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@md_a_ @kane Because other schools are still hanging on AA, they just use other excuse to get that done.

@kane The better question is why aren't peer schools seeing the same thing?

“The Supreme Court banned race discrimination in college admissions and Asian acceptance rates increased. I have no idea how these two might be related. I am a reporter.”

@ArmsControlWonk We will set up a toll too. Tell me a reason why they will only pay the first toll by Iran, but not the 2nd toll by USA? Why their warship will not fight the first, but decide to fight the 2nd toll?

So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?

@johnarnold What did they do when Iran stopped them? So they didn’t fight them and just pay them. What if we stopped them and ask for 2-5 millions? They decide to fight? We can do it too if Iran can.

So what happens when a Chinese ship is trying to exit the Strait? The US is going to block it? The Chinese will allow that to happen?

@DavidFlagg20 @KimDavi27184690 @disclosetv We can just mine the whole area. It will be shutdown. Does not matter “ a lot they can do “ then. Once their cargo ships stopped, they will not pay anything to Iran to sustain Iran’s economy and military capabilities.

40% of Chinese oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz. There is a lot that they can do about it. Sadly, I do not have the time to give you the proper lesson on geopolitics and world powers. Google is your friend. Idiot.

JUST IN - Trump orders the U.S. Navy to blockade the Strait of Hormuz to "any and all ships trying to enter, or leave." Also instructing the U.S. Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in international waters that has paid a toll to Iran: "No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas."

@DrEliDavid Most PhDs work for someone without a PhD. Go and check all Fortune 500 companies or tiny private companies.

Looks like only the American side are experienced in negotiations

@Simi_2210_ 179。 if you take more than 10s to solve this, you are in mental decline.

If you solve this, you’re different Can you solve ?

@4evercontrarian @Its_ereko Spain asked all other EU countries to step up to fill the blank when the U.S. pull out. But they will not contribute more to the defense budget. “I will be the leader, but I will only contribute my loud voice , nothing more!”

@Its_ereko My boy Sanchez is really leading a movement in the EU. Spain setting themselves up to be the US of the EU

🚨🇪🇸 BREAKING: Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez just called for a common European army. Not in 10 years. Not in 2 years. Now. As soon as tomorrow. NATO is cracking. The US is pulling away. Europe is waking up to the fact that its security blanket is gone. A European army means no more waiting for Washington's permission. No more begging for US troops. No more wondering if Trump will answer the phone. The world just got more complicated. The US just got more isolated. And Europe just took its first real step toward strategic independence. This is not a headline. This is a turning point.

@Its_ereko Glad for the waning time. For a long time they have high welfare budget and low defense spending. Spain does not agree to spend more 2%. To be independent, they need significant cuts in their welfare or increase tax. What is Spain’s position: let others step up, not me.

@visegrad24 What kind of download speed can you reach ? Most will be less than 1Gb/s. Please calculate how long it will take you.

BREAKING: Hackers have stolen 10 petabytes of data from China’s largest state-run supercomputing facility in Tianjin The hackers were inside the system for months & stole: - Missile and bomb schematics - Aerospace and aviation research - Bioinformatics & fusion simulation data

@key00FF @shanaka86 Exactly

This is bullshit!!! Transferring 10 petabytes at 1 Gbps would take about 2 years, and at 10 Gbps around 3 months. There is NO WAY to move that amount of data out to the public internet unnoticed in China. And another question - where is this even stored for sale? It’s not a flash drive. You’re full of shit!!! And the people who believe this are complete idiots.

While China was busy shipping missile chemicals to Iran and collecting yuan tolls at Hormuz, someone was inside its most sensitive supercomputer stealing everything. CNN reports that a hacker group calling itself FlamingChina breached the China National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin and exfiltrated up to 10 petabytes of classified defence data. The samples posted on dark web forums include bomb and missile designs, animated explosion simulations, structural integrity tests, renderings of the J-20 stealth fighter, sixth-generation aircraft concepts, nuclear submarine schematics, hypersonic weapons systems, and target analyses for American assets including HIMARS launchers and carrier strike groups. Ten petabytes. For context, the entire printed collection of the US Library of Congress is approximately 10 terabytes. This breach is one thousand times that volume. It is being sold for cryptocurrency on Breach Forums. Cybersecurity experts who reviewed the previews told CNN the data appears genuine, matching known output patterns from the NSCC Tianjin facility, which serves over 6,000 clients including defence agencies and aviation firms across China. The timing is extraordinary. Trump posted a 50 percent tariff threat on any country supplying military weapons to Iran hours before CNN published this story. Five Chinese vessels shipped sodium perchlorate to Iran from Gaolan Port in the past six weeks, enough propellant precursor for hundreds of ballistic missiles. China’s ghost fleet continues operating through the IRGC’s yuan toll booth at Hormuz. And now the supercomputer that designed the weapons China is helping Iran reconstitute has been gutted by hackers selling its contents for the same cryptocurrency that Iran charges for strait passage. The irony is architectural. China built a parallel financial system using yuan and crypto to bypass the dollar at Hormuz. A hacker group is now using crypto to bypass Chinese state security and sell Beijing’s most classified military designs to anyone with a wallet address. The same technology that enables sanction evasion enables espionage monetisation. The blockchain does not distinguish between a toll payment and a weapons leak. It processes both. For Xi, this is a catastrophe arriving at the worst possible moment. Bessent’s mid-May Beijing summit was already going to be difficult. Trump holds the waiver on 140 million barrels of Chinese-bound Iranian crude. The 50 percent tariff threat targets China’s arms pipeline. The IDF just destroyed 100 Hezbollah targets using F-35I aircraft with Israeli software upgrades the Pentagon approved today. And now the classified designs for China’s most advanced military systems, the systems that justify the rare earth monopoly and the South China Sea posture and the Taiwan coercion campaign, are available for purchase on a dark web forum for less than the price of a single Hormuz transit. If the data is genuine, every adversary and ally of China can now reverse-engineer the capabilities Beijing spent decades and hundreds of billions developing. The J-20’s stealth profile. The hypersonic glide vehicle’s trajectory calculations. The nuclear submarine’s acoustic signature. The sixth-generation fighter’s sensor architecture. All of it, priced in crypto, available now. China wanted to build a post-dollar world. A hacker group just demonstrated what that world looks like when the technology works in both directions. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@Rothmus If my wife pays 1548 for G wagon and 500 for hair and nails + 251 for gym, total about 2300, then we may be still paying for 3581 rent or mortgage. Try 10-20 instead of 2300 if you only make 7500 or 15000.

+ Income $7,500.81 - rent $3,581 - utilities $1,200 - gym + personal trainer $251 - groceries $548 - G-wagon $1,548 - hair + nails $500 - gas (husband paid) - kids (nothing) Will borrow $124 from a friend. Art. 👌

@NajamAli2020 @ERobb69 If Iran tries to take out entire region, and the world doesn’t care, why should we? We have enough oil ourselves and from Venezuela. Just hit them harder. We can sell oil at higher price to recover the bill.

@ERobb69 He won’t do it. Knows well Iran will take out the entire region

My read on the Iran war endgame: The final settlement will formalize what the battlefield already decided. Iran gets permanent leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. In return: uranium enrichment stops, missiles capped at the current 2,000km range, and sanctions lifted immediately. The non-aggression pact gets guaranteed by China or the UN and not Washington. There is no other realistic outcome. Every escalation from here further weakens the U.S. position, not Iran’s. Tehran has already won the strategic war, even as it loses the military one.

@BowesChay Protest is all they can do

As US military Aircraft are forced to "fly around" European airspace to Iran- What would those European countries (and NATO Allies") do exactly, if the Americans just flew over them anyway? Think about it.

@Kunluntalk 2018年，30-50美军特种兵与200左右的叙利亚民主阵线成员死守油田，面对100-300瓦格纳特种兵与叙利亚军（总共有500-800人），打得俄军死亡100以上，总伤亡200-300。美军零伤亡。这次100-200美军参战，又不用死守，伊朗来1-2千人都不一定行。再说了，地形也展不开

假如我是伊朗军队大统领，我肯定会让美军此次救援行动，吃不了，兜着回去：从纯军事作战角度来看，此次美国营救飞行员，是给伊朗创造了三次重创美军的机会，如果伊朗方面，有人能抓住机会，指挥得当，都可以严重打击美军，扭转战局，掣肘美国，甚至能和川普进行谈判要价！但伊朗的整个作战系统，武器，尤其是跨军种协同指挥的能力太差了，白白丢掉了美国白给的三次绝佳机会，反而让美国反手为主，在伊朗的主场，打击了伊朗人的抵抗心理。 第一次，飞行员跳伞后伊朗获得大概位置，应该马上布置反救援打击策略，在美军前来救援的必经路线，设下地对空打击点，因为美军是铁定要来救的，伊朗只负责瞄准美国飞机。但伊朗没有做到这一点，让美国特种部队突破了第一道防线，接近了飞行员。 第二次，围绕飞行员藏身之地，设置内外三层伏击网。利用熟悉地形的主场优势，歼灭到达伏击圈的美军。这是最重要的一环，也是伊朗能够拖住美军，把营救行动，打成重创美军的反击战的重大机会，任何一个军事指挥官都会很兴奋的拼尽全力来实现。 如果成功，不但困住了人质，重创了救援美军，还能将战斗推向战略层面，借机向美国和川普提出条件，改变战争态势。 当然，伊朗1%的概率都没有做到。美军直接到达救援点。 第三次，美军救援返回路线，伊朗人的最后一个关卡，再次进行敌对空伏击，将急于撤离的美军，在返回路线中重创。当然，前两次没任何作为的伊朗，这次已经彻底失败了。 如果我是伊朗指挥官，我肯定会让川普知道，伊朗有一个厉害的大将，名叫昆仑，把美国的此次救援行动，打成了救援陷阱，让美国损兵折将，骑虎难下，现在，他，已经敢和川普叫板谈条件😂😅

@AhronBregman @DoctorLFC how can they hold up once their economy and manufacturing go to zero? Keep it up 2-3 years they will be nothing no matter how hard line they are. A lot of their neighbors will grab their share and Iran will need to deal with civil war and invasion from all fronts.

@DoctorLFC Threatening the Iranians that they will experience "Hell" won't convince them to reopen the Strait. Suffering defines many Iranians, and they will not be swayed by threats of "Hell".

At this point, USA having nukes is a lot more dangerous for the world than Iran having nukes.

@Arrogance_0024 Yes, surrender is the dogma of French. We all knew that.

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.

@MarioNawfal Big deal. Given the budget is 900 billions, it is less than 0.05%.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rescue operation for F-15 pilot cost the U.S up to $386 million in aircraft alone: F-15E Strike Eagle destroyed: about $100 million A-10 Thunderbolt II destroyed: about $18.8 million 2× C-130 Hercules destroyed: $150 - $200+ million total MH-6 Little Bird destroyed: about $7.5 million 1–2× MQ-9 Reapers destroyed: about $30–60 million Value of saving a U.S pilot stuck in enemy territory: Priceless Source: Clash Report

@angeloinchina Probably is just a pure speculation.

Probably dozens of rescuers killed just to save one man. All for a “feel-good” Netflix story and to keep feeding the Rambo myth of “no one left behind.” It’s pure theatrics and optics. This is exactly what will destroy the US empire: the ego, the obsession with performance over actual results, metrics, and cold reality.

@ALaini77 @RepDonBacon You are an idiot to take someone’s post from movie scene as a reality.

@RepDonBacon A US general, and you're talking about that without reliable sources? I'll answer you as you did: Whose picture is that, and what type of flight suit did the pilot captured in Iran wear?

Reports of the second USAF aircrew member rescued is an answer to all our prayers. I honor the bravery of our search and rescue teams and our special forces. I hope no casualties. And, I salute the F-15E Weapon Systems Officer who put their survival skills to work in a very dangerous and harrowing situation.

@chrismartenson Declaw and defang them, cripple them. Yes, they can survive with full heart of hate, but there is very limited thing they can do. Respond by what ? Every time they respond, hit them 10 times.

This is madness. Iran will respond, and everything will get irreparably worse and take years to unfuck. The US and Israel have isolated themselves from the rest of the world. The economic blowback will be intense. The dollar & Treasuries will soon be on life support.