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  • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    1 day ago

    🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 POLITICO:

    "President Donald Trump will use a primetime address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly dismal poll numbers.

    The president has telegraphed that message in interviews, social media posts and public comments over the past 24 hours, laying the groundwork for a speech that is expected to claim that all military objectives have been met, according to six people familiar with the planning and granted anonymity to speak candidly. He also intends to harshly scapegoat NATO allies for the biggest unresolved matter of the war, Iran’s ongoing restrictions of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz."

    🔴 @DDGeopolitics

    https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180223

    Politico Article: ‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address

    My breif opinion

    This is a misdirection. The US thinks it can still try and fool the Iranian government a few days before it escalates further, likely on Saturday or Friday night.

    Until American bodies get churned into the meat grinder I don’t see any real chance of the US stopping. This is just more charades to prop up the oil market in my opinion.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
      16·
      1 day ago

      This is a misdirection.

      Hes trying to do another stock market play. This article is the set up and the speech will be the turn.

      • Malkhodr @lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        1 day ago

        Essentially. And western media will just follow along like good little doggies. Not a smidgen of critical analysis or journalistic exploration.