I wonder if the American population will buy the same lies sold to them 20 years ago.
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Her evidence was a photo of an alleged nuclear facility with an arrow and "nukular missiles" written on with black sharpie. She also noted the MS-13 lettering stamped on top of one of the buildings.
It was a real photo, Iran likes to write "Nukular missiles" in giant black letters next to their hospitals.
I did not know that. Thanks for educating me. I withdraw my objection to the evidence, although their connection to MS-13 was already damning for Iran.
It that's true, and we're afraid Iran might use them, then it seems like a bad idea to attack it.
We should attack Iran, they have WMD
why not Russia?
are you crazy? they have WMD
Everything old is new again. This is the same shit Dubya's administration claimed in 2003 when they wanted to attack Iran.
put them in a spreadsheet
if we assume linear relationships, then Iran will have nukes by 2018.
however it looks more like a log relationship, so Iran will always inch closer to nukes, but will never get them. I'm a century they'll be seconds away, but never get them.
Bibi invented Zeno's paradox
How I Edged Myself For 20 Years: A U.S. Lawmakers Heroic Effort To Convince Themselves Everyday That Iran Is Two Weeks Away From A Nuke
"This memoir is beautiful, it shows a secular side to fanatical devotion you don't often see."
Coincidentally that's the same timeline trump has for any major policy implementation
No that is two weeks
Edit wait, I am not sure who is trolling who anymore, you trolling me, me trolling you, you trolling Trump, Trump trolling me, us trolling Trump?
hahaha I genuinely lost the plot on that being the punchline thank you for punching it for me
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In a fascist society the states enemy is your enemy
They are both strong and weak depending on the fascists agenda
this was has been so jarring.
I constantly get stuff like "Israel controls Iranian skys, it's over for iran" and also "Israel about to run out of interceptors, cant stop the bombing, its really bad"
Sounds like Congress needs to ask her why she lied to them in the first place. Alas, they will not, because she is already playing the "Fake News" card.
Why she lied? because she opened her mouth
I think a lot of people are going to be surprised...
Personally, I don't know why, because it's obvious Russia needs Iran for Ukraine.
But Putin isn't going to let trump attack Iran.
And it's already causing the people Putin makes support trump, start going against him.
I don't want to link an actual tucker Carlson video, so here's some people talking about his interview with Rafael Cruz:
https://youtu.be/yQEd-ECAwDU?t=1140
It tucker is breaking from trump over this, a lot more rightwing media is going to as well
Russia needs Iran for Ukraine
Oh, well, if this somehow hurts a few Russian Oligarchs then I guess incinerating 90M Persians is perfectly fine.
I've always wondered why there's "intelligence" in National Intelligence. But the bottom is really dropping out with the cretinous Trump cabinet picks.
Fusion energy is always 10 years away
Iran is always 2 weeks away from nukes
Depends what you mean by fusion energy, but fairly recently ignition has been achieved and breakeven surpassed.
In December 2022, the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, an inertial confinement facility, reached Q = 1.54 with a 3.15 MJ output from a 2.05 MJ laser heating. NIF achieved ignition seven times. The highest gain as of 2025 of Q = 4.13 yielded 8.6 MJ from 2.08 MJ of laser energy.
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30 years from now the first humans might live on Mars. If not, read this again.
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