In my assessment, Iran already has a nuclear weapon (or multiple warheads) and is waiting for the right existential circumstances that would justify the use of that warhead, where it wouldn't be BLAMED for using nukes as a last-ditch survival attempt.

The invasion of Iran with a large number of U.S. troops (such as air-dropping thousands of 82nd Airborne troops into Iranian territory) may be exactly that trigger, where using nukes at that point would be seen by the rest of the world as a "self-defense" use of the weapons, rather than a "first use" scenario.

There are indications that Iran has set a trap for the U.S. and that if large number of troops are sent in, such actions would trigger another new level of this already disastrous war.

Trump would be wise, in my opinion, to simply declare victory and leave. Because if he doesn't, there are multiple escalation paths that lead to the end of western economies and potentially the lives of billions of people on this planet.

The bot attacks on BrightAnswers.ai (our deep research engine) have been thwarted. Bots were distilling answers from our engine resulting in denial of service to human users. Probably a bunch of lobsters. They were running on Amazon AWS infrastructure with distributed IPs. I've applied heuristics-based blocking of bots and now the service is restored for HUMAN users. Sorry about the inconvenience during our 'bot sweep. (We went lobster hunting...)

The White House says food prices are going down. Meanwhile, this NON-ORGANIC package of Kirkland tenderloin beef, barely over 5 pounds, is $155... (and it's going to go MUCH higher in the aftershocks of the war on Iran...) (h/t to Michael Yon for sending me the photo)