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(03-20-2026, 01:32 PM)andy06shake Wrote: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFSZePV1AU]
A bit too close to home for my liking.
Just up the road, really, comparatively speaking.
About 30 miles to Faslane from here in Glasgow.
I think that's where America and the UK have been known to store atomic ordnance for the submarines.
Sounds like more good cause to remove all nukes from that island.
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(03-20-2026, 05:13 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: What dimensional level of chess are we at?
https://x.com/MarkHalperin/status/203510...70452?s=20
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Interesting choice of words
Quote:4 - 6 week campaign
I was thinking the same thing.
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(03-20-2026, 05:41 PM)Vermilion Wrote: Sounds like more good cause to remove all nukes from that island.
At least we haven't actually lost any. Unlike the US.
'l'll just check my Giveashitometer....Nope. Nothing...
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(03-20-2026, 05:41 PM)Vermilion Wrote: Sounds like more good cause to remove all nukes from that island.
You don't need to convince me, Vermilion.
But im not helping you carry them....
The UK getting into the nuclear arms race was always a mug's game.
700-mile-long islands, prime targets, city busters, and all that jazz.
It was never a viable game to play, let alone win in any sort of survivable manner.
Not that the world is that simple.
Or they are apt to heed your advice anytime soon...
Anyhoo its still a M.A.D world or so im led to believe.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
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(03-20-2026, 05:32 PM)DBCowboy Wrote: 200 billion could have gone to Somali Learing Centers instead!

Shoot. Or what about healthcare and education.
I mean for Americans. Not Israelis.
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03-20-2026, 05:55 PM
This post was last modified: 03-20-2026, 06:08 PM by putnam6. 
Thats a helluva specific prediction... but Bessent doesn't bullshit ...
Quote:"The regime will probably collapse within itself." That's the US Treasury Secretary
saying on live television what the intel has been pointing to for two weeks.
Not analysts. Not sources. The man running America's financial war machine. Day 20.
Seven thousand targets. The IRGC confirmed their own spokesman was killed overnight.
Quote:IF Trump pulls this off...historic oil supply will be more stable than ever before in my lifetime
https://x.com/EXIT_FIAT/status/2034966728505962853?s=20
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@EXIT_FIAT
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Bessent just told the world the regime is bleeding out.
Treasury found the bank accounts. Iranian leadership. Frozen.
Defections happening across every level of the regime.
Capital flooding out faster than they can hide it. His words:
"The regime will probably collapse within itself." That's the US Treasury Secretary
saying on live television what the intel has been pointing to for two weeks.
Not analysts. Not sources. The man running America's financial war machine. Day 20.
Seven thousand targets. The IRGC confirmed their own spokesman was killed overnight.
Pentagon requested another $200 billion. Think about that number. You don't budget $200 billion to bomb and leave. That's reconstruction money.
That's "we're staying to build what comes next" money.
Iran responded the way a cornered regime responds. Hit four countries in 48 hours. Qatar's Ras Laffan. Saudi's Samref. Two Kuwaiti refineries. A UAE gas hub. All at once. All energy infrastructure. And here's where it gets interesting.
They hit Qatar.
The country that was sitting between them and a ceasefire.
The one mediating.
Qatar threw out Iran's military attaches within 24 hours.
Saudi's foreign minister went public and said trust is "completely shattered."
You tell me what kind of regime attacks its last mediator. That's not a military decision.
That's a leadership that checked its bank balance, saw the wire transfers leaving, and started swinging at anything in reach.
Now zoom out. 500 miles west, Iraq is doing the opposite of panicking.
SOMO signed export contracts through Turkey, Jordan, and Syria.
900,000 barrels per day targeted through corridors that don't touch Hormuz.
Ceyhan is already flowing. Parliament is demanding the HCL be drafted and passed.
CBI reserves over $115 billion. Inflation sitting at 1.8%.
KRG sent salaries to Baghdad for the third straight month.
Maliki's nomination officially withdrawn. That's not one reform moving. That's all of them. Simultaneously.
While the region burns around them. Part 1 of the Architecture Series mapped how these systems get rebuilt. Part 2 followed the money. What's happening in Iraq right now is what it looks like when the blueprint meets the construction crew. One country is watching its treasury empty and its allies walk away. The other is stacking reserves, building export routes, and passing the reforms that were blocked for twenty years by the same Iranian influence that's now collapsing in on itself. Bessent dropped one more thing. 140 million barrels of Iranian oil sitting on tankers. Treasury ready to lift sanctions and flood the open market. That crude was locked up for China. Not anymore. Iraq doesn't need the Strait. Iran can't function without it. And the people running what's left of Tehran already moved their money out. When asked whether Kharg Island eventually becomes a US asset, the Treasury Secretary didn't blink. "We will see." And if you didn't know, Trump has been watching that island since 1988.
His mind was not for rent to any god or government
Always hopeful yet discontent, knows changes aren't permanent
But change is
Professor Neil Ellwood Peart
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(03-20-2026, 05:55 PM)putnam6 Wrote: Thats a helluva specific prediction... but Bessent doesn't bullshit ...
He doesn't?
For real?
'l'll just check my Giveashitometer....Nope. Nothing...
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Hands up who thinks Trump moving all these amphibious troops into the area, but is not going to use them?
I think troops on the ground are guaranteed.
At least where Kharg Island is concerned.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
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03-20-2026, 06:35 PM
This post was last modified: 03-20-2026, 06:39 PM by putnam6. 
(03-20-2026, 06:05 PM)Oldcarpy2 Wrote: He doesn't?
For real?
I know you are gonna disagree with whatever I post, you have Carpy Tunnel Syndrome
But, a page full of reasons, that's your response, 4 words
His mind was not for rent to any god or government
Always hopeful yet discontent, knows changes aren't permanent
But change is
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(03-20-2026, 05:54 PM)SteamyAmerican Wrote: Shoot. Or what about healthcare and education.
I mean for Americans. Not Israelis.
The US spends like 50K per student for education and they can't read.
Healthcare isn't a right.
And you want to give the teachers union more and the insurance companies more?
You must develop the ability to be disliked in order to free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions.
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