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zorbasd

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28. Yes, we'll never learn, Agent Krasnov

Reply to Easterncedar (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 07:00 PM

17 hrs ago

fired all the smart, qualified public servants in the State and Defense Dept, & the Pentagon, and installed the utterly stupid MAGAt flunkey sycophants. We are sooo screwed as a country.

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Trump planning ground invasion of Iran using Kurdish forces [View all] Renew Deal 18 hrs ago OP

Not sure how the Turks D. Spaulding 18 hrs ago #1

That is a bad move..................... Lovie777 18 hrs ago #2

Every option is a reaction to the disaster the last decision caused. There is no plan.. Deuxcents 18 hrs ago #3

My god. Will we never learn? Easterncedar 18 hrs ago #4

Yes, we'll never learn, Agent Krasnov zorbasd 17 hrs ago #28

If only we weren't taking the world down with us Easterncedar 17 hrs ago #30

"Plan" B already! mobeau69 18 hrs ago #5

I really wasn't going to have a drink tonight... Easterncedar 18 hrs ago #6

Have a double for me. Dunc 17 hrs ago #18

Dark and stormy ok? Easterncedar 17 hrs ago #29

Dunc my golden boy and i. Dunc 17 hrs ago #33

Doubtless a wiser choice! Easterncedar 16 hrs ago #35

One of the options in my repertoire. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #39

I often say - I'm not day drinking...yet. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #38

This is not going to be pretty newdeal2 18 hrs ago #7

Just think. bluestarone 18 hrs ago #8

Oh, so he's going to fuck over the Kurds as well... just like Shrub did, eh? kysrsoze 18 hrs ago #9

I thought it was Trump during his first term Dan 17 hrs ago #16

It was. Why Mattis quit SecDef Strelnikov_ 17 hrs ago #26

Trumpstein did Oct 2019in Syria TexLaProgressive 17 hrs ago #19

He fucked them over... 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #23

Great! Iran will have its own Gaza and West Bank! maxrandb 18 hrs ago #10

Feels like I've seen this movie before...n/t leftstreet 18 hrs ago #11

Someone needs to tell the Kurds C_U_L8R 18 hrs ago #12

They just need to remember the Syrian Kurds TexLaProgressive 17 hrs ago #21

Also, remember the Bay of Pigs invaders Bobstandard 17 hrs ago #27

Our leaders are clueless and lack in human decency. PufPuf23 18 hrs ago #13

I've seen this movie before. Solly Mack 17 hrs ago #14

Because that's ALWAYS worked so well in the past... regnaD kciN 17 hrs ago #15

I hope they remember that Trump abandoned them in his first term karynnj 17 hrs ago #17

The Kurds have been abandoned by the US so many times I'm sure that they realize that it is our markodochartaigh 17 hrs ago #22

The Kurds have to be opportunistic fujiyamasan 17 hrs ago #20

'Iranian Kurdish armed groups have *thousands* of forces ' SamuelTheThird 17 hrs ago #24

What a GREAT Plan ! Remember the Last Iraq-Iran War??? Bread and Circuses 17 hrs ago #25

Stay on your toes everyone Bev54 17 hrs ago #31

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Listen again to Trump's initial 8 minute announcement regarding the attack on Iran... PeaceWave 17 hrs ago #34

I agree Renew Deal 15 hrs ago #37

Bay of Pigs, anyone? NickB79 16 hrs ago #36