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That describes Trump and Netanyahu to a T...
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Who both possess Nukes and aren't using them. Mr Death to America and Death to Israel.
Yet . Mr israeli firster...wait till they start to lose.
What's the point of having atomic weapons if you can't use them to prevent losing?
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.
That what the Iranian Military said...
Whole war is criminal, why notice now?
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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
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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.
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.
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U.S. Just Struck Iranian Targets Around The Strait Of Hormuz (Updated)
U.S. Central Command says it carried out the strikes in retaliation to Iranian attacks on its forces.
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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
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One Month Into the Ceasefire, Dark Shipping Dominates Hormuz
One month into the ceasefire, AIS suppression, GPS jamming, dark tanker activity, and covert transits through Hormuz continue disrupting maritime visibility.
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Hungary returns a seized cash and gold shipment worth $82 million to Ukraine
Hungary has returned a shipment of Ukrainian cash and gold worth $82 million to Ukraine's state Oschadbank.
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Iran on the verge of economic asphyxiation -- rare footage from Tehran • FRANCE 24 English
May 8, 2026 #Iran #economy #inflationTwo 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 NewsroomJohn 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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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.
I want the Welfare
Rat nation of israel gone and no special treatment for anyone...I am disgusted when an American dies for israel.