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@GerardAlba @1sPlaza Nothing says good technology like forced adoption!

@VaccineCourse @OGGamersFall @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Other than a degradation of coastal threats, an open strait is a strategic win. A concession by both sides that is a mandatory part of any peace deal for either side.

@TotalDesolation @OGGamersFall @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Name the strategic win you believe your tactics will achieve. I'm saying that only negotiations will get the USA anything it wants. You are the one making the claim of something better.

If you’re trying to spin high oil prices as good for the US, that’s a messaging battle you won’t just lose. You’ll get absolutely nuked going into the midterms. There’s one way out of this, and it’s removing Iranian control of the Strait.

@Baxate China almost uses as much energy per capita as Iran! Keep it up China!

This is the level of mis information we have to fix

@VaccineCourse @OGGamersFall @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Why do you think the US has to have regime change or shrink territory held by Iran to get a favorable outcome?

Suuuuure. And of course with no boots on the ground. Pure fantasy. "Air power alone is not going to bring down a regime.” — General David Petraeus (U.S. Army, 4-star general and former commander of U.S. Central Command) "I can’t guarantee [victory] with air power alone." — General Wesley Clark (U.S. Army, 4-star general and Supreme Allied Commander Europe) "Military victories cannot be achieved through air power alone" — Major General G.D. Bakshi (Retired, Indian Army) "Air power is amazing, and has proven effective, but wars are rarely won by air power alone." —Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward (U.S. Navy, former Deputy Commander of U.S. Central Command) "You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life—but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.” — Lieutenant Colonel T.R. Fehrenbach (U.S. Army, Korean War veteran and military historian)

@EmpireEnjoyer3 What's with all the Big Tech bootlickers lately? Silicon Valley cucks are everywhere! Water is not the issue. Energy is. Nothing is more energy intensive than datacenters. And Big Tech mass surveillance IS the war! Not China, which we already lost by outsourcing manufacturing.

Data centers are a national security priority. An average factory uses more water than a datacenter. If you want American troops to survive a war with China, then you should support Ai datacenters.

@bonchieredstate Maybe, but this isn't trolling. This is desperation. Trump wants 5m barrels per day sold from Venezuela in USD to help alleviate a prolonged blockade of the strait. To do that, Big Oil has to build infrastructure. They refuse without assurance. This is the ultimate assurance.

I think there's a part of Trump that enjoys trolling just to see what he can get his most diehard supporters to go along with.

@VaccineCourse @OGGamersFall @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate With drones, lasers and advanced orbit-based ISR today, you might as well be citing war games from the Bronze Age. Control the strait and offer fair terms where both sides concede. If Iran doesn't want peace, escalate until they do.

But how do you propose that he win this war? How come I cannot find a war game in which Iran loses? Millennium Challenge 2002 — red team wins Brookings Institution ~2010 — iran lays mines in the Strait and wins Internal Look 2012 (CENTCOM) — Israel gets a first strike, it sparks a regional war, and Iran keeps the uranium There are a bunch more from RAND etc. This war cannot be won militarily. Find me a war game that shows how it can be done otherwise it's just fantasy.

@AP4Liberty Clinton was more libertarian than Trump. Hell, Obama was! Trump's left of both in many regards on the collectivist/individualist scale.

Who is the most libertarian president in your lifetime, and why is it Donald Trump?

@amuse It wasn't weapons-grade. Not even close. You should stop lying about everything.

VENEZUELA NUKES: Trump just seized 100% of Venezuela's weapons-grade uranium from a reactor near Caracas & shipped it to South Carolina for downblending. Done in weeks not years. Trump is not managing nuclear threats. He is eliminating them. Next up, Iran.

@amuse @AngelaBelcamino He's a great coalition builder and has shown the willingness to negotiate and compromise for long term wins for America. Voting against horrible America-Last bills like the CARES Act is not "stomping his feet". The lies are tiresome. The actual reason: x.com/TotalDesolatio…

@AngelaBelcamino Many of his positions are reasonable, but instead of working to build coalitions or negotiate he just stomps his feet and objects. It is tiresome.

Can someone explain, in the simplest way possible, why a faction of the right despises Thomas Massie?

@AngelaBelcamino A faction of the right are liberals.

@OGGamersFall @VaccineCourse @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Him threatening to climb to the top of the escalation ladder only to backtrack has made his threats worthless. Time for talk is over.

@OGGamersFall @VaccineCourse @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate There's a man with a gun standing in the doorway. He started the coat rack on fire and it's starting to spread. We can either come down from upstairs and take out the threat, or keep the door shut and watch the house burn down all around us. Trump is barricading the door. lol

@TXCustodialDad @Rothbard1776 China's reserves are full. They're strategically waiting to release them. The interesting wildcard is this hantavirus BS. A sharp decrease in demand because of fear like 2020 would be a godsend for the western bankers.

@TotalDesolation @Rothbard1776 There's nothing to buy. Do you think Russia has a bunch of excess it's not selling?

Can the United States and rest of the world survive it?

@OGGamersFall @VaccineCourse @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate We haven't achieved any of our objectives. Iran has achieved all of their objectives. If the war ended right now, the US suffered an utterly embarrassing loss. And no, that loss is not set in stone. Of course the US can win. If Trump turns this shit show around.

@TotalDesolation @VaccineCourse @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Are you saying we HAVEN'T won, or that we CAN'T?

@VaccineCourse @OGGamersFall @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate Regime change? No Denuclearization? No Destroy production capacity? Partly, but no Open the strait? No Destroy the Navy? Yes, but not the IRGN or their hundreds of fast boats I'll give the US 0.7/5 objectives Iran? Survive✅ Keep regime in power✅ Maintain threat capability✅

@OGGamersFall @TotalDesolation @OneFlewOver_USA @bonchieredstate You are watching too much Fox News. Name a single strategic goal the USA has achieved. Hint: the list is empty

@Tom530934028641 @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613 No. Mathematics that won't allow the blockade to continue indefinitely.

@TotalDesolation @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613 Oh so you’re talking political capital. Different topic.

Satellite imagery shows no Iranian oil tanker has loaded crude at Kharg Island in the past 4 days. This image is from today. Very interesting.

@Tom530934028641 @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613 The cost isn't the problem. But 5% of the proposed $1.5T Pentagon budget is $75B. That would be 100% of the entire federal budget in 1953. The issue is a lack of oil globally, which will eventually force countries like Japan to buy oil in RMB after the SPR tap is turned off.

@TotalDesolation @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613 Blockade annually would cost about 5% of the us military budget. Cute gif though. My fave

@Tom530934028641 @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613

@TotalDesolation @MaskedMan1947 @Osint613 It actually can

@MaskedMan1947 @DC89387414 @Osint613 Years. If not longer. See the Iran/Iraq War. Or 2019-2022... Meanwhile, at this rate, the US SPR will be empty by November, assuming exports don't increase (they will). Iran knows time is on their side.

@DC89387414 @Osint613 That's a big question for which no one knows the clear answer. But, the way they are rejecting the negotiation point on nuclear thing, they are looking to stay put for sometime.