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The "acquitted" Force 100 rapist soldiers are now being celebrated as heroes in Israel. Genocidal influencer Nataly Dadon held an "evening of appreciation and salute" for them Posted by government-funded "news" outlet PUSH.

We are supposed to believe that US military planes and jet fighters are just falling off the sky like biblical manna. •When F-18 aircraft crashed they said it was a result of an accident •F-15 aircraft crashed and they said it was as a result of a friendly fire. •KC-135 aircraft crashes, they say it was caused by mid-air collision! •MQ-9 crash was caused by technical malfunction! •Five US Air Force refueling planes were also hit by Iran yesterday in Saudi Arabia, here they had to admit it since they didn't have any lie to tell. •An aircraft carrier was on fire , they said it was caused by electrical short circuit. Not an Iranian drone attack. The western media has always been used by their evil governments to mislead the public. But they need to up their games, this is not the cold war era. Believing in whatever they report means you're either foolish or irredeemably gullible. The only rational explanation for these "aircraft accidents" is that Iranian missile and drones are not missing their intended targets. Be informed!!

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks.

More than 2,500 Camp Pendleton Marines just departed for the Middle East. They follow another 2,500 who left just days earlier from Okinawa. Five thousand of the most capable, disciplined, and professional fighting men and women on earth, heading toward a war that started with no authorization from Congress and no coherent explanation to the American people. That should concern every American, regardless of party. Congress has not been fully briefed. There has been no debate or vote. No strategy presented to the representatives of the people whose children are being sent into harm’s way. The Constitution does not give any president the unilateral authority to take this country to war, and the silence from so many of my colleagues is not acceptable. I fear this is how forever wars begin. With a deployment, then another, then another, until we are too deep to ask how we got there. Our service members deserve better. What is the mission? What does success look like? How do we bring them home? These are not partisan questions. They are the only questions that matter right now.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ To our Marines and sailors, and to every family saying goodbye right now: you are in my prayers. As the proud representative for Camp Pendleton, I am grateful for your skill, your readiness, and your willingness to answer the call. You represent the finest tradition of American service, and I will not stop fighting for you. sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/20/thr…

Irrespective of whatever they have him doing on tape, he's not so stupid as to send ground troops into Iran is he? Like, noone is that fucking stupid are they?

This American teenager gets it: “We don’t have money for universal healthcare or to make sure kids don’t go hungry in this country, but apparently we have $11.3 billion fucking dollars to burn in 7 days to start a war nobody ask for to bomb innocent school children, twice.”

Is #NZ Govt trying to soften up the public for a military operation in the Straits of #Hormuz? Its one-sided statements have never called out the initiators of the #warofchoice in the Gulf which led to the current impasse. Quickest way to open the Straits is to stop 🛑 the war.

if you’ve ever wondered how we came to have a base on this island

This is just one trick media use to manufacture consent for war.

Israel wipes out village after village in South Lebanon. Centuries-old historic villages completely erased from the map. Then Israel builds illegal military bases on top of the homes it just destroyed. And the international community watches in silence.

BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon is completely dependent on a commercial AI to run its bombing campaigns. Pete Hegseth ordered Anthropic's Claude removed, but they literally can't because it's the backbone of Palantir's targeting system. The military has lost control of its own tech.

🚨🚨🚨 IRAN JUST DID SOMETHING NO COUNTRY HAS EVER DONE IN HISTORY. THEY ATTACKED DIEGO GARCIA. 🚨🚨🚨 Diego Garcia is a joint US-UK military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean Iran fired 2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles directly at it. Do you understand what that means? 💀 Diego Garcia distance from Iran — 4,000 km 💀 Iran's known maximum missile range — 2,000 km 💀 That means Iran has weapons DOUBLE what any Western agency estimated 💀 One missile was intercepted. The other failed mid-flight. 💀 ZERO countries have EVER attempted to strike Diego Garcia — in its ENTIRE 60-year existence ⚠️ The US ran bombing campaigns from Diego Garcia for 20 years — Iraq, Afghanistan, the entire War on Terror. Not a single nation dared touch it. Iran just did on DAY 6. ⚠️ The UK gave the US permission to use Diego Garcia against Iran just days ago. Iran's response? Fire missiles AT THE BASE ITSELF. The media is showing you "both missiles failed" headlines and "no damage reported." They're NOT showing you that Iran just exposed a missile capability that makes EVERY Western intelligence assessment from the last decade WRONG. If Iran can reach 4,000 km — London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, every US base from Qatar to Bahrain, every carrier group in the Indian Ocean — ALL within striking distance. If their missiles only go 2,000 km like every agency claimed… how did they reach a target DOUBLE that range? Complete silence. Iran just told every capital on Earth: your distance means NOTHING to us. This is the most dangerous moment of the entire war. And it's barely making the news. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 Twitter is suppressing this. Like + RT + Follow before it's gone. 🚨

Let me be precise about what just happened and why it changes everything. Diego Garcia sits 4,000 kilometers from Iran. Iran’s foreign minister said last month Iran’s missiles have a maximum range of 2,000 kilometers. Tonight Iran fired intermediate range ballistic missiles at a target twice that stated range. Either Araghchi was lying about Iran’s capabilities or Iran has deployed systems it had not previously acknowledged. Both possibilities are alarming. One is an intentional deception. The other means undisclosed capability just entered the conflict. This represents the longest-range attack by Iran since the start of Operation Epic Fury, and came just hours after Starmer gave the US permission to use Diego Garcia to target Iranian missile sites.  The sequencing is identical to every previous Iranian retaliation in this war. Starmer approves Diego Garcia for offensive operations against Iran. Iran fires ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia within hours. The warning Araghchi issued this morning about Britain putting British lives in danger by allowing UK bases to be used for aggression was not rhetoric. It was a targeting announcement. Diego Garcia hosts B-52 bombers, nuclear submarines, and guided-missile destroyers. It is the most strategically significant base the US operates in the Indian Ocean. It is 2,500 miles from Iran. It was considered completely outside Iranian strike range until tonight. Netanyahu said Iran can no longer make ballistic missiles yesterday. Tonight Iran fired intermediate range ballistic missiles at a target 4,000 kilometers away. The lies of this war are being corrected one missile at a time.

BREAKING: Iran fired two ballistic missiles at US-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, according to Wall Street Journal report.

Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people. Self awareness of a potato

BASED ON 75 YEARS OF US WAR HISTORY, HERE IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WITH IRAN Every step of what's coming has already happened before. 🔴 STEP 1: THE "QUICK WIN" ANNOUNCEMENT They will declare victory within weeks. → Korea: Truman declared mission complete. War lasted 3 more years. → Iraq: "Mission Accomplished" banner, May 2003. War lasted 8 more years. → Afghanistan: "Taliban on the run", 2001. They won in 2021. Iran: Already started. Trump said "we've already won." Pentagon requesting $200B more. 🔴 STEP 2: THE MISSION CREEP "We can't leave yet — the job isn't finished." → Korea: Police action → full war → China enters → Vietnam: Advisors → 500,000 troops → Afghanistan: Kill bin Laden → rebuild Afghanistan → fight Taliban → rebuild → fight again → Iraq: Topple Saddam → democratize Iraq → fight insurgency → fight ISIS Iran: Already happening. "Four to six weeks" became "we're not leaving until the job is finished." 🔴 STEP 3: THE COST EXPLOSION Original estimate × 10-100 = actual cost → Iraq: Estimated $60 billion. Cost $3 trillion. That's 50x. → Afghanistan: $30B/year estimated. $2.3 trillion over 20 years. → Iran: Day 12 = $16.5B. $200B requested before month 1. At Iraq's pattern: final Iran bill = $2-4 trillion. 🔴 STEP 4: THE CASUALTIES THEY HIDE Every war, casualty numbers came out slowly, minimized, delayed. → Iran: Pentagon hid 140+ wounded for over a week. → 11 confirmed dead on Day 20. The true number always grows. → By end of conflict (historical average): hundreds to thousands. 🔴 STEP 5: THE NEW ENEMY THAT EMERGES Every US intervention creates a power vacuum filled by something worse. → Afghanistan: Al-Qaeda → Taliban (again) → Iraq: Saddam → ISIS (50,000 fighters at peak) → Libya: Gaddafi → slave markets, civil war, Russian Wagner Group → Syria: Assad fight → ISIS territorial caliphate Iran: IRGC splinters, regional proxies go fully autonomous, Hezbollah escalates, new factions emerge. 🔴 STEP 6: THE WITHDRAWAL NOBODY WINS The US eventually leaves. The enemy regroups or the power vacuum fills. The original problem is not solved. → Vietnam: Left in humiliation. → Afghanistan: Taliban retook it in 11 days. → Iraq: US left. ISIS formed. US came back. US left again. Iran prediction: Some ceasefire or withdrawal. Iran weakened but not defeated. Nuclear program survives in some form. 🔴 STEP 7: THE BILL COMES DUE Weapons replenishment: $100B+ Veterans' healthcare (30-year obligation): $300B+ Interest on war debt: Compounding for decades → Post-9/11 wars: veterans' costs alone = $2.2 trillion projected through 2050 → Iran adds another $500B-$1T in long-term costs 🔴 FINAL SCORE PREDICTION FOR IRAN: Duration: 3-7 years Total cost: $800B - $2 trillion US dead: 500 - 2,000+ Result: Partial withdrawal, negotiated deal, or stalemate Benefit to US: Zero — same as every war before it The pattern has never been broken. Not once in 75 years. America will spend $2 trillion it doesn't have. Lose soldiers it can't replace. Create enemies it hasn't named yet. And call it a victory on the way out. Same script. New country. New name. Same result. History doesn't repeat itself. It just keeps getting ignored.

Medellín, Colombia dropped its city's warming temps by a whopping 4 degrees Fahrenheit. How? They created "green corridors" of trees and plants throughout the built city. It cost $6.50 per resident, and will save the city millions of dollars each year. We need more of this!

@TaxpayersUnion You're right, there is no pattern here at all - just a load of random dots on a plot.