this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
156 points (100.0% liked)

politics

28692 readers
2443 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Fears that decision to strike could be open-ended as Trump comes under pressure to spell out his vision for the country

Donald Trump is under pressure to spell out his vision for Iran amid the ongoing attacks on the country and reports of the first American casualties since the launch of unprovoked US and Israeli military strikes.

Trump’s critics are demanding that the White House provide greater clarity about what comes next. Opponents and analysts say the lack of a clear plan outlined so far has created a danger of the US being sucked into a long-lasting conflict of the sort that Trump repeatedly vowed to avoid.

“If the administration has a game plan, they have yet to reveal it, frankly,” said Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow and Iran specialist at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

top 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh no another forever war in the Middle East! Who could of seen that happening?

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Where does this go? Line goes up for the MIC.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It goes to a false flag attack on NY, triggering a "National Emergency" around the Fall of 2026. Would this government bomb its own people?

What would this government not do to stay in power?

[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

According to Shattered Union, DC is the city that gets bombed, killing Trump and most of Congress.

Amusingly the Russians in Shattered Union are the ones who masterminded the bombing.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Don’t get our hopes up

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Do you think Putin shared notes?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

4 trillion dollar Epstein cover up

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

It's unfortunately hard to find out the sum total of spending spurred by executive orders. Which you think if we had a real free press would be something someone was tracking.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

it goes into the pockets of military industrial complex shareholders and oil extraction companies

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

It goes right into the living rooms of all the morons we still have left from 2004 who insisted "you can't change presidents during a war!"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

That’s the plan, yeah?

Gotta beef up the MIC somehow.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lack of clear plan? It's clear..US attack. Iran Defends. US is the one without much more of a plan than to distract from the EpstinenFiles.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

In this case, its more than just a distraction from the Epstein files. Trump was captivated with the idea that Ukraine had to suspend elections while engaged in war. He is going to try and pull that same shit here, just watch.

[–] RegularWater@kbin.earth 7 points 17 hours ago

Same thing with Israel, they are declaring another war so they don't have to leave if/when they lose this year's elections. (If that happen at all)

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

One third of Americans don't care if elections are suspended and want to see it all burn.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Calling them accelerationists is giving them too much credit.

They don't want to see it burn, they just want to feel like their "team" won. Whether it burns and hurts them doesn't matter as long as they think it hurts the "woke libs" more.

People who lack empathy simply can't understand that lifting others up will pay back in kind and lift themselves up, too. It's all a zero sum game to these pricks.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

Presumably this is the oligarchs' backup plan to their bubble economy created around AI slop.