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Trump assumes the IRGC are as dumb as him and the people he’s surrounded himself with, which is going to be catastrophic for how this goes for him. The IRGC are theocratic authoritarians who are not motivated by money, and he can’t conceive of this, so is clearly at a total loss as to how to handle the situation he has created

They’ve been letting some ships through heading to India and China, and were talking about setting up a vetting system to allow more ships through

but also have to be weary of the fact that some of them are just posing and scamming.

The amount of people doing this is infinitesimal compared to the actual homeless population. This is basically a right-wing talking point to undercut empathy with people who are experiencing homelessness.

Also you should never feel bad for not giving a panhandler money, but if you feel called to do more, just find an organization to volunteer with. There are people facing homelessness right now or in the near future in every urban and rural area in the US

What’s clickbaity about this headline? He literally said these words, and it means the same thing in context as it does as a standalone sentence

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Was this war so hastily planned that this was overlooked?

Planned isn’t the term that I think should be applied to what the US is doing. Iran has been planning how to make an attack on their land as painful for the world as possible for a long time. They know their military can’t compete, so they utilize strategy to make an outsized impact. There is no “mine facility” to bomb, they have thousands of mines in decentralized storage. All of this, including Iran’s plans to make this painful, is public information that the US military had access to.

The unfortunate reality is the civilian leadership in charge of planning this are fucking idiots. Pete Hegseth, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump are fucking morons. They know jack shit about any of this but are running our foreign policy.

The Trump Admin is doing the bidding of Israel here, hands down, as influenced by Israel’s assets within the US government, such as certain members of Congress, who have plainly stated as much. Israel doesn’t care about oil prices, they care about destroying Iran and an ancillary goal: As we speak, Israel has displaced almost a million people in Lebanon and is clearly about to annex Lebanese land. This is a footnote in the news because of Trump’s actions in Iran, but would have garnered international condemnation otherwise.