So to recap:
•Trump illegally bombed Iran.
•Iran responded by closing the Straight of Hormuz, thus spiking oil prices.
•Trump is now responding by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, thus funding the regime he's bombing—all as the Straight of Hormuz remains closed.
So in short, Trump bombed Iran, raised oil prices for Americans, and gave Iran more money. Masterful gambit by the author of the Art of the Deal.
Are we great yet?
See, I look at the world and see all this little idiotic nation states, each with their own legal system, all the while, the cold anarchic winds of heaven blow over them all.
When wars start, laws stop. Let's quit with all this hooey about legal and illegal. Hizballah kidnapped a friend of mine, tortured him, eventually hanged him and the Navy named a ship for him.
Iran doesn't seem to understand what's coming. Qom will become another Gaza City.
Why do we have law - thats made at some great effort to take into consideration many peoples perspectives and direct a common "sense" onto all society - to make up for the people who did not get to learn respect, consider others or know what taking responsibility means.
In theory law=less war.
But as you say all these little states with nasty disrespectful greedy egos running them is what we end up with because people dont want society they want chaos it seems.
What is the chief impediment to peace? It's religion, far and away. We try to accommodate religion but it just keeps on emerging.
Honestly, Iran's cities are cosmopolitan, they're lovely people with a musical and poetic disposition, writers, thinkers -
- and these fucking mullahs won't allow anything. They oppress everyone, but those burkhas tell us what we ought to know, peaceful coexistence with Iran's mullahs is not possible.
Good point, and why do people need belief systems so bad - its in my view because they dont spend enough time on knowing themself and their relationship with the world. They are fearful people.
So (dont) learn and grow as indiviuals to the fullest potential, then take or bolster others words for how to think and what they do in life. They forget consideration and taking responsibilty.
Our predicates in the West are stunted and selfish. Philosophically, we have elected a man not much advanced from a pig.
At 8 BN people, I sense we've reached Earth's carrying capacity. The nation-state paradigm has failed. The USA, once the great bulwark, has become a Clown Show.
We need to give the USA a decent burial. It's done.
Start over.
The first thing we need, if we ever regain power, is to put forward a repeal of Citizens United. It has reduced politics to a money game and the sewage is flooding out onto the streets.
Everything else is secondary, however important. We need to jump start Congress and make it do its job.
@tuban_muzuru @CressSalad @QasimRashid "if we ever regain power"
who is this "we" you're referring to? Because there's no "we" that has *ever* had power in this country who would willing overturn Citizens United. Democrats aren't going to shut off the dark money hose.
@fenixmaster Yeah, in my understanding there is no easy reply to this statement.
Following a personal knowledge path, I think ultimately we can be taken through our life learning (of shit and roses) to a point where we are just better at seeing and separating truths from lies and get good at it enough - hopefully before we die!
People into polarised belief systems cannot be bothered with this.
@mihamarkic Not even Sun Tzu would have come up with that strategy.
@mihamarkic No, that would be too much credit.
He acts as if stupidity is a virtue… but then again, he does that all the time…
he (47) does hate America, somebody told him that women & Black people live here
Yeah, we should give him a peace nobel for all the good deeds he did in Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela, and the world. 🤦♂️
@QasimRashid i think the price increase is done mainly to affect India, China, Europe. They must now buy cheaper fuel either from USA or Russia. The extra gains done by Russia will fuel its war effort while the extra gains of USA will help rebuilding their "acquired" Venezuela oil drillers.
China has tacitly agreed to the war in my opinion since they control the rare earths and production. It is kinda modern Tordesillas but with energy on one side production on the other. Meanwhile 1/2
@QasimRashid Meanwhile Europe and India are simply forced with hard power to become subjects of USA, they are not treated as the Chinese because they aren't as strong nor useful.
Also, the increase in price is artificially conducted for the profits stated behind, because there is virtually no lack of gasoline yet, since reserves can be used for +6 months. In my opinion there are two possible futures: Monetized war (less that 6 months) or long war (now prices, lifestyle will really go bad) 2/2
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maybe not the last part. was this a plan all along. hiking oil prices help oil corporations and russia. roughly everyone knows that trump doesn't care about ordinary citizens. trump is beneficial to big oil.
last part is little weird though, maybe trump doesn't think after all.
@zetabeta 1/2 Having read the two articles, “Chaos is the goal” and “The world in disarray (5)” by Helen Thompson in *De Groene Amsterdammer* of 12 March 2026, a pattern does indeed emerge. I get the impression that there is a premeditated plan behind it. It is pure, old-fashioned power politics from Trump, the sort of thing that plagued Europe in the last century and led to the establishment of the ECSC.
@zetabeta 2/2 It is simply going according to plan, just as Trump would like. He doesn’t care that the entire world population is suffering as a result.
Time to make an extension of his old boardgame: "Trump the backpedaler"
He'll probably do the same thing with Cuba next.
Sum - the actions of an alleged fraud criminal deemed malignant narcissistic psychopath by hundreds of psychiatrists..
@QasimRashid the blame should be shared evenly among all* Republicans in Congress in the previous Trump Administration and the current one, since their task was to prevent an unfit president from such actions or continuing office and they deliberately didn't.
And that filters down to their organisations, supporters, and voters.
Trump is appallingly bad, yes, but he needs not have been placed or kept in power.
* Except IIRC one.
IMHO this was his plan all along except of course his real focus was on using this as an excuse to lift sanctions on his Russian buddies & split that take with them
under this theory the bribes he's getting via Kushner behind the barn to split the take w/ various Iranians who were tired of waiting for an 86yo to die -- all that's just bonus billions
the real pay off is from the Russians & also from the fact that suddenly Why Aren't We Talking About Epstein every single day?
"Así que, para recapitular:
• Trump bombardeó ilegalmente a Irán.
• Irán respondió cerrando el estrecho de Ormuz, lo que disparó los precios del petróleo.
• Ahora Trump responde levantando las sanciones sobre el petróleo iraní, financiando así al mismo régimen que está bombardeando; todo ello mientras el estrecho de Ormuz permanece cerrado.
En resumen: Trump bombardeó a Irán, encareció el petróleo para los estadounidenses y le dio más dinero a Irán. Una jugada maestra del autor de *El arte de la negociación*.
¿Ya somos grandes?"
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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