Solarbird 1d ago

'k what just happened

#oil #OilPrice #iran #war

Show threadSolarbird 1d ago

Ah, there it is.

Great job, you fucking moron. You clown. You fool. You imbecile. You've given the despotic theocratic regime you wanted to "decapitate" not only de facto control over one of the biggest strategic shipping assets in the world but a massive new revenue stream. And now that you've thrown up your hands and walked away sob-screaming "I WON I WON I WON" with the Strait still closed, traders are 100% convinced that enough countries will take them up on the offer to make it work

You fucked it up _exactly_ like you fucked up the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but _so_ much worse.

Phenomenal.

#FuckTrump #FuckMAGA #iran #war #CrushingDefeat #news #FuckTheUS #IranJustWon

Show threadHey Gus1d ago
@moira North Korea and Iran are on a whole different fuck the United States thing. It’s surprising that good will was ever given at all
Show threadSolarbird 1d ago
@elebertus The post-WWII order was so much better than anything before it. I'm someone who _doesn't_ see the fall of the Western Roman Empire as a tragedy, but I _do_ see the collapse of this particular international order as one, because holy shit what came before was so. fucking. bad, and what all these complete shits want back is what was there before.
Show threadHey Gus

@moira like in the sense of the Roman’s ruling basically most of the ME?

I honestly don’t know what they want other than cheap resources and reliable access to them.

What’s troubling is the Iranian regime truly are bad guys too. It’s a mess.

Apr 1 at 7:37amWeb
Show threadSolarbird 1d ago

@elebertus In the sense of the collapse of the Western Empire entirely. No more proconsuls, no more governmental structure, none of it. By the time of the fall in 476, the Empire in the West was barely even a shell of a structure, and wasn't serving, really... anyone.

Some people see that date as a tragedy. I see it as good riddance and acknowledgement of a situation already long in place. Once intra-empire trade collapsed and the Western Empire had instituted feudalism, it's hard to say it had any value left at all, and by the late 400s? It was a puppet of the Franks and a joke. Good riddance.