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My opinion: Trump is about to lose control of the narrative and risk severe backlash over economic conditions. So he’s going to pull a Bush Jr. and claim Mission Accomplished. Let’s hope Iran keeps on attacking and piles on the pressure. If this goes on for another week then Trump’s own base will abandon him. Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson have abandoned Trump and MTG’s comments were extremely ruthless. She’s pointed out that Americans are suffering from high costs of rent and insurance and that the war is a betrayal. Trump can’t risk a backlash from working class Americans and he may try to exit the war. His hope is that Iran goes into a civil war then he can pretend to wash the blood off his hands and go back to blaming “moolars” and “radical islam” and “terrible people”. Afterward, Trump (or a future president) can come back in the future and finish off Iran. That can’t be allowed to happen. MAXIMUM PRESSURE on Trump plz, both in Hormuz Strait and inside the U.S. Just one more week will ruin Trump and change the narrative against him. Missiles and drones away!
Trump comments suggest he may be ready to declare victory 09:18 BBC
Is Donald Trump ready to declare victory in the Iran war? His comments to CBS News seem to suggest this.
Of course, what victory means in a war whose goals were vague and frequently contradictory is not entirely clear.
The president has said that Iran’s military has been significantly degraded. “There’s nothing left,” he told CBS.
But if the goals were to definitively eliminate the nation’s nuclear programme or to shepherd in a more US-friendly government, the success has been much less certain.
Trump was starting to feel the heat, however. Over the weekend, oil prices had shot up to more than $120 a barrel. American stock market futures and foreign exchanges indexes were sinking. By yesterday evening, Trump had posted on social media that higher oil was a “small price to pay” for US and global security.
Following Trump’s assurances on Monday afternoon that an end is in sight, the US stock market rebounded and oil prices dropped precipitously.
That may reflect a firm belief that the president is, in fact, planning to wrap up his military operation and fears of a protracted regional conflict were overstated.
Or it could be wishful thinking. History has proven that starting war may be easy, but ending one – particularly in the Middle East – is much more challenging.
Does Trump even has any real power left to “declare victory” and walk away? Iran lost the equivalent of a pope and that’s quite serious for those guys, plus all that national pride being wounded and all that. Sure, he can if he throws Israel under the bus by blaming everything on it and walks away
Trump can’t declare victory until he establishes 1) military dominance over Iran; or 2) a civil war in Iran (to be blamed on moolars and terrible people and islamists) he will destroy Iran and then pretend it was the other guy’s fault.
The best outcome is that Americans start rioting like they did on 6th of January 2021. Keep in mind that was just angry boomers who love muscle cars and bacon jokes on Facebook. The only proper unrest against Trump will come from enraged millennials and gen z. A combination of the left and the right. Because everyone is sceptical about Trump now, so it’s just a matter of time until you see the protests and gas riots emerge. Forget about principles or ideology, just get angry at the right moment lol. I really hope it happens but it depends on Iran’s ability to cut off oil supplies and damage market confidence. The best thing anyone can do is spread anti-trump propaganda online.
Here’s how you do it.
profitengagement! You’ll be amazed at how much Trump’s own supporters laugh at his stupidity.Example:
https://gab.com/jeff_mitchell/posts/116201309904366189
Result: people on the American right start to mock Trump and call him a jackass, whilst sharing ai videos of Netanyahu bum-jacking Trump on the deck of an aircraft carrier. People will then send the memes on Signal or WhatsApp and it just snowballs from there. Eventually I like to think that 100,000 MAGA people and communists arrive at the White House fence and stomp on MAGA caps. That’d be almost as good as MLK’s plan to plonk a thousand homeless men in D.C. certainly one for the history books. People in America need to get ready to make a convoy to travel to D.C. and have a mass protest against Epic Fury. There is no point sitting this one out, it can actively be stopped by sabotaging public opinion with memes and protests to ruin Trump’s image and make him lose legitimacy.
I’m sure the Trump admin do want to end the war, but my question then is: how confident are we that Iran will let them?
Iran has made it very clear that they will not negotiate until the US-Israel threat has been neutralized, knowing that, how likely is it that Iran will accept so much as a ceasefire before they finished off every last US bases in the region? Especially after so many of the previous “ends of hostilities” were ploys to buy time so that the enemy could regroup and strike again later? I think that, unless the US is willing to abandon all their bases and puppets in the region, they are in for the long while whether they want to or not.
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