Americans criticize US state department, with one person saying she felt ‘betrayed’ and treated like ‘an afterthought’
US citizens living in the Middle East say they’re “angry” at the US state department, criticising the Trump administration for having no “backup plan” to help them leave the region in the hours and days after the start of the US-Israel war on Iran.
One person, whose family voted for Trump for his anti-war stance, said she felt “betrayed” and what she perceived as the treatment of US citizens as “an afterthought”.
Forget a backup plan. Their main plan was half-baked, at best.
The us plan was literally:
If Israel attacks without us, Iran might attack US bases. So US should just attack with Israel.
No part of the “plan” addressed that Iran would logically attack US bases.
Bibi just told Trump it was a solution so that was enough for trump.
It just guaranteed the bad result they thought might happen. But if just Israel had attacked, it’s likely that would have been the only place Iran counter attacked.
I think Trump and his cronies literally thought this would be a Venezuela. They thought “Oh, we just kill the supreme leader and Iran becomes our lapdog”.
It also probably helped that the Elisons likely promised trump a new mansion.
A large part of the benefit of being an American taxpayer when living or working abroad was that the USA would absolutely have your back diplomatically and use the power of the government to extricated you back to the USA if there were difficult diplomatic situations or in times of violence/war.
If trump is just giving those Americans the finger when they need this help, that would be a severe reduction in the benefit of continuing to be a US citizen outside of the USA.
“with one person saying she felt ‘betrayed’ and treated like ‘an afterthought’”
She must be new to Trump’s orbit if she’s the first woman to feel betrayed and treated like an afterthought by him.
The backup plan is clear. Find a way to get aboard an oil tanker. He’ll find a way to get those out…
The plan: Attack Iran
That’s it.
this is a lie, Trump did have plan.
Obey whatever Israel orders him to do.
Where does guzzling Putin’s semen fit into that plan?
Pretty sure Bibi and Vlad are spit-roasting him.
This is a big part of why I’m not traveling anymore; how am I to know if he will just decide to randomly attack the country I’m visiting while I’m there? While I’m away, he can just decide that everyone returning to the country will need their phones searched at the border, or liberals aren’t welcome back in the country anymore and none of the dipshits in congress will do anything to rein him in and it’ll take a year before the Supreme Court hears a case and they’ll just end up siding with him anyway.
Send Trump some TrumpCoin and maybe he’ll pardon your corpse.
Backup plan? He didn’t have a front-up plan. He got railroaded into it by Israel because they pulled the Kompromat out and told him to get in line at the last minute.
It’s almost like we shouldn’t have struck out of our own best interests.
nobody even considered leaving when we bombed Iraq, what the hell made anyone think this time would be any different? oh, right. the whole “Trump is a unique evil” bullshit.
