Economic Impacts of Iran War

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03-24-2026 | 10:28 AM

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Devils advocate myself here. If that same regime within the last 3 months killed 30,000 of their own citizens for the crime of protesting, would that make them less likely to attack themselves in the future? It's perplexing how one side of the isle totally ignored that atrocity.

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.

03-24-2026 | 11:08 AM

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Now the Saudi Prince wants Trump to put boots on the ground to destroy Iran’s “hard line government.” The sheer irony of any Saudi prince to say hard line government is astounding. And Bibi saying the U.S. can’t end this war, only when Israel wants to end it, it will end.

We are being played on the world stage and it is an embarrassment.

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.

03-24-2026 | 11:55 AM

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Now the Saudi Prince wants Trump to put boots on the ground to destroy Iran’s “hard line government.” The sheer irony of any Saudi prince to say hard line government is astounding.

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.

03-24-2026 | 02:48 PM

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The truth is likely in the middle. Allow a school to be housed abutting a major military HQ, with classes in session, during a major conflict is human shield adjacent behavior.

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.

03-24-2026 | 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by 11atsomto

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).

03-26-2026 | 08:34 AM

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France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

France's Finance Minister Roland Lescure revealed on Wednesday that between 30 and 40 per cent of Gulf refining capacity has been damaged or destroyed by Iran's retaliatory strikes, leaving a shortage of 11 million barrels a day on global oil markets. Lescure warned it could take up to three years to restore damaged facilities, and several months to restart those that were urgently shut down.

[...more...]

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

03-26-2026 | 11:50 AM

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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.

03-26-2026 | 01:07 PM

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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.

03-26-2026 | 01:40 PM

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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.

03-26-2026 | 02:27 PM

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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.