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Sadly, our Democrats in our Legislature just proved last night during the State of the Union that they don't think they represent the interests of American citizens over illegal aliens. I don't know how much clearer they can make their position to the American people. They refuse to stand for American citizens. The only rational reason for their behavior is that they don't view themselves as Americans first and everything else second. Their collective "statement" to the American people is a crystal clear violation of their oaths of office.
Or they don't want to be used as a propaganda piece by an out of control president. "stand for me". Are you three? Sure, stand by politcal theater to determine your world view. pathetic.
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Iran doesn't really have much of a space program anymore, they are calling this event the '2026 Iran war' but I guess this could go in that 'Space Faring Nations' thread. I dont think they will be launching satellites any time soon, Iran was hit hard.
While other space programs move forward the Iranian program has gone backward by way of bombs. So its another US President and yet another war...well maybe its 'over' they say as some type of Ceasefire is possible. Missiles were flying back and forth across the Middle East during the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris term and nobody responded, then Netanyahu attacked Iran, eventually the US under Trump backed them up 22nd day of June, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Twelve-Day War, you could say this 'war' but some dont want to call it a war started back in June. Others would talk of historic events like the hijacking and hostage taking at the US Embassy and IEDs in Iraq, some might go back even more and talk of the Meddling of Empires, the Portuguese ships, the British, the CIA, the Soviets, the Petro-Dollar exchanges and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, some might go back in time to mohammedanism the Sunni and Shiite flavors that act like extremist terrorists and want to kill infidels and when they do attack others the mohammedan fight and kill amongst themselves. The USA showed almost Total Superior firepower and strength over Iran but no doubt Iran will try to claim some type of 'Military Stalemate' or even some loony types of Iran might call it a 'win', however they did land hits and some of their military still seems to be functional. Israel still continue to go into Lebanon with tanks and pound Hezbollah fighters from the air, it is difficult to know what way the mood or winds of politics will change but Israel has lost a lot of reputation in response to Palestine terror attacks on Israel and creating these Apocalyptic looking scenes in Gaza, I think people are getting tired of those religion Evangelical EndTime people with the Middle Eastern region seems to be in a forever religion 'crisis'.
The economies of the region have seen a devastation of economic blows with closure of trade and flight routes from Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Egypt, and direct hits on other Middle East countries and kingdoms, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Syria, Qatar, Jordan, France said a soldier was killed or possibly a few more injured in Kurdistan, British said their bases were under threat, little could be done to restore world trade and open the Strait an event which many military planners warned of. Trump wanted to end NATO or get out of NATO and was disappointed with the Spanish and British and Japanese for not joining in a war that had no political coalition and that many classed as 'illegal', Trump even made a few Pearl Harbor jokes about his surprise attack to the Japanese leadership.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ … r-iran-war
Whatever wit and tact and sharpness Trump had in his first term he seems to have lost it now, he's older and more narcissistic and angrier, the Left vs Right politics seems to be more toxic and he's not the same guy in 2016.
Donald Trump encouraged a 'revolt' an uprising, people loyal to the Shah and Kurdish and others to rise up. The Kurds probably got tired of that game and were betrayed too many times with false promises.
To compare the might of the US military, the Airforce, the Navy, the Marines, the Army, the Spaceforce to anyone is a joke, the USA is so far ahead of most other countries you just can not compare. However like the Taliban continued to harass with limited weapons so did the Iranians have some military fighting abilities left over and firepower that was too dug-in and could not be fully erased.
I dont like religions and I especially don't like the garbage 'infidel' mindset attached to islamic religion but this event can still be classed as a human tragedy. It is difficult to predict what happens into the future, world trade has taken some big hits. It was kinda sad to hear and see of that iconic F-14 destroyed, it just has that iconic 'movie' history to it and Iran still had a few left over buying them from the USA before sanctions.
The 'Ford' story is strange, it got sudden Fire damage, clogged toilets...maintenance issues are better issues, they are better stories than internal sabotage the traitor within or a missile from Iran actually hitting your new Trump-Class Battleship. The USA leadership knows A-10 would get destroyed in a dog fight but it is very very good at what it does and every time they in the Military want to find a reason to retire the Aircraft people suddenly find a reason not to.
Will the military industry want the F-15 replaced now? it was an impressive aircraft during the Cold War, I think Saudis crashed a few driving them into walls but the aircraft was mostly untouched. Hearing of Arab guys who are supposed to be allies getting behind F-15s is a reminder of Green on Blue during 'The War on Terror' it was a problem in the Middle East, a Struggle in Afghan Missions the USA would train these local guys to only get shot in the back with "green-on-blue" attacks in Afghanistan. There was an incredible rescue operation in Iran, 2 Airmen rescued, other airmen got injured during the rescue with a loss of 2 heavy lift aircraft MC-130J Hercules, a possible loss of MH-6 or AH-6 special helicopters, possibly hit by SAM? serious damage or a strike on a A-10 Thunderbolt II, HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter and Black Hawk helicopter but with everyone getting out safe. The Iranian Airforce seems to be mostly gone, the Navy seems to be mostly gone but some how Iran was still throwing out hits in a type of hybrid tech old mix of unconventional warfare. Putin even was expected to make money from all this as war doubles Russia's main oil revenue to $9 billion in April.
and of course there is always going to be an incredible amount of human tragedy in these wars, kids just going about their day getting bombed. Yes Iran funds terrorists but on the other side of it even these laser guided missiles and smart bombs have the power to take out a whole city block and flatten an entire neighborhood, which also sees a loss of human life, civilian causalities.
The US has declared ‘space superiority’ over Iran. What does that mean?
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026 … an/412605/
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the Sleeper Cell, inside 'Terrorist Attack' seems to have been limited but there was a 2026 Austin bar shooting, plus a number of attacks reported on consulates and embassy
Finance got a lot of news talking. The wider economic across the Middle East region.
There was also a major explosion involving fuel tanker trucks occurred near the Bridge of the Americas in Panama City, injuring four people and leaving one person missing...rumors of Police looking like a scene from the 'Naked Gun' movie...a Spanish translation of please disperse people, Alright! move on! nothing to see here, please disperse!
maybe it is just an 'accident' a random event
but during the era of Irangate there were lots of bullets and drugs and bombs and cash and guns moving between Latin America and the Middle East..dont be surprised if months later you hear Iran or some Shiite guy with a mix of islamic and Latin name was at some militia terror group meeting and doing something in South America
during the Iran–Contra affair
lot of strange names started to pop up Moohammad-José bla bla something, Sofia-Aisha some other name, names that certainly are not really Spanish after years of fighting to drive out islamics during Historical Reconquest 'Se denomina Reconquista' instead you got these strange mix of Arab Mexico Iranian Spanish gangster names that were never seen before Santiago-Abbas, Abdul-Silva, Arash-Farhad-Koorush Rodríguez, family names that should not exist historically but maybe thanks to CIA Soviet spooks during the cold war this multi-national gangsterism drug running and gun running names became something.
an explosion in Panama...maybe its nothing
U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/12/iran-t … ce-no-deal
and in other crazy news
Danica Patrick’s Ridiculous Claim About The Moon Landing Is Nothing Short Of “Crazy” – And Even She Knows It
https://www.totalprosports.com/motor-sp … ing-crazy/
Artemis II lunar mission draws flood of conspiracy theories
https://japantoday.com/category/world/a … s#comments
Brazil seizes over 1,100 weapons and 1.5 tons of drugs from US, says official
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ … 026-04-10/
Prostitution of minors in France rises by 43 percent in four years
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260410-p … four-years
and the numbers, there was a lot of criticism of Bush junior, Obama and Joe Biden but Trump spending has been crazy
Trump just raised the $39 trillion national debt with the largest budget hike since World War II
https://www.aol.com/finance/trump-just- … 54713.html
remember the outrage, one time people were shocked when it went past 9 Trillion to 10
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … igits.html
In early 2000, the clock started to run backward because the national debt was actually decreasing
but then came the 911 attacks, the WTC burning the Towers fall on LiveTv
and the 'War on Terror'
that al-Qaeda turned ISIS then another al-Qaeda branch, he now runs a broken Syria
Assad flees going to Russia and there are a bunch of other players from Turkey, Iran and Iraq who don't want a Kurdistani buffer state
Syria doesnt seem to exist much as a country, heavily damaged by wars, the current Syrian President requested the extradition of Assad to Syria. the mohammedan theocrat monarch ruler in Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh seems to also back the current Syrian, the former rebel/terrorist also seem to be making friends with Russian president Vladimir Putin, he has also been around moves to make deals with the EU and with the Azerbaijani President
the old history of the new Head Chopper who met the President in the White House just as Reagan would meet crazy islamist jihadi people who became the Taliban? or just as Clinton would back Albania islamics who would later invade and take part in a 2001 insurgency in Macedonia, North Macedonia and the borders of Greece? Macedonia back then didnt want a wall, it allowed more islamic jihadi culture in and even opened its borders to thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees...no borders then you got problems!
Syrian future?
the guy Trump is buddy with?
Syria's path?
he is an FBI 'Most Wanted' and he created Al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda, they picked up phone and emials of ISIS, audio recording of a major rally of fighters in Syria was leaked, including al-Sharaa, al-Nusra Front spokesman and former Osama bin Laden aide Abu Firas al-Suri, and Jabhat al-Nusra deputy Emir and former Egyptian Islamic Jihad commander Ahmad Salama Mabruk. In it, al-Suri could be heard introducing al-Sharaa as "Abu Mohammad al-Julani", Jabhat al-Nusra's emir, who then spoke of establishing an Islamic emirate in Syria. He was a big supporter of a terrorist 'Caliphate' and was responsible for bombing US soliders and US citizens, he described the Geneva peace conference as a farce and claimed that the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition did not represent the Syrian people
video scenes from Syria continue to look somewhat Apocalyptic but maybe there is less war than during the ISIS years
The first National Debt Clock was installed in February 1989
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/08/styl … 02291.html
The clock's first incarnation was installed in 1989 on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, one block away from Times Square, by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, who wanted to highlight the rising national debt
and 'Lindsey' why should anyone be shocked by chicken-hawk Graham's comments, the guy has a habit of being politically 'stupid' often wanted to censor US Freedom of Speech on Cartoons or offenses to Moohammad a man the muzzie culture believes a prophet, he wanted to censor the USA on 'Koran Burning' or offense to the Quran and pass 'Sharia Law' in the USA.
Fla. lawmaker slams Lindsey Graham for shocking remarks about US troops: ‘Expendable cattle’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fla … 25965.html
Middle East economies were already reportedly set to lose 200 billion dollars during the early days of the war...the era of laundered money and Facebook Babylon TikToks Instagram 'Influencer' culture and party people is long over.
Iran war wipes $120bn off Dubai, Abu Dhabi stock markets
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/iran- … 42622.html
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