surprise attack on 80 year old pope, and schoolgirls, was totally going to make Iranians love the US.

Atlantic doesn’t want what’s best for you anymore than Netanyahu. This is best outcome, and it’s already taking too long.

it seems a bit worse that the slush fund pay outs seem to be conditional on accused or admitted wrongdoing.

Fortunately, it is unlikely the US will wage war on China because it is already so far behind. The US is directly collapsing, and it explains its political desperation, but the war is entirely the oligarchy against the people, and protecting their pillage. Certainly massive spending for war is hard to stop, but the appetite to lose yet another war is not going to go up after Iran.

Zionist first rule over US is only issue to him, and most Senators. He’s just a bit more upfront about being a traitor over the others.

equivalent to nearly 1T bcf of natural gas (peaker) electricity generation per year at just ~4 hours sun/day (1300/year). About 4% of US NG use per year. All in one month of just exports. Over life of panels, over 120% of 1 year’s US NG use. Annualized would displace 1 US annual NG use every 2 years.

“Golden Fleet” battleships named after you-know-who. (Those battleships will cost an astonishing $9bn to $13bn each.)

50/50 they will cost over $20B a piece (need Qatar air force 1 jet quality VIP room) and still won’t be able to approach within 1000km of Iran coast. Navies no longer project power against modern defense strategies. Only blockades of civilian ships that battleships are too slow for.

The $200B “Iran defeat recovery bill” that was written a little more than a week after war started is still secret and being worked on. Likely to grow even if war unwinds quickly to cover Iran and allies (not just Israel) reparations to keep them colonized.

Actual US military directions/rules are more sensible than initial tweet. But after they posted, Trump has said that any boat he doesn’t like will be treated like Carribean fishing vessels. Insurance needs policy to last 7 or more days, and insurance currently requires paying Iran a toll (coordinated by insurance company, for shipper convenience). There is a big difference between ordering or seizing a ship temporarily and blowing it up. Military direction is just that ships will be required permission or denied.

It gets much worse in coming months.

2027 budget cuts 10% from non-military, requests $600B more permanent military. Adds $200B special funding to rebuild from Iran fiasco.

Getting a peace deal with Iran with just nuclear and SoH demands will need $100B in commitments to pay Iran.

No peace deal, just leave, will put GCC allies in Iran/China camp instead of US. Zionazi congress, led by GOP, will push for more Israel gifts. Controlled DNC opposition, Schumer, will get primaried and lose their zionazi purpose.

Asian colonies will need to get closer to China to have access to oil.

Giving Europe colonies freedom (NATO exit threats), will worsen US economic perfromance. World in general will move away from oil/NG use, that the US is all in on.

Best chance for GOP is to impeach Trump/Hegseth.

You don’t amass 6 bankruptcies by not going all in on a pair of 2s very often.

The 10 point plan Trump mentions is all Iran demands. Iran with Pakistan confirmation has said the ceasefire is in place with Iranian control over SoH shipping.

Trump says he agrees with nearly all of these items for permanent peace:

1—Commitment to non-aggression
2—Continuation of Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz
3—Acceptance of uranium enrichment
4—Lifting of all primary sanctions
5—Lifting of all secondary sanctions
6—Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
7—Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
8—Payment of compensation to Iran
9—Withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from the region
10—Cessation of war on all fronts, including against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

link error?

sorry, yes.

Russia’s most important objective for Ukraine is denazification. Without “proxy money” to be nazis fighting Russia, it denazifies quickly. Can return to normal relations with Russia, with a bit less territory.

Both nuclear issue and SoH are easy to solve with $$$$ paid to Iran. Israel only wants destruction and chaos. An Iran impotent to object to its further genocidal expansion. US only wants what Israel wants. A Trump senior momement from today “I told bibi if it wasn’t for me, Iran would have nuked you by now” (Israel/bibi has said for last 40 years that Iran was 2 weeks away).

Trump has already set up “Mission accomplished” moment, with “SoH is up to rest of world, we don’t need it” to boot. He may simply not want to leave, or needs world to pay him to leave.

If US were unlucky enough to be in a war that is going so badly that Marshall law is needed…

Weird things going on with Iran threats. Maybe after 4 hour stone age bombing campaign, mission accomplished?

More likely, oil price will keep rising as SoH closed, and regional infrastructure closed. Ground troops could be a quagmire. The weird threat is that the US will put tolls on oil (too) from the region as an act of war against the world, and retaliation from world.

Protests in US lead to Marshall law. Just doing terrible in foreign policy/war can lead to Marshall law budgeting and preventative reactions to crazy budgeting.

Maybe they needed the ratings for the final war/season to be higher for the movie.

7 wars and a movie… just missing the movie.

Piece is quite brutal against US. Worth read.

While somehow Biden get’s blamed for the fiasco, Trump did order the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, essentially a surrender to the Taliban, though he did keep their US bank account held treasury.