Bibi’s Bait, Trump’s Trigger
The War on Iran Was Always the Plan
“Wait Two Weeks,” He Said. Then He Bombed Iran
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Donald Trump said he’d wait. “We will respond within two weeks,” he told reporters last Friday, projecting the illusion of presidential restraint while projecting to the world that he was weighing options. Turns out, he was weighing nothing.
Seventy-two hours later, the United States military unleashed a coordinated strike on Iranian military installations including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. No warning. No congressional approval. No international backing. Just a barrage of warheads, air superiority posturing, and a post on Truth Social:
“Trump’s initial Truth Social announcement that the United States had entered Israel’s war against Iran posted at 7:46 pm ET, stating that the US had waged a “very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.” Trump’s account on the social media platform X posted a screenshot of the bombing announcement at 7:53 pm ET.”
“NetBlocks, which monitors internet accessibility, posted on BlueSky just before 9 pm ET: “Truth Social is experiencing international outages for many users after US President Donald Trump announces strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.”
This was not about defending U.S. interests. This was about feeding Trump’s endless appetite for relevance, dominance, and distraction. It was about letting Benjamin Netanyahu script American foreign policy and giving Fox News the blood spectacle it’s been teasing for months. Trump’s “two weeks” was a stall tactic, meant to buy airtime and shield him from accountability. The strike plans likely were already drafted. The fuel was already loaded. He lied to the American people, lied to Congress, and lit the fuse anyway.
Netanyahu’s Shadow Strategy
If you want to understand how this happened, you don’t start with Trump, you start with Netanyahu.
Facing a spiraling corruption scandal at home and mass protests calling for his resignation, Bibi did what he’s done before: create an external enemy, escalate with military force, and wrap himself in a shroud of existential defense. And Trump, always the pliable demagogue, fell for it, or worse, collaborated knowingly.
Intelligence sources confirm that Israeli operatives shared a package of “urgent” intel alleging Iran had fast-tracked uranium enrichment at the Fordow facility. The file claimed Iran was “two weeks from breakout.” That same file, according to leaked summaries from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was never independently verified. In fact, DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s team warned it was riddled with assumptions, not hard evidence.
So why act on it? Because Bibi sold Trump the one thing he craves more than power, legacy. Trump was told he’d be remembered as the man who “neutralized the Iranian nuclear threat.” That’s not national security. That’s legacy laundering through war.
Trump wasn’t briefed. He was baited. And the entire world is now paying the price.
Was It Ever About Nukes? The Flimsy Pretext for Bloodshed
Let’s dismantle the core lie.
Trump’s justification for the strike was predictable: “Iran is building a bomb. We stopped them.” But here’s the truth:
The IAEA’s last quarterly report, just two weeks ago, confirmed Iran’s uranium stockpile was below weapons-grade thresholds.
No new centrifuge activity was confirmed at Natanz or Fordow.
Satellite imagery showed no signs of warhead testing or nuclear weaponization facilities.
Even U.S. allies weren’t buying it.
This wasn’t a strike to stop nukes. This was a preemptive escalation built on a ruse, a rerun of Iraq, this time with a social media interface and a Fox News promo campaign. The nuclear threat was never imminent. The war, however, was.
Collapse of Credibility: U.S. Intelligence Revolts
This is where things move from reckless to unconstitutional.
Multiple sources from inside the intelligence community have confirmed that Trump bypassed the National Security Council, suppressed contradictory intel from the CIA and DNI, and refused to call a single closed-door congressional session.
Even members of the Joint Chiefs were reportedly “blindsided” by the timing of the strike. One senior officer, speaking off the record to The Intercept, called it “a civilian-ordered assault coordinated through backchannels, not the Pentagon.”
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, issued an internal memo warning that acting on foreign intelligence without U.S. validation constitutes a breach of protocol and risks systemic collapse in trust between intelligence and the Executive.
The implications are staggering:
The president ignored the checks meant to prevent unilateral warfare.
The strike was not authorized under the War Powers Resolution.
No formal declaration of war exists.
That’s not just reckless, it’s potentially illegal. This may constitute an impeachable offense. But with a GOP-led House and a complicit media echo chamber, the odds of accountability are microscopic.
The Iranian Response Is Coming, and America Is in the Crosshairs
Iran has vowed a response, and history tells us they don’t bluff.
Within hours of the strikes, there were reports that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a statement labeling the U.S. an “aggressor nation” and promising a response that would “reverberate beyond the region.” U.S. military analysts are already bracing for a multipronged retaliation:
Ballistic missile attacks on U.S. installations in Iraq, Syria, and possibly the UAE.
Naval aggression in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the most volatile chokepoints in global oil transport.
Cyberattacks against U.S. infrastructure, something Iran has targeted before.
Proxy warfare from Hezbollah, the Houthis, and militias in Iraq and Pakistan.
Let’s not forget: there are still 40,000 American troops scattered across CENTCOM’s area of responsibility. They are now walking targets.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has initiated Stage 2 evacuation protocols, quietly flying out non-essential personnel under the radar. Flights to Jordan and Cyprus have doubled. Even Saudi Arabia, one of Trump’s key allies, is urging de-escalation, fearing internal blowback.
This wasn’t a surgical strike. It was a geopolitical shitstorm in the making.
Legacy, Distraction, and the Doctrine of Chaos
So why now?
Because Trump is collapsing. After the disastrous military parade turnout, the “No Kings” protests, and his tanking poll numbers, he needed a pivot. And what better way than with bombs?
The idea of using war as a distraction, also known as the diversionary theory of war, suggests that leaders facing domestic problems might initiate international conflicts to shift public attention away from those issues. This theory posits that leaders can manipulate public opinion, creating a "rally 'round the flag" effect that unites the population behind the government during wartime.
This was a PR campaign masquerading as foreign policy. Internal memos from the White House’s comms team allegedly show Fox News was pre-briefed hours before Congress. Infographics and talking points were distributed to MAGA influencers before the missiles launched.
“Decisive.” “Presidential.” “Unafraid to act.”
Meanwhile, civilian body counts in Iran are still rising, the markets are hemorrhaging, and NATO is fractured over whether to support or condemn the strikes.
This is not leadership. This is chaos-as-doctrine.
Democracy Didn’t Authorize This
The American people were not consulted. Congress wasn’t notified. The intelligence community was sidelined. And yet, war has arrived.
Two men, Trump and Netanyahu, manipulated fear, falsified justification, and launched a war without checks, balances, or moral clarity.
This is not about security. It’s not about nuclear threats. It’s about power, legacy, and the pathological egos of men who think the world burns for their benefit.
History won’t look kindly on this moment. And if we’re lucky enough to have history books left to write, let them show this for what it was: a criminal betrayal of constitutional authority, of truth, and of humanity itself.
Because make no mistake, this wasn’t inevitable. It was engineered.