In reality, the road Trump had to travel was shorter than it appeared. His opposition to war had only been partial. He was against large-scale infantry wars [*is he though?*], but has shown himself ready to use the US military’s overwhelming superiority in air power to punish enemies. He risked all-out war with Iran in his first term by assassinating its most powerful general, Qassem Suleimani, in January 2020, and bombed Iran’s nuclear sites last June in Operation Midnight Hammer.
If Trump cares little for strategy, this does not make strategy irrelevant. The risks of the non-strategic use of force extend well beyond Iran’s borders. A destabilised Iran risks a new, massive humanitarian crisis on Europe’s doorstep, potentially triggering refugee flows that would further embolden the far-right movements currently fracturing western democracies. Escalation could draw in regional actors, threaten shipping in the Gulf and widen into a broader confrontation.
With none of Trump’s public rationales making any sense, the most compelling reason to start a war seems to be to distract from the growing Epstein files scandal.
Mr Young said he cold-called President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka 19 years ago to propose the project, but that “hurdles” like the Global Financial Crisis “swung like a wrecking ball through property-related businesses”.
JPMorgan Chase is in talks to provide banking services to the “Board of Peace”, the US-led institution tasked with rebuilding Gaza that Donald Trump is seeking to position as a rival to the UN, according to people familiar with the discussions.
What many see as a lack of clarity stands in stark contrast to the extensive public case made by then-President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he said was meant to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Though that mission ended up being based on bad intelligence and false claims, Bush’s stated war aims were clear at the outset.
In an announcement late Friday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order rescinding two land withdrawals north of the Yukon River in Alaska, in an area long prized by the oil and gas industry. The now-rescinded public land orders date to the 1970s.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating the former prince’s dealings with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Last month, Trump cheered a military assault by U.S. forces that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and brought them to the U.S. to face charges related to cocaine trafficking. Maduro, Trump said, led a “vicious cartel” that “flooded our nation with lethal poison responsible for the deaths of countless Americans.”
Workers are furious at hedge fund billionaire John Paulson — who has publicly praised Trump’s tariffs as necessary to protect domestic manufacturing jobs — after he told union officials he intended to offshore most of the work at Conn Selmer by June, reported The Guardian.
Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked. Americans, however, have a powerful weapon that has been hiding in plain sight.
I hope this worthless piece of shit dies soon but I hope it is a slow painful, pathetic death not a merciful quick passing from the shithole this fascist will leave behind in his wake.
Rock the Country, a music festival critics have labelled a “MAGA fest”, has been cancelled in Anderson, South Carolina, following a series of artist withdrawals.
This file is a scan of a web printout of (once) publicly available data from the NY State Sex Offenders Database. Yet all the licence plates of all his vehicles and his Paris address are redacted, over 5 years after his death.
“Lucey is allegedly not the first woman who Trump has called ‘Piggy.’ Former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who won the title at age 19 while Trump was a co-owner of the organization, previously claimed that Trump threatened to take away her win after she gained weight.”
Facing a widespread backlash from the public, Democrats and even his own Republican party, Trump was forced into a partial retreat, distancing himself from efforts by aides such as Stephen Miller and Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, to demonise Pretti, and shuffling leadership of immigration operations in Minneapolis.
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