<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>oday <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day averag<span class="gmail_default" style="">es</span> about 12, compared with 130 before the war. The average price of gas in the United States is about $4.09 a gallon, or $1.10 higher than before th<span class="gmail_default" style="">e war, and the price of diesel fuel is $5.65 a gallon, an increase of $3.80 a gallon. So far the Iran war has cost the Pentagon about $113 billion, and it has cost consumers $90 billion more for fuel. </span><span style="background-color:transparent">16 U.S. military facilities across the Persian Gulf have sustained so much damage from Iranian drones that they are no longer capable of supporting military missions making operations in that area exponentially more costly and difficult. <span class="gmail_default" style="">And </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent">the estimated number of Patriot interceptors left in the U.S. arsenal<span class="gmail_default" style=""> is</span> down from 2,330 before the war<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>to <span class="gmail_default" style="">only</span> 759<span class="gmail_default" style=""> now.</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></span></b></font><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Nevertheless<span class="gmail_default"> our Dear Leader King Donald </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(54,54,54)">posted </span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-declares-bush-style-mission-182851283.html" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0) solid 2px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">a heroic image of himself<span class="gmail_default"></span></font></a> declaring <span class="gmail_default">"<i>M</i></span><i>ission <span class="gmail_default">A</span>ccomplished</i><span class="gmail_default">". But that's not surprising because he had declared on March 7 only a week into the war that </span></b></font><font size="4"><b><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(54,54,54)">“<i>We won everything; we have all the cards</i>”</span> <span class="gmail_default">and on April 25 he </span> said “<i>We’ve already won</i> ”<span class="gmail_default"> and he said on</span> May 4. “<i>I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today</i>” </b></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Another thing <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that's</span> not surprising is that the new leader of Iran<span class="gmail_default"> is an even bigger religious fanatic and hater of the USA than the old leader was, it's not surprising because the US attacks had disfigured him and killed his father.</span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>On May 21 of this year I made the following prediction,<span class="gmail_default"> and today I think my prediction is looking like it's in pretty good shape. </span><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>"1) Iran will make a vague statement that someday somehow it will start thinking about maybe not having a nuclear weapon, but there would be no inspections and no penalty for noncompliance because there will be nothing specific that Iran is required to do. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>2) The US and Iran will agree to become pirate nations. Henceforth any ship that wishes to pass through The Strait of Hormuz without being attacked must hand over protection money, the extorted payments being split between the US and Iran. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>3) He Who Must Not Be Named will try to spin this devastating defeat into "the greatest victory of all time". </b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>4) His spin will be successful, at least among his hard-core followers, because they are hardwired to <u>always</u> believe anything he says." </b></font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"> <font size="4" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight:700">John K Clark See what's on my list at </font><font size="6" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight:700"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">1xx</font></div>
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