Rude Pundit on why the Iran strike was called off.

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[Poiuyt]

1. The Rude One knows

[dawg day]

2. It was disgusting-- Putin pronounced--

Trump changed direction and said it was an accident or something, nothing important.

I have a relative in the military who would probably deploy, so I'm happy that we aren't YET going to war, but really, could he be more of a slave to Putin? NO.

[mr_lebowski]

3. This just stupid, c'mon people ... how would Putin have known to pick up the phone?

OR ... you think in the middle of the tumult that would've arose from this, all the people around, that Trump would've been able to sneak away to his Bat Cave (with the secret, untraceable phone lines) to make a phone call to Vlad Putin to ask him what to do? Why wouldn't he have called BEFORE?

People just being silly now.

Far more likely: this whole thing is a typical Trump distraction, something to get the media chasing their tails for a few days.

Or it's the most hamfisted 'shot across the bow' ever attempted in modern history by a major world power.

[Skittles]

5. I disagree

someone is clearly calling the shots on this

[mr_lebowski]

7. How does Putin even know to call? Then, how does he reach Trump w/o everyone knowing?

There'd have been people all around, this would've been a very busy time.

Explain to me the PRACTICAL logistics here ... and then I'll maybe take this suggestion seriously.

[Skittles]

8. I don't know if it is Putin

but someone is calling the shots on this one

[JI7]

11. Putin releases messages in Public also. Putin publicly told Trump to Back off Iran

and Trump just moments later downplayed the whole Iran thing .

[FakeNoose]

4. It's frightening that Pootie might be the voice of reason

[Captain Zero]

6. Pootie is the voice of KOMPROMAT

He has the goods on Trump, Pence, and the Republicans 15 ways to midnight.

[SunSeeker]

9. Yep.

[anarch]

10. in this case, I'm kind of glad Putin was there to straighten things out

I think Chump is going to have a hard time over the next few days, with his Neocon War-hawk "advisors" telling him one thing, but his bosses in Moscow telling him something else. I would expect, as always, he will side with Moscow in the end, but he may have to fire J.B. and a few others.

[JI7]

12. same thing happened with Venezuela

[JohnnyRingo]

13. At 1st, Trump tweeted "Somebody made a BIG mistake".

It sounded pretty threatening, like we were going in right away.

Then today he said that someone like a general or something made a mistake, like they were cleaning the missile buttons and accidentally pushed one.