And why aren't the Washington Capitals putting up more of a fight against the Globe Trotters...
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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weeks-long campaign
"Mission Accomplished!" in just a few weeks, bro! And, you know, about 10-20 years of wasting time and resources, gradually building hatred towards themselves via a non-stop guerilla war and war crimes, until the US once again quietly chickens out and goes home.
But I guess you've got to keep the industrial war machine happy, otherwise all the shareholders, and the economy in general, will be really upset.
The large media corps in the US are also complicit
Owned. It’s the owners that are complicit.
Epstein class has the wheel.
There will be no pushback from war, there's never been a war Democrats weren't frothing at the mouth to get into
besides they are getting lobbied by defense contractors.
War means more defense contracts, more defense contracts means more defense contracts in their districts. Which means more jobs, and that looks good at re-election time.
If the world were a game of Civ 6, the US would be full bore in to the domination victory condition. We never left the wartime economy and we don't know how to.
We fucked.
"Can't talk now, AIPAC just cut me a check and I need to deposit it." - Chuck
Ha, where's the real pushback on anything the obese child rapist has done?
Well, those in power to check the executive branch want more distractions from the Trump Epstein file. As more of them are released, more of the public know how one sided the two party system really is. Trump gets the added excuse to restrict elections since “we’re at war”
trumps 1st attempt at iran via israel as a proxy only delayed the distraction, then venezuela, then minnesota. hes throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
bro. im only joking bro. only joking. whoops we have troops there well it would be irresponsible to not support them.
irresponsible to not support them.
I mean... the us track record for supporting their troops is pretty fucking bad. I think it would be better said "irresponsible to not support the MIC"
yeah but the track record for politicians saying they will support the troops is through the roof.
You are not incorrect
US == two imperialist parties + imperialist media + imperialist oligarchs
Why would the US do imperialism???
Also good question: why are all countries on the US not-nice list so concerned with attaining nukes and not being surrounded by US allies?
It must surely be because they are evil autocracies that hate democracy and human rights (unlike the US which loves both of those things, and would never ever infringe on human rights on an industrial scale, if a (democratically elected or not) government nationalized key resources)
(Sorry I‘m quite frustrated at the prospect of another useless war, and having to eat all the bullshit propaganda that is going to be produced in support of it, while at the same time seeing daily images of indescribable human misery.)
Remind me whos invading Ukraine, tankie.
Russia.
"As Trump marches towards war" - If they would only put him in the front row.
"some of you are willing to die,but im willing to make that sacrifice"
Never been a war that hasn't been supported by all sides of the US Gov. Too much of the economy is based around war for that. That's why they have to keep invading places.
War over the weekend, a draft on Monday.
a draft on Monday.
They can fuck right off with that shit. I'll die before I let them send me off to kill other people. The millisecond they hand me a gun I'll shoot the highest ranking person near me and then shoot myself.
Bad plan. Just keep shooting uniforms, they'll shoot you, for you.
Dems have decided to just allow Trump to destroy himself.
Too bad he takes the country with him.
most of the dems are DINOs, thats why they vote with the gop on many things. it always have been center right on most things and as a whole for the country. once in a while they throw the voters a bone just to wet thier appetite keeping them complacent and not to have a general uprising at the polls, add in a little propaganda from gop/russia helps.
Schumer doesn't want to be called a Palestinian again.
neither does jefferies, fetterman, gillibrand,,,etc.
Obviously this sucks. Watching all these nation states leveraging the Internet to sow chaos in the US I've often wondered - do these motherfuckers ever think about this shit going sideways? But no, it's always "chaos = good for us"
Well, this is looking pretty sideways. As always the vast majority of the real, actual people on both sides don't want this, don't want war - don't want this timeline at all.
You know sadly like you already see in response here many on the left have already bought the MSM hasbara hook, line & sinker. Let's not forget how many acquisitions we saw of major media networks recently by major IDF donor Larry Ellison & other Zionists. Netanyahu was bragging about being able to control the information war as a result. The sad truth is people are just so easy to manipulate & they have such a big desire to follow whatever they perceive as the mainstream narrative. Like if the news is pushing some dumb Hollywood sequel they in unison all start talking about it & their entire identity revolves around fads.
Just as they voted for & was complicit in genocide, and then complain non-stop about ICE killing a very small fraction of people compared to the IDF, they will do the same with war. When it is time for elections they'll virtue signal & pretend they were against the disaster they actively enabled or that they're the perpetual victim for potentially ever having to deal with any repercussions of their actions.
I always get a kick out of "what are the dems doing to fight this?" type queries. They need to wait for the elections. It is still a democracy (so far) and they cannot legally do anything because in democracy sometimes you don't get the best candidate, so you abide. Any other action is revolution (which is a proud american tradition).
What bullshit is this? Congress authorizes war. They can deny this action at any time.
Republicans hold a majority in both houses, so you are wrong and the poster you responded to is right.
Yet people here upvote you who are wrong, and downvote the poster who was actually right. 🤡
The Dems do NOT have the power to stop Trump.
That is only if this is called a war. It can be called a million other things that Republicans say are not the same thing as war. They've done it before, and the Dems know they will do it again. This will be a series of targeted strikes that are not retaliated against by Iran in any way that actually hurts Congress-people. Vietnam War wasn't even actually a war. Congress approved troop deployments one time, but that's about it.
Additionally, Republicans have the majority in both houses. The only reason the shutdowns have occurred is because they needed more than a simple majority to get the budget passed. Declaration of War does not have any documented rules for whether it is simple majority or 2/3 vote or whatever. In the past, a simple majority was assumed since the votes were never close enough for it to matter.
I thought they were trying to simplify things. If the "Department of War" is involved then it's war.
Nobody likes the Iranian gov. Not Americans, regardless of the party, not Iranians, not any other country with an exception of maybe Russia. Big maybe.
They dug their own grave by being so annoying absolutely nobody will take their side.
Lol, they dug their grave by being something Israel can't turn into another Gaza. Netanyahu has been pushing for it for years but he wants to put American lives in danger. But sure.. say whatever Bush 2.0 neocon talking points help you sleep at night as to why the US needs this war with Iran on behalf of Israel. I'm sure the MSM liberal media has you convinced it's for all the right reasons.
Precisely, there is video of Netanyahu from 25 years ago addressing US Congress claiming Iranian nukes are just around the corner. It has always been a lie. Israel has been trying to drag us into this war on their behalf forever. Iran has a real military, unlike the Palestinians. Israel would get walloped by them without US support, and they don’t need nukes to do it.
This is why their terms are just as ludicrous for this conflict as they have always been for Palestinians. Full ballistic missile disarmament is a joke, no nation in their right mind would consider this.