Iran names price to reopen Strait of Hormuz
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UPDATED: Sunday, August 23, 2026 13:16
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'Freier' Trump is just another retarded Goyim that got played by them, a sucker
There was sympathy for a while with those stories
back then Hollyweird knocked with opportunities
yeah Iran not good guys...jihadists that take over your embassy, kidnap even...plant bombs... but the other tribes they got Hated by every US President both Left and Right?
A Terrible Ally
GDF
its becoming a comedy show now...so enjoy the comedy as it falls, the stage coallpses enjoy as the circus tent finally burns down
JD Vance Unloads on lsrael - And The Neocons Are FURIOUS!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What happened to you, SIX? You used to be smart.
falls into a brain trap
the AI art gives you a mindmap
The Sunk Cost Fallacy That Kept the Vietnam War Going
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Prof. John Mearsheimer : What Comes Next in Iran?
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Another problem is Trump's media base and fan base
Sometimes he listens to others but mostly not
typically he's full of ego, sees himself as a King a Caesar, Donald Trump while being a little servant gimp for Israeli Jew crime family he can ignore his own wrongs and just thinks of historic greatness like a delusional person would, compares himself to a General or King, very narcissistic.
I dont think the 'Rightwing' media is terrible there were times I thought Newsmax isn't bad...because they offered different opinions to kissing the ass of those two idiots Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. However the rightwing media knows he's stuck now and they are starting to understand how Israel is also getting unpopular like those Muslim Arab countries are unpopular with voters.
Trump does watch media, he tweets about opinions of Fox, CNN etc he watches the stocks...the media fandom is dead. Its all Blackpilling.
NewsMax, FoxNews, American Spectator, European Conservative, Federalist, OANN, Gab, Bitchute, Odyssey, MegynKelly dot com, Zero Hedge, UNZ, thebulwark, Townhall, LifeSiteNews, Alex Jones the original Infowars, Breitbart....The Drudge Report used to be Conservative pro-Trump Libertarian but Drudge quit Trump a long time ago....if there was a 'Center' or Centrist party then Trump lost it, the whole scene has gone 'Black Pilled' now...Tucker yeah he can get it wrong but Tucker Carlson is amusing because he will annoy both Left and Right these days saying something 'taboo'
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Tony Blair’s son sets up defence business
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/11/blairs-son-sets-up-def
ence-business/
568 days into Donald Trump's term: The president's net approval rating is -27, down 0.9 points since last week. 34% approve, 61% disapprove, 4% not sure
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
The Billionaires in the Epstein Files and Their Ties to Israel
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/11/the-billionaires-in-the-epstei
n-files-and-their-ties-to-israel/
Trump Blames Biden For Firing the U.S.’s Missile Stockpile at Iran
https://newrepublic.com/post/214190/trump-biden-missile-weapons-stockp
ile-depleted
New Study Shows Heavy Alcohol Use Among U.S. Veterans Declining for First Time in Years
https://www.military.com/most-veterans-are-drinking-less-those-ages-35
-49-are-an-exception
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Three Killed In a Strike In Bab el-Mandeb. Iran-Backed Houthis Are Suspected Of Conducting It.
https://www.ibtimes.com/three-killed-strike-bab-el-mandeb-iran-backed-
houthis-are-suspected-conducting-it-3806281
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Trump’s 'schizophrenic' plan is 'guaranteed to fail': war historian
Nick Hilden | August 10, 2026 | 12:45PM ET
https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-forever-war/
As President Donald Trump’s “unnecessary war with Iran” drags on, it’s become clear that not only does he have just “one approach” to solving the crisis, but that it is “guaranteed to fail.” This is according to conservative Washington Post columnist and military historian Max Boot, who on Monday detailed how Trump’s “schizophrenic” leadership “undermines his own threats and sabotages his own negotiations.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/10/trumps-iran-policy-
is-war-with-itself/
“There are many reasons for this quagmire,” writes Boot, “but a significant part of the explanation is President Donald Trump’s schizophrenic approach. He veers between conciliation and confrontation, alternatingly praising Iranian leaders as ‘very rational people’ and denouncing them as ‘scum’ — with metronomic regularity.” Such flip-flops have come to characterize the conflict.
“At least seven times since the start of the war, Trump has vowed to launch devastating attacks before announcing that he was instead giving talks another chance,” Boot explains. “Most recently, on Aug. 1, he wrote on social media that ‘the U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II,’ but that he would ‘hold off any attack’ because ‘the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to.’ (Presumably he meant ‘parameters.’)”
According to Boot, Trump is “yo-yoing between dealmaking and warmaking in ways that undercut his chances of success in either endeavor. The Iranians no longer seem to fear him because he has made so many threats he has not carried out. Remember when on July 22 he vowed to ‘bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT’ for every cargo ship that Iran attacked in the Strait of Hormuz? At least three ships have been attacked since then without the U.S. retaliating.”
What’s more, asserts Boot, “While the Iranians don’t fear Trump, they also don’t trust him to make a deal, because he reverses himself so often — and not just on dealing with Tehran. On July 22, for example, the Trump administration announced a nuclear-power deal with Saudi Arabia, only to have Trump add major conditions the next day that Saudi negotiators had not agreed to. The president’s after-the-fact conditions appeared to be a reaction to criticism of the deal from Republican hawks. Likewise, every time Trump veers toward a deal with Iran, he pulls back because of criticism from the same set of hard-liners.”
With all this in mind, Boot asserts that “Trump is his own worst enemy,” arguing, “He needs to decide on a single approach — either confrontation or conciliation — and stick with it consistently for a few months. The conciliatory approach, which builds on the earlier memorandum of understanding, is the smarter option right now despite the difficulty of reaching a deal with Iran’s divided leadership. That would most likely involve a humiliating recognition of some degree of Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz.”
While Trump often defaults to confrontation, according to Boot, he “lacks the political support at home to escalate the war or to suffer the economic shocks from a prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz and possibly the Bab el-Mandeb Strait too. A recent CNN poll found that only 28 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the Iran war. Imagine how much lower support would go if the U.S., which has already lost 18 service members, suffers more casualties. Moreover, the Defense Department is running critically short of the missiles it needs to fight Iran — or any other adversary.”
“The one approach that is guaranteed to fail is the one that Trump is now pursuing,” concludes Boot. “Zagging between war and peace, threats and negotiations, bombastic rhetoric and unctuous outreach. He may think it’s the ‘art of the deal,’ but in fact, as the
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Midweek Update #23: Can He Keep It Going Through The Election?
The State Of The US Military Is Pretty Distressing
Phillips P. OBrien
Aug 13, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-23-can-he-keep-i
t
Hello All,
Well, things are plodding along with Trump’s War, and in the end they will continue to do so based on a calculation that only Trump can make. This war long ago lost all strategic purpose for the USA. The Iranian regime was not overthrown (it has arguably been strengthened), US alliances in the region have been weakened, US forces have already been withdrawn from key military facilities, many of which have been so damaged that they might never be repaired.
In other words, the strategic results are pretty clear regardless of the text of any further MOU between the parties. However, that does not mean the war will end. That event will happen when Trump makes one major calculation—and so far he is not there.
Then there will be one other larger story about the state of the US military, which is worrying. A combination of great arrogance in its abilities and lately incompetence and corruption in how it has been run, has left the US military in the worst shape in its post-1945 existence. Considering the massive amounts of money that have been spent on it, the US military is arguably in its worst state ever. Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln for instance, seem to be paying the price for the incompetence and strategic failure of the US government (see below).
More at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-23-can-he-keep-i
t
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and Western Hemisphere
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20260816/us-pulls-last-aircraft-car
rier-in-asia-as-trump-focuses-on-iran-and-western-hemisphere
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'Zero Aid to Israel,' Ro Khanna Declares at Democratic National Committee Meeting
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ro-khanna-aid-israel-dnc
so now Zion Donald wanted South Koreans to go to the Middle East and to waste all their missiles attacking Iran? otherwise he will support north Koreans??
Trump says US will reduce military exercises with South Korea, citing lack of help with Iran
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/16/middleeast/trump-south-korea-military-e
xercises
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the US has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea.”
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Iran strikes Hormuz deal with Oman, hits back at Trump over threat to make Strait a US territory
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/iran-strikes-hormuz-deal-with-o
man-hits-back-at-trump-over-threat-to-make-strait-a-us-territory-2026-08-16-1051504
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