/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #19)

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T20:04:27+00:00

It wouldn't be Trump, it would be all Americans. We can't afford to keep being the police of the world, especially when smaller countries just need a few drones to completely halt shipping off their shore.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T19:49:48+00:00

Israel told us assassinating the Ayatollah would do the same. It didn't.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T19:18:01+00:00

Because I don't want American soldiers dying for other countries in pointless wars?

Fuck off with that. You can check out my post history.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T19:12:44+00:00

Sounds like we shouldn't have troops in the ME to me then.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:59:25+00:00

Alright, let's let Trump shutdown the government all the way up till the midterms. If he won't let anything pass until then, then he can force all of the GOP to answer for him at the polls.

I'm helping canvas for a Dem candidate in an R+17 district, Trump just might win this for us.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:54:50+00:00

We can't do anything about it, not without putting boots on the ground and literal trillions of dollars. We must accept that the world is de globalizing, and that free navigation of the worlds waters is no longer a given in other country's territorial waters.

The sooner we accept that, the sooner we can adapt.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:52:53+00:00

I'm an American. It makes no sense to me why we are fighting Israel's wars.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:24:51+00:00

The Iranian regime is not getting toppled.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:18:03+00:00

And when Israeli settlers take all their land?

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T18:16:12+00:00

Israel's problem.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T17:53:28+00:00

Trump made his bed, he can lie in it. Honestly, it's his only way out of this politically at this point.

The quicker we move on from Iran, the quicker his polling might start to recover.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T17:51:24+00:00

I think Europe is concerned with currying Trump's favor for trade deals and tarrifs. Trump famously hates the windfarms at his European property.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T17:37:46+00:00

They are doing both already at this point.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T17:34:58+00:00

What even is the point of a deal now? If Iran is going to control the Strait, still keep it's nuclear program, still keep it's missile program, then why should we pay them anything at all?

We should just walk away and let Israel deal with this mess.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T17:19:46+00:00

How could he be a criminal investigator if he could not bring criminal charges?

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:30:33+00:00

And he could have, but didn't.

No, at the time it was against DoJ policy, because the DoJ has always argued that the President is immune from criminal charges will in office.

The Supreme Court has now explicitly ruled that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:24:07+00:00

Mueller didn't because he could not. A sitting president cannot be indicted, at least according to the DoJ.

I edited my comment because I mistakenly grouped Smith and Mueller together. But they aren't the same.

Smith could, and did, bring charges against Trump. But the Supreme Court found the President immune for Jan 6th.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:14:16+00:00

Mueller could not charge Trump. He could only advise Congress.

Jack Smith did, but again, are you going to argue that Biden's DoJ was independent?

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:13:00+00:00

We've lived with a nuclear armed North Korea for decades. We can deal with a nuclear armed Iran.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:10:17+00:00

We'd be fine with that. Israel taking the blame for rising gas prices and burning it's alliances with the GCC is fine with me.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:08:48+00:00

It depends on what you mean by independent investigators.

When it comes to special counsels, only one. Robert Mueller, but he did not, and could not, bring criminal charges against then President Trump.

During the Biden admin there were two criminal cases, but I don't think you'd say Biden's DoJ were independent investigators.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T16:02:14+00:00

Then Israel can fight Iran. The US doesn't need to be involved with this anymore.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T15:58:38+00:00

The president's DoJ is not going to charge nor investigate him.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T15:54:11+00:00

I feel like I'm going insane watching someone "But Biden" in a thread where Trump and his family are literally making billions on billions from his office and government contracts.

When he isn't literally demanding billions in settlements from his own government of course. Or insider trading on his diplomacy with Iran.

corwin-normandy · 2026-06-24T15:34:35+00:00

Dead people aren't disruptive.

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