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Johan's avatar
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Oh this is f’n beautiful. The sequence is pristine:

Fire State Department staff for ideological purity → launch war → embassies get attacked → order evacuation of 14 countries → airports closed → skeleton crews can’t process evacuations → post “hastily drafted announcement” on X

State officially called this “an apparently unplanned-for crisis.”

Translation: “We gutted our own capacity, started a war anyway, and are shocked we can’t handle basic consular functions.”

It’s like firing all the firefighters, setting a building on fire, then tweeting “please evacuate” while wondering why nobody’s putting it out.

The operational brilliance:

Planes turning around mid-flight because airspace keeps closing

Six embassies operating under skeleton crews during active attacks

Crisis response strategy: post on X

3,000 Americans requesting help (real number across 14 countries? Tens of thousands—but State has no f’n clue)

This is mercenary foreign policy at scale. You don’t need a functioning State Department when your objective is bombing whoever paid your son-in-law $3.5 billion.

Diplomacy? Consular services? Those require boring institutional competence. Trump optimized for spectacle and extraction. Americans stranded in war zones? Externalities.

The autophagy is complete: the system is eating itself in real-time and live-tweeting the self-cannibalization.

Turns out you actually need that tedious institutional capacity when things go sideways.

Who knew?

….And the people paying the price? Americans stranded in war zones because their government optimized for grift over competence.

ROSANNE SLOANE's avatar

Do we need anymore information to realize that world wide, led by Trump, what we are in

is a war on race. Brown/black/Asian face and name? You can't come "home". Your color defines what American citizenship is. Ironic since so many people, in Trumps white house lineage have changed their names to work, live and travel. It's the long neglected end of a civil war fought in 1865 and never fully won,

Protect the Vote's avatar

The Iranian Martyr Makes The Iranian War A Religious One: Inevitable Consequence Of CNPP

The murder to the aged cancer stricken Khamenei by Israeli forces has turned him into a Muslim martyr This has put our Nazi regime on the spot and in response Hegseth now says that this conflict is a biblically sanctioned religious one, Muslim vs Christianity/Jewish religions This makes this conflict a terrible, dangerous, reckless, and emotional catastrophe There are many emotionally charged Shia Muslims in the Middle Eastern region who view the US Israeli warring coalition creating a religious war Because of this this has the high probability of expanding to many nations in the region

The fascist Netanyahu has long wanted this moment because Iran through its terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis have threatened his theocratic Jewish state As an oppressive warmongering far right Israeli government with the defiantly not giving in to the need for a two state solution, this theocratic state has induced Cheeto’s Dept of War because they are equal religious warmongers

But Netanyahu has coopted the American far right warmongers and it’s right up CNPP’s(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) mission, to create a “Christian” nation standing up against all pagan states The moniker of CNPP is just an political excuse to create a fascist strongman, autocratic government As Parnas reports, commanders are reportedly telling troops the Iran war is “all part of God’s divine plan,” with one noncommissioned officer alleging a commander said “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”

Mehrdad's avatar

Oh, I am so shocked !!!

Looks like a great deal of planning was done to carry out this war.

Wizarat Rizvi's avatar

This is what happens when your leaders are beholden to a foreign power.

As this administration fired most professionals from the State Department, they only have lackeys and Israel-firsters left, and they were not interested in any contingency planning for the day after. What a mess, and it has just started.

Shame on our political parties, both Republicans and Democrats, for putting Israel's interest ahead of America's.

Maybe this administration doesn't give a damn about Americans, but they only care about the safety of Israelis and are spending $ Billions every month to provide them safety.

Maybe MTG knows something, and that is why she left Donald.

Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

This will not end well for the people stranded in the war zone or the Trump administration. Americans are becoming more aware of what Trump has unleashed without any consultation with anyone and he will pay a price for that soon. Meanwhile, a lot of people are going to die on both sides. More Iranians for sure but I think the U.S. body count is just getting a start. Add to that, Israel is laughing at just how badly they duped Trump into this.

Carol F. Yost's avatar

The war is illegal. Congress has to approve war declarations, and it has not done so.

Tom Schwoegler's avatar

US Military = No person left behind.

US State Dept. = Every person left behind.

Donald Sinclair Richardson's avatar

This is disgraceful, abandoning citizens in a hot war zone, any citizens. It should be a war crime.

Leslie Pool's avatar

I agree with everything Ms. Kari said, but based on what has happened so far, I would not call the military actions in this war "meticulously planned."

albert venezio's avatar

America only helps Zio-Nazis, preferably Pedos!

DFinch's avatar

The State Department has traditionally arranged evac flights (and helped people get to the evac point as far as resources permit) for US citizens caught overseas in a crisis, as the article points out has been done in the past. The hollowing out of competence in favor of loyalty to Trump has a price which is being paid now and in the future.

Andrew Campbell's avatar

Sorry to be blunt, but he doesn’t give a s..t. This from someone who has served in US Embassies for years.

Roger Peebles's avatar

The us of a is not prepared for drone warfare Iran is!

Gregg Pavitt's avatar

Access is definitely the key. A colleague, a contractor working in Liberia on an American aid project, was arrested under an extortion scheme common in that country. No connections, the US embassy help line was a mobile number that was offline. I was able to go in person to the embassy, told had to make an appointment (only available once a week), given a list of lawyers, told on your own if you are a private citizen, even if an official project. That classic TV version where someone from the consulate comes to help is only for the connected. (The embassy, BTW, was quite huge for the size of the country, plenty of staff).

David Bible's avatar

Trump and administration = horrendously stupid.