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This is the sentence that bothers me and I believe Trump.

They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question
 
foolsgold said:
This is the sentence that bothers me and I believe Trump.

They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question
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That describes Trump and Netanyahu to a T...
 
Goldhedge said:

BE𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡…​

Consider this.
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They're not wonderful people.

What, in all this, made it necessary to do it NOW, when Trump has enough necessary work to keep him busy until they carry him out? Indictments. Prosecutions. Stop the hemorrhaging money through the corrupt fronts the Bidenistas set up.

The ONE thing that made it imperative, was that Nuttin' Yahoo demanded it NOW! So we're gonna have energy shortages, chaos on the open seas, and famine from the interruption of fertilizers.

Nice job Binjamin. You just created a modern famine. Your friends in Davos will so love it.
 


RECAP:

Where things stand tonight...

-U.S. struck Iranian targets at Qeshm Island, Bandar Abbas, Garuk, Khamir, Sirik, and Minab. Targets included drone launch sites, coastal defense cruise missile sites, and radars

-Two U.S. Navy destroyers (Truxtun and Mason) faced a second, fiercer round of Iranian attacks today while transiting Hormuz. Iranian fast attack boats swarmed close enough that American warships opened fire. Drones and missiles also launched. Engagement lasted several hours. No U.S. vessels struck

-CENTCOM officially confirmed the strikes as "self-defense" responses preserving the "hostilities terminated" legal framework

-U.S. destroyers withdrew from the Strait of Hormuz tonight

-Iran accused the U.S. of violating the ceasefire. Claims its retaliatory strikes "caused significant damage" to American naval vessels. Pentagon has not confirmed any damage

-Iran also accused the U.S. of striking "civilian areas" along Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island "in cooperation with some countries in the region." Public framing for Iranian retaliation against Gulf states

-Iranian state media released footage of IRGC fighters launching attacks on U.S. destroyers. Tehran is broadcasting the engagements domestically as victories

-A vessel reportedly on fire in the Strait of Hormuz. Identity, flag, and cause unclear

-Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restored U.S. access to bases and airspace earlier today after the dispute over Fujairah downplaying

-Fox News reporting the strikes were partly driven by Gulf state anger at U.S. downplaying the Fujairah attack on the UAE
 
Looks as if things are escalating... just a bit



Iran you just got a precision guided love note from the Great Satan....

The Iranian regime just got a precision-guided reminder of what happens when a medieval theocracy decides it can dick around with the world’s only superpower and walk away unscathed.

Explosions ripping through Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas tonight aren’t “escalation” or “war.”

They’re the cold, surgical arithmetic of American power enforcing the single law that actually matters in this universe:

you do not get to close the Strait of Hormuz, fund proxies that kill our people, and then act shocked when the bill comes due.

Twenty percent of global oil transit sits in that narrow throat.

The mullahs knew it.

They gambled anyway. Now their crown-jewel logistics hubs are burning, their missile stockpiles have fewer places to hide, and their economy…already a corpse on life support…is about to flatline.

This is what strategic refusal looks like when it meets superior will and superior steel.

Iran didn’t cave because its geriatric clerics are psychologically incapable of it.

Their entire identity is built on eschatological defiance:

the belief that if they bleed long enough and scream loud enough about martyrdom, history will bend.

History never bends for the weak. It breaks them.

Thucydides understood it in Athens, Machiavelli in Florence, and every serious student of empire since.

Power is not a negotiation. Power is a fact. The regime bet that American restraint was infinite. They just discovered the limit.

Watch what follows.

The proxies…Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Shia militias…are already feeling the tremor in the command chain.

When your patron’s ports are on fire and its oil revenue is cratering, the checks stop clearing and the rockets stop flying.

Internally, the Revolutionary Guard’s prestige is now ash. The Iranian street, long cowed by the morality police and the hangman’s noose, will smell weakness the way wolves smell blood.

And the Chinese and Russians who were happy to use Tehran as a cheap forward base?

They just got a front-row seat to how fast their “partner” folds when the real hegemon stops playing nice.

This was never about restarting a war.

It was about ending the illusion that Iran could keep poking the bear and keep its teeth.

They refused to cave. Fine.

Now they get to reap the harvest of that refusal…economic collapse, military degradation, and the slow, public psychological disintegration of a regime that spent forty years telling its people the Great Satan was a paper tiger.

The tiger just bit. Hard.

And it still has claws left.

Sleep tight in your bunkers, ayatollahs. The night is young, and America’s patience just ran out.
 

From oil giants to banks - these companies are making billions from Iran war​

As households across the globe count the costs of the US-Israel war in Iran, some companies have been counting bumper profits instead.

The uncertainty sparked by the conflict, and Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, is driving up the cost of living and hitting the budgets of firms, families and governments.

But while some have been pushed to the brink, others, whose core businesses are more profitable in a war or who benefit from volatile energy prices, have seen record earnings.

Here are some of the sectors and companies making billions while the Middle East conflict continues.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...ns-from-iran-war/ar-AA22F19k?ocid=socialshare
 

Iran on the verge of economic asphyxiation -- rare footage from Tehran • FRANCE 24 English​

May 8, 2026 #Iran #economy #inflation
Two months ago, Donald Trump claimed the United States would liberate the Iranian people when it launched the offensive alongside Israel. Two months into the war, the regime is still there, the repression continues, and the country stands on the verge of economic asphyxiation. Our colleagues at France 2 had the rare opportunity to film the lives of Iranians in the heart of Tehran, where runaway inflation has led to a cost of living crisis.


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Expect Deadly Food Scarcity And Price Hikes: ICC Secretary General Sounds Alarm On Fertilizer Crisis​

May 7, 2026 Forbes Newsroom
John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, joined Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the impact the fertilizer shortage caused by the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz will have on food prices and supply.


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Fatrat said:
Yet . Mr israeli firster...wait till they start to lose.
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I was raised in an American Protestant Christian family. My only connection to Judaism
is through America's Judeo-Christian shared heritage, shared moral principles, such as the Ten Commandments, which are considered a basis for Western law, societal ethics, and personal morality.

You on the other hand want the state of Israel and every Jew eliminated. You also take pleasure when American soldiers are killed or injured and when America loses battles.
 
foolsgold said:
I was raised in an American Protestant Christian family. My only connection to Judaism
is through America's Judeo-Christian shared heritage, shared moral principles, such as the Ten Commandments, which are considered a basis for Western law, societal ethics, and personal morality.

You on the other hand want the state of Israel and every Jew eliminated. You also take pleasure when American soldiers are killed or injured and when America loses battles.
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I want the Welfare
Rat nation of israel gone and no special treatment for anyone...I am disgusted when an American dies for israel.
 
Can't speak as to the veracity of this one so take it fwiw and dyodd.

 

'It's Like A Cancer': Supply Chain Expert Issues Ominous Warning About Hormuz Closure​

May 9, 2026
John Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce, joined Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss the impact of the closure of Strait of Hormuz.


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Qatar Sends First LNG Shipment Through Hormuz Since War Started​

May 10, 2026
A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Qatar appears to have transited the Strait of Hormuz, marking the country’s first export out of the region since the Iran war began. Bloomberg Asia Energy Lead Stephen Stapczynski joins David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss.
The Al Kharaitiyat, which loaded at the Ras Laffan export plant earlier this month, exited the strait and is in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg shows. The vessel lists Pakistan as its next destination, according to the data.
The ship appears to have navigated the Tehran-approved northern route that hugs the Iranian coast through the strait, the data showed.


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They are spending hundreds of thousands, we are spending ten of billions...sooner or later, we go bankrupt.
 
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