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Left: Christian faith leaders praying with President Trump Right: Pope Leo on Palm Sunday, "Jesus does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, he rejects then, saying: Even though you make many prayers I will not listen, your hands are full of blood"

The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said. It would fall short of a full-scale invasion and could involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, said the officials. wapo.st/4sGVkjV

@piersmorgan @schieritz Vietnam reloaded

I repeat: this is madness.

So the US only win wars in movies?

Quindi in tempo di guerra si può entrare nelle chiese sinagoghe e moschee in numero non superiore a 50, come ai tempi del COVID. Sono francamente curiose queste superstizioni ricorrenti nel tempo e nello spazio.

@Hajduk_X Ah.

@chilisummer Una vecchia di merda simbolo del degrado della nostra nazione. Food blogger come si dice ora.

Vuole comprare il parmigiano all'aeroporto di Fiumicino.

@shanaka86 Don't worry that much about Europe. Europe invented industrialization.

BREAKING: Europe spent four years escaping Russian gas. It cut dependence from 40 percent to under 10 percent. It built LNG terminals. It signed long-term contracts with Qatar. It celebrated energy independence. Then America bombed Iran. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Qatar declared force majeure. And European gas prices nearly doubled in a month. The Dutch TTF benchmark surged 70 percent in March to 54.5 euros per megawatt-hour per FinancialContent. It briefly touched 63.77, a three-year high per CNBC. The ECB raised its 2026 inflation forecast to 2.6 percent from 1.9 percent per its March 19 meeting. President Lagarde said she stands ready to HIKE rates if inflation persists per CNBC. Markets now price in two rate hikes by year-end per Morningstar. Before the war, the consensus was cuts across the developed world. Here is the structural trap nobody else has named. Europe entered 2026 with gas storage at just 46 billion cubic metres per Bruegel, compared to 60 bcm in 2025 and 77 bcm in 2024. A harsh winter depleted the reserves that were supposed to be the buffer. When the war hit, Europe had less stored gas than at any point since 2022. The Economics Observatory confirmed storage levels had “fallen back towards the lows reached during the early stages of the Russia-Ukraine war.” Europe is more vulnerable to this shock than the last one because it started from a weaker position. And the replacement gas comes from a single source. US LNG now supplies 40 to 45 percent of European imports per IEA data. That is not diversification. That is substitution. Europe replaced Russian pipelines with American tankers. It replaced one dependency with another. And the country that holds the new dependency lever is the one whose president launched the war that created the shortage. The IEA head described this as “the greatest global energy security challenge in history” per Wikipedia’s economic impact analysis. Commerzbank projects inflation rising above 3 percent in Q2 2026 before easing per FXStreet. Oxford Economics warns of a severe scenario where inflation could peak at 3.6 percentage points above baseline. The ECB’s own “severe” scenario warns inflation could peak above 6 percent early next year if Gulf energy infrastructure suffers further destruction per CNBC. Germany faces the worst hit: Deutsche Bank cut its 2026 growth forecast from 1.5 to 1.0 percent per Morningstar. The Ifo Institute estimates the war’s drag on German growth at 0.8 percentage points cumulative. Chemical and steel manufacturers have imposed surcharges of up to 30 percent per Wikipedia’s economic impact analysis. Permanent deindustrialisation is now discussed as a realistic outcome for Europe’s largest economy. The sequence is structural, not accidental. Russia’s invasion forced Europe to pivot to Qatar and US LNG. The Iran war eliminated Qatar. Europe now depends on American gas shipped from Gulf Coast terminals at record margins. Trump holds the lever. Vance is running the backchannels. And every LNG tanker crossing the Atlantic carries both the gas Europe needs and the leverage America gains. Europe escaped Russia’s trap by building a bridge to Qatar. Iran bombed the far end of the bridge. The only span still standing leads to Texas. The war that was supposed to secure Hormuz for global trade has instead made Europe a captive customer of American shale. That is not liberation. That is a change of landlord. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@GentProv @luddynski Ho guardato cosa sono perché non le conosco. Interessanti.

@chilisummer @luddynski Sembrano ottimi. Qui abbiamo mangiato le tagliatelle alla papalina.

@luddynski @GentProv Gnocchi alla romana, giovedì gnocchi, me l'ha detto sora Lella

@GentProv @luddynski Ho fatto gnocchi alla romana e peperonata per consolarmi

@GentProv @luddynski Io francamente uso il surgelato ma non mi dà grande soddisfazione

@LukeDuke1268 No, sono sinonimi

@chilisummer Governare e regolare sono 2 cose radicalmente diverse.

La quantità di persone che crede che lo stato possa creare denaro é impressionante La quantità di persone che crede che creando denaro si crei ricchezza é forse ancora di più Socialismo e ignoranza vanno strettamente a braccetto

Probabilmente se avesse proprio la voglia di comprare il parmigiano all'aereoporto di Las Vegas costerebbe di più

@CarlZha @Gokul_Sahni This is worse than Vietnam

US ground war in Vietnam started with deployment of 3,500 Marines to secure airport in Da Nang in 1965

@LukeDuke1268 Perché è lo stato (con la sua garanzia) che rende la moneta esigibile nello spazio e nel tempo.

@chilisummer perché no?

@LukeDuke1268 No.

@chilisummer Non governa nulla, regola e norma, come qualsiasi cosa. Moneta esisterebbe benissimo anche senza lo stato

@LukeDuke1268 Quindi è solo lo stato che governa la moneta. La moneta può essere creata dalle banche, ma le banche hanno bisogno di autorizzazioni dallo stato per operare, e sono soggette a detenere riserve ed è tutto deciso dallo stato

@chilisummer Quindi?

@LukeDuke1268 Bene bene, c'è sempre lo stato di mezzo

@chilisummer Vuol dire che quegli euro sono titolo di credito al portatore in cui il debitore é la banca centrale (tipicamente non BCE ma una banca centrale dell'eurosiatema). Prima di arrivare a te una banca li ha presi a prestito da Banca d'Italia e poi li ha prestati a qualcuno.

@LukeDuke1268 Quindi lo stato governa la moneta. Bene che ci sei arrivato da solo.

@chilisummer alo stato definisce per legge cos'e la moneta a corso legale nel paese, non rifiutabile e con potere estinguente di debiti. Quindi?

BREAKING: The Pentagon is preparing for 'weeks of ground operations in Iran' according to Washington Post report