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@Chaz007299 @MaryBowdenMD We need more medical schools. Anecdotally see many smart 🇺🇸 kids having to go to the Caribbean. But as a patient, looking at wait times, doesn’t seem like we have enough doctors in 🇺🇸.

I think that's a big part her point. We probably do need more doctors, but why take them from places that clearly need them more than we do? Plus if we had the will we could easily produce more doctors using our own citizens. So why don't we? It seems obvious to me that the reason we don't is because there aren't enough qualified non-white applicants. There are plenty of qualified white applicants, but they aren't wanted because the "diversity goals" would not be met. Solution: steal brown doctors from third-world countries (where they are sorely needed) so the US medical system can be more diverse. White college kids that would love to go to med school get screwed, patients get screwed, dirt poor populations in the third-world countries get screwed, but who cares, we have our beloved diversity.

Do we really have a physician shortage? US is far ahead of Pakistan and India in terms of physician density, yet we keep getting told we need their doctors to survive.

@Ross__Hendricks @Nick_duCat @SantiagoAuFund Except former 4 stars are saying the same thing: “The overall U.S. and Israeli strategic objectives for Iran remain "murky," he said.” axios.com/2026/03/24/mat…

@Nick_duCat @SantiagoAuFund You’re only allowed to question the plan if you’re a 4-star general working inside the pentagon as we speak Otherwise you couldn’t possibly make an informed decision about what’s happening here

Just because Iran spent the past 40 years planning for a potential conflict with the US doesn't mean the US has spent the past 40 years planning for a conflict with Iran. The Administration thought the regime would collapse within 48 hours. It didn't happen. Now we wing it daily.

@madeindefiance @ryangrim 💯 Sam Harris is another one. They pretend to be free thinkers but in reality it is tribal mindset.

@NSheikh084 @ryangrim It's funny how a former atheist who gave us "Religulous" is now a fundamentalist nutter justifying war and mass murder with the Bible

Did not know that Stephen A. is actually a bit of a maniac. Defending AIPAC and the war on Iran? Bizarre

@DrMirkin @ryangrim A terrorist attack by Hamas followed by a campaign of mass murder by 🇮🇱. This campaign was preceded by genocidal statements by 🇮🇱 leadership like references to Amalek by Netanyahu.

@NSheikh084 @ryangrim Remind me what happened on Oct 7 again?

@OldEngineer91 @GerardAraud Serious question. Why is a Saudi based account never critical of any Saudi foreign policy? Every decision of the government can’t be optimal.

@GerardAraud Oh you are so smart! Just wait a couple of weeks my friend. You will see who will come out on top!

He has been repeatedly a pathetic strategist…

@HamidMirPAK @realDonaldTrump @HRHMBNSALMAN They are best friends, why are you getting involved?

Highly condemnable remarks made by @realDonaldTrump about a respected leader of Saudi Arabia @HRHMBNSALMAN

War is not a covert CIA operation. You can look at what is happening on the battlefield and assess what the strategy is. Original goal: decapitation will lead to regime collapse. Didn’t work. Now overwhelming aerial bombardment will lead to regime collapse. So far not working and the literature says never works. Next step, boots on the ground.

@Ross__Hendricks @SantiagoAuFund Yeah, which openly broadcasting while in the midst of executing them would be incredibly thick 😂 Let's leave it there, eh?

For those who think the U.S. does not have a plan with regards to Iran, pls answer this one question: If the U.S. has no plan, then why did Iran spend the last 40 years preparing to counter the U.S.'s plan...?

@HothaAli @momojojo43 So same argument as the 🇮🇱 are making basically, choosen people?

@momojojo43 He chose the prophet Mohammed who is from my country.

As a Muslim, your prayers are not accepted if you turn your back on Saudi Arabia, and if you are able to visit it but choose not to, then you will go to hell.

@1997marlins @ianbremmer @TheEconomist Father was an 86 year old sick man, would have died soon anyways. And who cares about charisma, has the regime been changed? Also we are constantly told by western media that over 80% of 🇮🇷 people hate the regime so what charisma?

@NSheikh084 @ianbremmer @TheEconomist no one has seen jr. He is a complete figurehead. His father had charisma he has zero charisma.

A month of bombing Iran has achieved nothing. Will Donald Trump escalate, or talk? For now, at least, the advantage lies with the Islamic Republic. Register for free to learn why econ.st/4bPYtXk

@SantiagoAuFund This is a faith based argument. Instead of talking about the war as it is currently being executed, you are referring to something we supposedly cannot know but must exist.

Imagine being confused as to why a military doesn't publicly disclose their war plans to you...

When critics say there is no plan they are referring to what former Sec Def Jim Mattis recently pointed out as a lack of strategic thinking about 🇮🇷 on behalf of the Trump Admin. This doesn’t mean 🇺🇸 isn’t achieving tactical success and blowing a-lot of stuff up. How all that ties into the political end state Trump Admin desires is the question. If Trump supporters can’t identify that end state and the answer is simply 🇨🇳 or they know more than us, that doesn’t seem sufficient.

Who is we? The defense contractors make a-lot of money and the politicians do what they were sent to do. At a higher level this is something analysts/intellectuals struggle with. Critiquing behavior from rational point of view but with the wrong assumptions of the players motivations. They are playing a different game.

The issue with the war in Iran is that even if ‘we’ win, ‘we’ don’t actually get anything. There are no benefits to the average American, while he must bear all of the costs.

@Nadav_Eyal This is a classic case of the escalation trap. If what you are doing isn’t working, double down.

Exclusive- Israeli officials I speak with admit Iran’s core perception may be decisive: Tehran believes it is winning this war. When Iran agrees to a “gesture of goodwill” in Hormuz, it doesn’t see a concession- it sees recognition of its control. They say the leadership- operating under pressure and isolation - has only a partial picture of the damage inside Iran, reinforcing that confidence. Some now argue only a sharper escalation, including energy targets, can reset that calculus. This view has been presented to both American and Israeli decision-makers. Read my latest here, (and sign up to my substack): nadaveyal.com/p/irans-danger…

@saxena_puru There are no easy off ramps now. It is a question of least bad option.

As per AXIOS, JD Vance had a tense call with Netanyahu where he accused the president of being far too optimistic in his regime change assessment which were sold to Trump before the war. The US administration miscalculated and now needs to take the "off ramp" ASAP.

My sense is the pain is not enough yet. It has to get to the point where the public becomes one issue voter. Get prices down. Alternatively something needs to break in markets? I just don’t see the political will yet to do something hard. Trump measures his success by how high the DOW is and is already pissed at our current loose monetary policy.

@NSheikh084 Issue is inflation errors compound, so the issue gets worse. We have already seen pre war that inflation got worse by them allowing it to linger. Labor issues would be bad, but so far there are none, and it is a far easier fix.

The Fed has ignored the average consumer saying they expect 6% plus inflation. Can they any longer? Maybe consumers were in fact prescient in knowing that we were going to get a shock one way or the other.

First of all there is zero accountability in 🇺🇸. The people who have been wrong about everything are still running around in the circles of power. Case in point Lindsay Graham. Secondly what good is blame when catastrophic mistakes have been made. Will blaming Bush bring back trillions wasted on stupid wars? Not a fan of Biden, but miraculously we found something even worse.

@NSheikh084 @SohrabAhmari I disagree. Biden had full-blown cognitive decline, and having people make decisions without any accountability is scary. At least we know who to blame here.

The circa-2024 Biden was less senile than this.

The theory 🇮🇷 seems to be operating on is 🇮🇱 is both well protected and has high pain tolerance. The war is popular there as opposed to 🇺🇸. So they decided to focus more on 🇺🇸. The vulnerability they seemed to identify was economic. So how so you cause global economic downturn? A combination of high oil prices and disruption of normal economic life in the region. The problem with just focusing on Hormuz is you aren’t creating deterrence. Also Trump said multiple times that no one thought 🇮🇷 would hit GCC like this. If they didn’t do this, you think the threat to hit Gulf energy as a response would be taken seriously? Reality is so far hitting GCC has creating deterrence with respect to energy infrastructure.

@NSheikh084 @Scaramucci you could just focus on closing Hormuz. That's it. Attack Israel (add the air force used to GCC) + SoH + threats on energy infrastructure (or reciprocal attacks if received). The plan to used them to put pressure didn't work.

Iran’s biggest strategic blunder: bombing the Gulf states to pressure them into a ceasefire. Saudi Arabia, UAE & Qatar went from ‘please don’t start this war’ to ‘don’t stop until Iran’s missile sites are rubble.’ Tehran handed Washington its regional coalition. #Iran #MiddleEast