@_ZachFoster You do not seem to understand overwhelming force. Iran cannot hold anything without weapons. No one is coming to their aide.
Clock is ticking.
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People don't seem to understand what is happening.
Iran has decided that it will control the straits of hormuz for the indefinite future. That means, we, global energy consumers, will be paying an additional energy tax, since it will take years if not decades for Iran to repair & reconstruct the civilian infrastructure being destroyed.
We are going to pay to rebuild Iran, not Iran. It's strange that people don't understand this.
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We are witnessing the end of the USA-dominated world order. The current US administration’s policies are leading us in that direction.
Europe is getting stronger.
China is getting stronger.
Russia is getting stronger.
US power is weakening after alienating its allies. The petrodollar is weakening, and oil may soon be traded in other currencies. The USD is weakening because of all of this, and it will be very hard to turn things around now.
And the saddest part? They did it to themselves.
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@Arturmaks Europe would act if they could. Check the demographics in major EU cities. They have an occuping army in their communities.
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The delusion of American exceptionalism is coming home to roost. It’s not Europe that will feel the unfortunate consequences - it’s the USA.
You’ll be isolated. Poorer. Less secure.
Well done on the biggest own-goal in history.
Ted Cruz@tedcruz
The unfortunate consequences for Europe of the last month will reverberate for decades.
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@ClistonBrown Suffer is right. Imagine what happens in major France metros if they bombed a Muslim nation.
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I don’t blame France for this. Why should they have to suffer because we did something stupid?
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The US asked France for help to open the strait and France said "no". The UAE asked for a resolution to open the strait with force and France said "no". Now, France has made a deal with Iran and French ships are passing through the strait freely. France logic: why fight when
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@PeterWrangel They are impotent because there are foreign armies in all of their major cities.
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Europe is impotent no matter how large its population is. It's more likely that Germany and France go to war against each other after the US leaves NATO, than Europe ever becoming this badass super continent
Europe had 60+ years of US military protection and they still couldn't get their collective shit together. They have no industrial base, no massive electrical sources and no spine to stand up to anyone.
Anthony LaMesa@ajlamesa
The United States can absolutely do what MAGA wants and leave NATO, pulling all our troops out of Europe. But I don’t think the people demanding that right now will like the deals a future European Union will make with China, Russia, and Iran. Once Ukraine, the UK, and the Balkan countries join, the EU would have a population almost twice that of the United States — and Brussels wouldn’t give a shit about Lindsey Graham’s threats.
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The unfortunate consequences for Europe of the last month will reverberate for decades.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
When this is over, the western part of NATO will never be the same. Spain, England, France and Italy have sold us out, as they too often have a history of doing. Eastern European nations are the heart of NATO. They spend money on defense, know how to fight and love the US. France particularly deserves fault and blame. From supporting China and Russia at the UN to denying Americans overflight rights, they’re doing what they’ve always done - showing weakness, while cutting deals with terrorists. (The reason the US has a Marine Corps and Navy is unlike France, we refused to pay a ransom to the Barbary Pirates. France is always happy to cut a deal.) Wars have unintended consequences as nations show their true colors. NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause.
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@DerekPederson3 This is only about Paris and other major metro across in Europe having an embedded army waiting for the call.
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The US literally succeeded in toppling the regime in 2 of these 3 instances. The US accomplished virtually all of our objectives in Iraq and the majority of them in Libya. Only Afghanistan was a failure. So this is just nonsense.
Clash Report@clashreport
French President Macron: Iran is a very bad regime — no discussion about that. I disagree with them on a lot of topics. But I don’t believe that we will fix the situation just by bombings or by military operations. Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya — we never delivered. Never. Even after 20 years. So you have to respect the sovereignty of people. If people want to change a regime, they want to react, step up, they can do so.
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@Harrisbro777 So stupid. France and European Nations shit they have millions of radical Muslims in their capitals.
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FRANCE JUST SIDED WITH RUSSIA AND CHINA AGAINST THE US AT THE UN
France is a NATO ally.
A NATO ally just blocked an American resolution at the United Nations.
Alongside Russia.
Alongside China.
The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world's oil.
Iran has shut it down for US and Israeli ships.
Nobody at the UN will authorize force to reopen it.
Not even America's own ally.
Hours after France blocked the vote, Iran let a French ship through the strait.
France cut a deal with Iran behind America's back.
Let that sink in.
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@HeathMayo The official Dem Party X page used the word “fucking” yesterday.
Yes, our youth running coms at the two parties are toxic.
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Does the GOP not realize that no decent person wants to associate with people who act this way in public?
The brand is toxic. This is all they know now.
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The trucker is thinking “I’m glad I can say ‘retard’ again without my over educated niece getting all bent out of shape about it”
ian bremmer@ianbremmer
i’m trying to imagine a trucker in iowa thinking “i don’t mind paying way more for gas now that the iranian navy has been damaged.”
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@kenmartin73 Rigging elections. Thought that word was only for crazies.
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Trump loves voting by mail, but he wants to take away your ability to do so.
We’re taking him to court to keep him from rigging our elections.
Democrats@TheDemocrats
BREAKING: We’re filing a lawsuit to challenge Trump’s illegal executive order attacking vote by mail. In partnership with @ChuckSchumer, @HakeemJeffries, the @DSCC, the @DCCC, and the @DemGovs, we’re taking action to ensure every eligible American can make their voices heard at the ballot box.
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@chriswithans Interesting take. You are saying even though Dem pols instituted policies to deter development, business growth, and improving schools is somehow not a Democratic policies thing.
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Right-wingers are going to tell you it's because of Democrat policies, but they're wrong. It's just because those places have become increasingly unlivable for middle class families. Schools are terrible, roads are in disrepair, taxes are extremely burdensome, and everything just costs too much. And there aren't that many good jobs. Now right-wingers will tell you that it's all because of Democrat policies, but no. It all comes down to an inability to build (because of regulations and taxes, NOT Democrat policies) to meet sky-high demand from all the foreigners coming in, which by the way increases housing values and thus reduces the state budgetary deficits that have grown by orders of magnitude since Democrats took over those states and cities.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
NEW — Net domestic migration data from 2020–2025 shows a reshuffling of where Americans live. People are fleeing cities (especially in CA, the Northeast, and the Rust Belt) and moving to suburban and rural areas across the Southeast, Texas, the Ozarks, and the Mountain West.
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@spencertbarber Duh. The "me" generation. Look it up.
Either way they've always been self-centered, selfish, and self absorbed.
The challenge for your Gen is no one taught y'all adversity and or political history. Boomer life was shit too during their recession (75-85).
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I hate to play into generational stereotypes, but they can feel very real sometimes.
I was traveling with my family last night, and we were in the hotel hot tub with two baby boomer couples.
They were going off about how much golf they’re playing. The conversation shifted to the war, and first they complained about Trump’s speech interrupting their shows, then about how the war is hurting their retirement accounts.
It was amazing to me that two couples who probably don’t have more than 15 years left didn’t say one thing about their posterity for a whole hour, but talked about golf, TV, and stock prices.
I’m a millennial, but I have daily conversations with multiple people from Gen Z, and the attitude feels completely different.
Gen Z seems optimistic but realistic. They know the fate of the future is in their hands, and they’re focused on making sure things are better for their future kids.
I honestly don’t know what happened to the baby boomers. I know many are great, but many can also be intolerable.
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@micah_erfan How fitting if Democrats were to elect a white trust fund baby. Exactly who the top ranks of the party already are.
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@EastPointMadeMe Republicans due to gerrymandering (both sides) typically do not have black constituents. Yes, at the national level but locally, not really.
Honestly the entire premise of conservative is to not have government do things for you. It is counterintuitive.
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@SouthernKeeks The Qataris have waged the most successful PR campaign in human history. They turned propaganda into political thought in 15 years.
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Of course Tucker calls Pearl Harbor a false flag. He’s always eager to cast the United States as the villain, especially when it comes to foreign policy or the military.
Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV)@TheMilkBarTV
Tucker Carlson believes Pearl Harbor was a false flag orchestrated by Roosevelt to drag America into WWII. His evidence is a Senate inquiry that actually concluded the exact opposite - that there was zero evidence of foreknowledge of the attack. He also conveniently leaves out that Hitler declared war on America following it.
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@kenmartin73 @TheDemocrats Is this different than Ukraine? I think we spent like 400 billion in Ukraine under Biden.
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Trump says his war is more important than daycare. The $200 billion he wants to bomb Iran could cover a full year of daycare for 14 million kids.
This is a statement on priorities, and for Trump, America comes last.
FactPost@factpostnews
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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@JonahDispatch The Qataris must of given him so much cash it was impossible to say no.
Qatari = best public relations campaign in human history. Turned propaganda and century old tropes into political thought in 15 years.
Someone over there deserves an award
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This is just such a bald faced and amazingly stupid lie. “Everyone” is not afraid of being physically hurt by Israel. Tucker is flat out making that up or he’s lost his mind even more than I thought. Just nonsense.
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BOMBSHELL: Tucker Carlson drops a terrifying truth about Washington. He confirms US policymakers at every single level are physically afraid of Israel and the intelligence agencies. The American government is completely held hostage by a foreign power.
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@NewReaganCaucus Please. Those were Bondis words or Bondis actions. It was Trump the whole time. She was only doing exactly what she was told. Now, perhaps she did it badly but it all Trump.
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Prediction:
Bondi's replacement will be worse because the reason Bondi is bad is because Trump wants his AG to be his personal attorney. She was competent before this.
Tulsi's replacement will be better because Trump needs good intelligence for the war and counterterrorism.
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@David_J_Bier It is antiquated and abused. The legislature who wrote the amendment never considered it as it is today.
It is not about nativism. It is about basic respect. People who are abusing this system plan to continue abusing it.
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Why would following the citizenship law that has governed this area for over 400 years be suicidal? We've excelled because of it, not in spite of it. All nativist apocalyptic claims are built on a fundamental anti-Americanism.
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
The Constitution isn’t a national suicide pact It doesn’t compel us to encourage illegal immigration with universal birthright citizenship
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