Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead by 6ixStringJack

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Brainwashed by who?

I just want to see every Muslim in the world dead is all.

Nobody told me to think that way. They are evil people and they all need to die. That includes any white and black American Muslims too. Every single one of them.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Oh, no, EVERYBODY told you to think that way!

Tell me, Oh Wise One, in any movie, TV show, or video game, have you ever seen a Muslim man portrayed as a good guy?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

You need to see more videos of real life, Sigs. The stuff they're not showing you on the news.

Oh, puhleeze!

Y
Do you REALLY think I get my news from "the news", stupid?
I've seen videos of women burned to death in cages.
Or slowly drowned in cages.
Heads being chopped off.
A man anally raped to death with a knife.
People falling to their deaths from the Twin Towers.
Hears stories from my Ethiopian colleague about what is done to slave labor.
Open air slave markets.
I've seen the horror, son.

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I'm not even goign to entertain this conversation with you while it just came out that over 250 THOUSAND FUCKING GIRLS in the UK have been molested by Muslim men since they started taking them in and the government has so much control over the population that they were able to hide that until just recently.

Yup! I know about that too!

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White British people are a minority in London today. We have several American-hating Muslims as politicians in America now, but if the Democrat Party doesn't fucking fix itself, we're about to have A LOT FUCKING MORE OF THEM.

Blame the British government and Dems, then.

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They hate us. They plan to kill and/or enslave us.

And I just watched as 99% of the people in my country took a fucking knee and let the government ramrod everyone up the ass with lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations and nobody did a fucking thing about it until they decided it was over.
blag blag blah

You're just spewing.

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FUCK YOUR WHITE GIRL EMPATHY.

IT'S NOT EMPATHY!

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Unless you start seeing the real world on this issue, we will never see eye to eye and I will not be shy about it.

SIX, you are gaspingly, astonishingly stupid once somebody has got ahold of your gonads.

Those head choppers? THEY ARE NOT IRANIAN,

THEY ARE SAUDIS AND THEIR WAHHABIST ACOLYTES. NOT IRANIAN. EVERYTHING YOU THINK IRAN DID WAS DONE BY DEGENERATE MULSIM WAHHABISTS, TAKFIRIS, OR WHATEVER YIU WANT TO CALL THEM.

Those rapists and molesters? NOT IRANIAN. PAKINSTANIS, AFGHANIS, AND OTHER MEN "EDUCATED" IN SAUDI WAHHABI-FUNDED MADRASAS, where they spread their troglodyte ideology.

WHO USED THE HEAD CHOPPERS AS PROXIES?

WE DID.

WE - the Dems, the CIA, globalist Repubs.
WHO cozied up to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to the troglodyte "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan, knowing they've been spreading their filth across the Mideast, and now the western world, for decades?

WHO was in an unholy alliance with the source of that festering, disgusting ideology, bc of the almighty dollar?

YOUR problem, son, is that you lump all Muslims together. Indonesia is mostly Muslim. Is Indonesia a hotbed of terrorism?

It's time you woke up to who our REAL enemies aee.

Iran wasn't an enemy, until now. That's what your stupidity supported.

GET HOLD OF YOUR EMOTIONS, they're running you.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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A Key House Dem Breaks Down the White House’s ‘Unfathomable’ Iran War Funding Requests

by Hunter Walker | 07.22.26 | 5:15 pm

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-key-house-dem-breaks-down-the-whi
te-houses-unfathomable-iran-war-funding-requests

Weeks after the Iran War began, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) predicted to TPM that it would become a billion-dollar-a-day “mess.” Now, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth taking to Capitol Hill to request almost $67 billion in supplemental war funding, Morelle says his fears have been confirmed. And though Morelle is a member of two key committees with oversight of the Pentagon, he claims Congress has been given little information about where all the money is going.

“We had Hegseth in front of the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and he couldn’t give us an accounting and wouldn’t give us an accounting. They still haven’t given us an accounting,” Morelle said in a conversation with TPM on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s unfathomable.”

Morelle is vice-ranking member of the House Appropriations committee and a member of its defense subcommittee. Despite these positions, Morelle said Trump administration officials haven’t offered any detailed insight into their funding requests.

“Usually if you’re in a classified setting, they should be prepared to give you information, but they haven’t done that,” he said.

Hegseth on Tuesday told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the “urgent” supplemental war funding was necessary to avoid “critical shortfalls” in combat pay and munitions supplies that could be caused by military operations. As he made his case, Hegseth said the war, which began on February 28, had cost $37.5 billion so far.

That figure announced by Hegseth is far below internal cost estimates that have been reported on by NBC News and expert analyses, which are in line with Morelle’s initial projection and amount to approximately $150 billion overall. Given that staggering total and the spike in gas prices that has come along with the conflict, the economists at Moody’s say the Iran War has cost U.S. households about $1,100 each.

All of this war funding is coming in the wake of President Trump nearly doubling defense spending overall. The latest supplemental funding request totaled almost $88 billion including the money Hegseth said was specifically needed for the war.

As the administration has sought this increased funding, it has turned to three separate avenues: standard congressional appropriations; reconciliation legislation, which can avoid the filibuster; and the supplemental request. Morelle said this approach, which is unprecedented, has added to the overall lack of transparency since reconciliation funding can bypass appropriations committees. And he claimed the administration has not answered questions about why they have placed various requests in each different “bucket.”

“That doesn’t come to the appropriators. It goes to the authorizing committees. So the appropriators and the authorizers aren’t even together,” Morelle said, adding, “There’s no answer. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.”

That behind-the-scenes chaos is taking place as Trump and his team have made continually shifting statements about their objectives in Iran.

“We still don’t know what the goal here is,” Morelle said. “It changes all the time.”

When Hegseth previously appeared before the House Appropriations Committee, Morelle chastised him for being less transparent and up to date in his requests than America’s founding military leader was in the days of quill pens and correspondence conducted via horseback. Morelle reiterated that point in his conversation with TPM.

“General Washington was more timely and more accurate in his reports to the Continental Congress in 1776 than the current Department of Defense Secretary is with the United States Congress,” Morelle said.

The increase in government spending is only one aspect of the war’s cost. Morelle noted the conflict will also impact other government programs and the national debt.

“The whole thing is alarming because, look … there’s finite resources. And the United States government needs to make decisions about where we’re gonna place our priorities, where we’re gonna invest our money,” he explained. “If everything were just defense, we could argue about that number and that number alone, but every time you make a decision about increasing defense and security spending by $600 billion, which is a 60% increase virtually over last year, it means something else isn’t getting funded or alternatively, you’re borrowing more money.”

Along with the financial questions, there are legal concerns surrounding the war in Iran. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 requires a president to obtain congressional approval for a military conflict or withdraw troops within 60 days of hostilities beginning. With the Iran War going far beyond that mark, the Trump administration has argued various informal and unsuccessful ceasefires marked an end to the fighting and effectively restarted the clock. Administration officials have also suggested that rebranding and renaming the military operation triggered a reset. Morelle flatly rejected those arguments and said it “clearly stretches credibility.”

“This is all part of a chain of events directed at one single adversary, one single set of circumstances,” Morelle said, adding, “It would have been absurd to have put [the War Powers Act] in place if all you had to do was change the name of the operation.”

In June, War Powers resolutions urging the president to end the conflict passed both the House and Senate. House Democrats are currently mulling similar legislation and already have some GOP support.

Hegseth faced withering questioning from both Democratic and Republican senators during his testimony on Tuesday. Morelle predicted more and more Republicans could oppose the administration’s funding requests or get behind future War Powers votes due to the broad unpopularity of the war.

“I think they’re starting to really worry about this in some quarters. It’s an unpopular war, which has driven up gas prices and … the price of other things, which people are paying for. They can see that every time they go to the gas pump,” said Morelle. “So you’re paying more money, you’re getting fewer services, whether it’s Medicaid or SNAP benefits or all the other things that they’ve cut. And you’re now seeing, we have now 18 service members who’ve lost their lives in this, which is beyond tragic. And you still haven’t, have the president be able to articulate what in God’s name we’re doing there.”

Recent polling has shown just 29% of Americans approve of the war. That’s in line with some of the worst figures from the Vietnam War.

“I think this is historic in terms of numbers. … 29% approval wrote for the conduct of the war,” Morelle said. “I mean, that’s not even the MAGA base.”

Given that math, Morelle predicted that, whatever happens in Congress, the conflict will be brought to an end when voters have their say in November.

“It is happening. It’s not happening at the speed with which we’d like it, but it’s going happen one way or another. It’s either going to be the Republicans are going to say, ‘Okay, that’s it, Mr. President,’ or they’re going to lose their seat,” Morelle said. “The American people have a way of ultimately being in charge here, which is the whole point of the thing, right?”

Despite his political optimism, Morelle believes there will be serious consequences before this fight is brought to a conclusion.

“Unfortunately,” he said, “In the interim while they’re making those decisions, more money is being spent, the lack of accountability continues, and it’s really — it’s deeply disconcerting.”

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 11:42 AM

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Brainwashed by who?

I just want to see every Muslim in the world dead is all.

Nobody told me to think that way. They are evil people and they all need to die. That includes any white and black American Muslims too. Every single one of them.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

Oh, no, EVERYBODY told you to think that way!

Tell me, Oh Wise One, in any movie, TV show, or video game, have you ever seen a Muslim man portrayed as a good guy?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

You need to see more videos of real life, Sigs. The stuff they're not showing you on the news.

Oh, puhleeze!

Y
Do you REALLY think I get my news from "the news", stupid?
I've seen videos of women burned to death in cages.
Or slowly drowned in cages.
Heads being chopped off.
A man anally raped to death with a knife.
People falling to their deaths from the Twin Towers.
Hears stories from my Ethiopian colleague about what is done to slave labor.
Open air slave markets.
I've seen the horror, son.

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I'm not even goign to entertain this conversation with you while it just came out that over 250 THOUSAND FUCKING GIRLS in the UK have been molested by Muslim men since they started taking them in and the government has so much control over the population that they were able to hide that until just recently.

Yup! I know about that too!

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White British people are a minority in London today. We have several American-hating Muslims as politicians in America now, but if the Democrat Party doesn't fucking fix itself, we're about to have A LOT FUCKING MORE OF THEM.

Blame the British government and Dems, then.

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They hate us. They plan to kill and/or enslave us.

And I just watched as 99% of the people in my country took a fucking knee and let the government ramrod everyone up the ass with lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations and nobody did a fucking thing about it until they decided it was over.
blag blag blah

You're just spewing.

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FUCK YOUR WHITE GIRL EMPATHY.

IT'S NOT EMPATHY!

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Unless you start seeing the real world on this issue, we will never see eye to eye and I will not be shy about it.

SIX, you are gaspingly, astonishingly stupid once somebody has got ahold of your gonads.

Those head choppers? THEY ARE NOT IRANIAN,

THEY ARE SAUDIS AND THEIR WAHHABIST ACOLYTES. NOT IRANIAN. EVERYTHING YOU THINK IRAN DID WAS DONE BY DEGENERATE MULSIM WAHHABISTS, TAKFIRIS, OR WHATEVER YIU WANT TO CALL THEM.

Those rapists and molesters? NOT IRANIAN. PAKINSTANIS, AFGHANIS, AND OTHER MEN "EDUCATED" IN SAUDI WAHHABI-FUNDED MADRASAS, where they spread their troglodyte ideology.

WHO USED THE HEAD CHOPPERS AS PROXIES?

WE DID.

WE - the Dems, the CIA, globalist Repubs.
WHO cozied up to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, to the troglodyte "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan, knowing they've been spreading their filth across the Mideast, and now the western world, for decades?

WHO was in an unholy alliance with the source of that festering, disgusting ideology, bc of the almighty dollar?

YOUR problem, son, is that you lump all Muslims together. Indonesia is mostly Muslim. Is Indonesia a hotbed of terrorism?

It's time you woke up to who our REAL enemies aee.

Iran wasn't an enemy, until now. That's what your stupidity supported.

GET HOLD OF YOUR EMOTIONS, they're running you.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

Get fucked.

You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 11:52 AM

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You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.

Elon Musk controversially stated on The Joe Rogan Experience that "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy", adding that this can lead to "civilizational suicidal empathy" when overextended to the detriment of societal stability.

How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles

March 22, 2025 8:05 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-se
en-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circles

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 12:02 PM

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You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.
Elon Musk controversially stated on The Joe Rogan Experience that "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy", adding that this can lead to "civilizational suicidal empathy" when overextended to the detriment of societal stability.

How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles

March 22, 2025 8:05 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-se
en-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circles

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Fuck NPR and fuck you.

You ignorant fuckers have been destroying this country for decades now.

We're not following you off the cliff.

Go to California and finally make good on that promise to secede from the Union, and you can go fuck that state up until it's completely broken and bombed out and we'll just laugh at you losers.

You won't be missed.

Until then, it ain't happening here anymore.

So if you love Muslims so much, go where they live. I'd love to hear you report back while you were living there, but I'm figuring a worthless annoying fuck such as yourself would only last 2 or 3 days before they'd take you to the top of a building and see if you can fly.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 12:29 PM

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Fuck NPR and fuck you.

You ignorant fuckers have been destroying this country for decades now.

We're not following you off the cliff.

Go to California and finally make good on that promise to secede from the Union, and you can go fuck that state up until it's completely broken and bombed out and we'll just laugh at you losers.

You won't be missed.

Until then, it ain't happening here anymore.

So if you love Muslims so much, go where they live. I'd love to hear you report back while you were living there, but I'm figuring a worthless annoying fuck such as yourself would only last 2 or 3 days before they'd take you to the top of a building and see if you can fly.

"Behold The Strange Spectacle Of Christians Against Empathy."

Jesus - the central figure in Christianity - embodied empathy by coming to Earth as a man and enduring the human experience. Trump has cut programs long supported by many evangelicals and conservative Catholics, including funding for religious organizations that help the poor. So how do you rationalize this change? These arguments about toxic empathy help people who are looking for a moral frame around which they can fit the Trump movement, and decrying empathy does that.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 12:46 PM

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Fuck NPR and fuck you.

You ignorant fuckers have been destroying this country for decades now.

We're not following you off the cliff.

Go to California and finally make good on that promise to secede from the Union, and you can go fuck that state up until it's completely broken and bombed out and we'll just laugh at you losers.

You won't be missed.

Until then, it ain't happening here anymore.

So if you love Muslims so much, go where they live. I'd love to hear you report back while you were living there, but I'm figuring a worthless annoying fuck such as yourself would only last 2 or 3 days before they'd take you to the top of a building and see if you can fly.
"Behold The Strange Spectacle Of Christians Against Empathy."

Jesus - the central figure in Christianity - embodied empathy by coming to Earth as a man and enduring the human experience. Trump has cut programs long supported by many evangelicals and conservative Catholics, including funding for religious organizations that help the poor. So how do you rationalize this change? These arguments about toxic empathy help people who are looking for a moral frame around which they can fit the Trump movement, and decrying empathy does that.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Fuck Jesus. Fuck David French. And Fuck You.

I'm not against Empathy. This is another false argument from your Legacy Media Masters that lead you around every day.

You're not showing any empathy here. You are destroying yourself and your country because you feel guilty that you've been such a worthless sack of shit your entire life and you never had to work for any of it.

Fuck you.

If you feel so guilty, spend your own fucking money. You're done spending mine.

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Thursday, July 23, 2026 1:48 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Get fucked.

You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

IT'S NOT EMPATHY.

Here's what's going on with you SIX.

JUST LIKE TED BUNDY JR HERE, YOU'RE SCARED.

You can't engage MEANINGFULLY in the topic bc it scares you.
Instead, you get angry and aggressive because ...
Being angry and aggressive makes you feel STRONG, IN CONTROL, POWERFUL instead of HELPLESS, WEAK, AND FEARFUL.

Personally, I think your overblown fear to certain issues (Muslims, Covid, AIDS) is just displacement.

Look at how your anger bleeds over from Muslims to blacks to illegal aliens to "them"!

Your blind anger about SOME things is a relief valve for all the OTHER things that make you feel insecure. And god knows, there are plenty of them, including the overall job situation of white males without a college degree. (IRAN ISN'T ONE OF THEM.)

And because you LIKE the feeling of being POWERFUL AND RIGHTEOUS AND ANGRY, you refuse to give it up. You believe these "issues" don't immediately threaten your health or finances, so they're safe to be stupid about.

Just contrast how you reacted to pneumonia, diabetes, and your floodplain issues. THOSE were scary, but you gathered as much info as you could to genuinely control your situation as best you could, even tho some of it left you with a little PTSD.

I guess I can't expect you to be rational all the time. You've got enough to deal with.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Friday, July 24, 2026 6:31 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked.

You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

IT'S NOT EMPATHY.

Here's what's going on with you SIX.

JUST LIKE TED BUNDY JR HERE, YOU'RE SCARED.

You can't engage MEANINGFULLY in the topic bc it scares you.
Instead, you get angry and aggressive because ...
Being angry and aggressive makes you feel STRONG, IN CONTROL, POWERFUL instead of HELPLESS, WEAK, AND FEARFUL.

Personally, I think your overblown fear to certain issues (Muslims, Covid, AIDS) is just displacement.

Look at how your anger bleeds over from Muslims to blacks to illegal aliens to "them"!

Your blind anger about SOME things is a relief valve for all the OTHER things that make you feel insecure. And god knows, there are plenty of them, including the overall job situation of white males without a college degree. (IRAN ISN'T ONE OF THEM.)

And because you LIKE the feeling of being POWERFUL AND RIGHTEOUS AND ANGRY, you refuse to give it up. You believe these "issues" don't immediately threaten your health or finances, so they're safe to be stupid about.

Just contrast how you reacted to pneumonia, diabetes, and your floodplain issues. THOSE were scary, but you gathered as much info as you could to genuinely control your situation as best you could, even tho some of it left you with a little PTSD.

I guess I can't expect you to be rational all the time. You've got enough to deal with.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

Signym, you made this about 6ix. You are old enough and have wide enough experience to generalize to the tens of millions in the USA behaving/feeling/voting the way 6ix does, going all the way back to the beginning of politics in the Roman Empire or, maybe, caveman society. Guys like him have held back civilization's progress and promoted war because they are fearful of everything, all the time, everywhere.

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Friday, July 24, 2026 6:32 AM

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The Iran War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.

America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.

By Andrew Exum | July 23, 2026, 4:51 PM ET

From 2015 to 2017, Andrew Exum was the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/07/iran-defeat-cost-oil
-drones/688034/

The sooner we acknowledge that the United States has lost the war with Iran and stop fighting, the better. Because we now have a lot of work to do.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was pressed to explain before the Senate what the United States had accomplished in its war with Iran. Sputtering with fury at times, he claimed that Washington had won “a historic military victory.” But even if that were so, as a certain dead Prussian once counseled, nations do not fight wars to achieve military objectives. They fight wars to achieve political objectives.

The United States has not secured any of its political objectives in the war with Iran, and indeed, it has produced a situation in July that is markedly worse than the one antebellum: Iran’s former supreme leader, an elderly man known for his extreme views but also his caution, has been replaced by a group of leaders who are, if anything, more extreme and far less cautious about confronting the United States and its partners in the region.

The Strait of Hormuz, which was open prior to the start of the conflict, is now largely closed. And the Arabian Peninsula’s other choke point, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, appears to have been shut by Iran’s partners in Yemen, the Houthis. In the spring, American energy executives sounded like Chicken Little as they warned of oil and gas shortages that a reduction in Chinese oil imports helped forestall. But Exxon and Chevron have more recently cautioned that an energy crunch really is inevitable if the situation does not improve, and that this could threaten the entire global economy.

The U.S. does not have a workable military solution to this problem. Iran can threaten tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz with little more than inexpensive drones. And, thanks to this conflict, Tehran has discovered that it has powerful psychological leverage over shipping companies and their insurers—so much so that it hardly needs to lay mines to block the strait.

For the U.S. to finance this war beyond the $37.5 billion that the Pentagon admits it has already spent—the actual number is surely much higher—would be to throw good money after bad. The Trump administration needs to face up to having lost so that it can focus on preventing the effects of an embarrassing but ultimately manageable defeat from spreading beyond the Persian Gulf. This will involve rethinking some fundamentals—such as how the region’s oil reaches world markets, how the United States wages war, and how Iran can be deterred from making trouble for American interests in the future.

The Strait of Hormuz is now, and likely indefinitely will be, under a degree of Iranian control that did not exist prior to the conflict. Washington and its allies, together with private-sector investors, will need to devote considerable time and money toward securing alternate routes for Middle Eastern oil to reach global markets. Some infrastructure already exists. The East-West Pipeline that runs across Saudi Arabia was built during the Iran-Iraq War, which was the last time oil tankers struggled to navigate the strait. This pipeline moves roughly 7 million barrels of oil a day. The Saudis are considering doubling that capacity. The United Arab Emirates has a similar pipeline that bypasses the strait, and whose volume will also likely need to double. Oil and gas pipelines, like other oil infrastructure in the Gulf, are vulnerable to Iranian drone strikes, but they are relatively easy to repair.

The United States should encourage the Saudis and Emiratis to run branches of their pipelines through Yemen and Oman, to keep those countries invested in maintaining the free flow of oil and gas out of the peninsula. Chevron is apparently speaking with Iraq about a new pipeline—through Syria, no less—to move that country’s oil to market. The sooner these conduits are built, the better. (Also, just a friendly suggestion, but this maybe wasn’t the best month to crow about ending federal subsidies for wind- and solar-power generation.)

The Iran war has brought a few things into focus—among them, that the United States needs to rethink its approach to warfare in the region and beyond. For all of the time that the U.S. Central Command undoubtedly spent planning and rehearsing for a confrontation with Iran, the conduct of this war betrays a certain failure of imagination that has cost the U.S. military a great deal. The United States appears to have assumed that its abundance of precision weaponry would give it a huge advantage over the Iranians—which it did, for at least a few weeks. But precision weaponry was not decisive.

Relatively low-cost Iranian missiles and drones have wrought havoc upon U.S. bases and other targets in the Middle East. American planners should have anticipated as much: Ukrainian drones have been inflicting devastating damage on Russian military assets for several years now, demonstrating just how quickly the nature of warfare has changed. Yet American troops are getting killed in their barracks by cheap Iranian missiles and drones, and their leaders haven’t thought through adequate countermeasures.

This failure belongs not only to the Trump administration but also to the military services and their leaders. The Iran war is almost certainly the easiest drone war that America will ever fight. Countering this cheap and widely accessible technology will only get harder. The United States has to dramatically rethink its posture in the Middle East and around the globe until it figures out how to contend with that.

Finally, Washington will need some fresh ideas if it is to reestablish deterrence with Iran. Prior to last summer, Iran had not made a serious move to stop oil and gas from flowing through the Strait of Hormuz in decades, and likely held back from making rapid advances toward a nuclear weapon, in large part because American military power deterred these actions. But as the American scholar Thomas Schelling noted, the power of a deterrent lies in the threat of its use. Once you actually do the thing you threaten to do, the enemy no longer fears what might happen.

The Trump administration has now squandered not one but two deterrents. Last year’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not, as President Trump initially claimed, “obliterate” the country’s nuclear program. I oversaw the contingency planning for such an operation for two years at the Pentagon. The strikes did what we planned them to do: They degraded Iran’s nuclear program, but only temporarily. Likewise, Hegseth is correct that we have done incredible damage to Iran’s conventional military and the industrial base that supports it. But the United States sought above all to deter Iran from doing two things: striking American partners in the region and disrupting maritime traffic. Is Iran now more deterred from taking these actions—or less so?

The answer is clearly the latter. The administration needs either to reach an accord with the Iranians or to establish a credible new deterrent, and fast. The promoters of this war—including The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and the hawks at various Washington think tanks—have gotten everything they asked for. And it has been a disaster. So now what?

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‘This country is in deep trouble’: Leon Panetta sounds alarm on Iran war

By Jennifer Bowers Bahney | Jul 23

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/this-country-is-in-deep-trouble-l
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Key takeaways

• Deep Trouble: Former CIA Director Leon Panetta warns the U.S. is in a difficult position, comparing the Iran conflict to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, with no clear objectives and rising domestic costs.

• Straits of Hormuz: Panetta emphasizes that control over the Straits of Hormuz is crucial for leverage and restoring economic stability, criticizing past agreements that gave Iran influence there.

• Negotiation Complexity: Any attempt to return to talks with Iran will be highly complicated, involving both nuclear issues and control of strategic waterways, according to Panetta.

The U.S. is in “deep trouble” when it comes to the Iran war, said a former top CIA official who compared the months long conflict to America’s involvement in Vietnam.

Leon Panetta, who led the Central Intelligence Agency during President Barack Obama’s administration, made the remark during a Thursday appearance on CNN in which he was asked who had the “upper hand” in Iran.

“Well, history tells us that forever wars do not end well,” Panetta said.

“And I think that’s the box we’re in right now,” he added. “Whether it was Vietnam, whether it was Iraq, whether it’s Afghanistan, or whether it’s Iran right now, the problem is that there really is no clear objective that the president is trying to put his arms around.”

“So he continues military attacks, which intelligence makes clear is not going to move Iran. And at the same time, the American people are paying a very heavy price as a result of oil prices going sky high and the cost of living increasing as much as it is,” Panetta noted.

“And so he he’s basically in a box right now trying to figure out if there’s a way out. And frankly, I think right now, this country is in deep trouble in terms of figuring some kind of strategy that can end this war. It does not look well at this point.”

Anchor Brianna Keilar asked Panetta how the U.S. gets back to the negotiating table with Iran.

“There’s only one way I’ve thought of to achieve any kind of leverage in dealing with Iran, and that relates to the Straits of Hormuz,” Panetta said, continuing:

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It was a mistake in the MOU to imply — and it did strongly imply — that Iran would control the Straits of Hormuz. That was a bad mistake, and the result is they continue to use that as leverage to get back at the United States.

What the United States has to do in order to get any kind of leverage here is, it has to take control of the Straits of Hormuz and be able to control the free access that is necessary in order to be able to restore our economy.

If the president doesn’t take any action to be able to take control of the Straits of Hormuz, then I think we’re only left with the hope that somehow we’re going to get back to a negotiating table that is now not only going to consider what happens in the nuclear area, but is going to consider what happens to the Straits of Hormuz as well.

That’s going to be a very complicated negotiation.

At an event at the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, Trump said the U.S. was “doing very well against the Islamic Republic of Iran” — despite a vote in the House to end the war.

“They would like to do something, but I say, they’re not ready yet. They need more of the same. They’re not ready yet. They have some evil intentions. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon,” the president added.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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U.S. Army Is Buying Older PAC-2 Patriot Missiles For The First Time In Decades

PAC-2 GEM-T missiles are not generally as capable as their PAC-3 counterparts, but the Army needs all the Patriots it can get.

By Joseph Trevithick

Published Jul 23, 2026 2:17 PM EDT

https://www.twz.com/land/u-s-army-is-buying-older-pac-2-patriot-missil
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. . . strain on existing Patriot interceptor supply chains, as well as for complete Patriot surface-to-air missile systems, has created problems for current and future customers. Switzerland notably saw its orders for new Patriot batteries deferred last year due to demand from Ukraine. In April, Swiss authorities raised the prospect of canceling the deal altogether due to the delays. Concerns have been raised about the ability of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin to meet even Ukraine’s needs. Earlier this year, Lockheed Martin also reportedly warned Germany, Japan, Poland, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia about potential uncertainty surrounding PAC-3 deliveries.

The U.S. Army’s first PAC-2 GEM-T order in decades makes clear that domestic need for Patriot interceptors is now pushing American authorities to other sources of supply, and toward maxing out production of PAC-2 and PAC-3 types. Though perhaps less capable than the latest PAC-3 MSE variant, GEM-Ts are clearly still operationally relevant, and represent an additional avenue to bolster stockpiles. Not every target necessarily requires the employment of the highest-end interceptor, either. This is something Lockheed Martin has been stressing around its announcement of the new ACE variant of the PAC-3, which is explicitly stated to be less capable than the MSE version.

With this in mind, the first U.S. GEM-T order in decades is a significant development, but one that also speaks to the immense strains on stockpiles and supply chains, which could take years to fully address.

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Friday, July 24, 2026 11:56 AM

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Get fucked.

You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.

We won't allow allow it.

All Muslims need to die.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

IT'S NOT EMPATHY.

Here's what's going on with you SIX.

JUST LIKE TED BUNDY JR HERE, YOU'RE SCARED.

You can't engage MEANINGFULLY in the topic bc it scares you.
Instead, you get angry and aggressive because ...
Being angry and aggressive makes you feel STRONG, IN CONTROL, POWERFUL instead of HELPLESS, WEAK, AND FEARFUL.

Personally, I think your overblown fear to certain issues (Muslims, Covid, AIDS) is just displacement.

Look at how your anger bleeds over from Muslims to blacks to illegal aliens to "them"!

Your blind anger about SOME things is a relief valve for all the OTHER things that make you feel insecure. And god knows, there are plenty of them, including the overall job situation of white males without a college degree. (IRAN ISN'T ONE OF THEM.)

And because you LIKE the feeling of being POWERFUL AND RIGHTEOUS AND ANGRY, you refuse to give it up. You believe these "issues" don't immediately threaten your health or finances, so they're safe to be stupid about.

Just contrast how you reacted to pneumonia, diabetes, and your floodplain issues. THOSE were scary, but you gathered as much info as you could to genuinely control your situation as best you could, even tho some of it left you with a little PTSD.

I guess I can't expect you to be rational all the time. You've got enough to deal with.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Signym, you made this about 6ix. You are old enough and have wide enough experience to generalize to the tens of millions in the USA behaving/feeling/voting the way 6ix does, going all the way back to the beginning of politics in the Roman Empire or, maybe, caveman society. Guys like him have held back civilization's progress and promoted war because they are fearful of everything, all the time, everywhere.

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Everything you just said is bullshit. Just like everything you have ever said in your life, Shit Golem.

Nobody in this country wants anything to do with your version of "Progress". You've all but destroyed this country. And we're not going to allow you to do it anymore.

Get the fuck out of my country if you don't like it. Go to Iran and see how long it takes for them to throw your annoying ass off a fucking building.

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Friday, July 24, 2026 1:55 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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SIX:

Get fucked.
You white women and your suicidal empathy isn't what's going to take America down.
We won't allow allow it.
All Muslims need to die.

SIGNY:

IT'S NOT EMPATHY.
Here's what's going on with you SIX.
JUST LIKE TED BUNDY JR HERE, YOU'RE SCARED.
You can't engage MEANINGFULLY in the topic bc it scares you.
Instead, you get angry and aggressive because ...
Being angry and aggressive makes you feel STRONG, IN CONTROL, POWERFUL instead of HELPLESS, WEAK, AND FEARFUL.

Personally, I think your overblown fear to certain issues (Muslims, Covid, AIDS) is just displacement.
Look at how your anger bleeds over from Muslims to blacks to illegal aliens to "them"!
Your blind anger about SOME things is a relief valve for all the OTHER things that make you feel insecure. And god knows, there are plenty of them, including the overall job situation of white males without a college degree. (IRAN ISN'T ONE OF THEM.)

And because you LIKE the feeling of being POWERFUL AND RIGHTEOUS AND ANGRY, you refuse to give it up. You believe these "issues" don't immediately threaten your health or finances, so they're safe to be stupid about.

Just contrast how you reacted to pneumonia, diabetes, and your floodplain issues. THOSE were scary, but you gathered as much info as you could to genuinely control your situation as best you could, even tho some of it left you with a little PTSD.

I guess I can't expect you to be rational all the time. You've got enough to deal with.

SECOND:

Signym, you made this about 6ix. You are old enough and have wide enough experience to generalize to the tens of millions in the USA behaving/feeling/voting the way 6ix does, going all the way back to the beginning of politics in the Roman Empire or, maybe, caveman society. Guys like him have held back civilization's progress and promoted war because they are fearful of everything, all the time, everywhere.

OMG, SECOND, you have no self awareness at all. None!

I try not to generalize to entire categories of people like you and SIX do. If I did, I'd say that everyone with TDS is an arrogant sociopath.

And I can understand why many average Americans are angry and fearful. Our whole economy and society has been warped to benefit the wealthiest.

But since YOUR life is going so well, YOU SAY, what's YOUR excuse for being a hate-filled warmongering asshole?

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

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Saturday, July 25, 2026 3:49 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

SIX, I'm going to make one more attempt on reality checking you.

First, I'm not saying that many Muslims aren't a threat to western culture and society. Many are.

Europe and Britain made a HUGE mistake when they allowed in, and Merkel INVITED IN, millions of military-aged men as refugees from the most (IMHO) ignorant, degenerate, culturally maladaptive regions of the Middle East (now called west Asia BTW), central Asia, and North Africa.

WTH were they thinking???? That the immigrants would immediately see the superiority of western culture and adopt it???

I honestly don't know how they correct that mistake, assuming it WAS a mistake and not some globalist plan to destroy European living standards and society! That "refugee" policy needs to end, imams that preach takeover should be deported immediately, and women and children need to learn the national language so they're don't depend on the local Muslim mafia for translation services and access to shops etc.

BTW, Biden's decontrolled border/ invite in illegal immigrants mirrors Europe's invitation to Muslim "refugees".

And SOME radical Muslims, the Takfiri/ Wahhabist branch of Sunni Islam (which is pretty large) are an actual terrorist threat. Of course, they need to be found and punished thru law.

So let's not CONTINUE to carry on with Biden's and Europe's policies! It's pols like Biden and Merkel who're the real enemy.

But when you get all paranoid and start gibbering about ALL Muslims, you're setting yourself up for failure and significant blowback.

The people of Iran, primarily Shia Persians, are culturally friendly to the west. Their Shia branch of Islam focuses on resistance, NOT AGGRESSION, thanks to their history of having been betrayed and slaughtered by their Sunni "brethren". They are not terrorists. Even when being attacked with (western supplied) chemical weapons, they didn't respond in kind. They're proud of their culture, history, and language (Farsi, not Arabic) which goes much farther back than the bandit tribes of Saudi Arabia.

And many primarily Muslim nations don't even follow Sharia law. https://factually.co/fact-checks/society/do-all-muslim-countries-follo
w-sharia-law-969289

When you make an enemy of Iranians, you're making an unnecessary one, and when you make an enemy of ALL Muslims that's just dysfunctional and counterproductive.

As far as I'm concerned, Muslims can have their cultural and religious quirks, as long as they practice them in THEIR country, not here! We should DEFINITELY impose our language and moral/ legal structure on people living here, and jail those who harm us and deport those who preach otherwise.

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Trump Just Gave Us a Horrible New Reason to Worry About the Iran War

The president is getting frustrated that U.S. military strikes are accomplishing nothing—and he’s starting to lash out.

By Michael Tomasky | July 24, 2026 | 9:52 a.m. ET

https://newrepublic.com/post/213486/trump-iran-war-horrible-new-reason
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Donny is frustrated. The Wall Street Journal reports that at a recent White House meeting, President Trump “launched into a tirade against Iranian leaders, calling them scumbags and lunatics, and unleashing a series of expletives.” He is worried that the war is “consuming his presidency.” He doesn’t understand why those silly mullahs don’t understand that he’s Mr. Art of the Deal.

One administration official told the paper that Trump sees few good options besides continuing these daily strikes. But these strikes apparently aren’t having much impact, either militarily or psychologically. The Journal also reported this week that satellite images show that Iran is rebuilding the damage done by U.S. strikes and is doing so fast. And after all, if Iran were afraid of the U.S., it wouldn’t have broken the ceasefire earlier this month by striking commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Some wars start big. World War I is the paradigmatic example. Europe was more or less at peace, the Balkans excepted, all those inbred cousins lolling in their palaces as various ethnic and proletarian resentments built among their people. Then, boom, one event—the assassination of a Hapsburg potentate—exploded the powder keg, and within weeks, millions were mobilized into a war that said cousins blithely thought would last a few weeks but ended up leaving an entire generation of young European men physically and psychologically strafed.

But most wars start small. They’re incremental. Even the most destructive war in human history started this way. Of course, Adolf Hitler was lying to the world about his ultimate aims, when he kept saying—after the Alsace, after Austria, after the Sudetenland—that he had no further territorial claims on Europe. But chronologically, the war proceeded in small, incremental steps, and even if Neville Chamberlain has gone down in historical shame, it’s also true that the broader public could have been forgiven for thinking, even after Munich, that world war was hardly inevitable.

In the current case, I’m sure Donald Trump no more anticipated that this war would prove problematic than Lyndon Johnson did with respect to Vietnam or George W. Bush did vis à vis Iraq. These things are always supposed to be easy for the mighty United States.

But somehow they rarely are. Only George H.W. Bush successfully prosecuted a short war. Why? Because the Persian Gulf War had one very specific and contained goal: force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. One can agree or disagree with his decision to launch the war, but at least it was aimed at doing one and only one small and specific thing. The neocons were imploring him to march on to Baghdad. He said no, you people are crazy. Then his dumb son got to the White House, and he put the crazies (led by Dick Cheney) in charge, and they launched a war based not on one specific goal but on a theory—that regime change in Iraq would help spread democracy throughout the Middle East.

Do we think Trump gave these matters two minutes’ worth of thought before he decided to start this war? We know the answer to that question. Of course he didn’t. Because to Trump, the laws of history don’t apply to him. He’s different. And Benjamin Netanyahu, who according to Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan did the lion’s share of the work of convincing Trump to do this, knew perfectly how to feed Trump’s vanity and take advantage of his total historical ignorance.

So now, Trump is frustrated, like a little boy whose Christmas toy won’t work. That frustration is key here, and much, sadly (I hope not tragically), hangs on it. Will he be content to keep launching strikes that aren’t accomplishing much? Eventually, it seems, the odds are that he’ll get tired of that, and he’ll need to teach those “scumbags and lunatics” a real lesson.

And that’s how little wars grow. There’s a chance that he has enough sense to know that if he doesn’t get out of this soon, it could crescendo into a disaster that will spin out of his control. That’s what happened to LBJ—he knew every step of the way as he asked Congress for more money and troops that he was marching the country to defeat and destroying his own legacy, but he did it anyway. And he was much smarter than Trump will ever be.

I remember well when Syria’s Bashar Al Assad was massacring his own people by the thousands, dropping those cluster bombs on his own people. Some were screaming at Barack Obama: Do something! We’re the United States, how can we allow this to happen?

I think it would have been good if we’d been able to do something. On the other hand, I’m sure Obama thought that the last thing in the world he wanted was to go into a country we don’t really know with a sanguinary tyrant and ancient enmities and think we can smooth it all out before Americans lose their patience; Syria was not going to be his legacy. All those deaths were horribly tragic. But at least, against the charge of typical American hubris, Obama can plead not guilty.

Whatever happens in Iran, Trump is already guilty on that count. The launching of this completely unnecessary and unjustified war was an act of supreme hubris. Now it’s starting to really hit home with him that he may have been wrong. But he’s never wrong; incapable of shouldering blame, he will transfer it onto someone else. If that doesn’t worry you, you aren’t paying attention.

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