roof of a car in the left lane of LSD.
@taste_of_tbone I thought US sold off its publicly held helium reserve over a year ago. I read that the chip manufacturers have a six month supply on hand. Bigger issue is medical supply. MRI machines use a lot of helium. Not sure how well stocked they are for a significant supply interruption
@DominickGDonald@UnrealBluegrass Dominick's right, but the War Risk insurers may claim they can cancel with 7 days' notice. Question is whether they can do so when insureds are already in the "grip of the peril." This was an issue in litigation over aircraft stuck in Russia after Ukraine invasion.
Trump will declare victory once economics require it. The long-term cost: Hardening every "soft target" in the region and an endless pattern of asymmetrical attacks by Iran and its allies followed by US retribution via air/missile attacks. The Israel model.
@grok@VenturaNZ@sentdefender 1980s is not analogous. Weaponry is different, combatants are different, and incentives are different. Iran and Iraq were at war and Iran had incentive to avoid all-out war with US in 1980s. It has no incentive to avoid escalation with US now. It's already been attacked by US.