Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”
After Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon” and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.
His whole life is based on his gut feeling and mood
Iran’s theocratic regime aside (which the US is largely responsible for creating), why exactly are the US (and a handful of other countries) somehow more worthy of having nukes than others?
It’s some bullshit if you ask me.
The question of “do we really want X country having nukes?” seems to come off as: “it’s okay for country Y (the US) to have nukes”.
I for one, am not a fan of anyone having nukes, but if we’re not planning on getting that number to zero, not sure how it’s justified to say a certain country doesn’t deserve them, other than maybe North Korea who are completely unhinged, but how can we draw the line? The USA is literally just committing acts of war because they’ve unilaterally decided that Iran has nukes, without evidence, and that means they’re justified in doing pre-emptive strikes.
I don’t think any country is ever justified in pre-emptively striking another without extremely strong evidence.
I’m thoroughly unconvinced that any war the US has fought other than World War II has been justified.
You thought vibe coding was bad? Welcome to the age of vibe bombing…
Well, Trump has been an LLM all along, because attention is all he needs.
A Russian and Israeli LLM
Vibe-running the world is the new hotness
Siri, bomb a middle eastern country.
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I’ll bet the decision had something to do with trump’s massive ego.
Why not use the full word? “There is no intelligence” is much more apt.
But women are “too emotional” to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.
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But he was elected based on vibes 🥲
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the president’s decision to strike was not driven by
any new U.S.intelligenceon Iran.FTFY.
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Maybe the CIA can initiate another coup…ffs.
He gutted the CIA, at the behest of putin
The Intel probably came in the form of a new deposit clearing in Trump’s bank account
Who uses bank accounts anymore? They probably bought a bunch of $TRUMP. Doesn’t every US President have their own private currency?
Antiquities scholars of some future alien race thumbing through hard drives like Roman coins
“There is no intel” describes the entire regime
It describes the past 30 years of the USA’s Middle East policy. At least it’s consistent?
They weren’t based on vibes, they were based on orders. Trump’s foreign handlers told him what to do and he did it.
I mean, if Israel has nukes, and Iran has nukes, that should lead to peace, right? But peace isn’t what Israel is after. This isn’t about peace. It’s about eliminating all that think and look different.
