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Advantage Iran A month of bombing has achieved nothing. Will Donald Trump escalate, or talk?
The Economist ^ | Mar 26th 2026 | The Economist

Posted on 03/26/2026 9:13:36 AM PDT by Skwor

EVEN BY HIS chaotic standards, Donald Trump has just presided over an unusually wild week in his misguided war on Iran. The president had threatened imminent, punitive bombing of Iran’s civilian energy infrastructure. Though Iran didn’t quail, markets did. So a U-turn followed. Mr Trump said he had become aware of secret proposals for peace talks, and held off.

(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: declaringdefeat; democrats; economisseddotcrap; idiotswithpens; iran; media; nothingmeanswhat; tds; theeconomissed; undermining
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To: Skwor
I hold the advantage. Wait! Come back! I'll bite your legs off!
41 posted on 03/26/2026 10:45:21 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Skwor

Why post this?


42 posted on 03/26/2026 10:46:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn. .. )
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To: jerod

That might not work out exactly how you thinking it will—


43 posted on 03/26/2026 10:46:32 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Well one thing is for certain Economist, there is one less level of evil in the leadership in Iran. Only so many more of Donte’s hell and they will all be gone in time I guess.


44 posted on 03/26/2026 10:51:07 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town now!)
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To: central_va

I posted it because I predicted the LSM would do just this. I included the post where I stated how the LSM will now write articles on how Iran is winning.

I posted it to expose the LSM for what it is. Something many here (not you) need repeated.


45 posted on 03/26/2026 10:51:29 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Destroyer Sailor
The Economist is anti American and anti Trump. Do not believe what they publish.

Correct. I remember when The Economist was one of the finest publications from Britain. It told it like it was with no bias. Today it is just left wing propaganda.

46 posted on 03/26/2026 10:51:47 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: Skwor

If you follow the Promethian updates on YouTube you will know that this is the London/British elites trying to sabotage Trump because Trump is dismantling their obscene secret empire.


47 posted on 03/26/2026 11:11:36 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: SteelPSUGOP
Why publish it here.

If you can't believe The Economist, well then you're just smart.

48 posted on 03/26/2026 11:13:51 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Bobbyvotes

“Iran is no longer a serious threat to neighbors”

Well, they do have rowboats that they can use to attack big oil tankers. Or they can paddle out on rubber duckies.

The Economist probably thinks that’s a big threat. If you’re a bunch of quivering English scribblers afraid to stop Islamists in dinghies invading your nation, it’s understandable.


49 posted on 03/26/2026 11:17:30 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Skwor

I think the reason we haven’t won a war since WWII is that in WWII we were on the same side as the communists....


50 posted on 03/26/2026 11:34:17 AM PDT by Vesuvian (Trump: "We have eliminated childhood cancer!" Press: "Trump forces St. Jude's Hospital to close!")
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To: CodeToad

If normal people don’t easily understand your message, you are a poor communicator.


51 posted on 03/26/2026 11:35:32 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

Has done nothing? What world are they living on? Massive damage that has obliterated their ability to do any real harm to us has been done. They’re now just lobbing their leftovers at their neighbors out of spite. A few more weeks and this is a done deal. US has lost the patience and wisdom to understand the time tables of a real war. Not a good thing.


52 posted on 03/26/2026 11:52:53 AM PDT by Battlestar (Tired of transgenders, drug addicts, and mentally ill taking over our streets, schools, government)
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To: Skwor

The Economist has been in publication for decades and has achieved nothing as well.


53 posted on 03/26/2026 11:58:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Destroyer Sailor

It takes a special kind of stupid for the Economist to spew such truly pathetic nonsense. I used to enjoy the actual economic stuff but the mag has become a collection of leftist lunatics.


54 posted on 03/26/2026 12:14:48 PM PDT by Bayan
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To: Skwor
Their missile capacity is now 1/10 of what it was, almost all the original senior leadership is dead, and Trump's attempts at negotiating are fracturing the remaining regime.

The Economist is owned by China, and is generally known as the "voice of globalism." Anything Trump does to restore America such as tariffs and the immigration crackdown at home or chastening our enemies abroad is a "failure." LOL

55 posted on 03/26/2026 12:25:17 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: PGR88

Better yet tell them that if everyone sneaking across the border voted Republican that wall would be a hundred foot high and stretch from coast to coast.


56 posted on 03/26/2026 1:16:05 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Skwor

Mossad has bobby-trapped IRGC’s canned food supply. If the IRGC is eating canned food in caves instead of eating fresh food, they are afraid of being killed in the open.


57 posted on 03/26/2026 2:02:18 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Skwor

I stopped reading at “The Economist”.


58 posted on 03/26/2026 3:25:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Not all 2,000,000,000 muslims want to murder me. But 200,000,000 probably do.)
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To: Destroyer Sailor
Israel has eliminated all these Iranians 🥹
59 posted on 03/26/2026 3:31:05 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Skwor

Typical pure BS from the Ecommunist...


60 posted on 03/26/2026 5:11:46 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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