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If you read our Nov. 2025 National Security strategy you realize current actions aren't random despite what media suggests. The document’s core logic is not classic isolationism. It is selective, interest-based activism. 2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf share.google/hs5Z2fBwTuOsSd…

@OccupyDemocrats There are 19 bases in the middle East, the 13 are in the immediate region several of which were emptied before the Iranian strikes began. The damage is almost exclusively radar installations not the entire base.

BREAKING: Trump is left reeling after the New York Times reveals that Iran’s attacks have bombed EVERY American military base in the Middle East so badly they are “virtually uninhabitable!” Thanks to the Trump administration’s criminal lack of preparation and shocking understimation of Iran’s military capabilities, the US military is now working remotely in the Middle East, putting civilians in danger as they work out of hotels and makeshift operations centers in civilian areas. “The result, according to current and former military officials, is a war that is much harder to prosecute.” The Times reports that “many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” Iranian officials have even accused the U.S. military of using civilians as human shields by putting American troops in hotels. This is sure to prompt another furious tirade from Donald Trump who we now know is not getting the full picture of just how badly this war is going for him and is instead just getting a highlight reel of war porn, watching our tax dollars blow things up for two minutes every day. This is a perfect demonstration of the blind hubris of the Trump administration. After two decades of watching America uncontestedly bomb the poorest people in the world, Trump and Hegseth couldn’t even conceive of an enemy with a sophisticated military and able to fight back, despite all the evidence to the contrary. They took no preparations, expected no reprisals. They didn't evacuate anyone from the Middle East until AFTER the war had started. They didn't bother to prepare for drones. They attacked Iran because they are cowards and bullies, thinking that they could impose their will on Iran by simply killing one old man. They were very, very, wrong, and now they’ve started a fire they cannot put out with lies and bombs.

@g0dfr0y Without Iran trying to, code word, "rectify" Israel, and Christian Lebanon, there would be peace in the middle east. You're antisemitism is showing.

@katagious2 The only path for peace in the Middle East is for Israel to be rectified

I’m just saying it because nobody else will I am not rooting for it I am not advocating for it But it will happen There is about one month tops until US soldiers start disobeying orders, and all out mutiny ensues…. And I mean, ground troops… There is no pretext for this war… There are no weapons of mass destruction or credible threats to galvanize a fighting force against… And there is zero public sentiment of any kind for this war If you don’t think that is reflected in our own military, your head is in the sand…

@PaulRieckhoff Religious freedom is the tenant that our nation was built on. Government officials have the right to pray together as long as they don't force you to.

Does everyone realize how wrong and unAmerican this is to come from a government account??

Someone tell @AdameMedia that Israel is already IN the middle east 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@grahamformaine @ME_Politics_ Another commie do nothing senator. Just what we need. 🤦‍♀️

When I get elected, I am not going to vote to confirm a single nominee that comes out of the Trump administration.

@MikeLevin Funny how this happened exactly at the same time Denmark/NATO's planned Arctic exercise window aka annual/periodic training cycle in the region). Annual... as in happens every year. Oh by the way, training which the U.S. receives an invitation to.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@commons96055467 You're all tripping, this thread has me cracking up. 12 bases? Lol

If all our 12 American bases in the Middle East, with over 40,000 service members stationed there, are totally destroyed, how is it that we have only 7 service members dead? Someone needs to check the inventory again. Someone is hiding the numbers. Or, Iran surgically bombed? 🤷‍♂️

@ResistAlert @commons96055467 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@commons96055467 Many are prisoners of war already, no doubt. Our media is trump mafia controlled. People need to know what is really going on. Shame on all journalists that have not resisted and just sit there day after day knowing they are helping end our country.

@CaitlinKellyNYC @guyfelicella Seems a fitting comment for the entire thread. 🥳

@katagious2 @guyfelicella Blather on 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

"when some Americans tell you to stay out of America's business because I don't live there" I’m Canadian. 🇨🇦 And when a U.S. president threatens my country, disrespects Canadians, and impacts the world, It becomes my business too. So no… I won’t stop talking about it. Human rights doesn't have borders!

@pa_coyote94151 @_10delta_ @WStrohmacher "And a friendly Iran will spark an economic tsunami in the ME that will spread across the world. " Yes, and bring peace to Lebanon, israel and lastly Palestine freed from Iranian funded Hamas.

When you start an analysis with a bias xou get biased results. While oil is a critical commodity it is not the only reason for recent US activities. It may not even be ghe key reason. Every nation you listed….Iran, Venezuela, Syria, China, Russia …..have all been long term opponents to the US on many fronts. They all support various terrorist organizations, militias, dictators, and anyone that stands against the US. Not just militarily but financially, industrially, economically, philosophically, and in governance. These were all aligned with the common purpose of defeating the US in multiple ways. Only makes sense for America to push back against the constantly encroaching threats. Note the US has done nothing to oil supplies in the North Sea, Canada, various African countries, Asian oil fields, Mexico. Because those countries do not pose a threat nor align with countries that do. It wasn’t the US that invaded Ukraine. Putin did so because Ukraine had just signed y massive deal with Shell and Exon to develop its massive nat gas fields in ynd around Crimea. This would have seriously hurt Russian finances and economic blackmail power over Europe. As to disrupting China’s AI and microchip development by shutting off helium shipments through the Straits of Hormuz is a reach. Helium is critical to chips made in Taiwan and the new fabs in the US. Chips critical to the military, to rebuilding advanced weapons expended in this war, to intelligence capabilities. Shutting off shipments hurts the US perhaps more than China. Rebuilding the stockpiles of weapons ASAP is critical for the protection of Taiwan. Any delays benefits China. We have had nearly a dozen bases in the Mid East to contain Iran for decades, costing tens of billions per year. If a friendly government emerges in Iran perhaps we could close several bases and/or reduce forced stationed there, saving billions per year. It would also allow the military to reposition forces to other critical regions strengthening global security. And a friendly Iran will spark an economic tsunami in the ME that will spread across the world. Getting rid of regimes conspiring against the US is critical to long term security. Oil is a major factor in those calculations but ig ix far from the only one. And IMO not the top priority.

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@CaitlinKellyNYC @guyfelicella MAGA's not being able to name a single province says more about Canada than it does the person who didn't find you important enough to memorize your provinces.

@guyfelicella Every Canadian knows our lives and economy are always deeply affected by whatever the U.S. does. Even then, we have every right to say whatever we wish — MAGAs couldn’t name a single province.

@guyfelicella I only have one request, if you come to Maine this summer (we'd rather you didn't), wear a swimsuit big enough to cover your ass. #savedfromcanadianthongs

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

Listen the fuck up... This isn’t Alexis Wilkins venting personal grievance into the digital ether. This is a raw, 22 months of documented foreign-linked psychological warfare, engineered with cold precision to detonate the Republican Party at every fracture line, bleed MAGA cohesion dry, and gift-wrap the midterms...and the country...back to the Democrats who already tried to bury us once. Take it deadly seriously, or watch the conservative movement you claim to love get vivisected in real time. 3,166,207 retweet engagements. Six chapters. Eighty percent pure amplification...not passionate debate, but synchronized weapon fire. Accounts retweeting identical payloads one second apart. Pairs locking in within ten seconds. Fifteen micro-clusters detonating like timed charges. This isn’t human discourse. This is military-grade information operations doctrine, executed by a persistent infrastructure that never stands down. Strangers don’t coordinate with that lethality unless handlers...domestic and foreign...are conducting the orchestra. The gravitational center? General Michael Flynn. Catholics for Catholics lists him outright as “Current Senior Advisor.” Ivan Raiklin...former Green Beret, former DIA, board member of Flynn’s America’s Future...embedded at the core. Same accounts. Same ready-to-deploy network. Activated with ruthless timing at every point where Republican unity threatened to solidify. Chapter 1, May 2024. Ten days before Butler. Raiklin tags Elon Musk and JD Vance: “Gen Flynn would make Trump assassination-proof.” One hundred sixty-six retweets. Fourteen hyper-clustered windows firing in one-second bursts. Pre-positioning doubt right before American blood hit the pavement. Chapter 2, July 2025. They came for Alexis directly...falsely branding her a Mossad honeypot to isolate the freshly confirmed FBI Director, Kash Patel, by torching the woman standing openly at his side. Origin post from a COVID-era supplement operator with 1.1 million followers explodes to 20 million inorganic views. Then the credentialed amplifiers swarm. RT_com...Russian state media, branded by our own State Department as intelligence apparatus...names her personally. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs echoes. An Iranian journalist in Tehran loops it back. Bidirectional kill chain: domestic fracture, foreign oxygen. The exact same network. Chapter 3, September 2025. Charlie Kirk assassinated. Within hours, Candace Owens publicly fingers Israel and Kirk’s widow. The July honeypot machinery reactivates instantly. Natural Republican solidarity...converted into sustained civil war. Grief turned into shrapnel. Chapter 4, March 17, 2026. Joe Kent resigns NCTC Director in protest of the Iran conflict. Same day, Flynn-linked Catholics for Catholics announces him at their D.C. gala. Tucker Carlson within 24 hours. Seventy-two hours later: Kent onstage with Flynn and Owens at the Waldorf Astoria. Seamless. And throughout active U.S. combat operations in March 2026, the network floods the zone with verbatim calls: “Refuse to enlist in or remain fighting for the U.S. military.” Owens cheers Kent’s exit: “May American troops take his lead.” Anti-enlistment sabotage...during wartime...distributed at scale by the identical persistent architecture. RT_com ranks top 15 amplifiers across the entire dataset. Alexander Dugin, Putin’s chaos philosopher, pronounces MAGA “more than dead… an undead, a ghoul.” Flynn’s domestic nodes manufacture the wounds; Russian state media cauterizes the narrative into permanence. Two blades of the same dagger, slicing the same American artery. The endgame in its clarity: make every fracture feel terminal. Convince Republicans their movement is a corpse. Seed doubt so soldiers question the fight. Paint the administration unstable so legacy media can feast and amplify the hemorrhage. Midterms become a Democratic bloodbath. Read it and understand where we are at right now. 💀⚖️

@VladTheInflator If the actual killer gets off because of the "muddying of waters", which is a real possibility if the FBI bungled the investigation, it will be a travesty. The other side of that is that Kent was a known leaker and may have been excluded from the investigation #Justiceforcharlie

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Exactly, you went in there, now fix it.

@TomFitton Great job! Thanks for your hard work.

Great day at the Supreme Court!

@TJAllisonGolf @GuntherEagleman @HopeSchepp Just yanking your chain ;) no worries.

@katagious2 @GuntherEagleman @HopeSchepp All four of my granparents are dead. My father is dead. I also have six dead aunts and uncles and a few dead cousins. I was quoting a line from Dumb and Dumber in the first comment. The writers chose to use the phrase "grampa's ol' cough medicine."

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just DEMANDED Senate Leader John Thune CANCEL the upcoming Easter recess, keep the Senate in DC, no vacations, and FORCE Democrats to approve the SAVE America Act as part of any DHS funding deal!

And this is the state of deliveries in Maine, doesn't matter of its the USPS or FedEx.. you never know where your package will end up!