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Considering how badly the Saudis did last time....sigh...

My sergeant told me not to do that in uniform thus implying that it is in fact possible to do. #sergeantsareneverwrong

Most people can walk and chew gum.

No fraternizing with the enemy.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-trump-saudi-crown-prince-call-814164417aa284dc8a6d34ac22ea1a8e?taid=6a6ead9e71891d00011bf0ff&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter Ok, this time with feeling. For the record, I think bombs will be falling and drones will be hitting ships...

If people are using them as interactive encyclopedias, spellcheckers, the like, I tend to not care too much. It's when people start outsourcing their thinking to AI or my current favorite, the "you must be wrong because AI says _____". More and more people are falling into that way of...

At least this one is factually correct. Not about the cause of it, but about the effects.

This video from TLDR News explores the United Kingdom's energy crisis, examining why the nation faces some of the highest electricity prices in the world and the resulting economic consequences. Key takeaways regarding the crisis: Expensive Electricity: The UK has some of the highest...

Ah, as a thought exercise. Gotcha. Yeah, not to mention the economic hit on the effected region. The USA would need to bankroll it, seeing as the cheaper option for nations in the gulf would be to deny America the ability to use their bases to support such an operation, trying to get...

If you touch their water, what's stopping them from touching all the desalination plants in the gulf?

Generally not a bad plan, I must admit. The only hiccup is a force needing to trust the USA to not cut and run like it has with the Kurds, South Vietnam, the Afghan republic, the Hmong....

Even in the best of times with the full extent of their soft power, America had little in terms of economic presence in those regions. And now America has tossed tariffs on most every country, and stopped handing out aid which was their only other way to influence those regions. It's almost...

You know the one strategic calculus which prevents this? These leaders will gather their generals (usually loyalists, not really good at their jobs) and ask them about the state of their militaries (usually very top down, kept somewhat weak to prevent coup attempts) and ask the most important...

Iran was one of the most sanctioned nations on earth outside of north Korea. You know how it trades? Because Chinese companies don't give a flying... what sanctions exist. They make their billions transporting Iranian oil that can go nowhere else to Chinese refineries. They cannot go to or...

Except Iran does most of its exports with China. So situation unchanged. unless you're talking about sanctions on every company that pays the toll. In which case you will have companies feeding europe middle east oil who simply will not do business with the USA.

And more importantly, drones. Weeks of watching their young men and women die on reddit will do most every democracy in.

A real shame America thought that they didn't need soft power and treated allies like enemies. Because any international response to iran would require a lot of soft power.

Israel was always free to do whatever stupidity it felt it needed to do. It was usually off the table for American presidents to join them. Until now. And now the president is trapped in a room with a country full of fanatic mad men and the only way to stop them is to literally march on Tehran...

Other companies. Then the consumer. And consumers care way more about affordability than where their oil came from. Not typically, but who went and started a war that may have that as a possibility? Reminder, the SoH was open and free of tolls February 27th. Uh....huh. The nation that...

It's not going to be nations or societies making these choices. It will be companies and private enterprise who have far less in terms of values outside profit margins. And if its more affordable to pay the toll the toll they will pay. Who knows. Maybe the Iranians. Except no democracy will...