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.

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    Oh FFS. We will know this orange fucker doesnt pay attention in any intel meetings he actual attends. And he can’t read the intel reports. He just makes everything up from what he sees on Fox News and the other conservative “news” networks.

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    FTFY: the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.

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      It describes the past 30 years of the USA’s Middle East policy. At least it’s consistent?

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    Really nice knowing that Nuke country #1 is governed by absolute senile murderous freaks for over at least 10 years now

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    Vibe Warfare. Where Skynet doesn’t have control of the military, but everyone does what it says anyway.

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    They were based on Trump being pissed that his little birthday parade was humiliating.

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      “maybe my military parade sucked because I haven’t actually started a war yet”

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    “I’m going to need someone to go over the vibe code. Looks like the vibe drones are unable to capture controller input, and thus unable to engage in vibe strikes.”

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      Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.

      This may have been Trump returning his end of the bargain (or Trump is just a shortsighted and stupid piece of shit).

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        Well Biden/Harris could have pulled the plug for doing that. Instead they let Netanyahu publicly humiliate them by defying any requests, knowing they would send more weapons as a reward.

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          They really couldn’t. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.

          Which is why Musk was able to dump over $70 million in exactly opposite attack ad messages to both Jewish and Muslim communities inside the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.

          If they pulled military aid on Ukraine, one of the most powerful lobbyists in a close election would’ve unleashed their funding, and Republicans too would have labeled Harris and Biden as Antisemitic. Netanyahu would have publicly stated that, “Democrats are putting Israeli citizens at risk from terrorist attack by leaving us defenseless!” In the worst case scenario, Netanyahu – already proven to be a psychopath who ignored obvious intelligence of an impending attack once – could have possibly staged a false flag attack similar to Putin’s past actions, and that would’ve sealed the deal. The public media would’ve labeled Biden/Harris as antisemitic and incompetent.

          It’s why they literally had to toe the line between protecting Israel (because the inertia Israel has in our society, sadly), but also seek a peace deal and publicly advocate for a 2-state-solution, as Harris did. The media landscape was not favorable to Democrats, which is why they had limited cards to play.

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        Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.

        And biden/harris fell for it. they looked weak and complicit because they’re democrats and that’s their brand.

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          lol Republicans don’t give a shit about anything he’s done or could do. They like Trump and there’s nothing in this world that could change that.

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          Epstein may have sold (or volunteered) intel both to Mossad and to US three-letter agencies. I don’t know if that made him a Mossad agent.

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            I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn’t her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the ‘party’ boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?

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          More accurately, his girlfriend is, he’d probably be consider an asset. An important distinction on whether you protect them when they’re in trouble.

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              Maxwell’s Dad was an interesting guy if you read up on him. The dude had a lot of enemies via his business dealings and him being a literal spy for MI6/Mossad. Some believe Mossad even assassinated him, but I don’t really believe it.

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                The fact that the shit had just hit the fan regarding Maxwell’s looting of his employees’ pension plans probably had more to do with his suicide.

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        It can be both. And yes bibi did not stop the ceasfire, I believe trump requested not be stopped to let him win

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      He’s trying to get ahead of a mob and call it a parade.

      See how his last one went to figure out how this will go.

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    But women are “too emotional” to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.