BS Summary: This video contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.6% saturation with 236 hits. Analysis detected 1,598 faulty-reasoning hits from 529 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.7% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,263 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 92.50% of the video peer group.
Overnight, the US and Iran trading attacks.
President Trump posting an image to Truth Social with no description of what
appears to be a US strike in the city of Isvahan.
Video circulating online showing the massive explosion lighting up the night sky.
The Wall Street Journal reporting the Iranian military installation was struck with 2,000 lb bunker buster bombs.
And this is the oil tanker hit by an Iranian drone strike.
Monday. Fire breaking out on the vessel
cocked in a UAE port.
A reminder, the straight of Hormuz remains effectively closed.
Iran also sending a wave of missiles over Israel a day after this strike on this oil refinery in the country's north.
A fireball erupting from the site.
And now with a prolonged war hitting the global economy, pressure is mounting on the Trump administration
as American service members become targets.
These new images show a US radar jet destroyed by an Iranian attack.
pieces of that US Air Force E3 Sentry scattered among debris at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
That attack injuring 15 American soldiers with five in serious condition.
As the administration sends thousands of troops into the region, President Trump is sending mixed messages on the war's future, saying negotiations to end it
are going well, but warning that the US will be blowing up and completely
obliterating Iranian energy infrastructure and drinking water plants
if Iran doesn't reopen the critical strait of Hormuz soon.
Concerns growing that the threat targeting civilian infrastructure is a violation of international humanitarian law.
George pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Trump's words.
>> United States. That's a great expansion of the objectives.
>> Well, well, I think the first point the president makes is he prefers diplomacy.
As I said, those efforts are nent. There is messages being relayed back and forth, some conversations going on, including through intermediaries, and he always prefers that.
>> But at the same time, the administration is claiming a deal with Iran could come quote shortly.
All as Iran repeatedly insists there are no direct talks with the US, saying the president's 15-point plan includes many quote requests that are excessive, unrealistic, and illogical.
And know overnight, the Financial Times is out with a report that a broker for Secretary of Defense Pete Hgsith attempted to make a major investment in defense companies just weeks before the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran.
that alleges that the broker for Hexit at Morgan Stanley reached out to BlackRock in February about making what the paper calls a quote multi-million dollar investment in a fund linked to defense and security assets, including some of the defense department's biggest customers.
Now, Morgan Stanley has not responded to ABC News.
Black Rockck had no comment.
The Financial Times reports that the investment was not ultimately made.
This morning, Pentagon spokesperson Shawn Parnell denying the allegation, posting on X.
This allegation is entirely false and fabricated.
Neither Secretary Hegsmith nor any of his representatives approached Black Rockck about such an investment.
George, the Pentagon is now demanding a retraction.
Man River says,
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