- Reaction score
- 4,920
- Location
- Colorado
USA & Israel launch attack on Iran
- Thread starter Joe
- Start date
Holy Holliday !
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 221
- Location
- The Big Tent
320M citizens of US. 160M individuals file tax returns.
. Individual taxpayer pays approx 80% of taxes in the US.
8T / 320M = 25K
8T / 160M = 50K
50K X 0.8 = 40K
40K / 2 = 20K per taxpayer
20K / 2 = 10K per citizen
Now some may say that this is spread over time it isn't so much, but consider what that money might have been used for at current non-inflated costs, or how it might have been invested etc. It's remains a significant amount to many people...
...but hey, they are just little people. Who cares about them?
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Holy Holliday !
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 221
- Location
- The Big Tent
(Iraqi yellowcake anyone?)
Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over on the Persian Gulf nation. Nuclear experts call this claim unlikely—but the confusion may stem from some basics of atomic chemistry.
“There was no evidence that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon,” says of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the . His comment echoed those of after the war’s start, as well as statements from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief at that time and and last year’s “” report by U.S. intelligence agencies.
According to an IAEA , as of June 2025, Iran possessed 441 kilograms of 60 percent enriched uranium, where the percentage refers to the share of the isotope uranium 235 (U 235) found in the material. That would be enough for 10 nuclear weapons if the material could be enriched further to full 90 percent weapons-grade concentrations, according to the IAEA. That further enrichment would take a matter of in a fully functioning Iranian , perhaps explaining the time line within Trump’s declaration.
That step alone doesn’t equal a bomb, however. And Iran’s main enrichment capabilities were “completely and ,” according to Trump himself in June, after the U.S. . The administration’s special envoy to the Middle East nonetheless claimed on March 3, after the start of the current war, that Iran had the capability to make 11 nuclear bombs. Trump administration officials to include nuclear technical experts in their negotiation teams with Iran prior to the war, adding to the uncertainty. If Iran really had rebuilt these facilities, that might have led—over months and not weeks—to the nation resuming its uranium enrichment, Lewis says. “But this is all ‘if,’ ‘maybe’ and ‘later,’” he adds.
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Larry Loungelizard
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 3,064
- Location
- Milwaukee
Does anyone remember how for a couple of decades Netanyahu claimed that Iran was only 6 months away from getting an operational warhead? Yeah, I really believe him. Book it.
The Prowler
20k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 2,926
- Location
- Canada
Reggie_Essent
10k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 2,299
- Location
- Chicagoland
Holy Holliday !
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 221
- Location
- The Big Tent
Trust me, Reggie, no one here comes close to despising islam as much as I do. I'm certainly not one who respects it enough to capitalize the word as you do. Why do you respect islam, Reggie?
The Prowler
20k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 2,926
- Location
- Canada
Reggie_Essent
10k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 2,299
- Location
- Chicagoland
I usually follow the AP style book. Bad habit, I know.
Holy Holliday !
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 221
- Location
- The Big Tent
Holy Holliday !
1k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 221
- Location
- The Big Tent
Key takeaways
- Today’s oil shock is largest in history.
- The United States probably can’t clear the Strait of Hormuz without ending its war with Iran.
- Rising oil prices will slow industrial activity and raise food costs.
- Markets may be too optimistic about how quickly the war’s impacts can be reversed.
In terms of barrels taken off the market, this is the largest supply shock in history by at least a factor of two. The only one that comes close is the 1979 shock, which also involved Iran, and which caused oil prices to more than double. But the current disruption — 20 million barrels a day unable to flow for over a week — is twice that size in real terms.
So, we’re very much in an unprecedented situation. Which is part of why markets have struggled to interpret it. For years, Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and it never happened. On some level, I think traders came to believe that Iran would never really do it. Now, many believe that it’s a situation that won’t last much longer despite the fact that we’re in the second week and it doesn’t show any signs of ending.
Reggie_Essent
10k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- 2,299
- Location
- Chicagoland
Fixed it for you.
The Question
20k+⚡Milestone
- Reaction score
- -661
- Location
- Concealed Within Each Of You
Leftists: "How DURRR you stop funding our USAID money-laundering to save taxpayer money!"
Leftists nine months later: "How DURRR you spend taxpayer money to eliminate a theocratic dictatorship that threatens American interests!"
It's never about what they're yelling about, which is why their yelling is never coherent or consistent.
Leftists nine months later: "How DURRR you spend taxpayer money to eliminate a theocratic dictatorship that threatens American interests!"
It's never about what they're yelling about, which is why their yelling is never coherent or consistent.
