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With more attacks from Iran, more retaliation by us... Is there a method to this madness
Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:20 pm
So Iran hit another ship today -- stating it was payback to our munitions attack (which was, in itself, payback for them striking out), in the past 48 hours.
Blah, blah, blah.
All while 'gas prices' are dropping and oil hovers at $70 / barrel.
We seem to always ramp up activities (and rhetoric) after the markets close for the week. The first couple of times this happened, it could be chalked up to coincidence. But you may have noticed this pattern time and again.
I think it's funny... by doing this, it often mutes after a weekend the impact to the market.
I don't blame the administration, you use what you need again unconventional foes. Just like when Trump states he will kill their negotiators and they'll never make it home. If you don't recognize those comments are directed for a particular audience, then you probably have a case of TDS.
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Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:22 pm to captainFid
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"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!"
"United States aircraft just struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, and coastal radar sites, for violating the Cease Fire Agreement, AGAIN! It is very possible that they will never learn!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!"
Posted on 6/27/26 at 8:42 pm to captainFid
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Is there a method to this madness
We win, they lose.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 9:03 pm to LemmyLives
Why are we facilitating billions of dollars in money (in oil sales and unfrozen assets) to this regime that won’t stop being an enemy?
Why are we attacking the military infrastructure that we supposedly completely destroyed at the cost of billions and years of military hardware inventory?
This is just a cluster.
Why are we attacking the military infrastructure that we supposedly completely destroyed at the cost of billions and years of military hardware inventory?
This is just a cluster.
Posted on 6/27/26 at 10:01 pm to captainFid
You cant trade tit for tat with these folks. They want to die in battle
Posted on 6/27/26 at 10:11 pm to captainFid
No. There is no 3D chess. This guy is clueless on what he's doing here and being lead around by bad actors like Vance.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 6:37 am to Eurocat
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"There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!"
I'm all for it
Posted on 6/28/26 at 6:43 am to captainFid
Of course there is a method. It’s one that Iran has used for decades. They ramp up provocation until they get a response. This is their way of testing resoluteness of their enemy. They will continue doing it, wearing away at our patience and our willingness to enforce the rules.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 6:48 am to captainFid
The method is that Trump will announce a breakthrough deal Sunday afternoon before the markets open Monday morning. But there will be no actual deal. And this will flare up again after the markets close next Friday. That’s the method.
Posted on 6/28/26 at 6:52 am to rattlebucket
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You cant trade tit for tat with these folks. They want to die in battle
Oblige them!
Posted on 6/28/26 at 8:18 am to PastorJ
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This guy is clueless on what he's doing here
It would seem obvious that he had ultimately believed and made the determination that a quick, overwhelming show of force that killed top levels of leadership, including the Ayatollah, would bring down the Islamic Republic’s government.
That did not happen, it quickly (and predictably) turned into a political controversy here in the U.S., the Islamic Republic played the one real card they possessed with the Strait and then it also quickly turned into an economic controversy.
Trump was looking for an off-ramp and something he could still try and chalk up as a win pretty much as soon as he knew that initial heavy strike would not bring down the Islamic Republic’s regime.
So, a horrible miscalculation that didn’t produce the results one bet on is simply that, a horrible miscalculation.
“Clueless” is in the eye of the beholder I suppose as previous presidents since 1979 could also be accused of being “clueless” when it came to effectively deterring the radical Islamic Republic regime.
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