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CJ Canton 🇺🇸🇺🇦

CJ Canton 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@CCantonii

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Iowa City, Iowa, USA Katılım Ekim 2014
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Alireza Talakoubnejad
Alireza Talakoubnejad@websterkaroon·
Now *four* helicopters also destroyed? On top of the two transport planes? That seems like a lot
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@SinaToossi What option are the Iranians giving him other than escalation? We just demonstrated we can fly into Iran and open an airbase and kill hundreds of IRGC goons with 0 US casualties, striking the power plants and then inserting ground forces would be a perfect 1-2 punch
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Sina Toossi
Sina Toossi@SinaToossi·
I tend to read much of Trump’s bombast as his version of “madman doctrine” signaling. In other words, an attempt to convince the other side that he is totally unpredictable and capable of extreme escalation. He does sometimes follow through, but when he does it is often more limited than the rhetoric, or he ultimately pulls back, which has more often been the pattern. But if he escalates as he threatens here, what comes next? First, it’s important to note that Iran’s power grid is more dispersed, with generation spread across many facilities rather than concentrated in a handful of major plants like in Israel or some GCC states. That makes it much harder to decisively cripple with a new wave of strikes. And this will only be part of the picture. Indeed, the most consequential reality is that such an escalation scenario will not be one-sided. If the U.S. attacks Iranian power and energy infrastructure, Iran has demonstrated it can retaliate in kind and has explicitly threatened it will expand attacks on energy and power targets across the Persian Gulf and Israel. And what if the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia (which circumvents the Strait of Hormuz) is also struck, or the Bab al-Mandab is disrupted? Will this escalation scenario then produce Iranian capitulation? Highly unlikely. What it does risk is global crude oil prices spiking toward $200 a barrel, pushing countries around the world, including the U.S., toward recession if not depression. This would arguably destroy Trump’s legacy and Republican prospects for the November midterms. All while pulling him deeper into an escalation trap, where the more he digs in, the bigger the quagmire becomes and the harder it will be to exit.
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump tells me: Iran deal possible by Tuesday, otherwise "I am blowing up everything". My story on @axios axios.com/2026/04/05/tru…

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Nemo
Nemo@faithfulpolaris·
@CCantonii Abuser would hate to live like person they are abusing.
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I'd rather be a Miami Cuban than a Havana Cuban living in the shit hole communism produced
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@AngelicaOung The US wasn't sanctioning Belarus in the pictured time period. Russian corruption and kleptocracy for an eastern European slavic people is just inferior to free markets and liberal democracy aligned with the US for a similar population
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@AngelicaOung Compare El Salvador and Cuba. Compare the UAE with Iran. Compared Poland with Belarus. When countries ally with the US, they enjoy prosperity and freedom.
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@AngelicaOung Nah they have brought the communist regime to its knees once the IRI is subdued they are next on the list to get some freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅
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Trump is resisting it, but the only way out is through. Total commitment. Let's get a real army in the field and crush this terrorist regime in Iran once and for all.
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Iranian/Russian/Chinese propaganda is just a constant stream of lies. Not complicated takes but strait up lies. If you get stuck debunking it it's a waste of time, if you just ignore it they repeat the lies so much less informed 3rd parties start believing it. Asymmetric problem
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@zriboua China has both theoretical and actual capital controls in place. No one is gonna use yuan as a reserve currency if your investments in the Chinese stock market can be suddenly seized or frozen because it's politically convenient for Beijing to do so.
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Zineb Riboua
Zineb Riboua@zriboua·
The renminbi accounts for 8.5 percent of global foreign exchange, the US dollar, by contrast, remains overwhelmingly dominant, appearing on one side of 89.2% of all FX trades, and the yuan remains not yet fully convertible, meaning the petroyuan thesis requires Gulf states to anchor their fiscal systems to a currency they cannot freely trade on global markets, a proposition Riyadh has shown no serious appetite for. Saudi Arabia and the UAE together hold approximately $250 billion in US Treasuries, with GCC sovereign wealth funds managing more than $6 trillion overall, much of it dollar-denominated. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…
Sari Arho Havrén@SariArhoHavren

“And now that [Xi Jinping] has called for the yuan to be a reserve currency, the technocrats will be eager to fulfil this. Should the yuan move towards becoming a reserve currency, where a significant fraction of Chinese government debt is held by foreign investors, there will be a large foreign appetite to accommodate this. It will happen in the next five years. Investors are starved for ways to diversify away from the US dollar.” Rogoff also comments that the European policymakers are moving to do something similar to what China needs to do in creating their own financial [more US independent] infrastructure. 1/2

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