While the real motive for Iran antagonism is to permit more Israel genocide and expansion, there is a lot of “political capital” invested in ending Iranian nuclear program. Buying Iran’s uranium at a high price can satisfy both US victory over denuclearization, and Iran’s demand for reparations as well as trade normalization.
oooh, i know this one… Canada.
The mental cage you have, is that the war needs to continue.
US can also lease a ship already on the wrong side of SoH, to make it fully American.
Is that more illegal than bombing fishing boats? At any rate, just make the totally certain to be successful escort mission use US oil tankers and ships, because the US has so many ships to spare, and the mission is being done because they’ve totally won the war and no one can touch greatest military ever.
An easy offramp without resolving nuclear issue is the US will agree to leave if SoH shipping is open to all but Israel. Israel and Iran can make their own deal. This is harder to spin as a victory than buying Iran’s uranium, but it’s something Iran would agree to.
This is false. It is a cheaper energy future with more resilience and less reason for war (profiteering for stategic scarcity). Hydrogen-solar economy is cheaper than adding new fossil fuels, and so transitioning away the most economic path, before worrying about the expense of reversing climate damage. That incumbent energy loses in transition as demand fades for their climate terrorism should not be part of equation.
Original conflict was about Kosovo. 1000 years of progroms by both Ottomans and Serbia to the region. Serbian claims of Albanian gangs doing mean stuff certainly had a basis. Serbian army intervening is like Russia defending Donbas, or like NATO intervention for Kosovo/Albania (both picking a side), and more legitimate than US recent bombing of Carribean fishing boats.
Fighting in Bosnia, even if groups had arms supply support from different sides is much harder to make the usual political BS warcrime accusations that comes from home grown political narratives, and political BS against specifically Bosnian Serbs is an extreme stretch that has never stopped US+Colonial empire scum before.
The scary far right parties tend to be against NATO. CDU implemented all of the hateful anti-immigrant legislation the AfD wanted. Its those “pure liberal hearts” that want war on Russia, and digital ID surveillance.
According to Iran, some of the strikes on those territories are black flag ops by Mossad/Israel. Israel would do this to keep GCC allied with “US mission”. GCC is faced with choice of attacks by Iran or by axis of demonism. All of the countries you listed, KSA excepted, have outsourced their military to the US.
All of the countries you listed are opposed to the war, and would be thrilled with full cease fire, and Iran giving everyone permission to transit Gulf, and trade.
In Plane interview last night, Trump threatened NATO members to join the war. “We will remember their inaction/US has a long memory” after a year of threats and extortion against all allies. There is no known offer to allies to “be paid” to help. Meanwhile, Israel has authorized, for first time in history, to pay for its own weapons. Trump’s threats come with declaring it a victory if oil prices increase for allies, because US oil companies getting richer is “good for America”.
Despite “ahead of schedule on plan” claims, this is all obvious defeat. Every other country in the world is much better off getting Iran’s permission to cross without military escorts. They need to extort and threaten the US to get them to declare victory and lift sanctions on Iran. Just buy Iran’s uranium, and STFU. US would need to pay more to allies for their help than they’d pay Iran to save face.
The economics for new energy as a slow transition were already there at $50/barrel. Geopolitical extortion means that fuel dependence means energy insecurity from enemies foreign and domestic (the monopolists and oil companies that corrupt our government). At one point this week, Trump said America (just its oil companies) will make a lot of money from destruction of all Gulf contries.
The geopolitical extortion case for having secure/fuelless energy existed yesterday, and will exist as long as US can be bribed to make oil more expensive. It should not be “oh wow, who could of thought some oil facilities could have ever gotten blown up, I better look at EV websites today”
On an individual basis, your demand for the best affordable EVs and energy indepdendent of the nationality of the company/workers who might provide it for you, should be not on comparing cost vs $2/gasoline a month ago, but on the fear of $4 or $6 gasoline, your government will enable, and on the fear of a $3/gallon carbon tax (paid as dividend to citizens/residents) as the only solution to global warming and energy transition.
It’s that $300/ton carbon tax that will speed transition. Overall, people are too dumb to realize their extortion and oppression is forever, and rooting for oil facilities destruction, as part of any solution, doesn’t change that it was going to happen anyway. When facility is rebuilt it is emissions, and lost oil obtained elsewhere to fill the gas tank it was already going to be used in, is more emissions.
No. Complete opposite. Not just full emissions from the buring oil, but replacement oil “needs” to be dug up.
The DNC is a Zioninst Supremacist organization with primary mandate to ensure Zionist first rule over the US. “Donor pressure” to not endorse Mamdami, or Chuck Schumer’s “my job is to gaslight the left into supporting Israel”, or every Presidential candidate since Carter having Zionist absolutist devotion is simple proof of bipartisan subjugation to Israel’s interests. DNC may well have preferred Trump in last election. They only solicited money instead of volunteers to help turnout. Even Bernie calling for a big tent party between genocidal Zionist supremacists and the genocide-concerned is an incoherent DNC first political position. Zionist/CIA controlled colonies are even weaker than DNC in opposing US/Zionist empire.
Poor relations with Iran, with only practical objective of destroying Iran rather than reforming it or befriending it, is part of US’s 45 year greater Israel project. The Great Satan is only a Satan because it is a pure demonic asshole towards Iran and any group that has received support from Iran, and extreme unchallenged propaganda from US, includes that the Lebanese barracks bombing was done by a Lebanese group while US ships were shelling Lebanon.
The bipartisan/media warmongering in service of Israel means no mainstream voice condemning Israel’s supremacist murderous/genocidal objectives. Only criticism of process and results is allowed, to avoid contemplating the fundamental evil of the US, its Zionist subservience, and the US’s impending collapse.
The path to saving the US through UBI, and liquid democracy, is a military coup, but long term political platform of exterminating Zionazi influence over the US by delegitimizing politicians with Zionist views, and zeroing out financially all oligarchy supporting them. Nationalizing oil and weapons and media not out of a Marxist/DEI motive, but from an anti-treason perspective.
Still, the process of achieving maximum evil (complete destruction of Iran instead of any reform/relations to make Iran more successful) had the significant miscalculation in assassinating Ayatolah (very old and ill), and school bombing (no DNC criticism of even this), to unite Iranians behind IRGC, even if IRGC was still going to mount same defense, to allow same destruction level. “Surprise attack” strategy was categorically absurd and increases certainty of failure. Begging allies for help 2 weeks after start is an impeachable offense of failure of duty to Zionist ambitions. Process needed to be a long propaganda and bribery campaign targeting axis of demonism to prepare for a united collapse and failure.
JDAMs are plane launched “dumb bombs” with extra guidance and fin system added on to be more precise. Iran doesn’t have much defensive systems against the planes, and the bombs themselves are generally not intercepted. Iran does produce more offensive missiles than US combined offensive and defensive missiles, in addition to intensive drone manufacturing by Iran.
Just as there was a 20:1 kill ratio in favour of US in Vietnam as a US metric for how awesome everything was going for the US, generaly, every hit on US allies and Israel counts as a cost that was never supposed to happen. Contrary to Pentagon propaganda about fewer Iran missile launches every day, damaging strikes seem to be steady or increasing.
semiconductors is most critical industry. US is an equal producer to Qatar (33% of supply each), and it is made from LNG (part that doesn’t liquify) byproduct.
this type of stop-and-go conflict massively favors the US
good analysis, but this is false, because Iranian missile/drone production is higher than US’s, and so it recovers faster than US. JDAM production capacity is high though, even if 2026 budget is only for 2300, and are dependent on rare earths. 2026 budget cost is $80k/unit.
Like missile defense systems that are being canibalized out of Asia to serve Israel, this is Japan “defensive” assets that will be kamikazeed onto Iran.
Battle group, USS Tripoli, is 2400 marines and 2600 sailors spread around 5-8 ships.
Iran will heavily commit to a Waterloo event, and 99-1 that will be outcome if they go beyond Oman, and they are still strikable in Oman.
Yes. Very few photo ID options have citizenship status, and the combo government photo id (drivers license) and birth certificate combo affects people with name changes. 15%-20% of Americans lack the primary ID requirement, and there are fees to obtaining them. The lack of ID would skew towards lower incomes who don’t need passports (realID is a domestic travel passport).
There’s already massive voter suppression of urban areas through long lines, and specific agitation to increase voting time by challenging voters, Skewing voter eligibility to air travellers and 5 mostly blue states that include citizenship on drivers license is likely to harm rural bumfucks that don’t travel, and not obviously benefit GOP. Still, legal challenges will likely block it before mid terms, though the politics of “Democrats want massive (nonexistant) voter fraud to let illegal pet eaters vote” is probably the point.