Economic Impacts of Iran War
04-12-2026 | 08:29 AM
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04-12-2026 | 08:37 AM
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04-12-2026 | 09:04 AM
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Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
04-12-2026 | 09:19 AM
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Classic example of how two conflicting truths cannot be possible at the same time in some minds.
04-12-2026 | 09:22 AM
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Yep. Two can play the mining game. Encircle Kharg and the other islands within Iran’s territorial waters with mines and just leave them there until someone rational gains control in Iran. If Iran sorties their little speedboats swat them with A-10s, attack helicopters, and drones.
Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
There is no plan. The rest of the world needs ships to flow through the strait. Who can last longer? Us or the regime? All they have to do is survive. It’s easy to dismiss elevated gas prices and the associated cost increase of everything else when you’re an upper middle class major airline pilot. What about everyone else?
04-12-2026 | 09:42 AM
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Again... questioning or being against dumb decision making and not wanting to be dragged into endless war with no end in sight does not equal "rooting against" your own country.
Classic example of how two conflicting truths cannot be possible at the same time in some minds.
Classic example of how two conflicting truths cannot be possible at the same time in some minds.
04-12-2026 | 10:05 AM
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But, it's not though.
How's that happen without boots on the ground?
Did he?
"I condemn today’s military escalation in the Middle East. The use of force by the United States and Israel against Iran, and the subsequent retaliation by Iran across the region, undermine international peace and security."
"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today." -UN Secretary-General António Guterres
Our country unilaterally taking military action against smaller countries doesn't greenlight and embolden Russia and China to do the same? Three of the five permanent UN Security Council members have essentially nodded to each other this sort of thing is fine.
Do you... do you retroactively support Vietnam?
And what Judge Smails said is correct. To suggest that criticizing a dumb war is unpatriotic is like saying you shouldn't speak up to the Captain when he's descending into terrain.
We will fully open the SOH, get the Uranium out, and make it happen sooner rather than later.
UN Sec Gen said the world is in a much safer place now that we carried out these strikes.
"I condemn today’s military escalation in the Middle East. The use of force by the United States and Israel against Iran, and the subsequent retaliation by Iran across the region, undermine international peace and security."
"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today." -UN Secretary-General António Guterres
I bet this ultimately speeds the end of the Ukraine war, and I guarantee it has slowed any ambition for a Taiwanese war.
And what Judge Smails said is correct. To suggest that criticizing a dumb war is unpatriotic is like saying you shouldn't speak up to the Captain when he's descending into terrain.
04-12-2026 | 10:17 AM
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Yep. Two can play the mining game. Encircle Kharg and the other islands within Iran’s territorial waters with mines and just leave them there until someone rational gains control in Iran. If Iran sorties their little speedboats swat them with A-10s, attack helicopters, and drones.
Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
Sort of like the island hopping campaign in the Pacific against the Bushido zealots in WW2. You can’t eat oil, and starving on an island is a $hitty way to martyr oneself.
04-12-2026 | 10:36 AM
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