So to start, beginning a scenario where there were missiles flying this way and that, and calls for the opportunity for a ceasefire were very many even as a direct result, why did the United States call this Operation Midnight Hammer? Is that not telegraphing to our foes our plans to send missiles at a given time? Two Minutes to Midnight? Better get out your shield, or anti-missile devices.
I do get the argument that by not bringing Congress into the strike decision, we do not tip our hat that we are planning it. So yes, here follows another political story, since as Bruce Springsteen said, when the times require it, he (and I) will write such stuff.
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What now potentially rears its head, is how we assess the no-troops-deployed ramifications of a hit, as far as bringing legislators into the decision. Bunker-busting bombs and concrete obliteration are one thing, BYOB, but potential human casualties are another, (although interestingly, there is no mention by the U.S. of Iranian casualties.) Concrete Blond but the busters were said by an analyst to only go a maximum of 20 meters deep into the much bigger bunkers, needing to reach far deeper before you get to any actual bomb material. What number of soldiers involved brings this to creation of a tipping point. And where?
But many say the threat is not gone, although Iran may have an out to return to “peace and harmony.” VP JD Vance disagreed with Trump and said that, essentially, two of the things Iran needs for re-establishing a nuclear program — if it had moved enriched uranium from the missile base before the strike, and if Iran still has centrifuge capability — may still be in place. That is because he said, the strike only may have been a partial success, for the moment.
It seems that nobody cares, except families in Iran and also elsewhere, much about the status of prison people in a second strike, or the shock wave effect of the initial hit on civilians.
So it came from us, so-called The Great and in the form of some of our allies The Smaller Satan, to invoke Revelations in a joking way, as apparently The Beast lives.
An attack was done earlier, and called a “calibrated” one back in 2020, was not sustained, possibly due to hitting a Ukrainian airliner? It did leave hundreds of U.S. soldiers with traumatic brain injuries. When it comes to past presidents in this century doing such an attack without congressional approval, there was early talk about those cases not having armed troops being deployed, and that this could be a barometer for getting such an OK.
Flip-flopping on regime change also can be justified, I think, as a case might be made for gauging the success of a strike before calling for such a leadership removal.
Shown in the Qatar sky in video shot from the ground, were many dancing, not streaking, dots as missiles, or Batman-like circular sky spotlights. Some of this video appears to have been accidentally mixed over the top of scenes of a more narrowed down streetscape.
It looks like old UFO footage, and I will not raise any kind of conspiracy theory here, from prior years.
While the U.S. and Qatar both say that there was no damage from missiles, it appeared that some of those dots reached the ground and landed.
The Qatar missile situation, at the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, was viewed as having the effect of declaring war, by Iran.
Shortly after, an already scheduled meeting of Trump’s defense team was moved to the situation room, from the Oval office.
You can bet included was the secretary of defense, who in the past has been called under fire for alleged drinking on the job, and also that he scheduled his attendance at decision-making meetings around happy hour! Ha ha. And no insider-trading wager of victory bets while at the bar.
Of course, it has been said that the first casualty of war is the truth, and that fact heightens with the immediacy of our various forms of messaging, from both government and foreign actors and even news outlets, that include social media concerns.
So don’t believe Trump’s claims of complete obliteration of Iran’s nuclear program just like that, and for that matter Iran’s declaration of having actually hit in its strikes in Qatar.
This scenario is like a sports fan getting his butt off the couch and taking his game to the court, and it also becomes a game of cat and mouse and especially in Iran’s case, trying to officially save face on the diplomatic international scene. But this tit for tat is Trump at his best, despite early calls for impeachment from Democrats.
But there remains the threat of foreign actors to close the strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil flows and thus travels to customers. Sticking through it is a “killer” peninsula, which brings in the impact of, and from the United Arab Emirates. And who is Oman? And do they have an army?
On early Monday afternoon, Kuwait closed its military base there, as fear of a broader response by Iran grew, even if it is only a matter of political theater it feels it needs to do.
So everything circles back. What goes around, comes around. Remember all the hype spewed by Trump about high deficits and grocery prices, and too many warlike doings and needing a world-peacemaker the like, going back a year or two. Sound familiar? Too familiar.
So despite the expected rise in Trump’s approval ratings, I have a secret for you: Donald Trump is actually Joe Biden! The version Trump himself concocted. Who is that masked man? Take it off so we can see who you really are.