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Nothing is impossible!
The enmity between Iran and the U.S. runs deep, but letâs be real: the devastation America brought to Japan, Germany, and Vietnam was a thousand times worse than anything Iran has faced.
Take the Vietnam War alone:
The U.S. dropped twice as many cluster bombs as were used in all of World War II, which killed over two million people.
That war caused 19 types of cancer, skeletal and neurological damage for 4.8 million people, and birth defects in half a million children.
Yet, after 20 years of brutal fighting, something incredible happened: the war ended, and then,unbelievably,America and Vietnam made peace!
If Vietnamâs leaders were like Iranâs hardliners, theyâd have gone on TV saying:
âWe lost two million martyrs, millions were wounded, our cities, forests, and villages were chemically bombed by American war criminals and now some traitors want us to make peace with them?â
But as the book Nothing Is Impossible says:
The Vietnamese fought fiercely in war and embraced peace just as fiercely. Two old enemies let go of the past to build a better future for their people.
What came of that peace:
Vietnam achieved an average economic growth rate of 8%, slashed unemployment to 1.9%, and brought inflation down to 3.2%.
This stability drew global giants like Intel, Nike, General Electric, Ford, IBM, Nestlé, Honda, Samsung, and more to invest and expand there.
Thatâs the miracle of diplomacy.
Itâs about understanding that enmity, fear, and conspiracy theories shouldnât be tools for governance.
The big lesson here is what Henry John Temple, former UK Prime Minister, once said:
_Countries have no permanent allies.
_They have no permanent enemies either.
_Whatâs eternal is the interests of a nationâs people, and itâs the duty of leaders to pursue those interests. 5 replies
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Iâm thinking I need to work way harder than before, hit the gym, hang out with friends, find some joy, and just let go a bit.
Iâm thinking about all those times in my life when I told myself I was on the edge of breaking down,what edge was I even on? When was the last time I felt that way? How was I feeling? Because, honestly, most of those moments werenât even a breakdown.
They were⊠nothing.
And I tell myself, âLook, stop being so hard on yourself. Build up your patience, your resilience, so nothing pushes you to that edge again.â Because every time I thought, âIt canât get worse than this,â it did.They hit our neighborhood, up and down, so close to us. But honestly, we were fine.
My house there didnât get wrecked. After a few days, even those sounds didnât feel so terrifying anymore.
I remember when they hit a bunch of times in a row, so close to us, and I was just sprawled on the couch, scrolling through my phone. I said, âMan, theyâre at it again,â didnât even look up, just kept checking instant news .
You get what I mean? 5 replies
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Hereâs a quick rundown of what top think tanks and analysts are saying about the recent attacks on Iranâs nuclear program and what might come next.
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a big-name analyst, says heâs not blown away by these airstrikes.
Why? Because Israel and the U.S. didnât take out Iranâs key nuclear materials or production sites. Operations âRising Lionâ and âMidnight Hammerâ were tactical winsâsuper impressiveâbut they might end up being strategic flops.
Netanyahu justified the strikes, saying Iran has 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium, enough for 9 bombs if further enriched.
This uranium was mostly stored in underground tunnels near Isfahanâs conversion facility.
But despite heavy U.S. and Israeli attacks, those tunnels and the uranium seem untouched.
Nobody even knows where the uranium is now! IAEAâs Grossi says Iran moved it. Marco Rubio claims nothing moves in Iran, but trucks were spotted sealing those tunnels two days before the strikes.
To be fair, some Trump Republicans, like J.D. Vance, admit Iran still has nuclear materials and say weâll âtalk to them about it.
â The claim is that the U.S. wrecked Iranâs ability to enrich uranium or turn it into metal, so no big deal. But thereâs a problem. Sure, strikes on Fordow and Natanz hit hard, but a massive underground site near Natanzâwhere Iran can build centrifugesâwas left alone.
Iran moved its centrifuge production to the âheart of the mountainâ in 2022. That siteâs at least 10,000 square meters, and we donât know whatâs going on there.
Iran also has a new enrichment facility near Isfahan that the IAEA was set to inspect, but Israel hit other sites instead.
So, Iran still has 400 kg of 60% uranium, the know-how to build centrifuges, and at least one or two underground enrichment sites. If Iran decides to build a bomb, it can install 1.5 centrifuge cascades per week.
In 6 weeks, thatâs 9 cascades of IR-6 machines, which could enrich all 400 kg to weapons-grade in 60 days. Total time: about 5 months.These strikes look flashy, but if two of the most epic military ops in modern times canât fully stop Iranâs nuclear program, that tactical brilliance might be serving a dumb strategy.
They didnât set Iran back as much as the JCPOA did. The same folks who griped about the JCPOAâs âsunsetâ clauses are now cool with delaying Iranâs bomb by just a few months.
Lewis says the real goal might be regime change in Iran, not just killing the nuclear program. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency said in May 2025 that Iran hadnât restarted its weapons program. When Rubio was asked about it, he called the intel âirrelevant.â That only makes sense if the real target is the regime itself, not the nukes. 3 replies
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