Originally published at: Trump’s War Against Iran Is Uniquely Unpopular Among US Military Actions of the Past Century - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. It’s clear that regime change is among the biggest objectives of the U.S. war in Iran. “I have to be involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader, President Donald Trump said on March 5, 2026. Trump has also…
That is the ticket. Trump just declares victory and surrenders. The press will report the victory and I ran will be a step more powerful. This isn’t a fight with a small time enemy like the Houthis or the Somalis. Iran is a big powerful country with a long memory. Somebody needs to remind America how we became the great Satan in 1979. They have a long memory.’
God stop taking about putting the Sawh’s son on the throne. It isn’t going to happen and only makes the American international cocktail circuit look like it is filled with fools.
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It’s not going to be so easy to extricate the US presence from Iranian airspace nor directly policing the Gulf from here on in. The problem is the bitter taste the whole thing has left in the mouths of our allies in the region. The Saudi’s will want us to keep wasting our political capital to see a monarch again in charge of Iran. The other Gulf states will be very worried if we leave…so we can’t do that (without significant blowback). It’s a stupid war with no easy way out for us.
For Israel, this sort of stupidity is just business as usual. Now we are taking on that stupidity ourselves. And we have basically no word or promise that anyone in the region will actually believe given how the Israeli-US attack on Iran went down this time. The Israelis (nor NATO) are unlikely to protect Gulf State airspace and shipping lanes on our behalf if/when we try to extricate ourselves, so we’re on the hook 100% for the disaster we’ve unleashed on the region now. And Russia and China also know this.
We’re now either forced to entirely leave the region or stick it out there to a grimly uncertain long-term. This thing is a serious cock-up. Maybe there’s an exit strategy but it ain’t going to be pretty either for our treasury or for our political standing in the entire Middle East (if not the entire world).
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TSF looks terrible in the official White House picture attached to the article. Surely he can’t continue to waddle this earth for much longer? He golfed yesterday, but before that was a three week break since his last cheating outing.
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This unpopular war is about to get even more unpopular — after days of evading and stalling, White House Propaganda Minister Karoline Leavitt was finally forced to admit this afternoon that U.S. casualties are “in the neighborhood” of 150 seriously wounded. A lot of folks are saying that the true number is more like 650 -1000 U.S. casualties so far, with about 20% of those being killed. And this is just from drone and missile strikes before any boots are even in Iraq.
As we know, there is NOTHING about which they won’t lie.
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Citation definitely needed on that - as that level of casualties would indicate a massive failure in US air defence, and those purported numbers are way higher than the civilian run rate in Ukraine.
What bothers me most about this attck on Iran is not so much the current state of affairs, but, once it ends, what then will be the consequences we face long after we have got rid of trump, How long were the Palistinians a problem (they were defeated in 1948). Treaties can last, but grudges seem to last for generations.
This won’t end because DJT was the trigger: Iran war and how faith and religion could fuel a wider conflict
Anyone else notice how any news about the real numbers of casualties, the destruction of US bases and inside Israel is conspicuously absent from TPM? Now, which fanatical zionists would that oversight benefit most?
The usual deflection. Demand proof. Then deny the legitimacy of the source. Drag this out for as long as possible. Is it really so impossible to imagine a bloated, corrupt empire getting its nuts handed to it on a platter?
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Once again Dr. Cadet Toad-glans mit der Bone Spurs von Queens has set our nation up to again learn the hard way the difference between playing checkers and playing chess.
Worse yet, we have ace axe-thrower Pisco-packin’ Pete in charge.
Fun Fact: They’ve been playing chess in Persia since the 7th Century.
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When the disaster referred to as Black Hawk Down hit in Somalia in 1993, killing 18 U.S. Marines, President Bill Clinton opted to end the mission to topple the warlords that ruled the country. Troops came home six months later.
Likewise, after the Benghazi attack killed four Americans in Libya in 2012, Obama pulled out all U.S. personnel working in Libya on nation-building operations.
And we’ve all forgotten about..,.
Went in under Ronnie Reagan with great fanfare, and the very kinetic guns of the real live (not faked to make the orange idiot happy) battleship USS New Jersey (and wouldn’t Dregseth love to have that kind of “lethality” available to him today), and then came the suicide truck bomber, over 200 Marines dead, and out we went again.
Been there before. Seen this movie. Don’t go into the attic alone, doddammit!
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