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Thread | 40 Trillion And Counting

The United States of America has officially crossed the #40trillion debt milestone.

The Iran conflict is adding fiscal and inflationary pressure, the Fed is struggling to balance this pressure, and markets are turning instable. (1/9)

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@Osint613 That was the first plan by the USA, destabilizing the Rial till it was reduced to nothing.

However, Iran continues to prevail and the current government remains. How long it will take to actually remove them may be considerably longer.

We will see if Iran's economy gets worse.

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Attacking a small power plan in the UK seems less like a target on the UK and more like a test to see what Iran cyberattackers are capable of.

While this specific attack was minimal watch for potentially bigger grid shutdowns in either the USA or Israel.

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🇮🇷 🇬🇧 Iran-linked hackers shut down a small British power plant for four days, the first confirmed case of an Iranian-affiliated group successfully disabling UK energy infrastructure. @Telegraph reports the outage had no effect on the wider grid, the facility was minor by capacity, but the significance is not in the damage done, it is in the fact that it happened at all.

The timing lines up with a parallel campaign against US water infrastructure in July, which hit treatment plants across states including Minnesota, Michigan, Georgia, South Dakota and New Jersey, causing flooding and boil-water advisories in some communities. The FBI initially attributed the US attacks to unnamed malicious actors, government sources later pointed to Tehran.

Neither attack looks designed to cause mass harm. A small UK power station and a handful of water treatment plants are not chokepoints capable of crippling a national grid or water supply. What they demonstrate is reach, that Iranian-affiliated groups can identify and penetrate operational technology inside two G7 countries simultaneously. That is a capability signal aimed at governments, not a strike aimed at civilians.

The UK's own risk assessment, published last month, put the odds of a serious successful cyberattack on domestic infrastructure at five to twenty five percent, while warning that AI is lowering the barrier to entry for exactly this kind of intrusion.

Iran has expanded its cyber operations across Germany, Poland, Finland, Belgium and Albania since Operation Epic Fury began in February, with Israel still the primary target. The UK incident suggests the operational radius is widening, not narrowing, even as the shooting war winds down.

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@AZ_Intel_ Looks like its expanding rapidly, hopefully the fire department is doing as much as they can to put out the fires, stop the spread, and save as much infrastructure and homes as possible.

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@OSINTWarfare Rezaei's message is this:

Iran believes the old era of restraint is over. Tehran wants power, red lines and direct accountability within its regional relationships.

However, if Iran pressures neighboring countries too much then the opposite can happen by aligning with the USA.

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@Cointelegraph This is huge.

When one of Japan’s biggest financial institutions starts building regulated crypto infrastructure, the message to Wall Street is crystal clear.

Crypto is becoming a legitimate financial market, not a fringe asset class of memecoins.

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BIG | #Iran's Regional Meatshield

Iran is warning states joining #Washington's pressure campaign could face retaliation.

By doing this, Iran attempts to expand the confrontation and make the crisis more complex.

That's how an economic war can become a regional crisis fast.

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@sentdefender If it can outrange the AIM-174B while fitting inside an F-35C, it could push enemy tankers, AWACS and other support aircraft far from the fight.

That creates a second-order effect which will mean less sensor coverage, less refueling access and shorter fighter endurance.

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@TheProudCracker @Osint613 Less intel could mean more lives at stake, something better start happening fast.

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@Cointelegraph The strategy is sovereign treasury management:
Bhutan has been moving portions of its mined BTC to fund development while retaining exposure to Bitcoin.

Look out for whether how strategical managing a national Bitcoin reserve will turn out as crypto becomes a legitimate market.

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@Barchart In Q1 2026, the middle class held $13.6T in wealth, just 8% of U.S. household wealth.

That means when asset prices surge, the people who already own the most assets capture a disproportionate share of the upside. When wages lag behind those assets, the gap continues to widen.

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@stats_feed That was out of the blue.

Thanks for the stat. 😆

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@Cointelegraph El Salvador buying 1 BTC every day isn't really about payments anymore.

It's a sovereign bet on Bitcoin becoming a major global asset and with Cryptocurrency soon to be a legitimized market, El Salvador might have made the right call.

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UPDATE | #Canada-#US Trade Talk Collapses

Washington gets tariffs. Ottawa retaliates. Businesses on both sides pay the price while supply chains become less predictable.

The cost can result in the slow erosion of the economic system that made both countries powerhouses.

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@Osinttechnical What a shot. Would've taken out the entire truck.

Majority of the casualties occuring on both sides are coming from these sudden attack drones that can be hard to intercept if not paying attention.

Goes to show the realities of being a soldier in this frontline.

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@sentdefender That's good to hear, hopefully they will return to land as fast as possible and reunite with their families.

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@WatcherGuru Tariffs are not free money.

They’re taxes collected from U.S. importers, who often pass costs on to American businesses and consumers.

Calling tariff revenue a “fortune” ignores the underlying economic cost of higher prices and reduced trade even if it is generating money.

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@stats_feed Today, who came up with that terminology?