Mastodawn

Granneman 😡4h ago

The “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”

So the AIM is try to have what we had before the illegal war, but at higher cost and less fuel supply having bombed it.

And all for the cost of 200 Billion and counting

#Trump #USpol #USApol

@ArrestJK
But, at least there won't be any Obama signature on any agreement...WHEW, safe, at last! Thank you, Grump!

JustSaying 16h ago

@TJC_2 Has any one checked on fort Knox recently....asking for a USA

JeremyJupiterJones

@ArrestJK @TJC_2

China, EU and many Asian economies have been slowly dedollarising for years now but the speed of large economic powerhouses now dumping US treasury bonds and investing in gold mean it's not far from a complete economic collapse and the USD becoming worthless.

Even the EU are negotiating with oil producers to sell their oil in either the EU or Yuan. Trump has killed the petrodollar.

JustSaying 10h ago

@jeremy_pm @TJC_2
Yep he has, and that means low demand for US dollars especially seeing as no one is buying anything from them

@ArrestJK We're all familiar with the concept of wishing we were back to where we were before we started. There's an xkcd on that topic (of course).

JustSaying 15h ago

@original_peterm Had to search for what a xkcd was :D

@ArrestJK @original_peterm
This XKCD to be precise:
https://xkcd.com/349/

:-)

Success

xkcd

JustSaying 10h ago

@Niall @original_peterm nice

Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽13h ago

@ArrestJK A bargain, right??

🤷🏻‍♂️

To quote that immortal philosopher B. Büné, “what a maroon”

JustSaying 12h ago

@UweHalfHand and of course their are people's lives lost but no one rich....

Strider Uwe 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽12h ago

@ArrestJK That’s the thinking, exactly…

Havyhh2 12h ago

@ArrestJK ....and, just for rounding out the math, one could add in all the costs of sanctions, bombing, hunting for nuclear bomb building, etc of Iran after the epically dumb move of cancelling the JCPOA (multi-country Iran Deal largely curtailing their nuclear program AND providing a starting point for further negotiations on other matters between Iran and western allies)....that's gotta be multiples of 100s of billions....??

JustSaying 12h ago

@havvyhh2 Yep this raises the height for the height of stupidity

VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦12h ago

@ArrestJK super smart. #netanyahu and #trump are true masterminds, just like #putin. And China just waits and see how to make the best out of the fallout

JustSaying 12h ago

@vgoller and Canada is becoming a world power house while USA shrinks

VHG 🇪🇺🇺🇦12h ago

@ArrestJK I like that very much

@ArrestJK marvelous really /s

JustSaying 10h ago

@Niall I just feel there might of been a more efficient way of achieving....checks notes....the situation that existed before an illegal war but not as good as that.

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)9h ago

@ArrestJK Also since they killed the top Iranian brass there is no one to even talk to … But hey, Mangolini lifted the oil embargo on Iran so they can get way richer than they could before, not to mention the price of crude hovering this high. Iran and Russia are going to do well out of this guy, but any “ally”, including Gulf ones, is worse off.

JustSaying 9h ago

@jackyan You implied it but in case he also lifted sanctions on Russia, so he's LITERALLY funding the people he's "fighting" and their ally

@ArrestJK Can't make this shit up - not even a chatbot could hallucinate this scenario....

JustSaying 9h ago

@jakobtougaard well if someone said it was just a chatbot you'd go well guess...

Simon Brooke 8h ago

@ArrestJK and sixty years worth of carbon added to the global atmosphere in just three weeks, making the impending #ClimateEmergency both closer and much worse.

#ThereIsNoPlanetB

JustSaying 8h ago

@simon_brooke yep, someone posted well at least cars not getting fuel will be good for the planet (when it was starting) I replied nope bombs burn oil faster than cars

JustSaying 8h ago

@simon_brooke though MAYBE people wake up and realize relaying on fossil fuels is bad in so many ways

contrasocial 8h ago

Oh phew, well at least they didn't pick another completely impossible and unrealistic objective that they also don't have the capability to achieve. That would be really stupid lol.

JustSaying 8h ago

@contrasocial Yes picking to put the toothpaste back in the tube is better than thinking they can make it into an apple
:D