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@markito0171 China sitting back, making notes.

maybe 🇮🇷 deployed systems like Bavar-373 deeper in the eastern Iran however still unconfirmed

@donwinslow 77 million would vote for him again.

Donald Trump destroys everything he touches. Sometimes it takes years, but he always does it IMO.

@ChrisO_wiki Ah yes ...China builds more wind and solar than the rest of the world combined every year. They also have nearly 40 nuclear reactors under construction.

Well, who could have known this

@LeodhasXD @ChrisO_wiki China's sodium ion batteries enter the chat.

@ChrisO_wiki Bit simplified though - lithium and cobalt for batteries is the new black gold. Unless Donut Labs have something mindblowing...

@mercoglianos Order Uber eats, yacht edition.

🚨Crews at risk in the Gulf🚨 Just heard from a crewmember on one of the 3,200 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf. A ship called the local port authority requested permission to dock as they had run out of water. They were denied permission! Multiple ships are in the same condition, with stores, food and fuel running low. Ports are overwhelmed and security is such that they are refusing permission for ships to dock. Crews cannot get off and reliefs cannot fly in. What is being done to address this matter @POTUS @SecWar @SecDuffy @DOTMARAD @IMOSecGen @IMOHQ.

@CascadingDesign @bigblackjacobin Maybe you're AI generated. Ever consider that?

@bigblackjacobin clip might be AI generated

@bigblackjacobin Totally demented. Also, extremely bad prose. Dude clearly never read Lord of the Rings.

@Doylech The State Department was cleared out of those types of people months ago. 🫠

Why just the smart set?

@TheVikingDane The only way through this is to join with mutual friends. Like Canada.

I cannot believe it would ever come to this. The Danes have always admired America and to see we prepared for a possible invasion just breaks my heart. People have no idea how betrayed we feel.

@ChrisO_wiki ELBOWS up. Canada would do the same.

This is a sentiment I've heard a lot 👇

@josephC808 @policytensor All the gas shipments are spoken for. It's not like they can magically make more LNG appear.

@policytensor "impact on the Global economy" Trump MAGA doesn't care. Australia already pivoting to US for energy dependence.

The pain delivery mechanism being used by the Hormuz weapon works through multiple vectors, all reinforcing each other, with the costs cumulating exponentially. Does he want to cut his losses or watch his presidency implode? He has maybe a couple of weeks to decide.

@SRG_News_NYC @policytensor One or two more strikes on Gulf oil infrastructure will be the tipping point. No amplification required.

@policytensor Western media amplifies worst-case scenarios selectively. Most initial claims prove false. Verify before amplifying.

@citrinowicz Trump is 80, Bibi is 76... Both are in ill health. Iran can survive for years....can they?

The campaign’s conclusion for now risks creating a dangerous illusion: that the Iran problem has been solved. It has not. Even if Iran’s missile production has been temporarily disrupted, its military-industrial base is fundamentally indigenous. That means Tehran retains the knowledge and capacity to rebuild. The timeline may be longer, but reconstruction is a matter of when not if so long as the regime endures. The nuclear picture is even more troubling. Iran still possesses a significant stockpile of enriched uranium, roughly 440 kilograms for 60% material that would be extremely difficult to neutralize or remove. Coupled with centrifuges that were untouched and the potential for covert or renewed enrichment activity, Iran could move to weapons-grade enrichment within months of a political decision. This is only a snapshot. Even in its current state, Iran likely retains a substantial missile arsenal, hundreds of launchers, and a growing UAV capability — enough to sustain a prolonged war of attrition. Most concerning is the regime itself. If it survives this confrontation weakened but more radicalized and driven by vengeance, it is likely to double down: rebuilding its capabilities and seriously reconsidering a move toward nuclear breakout. There have been real tactical gains. But strategy demands honesty. As long as the regime remains in power , especially in a more extreme form, the long-term threat from Iran is far from resolved. #iran

@michaeldweiss Well....it didn't help Syria went bankrupt and transformed itself into the regions largest illicit drugs producer.

Israel in fact warned Assad repeatedly to keep Iranian influence in Syria at bay; he was the “devil you know” option much preferred to the alternative. How can we be sure? When Assad was ousted, Israel bombed every piece of military equipment it could find in Syria lest the alternative come into possession of it. newlinesmag.com/reportage/insi…

@MazMHussain Becky is such a UAE sockpuppet....well, she does live there.

They should make it $1.4 zillion if they're making things up to curry favor.

@academic_la It's a vast country twice the size of France, mountainous, a natural fortress, 93 million people, higher literacy rate than the USA, and they aren't surrendering.

I talked to two Israeli sources on why Iranian launches continue to increase, despite US-Israeli claims that they have destroyed almost all of the launchers. Here is what they said: 1) The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the "80% destruction" claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys. 2) Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran's shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches 3) Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into "Super-Hardened" facilities 4) Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike. 5) Because these launching units are decentralized, it is very hard for US and Israeli intelligence to get info on them. Israel and the United States do not have an answer to this problem. That is why they are trying escalation on energy sources instead. But that is backfiring.

@justhefaxmam @academic_la Dude. That is a good joke. 🤟

@academic_la Time for Israel to use The Samsonite Option ! Head to the airport 🧳🧳🤣

@FreeMikeWhite @academic_la Clearly.... They don't . Indeed, the US is running out of missiles after just a few weeks.

@academic_la You state "a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites", you commit the fallacy of omission. The U.S. and Israeli intel, military and satellites would be able to track and destroy these movements. They know where everything is.

@clownmojo @academic_la Look at a topographical map of Iran. Half of the country is mountains ....and the country is twice the size of France.

@academic_la Why does it matter if they go back underground in 10min? Can't those tunnel openings be discovered and destroyed?

@viridiumIV @academic_la @MarkAmesExiled Trump is playing whack a mole....blindfolded.

Seems the US/Israel is playing poker, while Iran is playing chess and are thinking several moves ahead. Probably why, regime change plan is a fail, so now it's regime collapse like Libya or Syria. Netanyahu doesn't really have much of a plan. Hmm thought someone who graduated from MIT would have been better at it.