Donald Trump has once again stepped up his threats to entirely wipe out Iran, but it somehow isn’t forcing Iran to make the deal he wants. The emptiness of the threats is embarrassing enough. But now, CBS News has published a series of extraordinary photographs of American bases and equipment abroad badly damaged by Iranian attacks. These pictures were leaked by anonymous U.S. service-members who did this because the truth about Trump’s war is being suppressed. As one put it: “This is major damage to our ba…

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    13 hours ago

    The AI safety talk this week is meant from distracting from both the failure in Iran, and inaction in resolving (just leave in great victory mission accomplished speech). Simultaneously lowers Bond villain AI as a divisive midterm issue, even when GOP calls them “the same woke left who warned against global warming and covid” is not necessarily a winning mid term strategy for GOP, but may be less bleeding than talking about Iran failure. I still expect “mission accomplished withdrawal” after mid terms. You need collapsing energy and bond prices now to avoid debating Trump/Iran failure.