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Brandon Cantillo
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@shanaka86 @hrothenb Game, set and match. Iran has defeated the great satan and will be rolling into D.C. to set up its new headquarters!
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Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here is what actually happened to each of them.
Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck.
UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with.
Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning.
Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities.
Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself.
Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications.
Now understand what Iran just accomplished strategically. In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating.
Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next.
And the damage tells the real story. One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything.
Compare this to what Israel did to Tehran this morning. Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself.
One side hit what it aimed at. The other side hit one civilian with debris.
This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again.
They will not let it happen again.
Watch for the joint statement. Watch for airspace coordination between Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Kuwait City. Watch for the coalition that Iran just built against itself with a single salvo.
Iran did not retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran gave every country in the Middle East a reason to retaliate against Iran.
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@madame1911 @sanchezcastejon youtu.be/s8hEtI9AI0U?si…
Hottest song on the net right now!
"Tell the ayatollah gonna put you in a box" indeed!
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@sanchezcastejon x.com/niohberg/statu…🔴🔴🔴No opinan lo mismo las iraníes.🥰🥰🥰
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎@NiohBerg
Amazing. Iranians are playing music and DANCING IN THE STREETS. Everyone waited for this day.
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Rechazamos la acción militar unilateral de EE.UU. e Israel, que supone una escalada y contribuye a un orden internacional más incierto y hostil.
Rechazamos igualmente las acciones del régimen iraní y de la Guardia Revolucionaria. No podemos permitirnos otra guerra prolongada y devastadora en Oriente Medio.
Exigimos la desescalada inmediata y el pleno respeto del derecho internacional.
Es hora de retomar el diálogo y alcanzar una solución política duradera para la región.
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@sanchezcastejon Eres un perro comunista/fascista, apoyando el regimen asesino en Iran. Todos nosotros los que apoyamos el valiente pueblo de Iran en su valiente resistencia a la tirania su regimen islamofascista nos unimos a Israel y America en sus acciones valientes y justas.
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@MichaelARothman One quibble... your post says "her" and "she" multiple times... the female never spoke, it was only the male...
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𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘
Peter Boghossian didn’t argue.
He didn’t insult.
He didn’t grandstand.
He just asked questions — and the answers exposed everything.
On camera, he encountered a student who insisted that 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘆, 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁.
Not partially.
Not debatably.
Uniquely.
Absolutely.
So Boghossian did the obvious thing: he asked her to define her terms.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺?
That’s where it fell apart.
No law.
No policy.
No rule on the books.
She admitted it had nothing to do with laws.
Instead, it was about “entrenched social movements.”
When asked what those were —
She couldn’t say.
So he narrowed it down further.
𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.
Still nothing.
The answer shifted to vibes.
Interactions.
Feelings.
How “people act.”
When pressed again, the definition finally emerged:
𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀. 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.
That’s it.
That’s the theory.
No mechanism.
No evidence.
No falsifiable claim.
Just a closed loop.
Then came the most important moment of the entire exchange.
Boghossian asked the question that separates belief from ideology:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱?
Her answer:
უ𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥.
Nothing.
No data.
No argument.
No evidence.
He followed up:
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁?
Her response:
𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢.
That’s the tell.
A belief that cannot be challenged by evidence is not an opinion.
It’s not analysis.
It’s not even ignorance.
It’s 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆.
No gradient.
No nuance.
No middle ground.
It simply 𝗶𝘀 — because it has to be.
And that’s the real problem at the center of all of this.
You can’t debate people who don’t know what would change their mind.
You can’t reason with someone who admits evidence doesn’t matter.
This is what happens when education stops teaching people 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 and starts teaching them 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁.
And until that changes, this conversation will keep looping forever — just like the ideology itself.
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@ksorbs @ZubyMusic This has been known scientifically ever since the Milgram experiment in 1961.. people will obey authority even to the point of disregarding their own moral convictions... thus explaining even Nazi Germany...
It takes a very strong-willed person to resist.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_e…
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The question “What would you do in Germany 1939” has been answered. I’m severely disappointed.
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@_ElleJohnson No, the rampant toxic feminism nowadays won't let you have male heroes, males are the enemy, remember? 🙄
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@AliRosePB You look a little cold in spite of being in the sun! 😉
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@realDonaldTrump Since for now, the deficit has to take a back seat, i wonder if it would help if the govt announced the equivalent of "student loans" for businesses who would move manufacturing out of China, and back to the US... Under the same terms... not subject to discharge via bankruptcy
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Through massive devaluation of their currency and pumping vast sums of money into their system, the tens of billions of dollars that the U.S. is receiving is a gift from China. Prices not up, no inflation. Farmers getting more than China would be spending. Fake News won’t report!
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