chris diamond

Too much time to think, drink and worry.

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@LindseyGrahamSC Shut up you spineless Quisling.

You were all in on the "end civilization" threat and now you have to suck up to this new Trump Surrender Agreement.

He signed it already, apparently, so just ask to see it.

He has no idea what's in it. But it gives him an exit from Bibi's War

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@RadioFreeTom Take their costs
Take our costs.
Subtract and calculate.

Opportunity cost of not launching an unnecessary and illegal war ignored.

(Dead and injured Americans.
Dead and injured Iranians.
Costless)

Accouting For Sociopaths.

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@RadioFreeTom Still one rogue, terrorist, nuclear state in the region.

Responsible for 100,000 deaths of civilians in the last 3 years.

Led by a war and common criminal.

If this fiasco leads to the US *finally* withdrawing support to this *ally* maybe something was achieved.

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@christankerfund Ssshhh.

Some of us are liking $DHT over performing.

My go to calculation was see how $FRO did and $DHT would be about half of that.

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@EnergyCredit1 *go wild*

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@EnergyCredit1 I think Modric is playing with a smashed up face.
Hard not to pull for him, especially if you know his life story.

Unlikely they can do it, although Cabo Verde just drew with number 2 Spain.

Croatia will give wild with a win.

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@BrianKarem "I want it to be released"

He fucking signed it. He could read it off right now.
But it is an embarrassing cave to the Mullahs and IRGC.

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@BrianKarem They had Medal of Honor recipients walking with UFC fighters so US military personnel were forced to salute while taxpayers paid for a flyover of an Octagon with Saudi advertising.

That's narcissistic graft and corruption not "culture"

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@GasBuddyGuy I think the US population has grown by 50% over that time.
Probably no need for an equivalent growth in the SPR but that is still cutting it to the margins.

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@Rory_Johnston "I love the smell of bullshit in the morning.
Smells like.... Victory"

Iranian Supreme Leader.

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@Acyn Macron thought bubble:
Jesus he's a fucking idiot. When will he stop.

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@staunovo What about the frozen ones.😂😂💲

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@wanerious @Acyn The signature.

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@Acyn The Brave Sir Donald he ran away.

He signed the fucking thing, apparently.

He could release it immediately.

But it's brutal for him and he knows it.
He desperately needs an exit but I think he's desperately hoping Netanyahu kiboshes it so he can blame shift.

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@piersmorgan @ufc @danawhite @realDonaldTrump Jesus, wash the orange and brown goo off your face.

Posted Medal of Honor recipients with UFC fighters to force US military personnel to salute.

Is that a USAF flyover of an Octagon displaying Saudi ads?

Eric asked about rigged fights to bet on.
Narcissistic corruption.

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@KingLearJett @jaketapper Thumb?

I can think of a much more appropriate comparison.
😀

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@jaketapper So no answer.

This was billed, no matter how ludicrously, as an "American celebration" (With Saudi ads)

They denigrated Medal of Honor recipients by having them accompany UFC fighters forcing US military personnel to salute their walk outs.

It was disgraceful.

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

On February 28, President Trump laid out five military objectives for the US war with Iran:

- “Destroy Iran’s missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.”
- “Annihilate Iran’s navy.”
- “Ensure that Iran’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world and attack our forces.”
- “Ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.”
- Prevent Iran from using “IEDs or roadside bombs, as they are sometimes called, to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans.”

Three-and-a-half months later, the US has achieved none of these objectives.
- According to US intelligence assessments, Iran has retained roughly 70% of its prewar missile stockpile and mobile launchers. Iran’s missile and drone production infrastructure also remains largely intact.
- US intelligence also concludes that Iran’s nuclear capacity remains broadly unchanged since last summer, with Iran still needing roughly a year to build a bomb.
- While the U.S. succeeded in significantly damaging Iran’s conventional navy, it did not weaken Iran’s capacity to impose maritime costs or disrupt ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iranian proxies (specifically Hezbollah) are still destabilizing the region.
- The threat from Iranian IEDs no longer exists because US troops have been out of Iraq for 15 years.

Indeed, the agreement reached this weekend with Iran only requires Tehran to reopen the Straits of Hormuz to maritime traffic ... an issue that arose solely BECAUSE of the war.

Then there are the enormous direct and indirect costs of the war.

After only three months, the war has cost the United States at least $30 billion in direct costs and the U.S. economy hundreds of billions in indirect costs.

It has killed and wounded U.S. servicemembers, damaged U.S. bases, depleted scarce munitions, raised energy prices, strained relations with partners, and left Washington scrambling to restore the status quo it disrupted. Even if there were tangible benefits to the war, the costs would more than outweigh them.

Even worse, the war empowered Iranian hard-liners, demonstrated its leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and, in turn, the global economy, and, because of the depletion of America's weapons stockpiles, has made it more difficult for the US to respond to future military crises.

This is worse than a failure. It is a strategic calamity.

Read the comprehensive report that we published at the Stimson Center earlier this month on the disaster that is the Iran War.
https://t.co/9QR5cMancN

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@staunovo And the barnacles?
How many ships are actually seaworthy at this point?

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@Rory_Johnston Probably nothing n changes Friday anyway.
Between Trump being embarrassed with what he is supposedly signing away, Iran claiming he's backtracking and Netanyahu desperately trying to kibosh the whole thing that's a lot of "ifs".