MarkPaul · 26-30, M
If you don't mind higher petrol prices the world over and Iranian sleeper cells being activated the world over, you have nothing to worry about. Oh... and like the proclaimed elimination of the nuclear threat from North Korea many years ago, the nuclear threat from Iran remains. So, there is that.
TinyViolins · 31-35, M
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
The cold reality is that we are way more vulnerable as a country to targeted terroristic attacks from bad actors in the Middle East and mercenaries they may hire. Also our military bases in the Middle East are also very vulnerable and we may see unnecessary casualties and damages due to the careless annd reckless actions taken by our current administration. As of this morning China, Russia, and possibly other countries have indicated they may supply arms including nuclear weapons to Iran.
ElwoodBlues · M
It'll be what they euphemistically call "asymmetric warfare." Iran is far weaker militarily than the US, so they won't be sending soldiers to fight toe-to-toe. Instead, Iran will be looking to attack soft targets like oil tankers and soldiers near military bases.
It's much more expensive for us to defend all our soft targets around the world than it is for Iran to attack them; that's how asymmetric warfare works.
It's much more expensive for us to defend all our soft targets around the world than it is for Iran to attack them; that's how asymmetric warfare works.
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SomeMichGuy · M
@pentagrammom Stop it
ElwoodBlues · M
@SomeMichGuy Below is the actor Brent Spinar. As you know, he made his fortune posing as a machine trying to act human. Our pal penty here tries to do the same thing.
Without pay🤣😂
Without pay🤣😂
SomeMichGuy · M
@ElwoodBlues lol Thanks! And Spiner was a nice guy.
Penta is mourning the loss of her husband, Mike, who was obsessed with fiction movies as being real + conspiracies. So by doing this, she thinks she is honoring him, when she only honors the sad, sick, last him...
Penta is mourning the loss of her husband, Mike, who was obsessed with fiction movies as being real + conspiracies. So by doing this, she thinks she is honoring him, when she only honors the sad, sick, last him...
WandererTony · 56-60, M
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Which war? We have internal and many external wars.
BizSuitStacy · M
BohemianBabe · M
Not really, but it is still bad in that America is destabilizing Iran. Global instability is never good. But no, we don't have to worry about being bombed.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@BohemianBabe yet!
JSul3 · 70-79
Due to Trump's cuts to FBI and CIA, how well equiped is the country to ward off terrorist attacks here at home?
JSul3 · 70-79
@Reason10 Interesting. That's not what numerous media reports say.
Jan.31/The Guardian:
FBI launches sweeping staff cuts as Trump seeks to purge career officials
Top bureau officials in five cities in line of fire with dozens of agents who worked on Trump investigations facing axe.
Feb.5/NBC News:
Agents say mass firings could dangerously weaken FBI in three ways.
Preventing terrorist attacks, investigating public corruption and staff retention could be damaged if agents who investigated Jan. 6 are forced out, current and former officials say.
Feb 6/CNN:
CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
Feb 20/NY Times:
CIA Planning Largest Mass Firings in Over 50 years.
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues.
May 2/NY Times:
CIA to cut over 1000 positions.
May 3/Al Jazeera:
Trump plans to cut 1,200 jobs from CIA, other US spy agencies:
Cuts will reportedly take place over several years.
It is you, ReasonZero, who is ill informed.
Jan.31/The Guardian:
FBI launches sweeping staff cuts as Trump seeks to purge career officials
Top bureau officials in five cities in line of fire with dozens of agents who worked on Trump investigations facing axe.
Feb.5/NBC News:
Agents say mass firings could dangerously weaken FBI in three ways.
Preventing terrorist attacks, investigating public corruption and staff retention could be damaged if agents who investigated Jan. 6 are forced out, current and former officials say.
Feb 6/CNN:
CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
Feb 20/NY Times:
CIA Planning Largest Mass Firings in Over 50 years.
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues.
May 2/NY Times:
CIA to cut over 1000 positions.
May 3/Al Jazeera:
Trump plans to cut 1,200 jobs from CIA, other US spy agencies:
Cuts will reportedly take place over several years.
It is you, ReasonZero, who is ill informed.
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SW-User
War has not been declared.
No that automated system is locked for choosing the wrong goal
SomeMichGuy · M
@pentagrammom Be coherent
The system is in peril, it's been found guilty
SomeMichGuy · M
@pentagrammom Take your meds
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
We are in danger of big oil gouging the crap out of us,
Reason10 · 70-79, M
@Hinckley Let me put your mind at ease. The price of oil depends on (a) supply and (b) the solidity of the American dollar. (The American dollar is the reserve currency of the world and ALL oil is traded in American dollars. To give you an example the FIRST major oil shocks--back when the idiots from the three networks tried to sell us on the world running out of oil--occurred because Richard Nixon took the world off the Bretton Woods gold standard. OPEC warned him not to do that. He did. The dollar suddenly turned to toilet paper, not only issuing in a good 8 years of skyrocketing gasoline prices but INFLATION.
The price of oil is set by oil speculators. If they are the LEAST bit worried about supply, they bid up the price of oil. In 1973, Nixon created the Strategic Oil Reserve, to ward off worries of a drop in supply. (You'd think he would have considered the effect a tanking dollar would have on the cost of oil.)
(You should REALLY be pissed at the Towelhead Republic of Iran because they are looking to cut off access to the Strait of Hormuz. ANY hiccup in that body of water sends oil speculators into a frenzy and they bid crude prices up. RagHeadistan (formerly Iran) is deliberately trying to cause oil prices to skyrocket, to punish the world for stopping it from nuking the Jews.)
To give an example: Shortly after Hurricane Charley, a few oil derricks in the former Gulf Of Mexico (know the Gulf Of America) were destroyed. Gasoline prices shot up. One of the few intelligent moves President GW Bush did was release a few million gallons from the Strategic Oil Reserve and the prices immediately dropped.
There are too many oil companies for the market to allow any one to price gouge.
But to put your mind at ease, the average profit margin of a barrel of oil is around 25%. TAXES on that same barrel are 40%. The government is making more money on a barrel of oil than the oil company is.
The price of oil is set by oil speculators. If they are the LEAST bit worried about supply, they bid up the price of oil. In 1973, Nixon created the Strategic Oil Reserve, to ward off worries of a drop in supply. (You'd think he would have considered the effect a tanking dollar would have on the cost of oil.)
(You should REALLY be pissed at the Towelhead Republic of Iran because they are looking to cut off access to the Strait of Hormuz. ANY hiccup in that body of water sends oil speculators into a frenzy and they bid crude prices up. RagHeadistan (formerly Iran) is deliberately trying to cause oil prices to skyrocket, to punish the world for stopping it from nuking the Jews.)
To give an example: Shortly after Hurricane Charley, a few oil derricks in the former Gulf Of Mexico (know the Gulf Of America) were destroyed. Gasoline prices shot up. One of the few intelligent moves President GW Bush did was release a few million gallons from the Strategic Oil Reserve and the prices immediately dropped.
There are too many oil companies for the market to allow any one to price gouge.
But to put your mind at ease, the average profit margin of a barrel of oil is around 25%. TAXES on that same barrel are 40%. The government is making more money on a barrel of oil than the oil company is.
Reason10 · 70-79, M
We were never in any war. Basically, the towelheads in Iraq just lost their nuclear weapons labs.
They WERE going to launch against Israel and the US. (Or did anyone forget all those chants of DEATH TO AMERICA?)
Iran HAD fissionable materials. It either would have been successful in creating an atomic bomb, which means it would have launched against Israel and the global nuclear war would have rendered earth only habitable for cockroaches. Or those towelheads would have allowed a chain reaction to get out of control. It would have hit ground water and spewed deadly radioactive gasses all over the countryside, killing half the population instantly, while the other half died of cancer a year later.
Basically, PRESIDENT TRUMP saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Alternatively, he saved most of the population of Iran from a disaster.
They WERE going to launch against Israel and the US. (Or did anyone forget all those chants of DEATH TO AMERICA?)
Iran HAD fissionable materials. It either would have been successful in creating an atomic bomb, which means it would have launched against Israel and the global nuclear war would have rendered earth only habitable for cockroaches. Or those towelheads would have allowed a chain reaction to get out of control. It would have hit ground water and spewed deadly radioactive gasses all over the countryside, killing half the population instantly, while the other half died of cancer a year later.
Basically, PRESIDENT TRUMP saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Alternatively, he saved most of the population of Iran from a disaster.
Reason10 · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues WRONG. Obama financed Iran's nuclear program with American tax dollars.
ElwoodBlues · M
@Reason10 says
And what about the 4000 enrichment centrifuges Iran had during the Bush admin?? Are you blaming that on Obama too??
You realize (oh, wait, no you don't) that Iran's first nuclear reactor (research sized) came to them thru the Eisenhower Atoms for Peace program. And then Nixon & Ford helped Iran start on their first power generating reactor.
So explain to us how Obama caused all that🤣😂😝🤣😂
Obama financed Iran's nuclear program with American tax dollars.
How did that work, exactly? Did Congress allocate that spending?? And what about the 4000 enrichment centrifuges Iran had during the Bush admin?? Are you blaming that on Obama too??
You realize (oh, wait, no you don't) that Iran's first nuclear reactor (research sized) came to them thru the Eisenhower Atoms for Peace program. And then Nixon & Ford helped Iran start on their first power generating reactor.
So explain to us how Obama caused all that🤣😂😝🤣😂
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