Middle East situation

Gonna put it out there - the way Israel is carrying on is chillingly similar to how Germany was in WW2. The prallels are there.
 
The ambition of regional hegemony, which is likely to spook neighbouring countries is another I'd add to the list.

Some big differences too though, when looking at the strategic picture,
- Industrial power isn't part of the picture
- Israel isn't beset on either side by emerging industrial powers that it fears
- There aren't two emerging blocs clearly behind each side of the conflict
- The power balance between each side is horribly lop-sided
- The US is in the conflict from the start (jokes...)
 
Not terrible for oil companies in some respects. A ship with $150M of oil on board is not feeling pressured to run the gauntlet through the straight when it can chill for a while and find itself with $300M of oil on board!
 
Iran offering safe passage for any ships belonging to countries that expel their US and Israel ambassadors/diplomats.
 
Haakon said:
Just a fun bit of psychological warfare I suspect. Its the shipping insurance companies they need to convince, not governments.
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Yes, but its the govts that do the PNGing in the end.

Of course, always good to disrupt relations between industry and the govt in opposing countries.
 
I'm quoting a post from another mtb forum.

WTF...


"I mean, it's not news by this point, we all know he has no fucking clue about what's going on, but this is pretty fukkin' epic: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/trump-iran-war-over-pretty-quickly
[...] [Trump had] the mission of calming global markets and reassuring skittish allies that he has a clear vision for how to end the largest US intervention in the Middle East since the Iraq war.

If there is one, it was not delivered in this press conference.
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Reporters tried again. “You said the war is ‘very complete’. But your defense secretary says ‘this is just the beginning.’ So which is it?”

“I think you could say both,” Trump replied.
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and then this fukking gem!?!?!:
But in the most striking moment, Trump suggested that Iran had covertly obtained a Tomahawk missile and then used it to strike a girl’s school in the city of Minab, killing more than 168 people – most of them children.
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That was more than many reporters in the room could stomach.

“You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war,” said one reporter, before asking why “you’re the only person in your government saying this”.

“Because I just don’t know enough about it”, Trump responded. “I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation”.
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as others have said, just do it already..."




That last comment is referencing someone finishing what a "gun toting blind person tried doing before he was elected".
 
Trump is not constrained by law or logic, he is willing to contradict himself within a single sentence whilst acting like you're the person who doesn't get it.

His supporters don't care, as long as they're getting what they want.*

*I suspect that a lot of his more cerebral supporters (not those who join boating convoys, or those who slept out to line up for his rallies), are not getting what they want regarding current US foreign policy/actions.
 
Well is bibi dead? Shonky AI vid of him...aggressive "we fucked the new ayatollah up" projections, and a lot of bombing stuff.




I thought bibi was safe in Germany?
 
pink poodle said:
Well lucky we have seen a video of him drinking coffee and holding his hand up for the camera. Case closed.
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Except for the coffee in the cup not going down in level after 'bibi' drinking, holding the cup rather forcefully with his non-dominant hand (the bibi-shitstain is a lefty), and something weird happening when 'bibi' sticks its hand in its jacket pocket, apparently.

Well that and the fact that he's not shown at a briefing or anything vaguely military related.
 
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