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Deb Pierce's avatar

Thank you for this very clear report on a subject that's so emotional for so many. This is one of many reasons why I went paid, and why I came to your Substack first when I got up (too early) this a.m.

Xplisset's avatar

Deb, thank you. Seriously. Knowing you came here first (even too early) is exactly why I stay on this stuff. I appreciate you going paid.

D Kitterman's avatar

EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN

Deb's avatar
Feb 28Edited

It really is the epicenter,and it looks like there is no stopping the forward motion. This web is extensive and global. # MeToo is coming back, to front and forward. I’m wearing my pink pussy knit hat for No Kings rally in DC on March 28th. Not on social media or I would try and get the word out. The red knit cap for defiance is great too. A sea of red we can feel great about.

Stan's avatar

Scary stuff. Especially when we consider who is now running the show in the US. Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Rubio. Truly frightening.

EaB's avatar

Dumb, dumber, dumbest and scary dumb!! 4 knuckle draggers beginning something no one in America wants to happen!

Young men are going to lose their lives!

This is so obviously a ploy to distract from Epstein, illegally taking over elections to come and pure Machismo. My wanker is bigger than yours! What an endless stream of 💩!

Thx X for explaining what’s going on so succinctly!

UGH‼️

Deb's avatar

Beyond scary. They just shot done our own military drone thinking they stopped a border drone. Assholes.

Barry Kent MacKay's avatar

Okay...you say (with reference) "The first sign is whether Iran targets U.S. forces directly. If that happens, Washington’s political pressure to expand targets and duration will rise fast. [2]"

Respectfully, I'm not sure that it matters if American military are attacked by Iran or not. The U.S., under presidents saner and less criminally-minded than Donald Trump, has a history of avoiding conflict where the enemy can self-defend until pushed to do so (WWII), but gleefully goes after countries deemed weak enough to be easily conquered (North Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq) always claiming a threat that may or may not be real and actual (Gulf of Tonkin; WMDs in Vietnam and Iraq respectively) or attacked nations where American business was threatened, either by direct military intervention (Grenada) or via usually secretive interventions (various Latin American nations). This has been done either legally (with congressional approval) or illegally; overtly or covertly. So my point is that if Trumpians decide, given the pressures on the home front over cost-of-living increases, which can't even be disguised from devout MAGAs, and increasing disclosures about the Epstein files, ditto, that all out war is required and damn soon, the reason will magically appear. It always does. Already Trump is claiming Iran has or is on the verge of developing, intercontinental ballistic missiles, which is absurd, and claiming both that Iran's nuclear capability was "obliterated" (the only word ever used...can someone get these people a thesaurus?), and that they are on the verge of being able to strike, gasp, the American homeland and that is both totally absurd but enough to cause survivalists to stock up on extra ammo and a spike in the manufacture of bomb shelters and canned goods. Wars are excellent for business and a good, solid war will stimulate domestic production of real stuff...things made of steel that can "obliterate" all in their path. Pete Hegseth is having wet dreams over this chance to kill people people who aren't simply sitting in fast moving fishing boats, but shooting back, albeit with inadequate weapons. The videos will be fantastic, and on the news every evening. Things might, just might, again work out for Trump after all.

Julia Collins's avatar

As always, thank you for your analysis..

Dianne's avatar

And this moron wants the Nobel PEACE Prize? I’d have thought he’d get further with diplomacy, but hey, little minds love guns don’t they?

dhc22's avatar

Gee another middle eastern war. How many US sleeper cells have been activated? We wouldn't know as the people who monitored this activity were fired and departments eliminated. How quickly people forget.

I fear for our country and the men and women who will be pulled into this conflict. Is it possible that the US will be targeted and we'll see war come here?

It's probable that midterms will be cancelled.