I'm dead serious Justin Gaethje ended Ilia Topuria's career tonight. You don't take that level of damage & come back the same from it.
RIP Topuria's career
18-year-old Ayyoub Bouaddi in his WC debut vs Brazil:
-91% pass accuracy (60/66)
-100% pass accuracy in the final third (16/16)
-6 ball recoveries
-5 interceptions
-9 duels won
A star is born 💫
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« Je n’ai pas d’enfants, mais c’étaient mes petits-enfants que j’avais à côté de moi. Je crois qu’ON NE PEUT PAS ÊTRE PLUS HEUREUX »
Trump called Obama's $1.7b to Iran treason.
He is now, as part of the peace deal, giving $300b to the same country.
Everyone's calling it hypocrisy.
Neither number was ever a gift to Iran.
Not Obama's, not Trump's.
And the taxpayer everyone's outraged on behalf of was never getting a cent either way.
I'm going to explain how this works.
Obama's $1.7b was Iran's own money.
$400 million Iran paid the US in the 1970s for weapons it ordered and never received after the revolution, plus interest the US sat on for almost 40 years.
A tribunal was about to rule against the US, so they settled first. It got shipped as physical cash for one reason: the US had locked Iran out of the dollar banking system so completely that Iran couldn't receive a wire transfer of its own funds.
The "pallets of cash" everyone remembers wasn't proof of a gift. It was proof of how totally the US controls the world's money.
Now the $300 billion.
Read past the number.
It's an "investment fund."
A "reconstruction program."
The administration is reportedly trying to get the Gulf states to fund it. And Trump's own red line is that he won't sign anything that looks like cash going to Iran.
Put those three facts together. A fund. Gulf money. No cash to Iran.
Iran does not receive the money. A fund does.
And a fund doesn't write a government a cheque.
It issues contracts.
Iran's grid, refineries, ports, telecoms and housing got hit in the war.
Somebody rebuilds all of it, and it won't be Iranian firms.
It'll be the Wall St engineering and construction companies that show up after every war, the same names that rebuilt Iraq.
The energy majors that put the oil and gas infrastructure back.
The tech and telecom firms that rewire the country.
The $300 billion is the budget. The contracts are the product.
The profit at every stage is the point.
Whether the money is US taxpayer or Gulf or both only changes whose name is on the deposit.
It doesn't change who collects.
The same handful of corporations collect either way.
So why does Iran sign a deal that hands its own rebuild to foreign firms, after spending 45 years refusing exactly this?
Because it won't call it that. The framing coming out of Tehran tells you everything: they're calling it compensation.
Reparations for the damage.
Iran can't sell "we opened our economy to the people who bombed us." Iran can sell "we forced the aggressor to pay $300 billion for what they did to us."
Same money. Same contracts. Same foreign firms walking in.
Opposite story.
That's how a losing party accepts terms it could never accept in the open. Not by changing the terms. By changing the wrapper. Iran gets the parades. The contracts stay foreign.
Now put the ‘war’ and the fund together.
The war was the arms industry collecting the first invoice. The reconstruction fund is the rest of the corporate world collecting the second.
First they bill you to break it, then they bill you to rebuild it. One transaction, two invoices.
America comes out of this looking weak. Paying the enemy you just bombed is not a strong look. But the corporations running the deal don't care whose flag is on the fund.
And while everyone fights about whether taxpayer money is being "gifted" to Iran, a handful of companies are quietly positioning to get very rich off the $300 billion.
The taxpayer pays for the bombs, pays again for the rebuild, and sees none of it.
If you want to actually understand a deal like this, stop watching the politicians and start looking at the private sector.
Don't ask who's the hypocrite. Ask who gets the contracts. Watch the reconstruction mandates when they're awarded.
If you’re concerned about your tax money, don’t complain about your warped president.
Watch the geopolitics,
then collect it back on Wall St.
Ça prend la force des mecs d’en bas pour gonfler son média et une fois en haut ça fait la campagne politique des mecs qui nous chient dessus
Changez rien 💪🏾
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