#unnecessarywar — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/195348/ ‘Morning Joe’ Torches Mike Johnson’s Mixed Messaging to Americans: ‘They’ve Got No Message’ #JoeScarborough #MikeJohnson #MorningJoe #PresidentTrump #Republicans #SpeakerOfTheHouse #UnnecessaryWar

Steve Rattner (MSNOW): "The cost of the #IranWar has been massive. Direct military costs will likely approach $100 billion. But the total could be closer to $1 trillion when long-term costs from inflation impacts, debt interest payments, and veterans’ benefits are included."
#OperationEpicFailure #UnnecessaryWar #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Arnaud Beltrand: "A reminder that Qatar pulled all the stops to buy Trump, they even gifted him a $400 million plane. Trump's response was to literally blow up their economy."
#IranWar #UnnecessaryWar copy: @renewedresistance #ethics

"The US Department of Defense has asked the White House to approve a request exceeding $200 billion that would be sent to Congress to finance the ongoing war in Iran":
https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/pentagon-seeks-over-usd-200-billion-to-fund-iran-us-war-congress-likely-to-oppose-ws-l-19871312.htm
#ABillionHereABillionThereAndPrettySoonYouAreTalkingAboutRealMoney
#FraudWasteAndAbuse #UnnecessaryWar copy: @renewedresistance

"Your food is going to get more expensive thanks to the war on Iran. Rising costs for fuel and fertilizer will translate to higher grocery prices if the Strait of Hormuz stays blocked":
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-higher-grocery-bills-horizon-iran-war-continues/
#IranWar #UnnecessaryWar #affordability copy: @renewedresistance

"Though Pres. Donald Trump’s vice grip on right-wing culture helped push him to the presidency not once but twice, his war in Iran may have pushed away some of the most powerful voices in the so-called MAGA media, including podcaster Joe Rogan":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/people-feel-betrayed-joe-rogan-171500725.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADDXsA0K7LEO0a_RuBv0ePD2VmmdQRhPa5o5PEnDQKGRhXjRhbaHa1IbWJALcM8vzPfvvByLDoCVKqU33yVkzmG8a_-vj_nYunIUn1ynZqoEWRLMasPEHoN-5mtepUSPHp8qyj9XF9XKpl-Og5HS0cFOypgv8yRdBQLz4EwekbIH
#IranWar #UnnecessaryWar #military

Nicholas Kristof wrote about the #IranWar: "Pres. Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, the architects of this war, both seem afflicted by the arrogance of power":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/opinion/iran-war-trump.html
"A president’s first task is to make us safer. Instead, it seems to me that Trump has catapulted us into an unnecessary conflict, consuming American and Iranian lives alike, costing billions of dollars and damaging the economy — all while propelling us into peril."
#politics #UnnecessaryWar

Nancy Youssef: "The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me."
#IranWar #WastedMoney #UnnecessaryWar #UnnecessaryDeaths

Ben Rhodes: "Among all the risks of the new Iran War is one certainty: the U.S. taxpayers are spending tens of billions of dollars on something they overwhelmingly oppose."
copy: @renewedresistance #military #UnnecessaryWar

About Trump's military attack on Iran, Ben Rhodes wrote:
"There is no legal basis for this war.
There is no imminent threat that demands this war.
There is no stated objective for this war."
#TrumpVsIran #UnnecessaryWar

"In Trump’s Case for War, a Series of False or Unproven Claims. Key elements of the Trump administration’s arguments this week for another military campaign against Iran do not hold up":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/politics/trump-iran-claims-nuclear-weapons.html
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #UnnecessaryWar copy: @renewedresistance

Peter Baker: "Trump said on July 19: 'All three nuclear sites in #Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service.'

Witkoff said on February 22: 'They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material'."
#SomeoneIsLying #military #UnnecessaryWar #FraudWasteAndAbuse #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Ben Rhodes, writing about Trump moving towards war against Iran said, quoting Trump's obliterated claim: "I am old enough to remember when Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated' a few months ago."
#military #TrumpLiedPeopleDied #UnnecessaryWar #DistractionFrom #EpsteinFiles #politics #IranWar