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By the way nobody is arguing that the Iranian military isn’t diminished . It is (but now they have the cash to rebuild) A military exists to achieve an outcome. And the Iranian military achieved theirs. The regime is in place, we’ve promised to leave the region, we’re lifting sanctions, etc

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Great military strategy on Trump's part. Start an unnecssasry war, lose billions in the war then lose billions paying country invaded to rebuild. So what was accomplished besides America becoming a laughing stock in the world?

Nothing like saying, oh sorry we bombed you but I needed a DISTRACTION from the Epstein files so let me help you out by giving you PLENTY of money to rebuild! With Trump the money HE spends on things just KEEPS GROWING! It was the SAME with the Jet, the Ballroom, reflection pool, etc. etc. etc.!

Suggesting that bombings happen just for distraction underestimates the complexity of international politics. Consider: The U.S. defense budget for 2023 alone is $773 billion. Decisions aren't made on a whim - they're about power dynamics, alliances, and strategic interests.

Maybe in a NORMAL administration but in THIS REGIME decisions ARE MADE on a WHIM! That's how Trump started the Iran war! Like ALWAYS he DIDN'T follow procedures BEFORE starting the bombing! He DIDN'T follow procedures BEFORE tearing down the East Wing, the list is LONG!

Are you SURE this "deal" wasn't instructed by PUTIN as a way to get money from the US to start actually fighting Ukraine? Iran has been PUTIN'S OTHER PUPPET for 40 years or better. I feel like this whole THREE MONTH WAR was a charade to circumvent approval of US citizens, CONGRESS, and Allies.

So you suggesting the deck of cards has shifted and Zelenskyy has all the cards and Trump is The Joker USA can’t protect Gulf States, so they calling Ukraine for help Might as well leave the region, Trump has no influence there anymore anyway. Anything Trump touches dies

Russia has cancelled deliveries of weapons to their foreign buyers. They're kinda tied up right now, so good luck with that. But indeed now they have money. Iran recently purchased a bunch of advanced Chinese diet fighters and other arms.

It's called "the price for creating the State of Israel" along with Britain in 1947" which was never approved by the UN & never voted for by the people of 'Mandated Palestine' as required!! 🤬 I wonder why and how that happened = The Nakba!! 🙄🤬 I wonder how the 🌎 would look now if not4THAT?!!

Not only that, they get to rebuild their military even better. With newer equipment, and lessons learned from both the US/Iran conflict, and the Russia/Ukraine war.

We should never have gone to war in the first place,this was at the urging of Netanyahu, Murdoch and some in Congress. Now they don’t like the outcome, and iran has successfully driven a wedge (for now) between Trump and the Israeli govt., not to mention his mega donors.

Let us count the failures of trump's War campaign Unprovoked War No regime change No evidence of WMDs Iran has unnumbered amounts of rockets and missiles still active and ready Bombing raids killed children 20 U.S. Bases bombed Nine friendly countries bombed Iran gets 330 billion to rebuild

Art of the Fraud and Grift by Trumps: 1. De-risk $500M Muscat, Oman resort by ending nearby drone/missile threats. 2. Enrich his Gulf business partners via the $300B fund, boosting his licensing fees. 3. Signals to future Gulf buyers that buying Trump real estate secures US diplomatic protection.

1/2 They knew Trump. All you have to know about Donald Trump "negotiations" is spelled out in his "negotiations" between Russia and Ukraine. And Afghanistan. Simple. Give all invaded lands, Crimea, Donbas, to Russia with no restrictions. Give them even more land Russia hasn't invaded yet*(!!!!)

2/2 And "negotiations" with the Taliban. Give Afghanistan to Taliban. Completely. Don't include the Afghan government. Release 5,000 terrorists from Afghan prisons. Trust the Taliban to provide security for American troops. Blame Biden. They knew Trump. And they rolled him. He's blaming Obama.

Yes, but the problem is bragging about destroying their air force and their navy. Neither of which was very powerful to start. Iran's power and threat now comes from drones and missiles. And evidence suggests we haven't really done much to diminish that.

Just wondering, but is the US military ready to fight the kind of asymmetrical war the Iranians would bring? Obvs we dominate in conventional combat, but that's not really how the enemy would fight...

I suspect history will look back on this saga - not Trump and MAGA per se (but obviously inextricably linked), but more specifically, this stupid Iran war - is the pivotol moment when the US finally lost its power and status completely

Adding to that thought... If out-spending the next nine nations and being in a position where critical home infrastructure is inherently safe from attack doesn't allow you to do that there is something more fundamentally wrong than your total spend.

Honestly, why would Iran need a military when they can easily hack our pathetically secured data, infrastructure, and public utility systems, which could cause significantly more harm to millions more Americans than any nuke can?

What they don't have is the 168 dead Iranian girls. You don't get civilian "collateral damage" back (assuming it was NOT intentional, which I am definitely NOT doing!) once you've signed a bullshit memo. They stay dead. #STOPKILLINGCHILDREN

There is no spin spinny enough to spin this as anything but a defeat for the US. Everything we got we had before the war. They got almost all they wanted. And 300b of our money.

Well yes, because we don't have a deal with Iran yet. So that's pretty easy. And the likelihood that we will get a deal better than the JCPOA is pretty small.

Yup. It took 20 months of hard work to get everyone at the table to agree to terms. Trump prints out a 2 1/2 page temporary agreement in a few days? It was doomed to fail and not just because it's a piece of crap but because Trump created it

Yes,Obama’s deal was better&that’s why Donald ripped it up and threw it in the garbage He’s going after everything Obama did because he thinks he can do it better,but he doesn’t have the knowledge or mindset to improve on Obama’s work.Jealousy is eating him alive and doing great harm to our Country

It’s pretty simple. Complete military victory means absolute control over an adversary in all forms: government, civil society, economy. By what measure does this non-war war achieve that? As with everything this regime touches it’s incompetent and results in failure.

And all because our incompetent, idiot president wanted to act like a big shot and get us into a war that he had absolutely no idea what it was he was doing. And with no plan whatsoever on how to win it, or get us out of it. Iran/1, USA/0 on this one. Btw, who were your idiot advisors on this one?

Even the dumbest private in the military wouldn’t have done such a deal. Go to show you how stupid this president is! Not only stupid but a convicted felon pedophile. The saying about scraping the bottom of the barrel, he is below that!

As I’ve mentioned before, I think this is the first war in which a military’s deterrence is focused mainly on the opposing countries’ insurance companies. And the strategy succeeded.

The US military exists to maximize corporate profits, not to achieve good outcomes for the US. Seriously, name a single benefit to the people of the US from all the wars that Americans have fought in the last few decades ...

and they didn’t ramble & babble in front of the whole world that their military arms had been depleted the whole world! like a senile orange con artist with no filter did “By the way nobody is arguing that the Iranian military isn’t diminished . It is (but now they have the cash to rebuild)”

It's highly amusing when Trump keeps on about how the Iran military forces have been diminished - because America has been unable to capitalise on that. He & Hegseth are both too stupid to realise that they are boasting about America's failure.

Trump is a disgrace. Hundreds of billions and the loss of life including American military personnel and many innocent Iranians, among them over 160 schoolgirls, a war crime. Trump still has blood on his hands from the mismanagement of Covid. Next military conflict send Eric, Baron and Don Jr.

But what no one's talking about, Colonel, is how nuclear weapons are slowly taking a backseat to massively effective AI guided drone swarms utilizing hybrid conventional munitions. Iran's windfall billions will help drive development of new drones and surgical lethality.

Americans frankly don't care about winning against Iran. What are we winning? Prices went up for us at home and frankly we are less safe now than before. Get the F out of there and stop giving Israel $ to wage land seizing wars.

The Iranian military is decimated. Iran must agree to renounce its nuclear ambitions and let the US get its nuclear dust. Only then can access the reconstruction fund. If the IRGC screws it up Trump can return to bombing. How dumb are you? Take your brain into the shop for a tuneup.

The air force and navy is decimated. But that's not their military strength. And bombing is pretty useless. If you want to put pressure, it involves boots on the ground.

You’re half right. “Bottom line: Josh is right that Iran’s conventional air and naval forces are not their strength — their power is in the mosquito fleet, missiles, drones, mines, and proxies. But he is wrong that bombing is “pretty useless.””

Well yes, calling it "useless" is wrong. It does weaken them. It just doesn't weaken them that much. Initially it did something, but we've gone way past diminishing returns with bombing and that is probably what he means about it being useless.

The memorandum commits the United States to supporting the establishment of a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran, and it opens the door to the unfreezing of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets held around the world!! SHAMEFUL #TrumpDealFavorsIran

Their Air Force was comprised of ancient F-4s and some F-14s that were probably inoperable due to having no spare parts to maintain them. They acquired those planes from the US in the 70s. Now that they are no longer under sanction, they can modernize and improve their Air Force and Navy.

You know as well as anyone that Israel is NEVER going to allow this and they own us! Even YOU took AIPAC money. Israel is never going to give up their power seeking bullshit. They have committed the worst crimes against humanity and it’s abhorrent that we are discussing what Iran’s position is.

Exactly. The Vietnamese communists rule Vietnam. The Taliban rule Afghanistan. The ayatollahs rule Iran and now control thr Strait of Hormuz. Being able to blow things up means nothing if you don't have coherent achievable objectives.

Why did we started a war! 16 service members dead 16 families destroyed Countless wounded And thousands dead on other countries ALL FOR THE EGO OF ONE ! There needs to be personal consequences to the people responsible! #resist #persist 1

Boy did he overplay his hand. 10, 11 years of his constant harraguing over the Obama deal. Now he's demoralized America on every level. He needs to resign now so we can begin to lick our wounds.

Conventional military strength is largely irrelevant now, as we most incompetently demonstrated with Iran. They own the Strait of Hormuz because drones are cheap and they have lots of them. Warfare changed while Hegseth was doing push-ups.

Why is nobody including the loss of 16 bases and billions of high tech radar destroyed? Why can’t Democrats demand Trump’s resignation the way Trump demanded Biden? When Trump surrendered to the Taliban? Because Democratic leadership has surrendered, and just want to survive the Trump Holocaust.

Don't tell Ted cancun Cruz. He's already packing to run. He's so worried about being murdered by lunatics. Who would have guessed the gop would murder their own?