Remix.run Logo
Remix clone Hacker News
new | show | ask | jobsGithub
▲ loudmax 3 hours ago

> It is a great plan.

Let's be real here. Nothing this administration ever does is planned.

▲onedognight 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Nothing this administration ever does is planned.

You are joking, right? Project 2025 has achieved 50% of its goals in record time[0]. Trump disavowed both it and invading Iran, but make no mistake. Both were “the plan”.

[0] https://www.project2025.observer/en

▲yubblegum 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

"this administration" is not running the show. This is going exactly according to someone else's plan.

After the dust settles:

- GCC is knocked down a few notches and that oil and gas money is no longer competing for influence

- US is out of MENA and Centcom will return to Florida; there is no way Arab governments will let US rebuild its bases in their countries. See burning infrastructure, airports, and decimated trade in tourism, air travel, hitech, ... You thought the Orange One thought up the idea of burning all our aliances, pissing off Europe, alarming Asia allies, and making "fortress America" all by his lonesome? Really?

- Israel will be lording it over the area. Maybe they will start having bases on Arab lands.

- China will be at the mercy of whoever now controls Middle East

- Project 2025 is really about controlling us natives here in America when the coin finally (dear lord) drops over here.

▲fla10212 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The plans to destabilize Syria and Iran have existed since the Obama administration. Trump is just the hatchet man.

▲krior 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There is a stark difference between planning something and actually doing it.

▲fla10212 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The Syria part was quietly executed under Biden, whose administration deserves full credit. "Destabilizing" means fragmenting, I'm not saying that Assad was any good of course.

▲orwin an hour ago | parent [-]

Syria was in a civil war since 2015. The US (and Israel and Russia) failed to control their intelligence assets on the ground. Sadly we don't have Hillary's emails like for Lybia, so I can't mock France DGSE for loosing their asset, and control over the rebels, within two weeks.

In Syria it might have taken years, but considering the reaction of the US, Israel and Russia to the sudden Syria push, I guarantee the admin in power wasn't informed. What is more likely is that they lost actionable assets during COVID. At best the CIA was aware but didn't inform Mossad not the US, but that would be giving them a lot of credit.