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OK, that was pretty good.
Kind of puts things into perspective
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Ok that was slightly funny
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Just when you thought this whole thing couldn’t be any more ******.
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It seems intelligence reports are saying 2/3rds of Iran's missile launchers survived along with 50% of their drone capabilities. We also barely touched their coastal defense missiles. If these assessments are correct then what exactly have we been doing? Dropping missiles for show?
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The 2-week war enters its sixth month ... can we agree that the attacks on Iran have been disastrous?
Iran still has its extremist religious leaders running the nation, still controls the strait of Hormuz, still has nuclear capabilities (despite the claims in June 2025 that the "devastating" attacks on the nation's nuclear facilities had eviscerated those capabilities), gas is $4.30 per gallon, inflation is ramping up to 3.8%, and the United States is no better, indeed it is much worse, than it was in May of 2025.
Iran still has its extremist religious leaders running the nation, still controls the strait of Hormuz, still has nuclear capabilities (despite the claims in June 2025 that the "devastating" attacks on the nation's nuclear facilities had eviscerated those capabilities), gas is $4.30 per gallon, inflation is ramping up to 3.8%, and the United States is no better, indeed it is much worse, than it was in May of 2025.
It hasn't been three months yet, I drive a Tesla and inflation was 9.1 under Biden.
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Man, Netanyahu has been saying Iran is just weeks or just months away from building a nuke for decades. And we keep falling for it apparently. It’s time cut ties with the entire Middle East including Israel. For the money we give them we sure don’t get much out of it.
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1000% this. Absolutely.
Tens of billions to Israel since 1948, for what exactly? Israel has such a great military, technology and counter-intelligence, let it defend itself.
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Started mid-February, now late May so 3.5 months and counting. What in the world makes you think this Middle East conflict will end any time soon? Did we learn NOTHING from Iraq and Afghanistan?? The Middle East is the La Brea tar pits and the United States is a dumb brontosaurus, confident it can get that leaf and not get stuck.
And the fact Trump is not as bad as Biden is not what I was expecting in November, 2024. Can we set the bar just a tad higher?
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Gas prices suck, but that is not my main problem with the iran war. my issue is we do not seem to have a plan. We can target and take out individuals, but after countless bombing runs and $$ we can't eliminate drones and missile launchers. Iran's main bargaining chip is the straight and we basically did nothing militarily to control it initially. We did not even target the coastal defenses. I do not understand the plan or strategy. Now we are stuck.. It has been a ridiculous waste of time, resources and lives.