r/USEmpire 20h ago

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon

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theonion.com
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“Obviously, the prospect of this happening is very distressing to Iran and all countries like Iran. After all, the United States is a volatile nation that’s proven it needs little provocation to attack anyone anywhere in the world whom it perceives to be a threat.” Iranian intelligence experts also warned of the very real, and very frightening, possibility of the U.S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel.


r/USEmpire 18h ago

Plaguing the Americas with Misery in the Name of Liberty | Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” For 200 years, US leaders have never proved him wrong.

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r/USEmpire 10h ago

Trump’s AI fakery in Iran war may prove the ultimate betrayal of Americans’ trust, experts warn | 7 years ago, he altered a hurricane map with a Sharpie marker. On Monday, the president published AI-created fake combat footage and the Pentagon had to say it never happened.

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r/USEmpire 4h ago

The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? US Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves | The NYT revealed that US Sec. of State Marco Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, effectively controlling Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its gov't.

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r/USEmpire 10h ago

The chaos inside Hegseth’s defense department as Trump ‘concerned’ by scale of purge | Army Secretary Dan Driscoll joins long list of exits from Defense Secretary’s top team, with the president said to be ‘surprised’ by the number of senior departures.

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r/USEmpire 8h ago

Three shocking things in today's attack on China in the Guardian

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