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    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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China, (unlike the G.W. Bush + first and second D. Trump administration) understands the strategic value of diversifying its energy resources. The Oil market is actually anything but “unregulated and ...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 15, 2026 at 3:42 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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The Grand Nudger:   I’m currently listening to Al Gore’s 2007 book called “The Assault on reason”.   Through this book I am discovering that none of this is new. G.W. Bush also hated international law...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 13, 2026 at 6:54 pm
    Thread: Russia and Ukraine
Post: RE: Russia and Ukraine

Desse 23:   “You have no idea about the big resentments of east Germans towards West Germans, 35 years later, do you?”   Only the basics: The whole of Eastern Europe have a different way of thinking (...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 6614 1304738 May 12, 2026 at 2:35 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

Iran cannot go on with this war for more than a month or two. As I said before, if they cannot export their oil, they will have to shut down their oil wells. Once they are shut down, these are complic...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 12, 2026 at 2:15 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

Weird things are happening. Now D. Trump has to end “Operation Freedom” (The effort to secure the Strait of Hormuz via escorting of commercial ships by the US military) because M.B.S. does not want to...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 7, 2026 at 11:17 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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(May 4, 2026 at 12:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @Leonardo17 Quote:So I am not saying this is going to work well for D. Trump and his cabinet. I’m only saying that eventually, it’s not going to w...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 5, 2026 at 8:24 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

Paleophyte:   Quote:“You may be incurably naive. Who the utter fuck do you think that orange moron is listening to? Hegseth? Rubio? Leavitt? Come on Leo, give us a prediction for the end of May. Mine...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 May 4, 2026 at 10:08 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

This military campaign in Iran is still not a complete disaster:     I don’t like these guys either. I don’t like the way this Pete Hegseth talked to the House of Representati...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 30, 2026 at 3:25 pm
    Thread: Russia and Ukraine
Post: RE: Russia and Ukraine

Not only that. After WWII there was this Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild itself. Thanks to that plan no new type of fascism rose in Europe. On the contrary, they started rebuilding their economy ...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 6614 1304738 April 28, 2026 at 4:22 pm
    Thread: Russia and Ukraine
Post: RE: Russia and Ukraine

“We” actually is not only the global West. It’s more like “countries with an existing liberal economy”. 70 years is a long time for an economic system like socialism to prevail in a country. Look at V...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 6614 1304738 April 27, 2026 at 2:08 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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(April 22, 2026 at 4:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Quote:Leaning about fascism can be a key tool for all of us to not repeat the mistakes of the past.   That won’t work on people who prefer to liv...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 26, 2026 at 2:53 pm
    Thread: Russia and Ukraine
Post: RE: Russia and Ukraine

I am linking a lot of this to our capitalist way of doing things. I believe that post-Soviet Russia in the 1990’s could be assisted by the international community especially in economic issues like th...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 6614 1304738 April 26, 2026 at 1:17 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

I don’t know if this is very related. But the former US secretary of State Madeleine Albright (whose family sought refuge in the US because fo the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930’s) has a very i...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 22, 2026 at 4:10 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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(April 21, 2026 at 1:04 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: My opinion on the Strait of Hormuz situation is that it won't be settled as long as Trump is in power, which could last up to three more years. He is t...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 21, 2026 at 7:00 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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Still I am reading that this “blockade” move has been planned by the pentagon for years:   https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trum...00922.html   - This does make sense to me. Iran can and is threate...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 17, 2026 at 8:30 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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Awty:   I am reposting my own message so you can read it:   “For instance the LGBTQ+ movement is being served to ordinary people as some sort of political movement with the secret agenda of eradicatin...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 14, 2026 at 2:39 pm
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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I don’t know if that is a bad move by D. Trump.   The hard fact is that prices are soaring in Iran. They are truly desperate to obtain a lifting of US sanctions. But they are too dumb to admit it:   h...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 13, 2026 at 8:58 am
    Thread: Propaganda and Troll Activities.
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(April 10, 2026 at 11:20 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (April 10, 2026 at 9:26 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: Still, their way of telling things was the way my grandmother presented us the whole things in the ...
Leonardo17 Politics 39 2414 April 12, 2026 at 9:55 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
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(April 11, 2026 at 12:26 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: (April 11, 2026 at 10:16 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: So America needs to be back again. I hope US voters will understand this by 2029 :) Yesterday was ...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 12, 2026 at 8:30 am
    Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)

BrianSoddingBoru:   “Who owns the Strait of Hormuz? The shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz are located primarily in Omani territorial waters, and partially in Iranian territorial waters, but they ...
Leonardo17 News & Current Affairs 500 29759 April 11, 2026 at 10:16 am