It was, is, the tactic in Gaza as well, destroy the people's will to fight by destroying their places of safety, including hospitals and schools. There is no rule of law in our world right now...and so the biggest most murderous gangsters are killing and stealing at will.

I suppose that Putin is not unhappy that his oil is now offered at a premium to the world markets. His puppet in the White House is doing a great job of bankrupting and dividing America, never mind any other place.

The worst thing for the US is to unite the Iranian people to fight back, and of course, for the world, as the Straits are easily disrupted.

Oh, we should have been working on human caused global warming ever since the 1960's, in a unified battle as we fought in WWII. But instead the greedy Republican Party just nominated idiot after idiot, people like Trump who denied human caused global warming even as the Florida coastline was diminishing...so the big oil and natural gas boys could profit mightily and pay off Republicans in Congress. We are totally and permanently screwed...life in some areas like the desert southwest will be dangerously hot.

One lie after another, he cannot do otherwise.

So many people in our government, like Lindsey Graham, are inhuman bullies who pretend to honor the Christian Bible, but instead are more about Mein Kampf I suspect. They daydream about destroying the world order to strut about in uniforms as everything burns.

Demented bully in charge...killing as he pleases...what can go wrong? I thought the Vietnam War years were bad because of bad leadership and our being, as it turns out, on the wrong side. But since the cowardly Republican Party cannot stop Trump, the next three years may in fact be existential, as in "gee, why not use tactical nukes, gee,,,).

Pathetically, I see that performance art, and I don't think anything at all, just another day in America run by fanatics for their profit and our...sorrow.

So this is what it like living in a family run by a gangster, who threatens any and all, a gangster who is demented and not aware of himself or his actions.

Calling this trump debacle a "war" somehow elevates it to being in the same regard as WWII. NO, this is a murderous campaign by a gangster, head of the US Presidency, to wreak as much hell upon the world as he can until someone somewhere actually brings him before a court.
Murder is murder, and we, America, are murdering thousands, as Putin is murdering in Ukraine.

ICE are the Trump gangster's brownshirts...out to keep power no matter what Epstein file gets released. Also out to bankrupt America for his buddy Putin is my guess.

And there sure does seem to be another straight line between the Trump Epstein file release and the distraction called WWIII.

Sure, as long as that oil flows for the benefit of Trump and the American big oil boys...gangsterism as diplomacy.

So this is what it is like being in a country run by a demented angry bully that everyone is afraid of...the world's peace was a fragile thing, but now that the gates of hell have been opened by Trump, war will strut as long as it takes to bankrupt America and make the oligarchs kings, actual inherited wealth royalty in America.

Now that Trump has seen that he is above the law, that in fact there in no such thing as the rule of law when it comes to invading another country and killing thousands of its people, things are going to get insanely dark...as in multiple Gazas all around the planet.

Arrogance is one thing but Bondi is doing what she can, under Trump's direction I am sure, to destroy the rule of law here in the US as the US has destroyed it internationally. Used to was one could not invade another country and murder its citizens without fear of being hauled to The Hague, now, no one even bothers trying to stop the murders.

Manafort for years worked in Ukraine for the President, Yanukovych, who was tossed out and taken in by Putin. That former President lives in exile in Moscow, or at least he did.

Not a surprise that MAGA elected a racist, misogynist, suck up to the super rich, mock the poor regime of sold out souls. Soon their propaganda outlets at CBS, CNN when it gets its independent thinking lobotomized, will not ever let us know how we are being gaslit.

The stupidest thing about capitalism is its insistence on constant growth no matter the destruction of the air and the water, no matter the need to preserve the peace and safety of the populace.
If America had twenty percent fewer people but they all lived better, capitalism would say that culture is a failure.
Americans at at our limit, we, at least the bottom third on the economic pyramid, are living shorter lives...maybe look out for the people rather than the damn stock market.

Still, Trump can stay President if the elections are not held because some faction somewhere, say, allied with Iran, gets into the country and blows up a courthouse or something, and then Trump declares a national emergency.
Hard not to be at least a little paranoid in these times. As the old head of Intel, Andrew Grove, once wrote..."only the paranoid survive".

I am old, and am really heartened to see the huge turnouts in state after state of young men and women. Not an easy thing to do in some states where the lines may be discouragingly long to vote. Still I have hopes that the midterms hold hope for a revival of our Constitutional Republic. Democracy works when good people throw their hat into the ring, appeal to the voters, and after the election join hands, those who won and those who didn't, to work to...try and educate MAGA that America is not about kings and dictators.

Yeah but I have heard that the influence peddling is first class.

One can only hope this country does the same thing, sooner or later. Wish we had a national system of initiatives that we could circulate petitions and get such a thing on the national ballots.

I think Hegseth is Trump's worst Cabinet appointment, though Kennedy is a close second.

YUP, living in America today is, in a lot of way, an Alice in Wonderland experience, where people have power but no devotion to the people, or for that matter, to rational thinking.
Thanks MAGA.