War with...Iran?

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Trump is trying to convince the markets that it will end soon, but actions talk louder than words, another 3 B-1 Lancers landed at RAF Fairford today.

Is it bad I really want a 'shopped version of W's "mission accomplished" but with Trump and the banner saying "Mission pretty much complete, well mostly" or whatever his previous word salad of the war's over for realsy was.

 

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I guess Iran is learning the ways of the meme now. One of the state run News agencies released an animated Lego video depicting the events of the war. I know it's laughably easy to makes these types of videos now but I'm still oddly impressed.

Spoiler: Spoilering the video

View: https://youtu.be/wo7e2OjyEBo

 

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Chat, I have a bad feeling about this.

Don't worry all those "drug boats" we blew up in South America weren't human rights violations they were training exercises! /S

 

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TBF, feel like Fetterman is hardly the opposition. Guy is more problematic than Manchin.

Manchin you at least knew was fucking things up to benefit his own bottom line.

 

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I admit I haven't actually heard him speak but just the transcript makes Sec Hegseth sound like a complete juvenile asshole.

Hegseth claims Iran is unable to build more weapons and that new supreme leader is ‘likely disfigured’ – Middle East crisis live https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08300dbfa3e263#block-69b3feb98f08300dbfa3e263

 

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We are truly in bizarro world if HAMAS is being the voice of reason.

Hamas urges Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg1w1jp8kjt?post=asset:008c9faa-613c-4d4b-9c80-f1b9f9b0abab#post

 

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Vessels that are transiting the strait are requesting Iranian approval.

So I guess the next step in this buffet of stupidity is for the navy to start boarding and seizing these ships as enemy combatants? Clearly they are working for the enemy if Iran is allowing them through.
/S

 

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We have so many data points saying that Republicans are bad for the economy and yet people keep falling for it.

I mean for certain tax brackets it seems to be accurate. The 1% seem to make bank while the rest of us suffer.

 

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Why mention S&P over the past year, when the war hasn't been for the whole past year? Isn't the obviously better comparison be to just talk about what the markets have done since the start of the war?

ThE DoW Is OvEr FiFtY ThOuSaNd!!11!eleven

 

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Same as the invasion of Ukraine—the autocrat who ordered it cannot afford to be perceived as losing. Iran turning the Strait into a toll road is unquestionably a loss compared to the status quo ante.

It’s still possible that Trump could hang this war around Hegseth’s neck, throw him overboard, and call it a day. But I am not optimistic.

Sure looks like he's angling to do that. Trump is infallible of course so this is so either Hegseth's fault or common information that no one could have possibly known.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5796691-trump-hegseth-iran-war-support/

 

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It's ok, we won it's over!

View: https://youtu.be/QmMts9V-gkc

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5759000/iran-war-talks