Trump supporters who backed his promise to avoid new Middle East wars worry Iran's attacks on shipping are pushing the U.S. toward escalation -- and maybe even boots on the ground.
I don't think this whole affair gets us World War III -- if anything we are sprinting toward the VIETNAM WAR shaped door, which was an insane regional bloodbath with millions dead and horrifically wounded that pulled in multiple great powers one way or another so I'm not downplaying the danger -- but ...
-- Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24.bsky.social) Mar 14, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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... maybe even boots on the ground. ...
US Marines deploy as Trump weighs seizing Iran's Crown Jewel' Kharg Island
gulfnews.com
... The deployment of US Marines to the Middle East is raising fresh questions about Washington's next moves in the escalating conflict with Iran " and whether Tehran's key oil export hub on Kharg Island, often described as the "crown jewel" of Iran's energy sector, could become a target.
A Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), typically consisting of around 2,500 to 3,000 personnel, has been deployed to the region as tensions rise in the Gulf. The move comes as US President Donald Trump is reportedly weighing the possibility of seizing Kharg Island, a strategic facility that handles most of Iran's crude exports. ...
*** House Leader Mike Johnson (R-LA) Won't Hold Hearings on Gigantic Cost of Illegally Attacking the People of Iran ***
Q: "The House has not had a single public hearing with a cabinet official about the cost of the Iran war. Why not?"
JOHNSON: "They've given us multiple briefings."
R: "But a hearing."
JOHNSON: "You cannot go outside a classified briefing to give to the public the info b/c it would adversely affect our mission."
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What mission? Killing the people of Iran and destroying the environment on behalf of wealthy Israel?
Thanks for bankrupting America, Bibi, Dummkopf Trumpf, Mike Johnson, Miriam Adelson, Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, and Hakeem Jeffries!
US midterm elections are on Tuesday 3 Nov 2026.
Sources:
Sniveling AIPAC Weasel Mike Johnson
Cost to American Taxpayers for Attacking Iran on Behalf of Wealthy Israel
Trump says US doesn't 'need' NATO allies for Iran war
abcnews.com
... President Donald Trump said that "most of our NATO 'allies'" do not want to join the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran.
Trump claimed allies' refusal to join is "despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon," he wrote in a post on social media.
"Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer 'need,' or desire, the NATO Countries' assistance -- WE NEVER DID!
Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea .... WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!" he said in the post. ...
*** Junta Apparatchik Proudly Admits Trumpf Doesn't Care About Cost of Attacking the People of Iran ***
"Dummkopf Trumpf-appointed National Economic Council head good-for-nothing Kevin Hassett proudly admitted that the illegal attack against the people and environment of Iran and its catastrophic impact on the average US consumer is the last of the junta's concerns-- a shockingly tone-deaf message 18 days into an extremely unpopular war."
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