US military says 2 troops are dead and 1 is missing after Iran attacks a base in Jordan
The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, with two killed and another missing in an attack on a base in Jordan after days of intensifying exchanges of fire.
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remarks read out on state TV and attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei...called President Donald Trump’s signature “worthless and invalid.” An Iranian negotiator said Tehran was suspending its commitments to the interim deal signed about a month ago and aimed at permanently ending the fighting.
Very ominous.
9:49 am:
No "Unconditional Surrender?"
How the US and Iran dragged each other back toward war
APRight? That is a precisely correct headline. War usually requires at least one side to make a fundamental miscalculation. Miscalculation presupposes calculation as alternative and calculation is a rational process. Here, I won't say never, I'll say I never heard of both sides not calculating, of being irrational...Well, that's the Toilet Nation. Is Iran calculating? No. This is irrational on Iran's part too. Maybe this is a near-first and these two lobotomy patients will stumble into peace? Probably not.
