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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: EchotaBaaa   😊 😞
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Subject: Iran needs to hold out
Date: 05/21/26 8:48 AM
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As long as America doesn't send ground troops to go die for Israeli goals --- I sincerely hope Iran holds out.

A nuclear Iran is not America's concern so IF they ever got nukes- Israel can decide to have a nuke exchange OR decide to get along with people a bit better. I Googled it and at one or two points in world history, one or two people in a coffee shop expressed the same. Or was it a frick-load of people at all times in human history in various corners of the globe - I forget. Europe - maybe they can be nicer to their 'new' residents and a nuclear Iran in their backyard won't be an issue. America? The deterrence America has is rather well known.


But gas needs to go to $6.00

Food needs to get pricey all over the world.

A true, concerted "WHY ARE WE ALL GPING THRU THIS" NEEDS to be asked not just in Tehran......but in Brussels. Paris. London. DC. NYC.......and in churches in Alabama and Mississippi and in farms across the fruited plain also.

You gotta break some eggs to make a good omelette.

There's no way in hell "the job is gonna be completed" in Iran - -and 13 Americans will have died for not much good.

Honor their sacrifice---make things so shitty, that America is forced to stop being a slave, and then stops entering these wars of choice just so the Plantation Owner gives America a good evaluation at the yearly HR meeting.

You'll save more than 13 American soldier lives in the future this way.

This isn't giving aid and comfort to an enemy.

Launching an ill-planned conflict because a foreign Master wanted you to do it........is giving aid and comfort both to the enemy, and whoever manufacturers coffins for American soldiers.

If this ends with American blinking first (like America has been blinking this whole bloody time)......fine. Maybe future Presidents will look at Iraq. Now Iran. Decide they dont want Presidencies and legacies pissed away like the guy from Crawford and Queens did.



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