“Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell”

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    24 minutes ago

    Sure, just before an embarrassing retreat is announced, but it gets framed as oh we are so merciful for not wiping them out. Just like last time before they made a deal to pay 300bn or something to Iran as well as handing control of the straits.

    Notice that the markets have jumped the last few days? Because the whales know this is bullshit before big cave in to end / pause hostilities

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    Why would you annihilate the very farce that’s making you so much money?

    Next week, we’ll be back to “negotiating.”

    Nah, keep this gravy train flowing for as long as possible.

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    His oil holdings didn’t jump enough after the last “threat” to be lucrative enough to sell.

    Once they do, and he rakes in a few extra billion, he’ll be right back to, “They’re willing to sign an agreement… No really this time. They folded like lawn chairs.”, and the cycle starts all over.

    Meanwhile I’m looking at gas that’s just about to hit $5.00 in my area.

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    1 hour ago

    So my guess is, this is to distract from how incredibly bad his Greenland deal was.

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    It’s fashionable to dismiss virtually all of Chomsky’s work now, but I wonder if even he anticipated someone like donnie eventually just saying this kind of shit out loud on the very flimsiest of pretenses?

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    33 minutes ago

    It’ll never happen because of the blowback that Israel will receive and we can’t have our most precious 51st state being hurt now can we?