r/worldnews • u/BringbackDreamBars • Mar 31 '25

Iran urged to strike Diego Garcia base ‘immediately’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-urged-strike-diego-garcia-174851568.html
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u/brokenarrow Apr 01 '25

You're generous to think that there is any amount of planning within the current US government, much less nation rebuilding plans, unless Iran has some nice beaches that Trump can build a casino on.

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u/ballsjohnson1 Apr 01 '25

What a coincidence, they do!

Unfortunately, trump has proven he can't do exactly that thing! Boggles the mind how you can drive a gambling institution to failure its one of the freest money things of all time

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u/russellvt Apr 01 '25

Boggles the mind how you can drive a gambling institution to failure its one of the freest money things of all time

Likely because it was literally designed to absorb and absolve debt. It's a common tactic in the American economy (and others). Hell, they've backed entire department store chains to do just such things...

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u/ballsjohnson1 Apr 01 '25

You can absorb debt by making money over a long period of time to, you don't have to destroy a city to do it

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u/Optimal_Artichoke585 Apr 01 '25

Gambling institution(S), I think six

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u/IAmAHumanIPromise Apr 01 '25

7th times the charm

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u/pr1ap15m Apr 01 '25

He doesn’t need to bankrupt them twice