INDIA SUMMONS US DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION IN DELHI OVER STRIKE ON TANKER OFF OMAN COAST WHERE THREE INDIANS ARE MISSING - SOURCES
so like, what's the moral argument against Iran striking the continental US at this point?
the US started the war, has struck the Iranian mainland repeatedly, killing thousands of civilians, and has ignored repeated warnings that continued attacks will expand the theatre of war
it doesn’t really keep me up at night, but hosting the world cup, leaving your DNI office vacant and having a incompetent drunk running the FBI all while escalating a war against an adversary known for using asymmetric tactics sure does line up a lot of dominos
famous last words
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...w/90463538007/Vice President JD Vance says he has faith that President Donald Trump will keep the Iran war from becoming a "quagmire" the United States is ensnared in for years to come with no mission, objective or clearly stated purpose.
"I feel extremely confident that we are not going to be talking about America's involvement in Iran even a year down the road, but certainly not years down the road," Vance told USA TODAY in an exclusive telephone interview Monday, June 8.
https://jo.usembassy.gov/security-al...-11-june-2026/June 11, 2026
Location: Jordan, countrywide
Event: Reports indicate missiles, drones, or rockets are in Jordanian airspace. Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately. Remain indoors and pay attention to local announcements and alerts.
The U.S. Embassy in Jordan will continue to review the situation and provide additional information as needed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyp9v0e93oUS and Iran exchange strikes across Middle East for second day in a row
The US and Iran have exchanged strikes across the Middle East for a second consecutive day, further straining an already shaky ceasefire agreed between the two countries in April.
US Central Command (Centcom) said it had completed a wave of "self-defense strikes" targeting military, surveillance and radar sites in southern Iran.
The attack came hours after President Donald Trump vowed US forces would hit Iran "hard", and that Tehran had taken "too long to make a deal" to permanently end the war.
In response, Iran launched a round of strikes targeting US military assets in countries across the region.
US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait came under Iranian fire for a second day in a row, while Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it fired ballistic missiles at a US command centre in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
In the latest flare-up, the IRGC also said it had hit two oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state media reported, although there was no immediate confirmation of the strike.
That came after Iranian state media reported that the Strait of Hormuz was "completely closed to all type of vessel". Centcom, however, said "commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz".
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How long before ground invasion becomes part of the this "ceasefire"?
maybe not long
Trump does not btw give a about oppressed Iranians
Chain refoulement is morally depraved and technically illegal in the USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...core-ios-shareThe Trump administration is preparing to deport nearly two dozen people to the Central African Republic on Thursday, including at least two Iranian women who had sought refuge in the United States, according to lawyers and a government official.
The flight, which is also expected to include migrants from Afghanistan and Syria, would mark the first such deportation to the Central African Republic, a deeply impoverished country that has been plagued by conflict. The country is so dangerous that the U.S. State Department states on its website, “do not travel for any reason.”
At least some of the migrants have received court orders in the United States prohibiting their deportation to their home countries because of the threat of persecution or torture, their lawyers said.
Robert Barnes on Judge Napolitano's pod
Barnes defended Alex Jones against Sandy Hook parents and was also Kyle Rittenhouse's defense lawyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdoNyGGEztINapolitano: Do we know how Trump came to decide to invade Iran?
Barnes: Yeah, from the people that I’ve talked to, the president’s decision-making has changed and this was in the buildup prior to the going into Iran, but from people that were around the president on a regular basis communicated that, you know, the president that used to be art of the deal, always plan for the worst, expect for the best, the the positive thinking tethered by a form of sort of hardcore realism, the the president who loved getting like 55 different second opinions on any topic or subject, the you know, that president, the president who was uber rational and uh and hardcore in making practical and tactical decisions was mostly gone by the by December, by late winter. It had been slipping and eroding since late summer of 2025.
And now you had someone that almost the way they described him thought like a toddler that were very emotionally driven. would confabulate constantly, didn’t like to hear second opinions or even second guesses what he was thinking at a given moment, would get mad and enraged. Even people like Bessent and others would walk around on eggs s around him because his temper was out of control.
You sort of saw it in some of the social filters.
But the most disturbing aspect was the confabulation they were describing that they would tell him something and then he would somehow forget it the next day. and not so much out of forgetfulness, but if he didn’t want to hear something, he decided it wasn’t true and even if he heard it and was told it many, many times over. Vice versa, if he wanted to believe something, he believed it was true even when his top advisers told him it was not true.
So, in the buildup to the Iran war that people like Vice President, there was literally nobody on board the the war to begin with uh within the US administration. Everybody voiced skepticism and doubt. Even uh Secretary of State Rubio voiced out.
Napolitano: Even Even Pete Hegseth
Barnes: Even Pete Pete Hegseth voiced out, then he became a big war champion.
(((the lobby)))
the big antisemitism shaped problem isn't partisan, but is getting noticeably louder on the right
Napolitano: Who runs American foreign policy, Donald Trump or Marco Rubio?
Barnes: That’s a good question. I would say predominantly it’s the Israel lobby at the moment, but not alone. And then Trump’s emotional, psychological whims.
Robert Barnes on Nima Alkhorshid's pod
tl;dr
Trump is a fear-addled dementia patient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZb3MWFY4wdumbest president we’ve ever had in his second term as as well as the most corrupt in American political history, which is saying something uh in the recent era. Trump decides to go back in and reescalate, and he’s talking about doing it again today….. When you can’t do either one of those deals, you’re literally deal incapable….
That’s why Joe Kent, I and some others with friends and allies on the anti-war side in the administration have been advocating from day one, just get Trump to get out.
He’s never going to do a reasonable deal. He’s not capable of doing a reasonable deal because he is so fear riddled..
This is why I keep telling people he can’t make a good decisions. His decision-making process is completely broken. The Trump, anyone has known from any time before, is gone.
It’s just gone. And so he’s he thinks like a toddler, like it’s two-year-old level thinking. And the consequence of that is what he will do is he will convince himself that the bad thing can’t happen. So when he when he changes direction for emotional reasons, he then rationalizes his decision…
He’s driven entirely by fear. Fear of humiliation, fear of embarrassment, fear of comparison to Obama, fear of criticism from the Fox News crowd and the Israel lobby, fear of being humiliated on the global stage if Iran actually does develop and show off that they have nukes. It’s just fear, fear, fear, fear, fear of getting so crushed in the midterms that he gets impeached and removed from the presidency. That’s all that’s motivating him. But whatever short term, whatever fear short-term dominates, he rationalizes and excuses and justifies to himself that the other fears on the other side of the ledger will never come true. And it takes massive efforts to break through to him.
That’s also why you see him flip-flop within a day, within a minute, within an hour. That’s different emotions, different fears dominate at different times. In my view is their best hope for the US, the world is a Trump exit not a Trump deal because he’s not capable of a deal.
BUT DON'T CALL IT WAR
up 1.1% in May
Trump keeps mashing buttons that make prices go up
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/econo...-inflation-mayThe Producer Price Index, a closely watched gauge of wholesale inflation, rose 1.1% in May, lifting the annual rate to 6.5%, its highest in more than three years, a new Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed Thursday.
letting a sundowning, emotionally unstable man like Trump make war decisions and front out diplomacy is epically dumb
3.....2....1.... before Trump will say he had good talks with some rando and a deal, greater than any deal ever, is imminent.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/world...ump-israel-hnkTrump cancels US strikes in Iran and suggests agreement is close
Death, taxes and Iranian TACOs.
And Iran immediately announces they dont know what the he is talking about. There is no agreed "memorandum of understanding".
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/b...rgins/12699208Korea slashes jet fuel exports to U.S. amid Iran war uncertainties, redirects flows to Japan on higher margins
Korea's exports of petroleum products to the United States have contracted sharply since the outbreak of the Iran war, as domestic oil refiners redirect cargo to Asian markets amid heightened geopolitical risk.
The supply shift could drive up U.S. airfares, marking a stark departure from historical trends. Historically, the United States has relied on Korea for roughly 70 percent of its total jet fuel imports—a figure that climbs as high as 85 percent in regions like the West Coast.
Korea shipped a total of 6.26 million barrels of petroleum products to the United States in March and April this year, a 40 percent drop from the same period a year earlier, according to the latest data from Korea National Oil Corporation.
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the US is socially and politically unprepared for how pissed off the rest of the world will be at us
Thumbing their nose at grandpa
Trofimov is the WSJ chief foreign affairs correspondent
seems to mirror Trump's lies about a done deal, another likely eye-poke
Tasnim, a news agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, cited informed sources as saying Washington told Tehran through Qatari mediators that it no longer required changes sought by the United States to a proposed text.
According to the report, efforts by US President Donald Trump to alter the Islamic Republic's position through military pressure, diplomatic threats and Qatari mediation failed, with Tehran rejecting the latest proposed changes.-Iran Intl
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