Iran Warns It Will Target Regional Energy, Water, and Technology Infrastructure if US Strikes Its Oil Facilities.

ha ha the billionaires are writing the checks so the balances can f*** off. welcome to democrazy 2.0

There used to be, until Congress got lazy and basically handed over war powers to the executive branch. This is what happens when your legislature basically refuses to take responsibility for doing their literal jobs. Edit: for all you people who haven't been paying any attention, this happened decades ago and has been ongoing for my entire lifetime.

The Americans have c**** morals. Our supreme court is bought and paid for.

Checks and balances don't work when you give one party control of the house, the senate, the judiciary and the white house. Bonus points when their allies take over all the media as well. Double bonus points when Americans also don't check someone, who tries to overthrow an election the first time. Stop blaming Congress and start blaming your friends and family that voted for this. 

It DOES work when done right. The premise is based on the idea that legislative, executive, and judicial all want their power. So if one branch is seizing power, the other two will fight back to maintain theirs. This is why until recently. Both side went out of their way to select a non-partial SC nominee. Like staffing the bench with a blatant bias judge is not the norm. What's not foreseen is one side holding super majority, and then proceed to just hand power over to the executive. And argubly what's even more unforseen is people actively voting against their own interest. And that they will vote these people out. No one anticipate a fking cult. This is why it's such a problem. When all 3 branches follow a single person, and when the population is split on the guy. The US effectively have a king with no way to remove him. This is also why they're readying up for mid terms. They need all 3 branch as majority to keep the train going.

I’m learning so much about our country as I get older. 1/6 I learned that You can literally just walk into the capitol to try and overthrow the government. I learned a bunch of other stuff but feel like I’d end up on a list putting them all out lol

Citizens United ruined democracy.

Remove “war time” and it would still be correct

If Trump was president during the height of the Cold War, there is a good chance that humanity would have been wiped out in wholesale nuclear annihilation. Every step he takes to escalate this conflict is an existential threat to humanity. There are no more adults at the table anymore.

Trump is the architect of the collapse of the United States. The US has already functionally collapsed as a democracy in every possible way. People are just in denial.

I've had conservative acquaintances comment "Obama was never this bad"

This whole war reeks of Nazi planning for Operation Barbarossa, where they unrealistically expected to win in less than 2 months vs the USSR.

Trump came into power in one of the most peaceful eras for America since the end of the wars on terror. He is actively working on dragging us back into wars.

This isn't a war. This is a needless sadistic murder spree.

The only president who could start a war with Iran. The only president who could actually lose a war with Iran too.

Trump has to be the worst President this country has ever had.  I fixed it.

> Iran is not playing any game, it's been backed into a wall and is willing to kill anyone and do anything. Exactly. And this is basic strategy known for years. *See* Sun Tzu, *The Art of War*, Ch. VII. "Maneuvering," § 36: > **When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.** > This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair." Tu Mu adds pleasantly: "After that, you may crush him." > **Do not press a desperate foe too hard.** > Ch\`en Hao quotes the saying: "Birds and beasts when brought to bay will use their claws and teeth." Chang Yu says: "If your adversary has burned his boats and destroyed his cooking-pots, and is ready to stake all on the issue of a battle, he must not be pushed to extremities." Ho Shih illustrates the meaning by a story taken from the life of Yen-ch\`ing. That general, together with his colleague Tu Chung-wei was surrounded by a vastly superior army of Khitans in the year 945 A.D. The country was bare and desert-like, and the little Chinese force was soon in dire straits for want of water. The wells they bored ran dry, and the men were reduced to squeezing lumps of mud and sucking out the moisture. Their ranks thinned rapidly, until at last Fu Yen-ch\`ing exclaimed: "We are desperate men. Far better to die for our country than to go with fettered hands into captivity!" A strong gale happened to be blowing from the northeast and darkening the air with dense clouds of sandy dust. To Chung-wei was for waiting until this had abated before deciding on a final attack; but luckily another officer, Li Shou-cheng by name, was quicker to see an opportunity, and said: "They are many and we are few, but in the midst of this sandstorm our numbers will not be discernible; victory will go to the strenuous fighter, and the wind will be our best ally." Accordingly, Fu Yen-ch\`ing made a sudden and wholly unexpected onslaught with his cavalry, routed the barbarians and succeeded in breaking through to safety. Source: https://suntzusaid.com/book/7/36/

Suicidal murderer who genuinely believes in martyrdom. 

They have no other option. The US is the main focus atm, because Trump is such a blowhard. Israel isn't going to just let Iran live in peace if the US and Iran do establish another peace agreement. They'll kill and kill and steal land like they have done for decades. The erosion of internal law at the hands of Israel means that no real diplomatic solution exists.

It still wouldn't be WW3, but it would be a global depression... which might lead to WW3. Nice. Great. So totally cool and neat.

But we’re not at war. So it would have to be called “World Special Military Operation 1”

> power plants in regional countries hosting U.S. bases That’s damn near everyone

Americans: zzz zzz that's in the middle east

Critically important to remember that this is not being done for the United States. This war is for Israel. And they want all enemies in the Middle East wiped out and they really don’t care if it kills the world economy, etc.. We need to stop pretending that this is being done for US interest. Even the United States is not pretending that. Just commenters.

The GOP, especially the evangelicals (and war mongers) in the party, want this war. It’s all part of their hysterical prophecy where Israel reestablishes the Davidian Empire, the rapture happens, and Christ returns on a white horse.

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Here’s your crown, King Nothing

The Democrats can't even take advantage of the Republicans' MASSIVE blunder because that'd mean admitting Israel dragged the US into this conflict

I believe it was Tacitus who wrote: “the Roman’s create a deserted wasteland and call it peace”. Seems appropriate at the moment.

With every passing minute it becomes more and more clear that he 100% expected a Venezuela style 72hr safari where the remnants of IR would immediately sign a deal with him within the first 2 days. They have zero planning for the current scenario, where IR is going to fully see through this at all costs.

This will be FAFO moment for diaper Donnie on a grand scale.

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If it cheers you up any, his golf course in Ireland is being held to ransom by a single dude and a [rare snail](https://www.thejournal.ie/trump-doonbeg-ballroom-plans-stalled-by-sole-objector-6982815-Mar2026/).

You know it's bad when you hope he's just doing market manipulation again.

Trump has never faced consequences; for him, they do not exist. 

I mean, he gets to go home and eat the same food, drive the same vehicles, and live his same life. Minor or even 100% increases on goods/services dont impact the rich at all like it impacts regular people. So to expect him to be empathetic and think of others is foolish at this point, hes just trying to distract from the Epstein files while profiting off his Israeli generated war

Unfortunately trump only knows one tactic the strongman you don't do y we obliterate x. His tactic only works when your opponent is a rational actor. Unfortunately for trump iran doesnt give a f*** if that happens. Also trump is doing a great job at making the us be the party that escalates and iran being the party that responds to escalation terrible look for the us overall.

100% and now BIBI is trying to convince Europe to get involved by lying about Iran hitting Europe.

This is why Netanyahu wanted Trump to win. He knew he could convince him to attack Iran, and he knew he won’t admit he’s done something wrong.

6 months prior to the onset of this "3day winning operation" Trump administration fired all experts from the Oil and Gas Dept. Those were the people who modeled this very specific scenario. The people who had connections at the Energy Ministries of the Gulf states... Now, the Trump admin simply doesn't know who to call.

It was gamed out by previous administrations. That's why no one has done it up until now. Anyone with a brain understands it will be a global disaster. 

Honestly they didn’t even need to game it out, this has been gamed out by a dozen administrations and ALL of them have seen the writing on the wall and not gotten involved for exactly these reasons I guarantee you every single bit of documented plans the Trump admin has on hand from prior admins called all of this out and these numbnuts not only didn’t do their own plan but also ignored every other one It wouldn’t surprise me if they just asked ChatGPT or f****** grok

This administration thinks game theory is when you pretend real war is just Call of Duty, no chance they were running any models that didn’t include outright domination and total acquiescence

By all accounts the generals and US intelligence were all against this but Trump has pretty much surrounded himself with pro Israeli sycophants. Joe Kent in his interview with Tucker Carlson said they weren’t included in the talks to launch the offensive and that there was basically no objection to it from the people he listens to.

Have you ever seen what happens when people disagree with Trump? I guarantee they were all telling the emperor how nice his clothes look.

Every war game we ever had said Iran would do this. The previous Joint Chief of Staff told Trump this is a bad idea.

But he sounded so cool and tough making the threat!!! Couldn't say no to that.

I hope. That’s one of the best case scenarios for such a dangerous Trump self own.

Pretty sure this is gonna spiral out of control *worse* than Vietnam.

A draft. But I’m not sure that would be the final straw either since the upper middle and upper classes would inevitably find a way to circumvent shipping their kids off to a meaningless war.

Not a single person in the states is going to actually care until they see a significant decrease in standards of living, they have made that plain and clear. They love to cry about it online, but almost none of them will do a single f****** thing until they start losing their retirements/homes or a draft happens and their kids start dying. It's all a horse and pony show and they eat it up like a 5 star meal.

Americans also think that Trump is a one man regime and once he’s gone things will go back to normal.

Any day now and the Shah will return in a glorious 19th century decorated military costume. 

Although, on the other hand, their response is entirely rational. Objectively, the plan of their aggressor, Israel, is the destruction of the Iranian nation. Not regime change, not taking away an asset or a piece of territory: the destruction of the state, dragging its people centuries backward. They see it, because that’s what it is, as an existential threat, and they have decided to fight with everything they’ve got. Realistically, they have no alternative, because they cannot even surrender. Israel does not want an allied government; it wants to socially destroy its neighbors, in a senseless and delusional colonialist ambition that is already completely unviable.

Americans are using the idiot Trump to cover for the desire to destabilize China's hold in the region. The act of feeding into religious fanaticism is a disguise of public consent. American imperialism is running and planning these actions.

It is not just fanaticism yeah fanatics make good soldier. But ideally bombing civilians randomly in a country often doesn't sit well with the citizens.

One small difference, trump is a coward and the others are not. They will be killed no matter what and trump knows no one can hurt him in his cozy home. That’s why it’s easy for him to say stupid bullshit like this.

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Both are being led by guys who literally should be in prison.

Yet doing so is the logical path forward to end the war. The Gulf Coast Countries cannot survive 5 months of no food and water, and with their collapse comes the collapse of the petrodollar, with the USA and Israel's economies collapsing shortly after. If you want sanity to return, get me in power

I think a lot analysts think that Israel will use a low yield nuke or conduct a "nuke test" dangerously close to Iran. At the end of the day it doesn't really matter. A nuke is still a nuke and God awful if one is used.

If nukes are used, that’s a line crossed that you can never go back on. We could very easily get nuked in response (by any number of nuclear-capable nations on/off Iran’s side), and when that happens, it’s MAD time.

Marines getting sacrificed on Kharg Island to justify its usage me thinks.

Consequences mean nothing to him. Everything is a "flex."

On what though? What site in Iran is big enough and important enough to use an atom bomb on? They’re not going to use one.