Again, NO reason for war was given. No strategic objective verbalized.

Touting the destruction of Iran's non-existent air force and obsolete surface fleet is not going to make up for the ever increasing price at the gas station.

Did you see oil price skyrocket and DOW Futures tank during the speech?

The UK will be receiving its last tanker of jet fuel and will not permit airplanes to refuel at their airports.

S. Korea has started rationing.

Neither the UK or S. Korea wanted(s) this war.

Poor countries in East Asia and Africa are now without fuel for hospitals and schools.

It's always the poorest that pay the most for these wars.

5 Million People have been displaced.

Iran continues to hit oil tankers in gulf

Infrastructure throughout the Middle East is getting hit.

Be clear, the military targets being blown up-rockets, missiles, launchers, drones are far less than is being claimed by the US government and will EASILY be rebuilt or purchased from China and Russia. That part of the campaign is pointless.

Professor Pape (author of the escalation trap) is arguing that Iran will come out of this war as a 4th super power given they will control 20% of the world's oil. America will decline.

Giving up control of the Strait of Hormuz makes that inevitable. Iran will have dominance over it's ME neighbors.

JVL of the Bulwark had an interesting observation.

By Piggy calling for other countries to go seize the SoH and seize Iranian oil, Piggy is calling for groups of countries to actively unite in competition to America. That is rather an amazing fact. That America is saying ---- it to the rest of the world, like international relationships have no use.

Be perfectly clear. this war will rage on. the catastrophic events are just beginning and will magnify exponentially. Delays of fuel and fertilizer and other chemicals will have ripple effects that will blast across the world's economy. two weeks from now there will be massive, unsolvable problems emerging.

Again, a deep recession is a given, we are looking at a global depression.

BTW Piggy sounds extremely unwell, mentally and physically, his speech was rambling, incoherent and contradictory (the little I heard and gathered from observers). It is past time he be 25th Amendmented or out right impeached.

It is literally mind-blowing that Donald J. Trump will be the singular figure to cause the downfall of America and the world.d

If Piggy was a normal human being one could take comfort that a speech like this would mean ground troops would be less likely but since Piggy is not a normal human being, who knows.

In other words, this speech meant absolutely nothing. It will mean nothing tomorrow and a week from now it will mean nothing.

So, in reality it was a grab at getting through the day. Tomorrow it will be something different.

Of course, this is a 3 day weekend, so the markets will be off, so maybe ground forces assault on Friday

It would be nice of some active military personnel would push back against the flagrant war crimes Piggy is constantly touting.

Of course, EVERY SINGLE BOMB DROPPED IS A WAR CRIME.

President Piggy jumped whole heartedly into the war crimes blowing up the tallest bridge in Iran.

But nothing matters anymore

To be clear, Piggy thinks he is doing a GREAT job. He cannot conceive of why Iran is fighting back. He thinks he is the greatest commander in history

That is no exaggeration. He equates blowing up school children and trucks to be an achievement for history.

He does not understand the value of the Strait of Hormuz.

He doesn't understand the cliff we are roaring towards

Meanwhile, in reality Oil is trading at $115/barrel

And that is just the beginning

Been driving most of the day so I am not up to the minute on the battle stuff

Is firing top military personnel in the middle of a war a sign of winning?

Again, targeting bridges is a war crime.

Attempting to blast a country back to the stone age is a war crime (and never works)

Israel has passed an ethnic based criminal code. YAY for our ally!

The US war on education continues with the US bombing 600 schools in Iran

Oh and we did a double tap on that Iranian bridge, you know another war crime.

It is clear to anyone with any form of ethics that America and Israel are evil regimes.

To make sure our country suffers Piggy imposed a 100% tariff on imported drugs

A significant majority of brand-name prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are manufactured or finished abroad. According to PharmacyChecker.com and CIDRAP, about 67% of the top 100 brand-name drugs are produced in countries like Ireland, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and Canada, while only a third are finished in the U.S.

This is what you voted for magat scum, during a war, Piggy is placing a 100% tariff on the drugs you need to survive.

This man said the government should not, cannot do healthcare, childcare for its citizens. It can only fund wars

This is what you voted for.

Do you have any concept on how ------ we are?

America just seems to be plodding along like the sword of damocles isn't just above our collective heads

Republican in congress take a 2 week vacation instead of doing something.

Democrats in congress are, umm, doing what? I don't know, do you?

Meanwhile weeks more of war and oil is drying up.

My feeling is we are dancing down the sharp edge of a knife toward oblivion.

Reportedly Piggy asked Iran for a 48 hour ceasefire

If that isn't a sign of victory I don't know what is

After 5 weeks into the war, can someone articulate our goals for this war?

2 to 3 weeks to further degrade Iran's military? Is that the aim?

Ok, what does that mean?

Do they expect Iran to just give up?

FWIW if you announce you will be finished with your bombing in 2 weeks, wouldn't Iran just hunker down for 2 weeks?

The whole world is seeing what is going on and they are disgusted.

A clueless, ignorant, man child has control of the world's "greatest" military and started a war without a plan or goals plunging the world into a nascent energy crisis.

He gives a speech that was insane, literally. the man gives a "serious" speech whose theme was "I am so great, aren't I great, we blow up stuff boom, 2 to 3 weeks"

This is insanity

Meanwhile, Iran shoots down 2 of our aircraft.

Sort of putting to the lie that we have completely and utterly obliterated their air defenses. I guess we obliterated their air defenses like we obliterated their nuclear stuff

It fills me with alternating rage and depression that one man, one utterly damaged man is destroying the country I love, the world we live, my children's future, my retirement savings.

I truly despise magat scum for inflicting this on us

And really, seriously, it is way past time to cut Israel loose.

They are

1. Committing a genocide
2. Waging wars of aggression
3. Committing war crimes
4. Committing atrocities
5. Targeting journalists, EMS workers, UN Peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers
6. Stealing land from Palestinians, Lebanon and Syria

And they drug our stupid president into this war.

All on our dime btw.

It is crystal clear we need to repudiate Israel and reset our relations with them.

They will bring us down if we stay with them and they are acting despicably.

It is amazing how quickly our country has fallen

Our president and the secretary of defense casually say we will and have committed war crimes.

We are waging an illegal war of aggression like it is nothing.

I said a month ago that you should pay close attention, that we are at the start of a seminal event in our history and that is playing out.

The world is in the process of restructuring itself. America is becoming a pariah. Our European allies are refusing us the use of their air space! That is unheard of.

Our president hasn't a plan, a goal or a clue. He is winging it. 2 to 3 weeks will become 2 to 3 weeks more and 2 to 3 weeks more

He dare not use ground forces, he can't walk away. We are on the slide to catastrophe.

And be clear Piggy is under a great deal of strain. He has come up against a group that for one reason or another will not compromise with him. He is so used to breaking ---- and walking away without consequences, he is truly stumped when he can't do that. He has not the moral fortitude to see it through. that is plan enough

The stress is apparent enough with his fixation on the ballroom. It is reported that as the fronts collapsed around Berlin, Hitler often retreated to models of his future Berlin to relieve the stress he was under.

Piggy doesn't have Hitler's will power though. Piggy is a vacuous, moronic, ammoral ---- who believes is absolutely nothing. Unfortunately that makes him very dangerous.

You can see it in the visible breakdown of his mental capacities, his slurring of words, his reliance on simple repeated phrases, his simplification of concepts, his contradictions, his inability to present a coherent argument.

He has always had that problem, but that has been and will continue to get worse as the stress builds up on him. Strangely enough it will result in moments of honesty, like sincerely stating that the federal government "can't do childcare or healthcare" or when he admits he was surprised by actions Iran have taken that anyone and their mother knew they would take (like seizing the strait of hormuz). this is the picture of a man on the edge of insanity.

Expect very odd, even for Piggy, behavior moving forward.

And I must go back to those who brought us this man. the magat scum who voted for him.

Seriously, you had a choice between a normal human being and Piggy. Piggy is a convicted felon, he is the most obvious conman, he has a long, well recorded history of failure-both in business and in morality, he was adjudicated a rapist, he tried to overthrow the government, he OBVIOUSLY has no moral center, no guiding light other than gimme gimme gimme. He is a man child, he throws literal temper tantrums. He is stupid, like really stupid. He surrounds himself with sycophants-his cabinet meetings would put Kim Jung Il to shame in their asskissery or by evil people with hatefilled agendas, he is enacting the onerous Project 2025.

I simply do not understand how anyone would put their trust in this man. Even in 2016 it was clear, but by 2024 there was all of this public information about what he is.

Oh, but truthhurts, the price of eggs was through the roof, and there were lots of brown people and a trans person played in a sport.

You sold your souls and your future for THAT?

How are the prices going for you?

Are you aware that Biden and Congress came up with a workable solution to the immigration issue, a solution favored by republicans?

All you had to do was to choose the normal human being.

You MIGHT have been subjected to seeing someone's pronouns in an email, but you wouldn't be on the edge of a great depression, I can guarantee you that.

And don't act like no one told you this would happen. I did, many people did, it was screamed from the rooftops

But no

You had to chose the conman, felon, liar, rapist, insurrectionist.

Because of woke

You will pay for this choice for the rest of your lives. Your children will pay for it, your grandchildren will pay for it

Countless generations will pay for the destruction of the spirit of America

And YOU MAGAT SCUM, are to blame.