Trump says US forces bombed Iran nuclear sites; says 'Fordow is gone'

Trump wants the expanded powers of POTUS that comes with being a wartime president, as well as a wartime budget, but he needs Congress to declare war…so what does he do?

He pulls out of an agreement that restricted Iran from enriching uranium, then threatens to attack them for enriching uranium. Unexpectedly, Iran takes the high road and goes to the UN over the threats. Since Iran won’t attack, Trump gets Israel to attack Iran. Now, Trump is allowed to attack Iran under the false pretense of protecting an ally, which circumvents congressional approval. He posts a message claiming peace, knowing full well that Iran will retaliate, and Congress will subsequently declare war.

Trump gets everything he wants- expanded powers, and a big budget to hide his reckless overspending, while calling it the defense of an allied nation.

- The same think tank that made the project 2025 blueprint he's following.
- The military industrial complex, JD Vance is Peter Thiel's pet.
- Miller probably.
- The Netanyahu ass kissing cabal. So most republicans in politics.
- Peter Thiel and friends. The guys pulling Vance's strings waiting.
- Stephen Miller and the other inhuman cancers on his cabinet
Congress "declaring war" is a relic of the past. Every conflict since WWII has been unilaterally decided by the executive.
- He needs them to declare war to give him the fat budget and more executive power. I’m sure the Republican-controlled majority won’t have a problem with it. They’ve been foaming at the mouth for a hot war with Iran since the 80s.

Fuck. This. Man. Impeach him. Jail him. Deport him. I don't care just fucking get him out of politics.

On this matter, trump Kamala Biden Hillary they will all do the same thing.
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Edit: downvote as you like. My point was he might get jailed for many reasons, supporting Israel’s genocide and war is likely not one of them. Most recent US politician has been doing pretty much the same thing. 🤷‍♀️
- The only person in your list that started a war without congressional approval was tronald dump. So do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.
- Screeching "bOtH SiDeS" while we literally watch only one side, only 1 president do this. Wow, you're definitely not indoctrinated...
- Possibly. Probably even. It's still irrelevant.
- Who is Trump Kamala Biden Hillary?
  Never heard of that person before.

Iran says that they will not stop with their efforts. Trump just said that if it doesn’t stop, he will continue with his campaign. Unless one side relents, this will lead to war. Or, as the media will put it “precision strikes against a foreign adversary” Fuck the USA, may it reap what it sows.

We're already at war.

Remove Trump now!

That’ll take the spines of 6 Republicans in the House and 20 Republicans in the Senate. Actually, 21 Republican Senators. Fetterman will probably vote against removal.

errrr, well let us see, I am skeptical these strikes were decisive, they might just make the US look worse

What gives you the impression Trump cares about how the US looks to the international community?
- Nothing, but I do think he has to respond to it.
Wouldn't be the first time, if true.

The analysis before the attack was that the bunker-busters probably wouldn't make it all the way through the mountainside, so Iran could dig their way out and get everything back on line in a few months.

Did this change, or is this just another case of Trump giving the illusion of having done something, when it's all glitzy window-dressing and bullshit?

I thought talk of nukes was to make invasion seem like a good and sane alternative. That, or it was news corporations gleefully picking up some nonsense and shouting it from the rooftops hoping for some clicks.

So iran is no longer a threat and we can drop sanctions now?

And Israel can stop its genocide against the Palestinians

A real "who must go" situation.

Looking at the photos, there's barely any difference. If the bombs can go deep enough to damage the facility, shouldn't we see exposed sections?

I hope the bunker-buster bombs worked. Whether the costs of war are worth paying in order to destroy Iran's nuclear program is debatable, but they're definitely paid in vain if the program survives.

Yeah. If they didn't manage to really destroy the material base of the program, Iran wil get nukes and the world's opinion could also shift in Iran's favour. Especially if they now act with restraint and hit all the legal avenues to say how they got harmed without justification.
- My major concern is that faced with defeat either way, they use dirty bombs to irradiate the population centers of israel. We’d have 9 million refugees and a huge environmental catastrophe.
- I don't think that Iran is going to get much useful sympathy from any country not already on its side (and of those, Russia has other priorities). Iran's ambitions have put it at odds with both Western countries and the Arab world and international law (even if it is on Iran's side - I don't know) is never going to lead countries to act against the dictates of realpolitik.
  I also don't think that failing to destroy these facilities necessarily makes a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable, given that Israel and the USA apparently have total air dominance. The infrastructure needed to deploy nuclear ICBMs can't all be kept deep underground and Iran's dependence on oil exports makes its economy particularly vulnerable to strategic bombing. I just don't trust Trump to see things through if his initial attempts fail - he's too impulsive. (And I'm not sure the moral calculus remains the same either - it's one thing to blow up a few underground weapons labs and quite another to engage in a strategic bombing campaign against the entire country.)