….not to Russia….
Are you familiar with the revolution of dignity?
Maybe but the khamenei is dead.
The Petroyuan is under duress.
NATO has shown its true colors
The US is the worlds safest oil exporter.
The bully? This is exactly why I cant wait for America to leave the world to their own devices…except for what we want.
Ok, great, no one likes a theocratic dictator, but how has that helped the situation for the average Iranians, or the stability of global trade/geo-politics?
Except it couldn’t meet the global demand even with higher prices, which is 100x the US’ capacity.
No one hanging them at 30,000 people per protest.
Thats a good start don’t you think?
Iranians outside of Iran have been cheering on America for what she’s doing.
it’s the libs who seem to have a problem and think they speak for another minority (yet again)
aye it could. Buckle up.
Bibi had a plan and it was genius. Rope-a-dope Trump into the war and then kill all of Iran’s leaders so when Trump goes Taco he won’t have anyone to negotiate a face-saving exit with. Now he’s stuck, which means America is stuck, without the slightest clue how to wrap things up and go home before the mid-term elections.
Usually having a plan means having the capacity ready when Iran blockades the Strait of Hormuz.
Not news. He’s been a well known simp for Putin for years. And while I’ve never made it all the way through any of his movies, the scenes I’ve watched channel surfing over the decades were painfully bad enough.
Not enough knob gobbling at home to be done, clearly
Plans are thrown out the moment it hits the pavement.
what America DOES have is the diminishment of the petroyuan.
when it comes to Russia and Ukraine what we also DO have is a reduction of foodstuffs and oil from the global market and for what? Because EU nations got butthurt?
Glad to see you’re finally onboard with the reality that - thanks to Bibi - nobody is in charge in Iran so there’s no face-saving deal to be made with anybody there.
Time to come up with another exit strategy. Meanwhile your Fearless Leader will be slowly twisting in the wind until somebody - probably voters in November- come along to cut him down.
You still don’t get it…this isn’t about Bibi. This is about two birds with one stone: Iranian nukes and the petroyuan. The blockade can continue at least until the midterms so what’s that…6 months?
let’s see if Iran and China can last 6 months in this current situation
Israel is Americas mad dog that can do from a humanitarian level what America cannot.
Blockading a country to force its non-existent government (because Bibi killed them all) to make a deal is a fool’s errand.
It depends on the “why” - the strategic objectives.
Again it’s to prevent Iran from having the will to nuke up AND more importantly…
…to choke out the petroyuan.
Do you know what other two countries use the petroyuan?
Venezuela (we took care of that) and Russia.
Russia is stuck in a war that weakens it by the days
Even more importantly…it’s to show the world what happens if you challenge the United States Dollar
the Petrodollar must flow….
By definition there is no strategic objective to a fool’s errand.
What Russia did to China, and why continental powers want to surround themselves with a bunch of failed states.
Rewatching this, I get a sense that Trump is operating the US, the greatest naval power the world has ever seen, with the mindset of a 17th century continental power.
Ukraine is smashing up Russias oil refineries and terminals. Interestingly many of the Russia promoters who used to crow about killing people in Ukraine have gone quiet of late.
Russia getting payback big time. The more Russia hits Ukraine the more Ukraine is going to tear up Russia now.
Black sea oil port Tuapse hit three times in succession.
Slava Ukraine.
And the videos of Russian soldiers in their last moments getting droned TO END THEIR LIVES FOR NO REASON should also make them sit up and think .
Putin bringing his country more misery in the fine tradition of all Russian dictators.
Moscow not safe anymore.
I read this yesterday and my take was more alone these lines.
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade will be held on 9 May without military hardware for the first time in almost two decades because
it keeps getting blown to bits
Cadets from military schools and youth military institutions would also not take part,
as we have already sent them to the front lines.
but Putin is just waiting us out, surely those military hardware and fresh cadets are waiting somewhere safe. Maybe it just means the Red Square is no longer a safe place.
And shouldn’t, and that might be an indication that we really shouldnt be supporting them. But leave it to the Repubs to see genocide by proxy as a positive!
Of course, others have explained why this is objectively a bad take before, but why bother to acknowledge that.
The government is fine. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is not a personalist regime. It’s actually rather bottom-up.
The main stupid part is, as is custom with post WW2 American foreign policy w/r/t war, the lack of a clausewitzian war goal.
The oil. Nukes. China. Government replacement. Country building. It’s a choose your own adventure war goal, because there isn’t a war goal.
Choose your excuse for the war, float them and hope the public eats one up.
And now the peace deal is “the” war goal. Some would call this putting the cart before the horse. It seems like there was meant to be a force and change behind the peace deal, as opposed to peace deal for the sake of itself.
The US will probably not put these missiles in Germany.
Putin must be loving this
I hope those comments about the Iran war were worth it, Germany