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"Hubris Generally Precedes Clusterf**k": Does It Smell Like Victory?
"Hubris Generally Precedes Clusterf**k": Does It Smell Like Victory?
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
The message seems to be something like the USA isn’t messing around with all those strike forces in the waters around Iran.
The Islamic Republic suddenly looks like Rock-and-Hard-Place-Land.
Everybody and his uncle are trying to figure out the calculus in play, World War Three or a happy ending?
You’re seeing the most significant US military build-up over there in memory.
Smells a little bit like first Gulf War, 1991 — minus all those allies we roped in then.
Mr. Trump (via...
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