JD Vance in 2024: " Our interest, I think, very much is in not going to war with Iran.  It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."

Important context for Trump’s opposition to regime change wars or interventions is that he never actually opposed them at the time and only did so after they went bad.

Weird line of attack considering that one of the central “endless wars” (Afghanistan) continued during the entirety of his boss’ first term. So, he was a dumb president then and a genius now?

In Trump’s first live public address since illegally taking our country TO WAR, he’s talking about his golden drapes.

Trump’s “hubris resembles that of the neocons—like them, he believes in American supremacy and is fascinated by the overwhelming power of the U.S. military—but he shares none of their idealism. His only commitment is to himself,” George Packer argues. theatln.tc/NejdQC3v 🎨:

I watched this interview. They gutted the State Department so our embassies in the region find themselves unable to assist American citizens, affected by this war, because they literally don’t have the resources. WTF????

What? So the ‘preemptive threat’ was based on prior knowledge that (presumably) Israel was going to attack Iran? This is nuts.

Critics say that Trump's war with Iran could have a lot of blowback. But there is no historical precedent for the United States overthrowing an Iranian government and then facing 50 years of hostility from Iranians.

This is what real courage looks like. The Iranian women’s national football team refused to sing the Islamic Republic anthem before their Asian Cup opener Monday night. Head coach Marziyeh Jafari was seen smiling as the team stood in silence.

CNN put together a montage of conflicting messages from Republicans and administration officials on whether or not we’re in a war.

CNN montage of conflicting statements from Trump on war

It is genuinely bizarre that both Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson have offered this explanation on the record, but that’s what they said.

Right now the Dow has dropped over 1,000 points. If that holds, it will be the 14th time in history it happened. Donald Trump was President 12 of those times.

We had air superiority over Vietnam, and spent 8 years dropping millions of tons of bombs on it. They never begged for peace, let alone let us pick their leader.

this is an elementary school at Fort Bragg

Yesterday, DJT said something similar. This is just a blatant admission that we’re running low on these things. The way you know something is true is if it’s simultaneously denied and blamed on Biden.

“I oppose the war but I voted to fund it because I had no choice” will be the talking point of too many.

This is so fucking stupid. Either you oppose the war or you don’t. If you oppose the war, vote against funding for it.

“If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.” - President Donald Trump about Covid in remarks during a June 15, 2020 roundtable discussion

🚨 NBC: Trump administration officials confirmed to Congress in a closed-door briefing that the US was responsible for targeting the area where an Iranian girls’ school was struck. Scores of children killed. Not Iran. Not a misfire. Not collateral damage from someone else. Us.