hoo boy America is cooked
The President of the United States begging France and China for naval support.
"We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability", immediately followed by hollowing out his own boast, "a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile" is enough military capability to keep the strait closed.
"President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of Hormuz...Destroying the terminals on Kharg would drive oil prices to $150 a barrel [making this] the most foolish thing he has ever said, which is saying quite a lot."
Gotta hand it to MAGA: an effective carbon tax of $200/ton is more realistic than the IMF's $150.
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/samson-reprisals-economy.html
"we were talking with them when they decided to attack us"
"one month before the Iran conflict began, four Avenger-class minesweeper vessels left their home port of Bahrain to be decommissioned and scrapped in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard"
https://www.justsecurity.org/133996/legal-operational-strait-hormuz-transit-passage/
Still receiving updates on the depths of Trump's perfidy:
"The day before the attack, Oman announced a breakthrough: Iran had agreed not to stockpile fissile material — a concession that went beyond anything Iran had agreed to in the 2015 JCPOA, which Trump had previously scuttled."
Incredible negotiating tactics.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5794259-trump-lifts-iranian-oil-sanctions/
Iran's obliterated air defenses shot down an invisible F-35. It’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see, but do you really need to when it can barely fly?
"No quarter" with Make Arithmetic Great Again's new math is equal to "56 billion quarters".
It remains unclear which AI deserves credit for the calculation.
josh buermann
