During a two-hour lunch at the White House, and then later at the State of the Union speech, President Trump played up the idea of a war against Iran, presenting a conflict as all but a foregone conclusion, and suggesting it just depends “which road they choose.”
During his lunch, Trump told reporters that the war against Iran was “closer than you thought.” The White House declined to comment on this, insisting the lunch was “off the record” and that it was unethical for the reporters to ask about it.
Trump talked further at the State of the Union, cheering “proud Iranians raising their voices against unresponsive rulers,” and crediting his sanctions for Iran’s economy doing “very poorly.”
Trump demanded Iran give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, despite consistent evidence showing Iran is not seeking such weapons in the first place, and suggested Iran’s leaders are “too proud or too foolish” to accept US demands.
Trump once again appeared to blithely suggest that whether Iran accepts the demands, adding “let’s see which road they choose, it is totally up to them.” This is much more ominous combined with warnings about the war during his lunch.
While Trump’s other State of the Union topics for the Middle East focused on the ISIS war being over, and the Afghan War potentially ending, on Iran he appeared to be talking up further escalation, while crediting himself for the killing of Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani, adding to the narrative surrounding launching such a war.
Just toss it back into the fairway ya cheatin hack….
Does the US possess a totally bizarre and deluded view of the greater World? I only ask this, because how would any sane person think that sanctioning a country, hurting the ordinary people, will in some way make those very people you are hurting – like you?
It all becomes clear once you realize that Americans are quite possibly the dumbest people on earth–but definitely the greediest.
Don’t have to believe in a sky daddy to understand how dangerous Idolatry truly is.
I think “sky daddy” is about the only thing keeping us out of the Last World War despite the best efforts of the Dear Leader.
I live here and I ask myself the same question. The average person realizes what you say is true but is too wrapped up in their own lives to care about what our evil politicians do.
Our politicians do believe this because they are evil narcissists. They only perceive the world from their own perspective and have no empathy. ‘Iranians must love us because all people should love us because we are special’ (these people really are sick).
I’m not a psychologist, I listen to what they say. I mean, why should Iranians or anyone else love us. We don’t love or think about Norwegians yet they assume this to be true and all we do is kill and starve them.
“Does the US possess a totally bizarre and deluded view of the greater World?”
Isn’t it obvious? And come November 50 or 60 million brain dead idiots will give us four more years of the same.
Umm, no. Cybereason will give us 4 more years. Voting is only for appearances sake.
Yes
SOTU…lol…I’ve seen reels of Nazi rallies with more dignity and respect…
It’s gone from farce to pulp fiction.
Some parts of the machine are just phoning it in at this point. A company named “Shadow”, owned by a group called “ACRONYM”, who itself is owned by PACRONYM set up the “democrat” party with a voting app that suddenly gave an openly gay zionist the lead in Iowa.
You just can’t make this stuff up. It’s like they bought the Evil Overlord App and didn’t even bother to change the default values…
Most of what folks know about Nazi Germany is pure BS.
You can’t imagine that a white non-Biden candidate who hails from the Midwest would win a rather monochromatic(white) electorate in another Midwestern sate? Who would you think would win this one without your “overlord’s” influence?
Acting like you know what someone else can or cannot imagine is your problem, not mine.
Oh right, it is only Iran that is too proud or too foolish to see the risks of war.
“presenting a conflict as all but a foregone conclusio”
It is.
War with Iran started in 1953 when the US illegally overthrew Iran’s democratically-elected leader via coup.
America’s pearl-clutching elite start the Iranian timeline at 1979 (minus Reagan’s Iranian arms sales in the mid 80s.)
Four more years, far more tears.
He is not being transparent here. It was closer to war because of Soleimani was alive having Iraq as his backyard not after they killed him.
Our proximity to war depends solely on the decision-making of Pres Trump. I fear he committed to war months ago, at least.
All of this – the murder of Soleimani, withdrawing from the JCPOA and maximum pressure – are pre-determined steps toward regime change in Iran. We’re merely discussing the theatrics.
No.