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🚨🇮🇷 Iran's military command says their forces have "hands on the trigger" and will strike "pre-designated targets" if the U.S. makes any move:

"They will deliver a harsher lesson than before to the aggressor United States and the child-killing Zionist regime."

Pre-designated targets.

That means the IRGC already has coordinates locked in for the next round.

While Trump extends the ceasefire and waits for a unified proposal, Iran's military is telling him the missiles are already aimed.

The escalation ladder is getting climbed from both sides simultaneously while Pakistan scrambles to quickly keep everyone at the table.
 
Goldhedge said:








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So he admits that last June we obliterated the nuclear sites and they haven't been dug back out. So wtf was this operation all about then?

Indefinite cease fire is the 1st move he's made that I like. Hopefully it's not just to reload more munitions and wait for more soldiers to arrive. I would love to see all of our military come home ASAP.

That photo of the 8 women doesn't look real.
 

It's not just gasoline. Iran war could drive prices higher for many products.​

It might be hard to imagine the Iran war weighing on stuffed toys with names like Snuggle Glove, Bizzikins and Wobblies, but even plush playthings aren't immune when oil shipments from the Middle East are constrained.

Like many soft toys, the creatures developed by a manufacturer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are made with polyester and acrylic, synthetic fibers derived from petroleum. Three weeks after the war started, suppliers in China notified Aleni Brands that getting the materials already was costing them 10% to 15% more, CEO Ricardo Venegas said.

"I think this situation demonstrates how much oil permeates throughout our system, and we can't get away from it," said Venegas, who founded Aleni Brands last year and is in the process of adding product lines. "Who would have thought that the price of a toy would have a direct relationship with oil?"

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...or-many-products/ar-AA21tuAt?ocid=socialshare
 
pmbug said:
I'm not sure who the dude in the video is. Sounds plausible to me though.
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Scott Ritter bloviating as per usual.

For a while he was an expert on Ukraine/Russian war. He pops up every so often to give his opinion.

I wonder if he gets paid per view?
 

Iran Is Collapsing—But D.C., Europe, and Former Allies Want Trump to Quit | Victor Davis Hanson​

Will the 360-degree pressures that surround President Donald Trump force him to stop short of dealing the final death blow to the Iranian regime?

I hope not.

Why, after Iran has been militarily destroyed and has a restive population that could rebel any minute now, does Iran keep saying that it’s winning, and why do people put pressure on Donald Trump as if he’s losing?

The answer is that war is not necessarily just about military affairs alone—it’s politics, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

00:00 War Status and Blockade
01:48 Midterms and War Powers Pressure
03:35 Europe and Fringe Opposition
05:59 Weapons Shortages and Strategy
06:35 Politics Decide the Endgame
 
The white glow around the hair as well as no Burkhas was a dead giveaway that these were fake images of women.
pmbug said:
I'm not sure who the dude in the video is. Sounds plausible to me though.

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And now we understand why no former Presidents wanted to take on Iran. Trump can talk about our great military all he wants to but there is no getting around the fact that Iran can destroy the worlds oil supply and therefore the world economy. Unfortunately there is nothing our military can do about it.
 
Goldhedge said:

Iran Is Collapsing—But D.C., Europe, and Former Allies Want Trump to Quit | Victor Davis Hanson​

Will the 360-degree pressures that surround President Donald Trump force him to stop short of dealing the final death blow to the Iranian regime?

I hope not.

Why, after Iran has been militarily destroyed and has a restive population that could rebel any minute now, does Iran keep saying that it’s winning, and why do people put pressure on Donald Trump as if he’s losing?

The answer is that war is not necessarily just about military affairs alone—it’s politics, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”

00:00 War Status and Blockade
01:48 Midterms and War Powers Pressure
03:35 Europe and Fringe Opposition
05:59 Weapons Shortages and Strategy
06:35 Politics Decide the Endgame
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Iran is kicking our arse and most everyone sees it now.
 
theconversation.com

Why the US military is stuck using $1 million missiles against Iran’s $20,000 drones

Bureaucratic hurdles mean the US military typically has to wait a decade between the time it sees a new threat and the employment of a new system to defend against it.
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It
may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar U.S. military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran.

Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and successfully targeted its neighbors’ cities and power plants.

Iran has also hit U.S. military bases with these drones, including an early April 2026 attack on the U.S. Victory Base Complex in Baghdad.

The drones cost between US$20,000 and $50,000 to build. In response, the U.S. military sometimes fires missiles worth more than $1 million to shoot one down.

As a former U.S. Air Force officer and now national security scholar, I believe that math is a problem: The U.S. military for now has a $1 million answer to a $20,000 question. This math tells you almost everything you need to know about one of America’s biggest national security headaches.

And the frustrating part is that the U.S. military watched this happen in Ukraine for years. It knew the threat was coming.
I wonder where we might have some much older propeller aircraft around, WW11 or Korea types.
 

REGIME CHANGE: Trump Puts the Fed & British Empire on Notice​


In this midweek update, Susan Kokinda argues that Kevin Warsh’s Senate Banking Committee testimony—calling for “regime change” at the Federal Reserve and blaming inflation on excessive money creation—signals a broader shift aligned with the Trump administration against what she describes as an Imperial, British-led free-trade order. She highlights Warsh’s criticism of post-2008 quantitative easing as benefiting financial asset holders while many Americans own no assets, and contrasts this with Democrats’ focus on divestment issues. Kokinda ties Warsh’s stance to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s emphasis on raising living standards over bailing out markets and to Trump’s comments on Fed independence. She then points to Trump’s April 20 Defense Production Act action citing market failures in energy infrastructure, including transformer shortages, as national-security threats, linking this to energy independence and Iran, and contrasts it with Mark Carney’s globalist posture and references to the War of 1812.

00:00 The Midweek Update - REGIME CHANGE: Trump Puts the Fed & British Empire on Notice - April 22, 2026
01:51 "Regime Change" — Warsh Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
05:40 The Real Regime Change — Burying British Free Trade
09:44 The Empire Holds Its Inquest
 
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