> It's not related to scamming, but the US did just bomb Iranian nuclear facilities; the reaction was a face-saving gesture that was intentionally weak so as to

> It's not related to scamming, but the US did just bomb Iranian nuclear facilities; the reaction was a face-saving gesture that was intentionally weak so as to de-facto de-escalate. Last I checked Iran and U.S. didn’t have a great relationship, so I don’t really know what point you’re trying to make. If anything you’re just further reinforcing my point. Iran is already cut off from the U.S. financial system, not many people there running scams against American citizens when they literally can’t transfer the money into the country. > Don't you realize that Trump's election, his tariffs, all this is due to popular sentiment that the US was getting the raw end of the deal in its foreign affairs, that there was a need to, literally, put America First? What does popular sentiment have anything to do with the practical reality? You can have all the popular sentiment you want, doesn’t change the facts on the ground. If US popular sentiment is that it wants to speed run a declining empire, that doesn’t change the fact that even Trump is cowed by the likes of Xi Jinping, and amusingly, Putin. > If anything, such ideas, to have targeted attacks and enforcement aimed at the exact actors targeting American citizens, have been at their most popular in decades, at least since the Iraq war went off the rails. Are you honestly trying to equate an atrocity like 9/11 to financial fraud?