Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
After Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.
There’s certainly no intelligence to be found anywhere in the Trump administration.
They weren’t based on vibes, they were based on orders. Trump’s foreign handlers told him what to do and he did it.
“There is no intel” describes the entire regime
It describes the past 30 years of the USA’s Middle East policy. At least it’s consistent?
Israel asked him to do it
Probably to pull the spotlight off them killing a bunch of people in their beds while they were sleeping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassinations_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists
https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-iranian-nuclear-scientists-killed-225846643.html
“asked”. I’m beginning to think it is a lot more direct than that.
Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.
This may have been Trump returning his end of the bargain (or Trump is just a shortsighted and stupid piece of shit).
Well Biden/Harris could have pulled the plug for doing that. Instead they let Netanyahu publicly humiliate them by defying any requests, knowing they would send more weapons as a reward.
They really couldn’t. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.
Which is why Musk was able to dump over $70 million in exactly opposite attack ad messages to both Jewish and Muslim communities inside the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
If they pulled military aid on Ukraine, one of the most powerful lobbyists in a close election would’ve unleashed their funding, and Republicans too would have labeled Harris and Biden as Antisemitic. Netanyahu would have publicly stated that, “Democrats are putting Israeli citizens at risk from terrorist attack by leaving us defenseless!” In the worst case scenario, Netanyahu – already proven to be a psychopath who ignored obvious intelligence of an impending attack once – could have possibly staged a false flag attack similar to Putin’s past actions, and that would’ve sealed the deal. The public media would’ve labeled Biden/Harris as antisemitic and incompetent.
It’s why they literally had to toe the line between protecting Israel (because the inertia Israel has in our society, sadly), but also seek a peace deal and publicly advocate for a 2-state-solution, as Harris did. The media landscape was not favorable to Democrats, which is why they had limited cards to play.
Bibi’s got kompromat on him, Epstein may have been Mossad
More accurately, his girlfriend is, he’d probably be consider an asset. An important distinction on whether you protect them when they’re in trouble.
Epstein claimed at least once to be Mossad, and Maxwell’s dad apparently was.
Maxwell’s Dad was an interesting guy if you read up on him. The dude had a lot of enemies via his business dealings and him being a literal spy for MI6/Mossad. Some believe Mossad even assassinated him, but I don’t really believe it.
The fact that the shit had just hit the fan regarding Maxwell’s looting of his employees’ pension plans probably had more to do with his suicide.
Epstein may have sold (or volunteered) intel both to Mossad and to US three-letter agencies. I don’t know if that made him a Mossad agent.
I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn’t her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the ‘party’ boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?
lol Republicans don’t give a shit about anything he’s done or could do. They like Trump and there’s nothing in this world that could change that.
The girl looked just like Ivanka. It would damage his relationship with his favorite child in an unfixable way.
The child he already repeatedly publicly made extremely creepy comments about?
Obviously. But that’s why Trump’s doing what he’s doing. That’s all.
As evidenced by the other golden boy of the Party dropping that exact bomb, and nobody cared
Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.
And biden/harris fell for it. they looked weak and complicit because they’re democrats and that’s their brand.
It can be both. And yes bibi did not stop the ceasfire, I believe trump requested not be stopped to let him win
He’s trying to get ahead of a mob and call it a parade.
See how his last one went to figure out how this will go.
Told
Oh FFS. We will know this orange fucker doesnt pay attention in any intel meetings he actual attends. And he can’t read the intel reports. He just makes everything up from what he sees on Fox News and the other conservative “news” networks.
They were based on Trump being pissed that his little birthday parade was humiliating.
“maybe my military parade sucked because I haven’t actually started a war yet”
FTFY: the president’s decision to strike was not driven by
any new U.S.intelligenceon Iran.Vibe Warfare. Where Skynet doesn’t have control of the military, but everyone does what it says anyway.
But women are “too emotional” to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.
Really nice knowing that Nuke country #1 is governed by absolute senile murderous freaks for over at least 10 years now
It’s interesting to note that Biden didn’t bomb Iran.
Or Obama.
So many missed opportunities for O-bomb-a jokes
I’m still waiting to see Big Beautiful Bunker Busting Bomb
He only bombed Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. With Iran he only flew over illegally to bomb the other places.
Or Bush.
Bush was busy doing Iraq and Afghanistan
Yet McCain and Graham were on TV begging to strike Iran.
This is the Democratiic parties election platform 2024 (see P82/P83):
Through aggressive diplomacy backed by U.S. military power, the Administration has worked alongside our allies and partners to deter and defend against Iran and its terrorist surrogates. President Biden has postured U.S. military forces in the region and authorized precision airstrikes on key Iranian-linked targets tied to attacks against U.S. troops to deter further aggression by Iran. President Biden has also continued to protect the American people from terrorism, authorizing military strikes that took out ISIS emirs and the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In response to brazen attacks by Iranian-linked Houthi forces against international commercial shipping, U.S. naval vessels in the Red Sea, and Israel, President Biden ordered military strikes, alongside key allies, against Houthi targets and organized Operation Prosperity Guardian, a coalition of more than 20 nations committed to defending international shipping and deterring Houthi attacks.
When Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones against Israel in April 2024, President Biden led an unprecedented defensive coalition – together with partners from Europe and across the Middle East – to defeat the attack, protect Israel, and stop the spread of a wider war. Through direct defensive action by the U.S. military and its partners, Iranian munitions did not cause significant damage, demonstrating both America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel and our unrivaled ability to leverage growing regional integration among U.S. partners to counter Iranian aggression.
All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility.
They are literally calling Trump “weak” for not engaging militarily enough. There is no indication Biden would not have jumped at the first order from Netanyahu to do his bidding, like he did all the years before.
It’s almost like the former presidents didn’t think it was a good idea.
Did netanyahu tell him to?
The Intel probably came in the form of a new deposit clearing in Trump’s bank account
Who uses bank accounts anymore? They probably bought a bunch of $TRUMP. Doesn’t every US President have their own private currency?
Antiquities scholars of some future alien race thumbing through hard drives like Roman coins
You thought vibe coding was bad? Welcome to the age of vibe bombing…
Siri, bomb a middle eastern country.
this wouldn’t work
it’s ‘hey siri’
Well, Trump has been an LLM all along, because attention is all he needs.
A Russian and Israeli LLM
Vibe-running the world is the new hotness
Vibe waring.
It’s better if Cursor does it
Aurora farming.
You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.
The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it’s just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we’re lying, they can’t do anything about it.
I’m mildly surprised the Trump leaning press is not claiming that Iran is friendly with monstrous tentacled aliens , and that is why, sadly there must be more war, to save earth…
Many would just believe it
You leave the pastafarians out of this. FSM did nothing wrong!
