Donald Trump went on national television tonight to declare victory in a war that has driven American troops out of their own bases.
His first primetime address about the war came 35 days in and answered nothing. He said the objectives are “nearing completion,” then promised to bomb Iran “extremely hard” for two to three more weeks and bring them “back to the stone ages where they belong.” He threatened to destroy their power grid and desalination plants if they don’t make a deal.
More troops and warships are pouring into the region. The Pentagon is ordering prefab bunkers shipped to the Gulf because multiple American bases are all but uninhabitable, according to the New York Times. Troops have been relocated to hotels and office buildings, mixing military personnel with civilians in ways that may violate the Pentagon’s own Law of War Manual and the Geneva Conventions. Iran is already targeting those hotels.
That is what winning looks like to this commander in chief. Tell your representatives through Resistbot and 5 Calls that 19 minutes of victory rhetoric don’t answer the question Congress still refuses to ask: what is the plan to end this war?
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