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Reporter: How long are you prepared to maintain the blockade? Several more months?

Trump: Well, the blockade is genius. Now they have to cry uncle. 'We give up.' That's all they have to do pic.twitter.com/2NRi9Ce8IP

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) May 4, 2026

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By the end of the month Europe will be crying
Uncle in Urdu

Actually I believe something will happen by the end of the week. There is lots of chatter from a lot of different directions stating "Finish the job".

I think it's a primer for more military action

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Trump cannot legally take more action. Congress has to weigh in now.

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If Trump uses the same use of force resolution from the Bush administration in 2001 that Obama used, then Congress is not obligated to act.

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It would not be legal to claim the AUMF as a basis.

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You got a court ruling saying it was wrong back then?

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It was established in 2001 that Iran's nuclear program, regime, and proxy terror groups, were not responsible for the 2001 terror attacks. So there is no legal basis to now say they were.

1 hour ago from fox news. take it for what you like. It seems to me we are escorting traffic and maybe by patrolling apache


US sinks 6 Iranian small boats as violence flares amid ceasefire
U.S. Forces sank six Iranian small boats near the Strait of Hormuz amid President Donald Trump's "Project Freedom" on Monday.
U.S. Central Command announced the engagement in a press call with reporters, saying Iran's military capability has been "dramatically degraded."
CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said on the call that Iran historically has deployed "between 20 and 40 small boats" when harassing vessels in the strait.
"Today, we saw just six, and eliminated them quickly," Cooper said.
"We have an enormous amount of capability and firepower concentrated in and around the Strait, including 864 Apache and MH 60 Seahawk helicopters used just this morning to eliminate six Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping," he added.

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Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks.

Instead, the blockade is… pic.twitter.com/xFHmKfF4rr

— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) April 29, 2026

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Unfortunately Joe Kent is right.

This just includes the direct economic pain from high gas prices up front.

Doesn't even begin to address the issues we're going to have with food supplies in another year.

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I have seen plenty of people saying the exact opposite. And not just Trump supporters. One of the key things they point to is Iran's inability to move oil and that they will run out of storage capacity in country. Which means shutting wells down and the huge problems that come with that and then trying to restart them later.

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Iran's government is built on theology, not economy. When people say the blockade hurts them more than it hurts us, they are correct and irrelevant at the same time.

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Not totally true. All governments, however founded, depend on their economy. If people get hungry enough or cold enough, the government must change or fall.

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Unless they believe they are sacrificing for a cause worthy of sacrifice, and an authoritarian enough regime to propagandize and repress the resistance to it. It's how Stalin held Russia together during WWII.

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During World War II, the United States sent the Soviet Union between four and five million tons of food. All told, the United States sent $250 billion (adjusted for inflation) to prop up the Soviet Union in the fight against Germany.

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Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks.

Instead, the blockade is… pic.twitter.com/xFHmKfF4rr

— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) April 29, 2026

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Unfortunately Joe Kent is right.

This just includes the direct economic pain from high gas prices up front.

Doesn't even begin to address the issues we're going to have with food supplies in another year.

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I have seen plenty of people saying the exact opposite. And not just Trump supporters. One of the key things they point to is Iran's inability to move oil and that they will run out of storage capacity in country. Which means shutting wells down and the huge problems that come with that and then trying to restart them later.

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Iran's government is built on theology, not economy. When people say the blockade hurts them more than it hurts us, they are correct and irrelevant at the same time.

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Not totally true. All governments, however founded, depend on their economy. If people get hungry enough or cold enough, the government must change or fall.

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Unless they believe they are sacrificing for a cause worthy of sacrifice, and an authoritarian enough regime to propagandize and repress the resistance to it. It's how Stalin held Russia together during WWII.

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During World War II, the United States sent the Soviet Union between four and five million tons of food. All told, the United States sent $250 billion (adjusted for inflation) to prop up the Soviet Union in the fight against Germany.

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And had the Soviets not received thousands of trucks, their ability to

• move all those iplants to the Urals
• continue moving armies where they were needed
• then concentrating on tank production over other vehicles

all would have been much harder if not impossible.

Odds the 24 hours gets extended?

🚨 JUST IN:

​Donald Trump: "Iran has been given only 24 hours. After that, the world may witness one of the most devastating air strikes ever seen." pic.twitter.com/kqGShKEXUi

— GBX (@GBX_Press) May 4, 2026

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Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?

Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low

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Non US media is saying that's accurate. I've read where we have extensive damage at every base in the region.

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I've read that Bigfoot exists.

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He does. Ask Steve Austin. - Astronaut! Barely alive.

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Odds the 24 hours gets extended?

🚨 JUST IN:

​Donald Trump: "Iran has been given only 24 hours. After that, the world may witness one of the most devastating air strikes ever seen." pic.twitter.com/kqGShKEXUi

— GBX (@GBX_Press) May 4, 2026

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Very high

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Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks.

Instead, the blockade is… pic.twitter.com/xFHmKfF4rr

— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) April 29, 2026

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Unfortunately Joe Kent is right.

This just includes the direct economic pain from high gas prices up front.

Doesn't even begin to address the issues we're going to have with food supplies in another year.

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I have seen plenty of people saying the exact opposite. And not just Trump supporters. One of the key things they point to is Iran's inability to move oil and that they will run out of storage capacity in country. Which means shutting wells down and the huge problems that come with that and then trying to restart them later.

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Iran's government is built on theology, not economy. When people say the blockade hurts them more than it hurts us, they are correct and irrelevant at the same time.

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Not totally true. All governments, however founded, depend on their economy. If people get hungry enough or cold enough, the government must change or fall.

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Unless they believe they are sacrificing for a cause worthy of sacrifice, and an authoritarian enough regime to propagandize and repress the resistance to it. It's how Stalin held Russia together during WWII.

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During World War II, the United States sent the Soviet Union between four and five million tons of food. All told, the United States sent $250 billion (adjusted for inflation) to prop up the Soviet Union in the fight against Germany.

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Yet over 5 million citizens died of famine and disease in the conflict and roughly 2 million were sent to the Gulag during the war.

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Anyone know how accurate this article actually is?

Repairing damaged US military bases will add billions to Iran war cost, sources say | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low

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Non US media is saying that's accurate. I've read where we have extensive damage at every base in the region.

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I've read that Bigfoot exists.

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He does. Ask Steve Austin. - Astronaut! Barely alive.

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President Trump on Iran: "They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment, they have no radar, they have no nothing, they have no leaders actually…the leaders happen to be gone also." pic.twitter.com/JBkAV7OKwi

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 4, 2026

The math is simple. President Trump holds all the cards. pic.twitter.com/5Ko2s8CLo6

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 4, 2026

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Odds the 24 hours gets extended?

🚨 JUST IN:

​Donald Trump: "Iran has been given only 24 hours. After that, the world may witness one of the most devastating air strikes ever seen." pic.twitter.com/kqGShKEXUi

— GBX (@GBX_Press) May 4, 2026

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100%

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President Trump on Iran: "They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment, they have no radar, they have no nothing, they have no leaders actually…the leaders happen to be gone also." pic.twitter.com/JBkAV7OKwi

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 4, 2026

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Are we seeing Perception Bias play out in front of our eyes?


This is classic Britain 1914... The Germans will not go to war because our Navy will destroy them - Churchill.

Well, the Brit's may look at the world through the eyes of their Navy, but Germany didn't. I fear this is what we are witnessing, Trump is looking at this through his eyes - Navy, Air Force and we have ADA game over. But is Iran playing the same game.

Brits and Turkey - Brits won, but ended up signing the Bosporus Straits to Turkey. Who won?

You want another example, Viet Nam. We won every engagement and pounded the hell out them. And Lost.


Are we looking through this through the prism of what we want it to be or the reality? Iran just wants to hang on and deplete us until China to get involved.


Beijing Tells China Firms to Ignore US Sanctions on Refiners - Bloomberg

China makes shock move against US sanctions on oil refineries linked to Iran

US Oil Sanctions Push Beijing to Test Washington's Limits - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow.com



We taking on China too?

The Declaration of Miniwar. Meanwhile, Israel is chomping at the bit to restart the Jewish Jihad.


The 'Mini War'
It's looking like the White House does not wish to given up just yet on the ceasefire, given this afternoon President Trump referenced the conflict as a "mini-war" - as opposed to a full blown war - in what seemed like an effort to downplay today's dramatic events. Not only did missiles rain down on the UAE, sparking a fire at a key oil facility, but the US Navy said it destroyed seven Iranian military boats. Here's what Trump said.

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"They did a poll on the war with Iran, and they said only 32% of the people like it," Trump said, without specifying who conducted the poll. "Well, I don't like it, I don't like war at all."
"We're in, I call it a mini-war," Trump added a few moments later.

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Trump has previously said he's been advised to not call it a war. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said last week that the U.S. is currently "not at war."

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Meanwhile, more details via CENTCOM on the earlier flare-up, which separately saw the UAE engage 12 ballistic missiles, 3 cruise missiles, and 4 drones on Monday:

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US Central Command (Centcom) says it has used helicopters to destroy Iranian small boats.
It follows US President Donald Trump's suggestion that the US has struck seven Iranian small boats as it works to open the Strait of Hormuz. "Earlier today, Sea Hawk and U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters were used to eliminate Iranian small boats threatening commercial shipping", Centcom writes in a social media update.

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Ceasefire Broken? Israel Awaiting US Greenlight, Trump Downplays
There remain lingering questions over whether the US-Iran ceasefire has definitively broken down with today's Iranian attack on the UAE, as well as tit-for-tat hostilities in the Persian Gulf area. This as Israeli media says the Netanyahu government is awaiting a 'green light' to attack Iran again.

.@SecScottBessent: "I’m confident on the other side of this the world's going to be awash in oil. The UAE has come out of OPEC. They're going to be pumping more. OPEC just announced that they're going to be pumping more, and the U.S. has record crude deliveries." pic.twitter.com/cauxiPFCNQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 4, 2026

MAJOR TIMELINE SHIFT:

Today on Fox News, we once again get a new timeline until Iran’s oil storage reaches capacity:

Speaking to Fox News’ Bret Baier tonight, Miad Maleki states:

“Iran has about 13 days worth of storage onshore available, and they have around 15-18 tankers in…

— Brett Erickson (@BrettErickson28) May 4, 2026

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.@SecScottBessent: "I’m confident on the other side of this the world's going to be awash in oil. The UAE has come out of OPEC. They're going to be pumping more. OPEC just announced that they're going to be pumping more, and the U.S. has record crude deliveries." pic.twitter.com/cauxiPFCNQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 4, 2026

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this queer snowflake who can't get to heaven and is ruining our social fabric by his life style (you know who you are here) may be great in the financial markets, but has no clue what he is talking bout with regard to how out get from the ground to the gas pump, plastics, fertilizer, helium ect . This is going to be a logistic nightmare. It will be 6 months to get back to normalcy in terms of price and supply chain. Viva la Donnie! cha ching. Thanks for your war, I was having a hard time making ends meet till he started blowing chit up!

U.S. nearing restart of major combat operations against Iran; final call lies with Trump and Iran’s leadership. — FOX citing officials

— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) May 4, 2026

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Continuing the blockade puts far more pressure on us than on Iran. Iran has proven it can endure economic pain—it has been doing so since 1979. The blockade will not force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, ballistic missiles, or its proxy networks.

Instead, the blockade is… pic.twitter.com/xFHmKfF4rr

— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) April 29, 2026

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Unfortunately Joe Kent is right.

This just includes the direct economic pain from high gas prices up front.

Doesn't even begin to address the issues we're going to have with food supplies in another year.

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I have seen plenty of people saying the exact opposite. And not just Trump supporters. One of the key things they point to is Iran's inability to move oil and that they will run out of storage capacity in country. Which means shutting wells down and the huge problems that come with that and then trying to restart them later.

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Iran's government is built on theology, not economy. When people say the blockade hurts them more than it hurts us, they are correct and irrelevant at the same time.

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Not totally true. All governments, however founded, depend on their economy. If people get hungry enough or cold enough, the government must change or fall.

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Unless they believe they are sacrificing for a cause worthy of sacrifice, and an authoritarian enough regime to propagandize and repress the resistance to it. It's how Stalin held Russia together during WWII.

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During World War II, the United States sent the Soviet Union between four and five million tons of food. All told, the United States sent $250 billion (adjusted for inflation) to prop up the Soviet Union in the fight against Germany.

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Yet over 5 million citizens died of famine and disease in the conflict and roughly 2 million were sent to the Gulag during the war.

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1 million of those dying of famine were in the cut off city of Leningrad. 4 million died in German occupied territory. As for the rest, the Soviets were always notorious for feeding cities at the expense of the rural areas.

Moreover, the large groups of Soviet citizens hailing the German army as liberators in June and July of 1941 were quickly squelched by the even worse treatment they received from the occupiers. They had to chose bad over worse.

Saw gas at 4.19 in Round Rock. Its gonna be painful for a while!

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Saw gas at 4.19 in Round Rock. Its gonna be painful for a while!

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viva la Donnaldiho ! It's going to $5

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President Trump on Iran: "They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment, they have no radar, they have no nothing, they have no leaders actually…the leaders happen to be gone also." pic.twitter.com/JBkAV7OKwi

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 4, 2026

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Are we seeing Perception Bias play out in front of our eyes?


This is classic Britain 1914... The Germans will not go to war because our Navy will destroy them - Churchill.

Well, the Brit's may look at the world through the eyes of their Navy, but Germany didn't. I fear this is what we are witnessing, Trump is looking at this through his eyes - Navy, Air Force and we have ADA game over. But is Iran playing the same game.

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The Brits were a maritime power, the Germans a continental power.

We're a maritime (well, and aerospace) power, and Iran is a continental power.

A lot of parallels.

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Saw gas at 4.19 in Round Rock. It's gonna be painful for a while!

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Painful if we don't start another round of bombing. Catastrophic if we do.

NEW: F-16s are now in the air as part of a massive Middle East defensive push by the United States — and they’re not alone.

More than 100 aircraft, both land and sea-based, are backing Project Freedom, working to shield U.S. forces and keep commercial shipping lanes secure in… pic.twitter.com/pPq5Ec93gy

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 5, 2026

"Middle east defensive push"
- Fox News

Funny. Who watches Fox anymore? I turned that wretched thing off in 2020 after they called Arizona for Biden.

NOW — Chevron CEO Says Global Oil Shortages Are Starting, U.S. Prices Could Go Even Higher

“We're starting to see risks of supply outages in some of these economies. In Europe you're see flights canceled and schedules re-optimized because jet fuel is getting very, very tight …… pic.twitter.com/GIPfxFIxYm

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) May 5, 2026

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Arabian Sea as U.S. forces enforce the naval blockade against Iran from the Gulf of Oman and support Project Freedom in the Strait of Hormuz. The carrier has more than 60 aircraft on board. pic.twitter.com/u7U9YyhBO8

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) May 5, 2026

I can’t explain how significant this is.

1. U.S. warships ships are now escorting vessels.

2. Maersk took the risk, and was greatly rewarded.

3. There are clear paths that are clear of mines.

4. This is a big slap in the face to the IRGC blockade.

(5. Still don’t want… https://t.co/PEtrti9VyB

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) May 5, 2026

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President Trump on Iran: "They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment, they have no radar, they have no nothing, they have no leaders actually…the leaders happen to be gone also." pic.twitter.com/JBkAV7OKwi

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 4, 2026

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Are we seeing Perception Bias play out in front of our eyes?


This is classic Britain 1914... The Germans will not go to war because our Navy will destroy them - Churchill.

Well, the Brit's may look at the world through the eyes of their Navy, but Germany didn't. I fear this is what we are witnessing, Trump is looking at this through his eyes - Navy, Air Force and we have ADA game over. But is Iran playing the same game.

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The Brits were a maritime power, the Germans a continental power.

We're a maritime (well, and aerospace) power, and Iran is a continental power.

A lot of parallels.

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I would say we are looking at it as an air power. We seem to think air power can solve all. We have just recently implemented the blockade. Which is a temporary fix.

Not sure the Iranians think like we do and Iran is a natural fortress surrounded by mountains.

I am not sure a military solution is possible, we did a good job so far. I guess we will know by the end of the week, as Iranian storage capacity reaches full.

By the way, thanks for the heads up on MacGregor. Did some research and you are right to be suspicious. His stuff on Ukraine is bizarre. Strange takes on Russia.

Anyway, a shame as a combat commander he was damn good. Don't know what is up on the Russia stuff. But, appreciate the heads up.

Listen closely… Sounds to me like a Game well played! pic.twitter.com/53DNYqTbG5

— Santa Trump.. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@lovetocook12345) May 5, 2026