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Old 03-20-2026 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine
If restricting trade could end authoritarian regimes, then Cuba and North Korea would have failed long ago. The daily cost to the Iranian regime is just a few hundred of their civilians being killed everyday. That’s a cost they have proven they can stomach for decades. But there isn’t enough money in the world for us to continue this style of warfare for much longer than a few months. We will go broke long before the death toll will even be a concern to that regime.

It clearly would be cheaper to just destroy their oil and gas infrastructure and just leave. Be ripough on Europe and Asia but woukdn’t hurt us all that much.
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