my first thought as well
If Iran attacks US soil, it was the US attacking itself and blaming it on Iran so they can create more laws taking rights from citizens
4 min video summarizing Putin’s rise to power: Russian apartment bombings led to Putin’s rise
Seems to oddly mirror a lot of what’s happening now. Especially if you think of Trump as dark Yeltsin. So ridiculously incompetent he was always destined to fail. (I could be totally misremembering this, but I thought despite having an alcohol problem, Yeltsin had some legitimate redeeming qualities as well?)
Anyway, I always assumed (and still think most likely) Vance or Rubio will be Trump’s successor, but more and more I’m also starting to see some glaring similarities between Hegseth and Putin.
Fatwa? More like Fat-waah-waah-whiny-removed, amirite? Sorry.
Speaking of Saudi Arabia, now seems like just as good a time as any to remind the reality based community of the crown prince’s comments regarding 9/11 in 2025 when he was invited to the White House by Trump:
The moment he was asked about Saudi Arabia’s role, the polished veneer cracked. After offering a few seconds of hollow sympathy, he shifted into a lecture on Osama bin Laden’s motivations and admonished Americans to “focus on reality.” For the thousands of families who lost loved ones on 9/11—and for the investigators, intelligence officers and bipartisan lawmakers who spent more than two decades uncovering the truth—his comments were not just dismissive. They were offensive.
Then came the most alarming claim: that Saudi Arabia was actually the victim because Al Qaeda supposedly targeted the U.S.-Saudi relationship. That is not reality. It is gaslighting. It ignores a substantial body of evidence showing that Saudi government officials—paid through the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and stationed in American cities—provided support to the hijackers before the attacks.
For years, the kingdom’s strategy was simple: deny, deflect and make the problem go away through political pressure. That ended on August 28, 2025, when federal Judge George Daniels rejected Saudi Arabia’s latest attempt to escape accountability and concluded after 13 months of careful review that the record collectively supports a determination that the Saudi government “knowingly, or at least with deliberate indifference, participated in supporting the [911] hijackers “terrorist activity.”
And even thought it’s doesn’t fit the reality Hegseth is trying to create, probably a good time to also remember what actually preceded the U.S. attacking Iran to “help defend Israel in this holy war.”
Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
The Saudi crown prince, actually preemptively lobbied for Trump to attack Iran multiple times in the month leading up to the attack.
Because it’s in the Bible…?
