The night the Iran bombing was announced, this is what I posted:
Not only that, but Trump was also jealous of how Fox News was covering Israel:I suspect Trump bombed Iran tonight because his military parade was a bust & the G7 leaders laughed at him & Fox News' Jessica Tarlov ridiculed his "two weeks" post. "I'll show them!"
— Cathie from Canadaπ (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) June 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American
June 23, 2025
In a timeline of Trump’s decision to drop 12 of the reportedly 20 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs the U.S. military possessed on Iran, New York Times reporters confirmed what Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo judged from the beginning: Trump wanted in on the optics of what seemed to be Israel’s successful strikes against Iran.
Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng of Rolling Stone reported conversations with administration officials who confirmed there was no new intelligence to suggest Iran was on the brink of producing nuclear weapons.
Mark Mazzetti, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Eric Schmitt, and Helene Cooper reported yesterday in the New York Times that Trump had warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu against striking Iran but changed his mind after seeing how Israel’s military action was “playing” on television. The reporters write: “The president was closely monitoring Fox News, which was airing wall-to-wall praise of Israel’s military operation and featuring guests urging Mr. Trump to get more involved.”
Trump began to hint he had been part of the operation, and military advisors began to draw up plans for a strike. According to the reporters, by June 17—three days after his military parade had fizzled and more than 5 million Americans had turned out to protest his administration—Trump had decided to bomb Iran.
Rather than keeping the mission quiet, Trump issued increasingly aggressive social media posts appearing to hint at a strike....
Not only that, but the Pentagon had to run a decoy mission so Trump wouldn't blab about the real one:Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want some credit for it pic.twitter.com/RFchIGodbF
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 23, 2025
What Was That? with Gabe Sanchez
Pentagon Ran a Decoy Strike on Iran Because Trump Couldn’t Be Trusted to Keep QuietNot only that, but Iran had plenty of time to move its uranium and its staff out of harms way too:
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. military staged a phony airstrike to distract the one man who couldn’t keep a secret: Donald Trump.
It turns out, the biggest national security threat to a secret U.S. military operation was the President of the United States.
According to a bombshell report from The New York Times, that is exactly what happened.
In a plot twist ripped straight out of Veep, top Pentagon and U.S. Central Command officials staged an entire decoy mission. Not to fool Iran, but to keep Donald Trump from posting America’s war plans on Truth Social like they were spoilers for the next Mission: Impossible.
...Usually, when the Pentagon plans a high-risk mission targeting a foreign nuclear facility, the concerns are radar detection, air defenses, and retaliation.
This time, the concern was whether the former president would live-post the entire operation before the bombs even left the bay.
So Pentagon planners did what any responsible national security team would do when the Commander-in-Chief becomes a security risk.
They lied to him.
Two B-2 bomber fleets launched from Missouri.
One flew west over the Pacific, in full view of civilian radar-tracking sites. The other flew east, quietly crossing the Atlantic under cover of night.
The westbound fleet was bait. Designed to mislead Trump, internet sleuths, and most importantly, Tehran.
The real strike force was silent, low-key, and invisible.
At 2:10 a.m. local time in Iran, the second fleet dropped two bunker-busting bombs on the Fordow facility. By the end of the operation, 14 bombs had been dropped in a direct hit on Iran’s underground nuclear site.
And Trump? He was still online, doing what he does best: bragging cryptically about something he probably was not supposed to mention....
It’s absolutely wild watching supposedly serious people praising Trump for striking Iran and then laying out some utopian and impossible route to “reshaping the Middle East and solving every ongoing problem” and expecting the dumbest, most incurious and incompetent president to carry it out.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Then Carney went to Europe and signed this:"We all agree that more fulsome conversations are needed to select" the projects that will be accelerated by the legislation, Carney said — and said those conversations will start now. He said there will be full-day summits with Indigenous rights holders, starting July 17.
— Canada's National Observer (@nationalobserver.com) June 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Cole Bennett / Cole.notcoleThe new security and defense deal signed by Carney opens the door for Canada into Europe’s $173 billion defense procurement plan, while effectively limiting purchases of US-made military equipment, artillery, and other materials going forward. ππ #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=743T...
— Martin Rayner (@martinrayner.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Monday Night in Canada — And the News Tonight Is Gonna Be War
Today in Brussels, Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a historic Security and Defense Partnership with the European Union, a sweeping agreement that ties Canada into the EU’s defense infrastructure like never before.
This deal isn’t just symbolic. It means Canada is going to be treated like a European Union country when it comes to defense cooperation. That includes:
-Joint military training — Europeans training in Canada, Canadians training in Europe.
-Shared access to technology — everything from cybersecurity to arms development.
-Integrated missions — maritime security, space surveillance, and coordinated support to Ukraine.
-Collaboration on emerging threats — like hybrid warfare, climate instability, and drone-based conflict.
The big prize? Canada now has access to the EU’s €150 billion SAFE program — a loan fund designed not to buy weapons, but to build the factories and infrastructure that make them. Ammunition, drones, components, the entire supply chain. To access it, countries must partner on multinational defense projects, and for Canada, that likely means playing a key role in critical mineral extraction and tech manufacturing....
A true international statesman in action. I’ve said it before, the election of Mark Carney in Canada was a pivotal moment, not just for Canada, but for the World. He understands the threat and is a team player which is just what we need in this moment.
— ππ―π²π±π₯ πππ±π±π’π―π° (@politicsusa46) June 24, 2025
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2 comments:
Sorry to interrupt your Carney-fest.
C-5 is a huge step backwards and framing it with
"The House of Commons passed Bill C-5 yesterday, with support ACROSS party lines " is nonsense.
It appears that, atm, we have ONE party in the HoC that enjoys a 313 seat majority. Those damn Libs: campaign from the left, embrace the idiots they just defeated and then govern from the right. And we thought perhaps Mr. Carney would be different.
Carney's milquetoast comments on the tRump/Israel war crimes are very disappointing and a betrayal of Canadian's preferred Pearson/Chretien style foreign policy.
NPoV
I disagree, Northern, because Carney is different. He isn't perfect but he listens, as example his upcoming meetings with First Nations leadership.
I am concerned about parts of the Strong Borders act and hope these will be changed, but they give Carney something to point to while negotiating with Trump.
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