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Prairie Gates

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8. This is always how this was going to play out

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 04:01 PM

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The only question is what Iran will get out of all this.

Israel gets Lebanon up to the Litani River, which we'll soon learn was always the territory of historical Israel, etc., more nonsense. Trump will get his chest-thumping jingoism.

What will the Revolutionary Guard get?

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