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@Microinteracti1 Poland actually meets NATO targets and is a good friend to the U.S. Sheer retardation

Poland Paid $50 Billion for America’s Friendship. Turns Out That Wasn’t the Deal. Poland has spent fifty billion dollars on American weapons. F-35s, Abrams tanks, Patriots, HIMARS. The full catalogue, ordered with the desperate enthusiasm of a country that shares a border with Belarus. Last week the Pentagon scrapped plans to deploy 4,200 troops to Poland. The brigade had already held a send-off ceremony, shipped its tanks, and sent advance personnel into Europe. Then came the call. Don’t bother. Poland was blindsided. Their officials found out by ringing American congressmen. JD Vance turned up at the White House briefing today and told a Polish reporter he was overreacting. It was just a delay, he said. Europe needs to stand on its own two feet. Poland spends nearly four percent of GDP on defence. It hosted American troops and paid fifteen thousand dollars per soldier per year for the privilege. It sent men to Iraq when Washington asked, even when France and Germany quietly suggested that everyone involved might regret it. Rumsfeld once called Poland the most pro-American country on earth, including America itself.  The reward for twenty years of that devotion is being told, by a man who has never heard a gunshot in anger, to look in the mirror.

@policytensor Did you forget about the USSR? A milligram of critical thinking could provide the cure.

The reason for the end of the empire is not absolute US decline; it is relative US decline due to the rise of other powers who can fight and defeat the US. That is what the polarity transformation is about: the strength of other powers. How do you propose this will reverse?

@cc_sinuatus @20committee If you have one then I can have 2. It's only fair

@20committee Why stop at just one nuke?

The day that Iran announces it has a nuke -- whether that's next week or in 30 years -- mysteriously Saudi Arabia will have one by the following week. Turkey will be at most a couple years behind. Stopping that isn't worth Trump's foolish war, but it is geostrategic reality.

@gordanstark @gatorgar JPOCA was partial sanctions relief so they could continue low level enrichment. What other purpose does Iran want the capability to enrich uranium for?

@gordanstark @gatorgar Under your assertion, Iran isnt seeking a nuclear weapon. So if they aren't seeking a nuclear weapon and they have no need for nuclear energy, why did they not take the deal for full sanctions removal in exchange for no nuclear?

What’s the counter argument for “Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon?” Is it “Yes they should” or “Everyone should have nukes” or is it a cry for help? Like “Please nuke me?” I’m not a fan of policing the middle east for the rest of time, but I’m also not a fan of armageddon.

@mashabani Isnt that how you negotiate? You have a broad set of demands that gets whittled down to the minimum that you would accept. How do you negotiate? By not negotiating at all?

You don't have to be privy to details of the negotiations to understand that Trump has been inconsistent in his demands. US wanted "unconditional surrender", then "no nukes or missiles" then "hand over the nuclear dust". Quite rich to see Iran being accused of inconsistency.

@gordanstark @gatorgar If Iran isnt building nukes, then they should happily accept a deal where they give up enrichment for full sanctions relief which was offered by Obama and Trump. Yet they refused and still demand the right to enrich. If Iran isnt building a nuke, why wouldn't they make a deal?

@gatorgar In 1992, Netanyahu claimed Iran was 3-5 years from developing a nuclear weapon. The goalposts have been consistently moved until present day. Our own intelligence departments deny that Iran is building nuclear weapons to this day. So why are we there?

@aeberman12 Of course they would accept a diplomatic resolution that results in Iran giving up nuclear ambitions. Both Obama and Trump made that offer. If Iran wasnt seeking nukes who would care about it?

The US will accept a diplomatic resolution as long as Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon The war has collapsed into face-saving triage so defeat can be spun as “not losing.” Will Iran let the Bullshitter-In-Chief to slip out the back door? #Iran #Trump #Geopolitics #Oil

@RobertJMolnar Why do you keep saying "young buck", its weird.

Well then Trump needs to fully surrender to new young buck Iran regime demands Im not saying we should invade...I just saying that is all he has left as the non surrender option because more airstrikes aren't going to do shit

@EWErickson It's not like they were going to pass anything of substance anyways.

Between Cassidy and Cornyn, the President's agenda is going to be DOA in the Senate now. Add in Tillis, McConnell, etc. and why would they bother a heavy lift for Trump?

@KenGardner11 No bro everything changed in the last 6 weeks. Iran obtained alien tech that can track and destroy any flying object in a 20,000,000 mile radius.

I call complete, total bullshit on this one.

@brokenPrime @Tatarigami_UA When you say "the way we treated Ukraine", as in gave a couple hundred billion in aid and continue to provide intelligence to the Ukranians ?

@Tatarigami_UA I'm an American and I think Ukraine shouldn't just give it to us just because of the way we treated Ukraine.

I hope we tell them no. If anything, they can purchase a license and manufacture under that agreement while paying us. Transferring the rights should be off the table. The US weapons production operates on a strict licensing basis, so I don’t see why Ukraine should transfer

@TomHolsinger666 @TrentTelenko A second, a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade, a century, a millenia, an eternity.

@TrentTelenko 105% of what?

Food inflation in Iran is now higher than 105% due to the US blockade forcing food shipments by truck. Truck shipments are many times more expensive than ships which Iran used to import food with.

@CarolinaLion2 If you can get a $2 double cheeseburger, then people are clearly crazy and stupid for paying $28 for lunch.

In addition to this being prison food the Hardee's in my town still sells the standard double cheeseburger for $2.00 so his prison lunch menu hack is slightly more expensive then me just grabbing that.

@patbahn @TrentTelenko All railroads have railroad ties.

Iran is still here, only with food inflation in May 2026 that is far worse - via the increased costs of truck borne rather than ship borne food imports - due to the USN blockade. ⬇️ "Irrational Regimes become more so under pressure."

US airstrikes have killed 175 ISIS fighters in Nigeria.

@djinn_the @ExiledRefugee @CarolinaLion2 "For most of American history, poultry and eggs were luxury foods. Chicken traditionally was far more expensive than beef or pork" #gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">westonaprice.org/health-topics/…

@PettitFiles @ExiledRefugee @CarolinaLion2 Thats a myth and not true about chickens. As for HEBs. I was just in Texas. Beef is cheaper in Texas than in louisiana where I am by a lot.

A bag of oranges is often $5.00-6.00. Or do all the people who say soda is unhealthy for you consider fresh fruit a luxury item as well?

@djinn_the @ExiledRefugee @CarolinaLion2 Chickens were raised for eggs, and you would generally only eat the poultry once it stopped laying eggs.

@PettitFiles @ExiledRefugee @CarolinaLion2 Chuck roast are usually packaged at $25 to $30. And it wasn't that long ago they cost 40% of that price. Also chicken was never luxury. My grandparents were poor as shit and had chickens. They feed themselves, take up no space, and yiu get a year supply of meat in 90 days

@gurzigos @JaiZachary @HormuzLetter The country who's leadership chants Death to America and Death to Israel while actively building a nuclear weapon is getting attacked by the countries who Iran is chanting for their death.

@JaiZachary @HormuzLetter You can't be that stupid. Who is attacking and who is defending here?

BREAKING: Iran is preparing to continuously fire hundreds of missiles per day at Gulf energy infrastructure, refineries, ports, and water desalination plants as soon as the US resumes strikes, per NYT. Iran's IRGC says it will "return the Emirates to the era of riding camels" and "occupy Abu Dhabi" if necessary. The Houthis would also immediately shut down the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to open up a second maritime front against the US, with initial steps toward the blockade already taken.

@biral_r @BrettErickson28 They can be worried but they can also recognize they are sitting on lots of energy, minerals and natural resources. It's in their financial interests for sanctions to be lifted to get the resources to market. Iran knows any ground invasion and occupation of Iran is fantasy.

@PettitFiles @BrettErickson28 Iran has lots of energy and minerals and natural resources. It’s not unreasonable for them to be worries D that other countries to want to attack it. Look at Trump and Greenland

Let’s work through this logically: If you’re the regime in Iran, would you be willing to endure (at most) potentially a few more months of economic hardship in order to monetize the leverage you hold with control over the Strait of Hormuz? This is the major issue with the logic Washington is trying to employ. Economic warfare is not distributed evenly across a population. The regime elites will not have food shortages. They will not have challenges getting essential medical supplies. But the average Iranian citizen? They certainly will. And yet… the Trump Administration believes that if we impose enough economic pain onto Iran, the population will rise up and overthrow the regime? If they were wanting to do that, they would have done so already. If your counterargument to that is, “well they didn’t have the weapons to do so”… why do we need an economic warfare campaign if that is the underlying issue? If the Trump Administration is not hoping for purely regime change, and is instead employing this economic warfare campaign in order to force concessions at the negotiating table, we need to think through the decision matrix logically as though we are the ones in Tehran. You know that the odds of mass public uprisings are low. You know that if they do happen, they in no way are guaranteed to topple the regime. You know that you may personally see a degree of financial pain, but also know that sanctions relief is right around the corner with a peace deal. Sanctions relief would be exponentially more economically beneficial than the pain Iran would see from another couple of months of Operation Economic Fury… by orders of magnitude. And if Iran is able to effectively negotiate sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz? That would be more than their entire oil and gas revenues each year. So if you are sitting in Tehran, making the decision about whether to capitulate at the negotiating table… why on earth would you do that?