Pragmatist2025

I am not going to read through the other ~10 threads about this guy because I had really never heard of him until the talk of his resignation. I watched the interview. This guy is REALLY MAGA. If anyone thought he was insulting President Trump then you didn’t watch it. If anything, he confirmed what most of the President’s supporters believe about him. He basically says that the Iranian regime is scared of Trump, they call off their proxies concerning American interests when he is in office, and this ‘war’ does NOT have the hallmarks of the President’s beliefs concerning war or Iran.

If the things he says about Israeli ‘intelligence’ is true, then a lot of things begin to make sense…such as the President’s recent post about Israel bombing energy facilities and the comments last year when he said “they (Israel) don’t know what the frick they’re doing” (during the 12 day war).

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I'm not opposed to the theory that 6M is too high, but it's clearly at least 1M I'll ask my question from page 1 again What level of genocide is acceptable to avoid focusing so much efforts on this particular debunking?

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I have read a ton of books on WW1 & 2. Several well sourced guys come in with figures between 1 & 2 million (that they directly attribute to the Nazis). But yes, 2 million or 6 million, it is sort of a strange thing to haggle over. Another item that isn’t discussed as much is how (and why) they died. The answers to those questions do not just reveal that Hitler was psychotic but also very stupid.

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So the Lebanese government started rounding up and attacking Hezbollah themselves. It's either that or let Israel keep bombing civilian infrastructure, which is what they were doing.

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Just to be clear, who was bombing civilian infrastructure? (and where?)

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Full-steam ahead toward Iran's UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

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This sounds great in theory.

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So, what did he say regarding U.S. soldiers raping persian women? That seems to be a crazy thing to make up for a clickbait headline. There had to be some mention of raping persian women. If not, WTF.

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He never said or even hinted that he believed that would happen. They said this has historically happened to other nations when they surrendered unconditionally. This could be the potential mindset of Iranians who hate Americans or in general the paranoia of the unknown when ceding total control to the enemy. i.e. Why would they surrender (if they believed this way)? …at least this was my inference.

It took off from the notion that they found it kinda crazy that a call to unconditional surrender was made so quickly. That anything else than that now would be considered weakness from an international perspective.

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Do your mental gymnastics with it as you see fit

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No mental gymnastics. Hyperbole on his part, yes. The clip you showed is not the whole interview.

I actually listened to the entire interview. He didn’t say what your headline says in the way the headline implies…the Trump inclusion is just click bait bullshite.

My two adjacent neighbor’s homes are about 10 acres away from us. After that, the next people are miles away. I don’t know much about ‘city blocks’ but if 6 blocks is as close as my neighbors are to me, then he ought to be ok.

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Every Sunday, I do know you can pass by the white churches and their parking lots are almost empty by 12:30. You can pass by the black churches and their parking lots are still full at 3:30.

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I don’t know what you are getting at, but the black churches AIN’T starting at the same time. Facts.

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Not a single mother out there is worried about the draft. Who the hell is that saying that?

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The military is employing lasers from space to guide weapons that shave whiskers off of bad guys. But yeah, mamas are worried about their children storming beaches via amphibious vehicles while under fire from enemy concrete perches.

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They are going to step into a vacuum they were already buying cheap oil from and partners?

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I really don’t believe that they will in a very significant way. Besides intelligence and material support, they had no binding defense/security agreement with Iran, same as Russia.

China will be left with a very big bruise, but they will use their strategic reserves, source oil elsewhere, and wait this out.They pretty much knew they were going to have to take an L in this.

I agree with the regional threat scenario. Maybe possible but not that probable, they could make overtures/maneuvers toward Taiwan. I know many see them as the boogeyman but they seem very risk averse in overtly provocative moves.

They are sneaky as frick but their strategy doesn’t seem like a brute force one. Iran is a hot mess and who the hell are they gonna trust now especially since that avenue is being un-alived on the regular. JMO