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moniss

(8,780 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 12:57 AM Monday

"Trump says US military considering 'very strong options' for Iran"

This is the headline from an article from "Al Jazeera" dated 01/12/26 with a byline from Zaheena Rasheed and News Agencies.
The article notes this quote from Crumb The 1st:

"We’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options. We’ll make a determination,” he told reporters on board Air Force One late on Sunday."

So that makes at least 5 sovereign nations and fellow UN members that he has expressed the right to unilaterally attack and dictate their politics and resources. He has said Denmark/Greenland, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Iran are all under consideration for US military attack. He has also offhandedly made aggressive remarks about Sudan and Yemen.

Meanwhile the JCOS shoots their mouth off about how it would be illegal to attack Greenland but they seem to have different rules for the sovereignty of other countries so much so that causing a mass death event in Venezuela was a cause for backslapping all around.

The article notes:

"Trump, who has previously said that US annexation of Greenland is necessary for Washington’s self-defence, said Russia and China will take Greenland if the US does not.

“I’m not letting that happen,” he told reporters. “I would love to make a deal with them. It’s easier, but one way or another we’re going to have Greenland.”

Every attack would be illegal under international law and the UN Charter.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/12/trump-says-us-military-considering-very-strong-options-for-iran

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ColoringFool

(278 posts)
9. Trump Couldn't Care Less About Religion. His Obsessions....
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 11:41 PM
Monday

Are power and money, not necessarily in that order.

I get the sarcasm; still....

DFW

(59,761 posts)
2. So far, the U.S. military appears to be considering no such thing
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 02:22 AM
Monday

To their credit, the U.S. Military has been doing its job, and just doing what it is commanded to do. It is not the job or the function of our armed forces to independently "consider" making unprovoked attacks on other countries on its own. I only hope that IF it is commanded to make an unprovoked attack on Iran, that it refuses, maintaining that such an order can only have been issued by someone not in full possession of his senses.

DFW

(59,761 posts)
5. Sending a barrage of rockets does not constitute an invasion. No body bags needed for that.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:03 AM
Monday

It's easy to program a missile and press the send button. It's something else entirely to order an invasion force of thousands of soldiers on the ground into a country with a functioning military just waiting for a chance to gun down some infidels (i.e. us) before being received into the arms of Allah.

Johonny

(25,542 posts)
7. Trump going to break 3 trillion in deficit this year
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:53 AM
Monday

He is blowing money like a crack head in a crack factory with the same long term effect.

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