Ironically Trump is making a bigger case for getting off of fossil fuels than any Democrat could.
I ride a bicycle everywhere and occasionally take public transport. Other than higher prices for goods and maybe higher per kilowatt hour for energy usage, this will not hit me as hard as others. I’ve lost 25 lbs in the past 3 months just from cutting back on treats and snacks because $. I’ve got about 40lbs of pure fat still banked to sustain me before the worst of it. I can’t fathom how people paying for cars + gas are going to live with this, especially in areas without public transportation.
Art of the DealTM
Why nobody mention that Saudi arabia restarted the war by attacking an envoy returning from Khamanei funeral leading to this?
You have a link?
Iran really should assassinate the leaders of the Saudis and UAE. Patience is a virtue, just get the pieces in place, and wait.
I mean they literally invented assassins, the whole thing writes itself.
There’s a genocidal war criminal in Israel could use a bit of that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9ldle3d3xo
They are ruled by families, killinggnillik and they current leaders is useless
killinggnillik
Who is gnillik? What is happening here? I get that it’s a palindrome but why?
Just because someone else will take their place doesn’t mean it’s useless, that logic would make killing any leader worthless, which is not the case at all.
The royal families of both the Saudis and the UAE are legitimate, and valuable targets for the Iranians to hit. If they don’t, then it will just encourage future harm against their country.
It really worked so well for the US killing the leader of Iran. Basically won them the war in one stroke. /s
We have an obvious and pertinent example of a decapitation strike on political leadership not being a particularly good strategy from a military standpoint. Iran seems to be conducting itself much in a much less emotionally reactive way than this, so I doubt we’ll see it unless they really are falling apart internally and are just trying to lash out in revenge on their way down.
You are equating the evil empire assassinating a leader with a underdog assassinating the evil empire leaders?
GTFO.
You may end up with even worse more extreme leaders. I just don’t see the advantages of assassination . Better focus on ruining those countries foreign and imperialist interests
You could also end up with less extreme leaders. When you already have extremist fascist genocidal psychopaths running the show, you’re saying that maybe there will be another extremist fascist genocidal psychopath taking their place.
Ok? I’ll take that chance then because if it doesn’t change anything then let’s keep killing them as they pop up until we get one that isn’t an extremist fascist genocidal psychopath anymore.
You don’t have to stop after the first one.
So Hitler shouldn’t have been killed? Stalin? Mussolini? What about a little tin pot dictator sitting on oil wealth abusing their citizens and neighbors with the help of the biggest bully in the world that they stroke off?
In truth, there is only one thing bullies understand, and losing an amount of money isn’t it in this case.
I really find your argument incredible.
I feel like you don’t know much about the dirty deeds these guys have been up to since mohhammed bin tuna here took power. They’ve assassinated a lot of people by the way, using american mercenary firms.
One man regime vs family regime are different
Even then, look at how fucked up Iraq is and how hundreds of thousands and possibly over a million civilians died in the process.
‘Shart’ of war, surely?
More like the art of losing a war
“Any time you establish goals you risk the possibility of failing to achieve them, the wise general abandons such foolishness and instead focuses on simply killing the opponents”
Well, that just can’t be.
I just saw an ai-generated ad from the Department of War that said the US Military is invincible or something.
All of this to cover up his pervert degeneracy. What a huge colossal waste and a big black eye for humanity.
Americans are going to be viewed as drooling shortbus dipshits for an entire generation, at least.
We’re going to be one of those generations the history books look back on with scorn and mockery.
This one is on Saudi arabia
But it’s the same picture.
Look like Trump is in dire straits.
He’s definitely earning money for nothing
I have heard people opining that he is not strait given his associations in the past with Roy Cohn, the lawyer point man of the McCarthy witch hunts and other things.
The truth finally comes out, he’s not so strait after all. I’m glad he’s out of the closet, the strait closet, he came out of his nazi closet a long time ago.
More like “bad news for most of the world”
Most of the world who exerced zero pressure on the USA and blamed Iran for the war
If it’s bad for the US, it’s good for the rest of the world.
Of course. Of course. Once the current system destroys itself, your ideology will magically emerge victorious and everything will be wonderful.
I mean isn’t that how progress has been made historically? What’s the point you’re making- don’t try to change anything because it will never get better anyway?
Of course fight tyrannical empires. Fight them until we win. That’s how we secured democracy, and we want to keep it. Therefore the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
You’ll secure democracy by cheering for one repressive regime over another? That’s some interesting “logic” there.
If we all suffer, it’s bad. Even if you want the US to suffer, which is understandable, it’s still bad if the rest of the world suffers too.
If we all suffer, it’s bad.
Truly, but Trump is not going to stop. His regime has already identified their next targets: Cuba, Panama, Greenland, Canada… We are all going to suffer - but when and how much? Outside of MAGA and Israel, nobody wanted this shit but it still happened. If the closure of the straits leads to the end of Trump’s plans, it’s still ‘good for the rest of the world’ in that it is preferable to a Trump win.
Edit: paragraph break.
I am not so sure. He doesn’t have the juice to do the rest of his nationalistic military bullshit because of this conflict, which won’t end. This is forever war, hotter or colder, Israel won’t let it die, they will keep it going for domestic political reasons. And they have video of our politicians and business leaders fucking children, so the US is their bitch.
They can sanction and such, I don’t think they will have the support for much else.
I hope you’re right. Plus Trump was no genius before dementia, let alone now. With Hegseth running the Pentagon show, Iran could very well end up conquering the US (joking, obviously. well, only a little).
Exactly, they are clowns, fox news anchors are running the US Military. They will continue to step on the military leaders trying to do it right. They already fired half of them.
Like Hitler micromanaging the russian campaign and dooming it changing objectives multiple times right before winter.
If the closure of the straits leads to the end of Trump’s plans
Oh, absolutely, I’m just not sure it will. On one hand, his constituents could see him as ineffective and withdraw their support, but previous experience tells us this is unlikely. On the other hand, economical hardships historically tend to increase support for the far right. And while the military needs fuel, there is no realistic scenario in which the US cannot source enough to continue the war.
Better than capitulating to the child fuckers demands.
Yeah it’s quite a shame that we all put our eggs in your evil basket. The sooner we get what we can out of it, the better. Obviously a few will be broken but it’s better than you greedy fat fucks eating all our eggs.
I’ve never even been to the US but go off 😂
K? Replace you with their or those, I’m sure you can handle it.
Much edge.
Such edgy.
It’s only edgy for Americans to hold this opinion. To the rest of the world, the US is going down the path of Putin’s Russia. USA is globally hated now - even by its former allies.
Facts aren’t edgy. America is literally trying to invade several countries at the moment, some of them it’s longest allies… Do you not watch the news?
The blowhard president talking shit does not equal the US trying to do something.
He talks shit for leverage because he thinks he’s the best even though we all know he’s a piece of fucking shit. He just said he wanted a united ireland, surely because he thinks that will force the UK to join the Iran war.
Same with Canada but for different reasons. Not that he wouldn’t do these things if he could, but he can’t. And he doesn’t have the juice even if we could.
We’ll see
You’re missing the point while you trip over yourself in your eagerness to be edgy
And I say this as someone who holds 'Murica beneath contempt
There is no doubt that it would be better for humanity if the USA were not fascist and were not trying to shake down the entire world. But they are, and they are. Our choices seem to be global economic devastation or literal WW3. The USA has to be stopped because Shitler ain’t gonna stop himself. If Iran and the Houthis can undo Trump by squeezing the economy, i think it’s better than global conflict. There will be terrible repercussions either way, but I still think WW3 would be worse. If this view seems ‘edgy’, it’s because you are more optimistic about what is in store for the world were the USA to succeed in its current aggression against Iran.
The point being?
That in your efforts to shit on the US, you ignore the fact that other, more vulnerable economies will be brutally battered, whether they support the US or not
Your childishness is ignorant to the ripples in the pond
I want to see the power and influence of the US weakened to the point where they are the same as everyone else, but I recognise that ripping the carpet out from under them would hurt many people, and unfortunately, most of them will be the already precarious and vulnerable
The brutal battering of vulnerable economies is Trump’s exact intention. He started that process before he attacked Iran. You can’t view this war in isolation: he is starving Cuba, robbing Venezuela, threatening the rest of NATO…
We can’t avoid the bad outcomes of American aggression; they are upon us. Stopping Trump would be the only ‘good’ outcome at this point - I think that is what the previous poster meant by ‘good for the rest of the world.’
It’s like how amputation and chemotherapy is ‘good’ for a cancer patient if it saves their life.
Maybe they shouldn’t have started a country based on genocide and slavery and then unlimited illegal wars of aggression and exploitation of the rest of the world?
this is why trump is unironically better when it comes to destroying america and thus doing greater good for humanity
True confident incompetent malice is a thing to behold.
Interestingly I’ve seen some claims that it is possible Saudi Arabia failed to aid Tariq Saleh’s National Resistance Forces not from incompetence but rather due to not wanting to lift a finger for a proxy that had a lot of lingering UAE influence. The NRF was a lot more independent minded than the Saudi backed militias and did awkward things like cozying up to the UAE-backed STC (South Yemen separatists) after the STC basically rolled the recognized government of Yemen’s forces in much of former South Yemen… which would have been great for the NRF if things stayed that way but by like a month later the Saudis had booted out the UAE and dissolved the STC entirely.
Compare these unfortunately blurry maps from before and after the offensive, the NRF is the one in blue in the before picture.
Doesn’t seem like a great time for backstabbing and scheming but having a fragmented opposition has been a tremendous headache to the Saudis throughtout this war so I guess if it’s annoying enough… but Ansar Allah has like three quarters of Yemen’s population so they’re hefty (almost up there with the population of Saudi Arabia)
Interesting takes, thanks.
Iran is 2 for 2
