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The U.S. military struck Iranian military targets to prevent the deployment of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said.
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Driving the news: U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak Island after IRGC forces were observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command said.
* Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported a drone conducted the strike and two people have been killed and two others wounded.
What they're saying: CENTCOM on Sunday night described the strike as "limited, precise action" against IRGC minelaying forces that posed an "imminent threat" in the Strait of Hormuz.
* "In essence, Iran created the threat and the U.S. military eliminated it to protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the free flow of global commerce," CENTCOM said.
senseandsensibility (26,833 posts)
Poll numbers are really getting to the thin skinned baby in the WH
He screamed in all caps this morning: "THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF CONTROL, AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT! FCC TO THE RESCUE!"
As Ron Filipkowski puts it, "Trump wants the federal government to go after media companies because his poll numbers are terrible in every single poll because he's a terrible, corrupt president who got us into a stupid war."
It's getting to him folks. He's panicking and desperate. His party's solution is to say everything's great and the polls are fake. That's the R "strategy" heading into the midterms. Really.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221475638
Three days later, and haven't heard or read a thing about "ICE beats the shit out a guy causing him to seizure" anywhere in national media. And I've been on the lookout, although I'm certainly not going to watch MS-13NOW or CNN. Clearly this either didn't happen, or whatever happened was completely blown out of proportion by the deranged anti-ICE lefties.
Ocelot II (132,958 posts)
How did everything get so *stupid*?
It isn't just that everything is bad, it's that it's industrial-strength, weapons-grade stupid on top of being spectacularly bad. We've never had this stupid kind of bad before. Bush I, for example, was a bad president. Iraq was a disaster. You could reasonably argue that invading Iraq was stupid on top of being bad, but Bush (Cheney and Rumsfeld, actually) had articulable, if wrong, reasons for doing it. It wasn't a random thing that they decided to do because they were getting bored and just felt like doing some war fighting, or maybe they wanted to distract from some other scandal. Their reasons were based on a destructive neocon theory of nation-building, a desire to control the middle east and extract its oil, eliminate an inconvenient leader, and find someone to blame for 9/11 that wasn't the Saudi allies. Bad reasons, but reasons. What have we got now? A senile, half-mad "leader" who starts a war that's not a war for no particular reason at all, except maybe the Epstein files and a fit of misplaced imperialism (Venezuela was a cake-walk, after all, right?), without stopping to think about geography. Six months later and there's no plausible exit strategy and it's looking more like Iraq and Vietnam combined, only dumber. So what does he do next? Start a completely stupid, pointless, destructive trade war with Canada, and for the frosting on the cow pie, performatively renaming a lake, also without thinking about geography, just to be a dick, and maybe because Carney told him to suck his balls. It's stupid and it gets stupider every single damn day. When does the stupid stop, or does it?
https://democraticunderground.com/100221475302
