The American people are not onboard with what's going on in Iran.

The war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it. It has proved effective in Manhattan boardrooms, on reality television and even at the heart of power in Washington.

Trump is an influencer who believes in the power of suggestion. The American people are not on board with what’s going on because he cannot articulate an argument for why we’re there or what victory actually looks like. Above all it is immoral both in substance as well as in execution.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

You've described the weak point - the lack of explanation - so does no-one question that?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ArishMell

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@sunsporter1649 Well, I don't know who those two are but I like the caption's double meaning!

sree251 · 41-45, M

@ArishMell

Well, I don't know who those two are but I like the caption's double meaning!

Are they Americans? In the real sense of the word, I mean.

ron122 · 41-45, M

@sree251 Communists are not Americans.

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 The are American members of our United States House of Representatives who had the temerity to challenge the wisdom of tRump's attack on Iran.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 !!! DEAD WRONG !!!

Obama FIXED the Iran nuclear problem in July 2015 when he finalized the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

tRump created a whole new Iran problem in 2018 when he blew up the JCPOA and then FAILED to make a deal.

I have facts; you only have cartoons🤣😂😝🤣😂

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues

The are American members of our American House of Representatives who had the temerity to challenge the wisdom of tRump's attack on Iran.

There are no American House of Representatives. There is a US House of Representatives.

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 I edited and fixed my error.

@sunsporter1649 I bet tRump WISHES he could have made as good a deal with Iran as Obama made!!

The Obama admin secured an agreement, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, that was signed in 2015 by the United States and Iran as well as China, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Under the deal, Iran agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons and to allow continuous monitoring of its compliance in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

The monitoring plan under Obama was a rigorous technical inspection regime of Iran's facilities. Key parts of the inspection instrumentation were implemented and verified by Obama's Energy Secretary, an MIT nuclear physicist named Dr Ernest Moniz. Moniz's system could identify traces (secondary radioactivity) left by radioactive materials even after they had been moved.

It was Obama's inspection deal that halted Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for relaxed sanctions.

Moniz's technical inspection regime was a major part of what tRump blew up. Without the Obama deal, Iran immediately restarted their UF6 centrifuge uranium enrichment program.

It was the failure of tRump to "make a better deal" that forced tRump to drop bunker buster bombs on Iran's uranium enrichment program.

"Iran's Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News"

Source: The White House. Date: June 25, 2025

It was the failure of that bombing campaign that caused "no new wars" tRump to begin the current war on Iran.