@malmesburyman Lol, Vance clearly is not insulated here.
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ReviewBrah's Bravest Soldier
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My friend is astute: Trump is expending HIS political capital to do hard, (in his view) necessary things for the country, while insulating his successor from the political costs. You are seeing political acumen and legacy-building at the highest level.
T@walterwhitepill
Consistent pattern you'll see from now-2028: >Trump wades into controversial subject/policy >Creates maximum fallout on himself among people who already hate him >Vance/others are elsewhere doing impactful work and politely nodding Ex: Right now, Trump is prosecuting a trifling military affair in the Middle East while Vance builds what is essentially a purpose-built internal governmental tech company to root out waste/fraud and abuse, overlapping fixing immigration and massive defrauding of our taxpayers, saving untold billions and dismantling the system that is subsidizing the destruction of the country. Meanwhile, there are things you don't hear about unless you intentionally step out of the torrent of Current Things... Did you know we're currently building more border wall than at any point in history under any administration? That's not propaganda from the admin, that's alarmist reporting from the Washington Post. Yet what do you hear about... Iran? In 2028, Trump is retiring, people forget that. He knows it too and is acting accordingly. Many things get buried with the scapegoat.
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@___eb__ "The Iran War is only damaging to the Right because the Right allows it to damage them."
It's so unfortunate that this narrative is spreading. We can't wishcast away the negative consequences of this war, and Trump's voters have genuine reason to feel betrayed over it.
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@ChristianHeiens The Right getting demoralized from hundreds of American corpses in the Middle East would be the fault of the admin who caused those corpses.
This disaster can't be reversed by just smiling through it. Ending this Zionist war is the onlyvway out.
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A US invasion of Iran is not going to produce the tens of thousands of dead Americans that third-world propagandists continue to claim it would. There's no universe where the United States loses militarily to Iran in a conventional way.
The entire Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined amounted to less than 8,000 killed over a 20-year period. What's likely going to happen is the US suffers a few hundred casualties taking Kharg Island and any other coastal facilities the Pentagon wishes to use as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations.
That isn't the problem. The problem is that such a ground offensive will be used to further demoralize the Right and bring the cultural Marxists back into power.
People who would love nothing more than to reopen the border, import another 20 million third-worlders, trans kids, and leverage state power to discriminate against White men will not openly campaign on these things.
They'll campaign on the Virginia model. They'll talk about "affordability" and "being against the war". Only after being swept into power on the back of public anti-war sentiment will they begin to implement the various civilizationally destructive policies of gay race communism that we're all now all too familiar with.
This war with Iran is stupid not because we can't win, but because it will be used to destroy the Right and bring those who hate this country and its people back into power.
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 At least you didn't try to argue Vietnam, but yes, DC lost to China in Korea. The CCP routed them across the peninsula and preserved North Korea.
Third-worldist? You just got done telling me that the Pacific War was justified because of those poor Chinese.
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@DewFanatic97 @ArmpitAdmirer2 also we didnt lose in korea, but nice third worldist reasoning and world view
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 Hmm, maybe a Communist revolution in a war-torn country where you just destroyed central authority is entirely foreseeable.
Why launch tbe largest war in US history over "muh China" and then leave them to die by the tens of millions?
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@DewFanatic97 @ArmpitAdmirer2 the only reason the communists won the civil war was because the natIonalists were worn out and weakened from fighting the japanese while mao hid in the hills. japan is responsible for communist china
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 As for "diplomatic consequences," the US didn't demand that they withdraw from Indochina. It demanded that they abandon all of their Chinese and Manchurian territory. All attempts to negotiate were shut down.
The US blatantly knew what this would do.
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 I don't see why you included the "sole intention" line there. It's true, but that works in favor of my argument. Who else invaded neutral Indo-Chinese territory in the 70s to interdict enemy supply lines?
The Japanese didn't make the Mongols look like saints either.
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 And when we consider that much of DC's ire centered around the plight of the Chinese, who were then left at the mercy of a Communist regime which killed millions and helped defeat DC in Vietnam and Korea, it's even more ridiculous.
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@Icekiller369 @ArmpitAdmirer2 The US embargo meant their economy was going to implode within a year. Their attempts to negotiate were met with ultimatums so harsh that the US Secretary of War wrote: "The question was how we should maneuver the Japanese into firing the first shot."
A pointless war.
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@Blue_Sokolov Most retarded decision NATO ever made, which is saying something. Absolutely nothing good came from killing him, not for Libyans stuck in their perpetual civil war and not for Europeans suffering the stream of migrants.
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@choculatopguy @JadeAtrophis And since the regime is still functioning and fighting, the strait will stay closed. We're at the point where we're just hoping for an uprising to solve the problem for us, which is insane if that was the original plan from DC.
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@choculatopguy @JadeAtrophis The US hasn't said that, at least not publicly. There was a "sources say" story about Trump wondering why Israel still wanted people to rise up a few days ago, but that's a month into this war. American and Israeli plans make no sense unless they expected a regime collapse by now
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Well for one we don’t need to propagandize Iranians to win when we already decapitated their government and military
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@romanhelmetguy The real question is why isn't america doing the same? Because the material just isn't there.
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@husafell_stone To be honest, I don't think he could've won in any plausible scenario. The nation's demographics were too damaged by 2015, and the nation's institutions were never going to allow the kind of mass "remigration" necessary to fix that.
His main use was radicalizing US politics.
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Trump was supposed to be the way out. A savior. MAGA. Rebuild domestically, no more foreign wars. Iran fiasco negates MAGA. If this is not resolved soon, it may be remembered as one of greatest betrayals, possibly ever, in our lifetimes at least. No one voted for this, at all.
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@MadlerDO @douglassmackey Are the Druze Christian?
The new al-Queda leader of Syria visited the White House a few months ago, and Netanyahu personally took credit for starting the process that toppled Assad. So yes, you sacrificed Christians for Israel.
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@douglassmackey Now you are simping for a genocidal dictatorship to “protect” Christian’s? Funny the Druze unanimously prefer IDF protection in the south and are doing fine! Maybe if you and your buddies put pragmatism ahead of antisemitism the Christian communities there would thrive as well!
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We had to sacrifice Christianity in Syria for Israel’s security. No big deal.
henri@realhzakaria
Christianity in Syria is on the verge of disappearing completely, and no one on earth is doing anything about it. No one.
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@CynicalPublius Your war in Iran has materially and politically weakened your ability to face China. Retarded expansionists cheerleading imperial overreach to distract from domestic unrest is the real echo of history here.
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Some deep thought from a superb author. Worth the time.
LHGrey™️@grey4626
In the shadow of empires that once ruled the horizon and now lie bleached on history’s killing floor, a velvet noose tightens around the throat of the West. It is not fashioned from steel or cordite. It is woven from the softest threads of exhaustion, the warmest blankets of “not my problem,” and the sweetest lullaby ever sung to a dying civilization: *isolationism*. I have watched this siren song rise again like a corpse from shallow water...first as a murmur on cable news, then as applause lines at rallies, now as policy dressed in the respectable robes of “strategic restraint.” It is seductive precisely because it feels like wisdom. It flatters the tired, reassures the fearful, and absolves the gutless. Yet beneath its cashmere rhetoric lies the same ancient pathology that has toppled every great power foolish enough to choose the hearth over the blade. This essay is not a gentle caution. It is a forensic autopsy performed with a scalpel dipped in cold truth. It dissects the psychological machinery...prospect theory, hyperbolic discounting, amygdala hijack...that turns prudent citizens into strategic eunuchs. It exhumes the corpses of Rome’s limes, Britain’s Ten Year Rule, America’s Neutrality Acts, and Imperial Japan’s sakoku, showing in merciless detail how every retreat was sold as realism and delivered as suicide. It lays bare the military arithmetic, the geopolitical vacuum physics, and the economic self-cannibalism that isolationism always unleashes. You will not find soothing both-sides equivocation here. You will find ferocity, because the stakes are extinction-level and the hour is late. The wolves are not gathering at the gate; they are already inside the walls, measuring your blanket for a shroud. Read it slowly. Then decide whether you still believe the comfort of the cave is worth the cost of the coming dark. The piece that follows is the blade I have drawn. Use it to explain why isolationism is not the right choice, at all. Ever. Perhaps the stupid libertarians will understand this one. I doubt it. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…
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@WardoftheStates @KeenanPeachy This war, if it drains enough political capital to help hand leftists the midterms and then the White House, will be directly responsible for hordes of third-worlders flooding into the West.
Bombing random Muslims does nothing to combat third-worldism.
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@KeenanPeachy I need my Heckin Based RWers to stop peddling Libtard propaganda and third world slop for five seconds.
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Have now heard two of the most pro-war voices compare Iran war to “Iwo Jima” and “Vietnam”
Incredible marketing guys
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews
Ben Shapiro—after telling his audience for months that bombing Iran wouldn't lead to a wider war, and then claiming the war was just going to be a quick bombing campaign—is now telling Americans to prepare for a long war. "There is no way to extricate ourselves from this situation right now." Americans only got "tired" of Vietnam after 50,000 troops died, he says. "Our" military members are "heroes" because they're willing to "sacrifice" their lives "for a greater good"—a future world where "energy will become cheap again because the Strait of Hormuz will be free again."
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@romanhelmetguy The strait's cosure is doing that, not lego parody videos mocking its closure. You have no idea how this works.
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The reason the Iranian govt is releasing propaganda videos (in English) is because they know the only way they can possibly survive this war is by convincing the American public to apply enough pressure on Trump that he stops it. This should be obvious, but people are dumb.
Patricia Marins@pati_marins64
Iran doesn't seem intimidated at all and has just released another Lego video mocking the coalition.
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@Mastero87328978 @RWApodcast You're posting this under satellite imagery of the US losing tankers to Iran.
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Huh, the satellite footage today was actually from a *new* strike? I thought it was from the first attack that also damaged a bunch of tankers and only got published today. I thought the Americans had evacuated Prince Sultan Air Base after the first successful strike.
Clash Report@clashreport
CONFIRMED: Iranian missile & drone strikes hit Prince Sultan Air Base today, damaging several U.S. refueling aircraft. It’s the second strike on the base. Source: WSJ
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