We set our goal so high—regime change—then he ratcheted it up to unconditional surrender, anything below that is a victory for Iran.
I might be very wrong, but people need to start thinking of a face-saving strategy.
Accept a KSA-Qatar mediation, ceasefire, start negotiations, declare victory
It seems like every war in that region will somehow spread to Lebanon. Poor poor Lebanon
Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.
I don’t think you can do worse than Rob Schneider.
I made a similar observation yesterday about IRI strategy so far.
Absorb the initial big punch. Launched enough missiles & drones to deplete missile interceptors. Then launch their most powerful ones.
Clearly prepared for this war.
I made this observation yesterday about Iran’s strategy.
I thought they’ve launched enough missiles, continuously—not their most powerful—to deplete US/Israel missile interceptors.
They also expected a big initial punch from the US, & seem to have absorbed it.
They are prepared for long war, imo
The February job report was released today & it didn’t even make the front pages of the @nytimes.com or the @washingtonpost.com.
Job creation is not important under Trump unlike for his predecessors
The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.
You read that right: -92,000 jobs.
Just one more point: it’s not just the production, supply & prices of oil/LNG that will be impacted, but also all derived products such as fertilizers, kerosine, sulfuric acid, etc.
So, if Gulf countries are forced to shut down oil/LNG production, expect GDPs around the world to take a hit.
Qatar expects all Gulf oil producers to shut down exports if the Iran war continues & driving oil to $150
Most Gulf countries have low oil storage capacity. E.g, Iraq has a 6 day storage capacity, KSA, 11... If the war continues, production has to stop. & restarting production takes a LOT of time
This guy is such a damn idiot.
My hybrid looks really good right now
It's going to matter in the general because the D nominee will need Republican leaning voters to win. And it's *really* hard to convince leaners to vote against their party. The tattoo (and other Nazi stuff) gives R leaners a ready-made excuse to stay home.
That’s what Thanarud gets you!
* live .. sigh 😞
“U.S. crude oil on Friday posted its biggest weekly gain in futures trading history, as the escalating war in the Middle East has triggered a major disruption to global fuel supplies”
Again and again, Trump shows you that he does *not* care at all about whether the Americans people love or die.
This reminds me of injected bleach in your veines during COVID.
Trump keeps on bailing out Russia & screwing Ukraine
We could’ve had this, but some large group of Leftist morons allied themselves with MAGA to elect a psychopath, gave war abroad & at home, deportations of innocent ppl, anti-vaccination going crazy, & the wealthiest of ppl have never had it better.
Congratulations! You are responsible for this mess
Damn, the war is going so bad.
As they say, victory has a 1000 fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
If the war was going really well, everyone would try to claim a piece of it.
If I were a journalist, I would ask: Are you serious? And do you actually believe what you are saying?
If we aren’t at war, I wonder who killed those 100+ elementary school girls in Iran?
I am going to defend Russia for the 1st time ever:
Let us not blame Russia for our incompetence, insanely stupid strategy, & psychotic decision to go to war in the 1st place.
Russia is doing what any potential adversary would have done in their position.
Well Rubio’s wet dream.
This was a given
This is interesting.
Remember, prior to this war, KSA-IRI had a rapprochement.
If I lied like this—brazen lies like she does—I’d fall in a deep depression within a week.
How does she do it?
With flying colors.
These people are not normal.
I feel like…
Numbers have no meaning anymore
Words have no meaning anymore
Concepts have no meaning anymore
Ideas have no meaning anymore
The truth itself has no meaning anymore
Up is down & left is right… we cannot continue like this. It’s simply unsustainable
You could have declared victory after Khamenei’s death & gone home, instead you are posting stuff that you reasonably could never get.
The US needs a saving-face strategy.
Iran has been gradually escalating.
They were prepared to absorb that initial punch.
The markets are really not taking well his “unconditional surrender” post.
FWIW, I think the markets read/understood that post well—i.e., the guy has no exit strategy and he’s just all bluster, and this war is going to last until he finds a way to save face.
Does he know what unconditional surrender means?
