Our intelligence agencies identified no imminent threat from Iran. There was no sign that the nation was close to developing a nuclear weapon. The White House still has on its website a statement regarding Trump’s 2025 bombing of Iran, carrying the headline: “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News.”
The amount of geriatric veterans of Vietnam I’ve seen hold unwaivering support for this orange asshole the last decade was already baffling enough.
Now he starts Vietnam War x3000000, and these old bastards Ade seal clapping.
Every one of them will tell you Vietnam was a senseless war and waste of human life. Yet they’re too fucking arrogant, abusive, narcissistic and demented to see they’ve become the exact idiot masses that sucked the asshole of those who sent them to Vietnam.
There is also a contingent of Iraq war veterans who have an ax to grind with Iran for having to fight their proxies and others armed by them. Expect to hear from these people in the coming days.
“These monsters tried to kill me when I was taking part in an entirely illegal and unjust war in their country that killed over a million of their civilians and gave rise to ISIS!”
Pretty much
Definitely, I think about this interview with Dao Strom often, it feels so emblematic of so many things including vets who have utterly lost the plot.
https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers/dao-strom-you-will-always-be-someone-from-somewhere-else