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WaywardVol said:
OMG, 11 weeks, much of which is a cease fire, and folks are checking their panties.
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When we’re still bogged down in this mess 10 years from now people will still be grasping their pearls.

We don’t start this **** without being in it for decades. It’s the American way
 
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rikberry31 said:
Uh, one F-35 is like a $100 mil. An F-4 cost around $2 mil. We've lost four fighters, three to friendly fire and a couple transports. We lost 10,000 aircraft in Vietnam.
What a load of crap. Headlines and sound bites that's all you people are. It's all 🐂 💩 and y'all are 🤡s.
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52 aircraft damaged or lost. Iran flew drones into a f##kton of bases holding helicopters and 130s and did tons of damage. 29 billion dollars. Learn to read.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Once again this crap is going to linger on for ever. We never should have attacked without the courage to do what it takes to win. Until we turn the power off and make life difficult over there it’s going to be a cluster F***
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I don’t think the USA will ever reach this point unless the homeland is actually attacked.
The divide is too wide and one side or the other will be crying over atrocities and etc. just like they are now over the school that was hit.
This is why I think the US should back up Israel and let them go to work.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Everyone is talking about gas prices and inflation generally spiking due to the Iran war, but do not lose sight of what is happening to US Treasury yields. Today they hit the highest level in 19 years.

I do not claim to be an expert but be aware that the UAE has informally started floating to us the idea of getting a currency swap line from the U.S. Treasury, and Kuwait is expected to follow suit. Such a swap is intended to provide a credit line to those countries, whose income has suddenly come to a halt.

www.cnbc.com

Trump administration discussing currency swap line with United Arab Emirates

Such a move would provide liquidity in dollars to the oil-rich UAE, but could be politically tenuous for the administration amid higher prices at home.
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Short run, we get a rate of return on the line. But its modest. And the real reason we do it is that if we don't, those countries' banks have to sell their US Treasury bonds. And if they do that, particularly in a short time frame, they will crush the US (and world economies) because any buyers will insist on buying the bonds at a discount. That, in turn, means we have to raise the yield dramatically on the bonds we auction off -- because otherwise buyers will just buy the discounted face value of the bonds on the open market.

This is a potential calamity which, if it occurs, could cause European markets and Asian markets do to the same thing -- sell our Treasury bonds. We won't be able to sell any at auction.

jaymartin.substack.com

The First Domino Has Fallen

The cascade we predicted in Two Wars is starting.
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With this as the backdrop, ask yourself what the significance is of Trump traveling to China with 18 CEOs and six of them being from the biggest financial institutions in the US?
 
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Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, already producing drones, according to US intel​


What?? Iran has exploited Trumps 9 weeks of being a total chickensh!t TACO loser? Say it ain't so!

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States was ready to proceed with further attacks on Tehran if Iran did not agree to a peace deal, but suggested Washington could wait a few days to "get the right answers." 😆 😆 😆 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 <--But we won 15 times already. What a low IQ loser.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:

Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, already producing drones, according to US intel​


What?? Iran has exploited Trumps 9 weeks of being a total chickensh!t TACO loser? Say it ain't so!

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States was ready to proceed with further attacks on Tehran if Iran did not agree to a peace deal, but suggested Washington could wait a few days to "get the right answers." 😆 😆 😆 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 <--But we won 15 times already. What a low IQ loser.
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More snippets.

Note the public assertions v. private admissions vary widely. Given this administration's propensity to lie, I'd tend to believe the private admissions that our tactical military achievements v. Iran are NOT going as well as publicly claimed by Trump's goon squad.

Thousands of Iranian drones still exist — roughly 50% of the country’s drone capabilities — two sources previously told CNN the intelligence indicated.

The intelligence also showed a large percentage of Iran’s coastal defense cruise missiles were intact, consistent with the US not focusing its air campaign on coastal military assets though they have been hitting ships. Those missiles serve as a key capability allowing Iran to threaten shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.

Taken together, recent US intelligence reports overwhelmingly suggest that the war has degraded Iran’s military capabilities, but not destroyed them, with the Iranians demonstrating they can effectively limit the long-term impact of the war by quickly reconstituting after those strikes.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2573118?episode=2573146&source=subwall:vod:episode-2573146
That includes rebuilding its defense industrial base, which CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper said on Tuesday has been largely eliminated.

“Operation Epic Fury significantly degraded Iran’s ballistic missiles and drones while destroying 90% of their defense industrial base, ensuring Iran cannot reconstitute for years,” Cooper testified during Tuesday’s hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
 
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FLVOL_79 said:

Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, already producing drones, according to US intel​


What?? Iran has exploited Trumps 9 weeks of being a total chickensh!t TACO loser? Say it ain't so!

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States was ready to proceed with further attacks on Tehran if Iran did not agree to a peace deal, but suggested Washington could wait a few days to "get the right answers." 😆 😆 😆 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 <--But we won 15 times already. What a low IQ loser.
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Those extra emojis really pushed your opinion across the finish line, my 11 year old niece does the same thing. Very cool strategy
 
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LouderVol said:
they have taken out at least one AWACS. those are expensive birds, and we don't have a lot of them.

Never going to be able verify this information, but I heard the timing with some of the ceasefires was in relation to the others in the theatre. apparently Iran was starting to track the others, and there had been some close calls on at least two other occasions. and the ceasefire was needed to figure out a new plan to protect the others.

that new strategy has directly lead to decreased flights over Iran proper, especially by the AWACS.
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The AWACs was destroyed on the ground on an airfield in Saudi Arabia.
 
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Volbucky said:
Those extra emojis really pushed your opinion across the finish line, my 11 year old niece does the same thing. Very cool strategy
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I'll use the more MAGA friendly sirens next time so YOU KNOW it's serious business. In the meantime can you show us on the doll where the Trump is a low iq clown emoji touched you?
 
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UT_Dutchman said:
The AWACs was destroyed on the ground on an airfield in Saudi Arabia.
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Yep. US air defenses were shown to be highly suspect in Trumps 2 week war we won 15 times while extending a 2 week ceasefire for weeks while issuing empty threats the entire time. Trump must not realize that everyone knows Saudi and Qatar are hisnpuppet masters.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
Yep. US air defenses were shown to be highly suspect in Trumps 2 week war we won 15 times while extending a 2 week ceasefire for weeks while issuing empty threats the entire time. Trump must not realize that everyone knows Saudi and Qatar are hisnpuppet masters.
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I agree. If we were going to fight this war we should have hit infrastructure. Turned the lights out and completely eliminate their ability to fight.

Or

Not attack them at all.
 
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