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@flyoverflower @xnoesbueno I would say "respected" rather than "admired". You can respect someone without particularly liking them.

@xnoesbueno Not sure whether Yamamoto particularly ADMIRED America (maybe he did, I honestly don't know) but he sure understood its military potential better than anyone else in the Axis that I ever studied.

With this Japan-America lovefest prompted by Trump's Pearl Harbor joke and Musk's X translation thingy, worth noting, Nihonjin might not know. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor, admired America, and thought attacking the US was a really bad idea. His warlord masters thought Americans were decadent and weak. Not the first or last to make that miscalculation ... increasingly difficult to counter that view as it may be. Yamamoto's counsel, don't poke the bear. He had driven across this country, knew the people and their potential. But his warlord masters were bent on it, and he figured the only way that works is a knockout blow. That didn't really work out. Classic historical example of the phenomenon we now call FAFO

@AmericanDebunk Take a look at the geography of Iran at the strait. No one is going to just walk in and take that area if the Iranians elect to defend it. Flat land surrounded by mountains where soldiers can burrow in like ticks. Sort of like Iwo Jima.

This post by Trump is pre-framing what's to come. Read along and you'll start to see it too. When Trump tells the UK to "go to the Strait and just TAKE IT," the surface read is that he's venting at allies who didn't show up. But the deeper move is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore. It's available real estate. It's takeable. Anyone with courage can have it. That's a massive Overton Window shift delivered, in a tweet, as an insult to the UK. A year ago "America controls the Strait of Hormuz" sounded like some twisted fantasy. Today Trump is telling Britain to go grab it themselves like it's a parking spot. In a few weeks, Trump has normalized the concept of Western control over the Strait so thoroughly that full US seizure now looks like the modest option compared to what he's suggesting allies do on their own. This is intentional. The persuasion mechanics here are priming plus pre-selling. Whatever the eventual deal includes (US Navy permanent presence, joint patrols, Iranian withdrawal from mining infrastructure) the public will accept it because Trump already told them the Strait is there for the taking. Your subconscious mind has already been primed to accept it. This "psychological baseline" is going to influence Trump-Iran negotiations. Best believe it. "The hard part is done" works the same way. He's managing public fatigue. It translates to "we won, relax, this is cleanup". This keeps approval from eroding while the Pakistan talks drag through April. Trump isn't describing reality. He's installing it. Say the Strait is takeable enough times and it becomes takeable in the public mind. It's been 10 years of Trump and he still leaves me in awe with his persuasion.

@devoidofliberty @gummibear737 Russia won't enter the war. There is no benefit to them to enter in directly. They will be quite content to keep feeding enough war material into Iran to keep the US occupied for an extended period.

@gummibear737 You should be first in line for the draft bud. Since you’re so worried about losing the war that’s already lost. Let’s hope Russia doesn’t directly enter the conflict

Western civilization may never win another war if this keeps up This is maddening. The radical left, mainstream media, and the woke right are running the exact same playbook with the US/Israel campaign against Iran as they did with Israel in Gaza They create impossible standards in terms of: -Zero Casualties -Zero Economic Disruption -Zero Uncertainty -Zero Time to Accomplish the Mission -Zero Collateral Damage And everything the bad guys do is actually our fault because we made them do it….same script as Gaza…the bad guys have no agency and it’s actually our fault Day 32 of the Iran war: -degraded missile factories, nuclear sites, IRGC bases, and proxy networks -the Supreme Leader is gone…and his replacement is s vegetable -all the top leadership is gone…in fact, we don’t even know who’s in charge Yet the all you hear is endless doomerism And all of this sounds exactly like the demoralization propaganda from Russia, China, and Iran, that has infiltrated our society for years via social media and retarded influencers chasing click This isn’t responsible skepticism It’s weakness… And you’ll never get peace through strength when the opponent knows you lack resolve and they can just wait you out This is madness

@gummibear737 Short of nuclear weapons, there is no example of a country surrendering to a bombing campaign. We either will be enmeshed in a long war of aerial bombardment, put troops on the ground and suffer substantial casualties, or we turn tail and run. Great choices.

@SumBrokeDude @HistorianUSA1 How do YOU know what Jesus would or would not do? Sounds pretty freaking presumptuous to me.

I haven't read one response yet that seems to show any compassion for this person. It could be mainly performative because it was posted on social media - I don't know. I'm betting you really don't know either. You most likely don't know this person at all. This does remind me of a few people I know and they actually feel the exact same way but aren't posting their fears for all to see. I want to err more on the side of compassion. My God did by sending his Son Jesus Christ to pay for my sins. Jesus would show great compassion to people and then say to go sin no more. He did that practically to everyone except the Pharisees - who showed no compassion at all.

Clown World just hit Trader Joe’s and it’s even more pathetic than it sounds. This gender-confused white leftist with the nose ring sits in the parking lot whining that he can’t go inside because there are “too many white people” and he feels out of place. Bro… have you looked in the mirror? You ARE white. The only thing out of place here is the years of woke brainwashing that turned you into a self-hating professional victim. Here’s what that mental illness actually looks like:

@petespetes @CollinRugg Not exactly. NDP has substantial numbers of seats in a majority of Canadian provinces and a handful in the national parliament. In the US no Green candidate has ever held office in Congress and fewer than 10 have ever held seats in state legislatures all time. (per Grok)

@CollinRugg Bruh this is "Canada arguing over the issues" as much as the US Green Party leadership debates represent US voters.

NEW: Far-left Canadians start arguing over "Equity Cards" at the 2026 NDP Leadership Convention. Woman 1: I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker. That's my point of privilege... Woman 2: I want everyone to be mindful that these cards for individuals like myself who identify as a black woman have no value outside of this space. Good to see Canada arguing over the issues that matter. Video: @AmazingZoltan

@Unscrupulish @DrunkRepub That is very close to gibberish. Did you use something like the Chomskybot to generate it?

@DrunkRepub Boomers spent their parenting lives rejecting digital media and insisting on mainstream news, now they're trapped by ideologically captured networks. They spent the last 16 years being warped by parasocial relationships to radical woke people pretending to be Tom Brokaw.

The lefty Boomers packing these No Kings rallies have been wrong about everything. Literally everything. - nuclear power - overpopulation - recreational drug use - the Sexual Revolution - free trade - socialism You name it, they f’d it up. They are a huge reason we are $40 trillion in debt and the major driver behind blue states going belly-up. So the fact they are protesting Trump makes me certain he’s more or less on the right track. Truly the most poisonous demographic of the last century, and maybe in all of American history. Their scorn is the ultimate badge of honor.

@UtahCollegeReps Guillotine? Insurrection! Years in prison for all of them!

Democrats in Utah are protesting outside Temple Square with guillotines. Wicked people demonstrating how wicked Salt Lake City has become.

@ACPMain Which was founded by Jews.

The only way to resist Zionism in the United States is through an organized Communist movement headed by a Communist party.

@TialWastegate @JennieSTaer It takes a few guys to subdue a struggling man without using really serious force. The more guys doing the subduing the faster it is done and the less need to hurt the person in the process.

@JennieSTaer Whoops that didn’t take long

Spend five minutes at an airport watching Americans interact with ICE, and the media narrative completely collapses. Most people we’ve talked to are openly supportive.

@TialWastegate @JennieSTaer I notice you're using a pseudonym, the internet equivalent of a face mask. Post your name and tell us where you live, brave guy.

@JennieSTaer Look how well they behave with the hoods off if this isnt the best argument for banning klan ICE hoods i dont know what is. On brand

@ArbbiMane @JennieSTaer @ICEgov Did they show you their passports as they were taken out?

@JennieSTaer @ICEgov I saw them pull two American citizens off a plane simply for being Hispanic…

@Jeff_Ermann @jason_meister Imagine being so stupid that you don't know that evidence is unfolding every day in Arizona and Georgia that the election was in fact stolen. Only a clown would maintain that the election was not badly tainted.

Imagine posting this after Trump tried to overthrow an election by intimidating officials to hand him votes, set off a riot at the capitol with his lies about the stolen election and then pardoned the rioters, several of whom then used their newfound freedom to commit heinous crimes against children. In other words: STFU, clown.

Imagine throwing a “No Kings” protest after your party refused to hold a primary, coronated Kamala without a single vote, sued to keep RFK Jr. off the ballot, and attempted to remove Trump from state ballots only after your illegal lawfare scheme failed. If there was a modern day monarchy in America there would only be one party you could point to. The Democrats.

@pkinco @jason_meister Only an effing retard is still whining "Trump incited an insurrection".

Kamala Harris was nominated the same way Presidents were nominated for 150 years. Through a convention. If you knew US history you would have known that. Trump incited an insurrection. Proof of that is overwhelming and can't be contested. As such, he couldn't be on the ballot legally. So, a couple of states followed the US Constitution and tried to have him removed from the ballot. RFK Jr sued to have his name removed from ballots.

@Megatron_ron I'm not a supporter of this action but I have to throw the bullshit flag on this. It would take a LOT of direct hits to "destroy" an entire military base. I am sure there have been hits and I am sure troops have been moved, but bases destroyed? no way.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times has confirmed that most of the 13 US bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and empty. 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, according to the NYT.

@ClarkeMicah Do we include clients who do their dirty work?

.@jingaddingding . Really? Please name the wars which Iran has started, and the countries which it has invaded in, oh, the last 50 years.

@BeachBreeze5 @brianschatz Trump can fix the hundreds of thousands of drug-addicted mentally ill living on the streets by throwing a bunch of money at them but the problem continues to get worse in New York and LA where they do just that. Go ahead, pull my other leg now.

If Trump truly cared about Americans, he could prioritize healing the huge homelessness problem. That is the type of leadership that would be action that builds a true and authentic legacy as a US president. I believe 🇺🇸 could fix the tragedy of widespread homelessness throughout our country. 1/2

For the amount of money the Pentagon is requesting for this insane war we could eliminate hunger in America for a decade. The problem in our country is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of moral clarity.

@OwenShroyer1776 Bondi is easily Trump's worst cabinet member. She and her deputy have stymied any attempts to clean up the deep state. Trump will pay the price.

Has he even started?

@brandan_buck It is called not tipping your hand.

Vibes based foreign policy.

@JavierBlas @opinion Kharg Island accounts for 90% or more of Iran's oil exports. Other facilities could easily be crippled through bombing so that Kharg is the sole functional shipment terminal. Of course just capturing it won't open Hormuz but it would be a major bargaining chip.

KHARG ISLAND — a thread: Trump has talked about taking Iran's Kharg Island for 40 years. The problem? Capturing it won't shut down Iran’s entire oil export system. And thus it won't lead to Hormuz re-opening fast enough. 🧵1/10 @Opinion FREE-TO-READ: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…