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The terrorist #isræl regime, along with all its foreign slaves, has the same tactic: pretending to be the victim until it's no longer possible, then dropping the pretense and revealing the devil's face. They are dropping the act now—that's how miserable they have become.
Based on my ten years of direct experience, this is the sole approach for dealing with Americans. Displaying weakness or humility is both the initial and final error. The only language Americans grasp is #FAFO.
آمریکا شناسی ۱۰۱:
در سالهای اول ورودم به آمریکا، همکلاسی ایرانی داشتم که عضو سابق تیم ملی بسکتبال جوانان ایران بود. برایمان تعریف میکرد هفته اول تمرین در دانشگاه، یکی از بازیکن��ن آمریکایی موقع حرکت سمت حلقه آرنج محکمی به سینهاش زد. بعد از تمرین با انگلیسی دستوپاشکسته به او اعتراض کرد، ا��ا جواب کوتاه و حاوی F شنید: «اینجا ایران نیست!»
جلسه دوم، همان بازیکن مجدد موقع پرش طوری از پشت هُلش داد که با صورت زمین خورد. وقتی شاکی پیش مربی رفت، مربی گفت: «اینجا خالهبازی نیست. اگر نمیتوانی، نیا.»
جلسه سوم تمرین، دوست ما موقع پرش، آرنجش را باز میکند و چنان روی بینی آن پسر فرود میآید که خون کف سالن را میگیرد.
نتیجهاش جالب است. آن بازیکن چند جلسه خانهنشین شد و از جلسات بعد بهجای کریخوانی، با لحنی کاملاً محترمانه آمد و رفیق شد.
درس آن تجربه برایش این بود: آنها رفاقت در رقابت نمیفهمند. برایشان همهچیز مثل جنگ است. اگر انفعال و انعطاف ببیند، آن را روی حساب ضعف میگذارند و بیشتر لهت میکنند.
سالها بعد در فضای حرفهای و شرکتی آمریکا هم خیلی زود پشت آن لبخندهای ساختگی را خواندم. ظاهر خندان، اما در باطن، رقابتی بیرحمانه برای حذف دیگری.
میتوانم بسیار دیگر مثالهای مشابه بزنم و شک ندارم دوستان زیادی از این مدل تجربهها داشتنهاند.
امیدوارم اگر رسانههای آمریکایی در این یکی دو روز مقابل مسئولان ما نشستند، بهجای موضع منطقی و دفاعی، تهاجمی عمل کنند و افکار عمومی آمریکا را مستقیماً هدف بگیرند و این ۵ محور را بدون تعارف روی میز بگذارند:
جهش قیمت سوخت: صراحتاً بگویند افزیش مجدد قیمت بنزین و گازوئیل در پمپبنزینهای آمریکا در پیش است.
سرایت تورم به سفره مردم: ی��دآوری کنند که این گرانی سوخت خیلی زود به قفسه سوپرمارکتها میرسد و روزهای سخت اقتصادی برای خانوادههای آمریکایی در راه است.
فشار بر نرخ سود بان��ی: نشان دهند که پیامد این بحران، بالا رفتن مجدد نرخ سود بانکی، سنگینتر شدن اقساط مسکن و فشار بر بازار سرمایه خواهد بود.
تغییر معادلات نظامی: بگويند که پایگاههای آمریکا از بین رفته است و برتری نظامی واشنگتن افسانهای بیش نیست و کنترل میدان در دست ایران است.
اراده جنگ مجدد: با لحنی قاطع دیکته کنند که شاید آمریکا آغازگر مجدد باشد، اما زمان پایان و کیفیت این جنگ را فقط ایران تعیین میکند.
صحبت در مورد کودکان میناب و لامرد و کشتن شهروندان عادی را به رسانه و دموکراتها بسپارید. آنها نه از سر دلسوزی بلکه برای تخریب و استیضاح پیگر آن هستند.
@TuckerCarlson Hold on! Did Alireza Zakani really told him that Hassan Rouhani is dead?! That doesn’t make any sense and surely isn’t true. Just looking for an official correction; otherwise, it was an insightful conversation.
@5149jamesli@grok I suggest including the fakest most outrageous versions of this terrorist nation's narrative. If the education system does one thing well, it is putting “imposed” fake narratives to the grave once and for all.
Straits Taylor Rule:
i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*) + α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*), α,β > 0
Let’s see if a hike could open SOH or produce a single barrel :)
You can’t 25bp a chokepoint and r* isn’t neutral. It’s SOH risk premium, and We set it.
Stay unanchored !
@Partisan_12 Reading a few of her quotes, one might realize she's got a serious case of Islam derangement syndrome, turning this whole thing into a big dramatic, made-up scene... Classic drama queen!
Obviously, these are nonsense discussions and arguments to have right now, but it's priceless that a few reasonably knowledgeable accounts called out this illiterate clown @haaj_hosein_ (hiding behind @mhmdhsyn__) and got him to come out of closet. Well done! 🫶
Set aside the writer for a moment and focus on the writing itself. It’s not that it will somehow win victory for the #terrorist regime of #isræl—in any shape or form, it's already a lost diminishing cause—but it still deserves the most profound outrage in all of humanity.
According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.��� It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
You see these sudden backpedaling of the "he is the problem" craps?! Total BS...
The American system of government has failed Americans more than anyone else, and this is now becoming obvious to many.
.@DanielLDavis1 : President Trump is now deep in a war we cannot win. The last thing he needs is a defense secretary who doesn’t know how to do his job.
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