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@tiregheib @visegrad24 It's a good case.

@visegrad24 I think Mamdani is going to lobby for her using the landmark case of “8’s and above can stay”.

The grandniece of slain Iranian terror mastermind Gen. Qasem Soleimani lived a lavish life in the USA whilst her mother promoted the Iranian Regime. Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, were arrested after the State Department terminated their permanent resident status and had their green cards revoked due to her ties the terrorist Iranian regime.

@CharlottePiano @DrJStrategy But can they control it? Their navy is big but largely useless.

@DrJStrategy Will these countries not just turn to China to takeover and control the strait?

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@dumbestic @DrJStrategy Speculative pricing caused by a small decline in availability.

@DrJStrategy Can someone please explain to me like I'm 5... If the US's oil doesn't come from the Strait, why is it's closure causing our gas prices to rise? I get that it's much worse in the EU, but why is it affecting our prices at all?

@matt96h @DrJStrategy Until the US decides to block the ships....

@DrJStrategy Or, we just pay Iran to let our vessels through. China is already doing this. France is now too. You have overestimated your importance.

@DrJStrategy It was a challenge to Europe to rebuild their navies and take responsibility for themselves and risk some conflict, in true French fashion France immediately surrendered and just paid the danegeld to the Iranians for safe passage.

@TheLaurenChen They don't just have a problem with muslims they also have massive problems with blacks. They're well and truly boned...but aren't we all?

How much do you want to bet they don't need to put security tags on the pork?

@diri_dynasty @WhiteHouse Which ones exactly?

@WhiteHouse “Importing the Third World” is a catchy phrase, but it ignores the fact that immigrants have historically contributed massively to the U.S. economy and innovation. It’s not as simple as the slogan suggests.

“‘If you import The Third World, you become The Third World!’— AND THAT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS LONG AS I AM PRESIDENT.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸

@AydinPaladin @KorribanSociety @zuki_2024 They aren't blame europe for it they're blaming europe for it's own passivity and weakness. They want the benefits of US hegemony with none of the risks and work or responsibility They're women in short

@KorribanSociety @zuki_2024 You can watch Carl's video then.

Bitch no one is gonna blame any European nation as to why America “failed” Iran lmao I criticize Europeans all the time and that thought hasn’t even crossed my mind.

@kslik7 @StefanMolyneux -says a woman without a black eye

@StefanMolyneux Women arent obedient and submissive like men are so it'll never work.

There's no point trying to draft women. They'll just get pregnant.

@Maidinamerica3 @BenedictSpence They did though, the fads were just different. "They had dads who went to war" and they didn't that's why they were spoiled, their fathers went to work, built a prosperous society that boomers were born into, looted and left nothing but bones for their children and grandkids

And aren't we fools? My point is, the pensioners who are loathed by some today, didn't get their present-day life gifted to them, or have it easy. They didn't have the latest fads, wardrobes full of clothes, disposable nappies or so much as a microwave. They had Dads who went to war, and this is how we treat them.

What makes a pensioner more deserving of protection from market forces than, say, a young family?

@FireFortun50208 @TheLaurenChen It's ok to admit you're retarded.

@Radwulf00 @TheLaurenChen Dude you are based in Australia. Go back to blue sky and eat a lizard

Assuming these people were at the restaurant for 2 hours A $60 tip means this server made $30/hour off this ONE TABLE Is that not enough for a waiter to make? Does being a waiter really need to be a $150/hour job? The entitlement behind a lot of tipping culture is insane

@JOSEMAR49973177 @tag4UK In it's current shape it deserves insult.

@tag4UK Insulting UK's military wasn't a deal breaker nor an eye opener?

I've got a very bad feeling that dumping America for France is not going to serve us well. This is a mistake, we're making a very big mistake.

@romanhelmetguy Block the French ships and make them pay the bribes to both sides to pass.

Withdraw from NATO, declare war on France, and drop pallets of longbows to the British populace so they can restore the Angevin Empire (that’s all it would take).

@Maidinamerica3 @BenedictSpence Try functioning in society today with no internet/data, seriously try banking, try applying for jobs with no internet. You talk as if it's a luxury when it's a necissity today.

@BenedictSpence Ditch the phones, cut back to one car or none, lose the internet, subscriptions, takeaways, coffees, tattoos, acrylic nails, tech gadgets and modern luxuries and see how your family budget looks. Today's pensioners had none of that.

@ZoomerHistorian Boris didn't start but he didn't exactly help it.

You do not need to run cover for the mistakes of previous administrations reflexively like its red team blue team. The US created the situation in Ukraine, and it was a mistake to do so. Trump, correctly in American eyes, is now trying to get out. That doesn't mean you need to run cover for Biden and Obama. Russia does not seriously believe the British began the Ukraine situation.

@Peachykeen911 @StevenBartlett If only he was, but he's not.

@StevenBartlett PP is a far right conservative. Think maple maga. Kisses Trump's ass constantly. He will never be PM. He lost his own seat last election, and had an MP in a very safe conservative riding retire to take his place. I watch your pod, but do some fucking research FFS.

Could this be the next Prime Minister of Canada? Recently, I’ve been finding myself up all night trying to figure out what the hell is going on in the world and if we're on the verge of World War III… So, today I’m sitting down with Pierre Poilievre who is the leader of Canada's Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition. He became one of the youngest MPs elected to Canadian parliament and has spent 2 decades fighting for working class people and fair opportunities. Pierre told me that he’s on a mission to make Canada the freest and most affordable place in the world, and he’s not stopping until that happens. To give you more context on his background, Pierre was adopted at birth by two school teachers who struggled financially and ended up losing multiple homes which meant that they had to start again from nothing several times throughout his childhood. That experience shaped what he believes about work, money, and fairness. When speaking about his parents, he told me that they taught him that it doesn’t matter where you come from. It matters what you do. That belief is now at the centre of everything he’s trying to change.

@StevenBartlett lolno

@adamscochran A coup against himself? Again?

The same day that Hegseth fires multiple senior army leaders, he announces that individuals "trusted" by the administration will be able to carry arms on base... On the same day Trump is purging his cabinet... This is like coup level shit.

@dom_lucre Same thing happened to me.

🔥🚨JUST IN: Hollywood actress Laura Benanti was in complete disbelief as not nobody recognized her on a plane. Benanti: “Not a single one of them recognized me and I could not tolerate that obviously.”

@KingJae I went back to Tag 2play it almost every day now, yeah it's got it's issues (especially insane damage) but god it feels worlds better than Tekken 8 and so much less stressful.

I love Tekken, but Tekken 8 has to be one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. The amount of 50/50 situations, combos into stage hazard, counter hit into guaranteed stuff is just not fun experience. What made Tekken fun is learning, trying to figure out difficult situations, archetypes of characters but this game is literally throw the kitchen sink, microwave and bowl at you and see what hits. With that being said, I play it because of the love of the series for over 20+ years but the game might be unfixable at this point as there are so many moves and ch situations that have been in the game for awhile unchanged. I'm unsure whether this game is for the casuals because even casuals seem to just be playing because it is Tekken aswell.