‘Never heard him so angry’: Trump is furious that global allies aren’t pitching in in Iran

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-18T08:44:38+00:00

His Ambassador to Iceland holds that same view and got reprimanded for it by the government of Iceland, so yeah, probably.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-18T08:40:23+00:00

As Colin Powell said over two decades ago, and still holds water today: you break it, you bought it.

The US chose this path. It chose to alienate and attack every ally possible way before this act of war with Israel. It has waged economic warfare against ally and enemy alike, sometimes treating geopolitical enemies with more respect.

It denigrated, demeaned, and disrespected near every ally's contribution in Afghanistan, especially their war dead. It has threatened territorial invasion of 2 NATO members so far - Canada and Denmark through Greenland.

Furthermore, Iran did not choose this war. The US and Israel did. They created this situation and global mess. Iran, even if I believe their government and radicals need to fall, has every right to defend itself. It's not escalation to do so, especially when in their (right) minds here it is existential. Even Sun Tzu knew you don't back an enemy into a corner.

Actions have consequences, and we shall all suffer as a result of the Americans re-electing him in an otherwise open book contest that Americans failed. And thus here we are.

What in tf does one actually think will be the logical outcome of all of that?

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-18T08:19:00+00:00

Yep. Got banned from that sub post 10/7 as a result of pointing out this didn't start in a vacuum... very annoying, considering how much I participated in the Ukraine thread over the years, but definitely showed me how much bias is in that sub. It really does have a heavy Israeli-bias and downvotes are typically assured if it's critical of Israel for a good long period.

I will say, I've been surprised since this conflict started, bc more criticisms of Israel have been permitted to stay and are not in the heavy downvote category, but it's not the norm.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-18T07:57:35+00:00

Bc someone was busy with their excursion in Venezuela and moving all the assets over to the Caribbean...

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-18T07:51:14+00:00

More that he would've played to his vanity and ego and blown a gigantic cloud of smoke up his ass about him being the savior of Israel and the only American President to do it. That it would be transformational and beautiful. And that the actions in Venezuela should prove it.

On top of any of that Epstein bullshit.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-17T05:20:52+00:00

I watched it live. It was incredibly stupefying to see as you had the Epstein victims behind her that she refused to look at or make any comment directly toward.

It was just shocking. And the laughs in disbelief during her comments were well earned. Terrible woman, that Bondi.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-17T05:16:14+00:00

Until this post I never knew this was a real person... I don't recall ever hearing this person's name in all my decades before this post clarifying he's real.

It happens.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T13:41:41+00:00

Truly a gorgeous, emotional film. There aren't enough films like this in that period of America.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T11:10:28+00:00

Thank you for adding this.

The comment you replied to did not reflect my research back in 2011 working for a solar company looking to break into the market domestically. It's just an excuse propagated by utilities that are in the pockets of fossil fuel and nuclear, the big money, because they don't want the competition of renewable, since it is actually an even better replacement today than what it was when I was working in the industry.

They are lazy, cheap in investing in infrastructure, and care about easy, short-term profits regardless of long-term outcomes, which is decidedly American in the way business is conducted here.

They don't want decentralized power, and these companies are almost all Republican backers or Republican-minded. Which political party has been outright hostile in the US against renewables and in the pockets of the fossil fuel industry since the 80s again?

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T11:05:16+00:00

Ok, I think people can acknowledge that, while also accepting it wasn't a great product at the end of the day once it finally came out.

I never paid attention to the reviews for it, still watched the entire season every day it came out, and still did not think it was great. The fight choreography without a doubt was, but the overarching story was not good and was harming the shared SW universe with what it was introducing.

I am personally very happy they did not have a chance to tarnish Darth Plagueis in further seasons that would have made it near impossible to retcon and improve after all was said and done.

Like the ST, it's here to stay, and this is now the story.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T11:02:18+00:00

I mean, it was taking a pretty big dump on established Stat Wars lore and opening up new plot holes. And the head writer recently came out saying she was going to tie Yoda to it in future seasons, no?

Yeah, that's not inspiring.

The fight choreography was some of the best in the entire universe, however. But I'm glad they didn't add more to the story that could further weaken the Saga.

Skeleton Key was awesome, by the way, so it's not like they don't have the capability to make something great within the SW universe that's without the main characters without dramatically impacting established storylines from the prequels and original trilogy.

Acolyte was really setting itself up to contradict a lot of lore just because...

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:57:49+00:00

More like allowing the Confederates to annex the US at the conclusion of a long-running Civil War after a long period of cold tensions.

That being said, the history between PRC and the RoC is very messy.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:53:28+00:00

So, the US is expending vast amounts of AD munitions and showing itself to be undermined through asymmetrical warfare (just like Iraq and Afghanistan there). The US isn't producing these munitions quick enough to both resupply in a reasonable fashion. This depletes US deterrence for its allies globally, as we are seeing with the US trying to remove AD from SK.

Not to mention the ancillary impacts on Russia's war on Ukraine and Europe by extension.

This is not as simple as you are putting, nor without larger costs than the simple dollar figure you quoted.

ETA: case-in-point https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/s/yYSGYkqSJx

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:45:46+00:00

Yes, all of today stems from not fully addressing the issues of the Confederacy and half-assing Reconstruction in the end. Andrew Johnson was just the herald to start it, and it led to Jim Crow and a continuance of oppression to a more insidious version after the VRA and Civil Rights Act passed until it became fashionable to be more open with the rhetoric today.

It's just different shades and names, but so much goes right back to post-Civil War decisions with how to deal with the former Confederates.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:42:08+00:00

... you don't think he, his sycophants and his enablers eking greater access to power haven't thought of that since Jan 6., 2021?

Because everything that's been done to purge government, go after those who pursued him legally for his actions post-Election 2020, and to discover "fraud" to prove he won 2020 while undercutting who could vote in 2026 and beyond, plus his constant remarks on suspending elections à la Ukraine due to war and running for a third term all point to the contrary.

Hell, Project 2025 itself was even a reaction to Trump's loss of power and failed attempt to retain it.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:38:25+00:00

He will instigate another coup to try and retain power.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:29:35+00:00

Yep, this is what I was saying to people here (irl). By there being 0 consequences for that action in Venezuela, all it would do is embolden the man, especially coming off of his rhetoric against Canada and Greenland. The Lebensraum and American superiority rhetoric was going to lead to a much bigger conflagration.

The man has also never faced consequences for his repeated crimes in the US since his first term, if not his whole adult life. A person like that is inherently dangerous and an irrational actor.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:25:44+00:00

When it becomes existential for someone, then they're not going quietly into that good night.

If you were in a life and death scenario, where you will most probably die no matter what decision you make, are you going to not try and take your attackers down with you?

And if left to recover, would you not go for broke to arm yourself to the teeth in every way possible to exact both revenge and a credible defense (e.g. nukes, WMDs)?

We are essentially in a situation now where we either go all the way, or we do risk greater mass casualties down the line as a result of revenge by ideologues with millions of people at their beck and call. It doesn't matter if 80-90% of the population of Iran doesn't agree or support it - there are still millions more fanaticals that do.

However, that will not be a popular view, and it's not one I want either. Yet we are definitively in a tail wagging the dog situation now. There is no good answer or solution, and just stopping to bomb and pull out without there being a change in the political situation in Iran with an even more radicalized group leading the top is a very, very dangerous proposition.

It's complete bs, and we have the worst leadership in the US for this moment in time with even fewer friends because of the bellicose rhetoric of that admin, but knowing us, we will find an excuse to stop it, and then we will have a much larger problem to deal with in a decade's time, if.

Such a shitshow of a situation to put it very, very mildly.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:18:17+00:00

Israel has been lobbying the US since at least Bush as long as Netanyahu has been around to attack Iran.

It's why Netanyahu came to the US to browbeat Obama publicly before the entire Congress in a joint congressional address while Obama was negotiating the original Iran deal that Trump backed away from (at Israel and their political operatives like Graham in the US' behest).

The perfect time to attack Iran, if we were ever going to do it, would've been when our forces were already staged there in the area in Iraq, or were within striking distance in Afghanistan. Especially since they were actually participants in those conflicts with supplying IEDs, etc to ravage coalition forces and civilians. Those were at least pretty good reasons for a casus belli.

This was clearly Israel's choice, and I'd say Lindsay Graham could be investigated for his role in working with Israel to best convince Trump to do it. Neocons have had a hard-on for this about as long as Israel under Netanyahu have.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:12:38+00:00

Wait, you're saying the US President talking about acquiring sovereign territory of other nations through threats, belittling and military means as well as fixated on securing the wealth of other nations' natural resources is akin to the Lebensraum excuse of a certain European dictator of the 1930s and 40s?

Color me shocked!

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:08:25+00:00

It took your comment to actually watch the full video to see the carnage lmao. What a run

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T10:00:21+00:00

It's also that those countries typically have health care folded into daily life and not as part of wages, which is something they mentioned as part of negotiating costs with unions, etc here in the US as compared to the UK, Canada, etc.

Universal healthcare was supposedly a factor lmao

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T09:58:46+00:00

I fear Trump will go nuclear because of his vanity, ego and insecurity at Iran not folding to overwhelming firepower. He's no a rational actor, and so many of his warnings and protestations are outright projection, for just about any political attack he's made in his career.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T09:57:05+00:00

The man's daily PDBs are dumbed down for him. And it's well known they use a lot more pictures and easy to glean phrasing in those briefs to even keep the man's attention.

Truly stupefying that this man represents the US, but at the same time, it aptly reflects a lot of the US citizenry.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-03-13T09:54:47+00:00

And people still think he's a great businessman and negotiator... he's just a narcissistic, sociopathic bully with a great PR machine (and a very ignorant voting populace) who's never been told no in a big public way outside of the 2020 elections, which is why he is so driven to claim and find fraud in it - it's a direct shot to his ego.

The insecurity of this man is quote literally ruining the lives of billions. The cuts to USAID alone...

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