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Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
4. THEY WILL CREATE A GREY AREA and stretch it from one side to the other like always if it suits their no moral$?
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:30 AM
Jun 2025

Follow the money, he is transactional, sick level deluxe?

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
9. Not kind of stupid
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:56 PM
Jun 2025

...very stupid. Sounds like they are fearful of the American citizens' response to the action. Rubio always looks dazed--or bored--and I kind of expect that, but the others are all now very defensive. Not against Iran, but against OUR reaction.

Srkdqltr

(9,368 posts)
5. That has to be one of the stupidest things he has ever said. no one called him out? or questioned?
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 12:04 PM
Jun 2025

of course not.

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
10. Yes.
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 02:04 PM
Jun 2025

We are at war. If the situation were reversed, we would be mobilizing right now. You can't fly thousands of miles, drop many specialized bombs, then come out and say, Oops. It's ridiculous for trump or vance to say that we are not. This is something you say when you want to control their reaction.

But, they can't. Iran made it clear that we would be at war with them if we did anything to them.

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