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@SpeakerJohnson You're staring in the face of economic and political disaster and you pull the commie card? So desperate and pathetic

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@jacksonhinkle He's worried people might not want their children to die for him so he's trying to convince them to want to them to die

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Every time I see hapless speaker Mike Johnson's face I see a man who knows he's on a run away train hurtling at speed towards a mountain cliff and there's no way for him to ever get off; his and the rest of the GOP's comically confused and desperate babbling about the "threat" of communism and socialism not withstanding. Trump the Supreme Egotist could care less about any of them.

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@ggreenwald Oh Glen. Do try to keep up. The Gold standard is now the 19 year Vietnam war (that POTUS did his best to avoid getting into at the time). POTUS said so himself. With President Trump everything has to be bigger than anyone else's. Even forever wars

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@amjadt25 So Mossad and the CIA (with maybe some help from NATO) are cooking up some big false flags to get people to agree to die for your and President Trump's eternal wars against eternal enemies.

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@LauraLoomer My God. You've never gotten this much attention since you stopped getting breast fed. Lucky you.

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@aimeeterese Or it's like saying you don't have sympathy for people who die in automobile accidents if they died whilst riding cars or even whilst crossing the street.

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These Gulf states have been bribing the US for protection for for years. Protection they evidently failed to get if the results of the last four months are anything to go by. They already:

1. Fund the Petro dollar by recycling their windfall profits into US securities markets
2. Buying US military equipment and systems that they don't appear to know how to effectively use
3.. Funding the US military bases in the region.

The idea that they should now also pay a twenty percent tax (or tribute) is laughable.

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Is Trump a child or a cretin that he doesn't know what he's signing? The first clause was about Lebanon. If he could not enforce the clause he shouldn't sign the agreement. Trump's three operational rules are:
1. Never admit you're wrong
2. Blame other people.
3. Always claim victory even if you're defeated.

An agreement with such a person is impossible .

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Perhaps a better reading is the Iranians thought, perhaps correctly, that the deal was too good to be true and that it was just a ruse to allow rebuilding of weapons and try to reopen Hormuz and take away leverage without offering anything concrete in return. They didn't actually get any money. And probably never would have

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@MeghanEMurphy @benshapiro The fact that Schapiro is the model you choose to illustrate your largely valid points shows how abysmal things are now. Either that or you've taken leave of your senses.

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@aimeeterese Nah
I fink it was the Russians wot dun it

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The last major conflict in the Persian gulf was the so called tanker wars in the 1980s between Iran and the US but it was at the Iraq Kuwait end not in the Straits however there was always the fear that Iran would close the Straits even back then. But they didn't. Problem is it's the nuclear option. That is it hurts Iran most of all but because of the integration of energy and other markets (eg fertilizer) it has an inevitable knock on effect on every one else that will play itself out in time. Not just economically but also politically, including perhaps in Iran itself but also many other countries where consumers live closer to the margins of human existence than they do in the West. Bread shortages and revolutions have often been twinned. Possibly also the US thought because it would hurt China first and foremost Iran would only do it as a final resort after it was too late and the government in Iran was almost finished.. Iran's version of the V2 rocket.

Economic warfare often causes pain to both parties. The OPEC oil embargo in 1973 hurt severely OPEC producers. Europe's embargo on Russian gas causes major pain to EU consumers. The US on the other hand appears to conduct economic warfare in the form of sanctions without significant cost to itself so it assumes others won't undertake it if it's going to be too painful to themselves. I assumed the same. Iran obviously decided to turn over the board and pull out its real nuclear option from the start and damn the consequences. As the late Senator Graham recently said, with a hint of exasperation, "I believe they are crazy".

But not too crazy. They obviously knew it would put immediate political pressure on Trump because Americans more than many people are accustomed to the luxury of cheap energy. Generally the costs of US military action are not felt by the US public. Did Iran consult with China beforehand? Maybe.. It would make sense. Analysis noted that China had been building up its stocks of oil from the Gulf for months prior with large fleets of tankers taking oil from there even before the 12 day war in 2025. So they were well obviously prepared and therefore perhaps also well briefed.

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He adored President Trump and was so proud of their friendship, you tell us. "Donald Trump is a race baiting religious bigot" Barack Obama. Na just kidding. No actually it was ... wait for it .. tada! Lindsay Graham on video. Question is did Lindsay adore POTUS in spite of the qualities he described or because of them?

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@marklevinshow Your effusive endorsement of him, knowing what you are, makes me realise he's the exact opposite of what you say he is (was)

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@MarioNawfal There are no and never have been US or Israel jets flying over Tehran. That's just incorrect to say otherwise

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@jacksonhinkle Ghoulish

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@DrNeilStone Sounds like you do have time for conspiracy theories. There are plenty of war mongers in US government who can what he did

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@GordonGChang Marco who told the Europeans that the end of colonialism was a bad thing.

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@DrEliDavid Really? That's terrible. Lindsay always had nothing but good things to say about them.