Zeteo offers a helpful digest of recent discussions, commentary, and analysis (with links) about the war of Israel and the US, of Netanyahu and Trump, against Iran.

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Zeteo's Coverage of the War on Iran – Context You Won't Find Elsewhere

A digest of all our recent discussions, commentary, and analysis on the US and Israel's war on Iran.

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"Trump has no strategy. Not in Iran, and not anywhere else. ...

His primary motive is to make sure that, in any given encounter, he is 'winning.' This is the philosophy that determines his policy on Russia, on tariffs, on Harvard, or on deportations: not what’s good for America, but what’s good for Trump."

~ Anne Applebaum

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Trump has no strategy

^{Anne Applebaum (Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum)}

"The Iranians have already declared that they will close the Straits of Hormuz, through which a quarter of the world’s oil flows. Gas prices will skyrocket, just to start. The risk of jihadist terrorism has been massively increased, while Trump has dismantled many of the government’s protections against sabotage, cyberattacks and terrorism, or put people like this 22-year-old lawn mower [Thomas Fugate] in charge."

~ Jim Stewartson

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“Dumb Presidents”

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^{Jim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)}

"The risks of poorly considered and unilateral decisions by the White House are devastating, risking thousands—if not millions—of deaths. The Founders gave us tools to prevent that sort of outcome."

~ Ben Raderstorf

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theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ira…

Trump's Iran Strike Shows the Urgent Need for Congress to Claw Back its War Powers

The president's unprovoked, unilateral attack builds on the terrible and unconstitutional precedent set by his predecessors

^{Ben Raderstorf (The UnPopulist)}

"The strikes mark the U.S.’s official direct entry into the war, though the U.S. has provided Israel with support in its bombings on Iran and has also helped provide defense for Israel. The attacks come after politicians and war mongers in the U.S. have called for war with Iran for decades."

~ Sharon Zhang

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truthout.org/articles/trump-bo…

Trump Bombs Iran, Then Demands Iran Agree to End the War

After the unprovoked attack, Trump demanded that Iran effectively surrender while continuing to threaten the country.

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

"Trump gave a shout-out to God for the bombings: 'I just want to thank everyone—in particular, God. We love you God.'

… Rep. Randy Fine (R-Tel Aviv): 'I believe God saved Donald Trump’s life so that he could save the world.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 156

… After the US bombed nuclear sites in Iran, Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine gave a summary of the attack at a press conference this morning where he announced that over 125 US aircraft were involved, the lead B2 dropped two GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Pene…

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

"Trump, the isolationist president who vowed to avoid foreign wars, has walked slap bang into a trap prepared by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu – a trap his smarter predecessors avoided. Netanyahu has constantly exaggerated the immediacy of the Iranian nuclear threat. His alarmist speeches on this subject go back 30 years."

~ Simon Tisdall

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences

Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likely, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

^{Simon Tisdall (The Guardian)}

"Once again, the US has gone to war in the Middle East on the back of a lie, on disputed, probably faulty intelligence purposefully distorted for political reasons. Once again, as in Iraq in 2003, the overall objectives of the war are unclear, uncertain and open to interpretation by friend and foe alike. Once again, there appears to be no 'exit strategy', no guardrails against escalation and no plan for what happens next."

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"Netanyahu has practically made a career out of warning that Iran is years (or months) away from developing nukes. Over the past 30 years, he regularly issued some variation on this threat – and often wildly overestimated how close Iran was to having a bomb. …

And the people of the Middle East will pay the highest price for yet another reckless war built on a lie."

~ Mohamad Bazzi

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Like George W Bush, Trump has started a reckless war based on a lie

The Iraq war was built on a lie. Now history is repeating itself

^{Mohamad Bazzi (The Guardian)}