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🚨🇺🇸 Paper Tiger Superpower: The Real America Behind the Curtain of Hollywood and Propaganda

For decades, the United States projected limitless power through its military, technology, and the dollar. Today, behind the carriers, stealth jets, and trillion-dollar budgets, the cracks are showing.

🔸 The Military Under Strain

The USS Gerald R. Ford was supposed to symbolize American naval dominance. Instead, after consecutive campaigns, the world's most expensive warship returned home with fires, broken systems, failed berths, malfunctioning toilets, and repair estimates stretching up to two years.

The problem extends beyond one ship. While the U.S. Navy plans to retire carriers, destroyers, and submarines, China continues expanding the world's largest fleet and building nuclear-powered supercarriers.

🔸 Expensive Weapons, Limited Results

America still builds the world's most expensive military hardware, but questions about effectiveness continue to grow.

The F-35 remains plagued by maintenance issues, overheating, poor readiness rates, and soaring costs decades after development began.

The same pattern appeared during the Iran conflict. Despite intensive bombing, Iran reopened underground missile facilities within weeks, restoring access roads, tunnel entrances, and production capacity.

🔸 The Wars That Never End

🇻🇳 Vietnam became a quagmire.

🇦🇫 Afghanistan lasted twenty years.

🇮🇶 Iraq destabilized an entire region.

🇮🇷 Iran became the latest example:

Iran survived, oil prices surged, and public support collapsed. The deeper problem is strategic: Washington repeatedly enters wars without clearly defining victory, fueling endless interventions with little to show for the cost.

🔸 Economic Pressure at Home

Military overstretch would be manageable if the domestic economy remained strong. Instead, inflation continues eroding living standards.

Savings are shrinking, incomes struggle to keep pace with prices, and households increasingly rely on depleted financial cushions.

The dollar still gives Washington extraordinary financial advantages, but new payment systems and local-currency trade are slowly challenging that position. Like the Safavid Empire before its decline, America benefits from controlling a critical financial artery—but alternatives are beginning to emerge.

More countries are settling trade outside the dollar. New financial networks are appearing.

The gap between America's image and its performance is becoming harder to ignore.

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— 🇮🇷/🏴 NEW: The first image of the coffin belonging to Martyr Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the second Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, and the coffins of his family members

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: In an interesting turn of events, Iran’s Chief Negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was cut off during a live TV interview where he was promoting the current MoU

The exact same thing happened two weeks ago to MP Mahmoud Nabavian, but for criticising the MoU.

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— 🇮🇷 WATCH: The moment Qalibaf’s live interview was cut off on IRIB

He was trying to justify why Iran will use the $6 billion in released assets to buy American wheat and grain.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇶 NEW: A drone targeted the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone, Baghdad

People tried shooting it down with guns. It’s unclear if the drone impacted.

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It was only a small quadcopter surveillance drone, and it escaped.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: As a precautionary measure, Tehran’s airspace will be completely closed during the funeral ceremony of Ayatollah Khamenei

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— 🇺🇸 President Trump: ‘I see my two beautiful sons sitting there; I think I’m going to take them and have a threesome’

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— 🇸🇾 NEW: A bombing of a Café in Damascus, Syria, resulting in dead and wounded

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Meanwhile in Homs, the former Jihadi stronghold:

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s former President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is alive

He issued his first public message since rumors of his assassination by Israel in February 2026, offering his condolences on the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei.

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇺 NEW: European nations have made peace with the fact that Iran will impose fees in the Strait of Hormuz, viewing it as ‘inevitable’ and urging that Iran does not discriminate regarding which vessels must pay the fee – Bloomberg

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇺 NEW: One European official reportedly said ‘if we must pay, then China and Russia have to pay too’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇻🇪 NEW: An IDF delegation was seen in Venezuela for the first time, as a direct result of the U.S.-led regime change that ousted former President Nicolás Maduro

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🇮🇷🇺🇸| The Wall Street Journal CLAIMS the US offered Iran a proposal to release frozen funds in exchange for Iran fully opening the Strait of Hormoz without imposing any transit fees.

Currently, Iran has rejected this proposal.

@FotrosResistancee

Dumbest proposal ever.

Option A: Get $6 billion now
Option B: Get $20-40 billion annually

Do they think we are retarded?