Originally Posted by
Hubcapped
this is the kicker. Im still genuinely confused where these pro war (prob anti war during the election but hypocrisy aside) think this war is going. Iran CONTROLS the straight. Period. Full stop. Theyve been goaded into a eureka strategic windfall moment of realizing that they can apply pressure anytime they want with almost zero (relative) monetary cost.
so the only way is to go boots on the ground to establish a flot/feba deep enough to allow us to set up an iads?. Are you willing to do that? Are we really willing to shed blood here? There is no out anymore. We completely blundered, and saying that other folks are being cowards for not risking their young men and women for a war WE STARTED is asinine at best.
iran is actively executing combat operations in the straight as i type this, but “we are almost at a deal” or “the war is almost won”……every American should put on their clown shoes because we are definitely the the #1 circus in town
Still talking about boots on the ground? When does this invasion start? Odd that the oil and stock market and airline industry isn’t planning or reacting in a way that indicates a long term conflict. Hopefully you heeded my advice and invested 3 weeks ago…
What’s the over/under airlines bring down their new bag fees? In the end airlines will keep the fees, keep the higher prices and vastly increase their earnings after fuel costs normalize. Hell, bookings aren’t even having much of a reaction. Demand still up. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
still waiting for tariff inflation and resulting recession to hit. After that we can discuss the Iran inflation and economic recession.
Like magic, gas at my neighborhood station is down $0.20 from a few weeks ago. Much like the Covid “Tracker of Death” on CNN, the “ Gas prices will be the end” tracker has disappeared.
Heres a fun fact: if you exclude CA from the West Coast gas price average, the average drops $0.40.
I miss the days when y’all were predicting $150-200 oil, furloughs, a/c delivery cancellations, and a massive recession.
Cue Hubcap talking about Ukraine and some post from a year ago.