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Trump Is Ready for All-Out War in Iran. There's Just One Catch.

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Nearly 100 US troops injured in two weeks since Iran war resumed ft.trib.al/ePNNIDx

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-- Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) 8:46 PM · Jul 20, 2026

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"A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies published in May estimated it will take until at least 2030 to restore the U.S. missile stockpile to prewar levels, leaving a multiyear "window of vulnerability" for the United States in potential future conflicts.

Since that study was published, the United States has only continued to execute military strikes, and Trump's war against Iran has racked up a total estimated bill of more than $100 billion.

U.S. Central Command said that the latest series of strikes had "successfully hit Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities, and missile and drone storage sites."

Iran also claimed that the U.S. attacked a nuclear power plant in a "dangerous assault on Iran's peaceful infrastructure."

So far, at least 17 American service members have been killed in the war."

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Apparently it's hard to count on those tiny fingers... with that deluded brain.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-20 12:39 PM | Reply

Pres Putin and Pres Xi are happy.


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-20 12:53 PM | Reply

Iran confirms mediator ceasefire proposals as it vows to fight on against US
www.msn.com

... Iran has received proposals from mediators to halt its war with the US, foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said at a Tehran press conference on July 20.

The confirmation, in remarks carried by state news agencies, is the first official acknowledgement of a live mediation track since the June 17 memorandum of understanding between Tehran and Washington collapsed, and follows reports that Qatar has floated a 10-day ceasefire plan after Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi's condolence visit to Doha. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-20 12:57 PM | Reply

Xi and Putin are making bank on Dozy Don's stupid unwinnable war.

Right now the US is embarking on the war criminal phase of the war.

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-07-20 02:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Just nuke them.

We have thousands of those laying around.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-20 02:16 PM | Reply

Houthis shut down Red Sea

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-07-20 02:48 PM | Reply

With all those new defense contracts being handed out, it's time to make bank!
--members of the Trump Crime Family

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2026-07-21 08:21 AM | Reply

Pres Putin and Pres Xi are happy.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-07-20 12:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not as happy as the Democrat party, er I mean the socialist party.

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-07-21 12:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#8
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-21 12:31 PM | Reply

Is this where fishpud claims Putin is afraid of the brain dead-------------------?

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-21 12:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#10 Unlike you I never fell for the Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy.

#11 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-07-21 01:08 PM | Reply

You're a ------- imbecile. Not really the flex you think it is.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-07-21 01:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The orange diaper sniper is Putin's bitch.

www.politico.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-21 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

- Russia conspiracy.

Which was thoroughly Debunked by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee Investigation.

www.reuters.com

Only intelligence-free Trumpites still cling to that Cult Conspiracy Theory.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-21 01:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

10 Unlike Trump I never fell for the Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy.

#11 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Keep lying. It's what you do.

Trump just released proof Russia interfered in our elections.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-21 04:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

AIPAC: "Argh! Only we're allowed to interfere in US elections and politics! Who does Vladimir Putin think he is, anyway? The Americans are our dopes, not his! Gargh! The Big Macher may have got away with it in 2016, but that's it! No more! Pflargh! Now where did I put my Putin mask? Argh!"


#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-21 04:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#10 Unlike you I never fell for the Russia, Russia, Russia conspiracy.

#11 | Posted by fishpaw

Everybody read for my disappearing fishpaw trick?

Check it out:

Hey Fishpaw, why did trump hire russian asset paul manafort to be his campaign manager, out of everyone in the world he could have picked?

POOF! Fishpaw is gone from the thread forever!

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-07-21 06:16 PM | Reply

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