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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Every military source keeps circling the same month for the big escalation: September. Geopolitics expert Brandon Weichert says the invasion talk has narrowed to something specific. Two Marine Expeditionary Units and the 82nd Airborne out of Kuwait attempting to seize Iranian islands for sea control, with cooler weather... show more

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J-Cal: Democrats Will Sweep the Midterms if Trump Doesn’t Find an Off Ramp FAST @jason: I do think Trump would only (start a war with Iran) if he had a very high probability of success and an off ramp. However, it's not looking good with the off ramp right now. If the neocons get their way and the people on Polymarket are correct, the sharps who say 57% chance we'll have boots on the ground, I think this is the end of Trump's second term. And if you were to put together the series of mistakes that he's made, and the administration's made, they're really at the heart of why people voted for him. 1) Doing the war that everybody said he should not do. 2) The Epstein Files. 3) The ICE cruelty. 4) Not working for the American working man who doesn't own equities. If this continues for another six months, it's basically going to result in the Democrats doing a clean sweep in the midterms. This is the chart that should be absolutely terrifying. The chances of the Democrats sweeping now is up to 45%. If he doesn't find an off ramp quickly, they're going to lose both houses in the midterms. That's the thing Trump needs to really consider, and I think he will consider it. I think he's going to find an off ramp.

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