#quagmire — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quagmire, aggregated by home.social.
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Davis Winkie: "Another 26 wounded US troops were just reported via the Pentagon's Defense Casualty Analysis System, raising the total number of US military casualties since the war's start to 838 — 18 killed and 820 wounded."
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is also risking the health of Americans by diverting money from medical research to the hopelessly lost #IranWar: the Defense Department signed an interagency agreement that could give it access to billions of dollars in funding intended to go toward studies on influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and Ebola":
https://newrepublic.com/post/215117/pentagon-trying-take-nih-funds-democrats-say
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Someone who knows Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth well said this to #VanityFair about him:
“He has spent his entire tenure on self-promotion and culture-war theatrics. The damage he has inflicted on our military will take years to repair, and the sooner he goes, the better it will be for the country and for President Trump’s legacy.”
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Caolan Robertson: "Trump's special delegation (Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff) is bursting with excitement to meet the man who has been helping Iran bomb US bases all year."
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"And if journalists get in the way
By exposing the facts from the fray?
The dismissals accrue;
Pete will fire them too—
To keep truth of his failings at bay."
by @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lied or spoke ignorantly when he said:
"The way the president is playing Iran, there haven’t been American deaths."
Trump later corrected him with these words:
“Sec. Lutnick had Venezuela on his mind when he said nobody was killed.
18 people (Americans) were killed in Iran!”
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You, @jmcrookston, asked: "How many does he have to fire to leave only the white supremacists behind? 2/3 maybe?"
I would not boost what you wrote because you did not mention who "he" is.
I guess you mean Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a racist and sexist who specializes in fighting culture wars instead of managing the #IranWar which he is managing to lose. #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #WorstCabinetEver -
India and Pakistan are democracies, @BackFromTheDud, and in a limited way* Iran is a democracy. Especially during a war, it is important to have allies, whether or not they are democracies. With stupid mistakes such as his #TradeWar with Canada, Trump is pushing away allies of the United States. At this Asian conference of ten nations, Iran is getting additional support despite the war that Trump foolishly continues.
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire
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Liz Mair: "This is my take on the Iran War. I would love to stay engaged and eliminate the regime in Iran, but what Liz would love to do does not mean what is operationally feasible given the resources we have. It’s time to pack it in and come home."
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Rep. Byron Donalds claimed that "NATO countries should have helped us open up the Strait of Hormuz."
Both Bill Maher and Molly Jong-Fast failed to refute that dumb comment. After Trump began his hopeless war without consulting NATO countries, those countries were not about to rescue him from the military mess he got into.
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"Military Brass Warns Hegseth About Prolonging Iran War Operations. Top U.S. military officials have warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against continuing large-scale operations in Pres. Donald Trump’s unpopular war of choice in Iran, privately expressing it could be taking away from their forces’ abilities to respond to threats at home":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/live-updates_n_6a8c103ae4b0a833ba431916/liveblog_6a942b84e4b0e9dbd39bc17d
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Stealing dictator #NicolasMaduro from #Venezuela understandably did not encounter much #resistance. I repeat, he was a dictator.
Stealing their natural resources won’t be as bloodless. And many of the casualties in another #WarForOil launched by the #UnitedStates will be #American. The #quagmire in Venezuela will be more like #Iraq than #Iran.
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Tom Bevan "When Trump launched his #IranWar six months ago, he said it would be a 'little diversion' that would last 4-6 weeks. Yesterday, he said the war will last 'as long as necessary.' Meanwhile, approval of his decision is at a record-low of 34.3% and trending downward."
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Mary Peltola: "Sen. Dan Sullivan voted for the #IranWar 12 times. Alaskans are suffering because Dan Sullivan continues to rubber stamp an unpopular foreign war that’s causing energy prices to skyrocket. We need change."
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While the #IranWar is dragging on, "Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is preparing to leave the Trump administration following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to a new report":
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/new-shock-report-says-army-secretary-to-step-down-amid-tension-with-pete-hegseth/
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"The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed for nine months in the Middle East, headed home to California on Thursday, weeks after reports first emerged of tough conditions for sailors on board":
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/20/us/trump-news
These sailors are coming home only because some of them complained. If they would have suffered in silence, they would still be on that Hellship near Iran for many more months.
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Donald Trump wrote: "No one has given the Islamic Republic of Iran a greater opportunity to make a Deal than me."
Ben Rhodes replied: "Obama made a deal. Trump lost a war."
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Donald Trump recently said: "I'm very good at flagpoles."
Donald Trump is very bad at deciding when to start a war and when to end a war.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117122124197397069
Jamelle Bouie: "Trump’s failed war with Iran is a military failure and disastrous strategic mistake. There is no apparent plan to end the conflict, only the futile efforts of a president desperate to shed the stench of defeat. That is what the false negotiations and endless missile strikes are all about: a way to try to end the war without having lost it":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/trumps-revenge.html
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #incompetence #mismanagement #quagmire #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
Who else but Quagmire ... LOL
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"Trump’s rosy Hormuz claims collide with tanker data. The Trump administration has said the Strait of Hormuz is open for business and oil is flowing. Market trackers suggest a less rosy picture":
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/17/the-trump-administration-says-oil-is-surging-through-hormuz-the-data-doesnt-add-up-01039335
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"As a crumbling truce with Iran officially collapsed on Monday, Pres. Trump signaled his frustration at his inability to resolve a war that he started but cannot seem to end. In an interview with Fox News, the president lashed out at an American ally, Oman, that has been trying to mediate negotiations with Iran":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/trump-iran-truce-oman.html
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Cenk Uygur: "If tomorrow we* weren't allies with Israel, all of our wars in the Middle East would end immediately. Remind me again how being allies with the bullies of the region who oppress and humiliate their neighbors is helpful to American interests."
It is not helpful.
* The United States.
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Nostre_damus wrote: "What is the Pentagon doing with One Trillion dollars a year?
It is not winning wars, it is not producing missiles, and it is not maintaining Navy ships.
Where is the money going?"
#mismanagement #NationalSecurity #military #IranWar
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Bill Maher said this about America's lack of missiles:
"The #IranWar has a new slogan: 'War, while supplies last'."
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The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317234
#HackerNews #IranWar #Quagmire #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEastConflict #LessonsFromIraq #Geopolitics
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"Retired Maj. General Randy Manner on Friday accused Pres. Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of spewing lies about the reportedly deplorable conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and its extended deployment in the Middle East":
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/retired-major-general-randy-manner-slams-trump-hegseth-spewing-lies-uss-abraham-lincoln_n_6a806843e4b0b3bc96f6bd89?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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"Iran called on the United States to accept defeat,
while Pres. Donald Trump blasted Tehran as 'very evil'.""Very evil" is arguably the very best description of Donald Trump. The best possible outcome of the #IranWar, after the Trump Administration failed so badly at so many things, is for Trump to accept defeat within one week of today. The #IranWar will not be getting any better for him.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117099497748707181
Dan Lamothe: "The longer the United States blockade goes on, the more strain you are placing on the United States Navy."
This strain leads to sailors committing suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Every time that Donald Trump believes Israeli intelligence, he looks like a fool.
Israeli intelligence said the #IranWar would be won in a few days. That was about half a year ago.
Israeli intelligence said there was an Iranian threat to Air Force One. It was another lie that made Trump look like a cowardly idiot.
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The forewarned - but ignored until #September11th - attack on the World Trade Center, along with the costly ($3+ trillion) and deadly (3,000+ #American military deaths) #quagmire in #Iraq , as well as the 2008 Financial Crisis were ‘revenge of the C students.’ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/05/17/george-w-bush-c-students-president-graduation/27488795/
What does that make catastrophically slow response to the #COVID #pandemic , followed by the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt , #TradeWars and the #FelonsCrusade in #Iran ?