MSN: Trump administration estimates Iran war cost at over $11 billion in six days, source says.
AP/Reuters: Pentagon says first week of Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion.
As a rule of thumb, when I hear the government (fed, state, local) giving us a cost estimate; I immediately double the amount. A bit later I triple it.
"PRINT THAT FIAT!"
"Don't forget the usury!"
RT: Oil for over $100 a barrel ‘very small price to pay’ for Iran war – Trump.
The US president has attempted to quell fears that the military operation he launched will exacerbate the global energy crisis.
Talking points out and spread by every Western MSM Jew-controlled media.
But - but...The Orange Shitgibbon says U.S. oil companies are falling over each other vying for Venezuelan oil.
RT: US oil companies going to Venezuela – Trump.
US President Donald Trump has said that American oil companies are going to Venezuela in light of the South American country’s latest push to incentivize foreign investment in its energy sector.
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[No, U.S. oil co's aren't clamoring to obtain Venezeulan oil. - DD] Exxon CEO Darren Woods has poured cold water on the idea, saying that the South American country is “uninvestable,” given the “commercial constructs and frameworks in place” there at present. He added that “durable investment protections” are the prerequisite to any long-term involvement.
RT: Why American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’.
Exxon boss Darren Woods described Venezuela as “uninvestable.” Woods said: “We have a very long history in Venezuela… We’ve had our assets seized there twice. You can imagine to re‑enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here and what is currently the state.” He added: “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s uninvestable. And so significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections, and there has to be a change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country.”
The Exxon CEO’s comments were echoed by Conoco’s boss, Ryan Lance, who said: “We need to be also thinking about even restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system, including PDVSA.”
What that means is that Venezuela is far from under US control.
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From the viewpoint of Big Oil, it’s not mission accomplished. Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’, which is the capitalist way of saying, there was no regime change to give the oil companies what they want – total control over Venezuela’s hydrocarbon wealth.
Someone/Some groups made a lot of money on those wars. A wild guess tells me it wasn't the majority of taxpayers.
RT: US will ‘make a ton of money’ from Iran war – senator.
Lindsey Graham has described the ongoing conflict in the Middle East as “a good investment”
To quote Sporanos' character Paulie Walnuts regarding Graham, "[he's] a wormy co᧑ksucker."
Of course if you're rah-rah bomb Iran pom-pom girls, when not long ago Graham was on your sh/t list because of his commitment for "everything for Ukraine/Zelensky", it's amusing to see you pivot so damned fast. TF is wrong with you?
Ofer Cassif tells RT the war is driven by personal and political agendas, not real threats.[.]RT: Israel and the US say that the war was needed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and to stop the threat of their ballistic missiles. How grounded are these claims?Cassif: It’s important to remember that last June, after the first aggression against Iran, Netanyahu declared the following: “We achieved a historic victory. We removed the nuclear missile threat. We eliminated Iran’s nuclear project and its missile industry.”So he lied then, and he’s lying now about both the nuclear weapons and the threat of the missiles.
Can we all agree this was never about, "Israel has a right to defend itself?"
Paul Craig Roberts: Netanyahu and Trump: the New Hitler-Mussolini Pact.
Three American Military dead. Others severely injured. Jews laugh at how the U.S. is so easily roped in to doing Israel's dirty Work.Trump’s claims against Iran are a packet of lies. They are trump’s excuses for complying with Netanyahu’s demand that Trump take the United States to war against Iran for the sake of Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel.
This is despicable behavior for anyone, especially for a president of the United States.
Americans always fall for patriotic propaganda, and the gullibility and insouciance of the American population is what Netanyahu and Trump are relying on to insure misperception [sic] of illegal aggression as humanitarian work blessed by God.
RT: Why are Americans killing and dying for Israel, again?
The US doesn’t benefit from a war with Iran in any way, but you know who does?
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With ‘highlights’ including apartheid, ethnic cleansing, unlawful detention, torture, sexual violence, and genocide, Israel has such an extensive and constantly growing record of, literally, every crime under international law, including human-rights and humanitarian law (or the law of armed conflict), that one more or less hardly seems to matter anymore. This state is a monster, and monsters will monster as long as they can.
The United Nations charter allows the use of military force in only two circumstances – with authorization of the UN security council, or as self-defense from an actual or imminent armed attack. Neither was present.
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[,,,] Trump spoke of Iran’s “imminent threat”, but there is no evidence to support it. He recited a litany of past attacks that he attributed to Iran, but none of them is ongoing or imminent. At best Trump sought to prevent future harm – Netanyahu used the term “pre-emptive” – but prevention is no justification for war because it would open Pandora’s box to countless armed conflicts.
RT: US military suffered 200 casualties in retaliatory strikes.
The Independent: 3 US troops killed and 5 are seriously wounded during Iran attacks.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, announced the deaths in a post on X but did not say when and where they occurred. The statement said “several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions” and were going to return to duty.
RT: Israeli strike on Iranian school kills over 100 children – media (GRAPHIC VIDEOS).
Over 100 students have been killed and dozens injured in an Israeli airstrike on a girls’ primary school in the city of Minab, in southern Iran[.]
Three American Military dead. Others severely injured. Hundreds of children and civilians dead. Jews laugh at how the U.S. is so easily duped into doing Israel's Dirty Work. Face it, if it weren't for DECADES of American support, Israel would've been wiped of the map years ago.
New Israeli documents have emerged confirming that Zionist militias used massacres, rapes, and expulsions to ethnically cleanse some 800,000 Palestinians to create the state of Israel in 1948.
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“One commander ordered the sapper to put two old Arab women into a certain house, and to blow it up with them inside. Another soldier boasted that he had raped an Arab woman and then shot her. One woman who was holding a newborn baby worked as a cleaner. She worked for a day or two, and in the end, they shot her and her baby.”
No other country could get away with the deceptive, terrorist shit Israel has done over decades and continues to do.
Does this all end with Iran? Don't be silly, NO it doesn't. Next up? Satanyahu eyes Turkey as his next victim for a genocide and land grab.
Al Jazeera: Turkish ‘threat’ talked up in Israel.
With the likelihood increasing of a United States attack on Iran, Israeli politicians are already turning their attention to another regional rival: Turkiye.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is expected to run and do well in the country’s elections this year, was the latest prominent politician to declare Turkiye a threat to Israel.
Don't be fooled by what you hear and read from MSM and social media claiming, "thousands of Iranians around the globe are celebrating the strikes on Iran."
The Cradle: Iranians flood streets in mourning as Tehran confirms assassination of supreme leader.
Video footage showed millions of people on the streets of the capital and other cities, waving Iranian flags and mourning the leader’s death.
Below: From 2025 - THOUSANDS of Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest in NYC and Tel Aviv against conscription and serving in the Israeli military. If they're unwilling to defend their own country, why the hell should any other country risk the lives of their military, especially the U.S.?
He doesn't need us? I don't see him declining our military assistance, military hardware or returning the money he's taking from us.
Now, thanks to OrangeJewlius, sleeper cells in the U.S. may decide to wreak havoc on America for getting involved in something we have ZERO at stake in:
Islam isn't the problem.
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.[.]The Capitol emptied out on Thursday, a full day before the midnight Friday deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers who were deadlocked over new restrictions on immigration officers jetted off to Munich for a security conference or headed home for a weeklong recess, seemingly unconcerned with the looming closure. It was a jarring change from the past, when lawmakers were reluctant to seem like they were giving up for even a moment before time ran out for a deal.
"We can't do our job, we can't agree to anything (except when it's giving away U.S. money to Ukraine and Israel), so we're taking a week long recess."
Put your profession in their place: "I can't to my job so I'm going to take a week's long recess and still get paid." How long would your employer tolerate this?
Congress is worthless.
President Trump on Monday announced he is dispatching his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota -- bypassing the normal chain of command -- where Noem and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino have been overseeing ICE operations.
Factually: Did Tom Homan really take a $50,000 bribe?
Bottom line: multiple reputable outlets report an undercover FBI sting in which Homan was recorded taking $50,000 and allegedly promising to help win government contracts; Homan denies wrongdoing, no charges were filed, and the investigation was closed [by the DOJ] amid disputed explanations about evidentiary doubts and possible political intervention.
Newsweek: Donald Trump Receives His Worst Ever Approval Rating.
[...] new polling from the American Research Group (ARG) [...] finds Trump at 35 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval, yielding a net approval of –28 points—his worst recorded by ARG since the Republican's return to office.
Recently it's been ICE in Minnesota as Top Headline. Give this the usual MSM attention span and focus until another event occurs staged distraction, keeping attention off Israel’s daily ceasefire violations.
Times Now: Who Is A Domestic Terrorist? Kristi Noem Accuses Alex Pretti After Fatal Minneapolis Shooting.
⏫ Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said so.
⏫ White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller (Jewish) called him, "An assassin."
⏫ Miller retweets DHS that Pretti violently resisted arrest and had no ID.
And IYKYK, I did; didn't have to confirm it but FYI:
⏫ Because why would an Italian wear that sweatshirt?
"Foreign interests...using agitators,"...well, that could be anybody. Probably Puuuuuuuuuuutin and Russia.
One less Domestic Terrorist is a good thing, right?
Donald Trump granted clemency to Rep. Steve Womack's son on Thursday, Jan. 15.The president commuted James Phillip Womack's eight-year federal prison sentence for distributing methamphetamine.President Donald Trump has granted clemency to a Republican congressman's son, who was behind bars for distributing methamphetamine.Trump, 79, officially commuted the federal sentence of James Phillip Womack, the son of Rep. Steve Womack, on Thursday, Jan. 15, according to the Office of the Pardon Attorney. An official Executive Grant of Clemency issued by the U.S. Department of Justice formally announced the commutation of the Arkansas congressman’s son.[.]The congressman’s son was sentenced in federal court in May 2024 to a $1,900 fine and eight years in prison for distributing more than five grams of methamphetamine, according to Office of the Pardon Attorney records.[.]Federal prosecutors indicted James in April 2023, according to court documents viewed by PEOPLE. Outside of distributing more than five grams of methamphetamine, the indictment also charged him with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. [ ANOTHER FELON WITH A GUN? How did he obtain it? We "need more common sense gun lasw!" 🤣 - DD ]James has a history of arrests dating back to 2007, KTHV reported, citing court documents.[.]He was arrested in 2018 on more than 10 charges, including multiple related to drugs and firearms, and later entered a plea agreement in the case, according to KTHV and KNWA. He was sentenced in state court to nine years behind bars for multiple felony charges and released early in 2020, but was later arrested again, according to KNWA.
KNEWZ: Trump pardons congressman's meth-dealing son.
"I thought Trump was against drug use, you know, since that was his excuse for Venezuela," someone else wrote on the newspaper's post.
Another commenter noted that the senior Womack may no longer be a free man himself, saying, "Well, Womack's an owned man now."
Womack has been a staunch ally of Trump, actively advancing the "America First" legislative agenda through his leadership on the House Appropriations Committee.
Trump pardons former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, convicted of drug trafficking.
Trump arrests Maduro for drug trafficking.
Trump bombs alleged Venezuelan "drug boats."
Trump says ICE arresting known drug dealers.
Trump pardons Meth-dealing, repeat-offender, felon gun-possessing son of RINO Congressman.
Ooooooh...Womack...AIPAC beneficiary.
All hail 'Da Orange Kang!
I can't believe I agree with liberal NYT columnist Thomas Friedman. NYT: To Trump, on Venezuela: You Break It, You Own It.
Pam Bondi about a year ago: "Epstein Files on my desk, ready to release. "
Also Pam Bondi (December 2025): "We have to redact the names of the victims ped0-Saturians before releasing the Epstein files."
Maduro and the ICE shooting sure knocked the focus off Australia's Bondi Beach shooting.
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