#operationepicfailure — Public Fediverse posts

"At least 50 US troops have parents and spouses facing deportation under Trump":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipApqoj_BQ
The Trump Administration's mistreatment of people in the #military of the United States is one more sign of Trump's contempt for people who serve in our military. Another sign is Trump's unnecessary, illegal, and disastrous #IranWar.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics #HumanRights

"At least 50 US troops have parents and spouses facing deportation under Trump":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipApqoj_BQ
The Trump Administration's mistreatment of people in the #military of the United States is one more sign of Trump's contempt for people who serve in our military. Another sign is Trump's unnecessary, illegal, and disastrous #IranWar.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics #HumanRights

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117037227782646825

Juliette Kayyem: "One would think that a nation winning the war would be chatty about it. Instead, the United States’ silence—punctuated by bravado from Trump—is the tell. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has not held a Pentagon press briefing on the war since early March. He hasn’t bothered to publicly explain America’s new airstrikes, the mounting casualties that have come to light, or the strategy that supposedly connects one to the other."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117037227782646825

Juliette Kayyem: "One would think that a nation winning the war would be chatty about it. Instead, the United States’ silence—punctuated by bravado from Trump—is the tell. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has not held a Pentagon press briefing on the war since early March. He hasn’t bothered to publicly explain America’s new airstrikes, the mounting casualties that have come to light, or the strategy that supposedly connects one to the other."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Juliette Kayyem: "The War in Iran Isn’t Over. But We’ve Already Lost. Iran understood what Pres. Donald Trump did not: this war would be won by controlling the clock":
https://earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/p/the-war-in-iran-isnt-over-but-weve?just_subscribed=true
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Juliette Kayyem: "The War in Iran Isn’t Over. But We’ve Already Lost. Iran understood what Pres. Donald Trump did not: this war would be won by controlling the clock":
https://earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/p/the-war-in-iran-isnt-over-but-weve?just_subscribed=true
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"As Pres. Trump heads to the West Coast to talk to Americans about the economy, the war in Iran is driving up costs and polls show the already unpopular conflict is losing support ... Here are three domestic hurdles Mr. Trump is facing because of the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/iran-war-complications-trump-agenda.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"As Pres. Trump heads to the West Coast to talk to Americans about the economy, the war in Iran is driving up costs and polls show the already unpopular conflict is losing support ... Here are three domestic hurdles Mr. Trump is facing because of the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/iran-war-complications-trump-agenda.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure copy: @renewedresistance #politics

#IranWar Update: "An Emerging Deal Could Cement Iran’s Control of Strait of Hormuz. The deal would address Pres. Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/strait-of-hormuz-possible-reopening-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #incompetence #politics

#IranWar Update: "An Emerging Deal Could Cement Iran’s Control of Strait of Hormuz. The deal would address Pres. Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/strait-of-hormuz-possible-reopening-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #incompetence #politics

The direct military conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel has been going on for five months, having started on February 28, 2026. When Trump called the #IranWar #OperationEpicFury, I called it #OperationEpicFailure. Clownish leadership from Pete Hegseth was one of many reasons why it was doomed to fail.
#UnnecessaryWars #DoomedToFail #BlameRepublicans

The direct military conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel has been going on for five months, having started on February 28, 2026. When Trump called the #IranWar #OperationEpicFury, I called it #OperationEpicFailure. Clownish leadership from Pete Hegseth was one of many reasons why it was doomed to fail.
#UnnecessaryWars #DoomedToFail #BlameRepublicans

#IranWar update: "The Iranians certainly feel that they have leverage and they feel emboldened, and it’s leading them to refuse to make concessions":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/irans-demands-leave-trump-few-good-options-01020961 "Trump faces a series of deeply unattractive choices.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military copy: @renewedresistance #politics

#IranWar update: "The Iranians certainly feel that they have leverage and they feel emboldened, and it’s leading them to refuse to make concessions":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/irans-demands-leave-trump-few-good-options-01020961 "Trump faces a series of deeply unattractive choices.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday dropped a telling sign that she and Tucker Carlson could be planning to start a new political party in the wake of their very public breakups with Donald Trump and the GOP":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-tucker-carlson-anti-trump-third-party_n_6a6f2a94e4b0cfb99ef1bd38?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Greene wrote: “We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all.”
#WouldntItBeNice #politics #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure

"Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday dropped a telling sign that she and Tucker Carlson could be planning to start a new political party in the wake of their very public breakups with Donald Trump and the GOP":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-tucker-carlson-anti-trump-third-party_n_6a6f2a94e4b0cfb99ef1bd38?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Greene wrote: “We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he’s betrayed us all.”
#WouldntItBeNice #politics #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure

It looks like the #IranWar, #OperationEpicFailure, is becoming a forever war. A senior Republican Senator thinks this is acceptable:

"Sen. John N. Kennedy on Sunday indicated that he would prefer no peace agreement with Iran before approving a bad deal”:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/john-kennedy-iran-peace-talks-01021691
No peace agreement means a forever war, including more America deaths and higher oil prices.

It looks like the #IranWar, #OperationEpicFailure, is becoming a forever war. A senior Republican Senator thinks this is acceptable:

"Sen. John N. Kennedy on Sunday indicated that he would prefer no peace agreement with Iran before approving a bad deal”:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/02/john-kennedy-iran-peace-talks-01021691
No peace agreement means a forever war, including more America deaths and higher oil prices.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117025996912198301

I can predict the future: Six months from now, Pres. Donald Trump will again claim that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the #IranWar and he would again hold off on ordering new military strikes for now.
#TrumpLiedPeopleDied #IranWar #TheNeverendingWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117025996912198301

I can predict the future: Six months from now, Pres. Donald Trump will again claim that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the #IranWar and he would again hold off on ordering new military strikes for now.
#TrumpLiedPeopleDied #IranWar #TheNeverendingWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

If the #IranWar seems complex to you,
this #PoliticalCartoon by Nick Anderson
does a great job of summing up what is happening and why,
in the war sometimes known as #OperationEpicFailure:

If the #IranWar seems complex to you,
this #PoliticalCartoon by Nick Anderson
does a great job of summing up what is happening and why,
in the war sometimes known as #OperationEpicFailure:

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stupidly ordered this expensive waste of time and of money:
"Defense Department officials to conduct a comprehensive, 'line-by-line' review of every course taught at the military academies and senior service colleges, measuring each against a single standard: whether it directly advances 'tactical operational or strategic warfighting'."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stupidly ordered this expensive waste of time and of money:
"Defense Department officials to conduct a comprehensive, 'line-by-line' review of every course taught at the military academies and senior service colleges, measuring each against a single standard: whether it directly advances 'tactical operational or strategic warfighting'."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

"A new poll shows Trump voters losing patience with the #IranWar. The share of MAGA voters who think the war is worth the economic cost has fallen to 37 percent, down from 50 percent in May":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/poll-maga-souring-iran-war-costs-trump-01006976
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"A new poll shows Trump voters losing patience with the #IranWar. The share of MAGA voters who think the war is worth the economic cost has fallen to 37 percent, down from 50 percent in May":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/poll-maga-souring-iran-war-costs-trump-01006976
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Julie Borowski: "Sen. Lindsey Graham spent decades advocating for war against Iran. He never gave up on that dream. He finally saw it come true shortly before his death. Let this be a lesson to all of us: Just because you've spent decades pursuing a dream doesn't mean it's a good one. Turns out, some dreams are better left unrealized."
#Iran #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics

Julie Borowski: "Sen. Lindsey Graham spent decades advocating for war against Iran. He never gave up on that dream. He finally saw it come true shortly before his death. Let this be a lesson to all of us: Just because you've spent decades pursuing a dream doesn't mean it's a good one. Turns out, some dreams are better left unrealized."
#Iran #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics

" #FoxAndFriends co-host Brian Kilmeade admitted during a podcast appearance that Pres. Donald Trump was keenly aware of the unpopularity of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. Polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans do not favor military action in Iran":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kilmeade-donald-trump-iran-war_n_6a69383ae4b01948ae991a28?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

" #FoxAndFriends co-host Brian Kilmeade admitted during a podcast appearance that Pres. Donald Trump was keenly aware of the unpopularity of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. Polls have consistently shown that a majority of Americans do not favor military action in Iran":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kilmeade-donald-trump-iran-war_n_6a69383ae4b01948ae991a28?origin=home-latest-news-unit
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

"Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel accused the U.S. government of using Nazi practices and carrying out a genocidal policy against the island, saying Washington seeks to strangle the Cuban people to force a change of government and "take over the country":
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/07/27/latam-cuba-diaz-canel-accuses-US-nazi-practices/4791785177733/
Donald Trump is always looking for new wars, and he made many threats against Cuba.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #UnnecessaryWars #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure

"Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel accused the U.S. government of using Nazi practices and carrying out a genocidal policy against the island, saying Washington seeks to strangle the Cuban people to force a change of government and "take over the country":
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/07/27/latam-cuba-diaz-canel-accuses-US-nazi-practices/4791785177733/
Donald Trump is always looking for new wars, and he made many threats against Cuba.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #UnnecessaryWars #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure

Two disastrous results of Trump's #IranWar are the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the partial closure of passage through the Red Sea. Now, "Trump is escalating attacks in what looks like a doubling down on a failed strategy":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/opinion/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-war-nuclear-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military

Two disastrous results of Trump's #IranWar are the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the partial closure of passage through the Red Sea. Now, "Trump is escalating attacks in what looks like a doubling down on a failed strategy":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/opinion/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-war-nuclear-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #military

Peter Richards: "If the United States does not *have* enough munitions to fight a prolonged war in Iran, the US can either:
a.) pretend we have the weapons and escalate, fully depleting stocks and decreasing leverage, or
b.) base our strategy on real constraints and work to end this war of choice."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Peter Richards: "If the United States does not *have* enough munitions to fight a prolonged war in Iran, the US can either:
a.) pretend we have the weapons and escalate, fully depleting stocks and decreasing leverage, or
b.) base our strategy on real constraints and work to end this war of choice."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

How well is the United States doing in the #IranWar? The answer can be found in this #PoliticalCartoon by Clay Bennett.

A #PurpleHeart is a medal awarded to someone who was wounded in combat.
#OperationEpicFailure

How well is the United States doing in the #IranWar? The answer can be found in this #PoliticalCartoon by Clay Bennett.

A #PurpleHeart is a medal awarded to someone who was wounded in combat.
#OperationEpicFailure

"Trump Holds Off on Major Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns. Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/politics/trump-iran-military.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #AWarHopelesslyLost #politics

"Trump Holds Off on Major Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns. Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/politics/trump-iran-military.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #AWarHopelesslyLost #politics

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s told Senators that the "$1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is needed and the Trump Administration not receiving that entire amount is "the greatest threat our nation faces.”

Hegseth was lying because Pres. Donald Trump is the greatest threat our nation faces.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #FundingFutureWars #FraudWasteAndAbuse #AbuseOfPower

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s told Senators that the "$1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is needed and the Trump Administration not receiving that entire amount is "the greatest threat our nation faces.”

Hegseth was lying because Pres. Donald Trump is the greatest threat our nation faces.”
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #FundingFutureWars #FraudWasteAndAbuse #AbuseOfPower

Nicholas Kristof: "I’m increasingly fearful that the most dismal legacy of the catastrophic #IranWar may be that a decade or two from now both Saudi Arabia and Iran will have nuclear weapons. Two unstable, misogynist Middle Eastern autocracies with nuclear weapons — what could go wrong?":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/opinion/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-war-nuclear-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Nicholas Kristof: "I’m increasingly fearful that the most dismal legacy of the catastrophic #IranWar may be that a decade or two from now both Saudi Arabia and Iran will have nuclear weapons. Two unstable, misogynist Middle Eastern autocracies with nuclear weapons — what could go wrong?":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/opinion/trump-iran-saudi-arabia-war-nuclear-deal.html
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116982861227756803

"When you sign on to a war, you implicitly place your confidence in those who would carry it out." is a quote from "The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century" an interesting book by Robert Kaplan that I am reading this week.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #military #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116982861227756803

"When you sign on to a war, you implicitly place your confidence in those who would carry it out." is a quote from "The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century" an interesting book by Robert Kaplan that I am reading this week.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #military #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116977349755242528

Sen. Susan Collins will also have trouble defending the costly, illegal, and hopelessly lost #IranWar.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116977349755242528

Sen. Susan Collins will also have trouble defending the costly, illegal, and hopelessly lost #IranWar.
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

After Democrats in the Senate voted in a way that displeased him, Sen. John Thune said: "Do Democrats think that voting against our national defense and our nation’s military will gain them points with their base?”

No.
Democrats think that opposing the illegal and unacceptable #IranWar, as well as against a future war targeting Cuba, will gain them points with their base and with most of the American people:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/politics/democrats-defense-bill.html
#OperationEpicFailure #NationalSecurity #ethics #politics

After Democrats in the Senate voted in a way that displeased him, Sen. John Thune said: "Do Democrats think that voting against our national defense and our nation’s military will gain them points with their base?”

No.
Democrats think that opposing the illegal and unacceptable #IranWar, as well as against a future war targeting Cuba, will gain them points with their base and with most of the American people:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/us/politics/democrats-defense-bill.html
#OperationEpicFailure #NationalSecurity #ethics #politics

"House Democrats — aided by a handful of Republicans — succeeded for a second time in rebuking Trump over the #IranWar military campaign. But the Senate GOP rejected a similar effort just hours later, as Democrats couldn’t muster the needed support to advance another anti-war measure":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/house-iran-war-vote-trump-01009492
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

"House Democrats — aided by a handful of Republicans — succeeded for a second time in rebuking Trump over the #IranWar military campaign. But the Senate GOP rejected a similar effort just hours later, as Democrats couldn’t muster the needed support to advance another anti-war measure":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/house-iran-war-vote-trump-01009492
#OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

You, @Jazone, wrote: "You are suggesting Rand Paul can influence other Republicans to vote for Democrats? I respectfully disagree."

I am absolutely certain that Sen. Rand Paul can influence other Republicans to vote for Democrats, or at least to stay home and not vote in 2026. How many Republican votes his words will influence is debatable, but it is great to hear Republicans (and everyone else) criticize the hopeless, costly #IranWar, sometimes called #OperationEpicFailure. #politics

You, @Jazone, wrote: "You are suggesting Rand Paul can influence other Republicans to vote for Democrats? I respectfully disagree."

I am absolutely certain that Sen. Rand Paul can influence other Republicans to vote for Democrats, or at least to stay home and not vote in 2026. How many Republican votes his words will influence is debatable, but it is great to hear Republicans (and everyone else) criticize the hopeless, costly #IranWar, sometimes called #OperationEpicFailure. #politics

When Sen. Peters criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Kegsbreath pretended that this was a criticism of our soldiers. Sen. Peters corrected this distortion by saying to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:
"You are the failure, not the men and women on the front line":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2EA5092Do
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #dishonesty #politics

When Sen. Peters criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Kegsbreath pretended that this was a criticism of our soldiers. Sen. Peters corrected this distortion by saying to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:
"You are the failure, not the men and women on the front line":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2EA5092Do
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #dishonesty #politics

Robert Malley: "Pres. Trump, frustrated that Iran will not bend to his will, is once again threatening war crimes in pursuit of an unlawful, unjustified war whose purpose has become to remedy the very problems it created: to bring to heel an emboldened leadership the war itself taught not to give the US an inch, and to reopen a waterway that was not closed before he launched it. It’s the theater of the absurd, but one in which blood is shed."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

Robert Malley: "Pres. Trump, frustrated that Iran will not bend to his will, is once again threatening war crimes in pursuit of an unlawful, unjustified war whose purpose has become to remedy the very problems it created: to bring to heel an emboldened leadership the war itself taught not to give the US an inch, and to reopen a waterway that was not closed before he launched it. It’s the theater of the absurd, but one in which blood is shed."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116969208877168401

Donald Trump continues his hopeless #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure where American lives are thrown away. Russia continues to help Iran kill Americans, but Trump does not even criticize Russians for this, when he should be punishing them. #PutinsPuppet is more protective of Russia than he is of the lives of the soldiers in our military.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-strikes-cia-facilities-russia_n_6a618e5de4b05756b0dfcf25?09m
#politics copy: @renewedresistance

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116969208877168401

Donald Trump continues his hopeless #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure where American lives are thrown away. Russia continues to help Iran kill Americans, but Trump does not even criticize Russians for this, when he should be punishing them. #PutinsPuppet is more protective of Russia than he is of the lives of the soldiers in our military.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-strikes-cia-facilities-russia_n_6a618e5de4b05756b0dfcf25?09m
#politics copy: @renewedresistance