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What do you know about the journey from the CIA Director to Moscow today?

The Vietnam "body count" stat proved that numbers don't win wars.

McConnell?

The goal was always Russia leaving Syria, a trade for Ukraine. And TRUMP GAZA. It's treason against America. They waisted our patriot missiles intentionally to avoid helping Ukraine

I understand I look like a crazy conspiracy theorist. My passion sometimes burns me lol. I'm a REALIST ! THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING. people should take me more seriously.

@adamkinzinger.substack.com This documentary is the most important and dambing evidence of maga! This should be sent to the entire democratic party and used to end this insanity. Christian nationalism, maga and America first are 💯 nazi and Mormon zionism. This has to end. Please make them watch

Goal was always to trade Ukraine for Syria and trump gets gaza. America was never included in this deal done by Epstein class

Greatest weapon we have is our intelligence assets guiding our leaders in diplomacy!. Trump is a mussad asset. For Mormon zionist. He is a traitor and his entire administration needs removed and tried for treason. With death penalty off the table. Otherwise, like Joseph Smith. We create martyrs

No plan… so you can not achieve your objectives if you have none!

We have never, ever won a war by trying to bomb our "enemy" into submission. OK, well, there was that nuclear weapon we used to end WWII (killing hundreds of thousands of non-combatant civilians)....and we remain the only country to ever use one -- truly a moral stain on our country.

It's the American obsession with statistics. "He ran 347 yards! More than anyone else!" "Did they win the game?" "No. But he ran 347 yards..."

youtu.be/2ySfNcF03mw?...

That's too bad, because to date there are no objectives 🙄

So bombing them into submission was the only real plan, I guess. Sending in the Muppets to negotiate a peace plan didn't work out too well, either. Now they want to burn our tax dollars building bigger naval targets, while simultaneously disbanding the drone warfare research team.

Enriched Uranium does not a nuke bomb make. Iran had a fatwa against nuclear weapons. Trump's attacks on Iran & lovey-dovey comments on nuke armed N. Korea, Kim Jong Un, has for sure change Iran's position against nukes. NOw question is not if, but when & maybe before Trump's term ends?

Trump and Hegseth need to admit defeat now! It's a war they strarted and LOST!

Remind me again, who won the Vietnam war?

Especially if no one could check the numbers

Exactly.

Dear Adam, you’re PISSING into a HURRICANE! Dump & his regime are ALL irredeemable! The GOP is dead & buried!

Americans know what losing in war looks and feels like.

Thank you for that great explanation.

This Administration grabs the wrong metric and waves it like a victory flag. It's not.

Exactly. Numbers don't tell the truth/story.

General Douglas MacArthur, a decorated commander in WWII and the Korean War, famously declared, “IN WAR, THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VICTORY,” during his 1951 farewell address to Congress. You end it with all your objectives achieved or you go home empty handed with your heads down!

Please crawl back under your rock! you’re the reason we’re in this mess: 90% voted Voted against the 1st impeachment Equality Dodd-Frank In favor of Assault weapons Concealed carry Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Penalize Sanctuary Cities Supported Murder of other government officials

In short, we did the opposite of accomplishing goals. We have made things measurably worse and cost lives, readiness, prestige, and a massive amount of money. If this is Trump's definition of winning, I wish he would stop...

I thought Truman made a promise that the US would never again use a nuke? Or was my history teacher pounding sand?

🤷 Trump, Hegseth, CENTCOM & Pentagon … are pathological lairs. Iranians are well-educated & smart. Iran is fighting for their existence, not for expanding the territory nor stealing resources. America should withdraw from the Middle East. It’s not our war!

Has the United States lost access to *all* of the naval military ports in the Middle East because the Persian Gulf is blocked at its mouth by the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz? Look at the map. And that idiot Trump has threatened to bomb Oman? This may be much worse than Trump is telling us.

When you a Jeffries had a meeting with Republicons what was said?

But we obliterated them 57 times

The "objective" should be starting normalization of relations with Iran and bringing them into the community of nations. The Obama administration accomplished that with the nuclear agreement. It was step one of fifty in establishing trust, diplomatic normalcy, and trade. We all know who blew that up

Yep, he did.

We no longer have to imagine an extremely stupid, vulgar, more cruel, and wildly incompetent version of Robert McNamara now that noted wino Hegseth is running the Pentagon.

🇨🇦 The regime that needs to go right now is the US fascist regime!

"But war isn't won by destroying things"...Ditto Adam, no truer words has ever been skeeted, notwithstanding, "WARS" are always but always won by, never going to war, well at least thats one way, to win a "war"???

I want to know (THE TRUTH) about our bases in the Middle East

The Orange Blob has totally lost every objective he supposedly had

No one supports this ‘war’ either way.

Who dis?

Have you Adam thought about running for president?

As someone who lived thru the Vietnam debacle..... This is a repeat performance! And, it will end as badly!

All the more reason to have correspondents on ships, IMO.

Wasn’t this supposed to have been taken care of last year?🙄

war is no answer, was never an answer--self-protection is fine, but acquiring/forcing/changing by killing massive numbers of people and destroying/poisoning places, what is that but egomaniacal bullshit

Profit for Trump and his buddies. Glorification of toxic masculinity by Hegseth. All a hollow show.

Right on, Adam. Having only fought a war with a known, planned, achievable objective (Desert Storm), I'm so grateful I had quality warfighter leadership... Not the performative, ignorant bullshit I see in our current SecDef. SecWar is a title, and hegseth didn't, and hasn't, earned it.

Bc iran != Venezuela brother

Watch the "Fog of War" and listen to the confessions of a man who thought he could win the Vietnam War by simply by utilizing mountains of data rather than employing fact finding and good judgement.

A shame they can’t bring back Nob McNamara and Westmoreland. Every night on the 6:00 news “The US killed 400 VietnCong today” It was all a lie

From this I’m hearing Republicans haven’t learnt a thing in 5 decades! Afghanistan & Vietnam were absolute 💩shows for the American people. GOP would have made $Billions from the stock market. Now it’s still on about OIL. The World is moving forwards no matter the American psyche of belligerence🇦🇺🙄🫩

Absolutely nothing trump did with Iran was accomplished, his actions negatively affect the entire world , fact Iranians were fighting against their repressive regime until trump stepped on a rake and brought the population together, killing their kids will do that

This is what happens when you have an ego running a country who is not versed in diplomacy, government and history. We have morons running the show who have made us so unsafe it's ridiculous.

I have this nutty idea that a president should go before Congress and explain why we have to go to war before we go to war.

President Kinzinger

Iran is Trump's albatross!

Iran is Beating tRump in this poorly planned out war!! Another tRUMP FAILURE! And our poor soldiers are paying the price!! 😔😡🤬Wake up people!! Vote these dummies out!! 💙😡

Republicans and truth don't go together. Tell us one good thing about being a Republican. What is the point of this Party?

I've noticed the penchant for touting numbers and statistics while results are wanting.

They have their marching orders from every country that is an enemy to the United States. Why invade the United States when you can just buy their president with gold trinkets and real estate financing?

The US assassinated their political and spiritual leader and murdered most of his family at a holiday banquet, then bragged about it while killing school children. Tell me, sir. If Russia or China had done that to the US, would you be negotiating?

Even when you win a war, you lose a part of yourself. There is no victory achievable in the current (conflict) war. Now, unless our nation is willing to destroy another or accept a humiliating exit, this waste humanity and capital will continue.

Before Adam Kinzinger was a Representative in the House he was in the military. He held the rank of Lt Colonel in the United States Air Force & then in the National Guard. When he talks on a subject it's because he's experienced. He was a #Republican he considers himself an #Independent now. 🗳️🇺🇸

Trump and Hegseth bombed Iran to start this war (under false pretenses). They could bring our military home to stop it.

The war is ongoing on going ongoing and billions of dollars have been wasted. 

The only thing missing is Kharg Island being our Dien Bien Phu. The objective “iran can NEVER have a nuke” is no more attainable than “the global war on terror(ism)”. Terrorism is an ideology that gets reborn with each generation & “never” is a very long time.

Exactly, where is the plan and effort to remove the nuclear capability they’re SCREAMING about? THAT WE’RE ALL PAYING FOR EXCEPT HIM AND HIS FLYING MONKEY CATAMITES. WHERE???

The game of numbers this admin has been playing does remind me of the claims during Vietnam.

I remember those Sunday night body count reports on the national news. No kid should should be subjected to that.

Actual battleground is static and it’s become the first of no doubt many Drone Wars to come.

They're not telling us everything.

No wonder you were just a jet refueler. I have never heard a US Air Force pilot talk like such a whining unpatriotic dunce until you. You wouldn’t know the difference between the gun trigger and the pickle switch.

And the lying goes on.

True!

One needs to have objectives before one can achieve objectives.

Trump exhausted our munitions and lost the war. If we can't recognize that, we are not going to move forward .

Yep, the Japanese sunk a lot of battleships at Pearl Harbor during WWII. The carriers fortunately went untouched. WW II revealed the battleship to be obsolete. The US destroyed the Iranian Air Force but their planes were acquired from the US in the 70s (F-4s and F-14s) and are obsolete.

It's a pedophiles war to avoid jail for epstein oligarcs. Their castle is crashing by data centers protests and uprising bsky.app/profile/nome...

The objective was to distract from the Epstein Files. They are failing.

This is a war that started without an act of aggression. There is no justification for this war. This is definitely not America First, though the people who voted for the occupant don't seem to realize that.

Why are you still a Republican? Start a new conservative or Middle of the road party.

Israel wants us to nuke Iran and would prefer if we destroy our force projection capacity so the next admin can't stop the next genocide and land seizure. Then they get to keep a borderland like Ukraine to protect the imperial core against nuclear fallout. Until then their own nukes are useless.

Hear, hear

We’re gonna lose another one.

Peace can only be achieved by understanding. Maybe the fallout from putting in puppet governments is a past problem haunting us. We never have met the Iranian people where they are. The results of forcing our way of life on the world just does not seem to work out as planned.

...and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, unlike BEFORE PedoPINO started his war of choice.

Wars are won by securing the peace Sir B. H. Liddle Hart reminds us: "You go to war to secure a better peace." Wars fought for revenge, regime change, & denuclearization fail to provide visions for a better peace Trump & Israel do not have a vision for a better peace with Iran or the Middle East

As an addendum, young’uns need to go back and see the US’s withdrawal from ‘Nam! It made Trump’s Afghan withdrawal seem orderly and civilized. Afghan women notwithstanding, of course. Don did that. Hurt Afghan women, I mean. Tha’s all.

Uhmn,…yeah, yeah,… but, they sunk our battleship!! WTAF…?!?! Really. MAGA Makin’ America Grovel(like shit)Again! 👊🇺🇸💩

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All 15 US Bases, and hundreds of billions of equipment, has been destroyed. You cannot unlose a failure.

There is no victory for the US, What Trump is talking about doing, he has already done. All he has done is unite the regime and the people against a common enemy.

Now it’s Ready! Fire! Aim!

The ghost of Bobby McNamara Present

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

...like everything else trump does. His "accomplishments" are a LIE.

He doesn’t know what was happening with Vietnam. He declined to attend.

Kegsbreath is still a drunk. Trump is still an idiot. Rubio is still feckless bootlicker. That's our war team.

I laugh a little harder on the inside every time a journalist asks an expert what ‘president’ Shitler’s exit strategy is regarding Iran. Equally amusing is the assumption that someone in this admin is aware of a ‘next step’ in the sanction journey the head dumbass thinks he’s imposing on Iran.

There's no victory in an illegal undeclared unapproved unpopular Forever war with Iran!!

Well we had all our objectives met under the Obama peace agreement and Trump shit canned that during his first term in office. This should send a message to all countries negotiating with the US. Any deal last as long as a president holds office. Native Americans learned that years ago.

You win a war by convincing the citizens of another nation to do what you want. This takes more than military might. Idiots like trump and Hegseth don't understand this.

We spend billions on defense every year and can’t provide livable conditions for our military and we’ve lost every war since World War Two. Enough is enough.

It doesn’t matter how many you destroy if they can still make more. Just ask Russia.

I was thinking the same thing.

And our POTUS and his SEC DEF keep the lies spewing. Really disgusting the low class world level this felon asshat POTUS has taken USA to. Dream of the day he’s out of the seat and all the ridiculous self serving grift and putting his name on stuff is over!!🇺🇸

I can barely remember my mom having the nightly news on and reports of so many fighters being shot down over Vietnam