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Implying that the United States in any way had attempted to actually stop Israel is journalistic misconduct.
Yeah what the fuck is this, it’s obvious to everyone that the US supports what Israel is doing.
and implying that the united states didn't help is willful ignorance at best since its diplomats worked to convince the iranians that it wasn't going to happen.
It’s probably opposite, where Israel was told to do it in order to continue getting support (I say this based on my expert tv show/movie knowledge)
Trump needs a war he didn't start that he can get involved in so he can claim to be a wartime president. "Can't hold an election when we are at war!"
This also fulfills the anti-prophecy of him calling himself the most peaceful president ever. He only ever presides over peaceful times.
There's also a video going around now of him in 2011 claiming Obama was going to start a war with Iran, due to his incompetence at negotiating, right before the election to boost his popularity.
He's projecting more then an imax movie theater.
"USA unable to restrain themselves from giving bombs to Israel"
"USA unable to restrain their ally from doing exactly what they want“
One of the dumbest headlines I’ve read all year. The US administration is supporting all of this.
The unilateral strikes indicated a collapse of Donald Trump’s efforts to restrain the Israeli prime minister
What sane person ever believed that Trump was willing or able to restrain Israel or its leadership?
He is definitely able to do it. Over the past months he's shown that he can act unilaterally on pretty much anything, especially on foreign policy, and no one stops him. He could stop weapons shipments to Israel tonight and if that happened Israel wouldn't be able to support it's 4 front war on the region and have to come to the negotiating table. He just doesn't because he's a coward and afraid of the Israel lobby.
He's already stopped aid to ukraine, no reason he can't do the same for Israel.
You're forgetting one key thing. Republicans hate Muslims more than they hate Jews.
Also, their nutty evangelical base believes that Jews need to be in Bethlehem in order for the second coming of Jesus to happen or something.
Bibi doesnt want to go to jail
I wonder what happens if everyone in the region starts lobbing missiles at isreal. How long can they maintain their air defense under a saturated attack? It takes time to reload those systems. A dumb missile launched in isreals direction requires a expensive one to intercept it. All it takes is the powers in the region to collectively decide they have taken enough shit from them and isreal is screwed. Not that they don't deserve it. You can bet trump wont get involved. He needs those troops to put a knee on our collective necks.
I don't think anyone in the region has any solidarity with Iran.
I know they all have their hatred of one another. It would only take a two month love affair to do isreal in. Probably not going to happen but you never know.
Everyone has learned that Trump is an idiot. He can easily be manipulated and controlled. They all know this. Trump is the only one that doesn’t see it. He isn’t strong. They just let him think he is.
"Flattery will get you everywhere."
And lets not forget that bible-thumping Evangelical Zionists are a large part of the reason Israel has such free reign and support in American politics. Especially now that they've completely infiltrated the highest echelons of power in DC.
This death cult want an all out war in the Middle East to lead to the End Times.
Trump is the willing dupe.
The US never actually tried to stop Israel. They have the levers but didn't do any of them. From how trump is speaking about the attack, it seems like he wanted this to put more pressure when it comes to the negotiations
This makes it seem like USA had no say in this when they have directly worked with netanyahu's government to keep a tight grip in middle east and is aiding the war effort from closed doors
Fail to restrain!!! He fully backup israel war in iran
I'd be surprised if he didn't actively encourage it.
Unless of course he wanted the privilege of starting it himself? Because a war could solve some of his problems, and pave the way for a MAGA dictatorship.
I don’t think Trump cares at all about what Israel does. He’s too busy planning his birthday
But what is he really planning? If USA is at war, he can call for martial law and end democracy in USA. And he has the military there to protect him!
The USA is not going to war. This is Israel. And Trump doesn’t actually control Israel. HE isn’t planning anything with Israel, except maybe Trump Tower Gaza.
If he wants to declare martial law, he can just do it if there is too much “civil unrest.” And at this point who knows what that actually means.
I'd love to know what happened to trump on that camp david visit. There was a real tune change after that.
I guess this explains the 20000 anti-drone missiles the US admin diverted from Ukraine to the "middle east"
Trump is worse than worthless as a negotiator.
“collapse of trumps efforts to restrain netanyahu”.. right. If netanyahu did this against US pleas, then why is the US shooting down the Iranian reprisal? Seems like they’d take trump more seriously he didn’t just support them regardless.
Trump can't even grasp his dick much less foreign diplomacy.
The most dangerously incompetent man for the moment
Lmao. Trump is unable to restrain his fuckin stupid hair on a windy day. He can't do shit to influence a single world leader anywhere.