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The United States is a global military and economic power currently engaged in a significant armed conflict with Iran, involving large-scale military operations, strategic stockpiling, and diplomatic tensions. Beyond its military activities, the nation remains a central figure in global geopolitics as a primary rival to China and Russia, a leading energy exporter, and a key architect of international supply chain and innovation policies. Domestically and internationally, it balances these security commitments with electoral pressures, significant infrastructure and manufacturing reshoring efforts, and preparations to host major global events like the World Cup.
“the US government bought a nearly 10% stake in Intel for around $20 a share.”
“However, it's not adding monthly active users from the most attractive segment in social media users and that is from the United States and Canada where it's been flat or declining slightly.”
“How do you enter a war with a formidable military? And I think it's even worse than that. They actually I mean, yeah, they gave some to Ukraine. My understanding is that we used about a quarter of them in the 12-day war with Iran protecting Israel.”
“If the United States were able to open the straight, which is the only leverage that Iran has right now, there's a high likelihood that over the course of the next 2 years, the regime will fall into a state of complete collapse, unable to even pay its hoodlams to murder people in the streets.”
“In the same period, US tourists have fallen by 74%. Largely due to the bans imposed by Trump during his first term.”
“>> So you you think that limited strikes from the United States, you think the Gulf States are actually pretty much on board with that, even if we don't hear it publicly.”
“But that doesn't mean that a peaceful resolution is likely. Instead, by all outward indicators, a US strike on Iran seems to be nearly inevitable.”
“When the US launched Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025 and did several Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran made clear that it didn't want to escalate into a larger conflict, but it retaliated against the US anyway.”
“The United States and Israel has announced uh a war uh massive military strikes uh by the United States and Israel intended to end Iran's nuclear program, their ballistic missile capabilities. Um and uh critically uh an effort to bring about regime change with the leadership of the country including the supreme leader directly targeted by military strikes.”
“The United States and Israel has announced uh a war uh massive military strikes uh by the United States and Israel intended to end Iran's nuclear program, their ballistic missile capabilities um and uh critically uh an effort to bring about regime change.”
“A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
“The source also confirms three other important details. One, that the US and Israel had been planning this operation jointly for months.”
“The Iranian diplomatic delegation was presented with a letter from the United States outlining the proposals for limits on the Iranian missile program. As the Iranians have stated from the very start that their missile program itself is not up for discussion in any way, they return to the letter reportedly unopened.”
“What has happened today is that the US and Israel have launched a massive bombing campaign across Iran. They say that they are targeting senior political and military leaders in Iran.”
“Canada stands with the United States and trying to prevent Iran from uh obtaining a nuclear weapon signaling support for the aggression.”
“The United States didn't just surgically strike a compound and other things and bomb those locations in Iran. It didn't just do that.”
“So meaning if they take him out, everybody in the regime has one of two choices. It's either last minute desperation. Light everything up. Shoot all the missiles out that you can, right? Everything you got going on. Last minute miracle. It's almost like kamicazi. If I'm going down, I'm killing everybody.”
“On the morning of February 28th, America and Israel launched another war on Iran. This one is bigger and more serious than those we saw last year. This is a war of regime change.”
“The United States didn't just surgically strike a compound and other things and bomb those locations in Iran. It didn't just do that. There were sanctions on a global scale.”
“The United States didn't just surgically strike a compound and other things and bomb those locations in Iran. It didn't just do that. There were sanctions on a global scale. There were negotiations. Don't refine uranium to make bombs. That is our red line.”
“By order of the President of the United States and the Secretary of War, our military in the Middle East is undertaking an unprecedented operation to eliminate Iran's ability to threaten Americans as they've been doing for nearly half a century.”
“So, every time there's a shortage and a shortage creates prices to go up also, when demand goes up, and right now there's more demand for the US oil because we're pumping and it's available... but there's demand for it because the straits of Hormuz have closed.”
“Current reporting suggests the US and the Israelis are considering arming up Kurdish insurgents to move across that border and tie down the IRGC. According to Arash Azizi in the Atlantic, quote, "According to the opposition leader who spoke with me, as well as the leader of one of the Kurdish groups, aware of but not included in the plan, the US and Israel have set aside significant funds for arms and logistical support to the five Iranian Kurdish groups."”
“Meanwhile, three American fighter jets got shot down accidentally by Kuwaiti Air Defense today. All six American pilots are okay.”
“This was an unprovoked aggression by the United States and Israel in the context of ongoing negotiations which as the Armani foreign minister had said were making progress.”
“Canada stands with the United States and trying to prevent Iran from uh obtaining a nuclear weapon signaling support for the aggression.”
“I have the direct numbers. These are from CSIS. In the 12-day war, the US fired 150 THAD interceptors to protect Israel. That was 25% of the whole US stockpile.”
“What we do know is that weakening the central regime is the most important priority. And from the United States's perspective, that is a thing that not only has already happened, but continues to happen each and every day.”
“Think about where we are. This country is now at war with Iran, embroiled in a full-blown regional conflict with no congressional authorization, no debate. How many times did we say over the last preceding years? 90% of Americans had no idea any of this was happening.”
“So this is a direct US authorized coup to try and restore some sort of the monarchy. We'll see if it does ever get there.”
“If you continue bombing them you'll generate patriotic sentiments that they can challenge. So maybe the US is indifferent to that. Maybe, you know, they're not trying to engineer a new Iran, so they don't care. But, you know, that would strengthen the Iranian government.”
“And you know, it's really a nation that was out of control and they would have used it on us if we let them. If we waited any longer.”
“Iran has been retaliating against US and Israeli strikes by attacking its neighbors in the Gulf with ballistic missiles and drones.”
“There's 94 reactors in the country and they consume 50 million pounds of uranium per year. And in 2024, the country only produced 677,000. So under 2% of requirements.”
“Israel in particular, but the US also is continuing to target the leadership cadre of the country. Both the United States and Israel continue to work their way down through the political leadership.”
“the biggest implications of what is happening in Iran is that u you know I think North Korea uh the North Korean leadership is probably very frightened by the impressive capabilities that the United States has demonstrated the ISR capabilities intelligence capabilities and precision strike capabilities and that's essentially decapit decapitation operation.”
“The fact that the US and Israel struck 2,000 targets in 48 hours that effectively removed Iran's ability to launch its counterattack.”
“It's Saturday and perfect protesting weather throughout most of the United States and Western Europe. So that's probably going to be on the menu for the next few days as air strikes continue.”
“the military strategy of the United States at this point is very tightly nested to a balance of power approach, because it’s fundamentally defensive.”
“And in Iraq, the US says fighters loyal to Sulammani killed more than 600 American troops during the Iraq war.”
“The United States and Israel have launched airstrikes on the country. The United States and Israel began a large scale bombing campaign that is targeting a wide range of military and command assets, as well as nuclear and ballistic missile facilities in Iran.”
“If it's just about the nuclear, if it's just about the ballistic missiles, why is the United States and Israel knocking out all of Iran's top leadership, including the supreme leader? I think this goes well beyond goals that would just be limited ... what would've been expected to be achieved through a limited strike.”
“And that is a major distinction from the 2003 Iraq war. So while we have significant air power, naval power, there's no indication that this will be a ground invasion, which is raising questions about the whole regime change goal.”
“Joint American and Israeli strikes on Iran are expanding into a broader regional fight. The entire periphery is now on the verge of a multi-theater war unlike anything seen in the conflict so far.”
“The US has assembled its largest buildup of air and naval assets in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Naval forces are operating in both the eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Sea, alongside combat aircraft deployed across regional bases.”
“US negotiators offered to lift crippling sanctions on Iran and even provide nuclear fuel to Iran at no cost to support a civil nuclear power program. Yet in response, Iran would have to forfeit their enrichment capacity once and for all. But Iran rejected. They accepted none of these generous and unprecedented offers by the United States.”
“Over the weekend, the United States and Israel launched joint strikes against Iran, decapitating regime leadership, including the Supreme Leader, and hitting a wide array of targets across Iran.”
“So, if you look at Iran posing a threat to the United States, the answer is clearly yes. This is a terrorist regime with proxy networks all over the world who has attempted to assassinate the president to carry out terrorist attacks in the US. They've engaged on cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the US.”
“Over the last few days, the US and Israel have started to bombard Iranian targets in the northwest with growing frequency, softening the areas where Kurdish forces would be expected to advance.”
“The United States and Israel has announced uh a war uh massive military strikes uh by the United States and Israel intended to end Iran's nuclear program, their ballistic missile capabilities um and uh critically uh an effort to bring about regime change with the leadership of the country.”
“However, if the United States anticipates that all of that will happen later, it could intervene and launch a preventive war in the present. After all, fighting today when the balance of power is advantageous, even if it will come at a cost to you, may be better than whatever you could hope to extract out of a negotiated settlement with Iran in the future.”
“So, to condense this argument into a sentence, Iran building those weapons creates a bargaining problem in the future that the United States does not want to deal with. And that was one of the key motivations for Trump to pull the trigger.”
“The United States and Israel has announced uh a war uh massive military strikes uh by the United States and Israel intended to end Iran's nuclear program, their ballistic missile capabilities. Um and uh critically uh an effort to bring about regime change with the leadership of the country including the supreme leader directly targeted by military strikes.”
“Somewhere in the Pentagon, some team has calculated the minimum stockpile quantities that the United States absolutely, positively cannot drop below in Iran. If all the regime does is survive until that point, then Iran effectively wins by default.”
“Somewhere in the Pentagon, some team has calculated the minimum stockpile quantities that the United States absolutely, positively cannot drop below in Iran. If all the regime does is survive until that point, then Iran effectively wins by default.”
“In the same period, US tourists have fallen by 74%. Largely due to the bans imposed by Trump during his first term.”
“The United States, this time, along with Israel, has massacred the head of the regime... The primary objective was to take out the supreme leader himself, Ayatollah Kamei, the highest political, ideological, and religious authority in the Shiite world.”
“The US is going to be hardressed to do escorts. They just are. They don't have the assets and the resources to do it.”
“The United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
“A big reason why the United States government is putting tariffs on China rather than just generating tariff revenue is to get US businesses out of China as a way to hurt China. By getting US businesses out of China, that hurts their economy, makes them grow slower.”
“On the morning of February 28th, America and Israel launched another war on Iran. This one is bigger and more serious than those we saw last year.”
“the Kali odds right now on Miguel Diaz Canal leaving office before May are now upwards of 50% before September 71%.”
“So to equate America in 2026 with Nazi Germany is an act of extreme moral blindness, of course.”
“In the pantheon of risky commando operations by the United States, this would rank just about number one.”
“the fact that the US nuclear umbrella, for example, is not enough of a security guarantee and that in order to truly counter a nuclear state like North Korea, that they have to also develop their own nuclear weapons.”
“The cut in US funding in early 2025 has had a very large impact - many NGOs were involved in processing individuals and assessing cases.”
“Since 2019, the US has spent over one billion dollars on supporting the SDF - the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.”
“I think if BB has to choose what's best for Israel or America, guess what he's going to choose? 10 out of 10 times obviously it's going to be Israel.”
“reflects the history of 100 years of these air campaigns where not a single time has it worked for just an air campaign to successfully effectuate regime change”
“one of the goals has to be reopening the street of Hormuz, you are not going to be able to accomplish that through air power alone.”
“They're saying US has burned through years of munitions since the start of the Iran war.”
“they're not going to accept the ceasefire like they did in the so-called 12-day war in June, which by the way, US and Israel asked for, not Iran.”
“Uh and it was all preventable. That's the craziest part about it. Literally all preventable.”
“the US put out a statement yesterday saying that they are designating the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a specially designated global terrorist group which they have not done to the RSF.”
“We're still in the middle of this war on Iran by the US and Israel.”
“It will continue to pose a threat to the US, it will continue to horrifically oppress its own people.”
“I mean, with Ukraine, it's like that war only continues because we continue to arm it.”
“They were exempt from the Kyoto Protocol, in particular from intense lobbying from the US.”
“The administration is reportedly weighing Congress to approve an additional $50 billion in funding for these operations.”
“Israel killed the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Ham in an air strike that was with US intelligence helped that.”
“We we used to be at 3.57 birth rate in 1950. We're now at 1.58.”
“So I think the administration is looking to capitalise that as a way to anchor those business activities in the US, but also as a way to kind of establish itself as a leader in this space alongside other emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.”
“We are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers. We are going to destroy their capability to make these missiles and these launchers.”
“We've had three major terrorist attacks in the United States since this war began and they've all been from other groups or other causes.”
“And just the United States alone claims that it attacked 3,000 targets in the first seven days of the conflict alone.”
“This two-party system doesn't seem to be working anymore.”
“But if all of a sudden NATO is led by a nation that is predatory when it comes to the Europeans on issues of resources and territory and ports in the Arctic, then all of a sudden all of the math that they have relied upon for decades has gone out the window and they need to consider new options.”
“But that there's one plate in that tent that's bigger than all the other put together and that's the USChina relationship... that's where the relationship that matters more than any other in the world... is at hand.”
“I think America's interceptor stocks are just insufficient to cope with long protracted conflicts.”
“A better solution is for the U.S. Government to assume the risk of ships passing through the Strait by offering insurance.”
“A better solution is for the U.S. Government to assume the risk of ships passing through the Strait by offering insurance.”
“If Lend-Lease passed, it would mean that America was no longer neutral. I mean, there could be no pretense of neutrality.”
“So they are also kind of outsourcing foreign policy to others and they've been outsourcing it to the United States.”
“One is Israel because it has unleashed American might on Iran rather while it has shifted its own might or a substantial part of it to.”
“the repeated salvos of precisiong guided munitions or PGMs and interceptors have put a strain on US and Israeli stores of some of these munitions.”
“What are the minimum conditions that the US and Israel are looking to achieve here? Iran can't be a threat once this war ends.”
“The effective siege the US has implemented since January is really starting to bite.”
“Washington's bet is that conditions like these will eventually produce one of two outcomes. Either the regime negotiates its own exit or the Cuban people force one.”
“If America continues to behave erratically, its grip on the global financial system will eventually slip”
“Last year in August, the US imposed a 30% tariff on South African goods.”
“The United States demanded when we were negotiating the nuclear deal that India sees any kind of defense cooperation with Iran and more importantly not buy any oil from Iran. They gave us a waiver for some time and eventually they forced us to stop buying all our oil from Iran.”
“Any company that engages in that kind of cooperation will be subject to secondary US sanctions and it is extremely difficult for our companies to visualize the possibility of losing access to the global financial market or the US financial market.”
“So first the US allies have rebuffed Trump's request for support in the straight of Hormuz.”
“New Zealand's argument would be and the one that I'm car the pitch I'm making to Americans uh that I meet is that New Zealand is absolutely helping make the United States more secure.”
“If we didn't send the B2 bombers in, they would have had it uh seven months ago.”
“Militarily, we've, as far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated Iran. I guess they can have a little bit of fight back, but not much. Not much. We've taken out their air forces. You know, we've taken out their navy. We've taken out their air defense.”
“Donald Trump said US attacks had demolished most of Iran's main oil hub of Khark Island.”
“One of your advisors, David Sachs, said the other week that the US should quote declare victory and get out of the Iran war.”
“They had thousands of missiles, most of which we've terminated... We've knocked out most of those factories.”
“Axios reporting direct communication between Iran and the U.S. citing unnamed U.S. official saying Iran's foreign minister has contacted U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.”
“While there are people in the United States who legally do business with Cuba, Washington's trade embargo restricts many companies from doing authorized business there.”
“it would rather not get involved, sir... but they said we'd rather not get involved.”
“The United States and the Israeli military keep saying that they have been able to decimate, I think is one of the words that they use, decimate Iran's capability of launching missiles and rockets into this country.”
“Both the United States and Israeli intelligence have now officially concluded that the Iran war will not lead to regime change.”
“the administration contends this operation was necessary to cut Iran down before we got to the point where they could no longer be cut down at all.”
“Something our fair weather friends in NATO refused to accept... they don't want to help us.”
“And that's the reason why the US lifted sanctions on Russia to allow Russia to export its oil”
“there have been yet more US and Israeli attacks across Iran today. There have been huge explosions from the north side of Tehran.”
“That's exactly the kind of shock markets started to witness when the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28th.”
“Yesterday it announced that the US would be uh issuing a 30-day waiver for all countries to buy oil from Russian ships that were already at sea.”
“MAJOR A OPERATES THE SYSTEM, WHICH WAS MADE IN PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE US AND ISRAEL.”
“HAS THE UNITED STATES GIVEN YOU ANY ASSURANCES THAT ISRAEL WILL NOT TARGET THE AIRPORT? THEY GAVE US ASSURANCES.”
“WASHINGTON'S TRADE EMBARGO RESTRICTS MANY COMPANIES FROM DOING BUSINESS THERE.”
“It is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
“THE U.S. HAS SUNK 60, 100 SHIPS. TAKEN OUT THE BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEMS.”
“VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE OUT THE NUCLEAR THREAT FROM IRAN, AND WE HAVE DONE THAT VERY STRONGLY, VERY POWERFULLY”
“Since the US and Israel launched its war on Iran last month, the regime there has responded by attacking ships trying to cross the Straight of Hormuz.”
“One Patriot interceptor costs $4 million.”
“Reports suggest all three have been deployed as part of Operation Epic Fury.”
“Our largest suppliers of gas are Norway via pipeline and the US via LNG.”
“I think the the UK should have allowed its bases to be used by the United States from the outset.”
“We are here to celebrate the fact that Ali Kam was killed by American bombing.”
“Washington's 30-day waiver is like a band-aid on a gunshot wound.”
“The conflict began after US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28th.”
“The US and Israel launched this war to topple the Iranian regime. That was one of the main objectives on day one.”
“the US, frankly, only has the munitions in place to maintain this level of bombing for maybe another week. Um so the pace uh of of the strikes is going to slow significantly”