Baffled European

Category: War

  • Vibe war

    Is there any point in having a cabinet government in the USA at the moment? That everything is done at the whim of an insane president is obvious, but literally everybody else is kept out of the loop.

    It’s not just Gabbard, but Hegseth, Rubio and Vance apparently also advised against starting a war with Iran. Didn’t help. The latter three went on the interview circuit, assuring people that the aim is not regime change. They should check these things first: a correction on Truth Social insisted that the whole point of the action is regime change. They were at least present at an official announcement to hear the president struggling to read an autocue and unable to pronounce words.

    Nevertheless, Vance has been doing his best trying to sell the operation. The problem in the past, he explained, is that the USA had really dumb presidents. Thank goodness that is no longer the case. When asked what Iran should do – what with the USA breaking its existing agreement and then launching an unprovoked attack – Vance was quite clear that you can’t trust Iran.

    Public opinion is strongly against the attacks, although this will change. Maga has already learned the message from the party that 2 + 2 = 5 and they are faithfully repeating their new knowledge.

    Iran has announced it will close the Strait of Hormuz. Whether they do remains to be seen, but it would cause chaos everywhere. This likely counts as a win for maga.

  • When a woman says no she really means yes

    Tulsi Gabbard is on one of those learning curves. She testified to Congress that there was no danger of Iran gaining nuclear weapons. Just to make her point clear, she released a video warning about the effects of a possible war in the Middle East.

    It’s understandable why she should do this. Everybody remembers the lies about “weapons of mass destruction” that were used as an excuse to start the Iraq war disaster. Maga is opposed to foreign adventures of any kind, particularly in that region. What’s more, the president himself has repeatedly criticised the Iraq war. Surely she was doing what he wanted?

    She has now learned that he was lying, one of those habits that convicted fraudsters have. “She’s wrong”, he said. “I don’t care what she thinks.” That’s his Director of National Intelligence he’s talking about.

    As a result, she has quickly reassessed her analysis, and is now insisting that Iran is only three weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon. She should have said 45 minutes. Why not? It’s just as ridiculous.

    Not that anybody is paying attention to her. The president has launched a set of bombing raids against Iran and is using hokey Twitter accounts to guide his strategy.

    So is this the war they want? How far will they go? How long will it take for maga to insist that they’ve always been at war with Eastasia?

    Please, Europe: don’t get sucked into this.