Daoist

@NovusOrderM @AncestorGong Or Nr. 3: Tens of millions will flee the country because nobody wants to stay behind and die in a country run by IRGC while all critical infrastructure are destroyed and takes 50 years or so to rebuild. At that point even Afghanistan is a better country than Iran.

At that point, 90 million citizens will have a choice. 1. Starve to death / die of thirst / etc. 2. Attempt a coup with the potential to overthrow the IRGC. Many will choose #2 as the only other option is death for them and their families. It’s a horrendous situation, but it’s reality.

I've seen many posts talking about an upcoming Trump TACO. You are not understanding the situation. When Trump says he will hit Iran's power grid, he means it. When he gave deadlines and moved them back, he's offering Iran an offramp to do a deal while US assets move into position. Is the humanitarian cost of taking out Iran's power grid high? Yes, massively. But the political cost to the US of being seen as bluffing is higher. If Iran doesn't do a deal and Trump doesn't escalate, the entire negotiating framework collapses. Every future adversary learns that he will blink. Trump's entire global strategy is built on the credibility of escalation. Backing down on a stated threat, especially one this public, would undermine everything else. The only constraint is hitting the power infrastructure when the humanitarian narrative is controllable. Knocking out the grid in summer is different from winter. Doing it after multiple documented Iranian refusals to negotiate gives him diplomatic cover. And having the Marines in positions means he can pair destruction with a credible follow-up offer. At this point, the constraint has basically been overcome. Hitting the bridge was the most recent escalatory move. Trump paused power plant strikes on March 23. Gave Iran 5 days. No deal. Now the bridge was hit. Trump posts "much more to follow". It's his playbook. If he's willing to hit bridges, then power plants, substations, refiners, and ports are all on the table. Next up, more transportation infrastructure. Think more bridges and highway connections. Each bridge that gets hit is less controversial than the last because the precedent has been set. If no deal, then the power grid. He won't hit the main generation plans. Substations are easier to hit, harder to repair, and the effect cascades. You can take out regional grids without destroying the entire national system. Again, the playbook. He wants to demonstrate capability and willingness without immediately plunging 90 million people into darkness. Partial blackouts in key regions. Military-adjacent areas first so the targeting is defensible. If no deal, full grid. Generation plans. This is the obliterate scenario he's already threatened. Hospitals, water treatment, food refrigeration, everything. This is the humanitarian catastrophe option, and it's the one that would generate the most international backlash. But by this point, he'd have offered to negotiate so many times, and Iran would have refused each time publicly. He'd point to the bridges, the substations, and every warning as proof that he gave them every chance. The political framing is being built right in front of us all. Or he TACO's, and I'm completely wrong.

@BabakTaghvaee1 Do you belong to the psychological warfare machine of the IRGC?

U.S. President Trump must stop threatening NATO members. Without Bulgaria, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, and the United Kingdom, Operation Epic Fury would have been ill-fated. The tankers refueling aircraft and the heavy bombers flying daily missions to Iran are operating from bases such as Avord, Istres, Sofia, Bucharest, Ramstein, Mildenhall, and Souda. Without access to these bases, such airstrikes would not be conducted so easily. Be thankful of your allies instead of threatening them. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@BabakTaghvaee1 Do you think if Trump truly tries to send Iran back to the stone age by bombing all critical infrastructure do you think that IRGC will do the same to the neighboring countries?

@PoorDaoist No, I don't think

BREAKING: Videos show massive explosions at Kolakchal and Jamshidiyeh in Tehran at 23:20 tonight, as a result of airstrikes conducted by the U.S. Air Force. It is also reported that B-52H heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Force were flying over Tehran at the time these airstrikes took place, consistent with their expanded use in overland strike missions during the ongoing conflict. In northeast Tehran at 02:23, additional explosions were reported as a result of what appears to be continued U.S. Air Force airstrikes over the capital city of Iran. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@OgHumanTripod @sandman_AP is this true?

#ONEPIECE Interesting🤔: "Just what the hell are you...!!!" In the Japanese version, this Kanji is used: "体" Loki (whose perception is 2nd to none) is literally questioning the nature/being of the person, not just their identity.

@BragoDace this your goat???

@ileftrightafter @sandman_AP @najiali66712863 Only if dark continent gets finished does it have the potential to be better than OP

@sandman_AP @najiali66712863 do you think the conversation about greatest manga would be different if Togashi never had to take breaks for health issues?

Last September, I woke up to find a Japanese forum post calling One Piece manga “trash”. I asked him politely: “Isn’t your life trash?🥰” He got mad and responded with a wall of text. It was a heartwarming morning.

@TCBScans tell me how you get scans, let me and @thechoppergang takeover

@X_VIR3 @sandman_AP I've been saying this ngl. Even Matt Owens, the director of OP Live Action has Mihawk over Shanks

@sandman_AP Now the shanks and sanji fandoms will call you a stalker and say you’re just a biased mihawk fan who stalks oda 🙂‍↔️ Little do they know Oda and his close friend sandman might be the biggest mihawk fans

Oda has a 100-inch TV at his house. A store clerk advised him to buy a 90-inch one instead, but Oda insisted a 100-inch TV would be better to surprise his friends. It ended up being too big to fit through the entrance, so Oda destroyed a wall of his house to carry it inside.🥺

@sandman_AP Sandman, do you think Oda thinks that Mihawk is stronger than Shanks?

@sigmarshanks Wakainu mid diffs that bum

#ONEPIECE1160 Strongest marine of all time

@RyuseikazanX1 Omg, what was his name again?

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@RevMaher Holy knights are regen merchants just like the gorosei. Only 2 are not bums and they are Shamrocks and Garling

#ONEPIECE1160 Do yall remember when #they admiraltards were slandering on the power of HKs and Gunko based on her design?? LMAOOOOO WALLAHI THEY ALWAYS GET LOSE 💀💀

@geniusjunky909 @Joesh610815 @MiddleWay23 G5 will turn off mid fight like 2 minutes in and gaban will behead him

@PoorDaoist @Joesh610815 @MiddleWay23 real fight luffy is killing this man

#ONEPIECE1160 Yeah it only makes sense for Dragon to be top 1 of This generation. He basically saved every current top tier on god valley.

@reddhairshanks Stops at BB but beats everyone except BB

Aokiji vs the worst generation Where does he stop?

@RollinRoronoa Only after beating Mihawk

This is facts

@Ezun211 Harald mid-high diffs

Who wins? Harald vs kaido

@Joesh610815 @MiddleWay23 He isn't wrong

@MiddleWay23 Same bum said Gaban > G5 with full confidence

@Leleo2211 I don't think they know that the Davy people are buccaneers, otherwise in last chapter the announcer wouldn't separate them

#ONEPIECE1160 What was Saturn yapping about? He knows Blackbeard's a Davy member, thus a buccaneer, yet he called Kuma the last survivor of the Buccaneers

@Myglobalbun Nah Oda wants to end one piece soon, he will not only show the entirety of God Valley, he will also show all of old age era until current era in this flashback to get everything out of the way

#ONEPIECE1160 The chapter is fine but my main reaction while reading the spoilers was: Oda is skipping God Valley