“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
He's toast. The damage will continue, however. The WoT will go hot, eventually. Iran will target all shipping choke points. It's Oceana's #1 vulnerability.
America solved the Barbary pirate threat by refusing to pay ongoing extortion money, building a permanent naval force, and fighting two military conflicts known as the Barbary Wars (1801–1805 and 1815–1816). Instead of continuing the European habit of paying yearly tribute, the U.S. used naval blockades, port bombardments, and land assaults to force North African states to stop raiding American ships.
Early Tributes and Failures
Defenseless trade: After the American Revolution, U.S. merchant ships lost the protection of the British Navy and faced pirate raids from Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
Paying bribes: Presidents George Washington and John Adams paid massive ransoms and annual tributes hoping to buy safe passage, spending up to 20% of the federal government's annual revenues.
The First Barbary War (1801–1805)
Jefferson's stand: President Thomas Jefferson stopped the payments and sent a U.S. Navy squadron to blockade Tripoli.
Daring land campaign: U.S. Marines and Army officer William Eaton led a surprise 500-mile march across the Libyan Desert to capture the enemy port city of Derna.
Peace treaty: Tripoli signed a peace treaty in 1805 that ended American tribute payments to them, though a ransom was paid for prisoners.
The Second Barbary War (1815–1816)Resumed attacks: During the War of 1812, pirates took advantage of the U.S. conflict with Britain to resume attacks.
Decisive force: Fresh off the War of 1812, President James Madison sent a large naval fleet under Commodore Stephen Decatur to Algiers.
Total surrender: The swift American naval victory forced the Dey of Algiers to sign a treaty immediately, ending all U.S. tribute payments, freeing Christian slaves, and guaranteeing permanent safe shipping
As I've said repeatedly, the signs of the American Empire's decline is evident and accelerating. Abd poster boy Hegseth cheers it on with hus moron cult leader trump.
Peanuts is what the capitalist oligarchs of MAGA trumplandia is offering We the People. And the sheeple (lemmings) of MAGA thank him and his fascist authoritarian party for their meager support.
Don't care where you're from. It matters not to me. What is important to me is to fight the reichwing authoritarian propaganda that trump and his capitalist reichwing sycophants hump daily.
And I also don't care who are you and from where are you.
I use duck test.
""The "duck principle" (or the duck test) states that if something looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. It relies on practical, observable behavior rather than hidden labels.""
If you'd *REALLY* wanna fight -- there is war in Ukraine.
You welcome.
PS But, that is a lie, in reality you DO HELP Putin, and Xi, and dRump... who trying to find the favour from first two, to became one of "masters if the world"(one who'd decide whose land and whom to bomb out... to WIN in Ukraine, destroy and dismantle Israel... and any other country who'd be that puny... to say *NO*... to "master of the world".
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Is it meltdown? Of POTUS. Or... not yet?
His meltdown started with the ill advised Iran attack.. He's done.
Well... it could be. It was successfully(?) mascaraded.
Plausible denial(tm)
But not now... or still do?
He's toast. The damage will continue, however. The WoT will go hot, eventually. Iran will target all shipping choke points. It's Oceana's #1 vulnerability.
The "new" Barbary pirates.
America solved the Barbary pirate threat by refusing to pay ongoing extortion money, building a permanent naval force, and fighting two military conflicts known as the Barbary Wars (1801–1805 and 1815–1816). Instead of continuing the European habit of paying yearly tribute, the U.S. used naval blockades, port bombardments, and land assaults to force North African states to stop raiding American ships.
Early Tributes and Failures
Defenseless trade: After the American Revolution, U.S. merchant ships lost the protection of the British Navy and faced pirate raids from Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.
Paying bribes: Presidents George Washington and John Adams paid massive ransoms and annual tributes hoping to buy safe passage, spending up to 20% of the federal government's annual revenues.
The First Barbary War (1801–1805)
Jefferson's stand: President Thomas Jefferson stopped the payments and sent a U.S. Navy squadron to blockade Tripoli.
Daring land campaign: U.S. Marines and Army officer William Eaton led a surprise 500-mile march across the Libyan Desert to capture the enemy port city of Derna.
Peace treaty: Tripoli signed a peace treaty in 1805 that ended American tribute payments to them, though a ransom was paid for prisoners.
The Second Barbary War (1815–1816)Resumed attacks: During the War of 1812, pirates took advantage of the U.S. conflict with Britain to resume attacks.
Decisive force: Fresh off the War of 1812, President James Madison sent a large naval fleet under Commodore Stephen Decatur to Algiers.
Total surrender: The swift American naval victory forced the Dey of Algiers to sign a treaty immediately, ending all U.S. tribute payments, freeing Christian slaves, and guaranteeing permanent safe shipping
Send in the Leathernecks!
Iran has already won the war of choice that the moron trump, at the behest of the ignirant Zionist genocidal butcher netanyahu, started.
...and you think they'll stop at some time? Why would they?
"Won" is in the past. This war isn't in the past. It's been ongoing since 1978.
Trump's gambit was an attempt to end it. He failed.
Definite cretin and traitor of USA.
Yawn.
And where is Makkarti when he needed?
Yaaaawn.
//The WoT will go hot, eventually. Iran will target all shipping choke points.
ww3
as I was warning you.
and USA comes into it, with its pants down
and back side shinely looking ar China
but, who knows, maybe that was The Plan
to have Pearl Harbour 2.0
If there is WW III it will be the result of doings by the American Empire and the genocidal burchering Zionist state of Israel.
Yawn.
See, FJ.
Just as I said -- commie and traitor.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your canned, ignorant, and delusional retort.
The commie and traitor is donnie little "man" trump. The autocratic authoritarian a**hole of MAGAism.
The dude who just renewed his bromance with North Korean commie dictator Kim Jong Un.
Clap now, monkeys.
//Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your canned, ignorant, and delusional retort.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you can unroll it into cogent intellectually speach/text...
hiw it canned? ignorant? delusiinal?
naaaah )))
all you can do - throw it as verbal feces, with shallow cretinic hope
//The commie and traitor is donnie little "man" trump.
But. Isn't common DEMN-sincrazy tells that he is "fascist"? ;-p
So. It's possible -- to be commie AND nazi same time? ;-p
LMFAO!! Again.
Row row row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily merrily merrily merrily life is but a dream.
Trying to end it wasn't his sin. His sin was in that in a democracy you first must consult the people. He did not.
Reacting like some crazy inhabitant of an asilum. )))
But well, it fits perfectly with shown previously cretinity.
And quite explaining.
Well... that is DEMNs (self-boasted democrats) that vilfully and arrogantly priclaimed... that that is not important...
Wisdom's door opens when one let's go of their reified beliefs and societal conditioning.
You ought to try it sometime.
Becoming crazy like you??? %^O
Thank you, but no, thank you. )))
PS I understand your desire of crazy cretin for all people being like you...
but in this reality -- it will never happen.
As I've said repeatedly, the signs of the American Empire's decline is evident and accelerating. Abd poster boy Hegseth cheers it on with hus moron cult leader trump.
More tales from asilum? %^)
But... continue-continue, c$azy little monkey
The asylum in now headquartered in DC. With the asylum king trump and his merry band of MAGAts.
Exactly what Satan and you as his follower would like? %^P
Nope. That would me MAGA and sycophants like you
Here's your peanuts, little monkey, ;-p
Peanuts is what the capitalist oligarchs of MAGA trumplandia is offering We the People. And the sheeple (lemmings) of MAGA thank him and his fascist authoritarian party for their meager support.
))))))
And what to they give -- chesnuts? ;-p
To push commie propaganda down Ams throats??? )))
For likes of you to roast on a fires in their stead?
Your conditioning is complete. The fascist capitalist oligarchs have trained you well.
You -- cretin.
I'm not from USA.
Your propaganda chants -- do not work on me.
Quite contrary -- I know em very well -- because what you say -- is what *I* was (attempted to be) conditioned from kindergarden.
In Soviet Union.
So. You trying to "sell" to me THAT SAME commie propaganda -- which was invalidated in post soviet, after USSR got broke.
And you *dare* to babble about "conditioning" before me??? %^))) YOU brainless cretin. Having fossilized poop of a Putin instead if brauns. %^)))))
But... continue-continue, your rediculous stants, you brainless little monkey.)))
Lessy the Commie-Monkey stroke be Putin's Propaganda
Don't care where you're from. It matters not to me. What is important to me is to fight the reichwing authoritarian propaganda that trump and his capitalist reichwing sycophants hump daily.
To help Putin and Xi to make whole World their?
Yawn
And I also don't care who are you and from where are you.
I use duck test.
""The "duck principle" (or the duck test) states that if something looks, walks, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. It relies on practical, observable behavior rather than hidden labels.""
So.
If you quack like commie.
If you walk as a commie
If you poop as the commie
You R commie. ;-p
//What is important to me is to fight
And that is clear lie.
If you'd *REALLY* wanna fight -- there is war in Ukraine.
You welcome.
PS But, that is a lie, in reality you DO HELP Putin, and Xi, and dRump... who trying to find the favour from first two, to became one of "masters if the world"(one who'd decide whose land and whom to bomb out... to WIN in Ukraine, destroy and dismantle Israel... and any other country who'd be that puny... to say *NO*... to "master of the world".
Quack, quack, quack, quack...
How do you like the monkey? ;-p
,^^Oink Oink^^
Monkey, you trying to preyend being pig?)))
Or... in your cretinity you fell level of absolutely childish taunts? )))
But, continue-continue, little monkey. ;-p
Or... let me double-guess...
THAT is the level of "honest and cogent" discussion you whined elsewhere??? ))))))))
Nope. Merely highlighting your reichwing oinkiness.
Highlighting? With sounds? )))
VERY cogent.
Well, but there is nothing that impossible... for cretins. ;-p
But you continue-continue, cretinic little monjey. )))
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