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Peg's avatar

Wow…..I love that you both can laugh as THAT gives me hope..as crazy as that sounds. I close out my day listening to your insights. Appreciate you both!

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elliott oberman's avatar

YOU Cannot Bomb Knowledge Out of Existence. Iran knows how to make a nuclear bomb. They do. And bombing their facilities just destroys their equipment; it does not eliminate their knowledge. That risk is why many of us believed that a negotiated agreement that put in place verifiable limits on Iran’s nuclear program was a safer bet than military action.

EVEN opponents of this strike need to admit Iran is weak, and we cannot know for sure what the future holds. Is it out of the question that the tired, elderly Supreme Leader decides that he doesn’t want a drawn-out fight with the United States and responds in a way that doesn’t escalate the situation? Sure. But we can’t count on it and have to weigh those risks seriously.

THE Stupidest Present in History Trump assembles national security team amid threat of Iran retaliation

Iran launches missiles at U.S. military bases in the Middle East Iran launched multiple missiles toward U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities this weekend.

The weakest President in History says. Ok, Iran we won't retaliate, let's end this after Iran's attack on the miliary base, insistent on an end to his provocation and not negotiating instead like a great president would. Trump is calling for no more attacks from Iran, it was a one of and a lot of blasters from weak authoritarian wannabe leader who is a chaos manipulator racist who hates his own civilians who are dark in color. Please let's remove him from our decent society and return to normalcy and peace without this malignant cancer!

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Sandra Przybylski's avatar

This whole situation will embolden Russia. According to Lev Parnas, Zelensky's intelligence has shown Russia isn't stopping at Donbas. Russia will advance all the way through Poland to the Baltics. This whole situation is scary. Meanwhile we have a cognitively & physically declined nutbag at the wheel!

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lance olsen's avatar

To state the obvious if the Americans don't hurry up and get rid of "Russian asset and psycho performance artist donald trump" he will get everyone killed off.

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Sandra Przybylski's avatar

Follow the oil and the quid pro ques. Iran closes Strait of Hormuz. Iran carries Russian sanctioned oil on its 'shadow fleet.' Russian oil is in demand & goes to Putin's war machine. Some people are saying prices of oil have not gone up. Perhaps it's early yet. Russia in turn has 600 Russian scientists working at Fodor & has built nuclear facilities for Iran. (Lev Parnas sources). They evacuated the nuclear material. Nothing is going to stop them testing an atomic bomb somewhere in the desert, according to Malcom Nance. It all depends on trump now. Will he stupidly follow his criminal friend Bibi & escalate against Iran. Interestingly enough, & I've posted the source (I'll have to find it), Iran (Islamic Revolutionary Guard) & Russia interfered in the '24 election, with AI involvement (spewing disinformation & propaganda) with "US BASED FACILITATORS." (US Treasury report, dated Dec 31, 2024.)FWIW China is a huge buyer of oil.

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Hal Martin's avatar

Hey folks, it's me again, beating on the same old drum.

This time, I'll try a different tack on the subject a little less direct.

What triggered my comment on this 5 stack was the part on how this was a significant windfall for Putin. Absolutely, brilliantly stated and correct, I couldn't agree more.

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Imagine for a minute, that you are a futures trader, a futures trader in oil, and you get to decide when the price goes up. (just do a stealth bombing run on Iran). And even better you get to pay for the oil futures with your own money. The money that you have is a crypto currency that you totally control the value of, and if that weren't enough, if you run out, all you have to do is print more, (so as to speak,) by issuing a new series of numbers.

So, to summarize in this day dream, you can buy oil at the low cost of June 1, with money that doesn't actually have any value (free oil), and then you can sell the oil for todays price and pocket what $$$ you get. (In US currency-sort of like money laundering)

To do the rough arithmetic, if you purchased a million contracts (each contract gives you the privilege of buying 1000 barrels of oil at the June1 price) and then selling it today, you just made $ 10 billion dollars in a few weeks.

WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THIS PICTURE ????

Answer:

The US bombing of Iran was not about the enriched uranium ! Or nuclear aggression !

Not for any of the parties !

H ........ Just call me simple minded

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Ann's avatar

🙏❤️🇨🇦

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