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”.

    • BillyClark@piefed.social
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      7 hours ago

      That’s the true genius of this whole thing. If you don’t have a plan at all, then there’s no logical way to have a backup plan. Just think about all of the time and mental exertion you can save by just turning off your brain and doing whatever Russia and Israel command you to do.

      Trump’s final plan will be to simply put American armed forces directly under the command of Putin and Netanyahu. That way, he can conserve his precious little brain power to run his crypto scams.

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      8 hours ago

      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.

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        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.