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@isfjcutebear Answer is the same “because you didn’t tell us about pearl harbour first”

She had the golden opportunity to say, why didn't you tell us about Hiroshima?

@BratiTano @Skt_ee @juliajeler @AryJeay It’s a bit cringe , I have second hand embarrassment for the regime. But I feel like we’ve crossed the rubicon after “cardboard Ayotallah”.

@Skt_ee @juliajeler @AryJeay I am embarrassed for them over this. It’s being portrayed as a massive US defeat, for some reason. A damaged plane that made its way back to safety with the pilot alive.

It wasn’t Russian air defenses It wasn’t Chinese air defenses It wasn’t American air defenses It was a fully domestically built Iranian air defense system that tracked & hit the “stealth” F-35. Built by Iranian engineers during MAXIMUM sanctions. Never been more proud to be Iranian.

Yes well so is asking the president of the most powerful nation on earth why he didn’t inform some other leaders in the world. Imagine asking your CEO why they didn’t tell his CEO counterparts in some other company about something that provides them market advantage? It’s not a fkn board or committee, such disrespect asking why he didn’t tell others, no one else is entitled to know. Why is he having to tell them? Is he expected to ask permission? They’ll leak it if they don’t like it anyway, which they won’t because it affects their precious oil from the strait. Reality is, if POTUS wants to bomb Iran to protect Americans, he doesn’t need to inform anyone else. If anyone else still stupid enough to rely on a strait that an Islamist regime closes every now and then, they can go get the oil themselves. Asking him why he didn’t inform other lesser governments is the real insult here. Throwing it back on the japs was the right answer. Suck on those sour apples. They lost the world war, you live in humiliation when you lose.

@TheRealThelmaJ1 There’s a time for humor and a time for respect. Referencing the Attack on Pearl Harbor in front of Japan’s PM clearly wasn’t the right moment. 🖕

When you need Japan's help probably not the greatest time to be making Pearl Harbor jokes

@ObtainerOf @butt_watermelon Yes but Americans don’t go hungry. And in war times the bar is much lower than profits.

@butt_watermelon That money will never touch the average american’s pockets. Oil is the primary input for almost every point in our economy. Pain is coming.

I feel like everyone forgets that the United States of America has insane amounts of oil that just requires around $100 a barrel to be profitable to extract.

Unsanctioning Iranian oil doesn’t mean letting the IRGC collect dollars it means seal team six taking possession of Iranian tankers at sea. I thought that was obvious.

The US is energy independent. It can do whatever it wants Europe sacrificed its economy, relevance, and foremost geopolitical security at the altar of the green religion. It will get really nasty now. Don't blame Trump, you did it to yourself. Blame your left-green politicians.

.@SecScottBessent: In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that's 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we'd be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.

@AvidCommentator No. Iranian oil is a dangle over Chinas head. He won’t take it away. Leverage only works if they are still feeding it.

I am aware of the theory that Trump is attempting to take Iranian oil off the table for China. But realistically is it worth alienating most of the developed world with a totally avoidable energy and economic crisis, followed by a famine in places if the war continues long term

@CryptoWhale I suspect Israel used AI to post that video just to fuck with people.

🇮🇱 | In the latest video of Benjamin Netanyahu, they were so focused on counting fingers that they forgot to pay attention to the ears. I’ve never seen someone with two ear canals before.

@SprinterPress @DAlperovitch Good. Then he can go to his virgins soon too.

🇮🇷 Saeed Jalili has been appointed as the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council by the order of Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic. He is a very hardline conservative and is not a supporter of negotiations.

🚨 Breaking: Hossein Dehghan replaces Ali Larijani. During Dehghan's time as Defense Minister, Israel stole the regime's entire nuclear archive. Khamenei was so enraged that he demanded the sacking of Dehghan. They have officially hit the bottom of the talent barrel 🤡

@donaldgorbachev @calvinfroedge This is complete horseshit. Like monarchies just end when the kind dies. They appoint the first born son. That’s how monarchies work. For all the republic bs, Iran has also appointed both of the sons of Khamenei in order, a decidedly monarchist method of succession.

Already wrote that one. Here it is: The five-second epistemology of the counterattack. Any Gulf state that assists in a direct attack on Iran will have missiles sent to its palaces. Not its infrastructure. Its palaces. The buildings where the kings sleep. The throne itself. Iran said this on day one. The missile hits the palace. The monarchy is over. And somebody forgot the most basic difference between the Sunnis and the Shia. The one that matters to this war more than any theological dispute. The Gulf is ruled by monarchies. Hereditary kingdoms. Kings and emirs and crown princes who rule because their fathers ruled. Iran is a republic. Elections. Parliament. Supreme leaders chosen by an assembly. Kill a king and the kingdom ends. Kill a supreme leader and the republic convenes and selects the next one and the next one says not the right time for peace. That’s why nineteen days in, not one Gulf airforce has fired back. Bahrain has intercepted 125 missiles and 203 drones and returned zero. Saudi Arabia intercepts over the Eastern Province and doesn’t retaliate. The UAE absorbs strikes on Fujairah, Shah, Dubai International, Sheikh Zayed Road, and doesn’t scramble a single jet. Qatar takes four ballistic missiles and issues evacuation orders in Doha and doesn’t fire back. Every monarchy making the same calculation every day — absorb the damage, don’t cross the line. The monarchies live there. They understand this. The people tweeting about Gulf airforces counterattacking do not. Iran has all the leverage and knows exactly how to use it. A country that read Sun Tzu better than the Chinese and Clausewitz better than the Germans and the Quran better than the Arabs the empire is hiding behind. Iran has been under sanctions for forty-five years. Fought an eight-year war while the world armed Saddam with chemical weapons. Built the IRGC during deprivation. Built its missile program under sanctions. Built its drone fleet under maximum pressure. Every program the empire is trying to destroy was built during the deprivation the empire now threatens as consequence. The threat is the environment Iran already operates in. The threat is Tuesday. Even Dalio figured it out. The ability to withstand pain is more important than the ability to inflict pain. The kitchen said it first. Karbala is the pain thesis. Fourteen centuries of not submitting. The empire threatening Iran with the thing Iran has already survived while Iran threatens the Gulf monarchies with the one thing they cannot survive. The Gulf states recover more easily. The Gulf states whose 95 to 140 jackup rigs are idle. Whose offshore fields are on decline curves. Whose refineries are under evacuation order. Whose force majeures are declared. Whose Strait is closed. Whose LNG terminals are burning. Whose airports are taking drone debris. The recovery hasn’t started because the war hasn’t stopped and the war hasn’t stopped because the dispensationalist Disney World needs the prophecy and the prophecy requires the war. Day nineteen. The palaces are standing. The thrones are intact. Because Iran said what it would do and every monarchy believed it. The counterattack is a fantasy of someone who doesn’t understand why it hasn’t happened yet. The monarchies are monarchies. The republic is a republic. The Strait is closed.

I'm just really interested to know where a place like the UAE is going to pull troops from. You've basically got an 80% expat country where the locals are used to being paid for being Emirati. Who is going boots on the ground?

I believe that Hamas invaded Israel on 7 Oct because the Iranian regime wanted to stop Arab states from normalising relations with Israel. To say this plan has backfired would be an understatement.

No. This is excellent planning. US now has a negative carry on the strait being closed. Check mate. He is not your president. Your leaders declined sending a ship there to get the oil you need. And yes you shouldn’t need to if Trump hadn’t bombed Iran but you need to be self sufficient and not just rely on US “putting up with assholes who call for their death” for you to survive. How entitled are you who thinks he will have to look out for your energy needs before doing what is best for his people and killing those who call on the death of his people? Americans are his people, you are not. x.com/dantalks1/stat…

So make a giant mess, then f*** off home. Honestly firming as one of the more likely possible outcomes.

Yeah. I told ya that the “please help open the strait” was a test, not a plea. We failed the test and now the test reveals the answers 👇 Isn’t it funny how exactly the day after every country rejects Trumps request to join in securing the strait, it is revealed that the oil market is now diverging from $100 for Americans vs $150 for everyone else? Iran’s tantrum for Trump taking away their nuclear toys is not Trump’s problem, it’s your problem. I repeat: this is not the 70s. Americans worked hard at tech to achieve energy independence, they reap rewards now for all their sacrifice. They don’t have NDIS there you know, money goes back into building and innovating over there. 2 weeks annual leave that most don’t take. No “can’t call an employee after 35hours” law. Not even basic healthcare and medical costs are high. All Trump has to do now is click a button called “temporary domestic reservation” that I bet he has in his wartime toolkit and he blows up the elections of everyone that said no to assisting in the strait. No $100 oil for you! This is an Iran miscalculation: you cannot use as leverage what your enemy does not depend on and actually benefits from. But never let a good crisis go to waste, Trump is using the crisis to teach the world a lesson: it’s Americas world, you are just living in it. You can be mad about it, but take a moment to be impressed. This is a very very well planned out war. x.com/zerohedge/stat…

They aren't safe flows though and that is a huge assumption. China get's its Iranian oil, but that doesn't mean its getting all of its oil from other Gulf States through the Persian Gulf, there is no evidence of that being a widespread factor at this stage. China is also likely getting most of its pre-war oil flows from Saudi Arabia and the UAE through the pipeline networks, which means less for others.

If you dont understand that Iranian oil has been passing through the Strait of Hormuz for the entire duration of the war, then your view as an "expert" on the situation isnt worth jack s***.

@sharma_views “Take that from the 200billion tab they already got for Ukraine” will be the response.

🚨 REPORTER: Trump wants Europe’s help in the Gulf. Why not make it conditional? Ukraine first. FINLAND PRESIDENT: That’s a very good idea. I might pick you up on that. 🙌 EUROPE ABOUT TO MAKE TRUMP DANCE ON THEIR TERMS.

@Shoshana51728 @grok what is the capacity of this pipeline and how much of Iraq’s oil sales through the strait does it over?

Iraq's pipeline through Turkey will be operational in a week. The world is totally bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. The result of this war will be that no country will ever again be able to hold the world hostage by blocking the Strait. The IRI PLAYED ITSELF!

@HalfwayPost Neither did the Iranian leaders tho..

BREAKING: Iranian leaders say they’re not afraid of Donald Trump because he never won an election against a man.

@Geo_Explained @visegrad24 Those last times, America had shit leadership.

@visegrad24 I don't doubt that he is not afraid because at the end of the day the people have to fight it out not him and his family. The past just has shown in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam that it has massive consequences.

Journalist: If you put boots on the ground in Iran, it will be another Vietnam. Are you afraid of that? Trump: No, I'm not afraid of anything.

During negotiations between Iran, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the regime rejected the U.S. offer to provide a peaceful nuclear power program for free. Also during these negotiations, the Iranians made a stunning statement. They boasted to Witkoff and Kushner that they had 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium. There is no commercial purpose for enriching uranium to 60%. The time to go from 60% to 90% enrichment, which is weapons-grade, is weeks, not months. 460 kilograms of uranium enriched to 90% is enough for 10 bombs. Instead of panicking, begging the Iranians not to go forward and throwing money at them like Obama and Biden did, @POTUS chose a different path. When informed of the imminent possibility of a nuclear breakout by Iran, President Trump authorized Operation Epic Fury, which obliterated the Iranian enrichment program. He acted in the nick of time before this terrorist regime would have had enough weapons-grade uranium to make 10 nuclear bombs.