• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    1 month ago

    What a circus.

    One thing I don’t understand: shouldn’t it have been extremely easy to foresee that Iran controling the Strait of Hormuz gives them an unbeatable advantage because oil?

    I also wonder what impact this will have on human and esp. women’s rights violations in Iran, long term. Something tells me this is just what they needed to crack down on Western depravity even more.

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        There must be advisers around him. I often wonder if either they are just as brainfried as him, or they don’t dare talk back when his ego demands something.

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          He’s got advisers, sure, all of which either got their own agenda or are dumb as fuck yes men. Some are both. Everyone has been fired or bullied out by other means by now.

          They’ve replaced or outright destroyed entire parts of the government at this point.

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      Yes, there’s a reason Biden didn’t take the bait from Israel before Trump. Thing is Trump kind of has to listen to Israel to protect himself from consequences so he wasn’t going to tell them no.

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        Trump kind of has to listen to Israel to protect himself from consequences

        I saw people arguing this a few times now and I don’t understand. Could someone parse it for me?

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          Epstein was working a blackmail ring for the Mossad and Netanyahu has the goods on Trump.

          EDIT: I do not know that as fact, just what I’ve heard.