Iran thread

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from quora, by Franklin Veaux

Q: Is Quora currently under assault by Russian propagandists?

Kind of. I mean, yes, Russian propagandists are trying to assault Quora, but rather surprisingly, it’s been a lot less effective on Quora than on other social media.

As I write this, in March 2026, the narrative Russian trolls are pushing online is “as a Democrat, I stand behind President Trump and the war on Iran, do you?” I’m seeing this everywhere: Facebook, the social media hate site formerly known as Twitter, Threads, indie political forums, Quora, you name it.

Basically everywhere I go online, I see people saying “I’m a liberal Democrat but I think Trump’s war on Iran is wonderful, don’t you?”, often with word for word identical posts across different profiles on different sites.

It’s obvious why:

The attacks on Iran have caused oil prices to skyrocket, which has given Russia an enormous, unexpected influx of cash.
The US is depleting its supply of missiles, cruise missiles, and defensive weapons at a prodigious rate.
It’s costing the US staggering amounts of money.
It’s fracturing US society.
It’s damaging US allies in the Middle East.
It’s distracting people from the war in Ukraine.
It’s depleting stores of weapons that might otherwise be bought from the US by Europe and sent to Ukraine.
It’s providing Russia and China with an absolute treasure trove of information about American capabilities, performance, tactics, and strategies. Russia and China are getting vast quantities of high-quality, real-world data on how our stealth technology works in real-life combat, how we use it, how we deploy it, how well it performs, and how we support it logistically. That information is incredibly valuable to them. Combat tactics and strategies that were highly classified are being broadcast live to the entire world.
Our attacks on Iran are the best thing that could ever happen to China and Russia right now. We are pouring money into Russia, harming our own economy, giving away reams of data about our most modern weapons and combat capabilities, distracting attention from Ukraine, depriving Ukraine of arms, and shooting ourselves in the foot, with no clear objective.

So yeah, Russian trolls are all over the internetverse cheering it on.

It’s not as effective on Quora as it is on sites like Facebook and Xitter, and that honestly kinda surprises me.

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Caryn Ann Harlos@carynannharlos
Jimmy Kimmel: “The only war Trump had an exit plan for was Vietnam.”

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ur attacks on Iran are the best thing that could ever happen to China and Russia right now. We are pouring money into Russia, harming our own economy, giving away reams of data about our most modern weapons and combat capabilities, distracting attention from Ukraine, depriving Ukraine of arms, and shooting ourselves in the foot, with no clear objective.

So much winning. Gonna get tired of all the winning.

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Carrick Ryan Facebook post
Former Federal Agent come Political Commentator and Blogger. BA (Media) MA (International Relations)

To underscores how much of a strategic disaster this war has been for the USA, we need only look at the countless experts who strongly opposed this war being begun, but now suggest that Trump has no other option but to launch a ground invasion on Iranian territory.

The “decapitation strike” failed to induce the collapse of the regime, just as any expert on Iran would have warned.

Facing a genuine existential threat, the regime is now deploying the weapon that every analyst predicted they would. I wrote two separate articles last year warning of the implications of Iran preventing commercial shipping from moving through the Hormuz Strait. This was not a surprise move.

…and yet, almost three weeks into this campaign, and Trump still does not have sufficient naval resources in the region to secure the Strait to the degree needed by shipping companies and their insurers.

Unless the US and Israeli air strikes can somehow inflict enough damage upon the regime to prevent even low capacity attacks like mines, drones, or rockets… then Trump may have no choice but to commit ground forces in the hope of securing enough territory along Iran’s coast to make attacks on shipping impossible.

If Trump doesn’t do this, the geopolitical consequences are seismic.

If he is forced to sign a ceasefire with Iran before fully securing the Strait, it may be remembered by history as the formal declaration of the end of US global hegemony.

Only months after being forced into a humiliating retreat from his all out trade war with China, Trump will be now be effectively demonstrating that the US military is incapable of ensuring freedom of navigation through one of the most geostrategically important trade routes on the planet.

It was never clear if the US Navy had the ability to keep the Strait open if required, and so long as that ambiguity remained, Iran’s greatest weapon was a hypothetical scenario… an untested threat. Now it’s a weapon the US has been, so far, unable to neutralise.

Think about how this will impact the calculations of Gulf States when they choose which superpower they pledge their allegiance to.

Think about how this shapes China’s plans for Taiwan.

The concept of post-Cold War US hegemony was built upon the premise that they had the ability to subjugate any non-nuclear power, regardless where on the planet it lay. That image is now shattered. The President of the greatest military power the world has ever seen now forced to beg for mine sweepers from the same former friends he was threatening to invade only two months ago.

If the war ended today, Iran would prevail arguably stronger than it has ever been. It now has effective leverage over the global economy, especially if you include the ability of Iran’s proxy, the Houthis, to induce similar chaos in the Red Sea.

Whatever their advice was before the war, there will be many Generals and policy advisors now telling Trump that a large scale invasion of Iran is the only option to secure the Strait. For a man obsessed with his legacy and terrified of looking weak… it feels inevitable that this is exactly where we’re heading.

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I guess the billionaire donors panicked and demanded he rein it in.

Absolute chaos. The NYT reports total confusion in the White House. Trump is desperately begging for a way out of the war to save the markets. Now Türkiye, Egypt, and Pakistan are stepping in to mediate because Trump's disastrous war is threatening the entire global economy. pic.twitter.com/usFRm3b7RN

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) March 24, 2026

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🚨 The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst” who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. They're the same guy. pic.twitter.com/0dx7otlCc9

— UFO Hunter (@iamufohunter) April 1, 2026

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An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: “A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin.”

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One thing thats never present in capitalist-corporate war-coverage is the acknowledgement that ‘this is wrong because its mass murder.’

What we get instead is always the ‘its a strategic blunder and here’s why…’ stuff.

It would be ‘unseemly’ for anyone in the mass-media to notice ‘Hey, this is mass-murder.’

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wv wrote:

One thing thats never present in capitalist-corporate war-coverage is the acknowledgement that ‘this is wrong because its mass murder.’

What we get instead is always the ‘its a strategic blunder and here’s why…’ stuff.

It would be ‘unseemly’ for anyone in the mass-media to notice ‘Hey, this is mass-murder.’

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Agreed.

But it is also timely and important information that the military is itself divided on Iran.

Are they divided for the right reasons? Probably not.

But it is nevertheless another card in the deck when it comes to this issue.

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Released by the Iranian embassy in Bulgaria:

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https://fb.watch/GpzrKpGXvL/

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Retired US Army General Stanley McChrystal confirms Washington is completely trapped. He admits Iran's geographic advantage means they can effortlessly shut down the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon realizes a ground invasion is impossible, forcing Trump to beg for a settlement. pic.twitter.com/wESPRDUrAW

— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 19, 2026

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