So Trump will declare war on Iran

[edhopper]

and nobody will stop him. Not a single Repuke in Congress with do their constitutional duty.
Thousands will die and America will be in another shit show for years.

Yeah Us!

[vapor2]

1. Blood will be on their hands

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. They do not care!

[edhopper]

3. There already is buckets full

They like it when people die.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. Small nitpick:

He can order an illegal attack, but he can't declare war.

[edhopper]

9. He doesn't follow the Constitution

he has done many things he "can't do".

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. He hasn't declared war on any country before

Why would he start now?

He’ll just order the attack without any dramatic declaration, which would be meaningless anyway.

[edhopper]

17. Because

He likes doing stuff like that.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Predicting, with such certainty and specificity, any action or behaviour by the most unpredictable president in history

Is generally a waste of time.

[leftstreet]

5. Thousands won't die

He'll just do some "strategic bombing" etc to oust their leaders or get whatever result they're after. Some Iraqis will be considered collateral damage, but all world leaders will just shrug.

By the way whatever happened with Maduro?

[Volaris]

11. Hes sitting tight till theyre ready for him to 'admit' he stole the election for Biden.

It's not that time yet...the elections still too far out.

[applegrove]

6. There are 90 million Iranians. Trump better hope 85%

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of them are willing to fight for democracy cause there is no way the US can do anything other than bomb Iran. A small, motivated, insurgency of locals can kill of an invasion as the US found out in Iraq.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Here's the thing: Trump doesn't go for strategy.

If Iran even senses a missile being lobbed at it, it will aim for and hit Israel before the U.S. Military.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. He's not going to "declare war"

But it seems likely he will wage war, and attack Iran again.

[edhopper]

10. Read reply #9

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. MaddowBlog-Whether Americans are ready or not, Trump inches U.S. closer to a war in Iran

I have some bad news for voters who assumed Trump would reject military adventurism and ignore the calls for foreign interventionism.

In 2013, Trump tweeted, “Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.” He added, “Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly — not skilled!”

In 2012, he added that Obama would hit Iran because his "poll numbers are in a tailspin.”

Yeah, about that...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-19T16:20:26.569Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/whether-americans-are-ready-or-not-trump-inches-u-s-closer-to-a-war-in-iran

In September 2013, amid concerns about a possible U.S. confrontation with Iran, Donald Trump published a tweet that read, “Remember what I previously said — Obama will someday attack Iran in order to show how tough he is.” The Republican added, two months later, “Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly — not skilled!”.....

Axios published a striking report this week that noted the growing body of evidence that suggests a war with Iran is “imminent.” The report added, “A U.S. military operation in Iran would likely be a massive, weeks-long campaign that would look more like full-fledged war than last month’s pinpoint operation in Venezuela.”

A day later, The Wall Street Journal reported:

The U.S. is sending significant numbers of jet fighters and support aircraft to the Middle East, assembling the greatest amount of air power in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. […]

Over the past few days, the U.S. has continued to move cutting-edge F-35 and F-22 jet fighters toward the Middle East, according to flight-tracking data and a U.S. official. A second aircraft carrier loaded with attack and electronic-warfare planes is on the way. Command-and-control aircraft, which are vital for orchestrating large air campaigns, are inbound. And critical air defenses have been deployed to the region in recent weeks.

.....On Friday, for example, a reporter asked Trump what the U.S. would even target if, as the president has claimed, Iran’s nuclear program has already been “obliterated.” Trump replied, “You could get whatever the dust is down there.”

Five days later, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why a military strike in Iran might be necessary. She replied that there are “many reasons and arguments that one could make.”

Q: "Can you share a little bit about…why a strike might be necessary on a nuclear program he said was 'obliterated' by the last U.S. strike?"

Leavitt: "There's many reasons and arguments one could make for a strike against Iran.”

— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) 2026-02-18T19:04:52.702Z

.....In the 2024 race, many voters saw Trump’s entire vision as rooted in foreign policy restraint. He was, these voters believed, the candidate who’d reject military adventurism and ignore the calls of those who embrace foreign interventionism.

I have some bad news for those Americans.

[enid602]

13. Inter sting

It’ll be interesting to see who the Iraqis and Afghanis back.

[Beringia]

14. Seymour Hersh did an article on this today

What Trump will do next in the Middle East is hard to predict. I have been told that Netanyahu wants the US to join him in “a massive crippling attack across a broad front” in Iran. His hope is to play “a major role in shaping US planning and execution of any US next step in Iran” and “to eliminate Iran as a potential threat forever.”

The Israeli prime minister also believes that Trump can be persuaded to give Israel what it wants because all he seems to focus on is Iran’s nuclear capability. The folly is that belief, one American official explained, because the US intelligence community has concluded that Iran “does not retain any viable nuclear attack capability.”

The Israeli veteran said that if Netanyahu carries out his current plan to stage an attack in late spring on Iran, with Trump’s support, Israel will also have to initiate yet another preemptive attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon.

What is coming next, if the president and Netanyahu get their way, as they have had since Trump began his second term, will be more hell on earth.

https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/inside-trump-and-netanyahus-meeting?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

[edhopper]

15. Intrertesting

I guess they those pro Palestinian leftest really taught the Dems a lesson for supporting Israel. Hope this makes them happy.