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@SolidKroket Cool

Menciona UNA cosa que Estados Unidos le ha dado al mundo

@Maga4liberty What about genocide, slavery, and cannibalism? And yes they committed rape. Including sodomizing male captives. All before a white man ever sat foot on the continent. What are your sources that they did not?

What would you say to her?

You might want to check your numbers. 25% of Iran's GDP is directly or indirectly related to crude oil and gas exports, with the energy sector also contributing over 70% of government revenue. Also, if all power plants were taken offline, Iran's GDP would suffer a near-instantaneous, catastrophic collapse, effectively dropping to near zero for any sector reliant on electricity. Modern economies are fundamentally reliant on electricity to function; removing this power means that manufacturing, finance, logistics, and digital services would halt immediately. Ukraine also has western sugar daddies, who's going to help Iran, if Iran doesn't have any crude or money to trade?

If the U.S. blockade severs all Iranian oil exports, Iran would lose ~$45 billion in annual revenue, or roughly 10% of its GDP. Ukraine has lost 20% of its GDP in the war with Russia — and it’s still fighting. @defpriorities

@kylegriffin1 Has he ever been wrong about them?

Trump just called Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a "Low IQ person." He has a long history of calling women of color dumb or 'low IQ'.

@TheMoneyApe This talking stage could last years in Europe ........ and thats by design. They plan to run the clock out by talking about the problem until it goes away. Talking somehow makes them feel still relevant.

🚨 EUROPE PUSHES ON HORMUZ 🚨 SPAIN & DENMARK BACK KEEPING STRAIT OPEN. CALL FOR SECURE, TOLL-FREE NAVIGATION. ALSO URGE LIMITS ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. EUROPE STEPPING UP AMID GLOBAL SHIPPING RISKS. IRAN MAY OPEN HORMUZ IF TRUMP... Show more

Well I didn't take Trigonometry in high school, but I did have a job that required me to setup a total station instrument in the middle of a large project and lay out all building corners and piers from one spot, using angles and distance. Proving you dont need to take a class in Trig, you just not to know how to use a calculator that knows how to do trig.

I’m 42 years old and I am yet to ever use the Pythagorean theory in a real life setting… Another reason why financial education should be taught in schools instead of trigonometry

Well, from what I understand, 90% of Iran's Power Plants run on Natural gas. And the main trunkline that feeds all the plants starts at a single Gas plant near the Pars South gas field, conveniently located near the coast. So it wouldn't take years to shut down all electricity production, it could be done in a single night. ..... and then not only would they not have any electricity to keep making missiles and drones, put it takes power to make the parts to fix the problems. ..... all those people ...... sitting in the dark hot summer nights ...... food has spoiled, fuel pumps dont work ...... nothing to do but set around and blame the regime for bringing their quality of life down to Houthi levels.

Iran has 300,000 bridges, around 400–500 power plants, 2,000 to 5,000 substations, 80,000 transformers, 130,000 km of high-voltage lines, and 1.3 million km of network. It would take years for an enemy to attack and destroy these assets, but within a few days, Iran would send the entire Middle East back 50 years.

@Mach_Tactics The days of your weapon manufacturing plants on the other side of the planet being out of the enemy's range are over. How exactly do you win a war after your cities are vaporized?

All the manufacturing is done in China, not The West. China has the ability to design and manufacture weapons, at scale, while The West does not. If there is World War 3, China will win.

Kinder? ...... I dont know about that. There was more direct human contact ...... which if you were mouthy led to kinetic outcomes ...... so, people were kinda more polite than they are post-anonymous social media. We didnt talk politics so you didn't realize there were so many libtards around.

Question for those alive during pre-internet or nascent internet days. Were people actually kinder to each other overall before social media? I've always wondered if that was actually the case or just rose-tinted nostalgia talking considering how every era has social problems.

@Osint613 Which side has the guns and are willing to use them against the other side.

Here’s the dynamic when it comes to the nuclear negotiations, as I see it: Inside Iran, there isn’t one unified position. It’s a split. For the IRGC, the nuclear program, ballistic missiles, and weapons stockpiles are not bargaining chips. They see them as the core of regime survival. Give that up, and you lose deterrence, leverage, and ultimately control. From their perspective, disarmament is not a deal, it’s surrender. And if the outcome is losing power either way, their logic shifts: fight, escalate, and if necessary embrace martyrdom over capitulation. On the other side, parts of the political leadership appear more pragmatic. They understand the economic and military pressure and are at least open to exploring a deal to preserve what they can. That’s the deadlock. One side sees compromise as survival. The other sees it as the end.

Union Blockade (1861–1865): Also known as the "Anaconda Plan," this was the largest naval undertaking in US history until World War I. The U.S. Department of State notes it was intended to strangle the Confederate economy by cutting off exports of cotton and imports of war materials. While blockade runners frequently slipped through, the operation successfully choked the Southern economy. Spanish-American War (1898): The Naval History and Heritage Command details how the US Navy established blockades of northern Cuba and Puerto Rico to isolate Spanish forces during the conflict. World War II Submarine Campaign (1941–1945): The US Navy conducted a "brutally effective" submarine blockade against Japan, targeting merchant shipping and oil supplies from the Dutch East Indies. This campaign crippled the Japanese war economy and drastically reduced civilian caloric intake. Korean War Blockade (1950–1953): US and UN naval forces maintained a blockade of the North Korean coast. The Blockade of Wonsan was the longest naval blockade in modern history, lasting 861 days. Cuban Missile Crisis "Quarantine" (1962): To avoid the legal implications of an act of war (blockade), President John F. Kennedy termed the naval barrier a "quarantine". This strategic move was used to prevent Soviet ships from delivering nuclear missile components to Cuba. Vietnam War (1965–1975): Through operations like Market Time and Game Warden, the US and South Vietnamese navies blockaded the North Vietnamese coast to prevent the sea-based smuggling of supplies to Viet Cong forces. How can you have a war without a blockade?

I hope those cheering for the blockade are thinking about the implications of this new precedent for the South China Sea and Taiwan. For a long time, the US has stood for freedom of navigation in international waters. That policy has served our security and prosperity well.

1812 ...... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositio…. That's when members of the opposition party first realized that no matter what the party in power did, they were duty bound to oppose it, or else there was no way they would ever get back in power themselves. The roots of our current divisiveness were written into our Constitution. Unity cannot survive an election cycle. Imagine if all Democrats acted like John Fetterman. Open minded and not afraid to state that the President, a member of the opposing party, was doing a good job. It would be chaos inside the opposition party. Representative Democracy is a blueprint for obstructing the agenda of whoever won the last election.

What was the moment our politics started to go off the rails?

@visionergeo Oh shit ..... the Mahdi must have returned from the well.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Sayyed Mohammad Marandi, a member of Iran’s negotiating team, wrote on X: “Everyone must immediately leave the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Also, all sailors on ships in the Persian Gulf must prepare to abandon their vessels. This is especially urgent for ships near the Strait of Hormuz, which will be the first to be destroyed. Time is running out.”

Some of Larry Johnson's fine work. The 2001 "Declining Terrorist Threat" Op-Ed: On July 10, 2001—just two months before the 9/11 attacks—Johnson published an op-ed in The New York Times titled "The Declining Terrorist Threat," where he argued that Americans were not significantly at risk from international terrorism and that the threat from Osama bin Laden was "grossly exaggerated". The 2008 Michelle Obama "Whitey" Tape: During the 2008 presidential campaign, Johnson claimed a videotape existed of Michelle Obama using a racial slur against white people at Trinity United Church of Christ. No such tape ever surfaced, and the claim was eventually labeled a hoax. Johnson later stated he had been "used" by Clinton operatives to spread the rumor. The 2017 GCHQ Spying Allegations: Johnson was a primary source for the claim that the British intelligence agency GCHQ had spied on Donald Trump during the 2016 election at the request of Barack Obama. The British government officially refuted the claim as "nonsense" and "utterly ridiculous". Zelenskyy Assassination Prediction: In August 2023, Johnson claimed U.S. intelligence agencies were planning to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This claim remains unproven, and Zelenskyy has continued his public duties and international travel since the prediction. Why would anyone care or believe anything he says?

According to retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson: During an emergency meeting On Saturday Trump tried to “use the nuclear codes” on Iran and he was stopped by General Dan Caine. According to Johnson “there is seriously something wrong with Trump”:

@RecopilationNet Commodore BASIC 2.0, then AmigaOS 1.3 ...... then MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1

Sé honesto, ¿cuál fue el primer sistema operativo que usaste en tu vida?

@patobonato No boobies

🇦🇷 Selección Argentina de Hockey femenino Qué notan?

@marbrier78 @whmeyer0 @KerryBurgess Dont assume I care about the mid-terms. No matter how they turn out France will still be an irrelevant player. ....... soon to be looking for a EU bailout due to their unavoidable pending debt crisis, and accompanying social unrest.

@whmeyer0 @RogJohns @KerryBurgess Good luck with your 🤡 See you in November 😂

I don't think Americans have any idea just how badly they are viewed in Europe. Without any doubt, the US is considered by the majority of ordinary Europeans to be a bigger threat to Europe than Russia or China...

@Its_ereko What makes you think anyone in America cares what two non-players do? You can tell you're overly obsessed by the USA, just by the way you think we give a shit what Spain or Mexico does.

🚨🇲🇽🇪🇸 MEXICO JUST REACHED OVER WASHINGTON'S HEAD. Claudia Sheinbaum met Pedro Sánchez in Barcelona. First Mexican presidential visit to Spain in eight years. No permission asked. No blessing is needed. Just two nations deciding their own relationship. The empire is not in the room. Not invited. Not relevant. This is not about the US. This is about Mexico and Spain. Colonial wounds are being addressed. Ties are being rebuilt. On their own terms. Washington can watch. Washington can sulk. The world is moving on. The thaw is real. The message is clear. The days of needing imperial approval for bilateral relations are over. Mexico chooses its own friends. Spain chooses its own partners. And neither asked for permission. That's the new world. The empire is not at the table. And honestly, no one misses them.

@ChrisWickNews And you probably still think he was the lessor of 2 evils. Me on the other hand, I'm getting exactly what I voted for.

I voted for Donald Trump because I believed he was the lesser of two evils. Not because I thought he was perfect — but because I believed the message. No new wars. End the existing ones. Put America First. That was the promise that sold it. But now I’m watching something very different unfold. Conflicts aren’t cooling down — they’re expanding. Money is still flowing overseas in massive amounts. Military aid keeps stretching across multiple fronts. And at home? Prices keep climbing. Families are stretched thin just buying groceries. Veterans are still struggling on the streets. Debt and stress are everywhere you look. So I keep asking the same question: Where did America First go? Because I didn’t vote for global escalation. I didn’t vote for endless foreign spending. I voted for stability at home and peace abroad. And right now… that promise feels further away than ever. That’s why people aren’t just disappointed anymore. They’re questioning everything.

Not as weak as it makes Iranian political leaders look when they say their going to do one thing and the IRGC does another. The only thing Trump is doing wrong is trying to make a deal with a government that doesn't control the actions of the Shiite militants they claim to represent. But I'm sure he knows that.

Sorry to say but it makes Trump look weak to say there will be a negotiation with Iran’s leaders and for them to say no that’s not the case.