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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 22 Jun \ parent \ on: hormuz strait closed econ
Not sure what point you're getting at by splitting hairs, but to clarify then i'll remind you that everything we see is scripted, unless you've been in a SCIF recently and have some serious clearance.
I like to extrapolate on what could possibly be getting set up in the next episode, hense my prior comment in the other thread re: Hormuz... if this is a 3 act play this weekend is barely act 1.
Doorstep exactly, how set up are you for a fake cyberattack that takes down power and comms for the better part of a week?
the difference between fake and orchestrated is not negligible, imo, especially for the some 6 million who have evacuated tehran.
but i think we agree, in general, it's very hard to have any clarity on motivation.
the direction this takes is anyone's guess
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Even if we are to take at face value the perception that there's no backroom deal in place between Iran and the US already, and that this is now completely out of control with what comes next left to the whims of chance, the timing of it was chosen for reasons we're not clued in too.
Asking nothing more than "why now?" puts a whole different lens on it.
6 million who have evacuated tehran
I'm not convinced that actually happened, traffic pictures can be improperly source and don't represent lots of facts on the ground. Trump tweeted it, but we don't know exactly who that message was to and what it meant. I highly doubt a meaningful number of Persians bugged out because of it specifically.
Special Ops are another reason why you may want to have the local population thin out a bit too, we won't hear about those.
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I know of a handful of people who have left the city (that would be all of the people i know there) but that's only a small sample.
The possibility that they are colluding is a likely explanation. Its also one i have a hard time reconciling with the long history of warfare between the east and west.
So wrote Kipling c. 100 years ago
East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat.
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East in this scenario is chy-nah
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