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Caine is going to have to do some explaining to us… His retirement plan is in the shitter now.

The man is the most senior serviceman in the US military and is too cowardly to tell Trump he's crazy, or to resign instead of waging illegal war. He saves his courage for a whining session with the NYT later. A firing squad is too good for him.

well, he's got big shoes to fill

The thesis of this entire article is, “everyone knows Trump is dumber than shit but somehow completely at ease leaving the most consequential foreign policy decision of the last 20 years up to him”

It's like explaining military tactics to a toddler.

You’re telling me that this general is so obtuse to not realize that Trump is taking everything as advice?!?!?

Everyone in the Sit Room - including "the skeptic" Vance and the one in uniform, both on record as opposing the war -- was a coward.

The lede tells the whole story, in a way. "The black S.U.V. carrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the White House just before 11 a.m. on Feb. 11."

Netanyahu is a liar who loves today's Nazis. 2002, Netanyahu: "If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region." www.c-span.org/clip/house-c... Would be nice if Israel wants to commit war crimes, they pay their own freight (no US $).

As someone else said on Bluesky, Israel has kompromat on Trump (just like Putin does). Trump lifted sanctions on Russian oil and Trump made the price of oil go up. Putin is richer (as he tries to kill the Jewish leader of Ukraine). www.haaretz.com/opinion/2022...

Israel's far-right government sees the US as an inferior satellite (good to get money from and to have US use its resources and military lives to pursue far-right Israelis' goal of killing as many people as possible and destroying as much stuff as possible).

The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is a moron. It's terrifying.

Generals need to remember Trump is stupid. They need to color-by-numbers this stuff so he ca understand.

Am I off-base in thinking Rubio’s an off-record source for the story and made sure they put in his quote verbatim? It positions him for 2028 as both loyal to Trump and against all the mistakes.

Nobody in the article thinks to consult with Congress or allies, much less let the American people know he's been lying all this time. I guess that would spoil a sneak attack assination set up so well by conducting contemporaneous negotiations. It's all, "What will the emperor decide."

A government that believes it is above the law when dealing with our adversaries will believe it is above the law when dealing with its citizens. This concept needs to be understood by the American public. Our own authoritarian actions are never confined beyond our borders. They start from within.