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erronis

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4. It's no longer that nation-states that are the centers of terror - they are transnational

Reply to Jack Valentino (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 09:57 PM

18 hrs ago

The oligarchs/plutocrats are controlling the weapons of war and terror. Bibi is responding to his supporters as well as his potential executors. Same as trump.

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The Iran War has taken an unpredictable turn. [View all] kentuck 19 hrs ago OP

"If he cannot control the leader of Israel"... regnaD kciN 19 hrs ago #1

It is safe to assume. Israel and Russia and probably China and others have trump's balls in a vise. erronis 18 hrs ago #3

If Israel is "uncontrollable", then we better go in and TAKE AWAY their NUCLEAR WEAPONS !!!! Jack Valentino 18 hrs ago #2

It's no longer that nation-states that are the centers of terror - they are transnational erronis 18 hrs ago #4

I'd say killing upwards of 30,000 of their own citizens in the streets in under a month might count as "genocide" EX500rider 18 hrs ago #5

Good point, although I question your cited number--- but regardless of the number, Jack Valentino 18 hrs ago #6

Show me where 30,000 Iranians were killed besides from Israeli propaganda. PufPuf23 16 hrs ago #10

Let me guess, Hamas & Hezbollah casualty figures totally believable, Iranian deaths reported by the Guardian... EX500rider 5 hrs ago #13

Why is it unpredictable? gab13by13 18 hrs ago #7

I think Kentuck might have been tongue in cheek with moniss 17 hrs ago #8

I don't think Trump is predictable... kentuck 17 hrs ago #9

Yea, predicatbly FUBAR.nt Prairie_Seagull 16 hrs ago #12

I'm predicting that swong19104 16 hrs ago #11

Renamed MoM - Memorandum of Misunderstanding ... (nt) jimmy the one 4 hrs ago #14