@JimHendley4NC Only people who are also shocked that all the Chinese tankers are sailing past the US blockade but the Iranian blockade is stopping the traffic they want to
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Beached Whale
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Beached Whale
@Boris_1762
fatter than I should be and not very agile in or out of water
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Is anyone else confused how Iran still has Naval vessels?!
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@KarolineGosling If America was the best society then people wouldn’t be so scared of their government, the police or their neighbours that they need to own a gun.
They wouldn’t be afraid of going to the doctors and would have environmental or workers protections.
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The amount Europe hates America is beyond me as a German.
We literally copied everything from and about America.
America used to copy Europe, but that time is long gone. We now copy America, with everything.
Because, let's be honest, America is the best western society.
But the hate and arrogance of the Europeans towards America? Insane.
The majority of Europe, male or female, literally just act like jealous women at this point.
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@MorleyStri4576 @erik_thorvalds Currently he is not even managing to blockade Chinese ships from transporting oil from Iran…
Every day the USA looks weaker under Trump
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@erik_thorvalds I can realistically see Trump taking over Canada economically.
It's not like he couldn't if he wanted to.
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The American trade talks are going to fail.
The Americans are going to unilaterally pull out of USMCA. (Yes, they can do that)
Canada is in deep, deep trouble.
They don’t realize what is coming.
The saddest, most pathetic part is that it has all been 100% self inflicted.
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@arva61138 @J_Nitad President Trump would have never left all that equipment behind for our enemies to use against us
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Don't lecture me about losing a few planes or cost of a mission when your President left $85 Billion in equipment in Afghanistan with the most disastrous withdrawal in U.S. military history...
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@HerazPhil @RLHeinrichs Don’t forget that Trump didn’t prove that the military global reach was limited by strategic partnerships and didn’t start a development and re-arming race by countries expecting (mostly allies) to need to protect themselves from an aggressive USA
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@RLHeinrichs The JCPOA didnt get any servicemembers killed, didn't waste $1B a day, the strait of hormuz stayed free & open, it got rid of their HEU, 24/7 surveillance/inspection rights, & best of all, Israel couldn't trick us into believing the WMD myth again.
Then trump fucked it up
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@wla1103 @MichelleMaxwell If a Trump hadn’t exited the original agreement or actually bothered to respond to the recent negotiations he could have avoided this.
In reality he has forced a conflict and exposed that the US military has far less capability than people expected.
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You may honestly believe that but even liberal media isn’t trying to claim that.
If you really care to inform yourself do some independent research.
Iran could have sent a tweet saying they’d stop enriching uranium and pursuing nuclear weapons - but they have not. If EVEN a war isn’t enough - then how do you suggest more failed diplomacy would achieve the same?
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🚨This is the Persian Gulf! You see the first blockade in the narrow area? That’s the strait of Hormuz. That’s what the terrorist Islamic regime closed to put pressure on president Trump and US to back down. But they still don’t get it that President Trump is a 3 D chess player. He closed the second area which is wider and no ship related to the terrorist Islamic regime is able to leave or enter.
This is absolutely one of the smartest moves in the modern warfare. We give the glory to God for giving President Trump wisdom, knowledge understanding and might. The Islamic regime never thought of this and are caught by surprise. They literally can’t import weapons, missile fuels, they can’t sell oil. This is like holding them by the neck. Plus because of the Islamic regime closed the strait of Hormuz, now everyone is buying expensive oil from the USA. US oil sale jumped to 5.3 million barrels per day. Military masterpiece.
Shared from Ramin Parsa
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@MAPatriot1630 @ulrichspeck DoGE cut a load of research and tech projects and the Saudis started “investing” in this IP.
Given the Dubai Ports panic it’s amazing the Trump has been able to sell off as much as he has to the ME…
Mind you he is already fighting wars for these countries so…
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@ulrichspeck Very soon, Americans will travel the world and marvel at how backwards and quaint all other countries are, much like we do when visiting Colonial Reenactment villages, and as we did at the turn of the 1900s and after WWII.
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All the predictions about "America is becoming weaker, we're entering the era of mulitpolarity" have not factored in:
- US now a leading energy superpower
- US tech is inventing the future and everybody wants to be part of it
- US keeps its role as guardian of regional orders
Guy Laron@guy_laron
Most of the pundits are unable to factor in energy. This crisis is different than any other in the last 50 years bc this time the U.S. is not an energy importer. Not only is it a net exporter, but the U.S. is an energy superpower. It *gains* from the conflict.
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@wla1103 @MichelleMaxwell So Trump could have got the same result by not attacking Iran and exposing the fact the US military has no global reach without partners?
I mean Iran had already agreed to turn over the nuclear materials before this kicked off..
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@MichelleMaxwell What’s even funnier is the American liberal media was making fun of it the first few days. Since then it’s become the defining moment of the war and best countermove in modern history. Zero bloodshed, all the power.
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@GrandmasTX_Home @hcorvinNYC @LarryTaunton Probably worth trying to live somewhere where your employer doesn’t own your life and you are not so afraid you need to have open carry laws…
I say this as someone who has lived in Tx and seen the general levels of fear and lack of freedom that abound
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@Boris_1762 @hcorvinNYC @LarryTaunton Sounds like something a fully indoctrinated, information limited, uneducated Brit would say.
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The collapse of Giorgia Meloni to what is essentially EU peer pressure underscores just how remarkable President Trump is.
Whatever he might not be, Trump is definitely his own man — and he won’t be bullied.
Not even if you try to assassinate him.
“FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”
Daily Romania@daily_romania
Giorgia Meloni's government approved 500,000 work visas for non-EU migrants
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@GrandmasTX_Home @hcorvinNYC @LarryTaunton Decades of saying that free education, cheap healthcare and sensible living costs is akin to socialism has terrified the USA into extinction
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@hcorvinNYC @LarryTaunton Ahhhh... like all our countries, not discouraging childbirth for decades & instead, subsidizing the costs would have been a LOT cheaper than supporting generations of cousin breeding, barbarians for life.
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@LarryTaunton EU requires countries to take refugees, it has no influence on work visas. These are issued based on a local need.
Not sure how people don’t understand this
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@asalp1278 @JohnLeFevre Any “money” from the US taxpayer was spent buying weapons and materials (to send to Ukraine) from within the USA creating jobs.
It’s a Ponzi scheme to subsidise domestic companies. There is a reason when Trump cut international aid it cost US domestic jobs.
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@HansMahncke In the past world leaders didn’t have to speak to a convicted rapist who requires their ego to be massaged constantly as part of the interaction with the USA…
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The translation barely captures how smug, self-satisfied, and contemptuous this guy is. He frames the mere act of speaking with President Trump as some great sacrifice on his part, as if it’s a burden he reluctantly agrees to carry because someone has to. Worse still, his reasoning reduces everything to pure utility. It’s not about shared history, common culture, or any sense of Western civilization. His entire premise is that engagement is necessary only because Europe cannot defend itself, and once that changes, the relationship becomes expendable. The level of condescension is completely off the charts.
Clash Report@clashreport
German Chancellor Merz on Trump: The truth is—I try to maintain a reasonable personal relationship with the American president. Right now, we cannot defend ourselves on our own. At the moment, only a few of us can still speak with him in a trusting way. I have access to him—things improve when the doors are closed. But it’s still not good. I didn’t choose him—but he is the president of the United States.
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@Object_Zero_ @LilyWonderland5 Why do you think it is ring fenced? It might go to the UK due to proximity to supply but if someone else offers more money off it goes there
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@LilyWonderland5 1. North Sea gas does go to the UK.
Where do you think it goes?
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The UK is 51-55° North, it is on the same latitude as Siberia, and Alaska.
In the UK, 26.6 million of the 28 million households are heated with natural gas.
The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to natural gas shocks.
The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less natural gas domestically. So a 70% windfall tax is applied to domestic gas production.
British voters agree. 🤔
As a result, there now isn’t enough gas for electricity generation. Electricity prices are rising.
The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to electricity price shocks.
The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less electricity. A 55% windfall tax is now applied to electricity generation.
British voters agree. 🤔
It’s difficult to be sympathetic here, maybe a sympathetic approach is that the UK is a good case study for mass delusion? Maybe people have been manipulated to feel this way?
If they haven’t, then it’s difficult to be sympathetic.
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP
Working people shouldn't bear the brunt of global gas price shocks while electricity generators make exceptional profits. So we're taking action to help break the link between high gas prices and high electricity prices, meaning stronger protection against future energy shocks.
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@Melody9Earth @Robbie_Reasons @SeraLgdxh Gas drilled from the North Sea costs the same no matter which country does it.
The difference is we sold our extraction and energy companies at a loss so will always be on the rough end
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@Robbie_Reasons @SeraLgdxh We’re outsourcing our carbon footprint. And bankrupting the country in the process.
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@tomhfh If the market is competitive and fighting for employees then we would not have had wage suppression for so many years.
Also if employees were mobile and the salary adequate then the unions would have no power over employers because the jobs would be oversubscribed.
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Strikes are dumb. Antiquated. Anachronistic. Very early 20th century energy. They’re harking back to a completely different era.
Today we live in a competitive market economy. Go and get a different job if you don’t like your terms of employment.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
From a first principles point of view, why should a group of employees be able to hold their employer to ransom? Why should they be able to force negotiations, entrenching their position as employees over that of people who might want to work for the employer on the terms that the employer is offering? Why do we forbid the employer hiring people who might accept their terms or pay? Why do we force the employer to keep on staff who have refused new offered terms of work, and who walk out over those terms? Why do we entrench incumbents and kneecap efficiency in the process?
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@pjcboro @WullieHalliday It’s far easier to upgrade a boiler to a heat pump in a house with radiators and a hot water tank than it was to install this system in houses with fireplaces.
There are still plenty of houses without mains gas but very few without electricity
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@WullieHalliday To use your terminology, only an idiot would imagine H2 is the answer, that there is current practical technology to store access wind, or that converting from a coal to gas boiler is similar to installing a heat pump.
You just keep proving my point, sorry.
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The level of ignorance about energy is staggering, especially amongst the most fanatical net zero advocates.
Basic 1: even if we replace all gas powered stations we will still need a huge amount of natural gas. 98% of UK homes are heated by gas or oil, not electricity.
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@alan_poirier @Thomas93469886 The current US model is not one to replicate.
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@alan_poirier @Thomas93469886 Trump empowered Musk to decimate research and gov backed projects. Saudi has stepped in and bought up infrastructure, medical and tech IP as part of their $1tn investment moving all this knowledge straight to KSA while somehow avoiding the Dubai Ports uproar.
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Every Canadian who voted for Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney needs to read this.
The United States produces more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. It is also a huge supplier of LNG.
That's why Iran is being strangled by the blockade and why China is being hurt.
But that's not the takeaway I want to people to have.
Canada could have been there right beside the US. But a decade of anti-energy policies (a loss of $1 trillion in investment) means we cannot export to meet demand. It means our dollar is devalued. It means inflation. It means high food costs.
Wake up. Liberals are destroying the country.
dlacalle.com/en/from-levera…
#cdnpoli #iran #energy
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@MikeWat3232 @stevewalleyR @clairebubblepop @BramhamAlex Can you name the national oil company of the UK?
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@stevewalleyR @clairebubblepop @BramhamAlex Bllx. Selling off our north sea oil instead of keeping it like Norway did, selling off the utilities to ensure we pay the most and get the least, invading Libya, Brexit, supporting the Russians, and allowing financial sector to blow their brains out, has got us where we are.
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