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Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

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Climate zealotry and political blunders are collapsing Germany's chemical industry, turning a once global powerhouse into a tale of European decline. (article linked below)

@VDHanson All the best to you Dr Hanson

Notes In Absentia I want again to thank everyone for the wonderful expressions of concern and reassurance that I have received from listeners and readers. In response to inquiries, and some quite detailed questions and advice, here is a brief update concerning my current temporary absence. As I wrote, the removal of a cancerous lung mucinous adenoma carcinoma along with the lower right lung lobe roughly a month ago was successful. But a post-op aneurism /bleed soon developed. That required a quick second reentry operation into the lung to stop the hemorrhaging—adding considerable time under anesthesia and requiring about 5 blood transfusions. As a result, over the last 30 days, I developed low red blood counts, fatigue, and bouts of arterial fibrillation. All that has sort of slowed my recovery. This type of nonsmoker’s lung cancer has a rare genetic/mutation profile. And it seems to recur about 40 percent of the time in the general lung area—even when as in my case the removed and biopsied lymph nodes, along with adjacent vascular/pleural samples, were all negative. And the pre-op PET scan show no signs of malignancy outside the lower right lung lobe. Chemotherapy and immunotherapy are said to be not particularly effective against this rare sort of tumor mutation. But they can offer a 5-10% edge in stopping recurrence. So I’ll do a cost-benefit analysis, depending on how quickly I regain energy, to determine whether to start the preventative drug regimens. The bottom line is that I’m hoping to come back as soon as possible. But I don’t know exactly when I'll be back to near normal. In the meantime, I hope to post things now and then on days when I feel better. Sincerely—and again thanks to everyone! Victor Davis Hanson

🚨 STEPHEN MILLER: "Look how powerful the Democrat Party became in Minnesota once they flooded it with ~100,000 Somalians!" "Once the elections were decided by clan rivalries and ethnic feuds, once that happened, the Democrat Party became permanently powerful in Minnesota. They became permanently powerful in the Twin Cities." "When you see the state of Somalia, that's what they want for America. Because it's easier to rule over an empire of ashes than it is for the Democratic Party to rule over a functioning, Western, high-trust society with a strong middle class." "That's their model for America, to make the whole country into a version of Somalia. And everything they do gets down to that." HE'S SPOT ON! @StephenM

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Step-by-step description of how this aspect of the #climatescam works to deceive the public: - Concoct a fake study funded by leftwing billionaires and dark money groups - Have it "peer-reviewed" by fellow study fakers funded by leftwing billionaires and dark money groups - Have the fake study published in some "authoritative journal" like Nature, which also takes money from leftwing billionaires and dark money groups - Fake study is cited in hundreds of biased media platforms who also take money from leftwing billionaires and dark money groups for more than a year - Phony "authoritative journal" issues a meek retraction only after the lies in the fake study have been spread across the world and conflict groups have taken in millions in donations from a needlessly frightened public - Public never sees the meek retraction because it is not also amplified by the hundreds of biased media platforms since that is not what those leftwing billionaires and dark money groups are paying them to do It is one hell of a racket.

SECRETARY OF WAR HEGSETH: “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses." "No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions." "We are done with that s***.”

This is how you manufacture scientific consensus.

NATO Is A Corpse | ZeroHedge…tough but true words. zerohedge.com/political/nato…

@ENERGY @POTUS Would like to see more nuclear power.

Under @POTUS’ strong leadership, we’re unleashing America’s energy potential. Which kind of energy do you want to see more of?

@jonfavs @marcorubio @JDVance @elonmusk Jon you are a smart, intelligent, thoughtful man, why waste your time on this except for raw political gain. Guilty as charged if you or others think this post is naive but I want you to take your earnestness and be better.

Any comment on this, @marcorubio? How about you, @JDVance? @elonmusk? You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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