#quagmire — Public Fediverse posts

"Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao reportedly admitted that the Iranian military “blew the hell” out of the United States naval base in Bahrain—a shocking claim that contradicts the Trump administration’s narrative of total destruction of Iran’s attack capabilities":
https://newrepublic.com/post/215288/navy-secretary-admits-iran-blew-hell-us-base?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire #WasteOfLives #WasteOfMoney #politics #military

Mary Peltola (candidate for the Senate): "$26.82 a gallon for gas. That’s what some Alaskans are facing right now, and it’s only getting worse. We need a senator solving the problem, not one still voting for a war that keeps driving prices up."
#AKsen #VoteBlue #politics #affordability #IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #quagmire

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-ideas-on-iran-01033217

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317234

#HackerNews #IranWar #Quagmire #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEastConflict #LessonsFromIraq #Geopolitics

RE: https://flipboard.com/@kpbspublicmedia/politics-j4h8c679z/-/a-OG3VmvNXTaSHesMWV37I1Q%3Aa%3A3137301314-%2F0

So the ‘exit ramp’ from the costly #MiddleEast #quagmire for #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump is that ‘the #GulfStates begged him to end the #war in #Iran.’ 🤔

He didn’t ‘lose’ a ‘war’, you see, because it was a #FelonsCrusade and it was going according to the (nonexistent) plan. 😂

#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol.
#Impeach and remove the #BiggestLoser in #UnitedStates #history after the #midterms.

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@thetnholler.bsky.social The #FelonsCrusade in #Iran is going according to the nonexistent plan! https://newrepublic.com/post/207228/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-iran

Just like #Iraq it’s #quagmire and ‘#ForeverWar.’