In the long run, it's going to help us out, because if they get nuclear weapons, you know, we might not even be here in a couple of years. I think that [Trump's] done a good job. This sentiment reflects the perspective of voters willing to accept economic costs for perceived security benefits from military action against Iran.
Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.
According to AAA, the average regular gas price as of March 16 is $3.72 per gallon-up $0.24 from a week ago, and nearly $0.79 from this time last year. CNN reports that the 26.9 percent gain in US gas prices over the past month is the largest monthly increase since Hurricane Katrina.
A key reason so many young people in the 1960s threw themselves into the fight against US military involvement in Vietnam was that the civil rights movement had recently demonstrated the power of mass action. As Students for a Democratic Society's founding manifesto in 1962 put it, 'the Southern struggle against racial bigotry...compelled most of us from silence to activism.'
It's a very transactional presidency, and our job is to navigate this, to always remember that the friendship between the United States and the United Kingdom runs very deep. It's a good relationship. It's enduring, and I think it will outlast all the personalities involved.
We should try to find the off-ramp. Iran could demolish oil and gas infrastructure across the Middle East, but more alarmingly, it could start targeting desalination plants, which provide water to much of the region, and could lead to an even larger humanitarian crisis.
Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not.
A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of the war in Iran. The videos showing huge explosions that never happened, decimated city streets that were never attacked or troops protesting the war who do not exist have added a chaotic and confusing layer to the conflict online.
The reason PROFESSIONAL WARRIORS avoid unnecessary TAUNTING of the Enemy: it can come back and Bite, HARD. And it's the PILOTS who fly over enemy territory at Risk. I served with FOUR PILOTS who got shot down and TORTURED. Lose an engine (only one in the F-35, thanks a lot Lockheed Martin!) and they'll be the ones to answer for Pete's Rhetoric.
Donald Trump's war on Iran could cause UK food prices to surge due to the soaring cost of fuel and fertiliser as the Strait of Hormuz the narrow sea passage south of Iran remains effectively impassable. The blockade on fossil fuels through the strait is driving a spike in the cost of nitrogen and phosphate fertilisers used for growing cereals and vegetables.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lashed out at the press to start the presser, singling out CNN and saying, 'The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better!' As Hegseth left the podium at the end of the presser, the tail end of a laugh could be heard on Friday's edition of CNN News Central.
The President does know that there is a correlation between gas prices and oil. It's been very clear in everything the President has said, and he said this publicly, he thought this was going to be over by now. I don't know why he thought that, and I don't know why there wasn't some kind of a contingency for what we're seeing now.
They have a "much greater effect, typically, than a missile," and can inflict millions of dollars worth of damage for just a few thousand bucks a pop. And they're pretty effective too: naval mines have caused 77% of all U.S. Navy ship casualties since 1950, per the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
A preliminary investigation into the airstrike on a girls' elementary school in Iran that killed at least 175 people, mostly children, has found that the U.S. likely created target coordinates for the strike using outdated military maps. The U.S. military has yet to formally state that the U.S. was directly involved in the massacre.
President Trump recently slammed the U.K.'s prime minister for failing to join his war on Iran by saying, 'This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.' But is Trump himself rising to the occasion with soaring rhetoric and clear-eyed assessments of the conflict, much like the man who led Britain through World War II?
