h/t WRSA

They argue that the sunk cost fallacy of Trump’s war will lead only to the diminishment of US’s negotiating leverage the longer it drags on, which is essentially an admission that Iran is now running away with its victory and the US should simply cut its losses:

The administration has repeatedly fallen prey to the sunk cost fallacy. In the face of this strategic failure, President Donald Trump has mostly acted as if the problem were one of scale or duration. In reality, U.S. negotiating leverage has diminished as the war has progressed and will likely continue to erode as the United States exhausts its munitions and domestic political consequences mount. New Houthi attacks on Saudi oil exports add precarity to a war that has already induced global economic shocks, damaged U.S. credibility, and put America’s regional allies in the middle of a conflict they advocated against.

It is true, especially given recent admissions by Admiral Brad Cooper that the US has ran out of worthwhile targets to even hit along Iran’s coast, and due to long-range standoff weapons shortages, is unable to consistently hit anything deeper in the country anyway.

Read the entire Simplicius post …

Roth Note: Regardless of all the blather about another huge bombing run this weekend, it appears, as of this Sunday morning, that we have another TACO. Good.

Update:

Roth Note: TACO confirmed.

Translation:
Whoever despises the people has no right to govern them.

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Roth Note: Epstein? The Save Act? Europe allowing invaders to replace their native populations? Covid? Chem-trails? I could spend the rest of the day posting links to examples, but the reader should get the point by now.

“We’ve convinced the entire world that we don’t know what we’re doing, and we can’t be trusted, and we don’t keep our word, and we don’t even stay consistent from one day to the next,” former ambassador Freeman recently told Davis. “So how can you deal with us? That’s the question everybody has out there.”

As Alastair Crooke sees it, US diplomacy may never be the same. Summing up the effects of Trump’s multi-front assault on trust in America, the former British intelligence agent, diplomat and founder of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum told Glenn Diesen, “The American ability to negotiate in the old-fashioned diplomatic idea, I think, is gone. I mean, we’re in a new era.”

Read the details at Zerohedge …

Roth Note: The article suggests that our diplomats will no longer be taken seriously. My question … what diplomats?

Details are still sketchy, but at least some are reporting that the good guy took out the bad guy.

If COVID-19 nearly broke civilization with a 1% fatality rate, can you imagine the pandemonium a more lethal pathogen would cause? According to national security journalist Annie Jacobsen — author of “Biological War: A Scenario” — society should be reckoning with that very question because genetically modified pathogens with a 100% kill rate are sitting in laboratories right now.

In an interview with Glenn Beck, Jacobsen explained that these pathogens aren’t theoretical — and that a real-world release would move far faster and more destructively than most people grasp.

“The trust is gone. It’s just gone,” Glenn says. “If an outbreak happened today, half of the country would not believe Donald Trump. If it was … Kamala Harris, half of the country would not believe her.”

See the entire article here…

Okay. So, Covid was deadly, sort of… a lot of people died from the actual disease, and a lot more died from the “treatments”, and vastly more died (and are dying) from the “vaccine”.

Today trust in government, which was already at an all-time low, is nonexistent. Same with doctors, except even worse. We were gaslit to the nth degree about something that was, although indeed a deliberate attack (the intentional release from Wuhan) far less dangerous than they claimed, followed by another deliberate and far more deadly attack (the vaccine). Understandably, we now don’t trust ANY of them, with very good reason… they CANNOT and MUST NOT be trusted.

So, now what? What if their covid test-run was nothing more than that? I don’t think anyone believes that they are not working or have already engineered diseases with a 100% kill-rate. The question is, can they (or have they) weaponized it to have an R₀ value that guarantees widespread infection? If they have, and they release it, and you somehow, miraculously discover (since in no way will you actually believe them this time… I wouldn’t) that you are actually at risk before you and your family are infected and die, what is your plan? How will you survive? Can you truly isolate yourself for long enough to let the storm pass? How long will that be? And most importantly, what will you do afterward?

Have you thought about that?

While you are enjoying your weekend, please give a bit of time to this scenario. Maybe nothing will happen. Maybe our own government really doesn’t want us dead. Maybe the Chinese really don’t want us dead. Maybe the Muslims and the Jews really don’t want us dead.

Maybe.

… or is it just another scam …