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This shot is used in both the introduction and conclusion of the pilot. In this episode, we are led to believe they are not only connected to the Men in Black that follow Elliot but also Tyrell Wellick, the Senior VP of Technology at Evil Corp.
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This also serves to help establish Elliot as an unreliable narrator.
At first we believe the Men in Black–“the conspiracy”–might be real when we see him followed throughout the episode. Then Krista asks him whether he still hallucinates Men in Black following him, casting doubt on his claim to us. Then he’s taken off the street by Men in Black, only for them to be revealed as Tyrell’s underlings.
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All looking for so many tips, these niggas just working me Lil B & Chance the Rapper – Whats Next BASED FREESTYLE
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Now let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, for no reason at all, and assume he meant political contributions. Maybe he’s given “hundreds of millions of dollars” to both Republicans and Democrats.
Well he’s actually only given $1.5 million to both parties. In fact, if you dig, it gets a little more interesting.
From 1989 to 2011 he donated $497,690 to Republicans and $581,350 to Democrats. From 2012 to the present, he’s given $463,450 to Republicans and $3,500 to Democrats.
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The last time Iran invaded another country was over 200 years ago.
A reasonable objection to this fact would be “well if Iraq was weak enough or aggressive enough, Iran would invade it”.
The only problem is that has already come to pass and Iran did not invade Iraq. In the 1980s, Saddam Hussein was so weak that it was unable to conquer Iran despite the aid of the United States and an arsenal of chemical weapons. Furthermore, Iran never went into Iraq’s territory and maintained a defensive military posture for the war’s duration.
In 2010, a Pentagon report revealed that
So as usual Trump is just saying things out loud.
Obviously, one of the major risks in deposing Saddam Hussein would be to strengthen the position of the Shiites, who would receive assistance from Iran. The morons who ran the White House and NSC in those days either ignored that risk or were oblivious to it.
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They knew the risk, state planners analyze nearly every single possibility and the State Department alone (not even the NSC) has contingency plans for most geopolitical situations. The NSC if anything is incredibly frank about what will happen whether it be spikes in terrorism or radicalism, decay in relations or future prospects of projecting power. They anticipated for example that out of Syria a radical militant group c/would arise and network with groups in Iraq.
So I can’t imagine they just were ignorant of the risks since the Middle East is VITAL to any scenario where the USA remains hegemon.
The question is whether or not it mattered enough to them given whatever their strategic objectives were. You can offset a Shiite coalition as long as you have a strong Saud base since they are the regional power and crown jewel of Sunni coalitions. You just need to have either a politically inept Iraq/isolated Iran since both if rectified as regional powers would ally and lock the USA out of a huge chunk of energy resources.
Alternatively, if you soften relations with Iran you can do it as a part of a long-term pivot away from Saudi Arabia–which they’ll probably couple with attempts to undermine the radical Islam sponsored by the state.