The Mahdi Keeps the Score

@Anna_Giaritelli @dcexaminer Lol that piece of paper means they entered the country legally. Later on they just didn’t keep up with the paperwork, that’s made them “illegal.” These ICE guys don’t understand their own job

@RiEG0hG2njIwprL @tootisen @howardbaskerv @CENTCOM @Natsecjeff Welcome to the fact that places can have any name in any language, and have in fact had many different names in each language over the centuries. These all mean Gulf of Arabia because you used a US-based service to generate them, and the US insists on that term lately

@tootisen @howardbaskerv @CENTCOM @Natsecjeff الخليج العربي Arabian Gulf خلیج عربی Golfo Arábico Arabischer Golf ਅਰਬੀ ਖਾੜੀ আরব উপসাগর Залив — арабский Körfez Arapçadır کەنداوی عەرەبی 阿拉伯灣 Халиҷи Араб המפרץ הערבי Le Golfe est arabe Vịnh Ả Rập Kendava Erebî 아라비아만 アラビア湾 Арап к ъ о р ь ф е з.

@alhamedi1234 @NazaninNour Few generations and the deserts of Arabia will be even more unlivably hot than they are now, partly due to us using all their oil

@NazaninNour Google calls it Arabian 😘 Few generations and people will forget this Persian gulf argument.

It’s the Persian Gulf now and forever, regardless of what any U.S. official says.

@RKelanic @BartDePalma Very well-put, though I'll say this: in a failed state it's much easier to just pick the warlord along that Gulf coast and sponsor them. They won't block the waterway because we'll be backing them against the 999 other sides in the Iranian civil war

@BartDePalma Failed states can still attack waterways, like the Houthis in the Red Sea. FWIW Iran has never initiated a conventional war on its neighbors or anyone else. Not because the regime are angels — they aren’t — but because Iran’s leaders are rational and have been deterred.

Blockading Iran will not compel its surrender. After enduring 6 weeks of war, Iran’s leaders won’t suddenly decide, “Oh, we can’t use our ports now. We better meet U.S. demands.” Trump can’t escalate the U.S. out of this mess. The war failed — now it’s time to cut losses. @defpriorities

@BartDePalma @RKelanic Iran hates the fucking Taliban. The last time they were its ally was when we were the ones mostly funding it, against the USSR in the 80s

@RKelanic Iran waged proxy wars against the US through the Taliban, Iraqi Shia militias, Hizbollah, Hamas, Houthis and several small terror groups killing hundreds of Americans. We are decades late in ending these war criminals.

@BartDePalma @RKelanic It will turn it into a giant version of the Syrian civil war that will spread to all of its neighbors

@RKelanic Blockade should be just the start. Reducing Iran to a failed state will deny it the ability to war on its neighbors and build nukes.

@PeachyK24921284 @WarMonitor3 There is no risk. All its ships have to do is sail over to a non-Iranian Gulf port where plenty of oil is for sale

@WarMonitor3 and China said they would retaliate by sending in their naval ships to sink US ones. not going to risk losing a tanker.

Looks as if an energy ship bound for China has already been turned back around by the US navy.

@MarcThielke @WarMonitor3 @NewReaganCaucus It can, will, and the whole UN other than us will listen. Because most countries are not so stupid as to believe that China's always trying to start wars without having been in one for many decades. Those islands are far closer to it than us. We're paranoid, entitled

@WarMonitor3 @NewReaganCaucus Keep in mind how China behaves in its neighbors waters, ramming ships, water cannons and building sand dredge islands. China can’t complain about other countries actions in international waters.

@nordicalien777 @WarMonitor3 Way to wish misery on nearly 1/4 of the human race

@WarMonitor3 Sounds good. China needs to suffer economically.

@Fraser_USA @WarMonitor3 They're gonna be fine

@WarMonitor3 Things about to get a whole lot worse in Beijing.

@WarMonitor3 It can just sail over to Oman, Bahrain, Qatr, buy the oil there then transit through the Gulf for free. Everyone in the Gulf has backed up oil exports. They're clamoring to offload it

@MarkAmesExiled You're right about this but the PRC is not stupid or bloodthirsty enough to have made any of the statements people are saying it made. It's just going to wait. Its ships otw can buy oil from the Arabian peninsula for now

The DC foreign policy elites are sure that Trump’s blockade, on their advice, will coerce China to force Iran to cave. They’ve been pushing variants of this plan with 0 success for decades: squeeze China to force Iran to force Houthis to cave, or to force North Korea to cave etc

@juanvenchy He looks like he's gonna cry and the interviewer looks like he's trying hard to reassure him

the interviewer being hotter than him

@bucephalus424 Ain't it always the way with the middle class. They try to live like aristocrats after the time when those aristocrats lived large, once something aristocratic has got cheap - maybe so cheap that it only functions with govt subsidization - and is thus no longer aristocratic

The thing that has to be understood about much of the American West and ranching is that ranchers today are all effectively LARPers subsidized by the state

@MENAUnleashed Iran is already radicalized. It will fall apart within less than 6 months of this. China will be smart and wait to see what happens. It can buy oil from other countries and wait to see if its previous contracts will be honored later on. It also makes plenty of its own oil

Ceasefire officially failed. Trump is starting a blockade on Iran exactly as expected. By extension, this is a de facto embargo on Chinese imports and exports to Iran and the broader Gulf. We are in WWIII and the war for Taiwan is really around the corner. China now has to choose what do next. I give them max 6 months from today before joining the war. Iran is now at a serious critical juncture. Standstill and resist and change human history literally or regime instability and social unrest lead to deteriorating military capability. Iran will most likely radicalise.

@IamR0galD0rn @PanasonicDX4500 故不盡知用兵之害者，則不能盡知用兵之利也。"It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." -Sunzi, Art of War ctext.org/art-of-war/wag…

@X_EverythingAp @PanasonicDX4500 Any from China we can quote?

[ARGUING WITH A GRADUATE OF THE PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS] “This doesn’t line up with what I remember from VeggieTales.”

انتشار مقطع فيديو لنادلة صينية تقوم بضرب شابين ضربا مبرحا بعد أن قاما بالتحرش بها

@sephardi_genius It isn't over though. Those few among them who can tell that are going to beat out the majority who just aren't paying much attention. Like if the oil doesn't flow, companies are gonna go out of business. Their unfounded faith will confront reality

@IamR0galD0rn @PanasonicDX4500 By saying war is always bad he's agreeing with some of the best and most loyal generals who have ever served the United States

@PanasonicDX4500 The Bible: War isn't always bad. Not always. The Pope: War is always bad. Always. Christian: Have you read the bible? It says the opposite. You: OMG HE IS LITERALLY THE POPE HOW DARE YOU ARGUE WITH HIM.

@WellsJorda89710 Who the fuck do you think builds and maintains the fucking roads for this "private" transportation that everyone supposedly has a right to

🚨 THIS IS WHAT COMMUNISM LOOKS LIKE: Democrats Are Trying to Stop You From Driving Massachusetts Democrats just proposed a bill to LIMIT how much you can drive your own car — and create a government council to force people onto public transportation instead. They don’t trust you with your own vehicle. They don’t trust you with your own decisions. This is the Democrat agenda: total control over every area of your life — your car, your travel, your energy, your speech, your kids, your money. Republicans MUST unite right now. No matter our disagreements on foreign policy or anything else — the Democrats are dangerous. They are coming for your freedom. Vote like your liberty depends on it… because it does. Share if you’re sick of government overreach 👇 #CommunismInAmerica #DemocratControl #BigGovernment #Massachusetts #AmericaFirst #VoteRepublican #FreedomOrControl

@bennyjohnson The good news for nearly everyone outside the US, though, is that no longer will Americans be gobbling up as much of the rest of the world's oil all the time at artificially low prices. They'll end up with more oil and development, fewer rectangles of green paper

@bennyjohnson We already controlled the global oil supply. That's why they call it the "petrodollar." That's how we were able to sanction Russian & Iranian oil. We're fucking with the very thing that we controlled, and it's only going to bite us in the ass

Trump Just Pulled Off The Biggest Power Move in Global Economic History… Iran played their last card. Then Trump hit ‘em with the Uno Reverse. Now the deck is reshuffling entirely. Energy will never flow the same way again. With Venezuela’s vast oil reserves under U.S. control and now the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, America now oversees the global oil supply. Countries that want oil must buy from America. This is the Gulf of America, packed with supertankers racing to load up on US oil. Hardest hit? China, who just lost their number 1 and 2 oil exporters in a matter of weeks. Absolute masterclass.