Lessons were learned. Morally we obviously want to avoid this kind of thing. Practically speaking, the geopolitical optics are bad.

But this one was 100% on Iran for flying airliners into hot combat that THEY initiated. No sympathy.

 

https://x.com/i/status/2054235185907179926

Generational opportunity to own a refiner, especially as diesel inventory gets REALLY interesting over the next 2 weeks

 

The Vincennes screwed up. Pure and simple. You wrote it off as “fog of war” and then have the arrogance to dismiss Iran Air for being there in the first place out of Bandar Abbas. No sympathy is the typical arrogance of Americans that is hated by those overseas. And by seas, I mean by water. Not by what you visually see. Just wanted to clarify that.

 

no. Pueblo was a screw up. Vincennes a series of errors. Unintentional. That’s war fog.

 

Because it was also a stupid war we started, based on lies of WMDs. And nothing to do with 9/11. Just how much are you attributing of the thousands of US soldier deaths inside Iraq, to Iran? QUDs inside Iraq made up a small portion of the overall resistance the U.S. faced.


As for the Khobar attack, I don’t recall blame on Iran for that. But I guess it certainly makes it easier to what…. justify crap from the 80s to war in 2026? No one cited stuff from the 80s to justify the war today.



Of course they were targeted, because they were military installations or military personnel, in their part of the world.

Yes, fog of war. Iran shot down a Ukrainian 737 in 2020. It was not deliberately targeted, they thought (stupidly) it was a missile.


I guess because we entered their world? I don’t know. If Russia took Cuba and the started bombing us from Cuba, I probably wouldn’t care if something bad happened to Cuba.




Nope. Follow the money. That’s usually where answers are. Who stands to financially gain from all this? That’s where you’ll find some answers. This entire process was launched haphazardly and has been a grift. There has been a lot of money made on oil futures and short positions literally moments before a Trump announcement. This has occurred multiple times since Feb 28.


“Regional biases you were raised with.”

Nice try at a personal attack. I moved to the United States at a very young age, just after 2nd grade elementary school, so I have been raised to and exposed to the western way of life and freedoms. You know, part of that freedom being the right to criticize your govt actions and free speech against the govt without fear of govt retaliation.



As for your last sentence, right back at you: You are dismissing multiple changing narratives for why this war is happening in order to protect that narrative.

 

Not since the 2nd grade elementary school. And a second grader had very limited exposure, most of my memories have been right here in the United States after 2nd grade - forward…



Did you have a specific question?

 

Khobar towers was attacked by in 1996, not the 80’s, by an Iranian terror proxy. But you’re right, we should’ve obliterated them at that point.

 

Southwest famously made bank and funded both an expansion and new aircraft purchases based on fuel hedges (which no one does anymore)

That would be nice if the one airline who owns a refinery can have the once in a generation opportunity to do the same.

(assuming it survives that kind of fuel pricing meltdown)

 

So 19 deaths total and you want to obliterate a country of 92 million?


Hell, we lose more than that in a class full of school children in Sandy Hook… Uvalde… that’s why I can’t take your side seriously. They try so hard to justify any of this going on today, by reaching back in the 80s and 90s.

 

Uh no…. Just the regime. It’s the same reason I can’t take a terrorist simp like yourself seriously. If you fund, train and equip the majority of the terrorist attacks of the 20th and 21st centuries, you deserve the axe.