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Questions & Help Mar 14, 2026 at 2:08 AM

US-owned tanker attacked near Iraq was hit by unmanned boats, early findings show

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https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-owned-tanker-attacked-near-iraq-was-hit-by-unmanned-boats-early-findings-show-2026-03-13/?taid=69b4c167f9dd4700017e0a42&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Meth_Useler Mar 14, 2026 +760
Who could've predicted this sort of thing? Everyone? Yes, I believe everyone saw this sort of thing coming.
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Guilty-Top-7 Mar 14, 2026 +262
Apparently Gen Caine warned orange clown 🤡 but he thought they’d give up before that happened. It’s what happens when you put a real estate businessman in charge of geopolitics.
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RedbarnRiver Mar 14, 2026 +153
*A failed real estate businessman
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Guilty-Top-7 Mar 14, 2026 +36
Screwing over other businesses to keep your profits rolling in.🤣 It’s just sad actually.
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JustHereForCookies17 Mar 14, 2026 +11
Call him what he is: a nepo baby.  He wouldn't be anyone without the money & influence from his dad that got him established. 
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PhabioRants Mar 14, 2026 +7
Do you mean to tell me that the guy who bankrupted a mob c***** overlooked the fact that indiscriminately bombing people causes them to grow angry with you?  I broke a bowl once and told a ridiculous lie to avoid taking responsibility for it that spiraled before I faced up to it. But at least I stopped short of undermining a democracy, dragging my country into a new forever war, and tarnishing its reputation on a global scale for all of history. 
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SimonPho3nix Mar 16, 2026 +1
[Casinosssss, plural.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-owned-several-atlantic-181258334.html)
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AllGarbage Mar 15, 2026 +1
*real estate heir It was an empire his dad built.
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supercali45 Mar 14, 2026 +36
he isn't even any sort of good businessman.. just a f****** conman that keeps avoiding jail
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TheTinRam Mar 14, 2026 +10
Gonna be a devils advocate here for a sec…. You just described a successful businessman
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jambokk Mar 14, 2026 +8
He's the most successful pedophile child trafficking criminal who has ever lived.
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Guilty-Top-7 Mar 14, 2026 +7
Cazy we live like this TBH
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maisaktong Mar 14, 2026 +12
In Trump’s view. everything is about money. He can’t comprehend that people are also willing to stand and fight for something else so long as they think it’s worth it.
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nestormakhnosghost Mar 14, 2026 +7
Yeah he knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
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kinglouie493 Mar 14, 2026 +12
Very generous with that description
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RedbarnRiver Mar 14, 2026 +5
Yeah, it’s doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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SavageCucmber Mar 14, 2026 +3
There are so many truthful things to label him as, and you choose real estate businessman? Try reality TV show host, or WWE hall of famer, or even child rapist.
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padizzledonk Mar 14, 2026 +5
>Apparently Gen Caine warned orange clown 🤡 but he thought they’d give up before that happened. It’s what happens when you put a real estate businessman in charge of geopolitics. The leaks out of the pentagon and this admin in the coming months about the scale of this failure are going to be devastating Everything is being done ad hoc in a scramble, from the reasoning for starting this shit to the objective to the tactical and strategic moves, its all being done on the fly Its a complete clusterfuck
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squeeze-my-lizard Mar 14, 2026 +3
*A serial child abuser
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laptopAccount2 Mar 15, 2026 +2
Trump doesn't understand that some people are ideologically motivated and can't be bought or coerced.
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jp_in_nj Mar 15, 2026 +2
Not that Caine wasn't covering his own ass by putting that in the press.
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v3ritas1989 Mar 14, 2026 -2
Never mind, you can still buy US Oil and LNG
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feedthebear Mar 14, 2026 +374
There's going to be issues for years and years over all this. You can't just kill an Ayatollah and think nothing bad is going to happen.
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Hodaka Mar 14, 2026 +160
Trump thinks you can simply swap out leaders like changing tires on a car. Iran is a religious theocracy ruled by religious leaders or officials who are supposedly divinely guided. Every level of government is based on religious authority. Trump is constantly comparing the situation in Iran to Venezuela, but they are nothing at all alike. In Iran, Trump has to destroy all levels of the existing government structure in order to implement any sort of change. Then he has to rebuild a new government, from scratch. He will probably need "partners" from other states in the region, and that will be a challenge - to put it mildly. Good luck with that.
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Nathann4288 Mar 14, 2026 +97
To be fair, there’s no way in hell Trump has any idea how to change a tire either.
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RedbarnRiver Mar 14, 2026 +34
And I’m not sure Iran really wants us selecting anyone; being that us along with the UK are the reason they have what they have right now. If we wouldn’t have meddled in the 50s and had the Shah put in to replace their duly elected government then we wouldn’t have gotten the Islamic Revolution…., but here we are now. Reaping the benefits I guess. Thanks BP.
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-jp- Mar 14, 2026 +36
We didn't even swap out leaders. We replaced the guy with his son, who now has a legitimate grudge against us. Nice going, Mango Mussolini.
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Aazadan Mar 14, 2026 +24
His son already had a grudge. While it used to be true that the Iranian people loved the US, because we were opposed to a government they hate, that is no longer true. Those people became the political moderate faction in Iran, and Trump wiped them out in his last term by abandoning the nuclear deal. Any that may have maintained power, are no longer moderate after the US attacked them recently with a policy to target civilians.
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Almainyny Mar 14, 2026 +12
Killing people’s children is a great way to ensure that everyone hates you. If that was his goal, then he accomplished it with flying colors.
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thefugue Mar 14, 2026 +7
That’s because he knows his own presidencies have been the result of monied interests.
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DGlen Mar 14, 2026 +4
Can we please swap leaders?
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EmpZurg_ Mar 14, 2026 +2
Exactly the type os government his swamp is trying to slowly introduce here.
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Glum_Question9053 Mar 14, 2026 +2
Swapping out CEOs changes corporations. must work for countries too
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Greyscale7950 Mar 14, 2026 +1
Didn't Kegsbreath say they weren't there to rebuild anything?
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KDR_11k Mar 14, 2026 +1
Maybe the US should try swapping tires then.
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Indercarnive Mar 15, 2026 +1
No he's a rapist and he thinks he can just force people to do whatever he wants and gets surprised when they hit back.
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ES_Legman Mar 14, 2026 +35
You can't go anywhere and kill the leader of a country and expect nothing will happen lol Imperialist America will face the consequences for years to come and that's fine because some people think murdering children is okay in the name of muh freedom
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prophishonal Mar 14, 2026 +18
They took Maduro and nothing happened. They thought every leader can go down the same way if their country dislikes them. What they don't understand is that Iran is not Venezuela.
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ES_Legman Mar 14, 2026 +26
The U.S. has been doing this for years either by direct action or supporting a coup. Mohammad Mosaddegh (Iran, 1953): The CIA helped orchestrate a coup to remove the democratically elected Prime Minister after he nationalized the oil industry, restoring power to the Shah. Jacobo Árbenz (Guatemala, 1954): The CIA (Operation PBSuccess) supported a military coup against the democratically elected president following land reforms that threatened U.S.-based United Fruit Company interests. Patrice Lumumba (Congo, 1960): The U.S. supported actions leading to the removal and eventual assassination of the first elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Juan Bosch (Dominican Republic, 1963): Overthrown after being elected in the country’s first democratic election in three decades. Salvador Allende (Chile, 1973): The Nixon administration actively worked to destabilize Allende's democratic government, culminating in a coup that installed dictator Augusto Pinochet. Manuel Noriega (Panama, 1989): Removed during the U.S. invasion of Panama (Operation Just Cause). Saddam Hussein (Iraq, 2003): Ousted by a U.S.-led invasion. Edit: to all people going "you missed X" yes, the list is not full. Please keep adding, to reinforce the point.
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anythingall Mar 14, 2026 +8
Totally correct. A lot of the reason that so called illegals need to flee their home countries is because the US turned it to shit. So they caused what they hate. 
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leohat Mar 14, 2026 +2
Didn’t we have a hand in overthrowing Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines?
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KahuTheKiwi Mar 14, 2026 +2
No, in supporting him.
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jeffersonairmattress Mar 14, 2026 +1
Please remember Victor Jara.
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prophishonal Mar 14, 2026 -5
Eh I think that a theocratic regime is inherently different from any of those that you described.
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Cosmic_Waffle_Stomp Mar 14, 2026 +30
Can we give them the orange turd and his cabinet and see if everyone can chill the f out for a while?
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jazzhandler Mar 14, 2026 +7
Hammurabi would abide. And we could do worse than to name the process after you.
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Cosmic_Waffle_Stomp Mar 14, 2026 +3
I’d be honored to have it named after me.
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pattydickens Mar 14, 2026 +9
Asymmetrical warfare relies on a long term memory. Our short attention span is a programmed feature that we are privileged to have. What happens when 2/3s of the global population remembers the time that your country bombed one of their family members?
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Frontdackel Mar 14, 2026 +7
And even more so: What happens if those 2/3 realise that the US military isn't as strong as it was before. It seems like we are witnessing what happens if the initial shock and awe phase isn't immediately followed by boots on the ground. It ran out of steam, and the US and it's allies are seen as vulnerable for the first time in decades. Everybody was gleaming about how Russia was a paper tiger, only having a strong military on paper. Seems like the US isn't off much better.
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Itchy-Ad5078 Mar 14, 2026 +4
Russia and the U.S. have (or had) great militaries for fighting mid-20th-century wars. They still haven’t figured out a reliable way to deal with guerrilla warfare. Now imagine that times have changed again, and massive tank armies or air supremacy don’t mean much when the other side can use drones and missile warfare to asymmetrically strike where it hurts.
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APeacefulWarrior Mar 14, 2026 +3
Especially when the new Ayatollah lost basically his entire family to the US strikes. That man is going to have a lifelong vendetta, and with just cause.
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Paavo_Nurmi Mar 14, 2026 +2
It really feels like we are heading into the 1970s. Energy Crisis, stagflation, Iran hostage crisis.
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Aazadan Mar 14, 2026 +1
Carter built homes for the poor well into old age. Trump is a failed real estate salesman. Similar presidencies though. Except Carter didn't cause his.
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Paavo_Nurmi Mar 14, 2026 +4
Agree, and Carter overall had very good foreign policy but it gets overshadowed by hostage crisis.
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ArchmageXin Mar 14, 2026 +3
And a bunch of "anti-communists" he supported in SEA that left a whole lot of dead civilians.
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wiseoldfox Mar 14, 2026 +2
We are a young country that doesn't understand centuries long hatred between individual nation states that don't die easily.
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Lirael_Gold Mar 14, 2026 +2
Tbf there's at least a thousand Ayatollahs, but yes killing that specific guy is probably going to to ruffle some feathers.
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Future-Raisin3781 Mar 14, 2026 +2
And it isn't just that he killed the Ayatollah. The *new* Ayatollah is his son. Not only did we kill his father, but also his wife, his sister, her husband and their child. This guy's opening position was "death to America" and we just murdered most of his family. This will never end.
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Cloudhiddentao Mar 14, 2026 +1
What about a president?
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snakeayez Mar 14, 2026
Iran has been around for centuries. We've been for 2.5 centuries. Yet we know better about their government
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PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS Mar 14, 2026 +55
Taking notes from the Ukrainians.
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OutlawSundown Mar 14, 2026 +37
Yeah they ran the Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea into the furthest ports from the Ukrainians they could get to. The Trump admin lives so far up Russia’s ass they’re brushing off the innovations Ukraine has made with drone warfare. The idea of trying to e***** ships through the strait is likely to lead to a disaster.
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Fuddamatic Mar 14, 2026 +129
I say Trump resigns as Prez, declares himself the new ayatollah. He can fly to Iran in his new 747, hand out new MIGA hats and the Iranians will give all the respect he deserves.
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WaffleHouseGladiator Mar 14, 2026 +33
Uh, I don't think we're allowed to say MIGA.
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Seastep Mar 14, 2026 +19
MIGA? Please.
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SpendHefty6066 Mar 14, 2026 +4
MIGA who? MIGA what?
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Defiant-Peace-493 Mar 14, 2026 +5
Take off every MiG!
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Burpese1 Mar 14, 2026 -3
What makes you think that?
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-Gramsci- Mar 14, 2026 +3
He gonna toss out some paper towel rolls?
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Moniguess2 Mar 14, 2026 +24
This confirms that they don’t even need port cities to get drones in the water. They just need some small flat ground to launch these cheaply made boats and bam, they can threaten the entire American naval presence.
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Easy_Kill Mar 14, 2026 +58
-Ukrainians offer to help US with drone defense -Trump says lolno we dont need your help -US ship popped by Ukrainian drone tactics. Who could have seen this coming!?!?
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wiseoldfox Mar 14, 2026 +28
Ukraine took out a significant chunk of the Black Sea Fleet without themselves owning a navy.
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Easy_Kill Mar 14, 2026 +12
Yeah. The videos were amazing.
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chillichampion Mar 14, 2026 +2
Ukraine should protect itself first. Their energy infrastructure is being blown to bits by Russian drones and missiles.
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colantor Mar 14, 2026 +12
Guys the water is safe as long as nobody attacks you
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stickybond009 Mar 14, 2026 +3
Melania will e***** the ships through the strait of Hormuz
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tomhalejr Mar 14, 2026 +41
If only the US had war gamed this... And, didn't fire the admiral the beat the US Navy using these exact tactics, with the known quantities of the Iranian armed forces...
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No-Novel-6145 Mar 14, 2026 +5
This a real thing? I’d like to read about it if you have a good source.
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Dracius Mar 14, 2026 +43
This is the only event I can think of that seems close: > In 2002, Marine Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper quit his role as opposing forces commander during the $250 million "Millennium Challenge" war game, which modeled a U.S.-Iran conflict. Van Riper, leading the "Red" force (Iran), used asymmetric tactics to "sink" 16 U.S. ships on day two. The Pentagon then forced a reset and scripted the game to guarantee a "Blue" (U.S.) victory, causing Van Riper to quit in protest. >* The Scenario: Representing Iran, Van Riper used low-tech methods (motorcycle messengers, signaling from minarets) to bypass high-tech surveillance. * The "Victory": His forces successfully overwhelmed the U.S. Navy fleet using speedboats and missiles, which caused the simulation to pause and reset. * The Resignation/Protest: Van Riper resigned as commander after his forces were constrained from acting freely and the exercise was heavily restricted to ensure a U.S. win, later describing it as a "rigged" effort that lacked real learning. * The Outcome: Despite his resignation, Van Riper stayed on as an adviser. He argued that the exercise failed to properly test the military, as reported in The Washington Post. But this guy was already retired by then, so I'm not sure who he's referring to.
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C-c-c-comboBreaker17 Mar 14, 2026 +4
I'm tired of people repeating this story without actually reading the details. The guy abused the rules of the war game and exploited glitches within the modeling program with things like "I'm using motorcycle couriers instead of radio so all my transmissions are instant and not detectible by electronic warfare" (something the simulation wasn't set up to handle so he essentially had a fleet of teleporting, instant communicating motorcycles) and outfitting Iranian ships with missiles and payloads literally heavier than the ships themselves. 
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Dracius Mar 14, 2026 +2
Interesting, I'd love to see your source on this, I couldn't find anything confirming what you're saying, and I wasn't about to read through the entire 770 page debrief. Here's my source for anyone who wants more details, and it explains the nuance behind the reset: https://warontherocks.com/2015/11/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy/
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thejohns781 Mar 16, 2026 +1
Yeah. The red team is pretty obviously Iraq. And in that case the red team really did fail, at least in the objectives of a war game. So you could say the second war game actually was more accurate
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Another_Slut_Dragon Mar 14, 2026 +10
Drones are the great equalizer. Why have a billion dollar war ship with a big bullseye on it when you can have a hundred men in a hundred backyard sheds building drones. It is impossible to protect all infrastructure. An enemy on the defensive with nothing to lose is the most dangerous enemy of them all. Especially when they have time on their side. Ukraine is mopping the floor with Russia and the world has been paying attention.
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Drewpig Mar 14, 2026 +8
I thought we were winning?? Or won already?? Where are the white flags and the Iranians welcoming us with open arms and lowering gas prices something something killing the ayatollah for israel.
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stickybond009 Mar 14, 2026 +2
They're first catering to the GCC, please await our turn.
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ihavenoidea12345678 Mar 14, 2026 +11
USA leader acts like Russia. USA gets treated like Russia.
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abitofreddit Mar 14, 2026 +13
The only country that needs immediate regime change begins and ends with the letter A.
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ViolentVideogames Mar 14, 2026 +16
Idk man, Angola’s government seems to be doing a decent job.
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No_Yoghurt2313 Mar 14, 2026 +10
What did Armenia do to you?
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LittleKitty235 Mar 14, 2026 +2
A genocide...oh WAIT NEVERMIND
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TemporaryInk Mar 14, 2026 +9
Australia be like “Why, mate?”
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DoctorGregoryFart Mar 14, 2026 +4
Psst. It starts with a U. As in USA. Or maybe a T? I don't think you count "the."
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telendria Mar 14, 2026 +5
Uganda in shambles.
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DoctorGregoryFart Mar 14, 2026 +2
*The* Uganda in shambles.*
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Ok-Following-7591 Mar 14, 2026 +4
It's like we're watching the most predictable, slow-motion geopolitical car crash. The consequences of that assassination were always going to play out exactly like this.
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Raaka-Kake Mar 14, 2026 +3
Somebody has been learning from the Russians invading Ukraine.
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NedixTV Mar 14, 2026 +2
Let me guess they are using starlink?
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LurkingWeirdo88 Mar 14, 2026 +2
Boots on ground will be required to at least secure Iranian coastline or abandon the whole thing completely.
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RadioRoyGBiv Mar 14, 2026 +1
Didn’t Kegsbreath just say at the presser yesterday that they didn’t used unmanned boats?
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caliboy559 Mar 14, 2026 +1
Y’all think iran forces are standing on a shore lines launching these unmanned vehicles?
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whoanellyzzz Mar 14, 2026 -15
they said today there was no evidence of unmanned boats being used so idk where this is coming from
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WatRedditHathWrought Mar 14, 2026 +8
Who is “they”?
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stickybond009 Mar 14, 2026 +5
Must be hegseth brothers
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brnccnt7 Mar 14, 2026 +3
Probably where he gets his intel
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sparticulator Mar 14, 2026 +3
[Reuters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters)
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