Marco Rubio’s brain-melting explanation of why America attacked Iran had people hollering into next year with disbelief
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So he’s saying that he knew Israel was going to attack Iran and he believed Iran would retaliate by attacking US bases, so we had to strike first since Israel was going to get US forces attacked. https://t.co/pL8c1b1MDa
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 2, 2026
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Listen to the logic slowly.
1. We were going to attack Iran.*
2. We knew that if we attacked Iran, they would retaliate.
3. Their retaliation constituted an imminent threat.
4. Therefore we had to attack Iran first.
5. To preempt the retaliation to our own attack.
Give this…
— Ambrose Pike (@ambrose_pike) March 2, 2026
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Insane: according to Rubio the “imminent threat” that Iran posed – that justified “preemptive war” – was that the U.S. knew Israel would attack them, and they expected Iran would respond. pic.twitter.com/lSvqDeqid8
It’s literally the equivalent of saying “I knew that guy was a…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 2, 2026
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There’s two amazing admissions here. Rubio says Israel was going to attack anyway, so we had to go along. So they did drag us into this war. Second, he said if Israel attacked before us, a lot more of our troops would have been killed. Did Israel use that as leverage against us? https://t.co/ZyMFfBPfFI
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 2, 2026
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Such strange logic. We had to go to war because Israel was going to attack Iran? So Bibi gets a say as to whether the US goes to war but the US Senate and the American people do not? https://t.co/9Ihcdz37lO
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 2, 2026
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Rubio: “We went proactively in a defensive way.”
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) March 2, 2026
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So lemme get this straight… the “imminent threat” was that Israel was about to attack Iran and the US feared they’d be targetted in Iran’s retalliation… so they attacked first… and were targetted in Iran’s retalliation. https://t.co/rWWLKa70tL
— John Barron (@JohnBarronUSA) March 2, 2026
To conclude …
US: “It was a preemptive attack on Iran”
Pentagon: “No sign that Iran was going to attack first”
US: “No but if Israel attacked Iran, then Iran would have attacked us, so we preemptively attacked them first” 🤡
This is beyond satire.
pic.twitter.com/Y6wRzO2CHx— Siddharth (@DearthOfSid) March 3, 2026
And finally …
and there it is.
complete admission.
this was never our war. https://t.co/rvpVvesZhT
— Julian Dorey (@juliandorey) March 2, 2026
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