by Simplicius, Simplicius:
The latest WSJ report sheds new light on the origins of Trump’s Iranian debacle, which confirms virtually everything we had already guessed:
It begins by describing how Netanyahu reassured Trump Iran was at its “weakest point in decades”, while Trump’s own intel analysts via Gabbard’s DNI warned him that killing Khamenei would merely install much more hardline figures who would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, amongst many other things which predicted the eventualities that ensued almost perfectly:
We all knew that this was coming. For ages, people like me have been ranting that we would be facing a financial nightmare if we didn’t get the national debt under control. Of course most of the population didn’t want to listen, and they just kept sending big spenders back to Washington. Now we are 40 trillion dollars in debt and we are spending well over a trillion dollars a year just in interest on that debt. Nobody can deny that we have reached a stage where our debt spiral is totally out of control. The federal budget deficit for the month of July was 
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