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United States of Iran

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but aren't these costs happening anyways?

unless they're activating service members that are sitting at home not getting paid these guys are already on these boats which are generally already out on deployment?

I'm sure a good majority of these boats may have been in port before and now incurring more costs but wouldn't this be coming out of costs from a different side of their operating budget?

sure the rockets and missiles their firing off are costs but those were already purchased.....but here's the war machine going to work

Good job Kash Money! :facepalm:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/polit...n-firings-iran

Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s alleged retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

As a result, Patel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based FBI counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign spies operating on US soil.

The dismissals have added to concern inside the Justice Department and FBI that counterterrorism and intelligence investigations in the wake of the military operation in Iran could be hampered by a mass exodus of national security experts, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

And like the CI-12 unit, several senior officials were ousted or reassigned because of their involvement in Trump-related investigations, sources say. The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury.

The major cost is probably the ordinance but soldiers are also paid more when they are deployed for combat and then you have all the costs of restocking, lost equipment, I mean those 3 F15's they lose yesterday are probably worth 100 million each and that's just a Monday morning whoopee. War ain't cheap, it's one of the main reasons for the size of the US debt.

I mean, historically, almost no one gets out of the middle east unscathed.

Fafo, I don't think they can get a regime change without boots on the ground look at how long Gaza took, and I wouldn't call that great success. What did Trump say Ukraine and Russia will be over in 24-48 hours?

Wild interview, starts out grounded and analytical then ends with illuminati? WTF?

I was going to question the validity of this interview. Lost me at "we're controlled by secret societies."

There's something very AI'd about this "Professor Jiang" as well.

who cares.. US will declare they won.. but they won over nothing.... losing tons of money. However, who cares, cause they just dropped 4B on defense / bombs / guns = Trump gets a kick back...

Mission Accomplished :thumbs:

"We won" ... 6 months later, a 2.0 version of 911 happens as all sleeper cells are activated in the US now.

They would say it's Joe Biden's fault for letting in trash and firing CIA agents!

It's crazy how my own thoughts of the USA in these wars has shifted.

Afghanistan: Yeah Fuck up those terrorists bastards!

Iraq: Well I don't really believe your story about WMD's, but I wish you luck and hope you're successful.

Iran: I hope you get a big fucking bloody nose from this and it's Vietnam 2.0 you bastards.

America never learns its lesson. They dumped over $2 trillion into Afghanistan and still couldn’t defeat a cave dwellers armed with weapons from the 80's because they handed the country back to the same people they were fighting. AndSyria was effectively handed over to a guy who had previously fought and killed US forces and, at one point, had a $10 million bounty on his head.

Now they think the way to win over Iranians is to spark a CIA funded civil war and install a puppet leader chosen by Israel. It’s insanity

More lies from Cheeto and his propaganda puppet Leavitt haha:

Props to the Spanish president for showing backbone to stand up to the Orange Bully! :thumbsup:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/iran...-trade-eu.html


Spain rejects White House claim it agreed to cooperate with U.S. forces amid Iran war

Spain has pushed back against the White House’s claim that it agreed to cooperate militarily with Washington amid the conflict with Iran, doubling down on its anti-war stance despite the U.S. president’s threat to sever trade ties.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that Madrid’s position of refusing to allow the country’s military bases to be used in the ongoing Iran war had now changed.

“With respect to Spain, I think they heard the president’s message yesterday loud and clear, and it’s my understanding, over the past several hours, they’ve agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military,” Leavitt told reporters.

“The president expects all of our European allies, of course, to cooperate in this long sought-after mission, not just for the United States but also for Europe, to crush the rogue Iranian regime.”

Spain swiftly and “categorically” rejected Leavitt’s assertion, however.

“The Spanish government’s position on the war in the Middle East ... and the use of our bases has not changed at all,” Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told private radio station Cadena Ser, according to Reuters.

The chaotic messaging between two NATO allies comes shortly after U.S.
President Donald Trump vowed to cut off all trade with Madrid, calling Spain “terrible” and repeating his criticism of Spain’s defense spending.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez responded on Wednesday by describing the sprawling Middle East crisis as a “disaster” and summarized his government’s position in just three words: “No to war.”

Sánchez has emerged as one of the European Union’s leading critics of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran, having also been an outspoken critic of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Trump’s threat to punish Spain on trade is widely thought to be a challenging prospect to deliver on, given that the 27 EU nations negotiate trade agreements collectively

who the fuck cares about Spain. theyre an inert force on the world stage.


on another subject, as with Russia, the US also doesnt seem to be the unlimited super power they claim to be. weapons armouries and supplies are already under scrutiny and there may be measures invoked very soon to make sure theres a production plan in place and this “war” has barely started.

Aren't the Spanish also anti-tourist right now? :lol

The behaviour from Trump here is not new at all -- they live in their own alternative fantasy reality where one tweet from the Orange Man means the law and world order is instantly changed. But in the real world, things don't operate that way.

Still, the Trump side will continue to ignore reality, and continue to harp on their version of the truth. Unfortunately, most in the MAGA base will blindly take up whatever the latest version of "truth" is from Trump, even if it direct contradicts any of Trump's previous truths. Until the new policies start affecting themselves -- eg. a MAGA supporter's own family gets ICE-ed, for example -- they don't wake up and continue to spew the falsehood. At that point, you can't even hold any form of sensible discussion with them because they won't even acknowledge the real facts on the ground.

And then there'd be people who don't normally follow this stuff, and they pick up Trump's version of alternative reality, and the misinformation continues to spread, or they start questioning the actual facts on the ground. FailFish

Ice barbie is gone.

Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary while she’s mid-speech at live event

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2932900.html

I feel the same way... In the past, US would try to operate within the rules of common decency, whereas the current administration just does whatever they feel like. On top of that, we read about incompetence at various levels of government on a daily basis (usually because people with no experience are put in leadership positions).

For someone who loves to say "you're fired", I'm surprised it's taken so long and she's the first.

Someone had to be the scapegoat.