Juzi tu Netanyahu was on a secret visit to Saudi Arabia.
Considering how petty Trump is, he probably plans to do it close to inauguration to overshadow Biden.
https://www.axios.com/israeli-military-prepares-trump-iran-0d0a5725-c410-4f5c-a0ea-9c6f9add4966.html
Such a useless strike would only hit some abandoned sites or cause very minimal damage. The Iranians learned from Osirak, they’ve scattered their nuclear and military assets both underground and around the country. If it happened, it would be solely for ego-boosting purposes because no strategic objective would be achieved.
If Israelis are involved it’s probably to set the Iranians back on the nuclear program so will be quite targeted.
he should have raided iran kitambo but sidhani congress inge approve
We condemn any attacks not expressly authorized by Pelosi.
[SIZE=7]Trump announces pardon for Michael Flynn in tweet[/SIZE]
Trump announced in a tweet Wednesday that he has granted his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, a “full pardon,” wiping away the guilty plea of the intelligence official, lobbyist and conservative fringe darling for lying to the FBI. The pardon, coming as Trump enters his last days as President, bookends his four years in office and his supporters’ revisionist take on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Since January 2017, the Flynn case has been among the defining scandals and sagas of Trump’s presidency and Attorney General William Barr’s leadership of the Justice Department.
[I]In a move no less appalling for it being no surprise, President Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, his disgraced former national security adviser. Add him to the rogue’s gallery — among them Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D’Souza, Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Kerik, and Roger Stone — of criminals and reprobates to whom Trump has given executive clemency, their loyalty and obsequiousness winning them an escape from full accountability for their misdeeds.
But Flynn stands apart from the rest, since his whole story contains so much of the Trump era in microcosm.
And in pardoning him, Trump has waged what may be his final biggest act of war on our country.
Back in 2016 Flynn was given a close advisory role to the Republican candidate, mostly because he was one of the few retired flag officers who would stand behind Trump. The fact that he was a loony conspiracy theorist and venomous Islamophobe (he once said Islam is “a malignant cancer”) only helped. At the time, he was also secretly working on behalf of the Turkish government.[/I]
Isn’t Drumpf on his way out,why is he still running the show?
He’s in office till Jan. 20.
[SIZE=7]Brace yourself for Trump’s scorched-earth attacks on health and safety[/SIZE]
Coast-to-coast and around the world, sighs of relief could be heard after the Trump administration threw in the towel, more or less, on its refusal to allow President-elect Joe Biden to begin the presidential transition.
But with 56 days left until Biden can formally take over on Jan. 20, it’s too soon to breathe easy. Trump still has all the powers of federal leadership in his hands. He’s been showing in recent days and weeks that he’s not shy about using them.
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O"n Wednesday he pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security advisor, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but then tried to overturn his conviction.
His Treasury secretary, Steven T. Mnuchin, is moving to sequester $455 billion in coronavirus relief funds appropriated by Congress but unspent by Trump in an account that will keep it inaccessible to the Biden administration without further congressional approval.
There may be more vandalism in the offing. Without having to face even the modest political consequences that he has faced in the last four years, Trump is showing himself to be massively uninterested in governing at all now, and intent on throwing sand in the gears of good government by whim. The possibilities are endless, and endlessly frightening.
When it comes to environmental and healthcare policy in particular, he’s been doing so with unparalleled malevolence.
[INDENT]The forest service just granted itself a free pass to increase commercial logging and roadbuilding across our national forests.[/INDENT]
As my colleague Doyle McManus reports, much of Trump’s last-minute policymaking appears aimed at bequeathing Biden a scorched-earth economic landscape. This would be perfectly in character for Trump, whose approach to governing always seemed to be guided by animus toward the Obama-Biden administration.
Trump’s broader policymaking seems to be motivated by something else — pure malevolence toward the needy and the natural world.
In some respects it evokes Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s perception of the “motiveless malignity” of Shakespeare’s Iago. To be fair, however Iago did have a motive for attacking Othello. Trump also may have a motive for his environmental policies — enriching timber companies and the oil and gas industry, despoliation of the environment being merely collateral damage.
Outside those categories, however, Trump’s recent decisions will have the effect of disrupting America’s national security for reasons that are impossible to detect, except perhaps vengefulness.
On Nov. 17 he fired Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity chief of the Department of Homeland Security. Krebs’ assertion that the election had been free of voter fraud contradicted Trump’s claim that “massive improprieties and fraud” had led to his defeat.
Column: Brace yourself for Trump's scorched-earth attacks on health and safety
I have tried but I don’t understand Republicans.
Military strikes are made if the national interests are at stake. Military leaders would obviously ask what US interests are all of a sudden at stake to justify such an attack so late in the game. Donald Trump might be all the wonderful and heavenly things his supporters purport him to be. But I doubt that soothing his inflated ego qualifies as a US national interest
The reason why Netanyahu harassed Obama and Trump so much is because he wanted them to attack Iran. But Obama and Trump knew that Iran is not Iraq. Iranians will not fold as easily as Iraq.
Now Israeli and Saudi Arabia leaders are panicked because JPOA is about to be reactivated by Joe Biden and the sanctions lifted.
Israel and Saudi Arabia might launch attacks on Iran on their own knowing Americans will support them if the Iranians prove to be too strong.
Most of the military/cia leaders tend to be war hawks. That’s how US found itself in a war based on a falsehood in Iraq.
Light up the middle east and quicken the demise of the American hegemony.
With the whole of ME within reach of Iranian ballistic missiles, expect Saudi Arabia Israel and American bases in the region to be hit hard in retaliation.
US having wanted a war with Iran for 40 years will use the excuse to escalate and the Iranians not ones to back down, we will have a crisis of unimaginable proportions.
I will continue taking this as fake news until it actually happens. Remember the same media told us the bad orangeman will start ww3.
The drones used by the Houthis to attack the Saudi refineries caused so much damage and now imagine the damage of a full scale war with Iran. That would be the end of House Al Saud as we know it as they will never recover.
The world is ending soon and a major war especially in the middle East is bound to happen soon