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‘Let’s do it’: Trump pins push for war with Iran on Pete Hegseth in latest shift
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Literally EVERYBODY was thinking about it! We've been dealing with this version of Iran for 50 years. We've seen them trade missiles with Israel countless times. It was easily the most predictable response to attacking them, but he stands there and claims NOBODY expected it.
That's MAGA for you. They are so stupid, that they literally don't know how a war plan works with steps, anticipating your enemies response, and strategies to counter it.
MAGA doesn't think beyond the first step, the Blow Shit Up Stage, because that's wicked cool. No need to consider anything beyond that, because theyll obliterate all the threats, and then the people will kill all their leaders, and create a White Christian Nationalist Theocracy, and worship Trump along with Jesus.
Instead, we got: "Did you see that big explosion? WICKED COOL!... Wait! They're firing missiles back? They can't do that, we obliterated them! We obliterated everything! They weren't supposed to do that! Nobody could have predicted that, they were OBLITERATED!"
"I don't think that word means what you think it means."