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Trump knows the truth. He posted about it many times and declared during his election campaign that he would never do it. Remember people only go to war because they have weak negotiating skills. LOL.

 
But ships that pay the War Toll that Trump made necessary are passing freely, who needs insurance...
 


🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Pulling that F-15E crew out of Iran didn’t just cost money, it showed how far this war has already gone.

The U.S. threw everything at this rescue.

The F-15E Strike Eagle alone was a $100M loss, but the real damage came during the extraction: an A-10 down ($18.8M), up to two C-130s destroyed ($150–200M), an MH-6 Little Bird gone (~$7.5M), and 1–2 MQ-9 Reapers lost ($30-60M).

That’s up to ~$386M in aircraft alone.

And that’s just the visible bill.

Behind that number was a full-scale operation: CIA locating the pilot in mountainous terrain, real-time intel feeding the Pentagon, dozens of aircraft flying cover, refueling tankers in the air, special operations teams on the ground, and heavy gunfire to keep Iranian forces away during the extraction.

This was a multi-layered combat mission inside hostile territory.

But it came with a massive cost, with real losses, and shows this conflict is already operating at a level far beyond what’s being openly acknowledged.

Source: WSJ, Global Military, NYT
 


So while a wounded American Colonel was hiding in a mountain crevice at 7,000 feet in Iran with nothing but a pistol and a prayer, and the CIA was running a fake rescue convoy to confuse the IRGC, and MQ-9 Reapers were methodically deleting anyone who got within two miles of him, and special operators were prepping to fly INTO Iran, fight their way to a ridge, extract one man, have two planes get stuck in the sand, blow them up, fly in three MORE planes, fight their way OUT...

The American left saw that the White House had gone quiet and decided: clearly, Trump is dying at Walter Reed.

They posted old video from the Butler assassination attempt as breaking news. They cited "credible reports." A guy literally drove to Walter Reed and reported back: no motorcade, no activity, roads open, nothing happening. Didn't matter. The narrative was already at a million views.

Trump was in the Oval Office the entire time, monitoring a rescue op so complicated it already has a Wikipedia page.

And then Easter morning. The Colonel is safe. Every American is home. And Trump posts: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards. Praise be to Allah."

On Easter. Signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Say what you want about the man. There is no one on earth doing whatever this is. A Christian president threatening to flatten Iran's power grid and then signing off with an Islamic prayer on the holiest day of his own religion, twelve hours after his military blew up their own planes inside enemy territory rather than leave them behind.

The left thought he was in a hospital bed. He was ordering commandos into Iran.

This is going to be the weirdest movie ever made
 
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So while a wounded American Colonel was hiding in a mountain crevice at 7,000 feet in Iran with nothing but a pistol and a prayer, and the CIA was running a fake rescue convoy to confuse the IRGC, and MQ-9 Reapers were methodically deleting anyone who got within two miles of him, and special operators were prepping to fly INTO Iran, fight their way to a ridge, extract one man, have two planes get stuck in the sand, blow them up, fly in three MORE planes, fight their way OUT...

The American left saw that the White House had gone quiet and decided: clearly, Trump is dying at Walter Reed.

They posted old video from the Butler assassination attempt as breaking news. They cited "credible reports." A guy literally drove to Walter Reed and reported back: no motorcade, no activity, roads open, nothing happening. Didn't matter. The narrative was already at a million views.

Trump was in the Oval Office the entire time, monitoring a rescue op so complicated it already has a Wikipedia page.

And then Easter morning. The Colonel is safe. Every American is home. And Trump posts: "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards. Praise be to Allah."

On Easter. Signed "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Say what you want about the man. There is no one on earth doing whatever this is. A Christian president threatening to flatten Iran's power grid and then signing off with an Islamic prayer on the holiest day of his own religion, twelve hours after his military blew up their own planes inside enemy territory rather than leave them behind.

The left thought he was in a hospital bed. He was ordering commandos into Iran.

This is going to be the weirdest movie ever made
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It IS pretty awesome. Very American male. What made this country great.
 
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Iran war's shock waves threaten England's farms 6,000 miles away​

GREAT HORKESLEY, England — Few places feel farther from the Iran war than the potato fields of eastern England, where pastoral landscapes and ancient forests have inspired romantic painters and poets for centuries.

But this bucolic scene is not immune from the shock waves triggered by the American-Israeli assault — and it’s a story being repeated across farms all over the world.

Though much attention has been devoted to the oil shock brought on by the conflict, there is another, perhaps equally alarming crisis...
 

Former Bush Insider Reveals SHOCKING Intel On Iran War & Hormuz Crisis | Catherine Austin Fitts​



Grok summarized
Main TopicThe discussion centers on the Strait of Hormuz crisis (and broader Iran tensions) as more than a simple geopolitical conflict. Fitts frames it as part of a larger engineered financial system reset, energy control effort, and rollout of a digital control grid.

Key Points from the Interview
  • Hormuz Crisis as a Financial Tool: Iran operates largely outside the Western financial system (not fully on SWIFT). The crisis is portrayed as a way to eliminate "leakage" from the system, force integration, and trigger shortages. Closing the strait could remove ~20% of global oil consumption, far worse than the 2020 COVID oil drop, potentially causing global depression, bankruptcies, famine (especially in the Global South via fertilizer/agriculture hits), and severe impacts on tourism and industry.
  • Geopolitical Winners/Losers:
    • Russia benefits from higher oil prices and diverted Western attention from Ukraine.
    • China gains from reduced shipping traffic and potential yuan-based tolls.
    • The US has domestic energy advantages but faces internal economic pain and questions the feasibility of a ground invasion of Iran (due to terrain, Iran's large/high-IQ military, etc.). Fitts doubts full-scale success and references past plans like Wesley Clark's "seven countries in five years."
  • Broader Agenda:
    • Links to a digital control grid (programmable money, surveillance via IT contractors targeted by Iran, Epstein connections).
    • US health/military decline (chronic disease, low fitness rates among young people) and resistance to reforms like "Make America Healthy Again."
    • Bond market stresses, shift toward war economy, and resource grabs.
    • Potential for "COVID 2.0" as cover for the reset.
  • Economic & Investment Views:
    • Bullish long-term on gold and silver as real assets.
    • S&P looks overvalued when measured in gold.
    • Urges preparation: local food/energy systems, community resilience, and avoiding hopelessness.
  • Tone & Outlook:
    Fitts is skeptical of official narratives, emphasizing control mechanisms over genuine security or reform. She advises building personal and local resilience while noting a resurgence in spirituality/religion as a counter to nihilism.
Overall Takeaway
The video presents the Iran/Hormuz situation as a high-stakes facade for global financial reordering, energy dominance, and increased centralized control. It warns of cascading economic shocks (depression-level events) while encouraging practical preparedness over panic.The interview is dense with geopolitical, financial, and societal analysis typical of Fitts' style. If you're interested in macroeconomics, energy geopolitics, or "deep state" financial interpretations, it's a detailed listen.
 

🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE END OF COMPLACENCY: IRAN’S ADVANCED DEFENSES

Russian military expert Andrei Martyanov says the Pentagon is suffering from a dangerous "military mythology."

As an expert in naval and military issues, he points out that Iran now produces its own long-range systems capable of hitting targets at 150km.

These units, including the Bavar and various S-300 systems, have caught American war planners off guard.

Martyanov believes the U.S. has learned nothing from the realities of the conflict in Ukraine.
 
Ending control of the British Empire
Trun on CC and read... her accent is hard to grok

Trump vs Britain the empire that never ended (Vivify Mariposa)​

 
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