Economic Impacts of Iran War
04-06-2026 | 01:45 PM
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Blackmail doesn't need to be pictures of a certain person (Epstein style). There is nuclear blackmail/extortion (Samson option) too. Then there's also just the inappropriate leverage that they wield over their benefactor - "We're gonna bomb them unless you bomb them first, and you have to do it by this day" and who knows what other threats they've made or insinuated privately. Donald is definitely terrified of getting JFK'ed or having his family killed for calling them on their BS.
What you describe is more akin to influence, pressure, or even extortion. Blackmail has a very specific meaning, and yes it usually involves pics, video, or documents.
IL fed the US all the lies about Iraq, claiming that they were capable of nukes, etc. The amount of human lives lost in Iraq because of that is over one million counting excess deaths. The US taxpayers also lost over trillion dollars, who knows how many lives in the US could have been saved by using that money domestically to solve issues at home.
But Junior was pizzed that sadam tried to off his pops, US intel told him what he wanted to hear, and then congress went for it. Of course everybody was still very angry about 9/11 (if you were to young to remember).
The fact that we stayed long after the job was done was also our fault... that's where 99.9% of the casualties came from. And guess who was responsible for a lot of those? Iran...
Also Iraq violated the terms of their previous surrender by not allowing inspections. If they had simply complied, none of that would have even happened.
There is little doubt that the intel they feed the US now may be hyperbole or completely untrue. Would it really be shocking if IL fed the US incorrect intel that led to the school in IR being bombed? The more Iranian civilians that die, the less likely the US is able to pull out of doing IL's dirty work, that's a huge motivator for IL to make sure that collateral damage is maximized.
04-06-2026 | 01:49 PM
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04-06-2026 | 03:26 PM
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04-06-2026 | 05:16 PM
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