Herr Trump is an incredibly incompetent fool. Iran had numerous trucks lined up taking....

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

Satellite photos of an Iranian strike site show a line of trucks before the strike. Presumably, these trucks were there to remove what was inside the bunker. Trump would have had access to such information before the strike. Did he ignore it? Or was this the usual Trump intelligence incompetence?

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T19:19:47.373Z

1. Trump announces where he will bomb in Iran to destroy its nuclear inventory.

2. Iran moves its nuclear inventory from those locations.

3. Trump bombs those locations.

4. Trump: "Yay! Our strikes were a COMPLETE success! Mission accomplished!!!"

5. Iran rolls its eyes & jacks up US gas prices.

1. Trump announces where he will bomb in Iran to destroy its nuclear inventory.

2. Iran moves its nuclear inventory from those locations.

3. Trump bombs those locations.

4. Trump: "Yay! Our strikes were a COMPLETE success! Mission accomplished!!!"

5. Iran rolls its eyes & jacks up US gas prices.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T01:08:35.919Z

[Midnight Writer]

1. Trump refuses to take security or defense briefings.

He makes up his own reality and we all have to live in it.

[Lonestarblue]

12. I read recently that he has attended only 14 briefings since his inauguration.

Biden had attended more than 90 by now.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

22. I wonder in how many of those 14 briefings TSF fell asleep?

[MustLoveBeagles]

34. All of them

[JCMach1]

2. He literally telegraphed attacks in Social Media

[Justice matters.]

8. "Signal" is limiting leaks to journalists only...

While Lies Social leaks to the entire world...

Convicted felon so needs the attention on himself bragging!

[JCMach1]

19. Meanwhile, Iran loaded up the trucks and moved

Whatever was on hand.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. "He literally telegraphed attacks in Social Media"

And the media were almost excessively reporting "You know, there are B-2 bombers being moved", "Look! There they are!!111!!1!". "We're evacuating citizens!!11!!!!".

[InstantGratification]

23. More than just telegraphing the movements, they were literally broadcasting it in real time

With very few exceptions, aircraft in US airspace have to be equipped with and USING a system called ADS-B. That broadcasts altitude, airspeed, location, climbing, descending, etc. It's purpose is to help pilots and controllers maintain awareness of the aircraft around them and what they are doing. Great for traffic separation in a non combat environment, awful for combat aircrews being shot at.

Because of that, military aircraft are allowed to turn off ADS-B. The US WANTED them to see those B-2s moving to Guam, that is apparent from the fact that Flight Tracker sites were following them using ADS-B data. We were using that to draw attention to the bombers moving to Guam. Normally a diversion like that can be a useful tactic. In this case not so much. It made the strikes somewhat safer for the crews that actually flew the missions (round trip from the states - wow, long haul), because people weren't looking at them. But it announced in advance that this strike had a high probability of happening.

The Iranians saw all this and moved as much as they could offsite before the attack happened. They may have seen it as a diplomatic bluff (doubtful, Trump's not that subtle) but they would have prepared for it anyway. Even so, that little fake was probably seen as the real thing by Iran because Krasnov had been tweeting about it for weeks and had likely prepared for it well before the actual attack.

[D. Spaulding]

3. Seriously raises the question of why Israel didn't take out many of the roads,

access point and tunnel entrances, which could have easily been done with tools they had, and their air superiority.

[Justice matters.]

5. Raises the question Bibi wants (hopes) US troops on the ground to

"regime change" Iraq uh... Iran...

What's his real "ultimate" goal? mmm?

[HarryM]

15. Bibi attacked for one reason

And it's similar to Taco Don.
Diversion. Bibi wants to divert attention away from Gaza. Donny wants to divert attention from his lousy parade, and dropping approval ratings.
Also, if Israel has an impenetrable Iron Shield, did they let some of those rockets get through, so that they could claim vicitmhood again?

[Beck23]

33. Also...

Bibi was almost voted out by 2 votes recently.

[paleotn]

16. Fixing roads after bomb damage.....easy.

Well, relatively easy. Got to watch out for timed munitions meant to blow up the repair crews and duds that turn out not to be duds, but generally, fixing gravel roads isn't too time consuming when you're motivated.

Honestly, those trucks were probably the tail end of the move. All the really important stuff was spirited away days prior. Safe to assume Iran has plans for doing just that, since recent events have been a distinct possibility since Obama was in office. They're not idiots. They were ready in case this scenario actually played out.

[Botany]

4. So the Iranians took their enriched uranium and maybe the equipment used to enrich uranium...

… from the facilities before they were bombed? Now does Iran have enough enriched uranium
to make a dirty bomb? Coming soon in a rental box truck someplace in America.

[paleotn]

17. Doesn't take much for a dirty bomb.

Then again, you can use radioactive hospital waste to do that. U235 is far better used to initiate nuclear fission. And by far the hardest piece of the puzzle to come by. But once acquired, with the right equipment, easily procured from industrial machine suppliers, and a little technical know how, you can make a gun type weapon in your garage. Think Little Boy. Trinity was a test of the more complex and challenging implosion type weapon, fat man. They didn't bother to test Little Boy since everyone knew it would work.

That's the part that gives me a moment of pause. If they have enough weapons grade material, Iran can build nuclear weapons relatively quickly. And already have the long and medium range deliver systems to transport them. And they sure as shit have a reason to with all this talk of "regime change."

[jmowreader]

29. Enriched uranium is unnecessary for a dirty bomb

To make these, they stir radioactive material into conventional explosives. When the bomb explodes it scatters radioactivity over a wide area. The only thing radioactive material has to be if you want to use it in a dirty bomb, is radioactive.

[stillcool]

6. I have no reason to believe that

the actions of Donald Trump in any way benefit the United States. The quagmire of possibilities make any kind of supposition impossible, but there is zero truth to be had.

[LymphocyteLover]

13. Just remember-- if you assume he was installed by Russia to harm us, everything makes sense.

[stillcool]

14. yeah...but those assumptions

get me in big trouble.

[LymphocyteLover]

26. trouble with who?

[stillcool]

37. myself

I'm critical of what I swallow whole and then pass along to others.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Not hearing much about food prices these days.

[Blue Full Moon]

9. Pretty sure he told Putin

[AloeVera]

10. Is there another explanation?

Looking for WMDs allowed for Iraq's invasion and destruction.

Just saying.

[Mr. Evil]

11. This is all just another dog & pony show

for the corporate media to spread out to all the gullible, brain-damaged rubes who just love a (phony) tough guy. He gets to stand with Israel and bomb Iran so he can look good for the even more brain-damaged christians. He lets Putin know ahead of time so Iran can remove whatever they need to so Putin stays happy. How many millions of dollars were wasted on this utter bullshit? What kind of fresh hell, psycho-circus is this!?

[BattleRow]

35. If silence was golden,he couldn't raise a dime.

[liberal N proud]

18. He is incompetent even at being stupid

[enid602]

20. Just asking

Is it really such a good idea to bomb enriched uranium? I really don’t know.

[Linda ladeewolf]

24. I prefer to think Iran will take this personally. They might go after the rest of us, but they know

Like the rest of the world that we citizens have no control over what trump does. I prefer to think they will act on it in a way, more like a fatwa. I’m not saying they won’t hesitate to take out those that get in their way, but this will now be a personal thing for them.

[GoodRaisin]

25. Krasnov surrounded himself with "yes people" on all sides. He is doing all the thinking.

Let that sink in. A moron is doing all the thinking, making decisions that he thinks make himself look good.

[RockRaven]

27. That doesn't necessarily demonstrate incompetence. It could be intentional.

And if this was the outcome he intended, then this is a whole different kettle of fish.

[Lancero]

28. One day they have a nuclear program, then they never did, then Trump bombs their non-existant nuclear program...

And now we're at "He bombed their nuclear program the day after they bundled everything off in trucks and hid it away".

Tomorrow we'll be claiming that they no longer have a nuclear program, because it fell off a truck. Or something.

[Aussie105]

30. Nobel peace prize in this for sure! /sarcasm

Trump puts on his big boy pants, and shows Iran his bigly fierce WMDs in action.

See Iran? Trump has spoken, brought eternal peace to the land by taking away your (imaginary, future) nukes, and gets you to behave in a more civilized manner.
No more war, Trump polishes his high lift shoes for the inevitable award ceremony where he gets the Nobel Peace prize!

Meanwhile, Bibi wets his pants because Trump once again did exactly what Bibi wanted!

Couple of sticking points:
1. Iran may or may not have had a lot of 60% refined nuke fuel, and Iran may or may not have shifted it to a more secret location.
2. Iran now knows what a bully boy both Bibi and Donald are, and is likely to step up any pre-nuke work just to get the same deterrent as Israel and the US already have.
3. The Middle East has a long history of neighbours disliking each other, to the point where warfare breaks out.
Trump's superficial actions and need for the Nobel thing won't make any difference.
4. Any suggestions for 'regime change' should apply equally to Israel and the US.

[purple_haze]

31. He doesn't care

He was doing what Israel and the industrial war machine asked him to do.

I support Israel. But not at the cost of US involvement.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. And taxpayers pay for those planes and 'big' bombs.

[BattleRow]

36. Our nation suffered a big bomb last week..the military parade/birthday bash.

[Cheezoholic]

38. #4 in reply #30 n/t

[Renew Deal]

39. I think Trump did ignore it

His goal was to get Israel to stop. Bombing the sites basically took away Israels excuse for continuing.