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jacquesmtoday at 3:01 AM1 replyview on HN

You are conflating execution capability and force protection with achievement.

Meanwhile, lots of innocent lives have been lost, the regime is still where it was before even if some of the faces have changed, there is an E2 that is missing a little piece of its tail, the price of oil has gone up considerably (that may have been an actual objective) and we've been distracted for a while from the Epstein files.

If you think there was an item in the above list that qualifies as an objective then that's fine by me but for me these do not cross that threshold.


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usefulcattoday at 3:25 AM

> the price of oil has gone up considerably (that may have been an actual objective)

Even Trump isn't that dumb. There's a reason he dialed the tariffs back so much; price hikes lose elections.

If there's one highly visible product of whose price all Americans are keenly aware, it's gasoline. And on top of that, it affects the price of pretty much everything else too.

I thought the tariffs would be his undoing but jacking up the price of gas is even worse for him.

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