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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The $30,000 drone reshaping a $200 billion war The Shahed doesn't need to be accurate to be devastating. It just needs to exist in large enough numbers to drain every defense system, exhaust every interceptor stockpile, and make every shipping lane too dangerous to use. Stopping them completely... show more

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Mario Nawfal

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🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦 Here’s why the U.S. suddenly wants Ukrainian interceptor drones Iran launches cheap Shahed drones that cost tens of thousands. The U.S. solution so far is to fire $4 million Patriot missiles at them. Ukraine took one look at that math and built the Sting interceptor drone. Cost: $2,000. Speed: 300 km/h. Mission: slam into the incoming drone and knock it out. Ukrainians figured out how to stop drones without burning through the GDP of a small country every week. Source: CBS

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Mario Nawfal

452,932 views • 4 months ago

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Trump: "Biden gave $350 billion to Ukraine. This was insane. It’s one of the reasons the war went on." U.S. aid to Ukraine is not the reason the war continues. It continues because Russia invaded Ukraine and, every day, makes a conscious choice to keep waging war. If they all go home, we won't follow, you know? If he means that without U.S. help, especially in the beginning, much more Ukrainian territory would have been occupied and turned into one gigantic Bucha, then yes, he's probably right. But occupation doesn't end war, it merely masks war crimes and silences the victims.

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$🇮🇷🇮🇶 The war that built everything you're watching right now If you want to understand why Iran has an IRGC, why it hoards missiles, why it built proxy armies across four countries, and why it would rather burn the Gulf down than surrender, you need to go back to 1980. Saddam Hussein invaded a post-revolution Iran that was fractured and weak. What followed was eight years of trench warfare, chemical attacks, and a million dead. The world armed Iraq. Nobody helped Iran. That trauma is baked into the regime's DNA. Every tunnel, every drone factory, every mine in the Strait of Hormuz exists because Iran swore after 1988 that it would never be that vulnerable again. Operation Epic Fury is the climax of a 45-year story... Source: Johnny Harris on YT$

🇮🇷🇮🇶 The war that built everything you're watching right now If you want to understand why Iran has an IRGC, why it hoards missiles, why it built proxy armies across four countries, and why it would rather burn the Gulf down than surrender, you need to go back to 1980. Saddam Hussein invaded a post-revolution Iran that was fractured and weak. What followed was eight years of trench warfare, chemical attacks, and a million dead. The world armed Iraq. Nobody helped Iran. That trauma is baked into the regime's DNA. Every tunnel, every drone factory, every mine in the Strait of Hormuz exists because Iran swore after 1988 that it would never be that vulnerable again. Operation Epic Fury is the climax of a 45-year story... Source: Johnny Harris on YT

Mario Nawfal

365,365 views • 4 months ago

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸Iranian professor Foad Izadi says Netanyahu asked Iranians to take to the streets. They did. Millions of them, chanting against Netanyahu and Trump. The war has unified Iran more than any leader ever could. Bombing water plants and oil fields doesn't topple regimes. It unites entire populations against you. Every military strategist in history could have told them that. Clip: Drop Site / Piers Morgan Uncensored

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸Iranian professor Foad Izadi says Netanyahu asked Iranians to take to the streets. They did. Millions of them, chanting against Netanyahu and Trump. The war has unified Iran more than any leader ever could. Bombing water plants and oil fields doesn't topple regimes. It unites entire populations against you. Every military strategist in history could have told them that. Clip: Drop Site / Piers Morgan Uncensored

Mario Nawfal

269,998 views • 4 months ago

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Mario Nawfal

51,958 views • 3 months ago

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Why the world's most powerful navy can't just "take" a 30km waterway A warship in the Strait is a sitting target, attackable from land, sea, and air with only seconds to react. Lose one ship and a multi-billion dollar asset blocks the very lane you're trying to open. But the real problem is insurance. Thousands of tankers aren't stuck because they can't pass. They're stuck because no one will cover the risk. Iran doesn't even need to necessarily control Hormuz... it just needs to make everyone afraid to use it. Source: CBC News

Mario Nawfal

200,103 views • 4 months ago

Trump promised the War in Iran would end in unconditional surrender. It did - from us. Asymmetric warfare has changed the math. Ukraine is proving it against Russia. Iran just proved it against the United States. You don't need nuclear weapons or a massive military to be a strategic power anymore. You need drones, geography and the willingness to make the cost high enough. This defeat proves that military power alone has real limits — especially when used recklessly and in isolation from allies. The United States has to reckon with what that means - and fast. If a small country with cheap drones can back down the United States, what does that mean for every U.S. ally who counts on our word?

Trump promised the War in Iran would end in unconditional surrender. It did - from us. Asymmetric warfare has changed the math. Ukraine is proving it against Russia. Iran just proved it against the United States. You don't need nuclear weapons or a massive military to be a strategic power anymore. You need drones, geography and the willingness to make the cost high enough. This defeat proves that military power alone has real limits — especially when used recklessly and in isolation from allies. The United States has to reckon with what that means - and fast. If a small country with cheap drones can back down the United States, what does that mean for every U.S. ally who counts on our word?

Van Jones

15,495 views • 1 month ago

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The script has flipped, and America is now in the position Iran used to be in. Fmr. CIA Intel Larry Johnson just explained how Trump's fatal mistake to start a war against Iran has changed everything. "There is nothing the United States can do militarily that's going to force or compel Iran to say, we give up, we surrender." Half a billion dollars in missiles that don't fly as fast as Iran's. The most powerful military in the world is finding out what that actually means. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The script has flipped, and America is now in the position Iran used to be in. Fmr. CIA Intel Larry Johnson just explained how Trump's fatal mistake to start a war against Iran has changed everything. "There is nothing the United States can do militarily that's going to force or compel Iran to say, we give up, we surrender." Half a billion dollars in missiles that don't fly as fast as Iran's. The most powerful military in the world is finding out what that actually means. SonofNewAmericanRevolution

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21,756 views • 3 months ago