Is this the biggest mistake of the trump era?

[Mashmont]

Witkoff is a joke.

As they made their public case this week for another American military campaign against Iran, President Trump and his aides asserted that Iran has restarted its nuclear program, has enough available nuclear material to build a bomb within days, and is developing long-range missiles that will soon be capable of hitting the United States.

All three of these claims are either false or unproven.

American and European government officials, international weapons monitoring groups and reports from American intelligence agencies give a far different picture of the urgency of the Iran threat than the one the White House has presented in recent days.

Steve Witkoff, the White House’s lead negotiator in those discussions with the Iranians, said on Fox News on Saturday that Iran is “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb making material.”

But American officials and international weapons inspectors said that was not the case, largely because the U.S. and Israeli strikes last June badly damaged Iran’s three main nuclear sites, Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan.

Those attacks made it far more difficult for Iran to access the near-bomb-grade fuel it would need to produce a nuclear weapon quickly. Even if it were to dig it out, experts said, it would take many months — perhaps more than a year — to turn it into a warhead.

Even some of Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress have seemed to question Mr. Witkoff’s assertion that Iran could build a bomb so quickly.

“I can’t speak for Steve. I haven’t got those reports, and I’ve been read in on some of those programs,” Senator Markwayne Mullin, Republican of Oklahoma and a member of the Armed Services Committee, said on CNN this week. “I’m not saying he’s wrong or he’s right, I just haven’t seen those reports.”

Mr. Rubio acknowledged on Wednesday that there was no evidence the Iranians were currently enriching nuclear fuel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/politics/trump-iran-claims-nuclear-weapons.html

Steve says what trump wants him to say. The truth be damned.

Leftwing sources say one thing. The truth is another matter. There is no debate that Iraq was working towards nuclear weapons. The president set them way back. That is indisputable. Leftwingers asleep at the wheel. Trump took action.

 

[berg80]

I forget the name, but there was a superhero who could just create objects out of thin air to suit his purpose in the moment.

Same vibe.

At times it feels surreal to be discussing the kind of mass delusion trumples experience every day.

 

[berg80]

I'm not wrong dumbass, oil is not fertilizer. This is what I said:
"Reality is that the US doesn't get its oil from the Gulf of Hormuz"

15% of fertilizer isn't much. Farmers can adjust by planting different crops. Not a big deal.

Local media and ag trade publications: Surging diesel and fertilizer costs from the Iran war are having direct impacts on US farmers​

High diesel and fertilizer costs resulting from President Donald Trump’s war with Iran are forcing farmers, who operate on “notoriously tight profit margins,” to raise prices and reduce yearly fertilizer purchases as local media outlets and agriculture trade publications sound the alarm. And these high input costs, along with higher transportation costs from rising gas prices, contributing directly to higher grocery bills for Americans.

As NPR reported, the war coincided with spring planting season for U.S. farmers who are already hurting from Trump’s tariffs and “other countries' retaliatory measures that followed." Local news and trade publications have reported that the price of diesel is up 45-50%, 78% of farmers in the South are unable to afford the total fertilizer needed for the 2026 growing season, and some farmers are reluctantly raising the prices of their products, among other impacts. (In addition to impacts on farmers, other food industries are also starting to pass on the costs of war to consumers — including cattle ranchers whose packing costs, which also rely on petrochemical supplies, are now rising.)

Local media and ag trade publications: Surging diesel and fertilizer costs from the Iran war are having direct impacts on US farmers

High diesel and fertilizer costs resulting from President Donald Trump’s war with Iran are forcing farmers, who operate on “notoriously tight profit margins,” to raise prices and reduce yearly fertilizer purchases as local media outlets and agriculture trade publications sound the alarm. And...

www.mediamatters.org

 

[Mashmont]

At times it feels surreal to be discussing the kind of mass delusion trumples experience every day.

My brokerage account isn't a delusion, reflecting the record-setting Trump economy and stock market.

 

[0311]

The extent to which they can get themselves to alter their perception of reality because of their belief in Don's infallibility is breathtaking...............and hugely discouraging.

MAGA MSGGOTS will twist themselves into a pretzel to defend Donald Fudd.

 

[berg80]

Leftwing sources say one thing. The truth is another matter. There is no debate that Iraq was working towards nuclear weapons. The president set them way back. That is indisputable. Leftwingers asleep at the wheel. Trump took action.

He took action last summer which "obliterated" their nuclear facilities. Which was a lie. Yet you still believe liars.

 

[Mashmont]

He took action last summer which "obliterated" their nuclear facilities. Which was a lie. Yet you still believe liars.

It obliterated their facilities, not necessarily their capability. This isn't a difficult distinction.

 

[0311]

dn't

And my ongoing question that has yet to be answered. IF the U.S. obliterated Iran's nuclear facilities last summer, why are the U.S. and Israel still bombing Iran. Further more, Israel already has nuclear weapons, so why shouldn't Iran? Just shits and giggles, how many knew Israel started it's nuclear program uranium stolen from the U.S.