ricky2tricky4city
Barry Daines
In the short to midterm....no.
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American politics
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ricky2tricky4city
Barry Daines
Most people's biggest soother/pacifier is the kitchen table finances being A okay.
Lots of brick can, rightly or wrongly, be ignored, turned a blind eye to or just not on your radar.....as 'you' are doing just ok.
When that's not the case, the Presidents approval rating will fall thru the floor and everyone starts noticing everything. And that is where we are.
Gdp rose 2.2% in 2025. Inflation 2.4%. Unemploymet 4.3% Markets near record high. Wage growth 3.7%.
Keir Starmer would kill for those numbers.
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Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
And yet…
42% of Americans under 30 say they're 'barely getting by' financially, Harvard survey finds
With student debt and everyday costs adding up, young adults say they’re struggling to cover the basics.
Daisuk
Barry Daines
True, but boots on the ground seems an inevitability unless this gets resolved quickly, with all the other countries in the region likely being involved sooner rather than later as well. I don’t know. War is expensive unless you’re the arms dealer - I can’t see Trump doing himself any favors, but who knows, they’ll probably be able to spin it in their favor one way or the other.
A survey by a progressive think tank and a democrat supporting news station?And yet…
42% of Americans under 30 say they're 'barely getting by' financially, Harvard survey finds
With student debt and everyday costs adding up, young adults say they’re struggling to cover the basics.www.cnbc.com
Do you think if fox did a survey it might read different?
I'll stick with the figures.
I doubt there will be boots on the ground. There will be a few bombing runs and it will be over for another few months.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
Good if true, weird that Trump said US troops would no doubt lose their lives in this conflict though
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Which other countries in the region? America's allies (UAE, Bahrain, Qatar) have no populations, they are just airbases. Iraq and Afghanistan on either side aren't strong enough or interested in foreign wars. Turkey have ethnic kinship with Iranians, but their only interest will be to supress the Iranian Kurds if they get a bit feisty in the north-west.
Why? Iran has already fired rockets at us bases in uae etc...
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
They would have been evacuated ages ago, I wouldn't ever rule out boots on the ground, there will be most def troops in Iran if the regime is toppled and that comes with its own issues
They are military bases. You don't abandon them. Where would they evacuate to?
They'd be ready for stikes. Just as israel is. There will still probably be casualties though.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
Mate, you don't just sit in a military base if there are missiles detected heading your way or a hostile threat, they are soldiers, they ain't thick.
You see plenty of civilian military in the likes of the UAE, they don't have to stay on base
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
I think you mean you’ll stick with the figures you like, not the ones you don’t.
Makes you wonder why his poll ratings are through the floor if so many are enjoying a booming economy.
Probably dodgy polls, I suppose.
Some people so indifferent to war. Almost salivating. Disgusting and inhumane.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
People love the prospect of it so some level, I never understood it, I read the history of it and reading where and how it started, the mindset behind it, but its always to any level heart breaking. The sanitisation we have in modern life, of one life worth less than the other because of a perceived greater good, its a shocker
Yes you do. They'd have shelters on base. You don't just go to a bar in town till it blows over.
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
There are evacuation procedures well, you can civvy street it also, doesn't mean you are going to bars. Thats a weird take
When there is no threat of boots on the ground there is no point of the majority of your fleet to be in the line of danger, thats just mental
Being cynical I wouldn't be surprised if they use war as a pre-cursor to turning the money printers back on, it's the only thing the US seems to know.
It doesn't feel like they're even pretending there's a reason for this war, probably launched now because the stock markets are shut and also so that it's started before there was a chance to pass a bill saying Trump needed authorisation from congress to attack Iran.
It doesn't feel like they're even pretending there's a reason for this war, probably launched now because the stock markets are shut and also so that it's started before there was a chance to pass a bill saying Trump needed authorisation from congress to attack Iran.