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Oil & Gas, Minerals, etc. exploitation for the Energy sector. Religious fanaticism: Christian fundamentalists, radicals & freaks like Hegseth along with the Christian Zionist/Jewish lobby that want the greater Israel project to set the stage for the second coming of Christ. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf War with Iran has been an key obsession with defense-industry funded think tanks and US military brass that lobby for as much war as possible professionally. This is why Iran is encircled with heavily armed bases. Besides that War with China and Russia is also a key obsession and they believe that the Rise of China will be weakened if the US dominates the Middle East, as China is a world trade based nation that imports energy, food, and raw materials because China itself is resource poor. The rapid decline and credibility of the US on the world stage as a supposed military superpower- The Venezuela action and other acts of violence are also an attempt to prove to the world that America still has the means to impose great violence and destruction to get whatever it wants. American nationalists, most of them poor or middle class, that want the American empire to last for a thousand years and voted for Trump to make this happen. Trump appears to be the puppet of these forces.

Grace's voice actor is gorgeous...

The first dead man from what could be the most disastrous, new American war

WW3...........

hilarious, she doesn't answer the question and then reads a boilerplate lol

USS William J. Clinton (CVN-82) will be the fifth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. William J. Clinton is scheduled to be laid down in 2027, launched in 2032 and commissioned by 2036. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_William_J._Clinton

"epstein regime..."

Saw on ABC News that the US military (now "Trump's army) seems to be engaging in brazen lying about enemy losses again, just like in Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, WW2 etc...... The US air force has been engaged in absurd lying about enemy losses, for the purposes of propaganda and saving face for the military bureaucracy for 85 years. They are making these claims that the war is nearly won, huge percentages of Iranian missile platforms destroyed in underground facilities etc from airstrikes- entirely without any proof.

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The braindead, thug-like killing of the Ayatollah by Trump has so far not triggered any effective uprising of anti-government elements in Iran. The US is already using the tired and ultimately ineffective playbook from Iraq/Afghanistan to bribe proxies and friendly pro-West terrorists with US dollars to fight for them, under the supervision of US special forces. This is quite obvious with the Kurds, as US-Israeli strikes target police/military objects in order to de-stabilize and dismantle local policing in northern Iran. The killing of the Ayatollah and the possible assassination (attempt or successful) of the ex-president, including the brutal attacks on military and civilians that have so far killed a claimed 926 Iranian soldiers and civilians have likely turned improved the image of Ayatollah even among its enemies in Iran. Certainly Shia Muslims who support the regime have demonstrated in the thousands in support of the Supreme Leader and the fanatical elements of Shia Islam will likely, as proven elsewhere, be determined to fight to the death against America and Israel. It was probably better to keep the 86 year old Ayatollah alive. It is interesting that unlike Trump, who is afraid of death and seeks immortality with material gain, the Ayatollah lived in a simple house in plain sight and didn't even bother hiding inside a bunker. It was super easy for the US to kill him and his family- he wasn't even in hiding. It is evident that the Ayatollah was not only unafraid of death, but welcomed it as he likely knew what will happen if he was killed and turned into a martyr to galvanize the Shia Muslims.