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““Everything here feels inflated,” said Parker, who has been an architect for more than 35 years. “The net effect of this is to adversely impact what is the most important historic — the most identifiable historic — house in the entire United States. This is permanent, what it will do to the White House.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trumps-white-house-ballroom-too-010607626.html
Before the war, Trump’s Iran negotiators were unrealistically looking for an Iranian capitulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Ns6EbCplY
The US has nowhere near enough ships in the area to escort many ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOkuy3Tqv0
It’s not clear that the administration has a real strategic plan here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqOeWpNohM
The US military is awesome, but I’m skeptical it will achieve substantial war aims. Killing a lot of people and destroying a lot of equipment is a means to an end. It means very little if we don’t have a long-term major success. I’m skeptical the US and Israel will get there, but I hope they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxiMswJVBI4&t=2s
The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End | Plain English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqxqoW13s8
Why 90% of New Washing Machines Are Garbage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91SlaNTzPtQ
Iran is hitting multiple US bases in the Middle East. Satellite images show multiple facilities in multiple bases destroyed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJlSqYCDgCw
The administration is scrambling to help Americans trapped in the Middle East because they didn’t have a plan to get them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwwXTjPYmP4
“The Department of Homeland Security has hindered internal investigations amid scrutiny for its handling of President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on immigration, the agency’s official watchdog warned in a letter to Congress.
DHS has been “systematically obstructing” investigations by withholding records, Inspector General Joseph Cuffari said in a letter released Tuesday — hours after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced withering bipartisan questioning at a Senate hearing.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/internal-dhs-watchdog-noem-obstructing-005817206.html