re: Trump postpones Iranian power plant strikes for 5 days

Cool. We don’t have to care about each others opinions. I’m ok with that.

I am def not saying our military looks weak af, no sir- we have def fricked them up!. What looks weak is his bargaining position after throwing his balls on the table with a big ultimatum, then blinking and taco’ing. Also he is clearly and obviously lying about almost reaching a negotiation with iran

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We are headed in that direction in terms of how we are viewed with significant distrust, and I want to avoid being in the same conversation as Russia.

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I know. Everybody loved us when Obama and Biden were playing footsie with Iran and pretending they were containing a brutal and evil regime with treaty's and money.

Here's the problem. All those Euro countries that love you so much when you are playing nice like that......... still stand around on the sidelines when things like Ukraine and Iran happen anyway.

They think youre the greatest as long as they don't have to get involved.

They are also the same people who's countries are being overrun.

You started by listing China and Russia as the countries who see us as WAF and that was an issue. You've now moved on to countries you can't name who might not "trust" us for some reason (presumably not because we are WAF).

Leaders lead. Superpowers superpower. They do it because it's in the best interest of everyone including those who get all limp wristed over what it takes. If those same countries had what it takes they'd be a superpower.


I know this comes across as arrogant to you....... because you buy into the Obama Biden view of the world. You don't beleive in American exceptionalism. I understand that.

America just spent 3 weeks with only one hand tied behind our back instead of the traditional 2. Militarily that's what exceptionalism looks like. Precise and devastating strikes with very little collateral or military loss.

Our ability to shape this situation non-militarily is American exceptionalism as well. It's what right for the world at this time. I don't particularly care whether a few United Nations snobs don't "trust" us afterword.

I'm pretty sure they weren't going to give Trump the peace prize anyway. They save those for guys like Arafat and Obama (after 6 minutes in office)

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I am def not saying our military looks weak af, no sir- we have def fricked them up!. What looks weak is his bargaining position after throwing his balls on the table with a big ultimatum, then blinking and taco’ing. Also he is clearly and obviously lying about almost reaching a negotiation with iran

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Certainly sounds like you’ve got it all figured out from behind your keyboard.

So you would have preferred he didn’t postpone and just carried through with the ultimatum and started hitting power sources, even if there’s a chance that you might be wrong and negotiations may be happening.

That would have made you stand up and cheer for him, right? Right?


Because guys like you seem to have a problem when he tells people what he’s going to do and then does it (like how this began) and then have A problem when instead he adjusts to changing situations by delaying what he promised (delaying not cancelling)

It’s almost like you’d have a problem with him no matter what he does. But that can’t be right because that would make you a disingenuous putz