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Brian McDonald B
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Geopolitical analyst & columnist, pro life, 1a,2a, coffee addict, traveller by heart, space exploration enthousiast
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@stephsvox seeing no confirmation in any offical mediareports
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Has anyone else seen this from a reputable source? I don’t see anything confirming this. If true, it would be significant.
The Calvin Coolidge Project@TheCalvinCooli1
🚨Report: President Trump is meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine today at Camp David
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@GuntherEagleman lol dream on, it' s football lets agree if us doesbnt iwn the title you guys start using the proper name ;p
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If the USA wins the World Cup, the sport will be called SOCCER world wide.
Those are the rules.
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman
🚨 AMERICA IS HEATING UP FOR THE WORLD CUP! Odds on Kalshi to WIN THE WHOLE THING have SURGED 5X since the tournament started! The boys are rolling. Host nation energy is REAL. The momentum is building and the world is starting to notice. We’re not just showing up… we’re coming for the cup! ⚽
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yup and on the usa winning the world cup, dont hold your breath,
the country simply lacks a football culture,and is not making big inroads. it will remain a small niche sport,far behind nfl, nhl, baseball etc.
mostly followed by people from traditional football minded countries form south america, europe etc.
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I remember reading Soccernomics back in the day, which predicted that Turkey was going to be a soccer powerhouse.
The point of the book was to use the same analytical, data-driven framework of Freakonomics to debunk long-standing myths and clichés in the soccer world.
Their core thesis was that international soccer success isn’t mostly about passion, tactics, or “football DNA.” It’s heavily predicted by population size (bigger talent pool) + GDP per capita/wealth (ability to fund proper academies, coaching, infrastructure, and pay for expertise) + some accumulated experience.
Given this criteria, the authors singled out a group of emerging soccer powers - the United States, Japan, Australia, Turkey, and even Iraq. China and India got honorable mentions too.
Two decades later... we can confidently say that this has ended up serving up a neat parable for the hubris of Enlightenment rationalism in a data-obsessed age.
It confidently charts the future on spreadsheets, treating nations as interchangeable economic units where the inputs (money and number of bodies) inevitably produce excellence.
What it misses is the stubbornly human mess: culture, corruption, institutional trust, political meddling, the intangible fire of collective identity, and the competence required to turn potential into performance. Turkey looked good on paper, according to the framework. It had the numbers. But in the end, the data failed to capture what actually makes for a winning national football team.
Also - yes it's football. Until the Americans win the World Cup, as the Soccernomics model predicts that some day...it will.
𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯@heis_fede
Turkey left like this for the World Cup just to end with 0 goals, 0 points and a group stage exit
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@saif_aldareei true so i dont see him achieving much succes tbh. usa lost a lot of trust and deterrence in the middle east
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@iamBrianBJ Do not convince countries without real and realistic guarantees and ending the war in the Gulf way
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Marco Rubio is headed to the Gulf next week (UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait). The timing isn't random. Coming right after the new US-Iran deal, this trip is all about reassurance and rewriting the regional security playbook.
But looking at the specific stops... what is Washington whispering behind closed doors?
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the larger picture of course here is , iran wants to:
1 sabotage the final deal talks, and mou but blame it on israel
2 cause a deepening rift between usa and israel over hezbollah cause long term strategic goal of the iraninan regime is to destroy the special relation between israle and usa.
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Proof that it’s Hezbollah that is not ceasing fire because it wants to eject Israel from territory it controls. If America forces Israel to not respond to Hezbollah’s violations, Hezbollah missiles will be, again, meters away from Israeli houses in the north.
Jana Choukeir@ChoukeirJ
SENIOR HEZBOLLAH OFFICIAL TELLS REUTERS GROUP WILL NOT ALLOW ISRAEL "FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT" IN WHAT IT DESCRIBES AS OCCUPIED LEBANESE TERRITORY SENIOR HEZBOLLAH OFFICIAL TELLS REUTERS GROUP WILL NOT ALLOW ISRAEL TO OPERATE FREELY IN LEBANON
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@ShamlooAvraham @prinstaz avraham,please dont attack my friend priyanka, while we sometimes disagree on some things, she has her heart in the right place.
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@prinstaz @iamBrianBJ That is bullshit
The world should thank israel for not establishing nuclear deterrence in this war yet
At this point we jews are not looking for love AT ALL
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There are only 9 nations, globally, that possess actual nuclear weapons - Iran features nowhere close to the nuclear arsenal of these 9 nations, even if one includes the widely reported ~60% HEU stockpiles attributed to Iran.
Out of these 9, only ONE nation, the war criminal USA 🇺🇸 that infact possesses the world’s highest 90%+ of HEU stockpiles, has actually used nuclear weapons in warfare. But…Iran poses the world’s greatest “nuclear threat” to the planet!
How stupid some people can be?
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
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i have laid out clearly the unique threat posed by iran, that israel is no warmongering country, it never started a war, it has always only responded when others started, and how it simply tries to survive in self defense.
a core right of any nation udner active existential threat. i think we will have to agree to disagree on this Priyanka.
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By same logic, your WWII example also doesn’t hold logically - that was the point, my friend. Israel’s warmongering drive is now as logical as Pakistan’s claim of them being a terror-free nation. Doesn’t hold. The world is seeing things for what they are and Israel’s logic of prolonging the war isn’t holding up anymore - that’s a hard fact even though difficult to digest by some.
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no your uk example is not correct as the uk is not a threat anymore to india, it wasi n the past, and india freded itself form the british. so there exists no reasons anymore for war with the uk. israel doenst seek to wipe any country off them pa, only to end the direct threat agianst it.
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Brian, you’re quoting history that everyone knows and that logic doesn’t hold. By your logic, Indians suffered for decades and countless were killed under the British Raj, so therefore India should go to war with the UK right now and wipe UK off the world map?? That’s not how things work!
As stated, the world does not support anymore Israel’s (or any other nation’s) perpetual warmongering.
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could the allied forces in world war two define long enough? not in time, you define it not by a calendar but by meeting war objectives and for israel it is removing the nucelar threat. can israel guarantee no other nation will get impacted? no as it cant guarnatee how iran responds, it can however and has tried to minimise impacto n others by trying to take out as many naval ships and missile launchers in iran tol imit their ability to threaten others. and no israel isnt targeting lebanon, it is targeting a terrorist group, hezobllah who follows orders ofmr tehran and keeps attacking israel daily.
to give you an idea, almost 100 k israelis had to evacuate from their homes in northern israel, entire villages were shot to hell by hezbollah, hezbollah is a recognised terrorist group and just like india was justified in retaliating against the pakistani terrorist groups operation from pakistani occupied kashmir so is israel
again israel would rather not have to do this, but in self defense you got no choice,. will israel lose more international support from some countries. likely, but israel has no choice. as the alternative is israels end.
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What’s the definition of “long enough”? Can Netanyahu provide a concrete timeline? No. Can Netanyahu guarantee no other nation will get impacted as a result of his warmongering? No.
The world has already suffered enough; no more support to Israel’s (or whichever other nation) nonstop warmongering.
This isn’t about me being a tigress or lioness (that I may very well be, but stands irrelevant here). This is about a country, Israel, even after whatever decimation done to Iran, Lebanon and Iranian proxies in the recent war, refuses to choose peace and instead wants to prolong the war - this, won’t be tolerated by the world.
Reiterating my example: India knows inside out of Pakistan’s Jihadism and threats therein, and have also suffered at the hands of Pakistani terrorism. Yet, India is not on a perpetual warmongering drive, nor will be. Op Sindoor had crystal clear objectives defined and those were achieved.
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@TheIrishIsraeli welcome back, were you in x jail? well x is still the same mental ward lol never a dull day
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well i think india was quite justified to do so with the threats it faced and still faces.
and india is not governed by religious zealots who see the destruction of another country as allahs mission in life for them.
But the iranian regime does, that is the difference.
Israel does not want to destroy other ocuntries, has never started a war, only respondend to wars started by others. it simply wants to be left alone in peace.
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@iamBrianBJ You didn't but we remember how same argument was given against India on nukes. Today its about Iran but ignoring Israel, why? I am referring to narrative. I have read enough colonial literature to know this morality/rationality nonsense. Is Israel not religiously fanatic?
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Western narrative-only “rational” Western societies deserve nuclear weapons is a hypocritical double standard. It masks historical violence & selective morality, preserving power by denying others security parity. This global Dominance is based on protection provided by Nukes
Brian McDonald B@iamBrianBJ
Dear friend, it is true the us is the only country that so far has used nuclear weapons. but Iran is the biggest nucelar threat for countries like israel and gulfcountries. Cause while most nuclear powers are rational enough to see nuclear wepaons only as a last resort for survival, for self defense, many in the iranian regime are led by an apocalyptic islamist belief that they can trigger the arrival of a messiah like figure, the 12th iman, the mahdi, by triggering a huge war using nukes. They are religiously motivated to use nuclear weapons on the countries the wish dead, every friday . every fridaymorning after prayers in the mosques they still chant 'death to israel', 'death to america'. For Israel this is an existential threat. their former leader ayatollah khamenei (taken out earlier this year) even said in an interview he would be willing to sacrifice the survival of iran if it meant he could destroy israel forever.i hope you understand why Iran getting nuclear weapons is seen as a such a big threat, cause they want to actually use them, not in self defense but to destroy others actively. it is not for nothing saudi arabia has said them oment iran gets a nuclear weapon we will get our own, turkey has said similar things, the whole region knows an iran with nuclear weapons is giving nukes to religious mad men. and the problem with religious mad men is you cant reason with them. As you well know with Pakistan.
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not perpetual, just long enough to end the threat.
israel is doing nothing else but protecting its own people the people we love.
if i have gotten to know you a little bit over the years now yu got part of the heart of a lioness, who would also move heaven and earth to protect your loved ones.
that is what we are trying to do as well. as giving up is not an option as israel will be gone then, wiped out. i will not spam your post comment section further but tihnk it over my friend and if you want to continue the conversation you can always dm me
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@iamBrianBJ Then am afraid Israel will be left alone in their perpetual warmongering - No nation of credible standing in the world supports perpetual warmongering, no credible nation will.
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is it warmongering to want to live
is it warmongering to want to survive
is it warmongering to defned yourself
would india act differently if its very survival was threatened in the way israel is by iran? you know the answer
when your very survival is at stake, then standing is irelevant, cause you do what you have to do.
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Sure - Iran attacked and you, with US backing retaliated beyond measure. What’s the point of going on a perpetual war now? As I said, the entire world is now questioning Israel’s current standing and no one will tolerate such endless warmongering where the entire world pays the price for it. No one will, Brian.
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het is een doorgeslagen gekte claudia @claudiavz
we moeten mentale problemen niet normaliseren en meegaan in die mentale waanzin wat zo destructief is
ze hebben geestelijke ggz hulp nodig
geen operaties
geen pronouns
geen mensen die doen alsof wat ze denken normaal en gezond is
geen toegang naar wc's en kleedkamers van de andere sekse
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In plaats van mentale problemen aan te pakken, moeten we ieders gekte tegenwoordig accepteren. Intussen is de GGZ kapotbezuinigd, slopen we onze taal ('pronouns' alleen al zijn taalkundig een crime) en betalen we allemaal mee aan geslachtsmutilatie bij kinderen.
Waar je vroeger psychische hulp kreeg als je dacht dat je een hond of elfje was, zijn er tegenwoordig gemeenschappen voor 'therians', 'furries' en 'otherkins'; razendpopulair op social media-platforms als TikTok.
In Portugal hebben dierenartsen onlangs specifieke richtlijnen gekregen om te verduidelijken dat zij wettelijk alleen dieren mogen behandelen en geen mensen met dierlijke identiteiten.
Wierd Duk ܦܝܪܬ ܕܘܟ@wierdduk
Ik leg dit hier even neer @bertbrussen
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first of all israle didnt go on a never ending war, remember it was iran and its proxies who attaced israle on oct 7th and on oct 8th hezbollah joined and before you know it it was getting attacked by all of irans proxieis and iran itself, this war doesnt come out of nowhere.
and you forgot to ask what triggered this war this year;
iran was attempting to dig up the highly enrich uranium, the 60 % enriched uranium and was getting dangerously close.
and on the bloodbath; the iranian regime committed a bloodbath, killing over 40.000 civilians who were protesting against the regime this year alone
they killed over 1200 plus people in israel through hamas
while the us with the indian sailors made absolutely a bad grave mistake, precious lives lost
israel only targeted iranian military targets. no bloodbath, jsut military not civilians, as they have always seperated the people from the regime. hope you can seperate the us from israel in this, its only trying to defend itself and survive.
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Take this as example: India knows both, the actual threat and threat perception from the radical Pakistan in the neighbourhood, but does India go on a perpetual bloodbath and a never ending war with Pakistan? No.
What Israel is doing now is being questioned by the entire world, not just select nations. The war was in fact started by Israel+USA, not Iran, and guess what - the entire world has been paying the price for it rather severely, including neutral nations like India losing their people. No one will tolerate such perpetual warmongering.
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@prinstaz i know what you mean priyanka, but hope you also get where i am coming from
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perceived credibility or not, trumps irratic illogical behavior or not, the Iranian threat to the countries in the region especially israel is no less,as they still got their religious motivation and belief they will be doing allahs will by destroying israel, that is the underlying point i try to make. you know from pakistan how dangerous islamists are. hope you can seperate trump from the threat iran is to israel and the gulfcountries, indian allies like uae and israel.
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