Thursday, February 5, 2026

Another attack on Iran to go after their “nuclear”?

Peace President Trump is building up to another military attack on Iran.

It also gives us yet another reminder that Trump’s disjointed statements are exactly what is not needed if the US wants other countries including adversaries to understand the diplomatic signals they are trying to send.

I see that our Opus Dei Vice President JD Vance is picking up Trump’s quirky grammar in which adjectives are used as nouns. This is example is from Thursday's Haaretz in which he uses “military” as a noun. Which is not quite as bad as Trump’s habit, because “military” is also a noun, as in “the American military” or “send in the military.”
But what kind of signal is it to say that “military is the only option”? Military what? Military espionage? Military intervention? Military invasion?

The Peace President himself said this a few days ago about Iran:
That country is a mess right now because of us. We went in, we wiped out their nuclear. Peace in the Middle East. If I didn't take out their nuclear, think of it. If we didn't take out that nuclear, we wouldn't have peace in the Middle East, because the Arab countries could have never done that. They were very, very afraid of Iran. [my emphasis] (1)
Does this mean the US destroyed nuclear facilities of some kind? That the CIA assassinated all Iran nuclear scientists? That a couple of Iranian missiles that could carry nuclear warheads were destroyed? In any case, any claim that US military strikes have obliterated all traces of Iranian nuclear weapons development would be very hard to believe.

Notably, Trump is also saying that Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should be “very worried.” Is he threatening to assassinate or kidnap Khamenei personally? How does such a threat make any diplomatic sense just as a new round of intense diplomacy is beginning?

As Laura Rozen recently reported:
“Trump lost Georgia in 2020,” Sen. Jon Ossoff, Democrat of Georgia, posted on Twitter. “But today he continued his sore loser’s crusade, with an FBI raid (!) on a Georgia election office.

“From Minnesota to Georgia, we’re watching the President unravel, weaponizing federal law enforcement for personal power and revenge,” Ossoff continued. “We must stop him.” [my emphasis] (2)
Notes:

(1) 'Total obliteration': Trump mocks Iran's failed nuclear 'restart'. Türkiye Today 02/05/2026. <https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/total-obliteration-trump-mocks-irans-failed-nuclear-restart-3214058?s=1> (Accessed: 2026-05-02).

(2) Rozen, Laura (2026): ‘We’re watching the President unravel.” Trump is spiraling. Diplomatic 01/30/2026. <https://diplomatic.substack.com/p/trump-is-spiraling> (Accessed: 2026-02-02).

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