DP, not the PP who doesn’t understand what the Strait of Hormuz is apparently - but $2/barrel isn’t a great deal when it was free six weeks ago. Plus I’m sure Iran won’t do anything terrible with all that money… |
The Gulf States will eat it and eventually connect their pipelines to Oman. Iran is going to need a lot of money to rebuild their civilian infrastructure and tame their coming massive economic challenge. It could be a lot worse. |
On my map, you can't go around the Horn of Africa from inside the Persian Gulf without first going through the Strait of Hormuz. |
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This war has been a big strategic win for Iran. Trump basically gifted Iran the equivalent of the Suez or Panama canals. Iran will be making bank charging every tanker millions in fees. Essentially, Iran now controls 20 percent of the world's energy. And they have their uranium. No doubt Iran will have nuclear weapons in a year or two. Iran is much stronger today compared to two months ago.
In the age of cheap drones, choosing war is pretty stupid, as both Russia and the US have learned the hard way. You can't defeat Ukraine. You can't defeat Iran. At least Trump knew to surrender sooner rather than later. But we should probably stop electing Republicans. They are morons for choosing this. |
Nothing a sharpie can't fix! |
To really evaluate the aggressor we also need to tally how many Israel has attacked in Lebanon (a sovereign country that it is occupying 20% of after displacing 1.1 million people), in the West Bank (where the NYT has recently reported settlers violently sexually assaulting a man and killed a family with little kids), and Gaza (where there are reports that Israel is curtailing deliveries of water). I’m Jewish so please don’t tell me I am antisemitic. I just have eyes and a brain that allow me to connect the dots. |
It’s better vs nothing for the past month or how ever long the Iranians want to deny access. Oh Iran will use the money to rebuild and re-arm. They are the new power in the regime. Sanction gone and all frozen assets freed up. |
lol Please look at a map of the strait of Hormuz. Geography rules and Trump is f’d up bigly. We went from free passage to a toll You can’t get to Africa without going through the strait. |
So what? Not our problem. |
Israel and the US attacked Iran today hitting targets in Iran. Iran is retaliating against Israel for these strikes. If Israel has not been in a fight where the other side can hit back. just like the US and it showed. |
Apparently you haven't seen the MAGA map:
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Trump isn't going to touch this stove again. He's gotten out and is going to call it a win no matter what. |
| I’m confused why Trump doesn’t dump Israel at this point. His base would be happy, so would the international community and the MSM. They’re not buying him like the Gulf Arabs. The only MAGAs who like Israel are the cultists who would go in any direction. What ties him to them? |
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