The Sound Of Silence

“A prolonged campaign against Iran could also produce a failed state with enriched uranium, destabilize crucial oil routes, threaten Gulf allies, trigger a refugee crisis, and disrupt the global economy.” https://t.co/HbQQosOgF9

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 2, 2026

Pretty sure that’s all underway.

🚨🚨Trump's lethal, interventionalist presidency -> No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump.
He's attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had never been targeted by U.S.…

— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) March 2, 2026

Trump's lethal, interventionalist presidency -> No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Trump. He's attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had never been targeted by U.S. military.

Turner says Rubio said the administration wasn’t targeting Khamenei and it was Israel that killed him.

Trump, meanwhile, says “I got him.” pic.twitter.com/p8DEcF1Aer

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 2, 2026

WaPo: the mood inside the Pentagon is "intense and paranoid"

Pentagon leaders worry the US will expend its air defense stockpiles, and the conflict will "spiral out of control"

This is precisely what Pentagon Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine warned of last week pic.twitter.com/bxWuW3RVCv

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 2, 2026

CNN: We're told that Pentagon briefers did make a stark acknowledgment, and that was that there was no indication that Iran was preparing to preemptively strike U.S. Bases pic.twitter.com/mBrjsPh14h

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 2, 2026

Not according to our Resolute Leader:

"We had very serious negotiations, and they were there, and then they pulled back,” he said. “They wanted to make a nuclear weapon, so we destroyed them completely, but we found they were in a totally different site — totally different — because the sites that we took out were permanent. They tried to use them, but they were totally, as I said correctly before, obliterated, right? So then we found them working on a totally different area, a totally different site, in order to make a nuclear weapon through enrichment — so it was just time.”

“I said, ‘Let’s go,'" he added.

The build up was masdive, and took werks. You don't assemble that kind of firepower and then say "Never mind."

Polling conducted by Reuters/Ipsos Saturday and Sunday found just 27 percent of Americans approved of the strikes, but Trump said he believes the public broadly supports his decision.

Because, of course he does.

“I think that the polling is very good, but I don’t care about polling," Trump said. "I have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done a long time ago."

“I don’t think the polling is low,” he added. “Look, whether polling is low or not, I think the polling is probably fine. But it’s not a question of polling. You cannot let Iran, who’s a nation that has been run by crazy people, have a nuclear weapon. I think people are very impressed with what is happening, actually. I think it’s a silent — if you did a real poll, the silent poll — and it’s like a silent majority.”

Once again, he’s Nixon in the late ‘60’s. Nixon was referring to a war, too. Except that war, in the’70’s, had more support than this one does, now. Especially considering McGovern ran in ‘72 on the premise of getting America out if foreign wars, and got shellacked. And Trump promised to not start any wars, but he’s started several, including a war on American citizens.

That “silent majority” he’s referring to, is neither. He’s just whistling past the graveyard, because he doesn’t know what else to do.

And besides: polls don’t mean anything, but the polls show approval. But if they don’t, it doesn’t matter; because the “real poll” is the “silent majority.” And silence= approval.

Unless you aren’t listening.