This is a case of seeing what you want to see. Very common these days amongst people of all stripes. In reality, the Iranian crackdown was extensively covered by media sources across the political spectrum & widely condemned by pundits and politicians on both sides of the “isle” (you mean ‘aisle’ btw). Just because Hannity or whoever tells you that the other side is in bed with the evil mullahs, that doesn’t make it true. Stop letting yourself be manipulated.

Nothing in that for us but heartaches. Let the Saud pond Prince lead his own cavalry charge. The era of Belleville boots permanently welcome under a foreign flag now hinges mainly on ROK.

You are correct to point out irony , remember that his father’s regime was one of three sovereign nations to have diplomatic relations with the Taliban pre karzai. I however think in this case it’s more of a Sunni-Shia thing.

To be fair, the school was next to a military base. The United States has hundreds of schools literally ON military installations in some places.
Is that still human shield adjacent behavior?

The strike on the school also occurred on the very first day of the surprise military action, so ascribing it as some premeditated attempt to use children as a human shield seems a bit disingenuous tbh.

There is always a deep undercurrent of Shia vs Sunni in all things over there. It's not always the most significant factor but often so (sometimes even eclipsing the usual tension with non-islamic religions).

It seems we are in the early stages of the shortages.

Yup. This is just the beginning. It’s funny watching a certain crowd on APC laughing at this and calling a pullback to normal in a month.

Same head in the sand mentality they had when covid was starting.

Sometimes accepting reality is painful. Easier to just pretend it's not happening.

I suspect this will make Covid look like a walk in the park, speaking from an airline employee perspective.

In retrospect, because of aggressive government intervention (thanks Mnuchin, Trump, and Powell), covid was much more benign for the airlines than it could have been.