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For the record.
Iran’s Historic Mistake
Carl von Clausewitz wrote that war is “the continuation of politics by other means.” President Trump grasped this from the start: Operation Epic Fury exists to stop Iran’s nuclear march and restore deterrence, not to pursue the familiar neocon fantasy of occupation and nation-building. Epic Fury is peace through strength in action: credible force applied decisively when adversaries mistake restraint for weakness.
By weaponizing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran committed a strategic blunder of historic proportions.
Tehran meant to punish America. Instead, it exposed every power built on imported energy, vulnerable sea lanes, and the delusion that globalization repealed geography. China is exposed. Europe is exposed. Britain is exposed. Iran has created a world where hard resource power decides outcomes.
Start with China. Beijing’s industrial machine depends on imported oil and gas moving through vulnerable maritime chokepoints, the old Malacca dilemma in modern form. A great power reliant on long, exposed sea lines cannot be secure, regardless of economic scale. The Hormuz shock forced China to scramble for alternatives, proving that size is not resilience.
Europe and Britain face the same problem. After escaping Russian dependency, they traded one vulnerability for another, leaning on imported LNG and maritime flows exposed to coercion. When chokepoints tighten, they absorb shocks rather than project strength. European criticism says less about American failure than about discomfort with a world where hard power still matters.
Iran’s mistake is that once Hormuz becomes structurally unreliable, the world builds around it. That means bypass corridors, revived pipeline politics, and urgent planning for routes linking Aqaba to Mediterranean outlets near Gaza and the long-stalled Basra-to-Aqaba pipeline. The old energy order is cracking. The UAE’s OPEC exit signals cartel discipline giving way to national advantage under pressure.
Trump deserves credit, not European scolding. Operation Epic Fury struck thousands of targets, degraded Iran’s offensive capabilities, and shattered assumptions that the West would absorb escalation without response. The administration acted while others lectured. It restored deterrence in the only language Tehran understands.
The larger lesson matters more. Secure natural-resource hard power is what the Western Hemisphere possesses in abundance. The United States, Canada, and the Americas command hydrocarbons, LNG, farmland, freshwater, critical minerals, and strategic depth on a scale import-dependent Europe and Asia cannot match. This crisis clarified, not weakened, the Americas structural position.
The financial dimension reinforces the point. Demand for Federal Reserve swap lines during crisis proves King Dollar remains supreme. When stress hits, governments run toward dollar liquidity, not away from it. Hard resource power and monetary power reinforce one another, and the United States sits at the center of both.
That is Epic Fury’s real significance. Clausewitz wrote that “the political view is the object, war is the means.” Trump understood that. Iran tried to weaponize geography, Trump turned the confrontation into a demonstration of who is exposed and who is not.
The Trump administration deserves far more praise than it has received, and history will likely judge that Iran’s greatest miscalculation was not merely closing Hormuz, but revealing which powers still command the real sources of strength.

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@attackdogX Ok, I'm holding my tongue because I think that's someone's daughter....."and Lord, I apologize for that there, and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea, Amen." Larry the Cable Guy
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@GabrieleMelorio @WealthCoachMak I don't use WhatsApp but might try to see if I can learn something new.
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@WealthCoachMak My strategy plan !!🚀
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@WealthCoachMak I like buying calls and usually trade META until i get bit. I'll let things calm down a while and then enter again.
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@yendor88 @valerijatrades1 Holy Moly. $2560 for a 5/29 170 strike!
How did you find it?
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@valerijatrades1 I did a put credit spread on AAOI as well today - the premium was insane !!
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I sold some cash secured puts today and also added a new position to my portfolio.
These are the trades I took:
$AAOI - 2 CSP - strike price $127
$AEHR - 3 CSP - strike price $75
$USAR - 5 CSP - strike price $22
Can you guess what is the new position added to the portfolio? Who ever guesses first will send you a my daily $BTC allocation ($6)
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A sense of what’s true and what’s right?
What’s true is that there are only two genders.
What’s right is to keep biological males out of female spaces.
What’s true is that DEI is discriminatory.
What’s right is to kill it.
What’s true is the affirmative action is racist.
What’s right is to kill it.
What’s true is that the Democrats opened the border completely to grow their electorate.
What’s right is to stop it.
What’s true is that Democrats tried to assassinate the president of the US three times, and they killed a future one: Charlie Kirk.
What’s right is to stop unhinged left wing violence.
What’s true is that Iran enriched uranium to 60% instead of the 3% they promised. What’s also true is that their primary objective is to annihilate the US, and that they have enough material to crate 11 nukes — as per their own words.
What’s right is to vaporize the islamofascist regime the slaughtered 36,500 of its own citizens for their met crime of protesting against 47 years of brutal oppression, and to liberate the Iranian people who have been begging for this war.
What’s true is that America removed the dictator of Venezuela and that millions of Venezuelans worldwide celebrated in the streets. It’s also true that relations with the US have normalized and that the first US passenger plane has landed there, and that US oil companies will invest big time in Venezuela.
What’s right is to celebrate the fall of another dictatorship, not siding with the oppressors.
What’s true is that Trump has managed to keep the oil price lower than the highest it’s been under Biden, despite fighting a war in the ME and despite a total blockade. The oil market and the stock market trust Trump, evidently.
What’s right is to think of a ME without the islamofascist state sponsor of terrorism in the ME, and the chance of lasting peace and stability. Sitting back and hope for the best is the dumbest possible option.
What’s true is that the top 10 most violent cities in the US are ALL run by Democrats, and defunding the police was a low IQ idea that had the predicted outcome.
What’s right is to have more police, and to use the National Guard when necessary. It worked immediately in Washington.
What’s true is Democrats have metastasized TDS and have no plans. All they can cry about is orange man bad. Kamala Harris is their leading candidate to run for office again. So instead of learning from the unhinged woke nonsense, they double down. An Islamist communist is now mayor of NYC whose first action as a
Mayor was to change the definition of antisemitism.
What’s right is to flee from these lawless socialist hellholes to red states, which is exactly what sane and successful people are doing en masse. California is bleeding big companies.
What’s true is that blue states have rampant welfare fraud at unimaginable levels, and that politicians have done nothing to prevent. It took a citizen journalist to expose the billion dollar welfare scam.
What’s right is to kill this fraud with a sledgehammer and fire incompetent politicians like Waltz who have been looking the other way for years as to not offend the Somali community and to keep getting their votes.
What’s true is that the current war and the Ukraine war have exposed how weak European NATO is. Spineless cowards that can only think in terms of economic sanctions, and that didn’t want to assist Trump to eliminate the threat of a nuclear Iran nor to create peace and stability in the ME.
What’s right is to seriously reconsider NATO membership and to consider forming a new military alliance with more willing and capable parties.
What’s true is that Democrats are factphobic and will dismiss all of the above.
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@StarrPattynh @cutiieepie6 My wife would give it to a children's hospital and start a dog rescue....and buy me a steak.
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@batshitcraycra @cutiieepie6 If $500,000 was deposited on your account what will you use it for?
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@JealousyHeIs @Kimberl59898021 That's crazy. I'm not a horse racing guy but I love the Triple Crown. There's a good show on @netflix about the behind the scenes big time racing.
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@batshitcraycra @Kimberl59898021 Emerging Market was the only horse this year that did not descend from Secretariat.
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@batshitcraycra @rotsmoel @TheRealBirnbaum @mitchellvii You’re the one defending a rapist, sexual abuser and self confessed pervert who’s protecting other sexual abusers and pedos but im apparently the one who needs help..
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Okay leftists, you don't like Trump. I get that.
But if you take back the House and the Senate, what will you do differently?
For instance, President Trump has completely solved illegal immigration at this point. He has shut down the border. How will you improve upon that?
Donald Trump has American energy production cranking on all cylinders. How will you improve upon that?
As promised, manufacturing is coming back to America and exploding through the roof. How will you improve upon that?
How will you reduce inflation without raising interest rates?
Here's the thing.
Your entire platform is hating Trump but you have no actual solutions that are better than what he's doing.
Time for you to give us your platform or shut the hell up.
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@design_4_web @rotsmoel @TheRealBirnbaum @mitchellvii Gotta love some dopey cunts...oh, you mean me? Ouch...I'm hurt. But still love and hope you find help.
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@batshitcraycra @rotsmoel @TheRealBirnbaum @mitchellvii No time for dopey cunts like you and her. Her post was filled with racist and transphobic comments and is, as usual, hypocritical. Eg keeping men out of female bathrooms whilst simultaneously voting for a man that literally bragged about perving on females in changing rooms.
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@TheRealBirnbaum @rotsmoel @mitchellvii You're right....got me on all points. I'm not worthy but still love you.
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You’re right. The evidence supports that all liberals are wrong and all conservatives are right. We just need to go out and convince everyone using facts.
Let’s start with slavery. Conservatives loved slavery—and since they’re always right, we should go back to that.
Or how about the Jim Crow laws. Conservatives loved those. Let’s bring that back.
Or how about fiscal and economic policies that led to the Great Depression? Facts.
We just need to inform people. They don’t know what they’re missing.
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@RolfOptions Good read so far. Just got to chapter 3.
I set up a small account for my wife so we can trade CSPs together. She hates numbers so not sure how this will end.
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@design_4_web @rotsmoel @TheRealBirnbaum @mitchellvii This is sad - you come back to her post with name calling and vitriol.
Are you able to open your mind just a wee bit and read/comprehend her post?
I don't blame you for your shortsighted views but somewhere in the past you may have been scarred and it's just easier to lash out
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@rotsmoel @TheRealBirnbaum @mitchellvii What’s true is that you’re in a cult that believes anything and everything your leader spews to you.
What’s true is that you cannot see the real facts beyond the bullshit.
What’s true is that you’re a racist, transphobic cunt that thinks ‘the American people’ means just ‘you’
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@OllieMathews14 @cryptojourneyrs I remember that. This post is hilarious 😂
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End of an era. Here’s some of your greatest hits.
RIP Spirit Airlines 🪦
R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Spirit Airlines are now expected to cease all operations around 3:00 a.m. ET on Saturday
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