Economic Impacts of Iran War
05-08-2026 | 07:58 AM
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05-08-2026 | 08:24 AM
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05-08-2026 | 08:59 AM
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Literally a conversation we had in one of my college freshman classes. I was about 10 years older than most in the room and we were discussing the current ME conflict (this was about 25 years ago). The dumbest person in the room blurted out "I don't understand why we don't just nuke 'em. It worked in Japan". Literally every person in the room, most of them 18 year old kids, turned to look at her with the WTF look on their faces.
05-08-2026 | 09:37 AM
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About an hour or two later, a 30 day cease fire was announced.
The following is pure speculation on my part:
Did this cause an uproar in his inner circle?
Did Gen. Cain tell him whether or not such an order would be carried out?
Was there finally a check on his impulsive Id, or was it a nothing burger? (Just blather due to his not understanding the enormity of what he posted)
Did the Iranians consider it a credible threat, and hence agree to the cease fire?
05-08-2026 | 09:40 AM
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On April 7th Trump threatened, via truth social i believe, to use nuclear weapons. (The tell wasn't just the end of a civilization part...it was the 'from which it wll not come back' portion)
About an hour or two later, a 30 day cease fire was announced.
The following is pure speculation on my part:
Did this cause an uproar in his inner circle?
Did Gen. Cain tell him whether or not such an order would be carried out?
Was there finally a check on his impulsive Id, or was it a nothing burger? (Just blather due to his not understanding the enormity of what he posted)
Did the Iranians consider it a credible threat, and hence agree to the cease fire?
About an hour or two later, a 30 day cease fire was announced.
The following is pure speculation on my part:
Did this cause an uproar in his inner circle?
Did Gen. Cain tell him whether or not such an order would be carried out?
Was there finally a check on his impulsive Id, or was it a nothing burger? (Just blather due to his not understanding the enormity of what he posted)
Did the Iranians consider it a credible threat, and hence agree to the cease fire?
05-08-2026 | 11:10 AM
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Literally a conversation we had in one of my college freshman classes. I was about 10 years older than most in the room and we were discussing the current ME conflict (this was about 25 years ago). The dumbest person in the room blurted out "I don't understand why we don't just nuke 'em. It worked in Japan". Literally every person in the room, most of them 18 year old kids, turned to look at her with the WTF look on their faces.
05-08-2026 | 11:21 AM
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On April 7th Trump threatened, via truth social i believe, to use nuclear weapons. (The tell wasn't just the end of a civilization part...it was the 'from which it wll not come back' portion)
About an hour or two later, a 30 day cease fire was announced.
The following is pure speculation on my part:
Did this cause an uproar in his inner circle?
Did Gen. Cain tell him whether or not such an order would be carried out?
Was there finally a check on his impulsive Id, or was it a nothing burger? (Just blather due to his not understanding the enormity of what he posted)
Did the Iranians consider it a credible threat, and hence agree to the cease fire?
About an hour or two later, a 30 day cease fire was announced.
The following is pure speculation on my part:
Did this cause an uproar in his inner circle?
Did Gen. Cain tell him whether or not such an order would be carried out?
Was there finally a check on his impulsive Id, or was it a nothing burger? (Just blather due to his not understanding the enormity of what he posted)
Did the Iranians consider it a credible threat, and hence agree to the cease fire?
05-08-2026 | 11:21 AM
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Refusing to allow holding ships hostage for payment on international waters has been US policy for a long time, the precedent for use of force against sovereign powers to enforce that policy going back to the US Marines attacking Derna in 1805 at the First Barbary War.
Nobody is suggesting nuking Tehran or even Bandar Abbas. The target area is lightly populated, mostly by combatants:
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05-08-2026 | 11:26 AM
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I think you’re reading way too much into his strategy. He does art of the deal style stuff where he says something insane and over the top to get a reaction. IMO, he desperately wants out of this and won’t resume hostilities unless Iran escalates in a big way. His antics are funny when he’s going after Chuck Schumer or Liz Warren, but in a hot war, against an actual opponent, with very little buy in from our allies, it’s tiring and not funny.
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