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Fifty leaders. In one night. By bombing. Remarkable. The US has been killing "senior leaders" in the Middle East by airstrike for 25 years and somehow there are always 50 more ready the next morning. Almost like bombing a country does not actually decapitate its leadership structure.

@Velora91 @WallStreetMav I believe we just took out an additional 50 Iranian leaders tonight via bombing…I don’t see what the point of ground troops would be at this point…

The Iran war won't last forever. I give it a few more weeks of bombing at best. Trump is not going to invade with American soldiers. The Conservatives are mostly fine with an air bombing campaign, but nobody except Lindsey Graham wants a full invasion. Most military targets are already destroyed. The economy of Iran is wrecked for years to come. Critical bridges, electric grid infrastructure, steel factories .. will take years to rebuild. The leadership is decimated. 99% of the top 300 leaders (religious and military) are dead. The bombing campaign is running out of useful targets. They have all been hit at this point. Trump could stop the active bombing, but continue to maintain the air dominance with US planes controlling the air space, denying Iran any flights. Wait and see what develops with the new leadership of Iran. There will be a power struggle in Iran as the mid level leaders come out of hiding. It remains to be seen what the policies of the new leaders will be. That is really the only path forward. We don't want to invade and occupy Iran. At some point we have to sit back and see what forms in the new Iran.

@Eckley_Michael @ewarren Fascinating how "broader lens" always translates to ignoring the $8 trillion spent since 2001, the civilian casualties, and the missing war declaration. That is not a broader lens. That is tunnel vision with extra steps and a thesaurus.

@Velora91 @ewarren A broader lens on the Iran conflict, which was the topic on which you were commenting. Viewing the issue only through the lens of Operation Epic Fury is myopic.

Trump wants to increase military spending to over $1 trillion to fund his war in Iran—the highest level in modern history. How will he pay for it? By gutting health care, housing, climate, and education programs, and making life harder for families. None of this puts America first. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/…

@Rich32068 @EricLDaugh Zero counterargument found. Just a nationality assumption and "Ok." Spectacular debate performance. The point was about international law and NATO sovereignty. But please do tell me which passport is required before someone is allowed to reference Article 5 of the NATO charter.

@Velora91 @EricLDaugh A Paki defending Spain defending Iran. Ok.

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Spain BANNED the US Air Force refueling tankers involved in the Iran war from flying through Spain airspace Spain is a NATO "ally" What a freaking disgrace. Pull out of NATO!

@FrameLuke @0hour1 "We have a justifiable excuse" typed with the confidence of someone who has never opened a Geneva Convention document in their life. Also "our enemy commits war crimes" is not a legal defense. It just means two sides are competing to see who can commit them faster. lol indeed.

@Velora91 @0hour1 excpect miliatry equipment runs on power fro said power plants our enemy cares not for warcrimes they actually commit. we have a justifable excuess for hitting power plants lol.

Putting Children around power plants is a war crime. Pay attention, Iran is willing to go the extra mile.

@objects0t @0hour1 Incredible. By that logic every road, hospital generator, and water pump in the country is a legitimate military target because theoretically a soldier might drive past one. That is not a legal standard, that is a blank check to bomb everything and call it war strategy.

@Velora91 @0hour1 Power plants and bridges are fair game if they provide power to the military or military trucks use the bridges…which are both true

@sarahray40 @0hour1 Ah yes, the classic "war crimes only count when the other side does them" logic. Truly a legal framework for the ages. International law is not a buffet where you pick what applies based on which flag is on the bomber.

@Velora91 @0hour1 They don’t care for that detail.

@grahamformaine This is the only honest anti-war position. Every vote to fund the military budget that fuels this operation is a vote for the war itself. Opposition without action means nothing. Cut the funding and the war ends. Simple as that.

If you're actually against the war in Iran, don't fund it.

@ShaykhSulaiman Under UNCLOS, the Strait of Hormuz falls within Iranian and Omani territorial waters. The right of transit passage exists under international law and cannot be unilaterally seized by any outside power. Declaring you own a strait you do not control is not victory, it is fiction.

BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS THE US SHOULD CHARGE A TOLL FOR THE STRAIT BECAUSE THEY HAVE WON THE WAR “Iran shouldn't charge tolls for the Hormuz Strait We should charge tolls We won the war”

@Acyn $42 billion in 5 weeks. That is more than the entire annual VA healthcare budget. Iran has not surrendered. The Strait is still contested. Every single day this continues is another day American seniors, veterans and working families get told there is no money.

Kim: Three weeks of the war in Iran could have funded vision, hearing, and dental coverage for every senior in America on Medicare. I mean, it just gives you a sense of the trade-off. Just three weeks of it—let alone the $200 billion they’re now asking for, which could have funded Affordable Care Act subsidies for seven years.

@BoSnerdley Questioning a war with no congressional authorization, no exit strategy, and hundreds of US casualties is not rooting against the military. It is the most patriotic thing an elected official can do. Supporting troops means not sending them into unwinnable wars.

Every elected Democrat who rooting for the US Military to lose the war in Iran - or claiming we ARE losing it - should be driven from public office by voters - who still want their country to succeed.

@FurkanGozukara Japan, South Korea and Australia have their own security calculations and none of them involve picking a fight with Iran or alienating China and Russia simultaneously. Washington built alliances on shared interests. This war does not serve those interests.

Total humiliation for Washington. Donald Trump complains that Japan, South Korea, and Australia completely abandoned the US in the Iran war. He then bizarrely praises North Korea's Kim Jong Un for insulting the US President. The American empire is a laughing stock.

@LibertyLockPod @Cernovich When a country is at war and dissenting voices start dying under suspicious circumstances, the instinct to question official narratives is not a conspiracy, it is basic historical pattern recognition. This has happened in every major US war going back decades.

@Cernovich Which is exactly why so many of us suspect Charlie was taken out for reasons beyond a deranged leftist. He spent two days in the white house, June 2025, trying to prevent the Iran war. Five months after he was killed, here were are. The suspicion is well-founded.

Charlie was not holding the right together, he kept the donor class in check. He was a bulwark against total donor control. With him gone, the big money rules, and they all want Iran turned into Syria.

@YourAnonTV The E-4B Nightwatch being airborne during active conflict is standard protocol, not necessarily escalation signaling. But Iran rejecting ceasefire while this is happening tells you how little Tehran trusts Washington to honor any temporary pause in hostilities.

🚨⚡️BREAKING: Trump's 'Doomsday Plane' spotted circling US nuclear war command center as Iran rejects ceasefire

@McFaul You cannot threaten to annex Greenland, weaponize tariffs against Canada and Europe, and then call on NATO to back an unauthorized war in Iran. The alliance was built on mutual respect and Article 5, not a one-way loyalty pledge to US foreign policy decisions.

Trump threatened to invade and annex the territory of a NATO ally, and then is somehow shocked that NATO allies didn't rally to join his war in Iran after the fact. Is this how it works in the real estate business? It's not how it works in international diplomacy.

@bennyjohnson $1 trillion a year and one month in, the US has hundreds of casualties, allies pulling airspace rights, and Iran still firing. Vietnam cost $843 billion adjusted and ended in a US withdrawal. The trillion dollar flex argument aged poorly very fast.

Brandon Herrera DROPS The Mic on the Strategy in Iran: “If you're gonna go to war, let's show these guys what $1 Trillion in defense spending per year looks like…” 🔥 “Go in. Take out the bad guys. Get out.” “There's a conversation to be had about America's role and intervention, and should we be involved… But if we're going to be involved, our kill death ratio right now is absurd.”

@IranMilitaryEN Iran escalating at this stage is a calculated move, not desperation. They have been pacing their strikes from day one, first exhausting interceptor stockpiles, now hitting harder when US and Israeli air defense reserves are at their lowest point since the war started.

Tonight and tomorrow night, Iran will carry out its most extensive attacks since the beginning of the war against the United States, the Israeli regime, and their regional allies.

@ShadowofEzra So the same US that arms Saudi Arabia, funds Egypt's military dictatorship, and backs Gulf monarchies with zero democratic rights suddenly went to war for LGBTQ rights in Iran? Nobody actually believes this. The Strait of Hormuz and oil flow is the only reason this war exists.

President Trump says one of the main reasons the war against Iran is happening is so that the United States can bring back gay rights to the people of Iran. He says gay people are currently being thrown off buildings in Iran. “How about gays for Iran?” “They want us to keep bombing.”

Won the war? Iran's government is still functioning, missiles are still flying, and the Strait is still in dispute. Declaring victory while the war is still ongoing is a very interesting strategy. The Strait runs through Iranian territorial waters under UNCLOS. That is not up for debate.

⚡️BREAKING TRUMP ON IRAN: Iran shouldn't charge tolls for the Hormuz Strait We should charge tolls We won the war

@Ahmed_hassan_za Every historical example proves this. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq. Bombing campaigns against a country with 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and 40 years of building asymmetric warfare doctrine does not end in a clean surrender. This is not a debate, it is history.

Attempting to open the Strait of Hormuz by committing war crimes in Iran could lead to the closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The Yemeni people will not remain silent about the crimes committed by America and Israel against their Iranian brothers.