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If the Xbox Helix and PlayStation 6 are both using AMD, RDNA 5, and will have path tracing, how is the Xbox going to be 30% more powerful than the PS6? GPU compute units? CPU configuration? Memory Bandwidth? These are the things I need to know.

Tehran manufactured a force protection crisis when USIC assessed that Iranian forces would attack US personnel if Israel launched a defensive operation against its missile threat, EVEN IF US forces did not participate. That triggered the President’s Art II authorities. And it crossed the imminence threshold under US doctrine, which is not a stopwatch test because we don’t apply Caroline in the context of sailing ships, cannons, cavalries and muskets anymore. Post 9-11, across multiple administrations, it is an operational and intelligence assessment about whether a threat has matured to the point where waiting risks harm to forces and vital national security interests. The question is not whether an adversary has launched an attack, but whether there is a window in which the defender still has a feasible opportunity to disrupt the threat before it materializes. And we were under ZERO obligation to withdraw from CENTCOM, capitulate to Iranian demands in negotiations, or pressure an ally not to defend themselves against an imminent existential threat within the window of the last chance to act, while under coercion of imminent threat ourselves. Choice does not equal “War of Choice.” That’s the enemy’s foreign ministry line. Planners prefer to isolate threats and dismantle them one at a time. Tehran built theater wide, multifront retaliatory strike capabilities to deny us that luxury when they refused to decouple us from Israel’s actions and placed us in the crosshairs of concurrent threats: a 1,000 mile coastal strike belt that has turned the Gulf into a low time-to-saturation kill box for drones and short range missile fires, a hardened medium-range enterprise buried across the northwestern Zagros ranges and deep into the center of the country, and flanking proxy fires from Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon. Tehran’s play was textbook compellence. Inflate the expected cost of an Israeli strike, compress Washington's decision space under coercion, and extract diplomatic concessions by threatening simultaneous, unmanageable mass fires and regional escalation. It manufactured the geopolitical linkage to deter Jerusalem and extort Washington. It’s straightforward. Their strategists gambled that American force protection imperatives, and reluctance to spark multifront fires across CENTCOM’s area of responsibility would lead Washington to leash Israel, and demand Jerusalem accepts fatal vulnerability inside a rapidly closing operational window that would leave Iran immune to conventional responses. They bet that holding American troops hostage would lead to US capitulation instead of a combined preemptive strike. They got used to Obama and Biden era “Don’t – OK, Do” diplomacy and thought Trump would fold like a cheap suit because he sent a sweet, soft spoken man as an envoy. They were dead wrong. They misread the entire situation. Per Lawrence Norman the Iranians demanded 5,000 IR-6 centrifuges for 30 cascades to enrich to 20%, four to six times the capacity of the 6,000 IR-1 centrifuges permitted under JCPOA. That 20% fuel is used in their Tehran Research Reactor to produce radioisotopes, including 6.2% Cesium-137. State sanctioned the AMAD project’s successor SPND program in 2019 for radioisotope procurement under NPWMD. They are also persistently in noncompliance with CWC obligations per multiple US 10(c) reports. Their terms were unacceptable. Full stop. When they rejected terms on the nuclear file and refused to negotiate the missile file while threatening to strike US forces if Israel took action, they crossed the imminence threshold. Tehran manufactured this crisis. Now they are reaping what they sowed, and man have they shown their true colors, viciously attacking civilian centers across the region. Their time is up good professor. It’s time to stand with your country. We’re in the thick of high-intensity operations. Morale and political will are the currency of victory.

The fact is that the US Navy isn’t willing to take on the mission of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. A desperate Trump 🇺🇸 is now trying to have others do it. But few will be willing to join his war. A mutual ceasefire is the obvious solution.

HOLY SH*T 🚨 President Trump just EXPOSED our so called “Allies” for expecting us to help them but they don’t lift a finger to help us "We'll protect them! If ever needed, they WON'T be there for us. I knew that for a long period of time” IT’S TIME TO LEAVE NATO