8/18/26: Iran Prepares For War, MTG Says Trump Floating Nukes, Fox Shames Troops On USS Lincoln

Iran is not showing any interest in making a deal that makes sense for the U.S.

The U.S. will wait as long as needed until a real deal is made.

Iran's escalation plan is not secret and involves hardliners seizing control and preparing for a bigger fight.

The White House is discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran.

Trump might look at nuclear weapons as a way to rescue his position after other strategies fail.

It would be more easy to see Israel use a nuclear weapon than the United States.

Complaining about food on a Navy ship is weak compared to serving in combat zones.

The sailors are suffering because of a useless war and a degraded military, not because they are weak.

The military brass and intel community should have raised more objections to the war.

The military-industrial complex is a rapacious cartel that inflates costs and fails to deliver.

We don't have the power projection capability around the world that we thought we did.

The market is screwed up because diesel is extremely expensive with no refining capacity to spare.

The diesel price surge will immediately show up in the cost of all industrial stuff like trains and trucking.