🚨 BREAKING: Just hours after Marco Rubio claimed the war was "over," Iran reportedly launched strikes targeting U.S. mi

[riversedge]

🚨 BREAKING: Just hours after Marco Rubio claimed the war was “over,” Iran reportedly launched strikes targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait.
So much for "mission accomplished." 👀
The Middle East just got a lot more complicated. 🌍🔥

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[Emile]

1. Rubio is testifying before Congress again today. Surely they'll bring this up.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. It would not surprise me at this point if the Rump Regime is...

Paying Iran to exacerbate the war so he and his family can over inflate the Pentagon budget even more and then profit from it in perpetuity.

The regime could not care less about us anyone but themselves and certainly not human beings or the planet.

[Blue Full Moon]

14. Just like all the other times the republicans have interfered.

Like when Johnson had an end to Vietnam and Nixon interfered to keep it going so he could be elected. Or when they had the Iranians hold the hostages longer so Reagan could get elected. Or when Obama had a treaty with Iran and Trump interfered.

[riversedge]

3. NEW: 🇮🇷🇰🇼The aftermath of Kuwait International Airport following Iranian attack last night is devastating.

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NEW: 🇮🇷🇰🇼The aftermath of Kuwait International Airport following Iranian attack last night is devastating.

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[dem4decades]

26. I was wondering what winning looked like, thanks.

[riversedge]

4. ..... damaging Terminal 1 and causing injuries. Kuwait has suspended all commercial flights and diverted traffic.

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BREAKING: Iranian drones struck Kuwait International Airport, damaging Terminal 1 and causing injuries. Kuwait has suspended all commercial flights and diverted traffic.

Just yesterday Marco Rubio claimed the war is over.

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[twodogsbarking]

5. Maybe we could have better success in a war with Greenland. Maybe.

[IronLionZion]

7. Be careful what you wish for

Douchebag is looking for relatively easier targets. He might invade Greenland and pull us out of NATO.

[twodogsbarking]

8. My wish doesn't include a living Trump.

[IronLionZion]

6. No one could have seen this coming.

Who knew the Middle East was complicated?



I would not be surprised if our allies throw us out of their countries. They can only take so much punishment.

[dem4decades]

27. But the Middle East had never had the Art of the Deal before.

Looks like daddy's money and a slew of lawyers aren't going to help this time. Didn't Iran sign a NDA, why are they still talking?

[Submariner]

9. Next time we confirm a Secretary of State, who should be very well versed in world affairs,

maybe we should consider someone who's world view wasn't shaped by Little Havana in Miami and Missouri for college in his formative years. Both racism hotbeds.

[dem4decades]

28. Cuban racists, i just don't get it. They look like other island people, even the shit holes.

[DFW]

31. Must be the descendants of the well-off expats

When I was there, I had dinner with a white government bureaucrat and his black boss. They didn’t even act like there was a difference. Of course, this was over 40 years ago, so I don’t know if there has been any change in attitudes there.

[OGBuzz]

10. Lil' Marco sure got his feathers ruffled when Senator Booker suggested that they are begging

Iran to get back into a deal. Give the man another cabinet position.

[Lemon Lyman]

11. -

I'm shocked. THIS time I was sure it was over. I was even more sure this time than I was the last 73 times they said it was over.

[Swede]

12. CNN just reported last night was one of the busiest nights of the war.

Trump and his goons have lost all credibility.

[DFW]

13. Question: how should one rate Rubio to his predecessor Anthony Blinken on a scale of 1 to 100?

Before we answer: are we allowed to use fractions?

[Swede]

15. The clown car is pissing on our leg and telling us its raining, so .00000000000001.

[DFW]

20. I didn't have a fraction icon for that

But your math is dead on!

[niyad]

16. I am assuming 100 is the lowest end of the scale? Or did you forget

the last zero?

[DFW]

18. Not exactly

I meant for 100% to be supremely qualified for the post, and zero to be less qualified than someone whose diplomatic skills equalled those of Lester Maddox

[niyad]

22. ahhhh, I was reading backwards then. Need more caffeine.

[DFW]

25. My version of your remedy

Strong cinnamon tea using apricot marmalade as a sweetener instead of sugar or honey. That tends to put an enlightened smile on anyone west of Russia.

[niyad]

29. That definitely works!

[DFW]

30. I've been using it for decades!

Ever since a Russian once explained to me that in Russia, tea is sweetened with jam instead of sugar, I tried it, and haven’t gone back since. I always wondered how a country with such a great way to sweeten tea could manage to make life so bitter for so many of its own people?

[niyad]

33. It is indeed a puzzlement.

[DFW]

19. Not exactly

I meant for 100% to be supremely qualified for the post, and zero to be less qualified than someone whose diplomatic skills equalled those of Lester Maddox

[ananda]

17. You mean they ever had any?

Not that I noticed.

[thesquanderer]

24. re: "Trump and his goons have lost all credibility" ... long ago. (n/t)

[Danascot]

34. Given the clowns in charge

of our intelligence and security it's entirely possible that Iran's attacks last night came as a complete surprise.

[Bluetus]

21. For the moment, all three parties want to see the show go on

Netanyahu is just an evil MFer through and through. He thrives on slaughtering people by the thousands and can never get enough. Plus, the continued atrocities ironically keep him out of prison.

Iran gains stature and relative power every day this continues. China and Russia are delighted to see Trump waste 10 years of multibillion-dollar arms production to no real effect. And they are even happier to see the US M-I-C crying for another $2 trillion (over 10 years to keep building these Cold War weapons that have proven utterly ineffective in 2026.) This war has nothing to harm trade between Iran and China -- quite the opposite. Stronger than ever.

And Trump's interest from the start was mostly to distract from Epstein, and to create new opportunities for personal grifts, such as when he took $500M of oil from Venezuela and deposited it into a "special account" in Kuwait, completely outside the US Treasury. Trump still hopes to get a piece of Iran's oil. That isn't looking so great now, but at least it is mostly keeping Epstein off the front pages.

Of the three, Iran and Netanyahu are getting everything they could want. Trump is the biggest loser here.

[Martin Eden]

23. At this point, Iran's strategy is to humiliate the Trump regime

And who can blame them?

Trump is a megalomaniac whose proclamations are posted on social media with bizarre memes, veering from threats of annihilation to statements that negotiations are near completion and the war (or is it excursion) is essentially over.

Before it started the two sides were in mediation, then "Epic Fury" was suddenly launched. Iran's leader was killed along with many others including ~160 schoolchildren.

Trump simply can't be trusted to negotiate in good faith, and the longer this goes on, the worse it is for him politically and for the US and most of the world economically. Other countries, including our allies whom Trump has already alienated, are blaming him.

Iran is punishing the USA, and it doesn't seem there is much this unhinged incompetent regime can do about it.