The obvious trade here is if China sends weapons and cash to Iran in exchange for allowing Chinese oil through.
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The obvious trade here is if China sends weapons and cash to Iran in exchange for allowing Chinese oil through.
It would be deeply ironic if Trump, the avatar of toxic Zionism and Christian Nationalism, loses a war to Iran.
The Saudis better hope that the Iranians/Houthis aren’t able to disrupt Petroline or the terminals at Yanbu.
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Fuck Orban
ABC NEWS: “.. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that he worries the current war with Iran could drag on for years.”
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Also, just as an aside, if Putin doesn’t make peace soon, Ukraine will still need to get access to the Russian assets.
So I would suggest that Bart De Wever start thinking about a solution to the Bart De Wever problem.
Liberals across Europe need to hang this like an anchor around the neck of all of the far right parties that Trump has promoted.
High gas prices are the fault of Orbán and every other member of the pan European right.
So sad that the Gulf monarchs who have done so much to back Trump in his effort to overthrow US democracy have to watch their oil infrastructure get bombed and their main transit route be shut down.
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The U.S. is looking to Ukraine to help its operations against Iran — as Trump rages at Starmer and Sánchez for refusing to back his war.
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Exiles are dumb
I love how The Free Press treats this like it's the most damaging political story you could imagine -- and then you actually see what the posts are that Rama Dujawi liked, and they aren't even controversial.
That's why Reingold needs to use terms like "Holocaust inversion" to make it sound scary.
FWIW I would be ok with Pezeshkian + democratic reforms of office of the Supreme Leader + nuke deal.
Also accountability for the attacks on your protestors. This was not the first time, but it should be the last
All I can offer is opposition to Trump. That is not nothing, but he is the President
They increasingly lack the ability to strike those neighbors in a significant or sustainable way
Same as it ever was.
AI companies should obviously fight this
Right?
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
They will try to cancel the midterms, but this is just them flailing as the big No Kings Protest approaches and catastrophes of their own making threaten to consume them.
"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing.
Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before."
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I get zero sense that they even did any planning or analysis at all.
They seem to be completely unprepared for how Iran would fight this war, despite Iran essentially doing nothing novel.
Assuming the plan was to spark protests to overthrow the regime, it’s not clear they looked into its viability
That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...
Nothing about this situation is ideal.
I think one reason that many of us are skeptical that the regime in Tehran will fall with airpower alone is that the US also tried this in Iraq in 1991, as Operation Desert Storm transitioned into the no-fly zones of Operations Provide Comfort I/II. 👇
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Still, it’s hilarious to see the gulf monarchs attempt to impose some process on this administration.
Nobody in the Republican Party can do it, but if the GCC stages a freak out Trump absolutely will listen.
Anyways, fuck the GCC.
Maybe he will hire her to be his national security advisor.
Usually you call in the experts before you plan a war.
For that matter, usually you have a war plan before you attack the enemy.
