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> Spain shut it’s airspace for US planes
> Italy blocks it’s airbase for US planes
> Poland has shut US’s request too
> UK refuses to help US too
> France does the same
> Israel cuts off france’s weapons
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Israel has officially halted all defense deals with France, citing their "hostile attitude"
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@RealJamesWoods Mr. Wood's you're a little bitch plain and simple. You praise Mr I'm in the closet Mike Johnson for what? Dude, do you ever shut the fuck up? You're a little man with a big mouth and that's it. Fuck you and the my little pony you rode in here on loser! 🖕
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@BFlowers35830 @DavidAFrench Jesus, someone pick up BFlowers35839 for the short bus.
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@DavidAFrench I really question his motives. The two countries he has recently invaded are both oil rich. Quite a coincidence.
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I want to see the military open the Strait of Hormuz as quickly and painlessly as possible. I want to see the Iranian regime collapse and replaced by a democracy.
But I can't blind myself to reality. This is not how our democracy should go to war. Trump is not the right man to lead our nation into battle. People I respect applaud Trump for his courage in taking on Iran. But I don’t see courage. I see recklessness. I see thoughtlessness.
I see a man who plunged a nation into a conflict without fully comprehending the risks. I see a man full of hubris after achieving success in much more limited military engagements. And he’s now counting on two of the world’s most competent militaries to essentially bail him out. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…
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@MarioNawfal Lol. Military destroyed but has “exceeded expectations.” Donyou ever get tired of carrying water for traitors?
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Iran’s military has exceeded U.S. and Israeli expectations: They continue to heavily strike the Gulf and Israel, and have introduced more capable and more destructive missiles as the war escalates (Karashneg with cluster munitions)
Trump has 2 options:
1. Seek an off-ramp. Accept the loss, portray it as a win to his voter base, and move to the next target: Cuba
2. Escalate: Strike Iranian infrastructure and bleed the country into submission, with the option of sending troops to seize the Strait of Hormuz
Option 1 avoids further U.S. debt and munition shortages, but gives up on the objective of controlling the Strait of Hormuz. This would be a massive win for China, giving it energy supremacy and a huge edge in the AI race.
Option 2 could lead to a capitulation of the Iranian regime, meaning U.S. control over the Straits, allowing long term leverage over China. However Iran could also turn into another forever war, a failed state, with hundreds of thousands of dead. Think Iraq, but worse
I feel Trump has made up his mind, and seems set to go all the way. The long term strategic importance of the Straits seems to outweigh the risks of another forever war
I hope he’s making the right choice, as I am extremely worried, especially if China decides to increase military support to Iran and turn the conflict into a geopolitical proxy war.
But despite things looking bleak at the moment, we may also see a capitulation of the Iranian regime, an end to the war, and the U.S. having control/influence of the Straits. Although unlikely, it is not impossible.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
No matter what Trump does next, the Middle East will never look the same - Gulf countries are pissed - Iran is more hardline - Russia & China are salivating And if the regime survives, Trump loses any chance to control the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. will come out much weaker, and China much stronger Trump should have never started this war, but at this stage may have no option but to finish the job.
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@hayfarani Your poor decisions are yours and yours alone. You bought a home in a war zone. If they don’t sell insurance there to cover your loss, that should make you think, no?
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@AndrewC18523011 @TomBluderson3rd @afneil No, he didn’t. It’s the revisionist history Tom was rebutting. Your sensitivities need to be held in check. Grow up.
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@TomBluderson3rd @afneil You come over as trolling, hence the spiral of responses.
It is also best to focus on the anti US politicians and their poor defence choices now etc rather than herd people in their direction as that is rewarding them.
There is enough Trump derangement syndrome here as it is.
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You have a weak and tendentious grasp of history.
We were never a few months away from ‘being a German colony’ after the Battle of Britain (which did not involve America).
Churchill made clear his endgame from the start: Total Victory.
Germany declared War in USA. That’s what brought USA into the European theatre of war.
FDR agreed with Churchill’s endgame.
M🌪@22blanco22
People harping on end game make me boil. You guys were few months away from all being a German colony if not for the American. And they’ve kept the peace through the NATO alliance an even having boots on ground in almost every country. Churchill and penning weren’t talking about endgame when they were begging FDR for help and if not for the japanese actions at pearl harbour, Americans won’t be joining the war.
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@TomBluderson3rd @afneil They insisted on payment in gold for the materiel they supplied and if Japan hadn’t caught them all asleep in Pearl Harbour they probably wouldn’t have joined us in fighting the Germans
But they happily took our Empire reserve funds and technology. Special relationship? My *rse
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@stevenQ78611072 @StolenMuppets @clement_molin If the grocery store sells exclusive high-end items and the homeless person can only use those items, the customer buying those items is at the mercy of the store. If the store doesn’t want to sell, they don’t have to. If they choose to that’s definitely aiding.
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@StolenMuppets @clement_molin It's literally a fact. The grocery store doesn't assist you buy letting someone else buy food from them.
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Americans will make you believe the US 🇺🇸 are still helping Ukraine 🇺🇦
"Military sales" is not assistance, especially when the money used to buy this is from another country. When Sweden is paying for US Humvee to Ukraine, this is not US military aid but Swedish military aid.
Intelschizo@Schizointel
Oh, would you look at that another chart that falsely intentionally excludes foreign military sales, which as the department of State classifies is literally military assistance over $13 billion in the past year sold to Ukraine, but you don't count that in the chart. Over 3,000 air-launched cruise missiles have been provided to Ukraine by the United States In the last year but your chart doesn't show that and nor does it show that the Europeans have purchased more Russian energy than Total aid that they have given to Ukraine.
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@matt96h @StolenMuppets @clement_molin If you go to 7/11 and they are the ONLY ONES who have a hotdog, and they don’t -have to- sell it to you, but do anyway, that certainly is aid. They could choose not to sell you the hot dog. They are aiding you in selling the hot dog which the homeless person needs.
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@StolenMuppets @clement_molin If I go to 7/11 and buy a hotdog for a homeless person there is no conceivable way that this counts as "Aid from 7/11 to homeless".
I've tried to put this in the most American way possible so you understand, but your mental retardation may be too severe.
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@R_B_J @StolenMuppets @clement_molin Making the rich Euro-trash pay for American weapons they don’t (and won’t ever) have to allow others fight a war they won’t (and can’t) wage sounds noble until you see it for what it is.
You fund the very war you oppose.
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@StolenMuppets @clement_molin But the discussion isn't, who is making weapons available to Ukraine, the discussion is who is paying for those weapons for Ukraine.
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@clement_molin @raver_lance It’s a shame that you are paying for weapons against the Ukrainians you support.
You lost the thread by speaking.
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@raver_lance Don't get me wrong, this is a shame that we are still buying gas from Russia but you could also argue that Ukraine was still paying Gazprom years into the war.
Diplomacy and economics are not binary
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@clement_molin Low-info post. 1st the United States have given more actual usable military equipment and aid than any individual EU country by far. Without the US, Ukraine is already conquered and the rest of Europe ripe for the picking.
The entire EU cannot outfit any army ANYWHERE. Learn.
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Breaking: Russia is secretly providing satellite imagery and sharing drone technology to help Iran target U.S. forces in the region on.wsj.com/478OhaN
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The arrogance of expecting allies to join a war that the US and Israel started for no reason is breathtaking.
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC
Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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🇨🇳🇰🇷 China spent a decade trying to remove THAAD from South Korea. Iran did it in two weeks.
Beijing threw everything at getting that system out.
Tourism bans, brand boycotts, years of diplomatic pressure.
The AN-TPY2 radar can see 3,000 kilometers into Chinese territory, and that drove them crazy.
Nothing worked.
Then Iran went to war with the U.S. and started destroying radar systems and burning through interceptor stockpiles at a rate nobody planned for.
By March 10th, THAAD launchers were being loaded onto cargo planes at Osan Air Base and flown to the Middle East.
South Korea publicly opposed the move but couldn't stop it.
The U.S. only has eight THAAD batteries on the entire planet.
Source: Business Basics on YT
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇷🇮🇶 The war that built everything you're watching right now If you want to understand why Iran has an IRGC, why it hoards missiles, why it built proxy armies across four countries, and why it would rather burn the Gulf down than surrender, you need to go back to 1980. Saddam Hussein invaded a post-revolution Iran that was fractured and weak. What followed was eight years of trench warfare, chemical attacks, and a million dead. The world armed Iraq. Nobody helped Iran. That trauma is baked into the regime's DNA. Every tunnel, every drone factory, every mine in the Strait of Hormuz exists because Iran swore after 1988 that it would never be that vulnerable again. Operation Epic Fury is the climax of a 45-year story... Source: Johnny Harris on YT
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@billweberx @HonTonyAbbott Silly man. Think and then post. We absolutely do care “what they do with them.” Armchair generals like you need not apply.
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@HonTonyAbbott The US is not "giving" Australia anything. They're selling them subs. We don't care what they do with them.
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Under AUKUS, Australian sailors are embedded on US submarines to learn how to crew nuclear-powered subs. So when the USS Charlotte torpedoed an Iranian frigate, you'd expect our personnel to be at their stations. Instead, our government ordered them to their bunks. Our people were little more than submarine tourists.
This government suffers from a kind of practical pacifism, where the only circumstances our armed forces might conceivably be permitted to fire a shot in anger is at an enemy actually bombing Darwin.
At some point, the US president who's supposed to give Australia up to five Virginia class nuclear powered submarines is going to ask why he should divert firepower to a country that won't use it. Could a country that benches personnel already embarked on a US sub ever be trusted to be at America's side when it really counts?
Read my latest at The Tony Abbott Newsletter: tonyabbott.au/p/submarine-to…
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🇫🇷 A French general just said joining Trump’s coalition is like buying a ticket to dinner and dancing on the Titanic – the evening after it hit the iceberg.
That’s not a metaphor. That’s a military assessment.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@micah_erfan I have zero problem with this. Grow up and get a proper ID that is required in your state. Better yet, get a passport. If you can’t figure it out, you are too dumb to vote.
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I voted 2 days ago in Virginia.
I showed a student ID to vote.
Under the SAVE Act, the polling location would have rejected that ID and turned me away.
The SAVE Act is not a voter ID bill. It is a proof of citizenship bill.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec
Americans of all political stripes want voter ID requirements in our elections. Pass the SAVE America Act!
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Yeah i did this twice in college. Even then the traffic sucked. With luck i might hit snow at Baldy by 2:00 and then the snow sucked. It was cool but now LA is an ungovernable human wasteland. Tent encampments under every overpass. Guys taking shits on the sidewalk — like is this Calcutta? Fires that run abated and untended through the Palisades? There is zero accountability in CA. And the Governor that fucked it all wants to run for President. God Help Us.
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@bh_buckeye If you're in Southern CA its 100% possible. Surf at 7 am in San Diego, and drive to big bear within 2-3 hours. I have friends that have done it
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For the people commenting that California only has good weather:
- I can surf and snowboard in one day
- I can hike some of the most beautiful mountains in the world
- secret beaches
- beautiful landscape
- a LOT of nice people if you actually socialize in person instead of rotting online with other miserable people
- the most innovation in America
- the largest economy by far in the US.
But you’re worried about people being democrats, get over politics, it’s doing nothing but negative things for you!!!
Jason Lee@jasonjosephlee
No matter how much shit California gets, it is still the best state in America. Three of my neighbors are from Texas, Florida, and Illinois. We have the best weather with no hurricanes and no unbearable humidity. It's easy to talk shit about a state when you know its the best. If you talk shit, you're just jealous. Come to San Diego and try to talk bad about it.
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