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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
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    #217

    White House confirms Trump will return to Washington a day early after dinner tonight to "attend to matters in the middle east".

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    • MikM Away
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      Mik
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      US military involvement is maybe the worst idea ever.

      "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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        • MikM Mik

          US military involvement is maybe the worst idea ever.

          jon-nycJ Online
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          jon-nyc
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          @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

          US military involvement is maybe the worst idea ever.

          I would have agreed with that for the vast majority of our history here. I often said that Israel should take it as an existential threat and not let it happen but it was only a peripheral interest of ours.

          But I've since come to believe that the model they have in the Middle East - funding and developing proxy armies inside all the other countries - was something they were going to export to Europe, certainly, and in the US if they could pull it off.

          I want us to crush their program completely. Knowing that the regime will likely fall.

          There are things the US military is bad at and things they're good at. They're bad at bringing democracy to countries without a history of it, but they're damn good at blowing up nuclear sties in mountains. I want them to do this.

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          • jon-nycJ Online
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            • jon-nycJ Online
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              That account just posted 'damn, I really wanted to sleep tonight'. lol

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              • jon-nycJ Online
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                Polymarket at 67.5%

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                • jon-nycJ Online
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                  Mass exodus from Tehran.

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                    Nice visual of poymarket odds.

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                      #226

                      (not endorsing his conclusion, just passing on the info that China issued advice to its citizens)

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                      • jon-nycJ Online
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                        Another view of traffic heading out of Tehran.

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                              jon-nyc
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                              • MikM Away
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                                Mik
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                                Here we go.

                                Of course I wanted Bush to do this in 2006.

                                "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                • jon-nycJ Online
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                                  MagaRat Taylor Greene is against it.

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                                  • MikM Away
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                                    Mik
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                                    I’m not getting any confirmation.

                                    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                      MagaRat Taylor Greene is against it.

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                                      @jon-nyc said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

                                      MagaRat Taylor Greene is against it.

                                      It, MTG, is so virtuous.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                      • MikM Away
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                                        Mik
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                                        I just love people who want to define what a real American is.

                                        "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                          Once again I've been offline for a few hours, just put the kids to bed, and now I get my news updates from TNCR! Interesting to scan this thread over the last few hours.

                                          My first thought as @jon-nyc was posting the market odds was... I could see Trump going in for the "gimme putt" after Israel does most of the work, so that we can claim victory.

                                          Nonetheless, Jon you are right there are things we do well and things we don't. Blow shit up is one thing we do really well. And will it cause WW3? I doubt it. I'm not an expert in the slightest, but I can't imagine the big boys like China or Russia are willing to jump into the poker hand for Iran. The folks that count on Iran seem to be the weaker Islamic countries that don't have many chips to play poker with in the first place. So WW3? Doubtful. Iran losing and regime change? Probably... although could be decades of chaos within as a result. Maybe that's a good thing, better than a well-armed and/or nuclear Iran that threatens Israel's existence and by proxy, the western free world.

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