Ed Israel/US Attacks Iran /Yet Another Country/Iran

[The Atheist]

And yet you don't appear to be at all concerned. Why is that?

They're part of an insane death cult that can't bear the thought of leaving life behind so want to take everyone else with them.

Brilliant post btw.

 

[The Atheist]

Cool blockade, bro...

Tankers pass Strait of Hormuz on first day of US blockade, data shows | Reuters https://share.google/hS01bsJHkXCEUqLCP

 

[a_unique_person]

Cool blockade, bro...

Tankers pass Strait of Hormuz on first day of US blockade, data shows | Reuters https://share.google/hS01bsJHkXCEUqLCP

He needs NATO there to sink them.

 

[carlosy]

Do the resident Trump apologists never feel like they are being punked by their Dear Leader? The man has clearly lost whatever marbles he once had.

In the history of cults and sects (especially in the U.S.) has it ever happened that a cult/sect leader got toppled by his followers? Or that a cult/sect simply vanished because the followers came to the conclusion 'Oh, we were wrong, we got fooled'?

Afaik, all the cults and sects in the U.S. either still exist or ended in violence, right?

 

[a_unique_person]

In the history of cults and sects (especially in the U.S.) has it ever happened that a cult/sect leader got toppled by his followers? Or that a cult/sect simply vanished because the followers came to the conclusion 'Oh, we were wrong, we got fooled'?

Afaik, all the cults and sects in the U.S. either still exist or ended in violence, right?

Waco. Jim Jones.

 

[Andy_Ross]

The JCPOA didn't stop them from getting nukes. It wasn't even intended to. By design, it only slowed them down.

Repeating it doesn't make it true

 

[Ziggurat]

It was intended to. There were regular checks on what the Iranians were doing.

And all of it was time limited. So after the end of that time limit, no more inspections, no more limits on stockpiles or centrifuges.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Cool blockade, bro...

Tankers pass Strait of Hormuz on first day of US blockade, data shows | Reuters https://share.google/hS01bsJHkXCEUqLCP

He now says it's just Iranian ports that are blockaded, not the straits.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

And all of it was time limited. So after the end of that time limit, no more inspections, no more limits on stockpiles or centrifuges.

an argument from what might happen in the future?
That is particularly weak.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

US guarding international shipping lanes:

https://gulfnews.com/world/americas/another-boat-strike-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean-leaves-2-dead-us-military-says-1.500505925

 

[Andy_Ross]

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
HOLY CRAP! President Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is costing Iran $400 MILLION PER DAY, per Fox

"$13 billion a MONTH! Plus, the Iranians can only store oil for about two weeks before they have to start SHUTTING OFF wells.

The Iranians can't outlast us. The world's turning to US for energy. Over 120 empty oil tankers are on their way to the Gulf of America."

Video in link

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
HOLY CRAP! President Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is costing Iran $400 MILLION PER DAY, per Fox

That's remarkably similar to the amount it's costing Americans at the gas station every day too. "Holy crap" indeed.

(A quick Google suggests gas prices are up on average by over a dollar a gallon thanks to Trump's misadventure, and that the US consumes roughly 370 million gallons per day. So, not far short of $400m per day.)

 

[Darat]

"costing Americans at the gas station" - typical lefty nonsense- it's creating wealth for the 1%ers...

 

[Ziggurat]

an argument from what might happen in the future?
That is particularly weak.

If you want to prevent something from happening, you have to consider what might happen in the future. That's how it works.

 

[jeremyp]

If you want to prevent something from happening, you have to consider what might happen in the future. That's how it works.

And what do you think is going to happen in the future now that Tr*mp seems determined to genocide a civilisation. Are you not a little bit scared of the possibility of escalation - never mind what it is doing to the World's economy?

 

[dirtywick]

lol these guys are excited for high gas prices like it’s some kind of win for america.

on worse news the blockade barred iranian oil from reaching china yesterday. now after warning the us not to interfere the chinese are moving through anyway

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-sanctioned-tanker-linked-to-china-tests-trump-blockade-with-hormuz-transit-11353960/amp/1

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Anyone know why the chubby little bastard has joined in on blocking the Strait of Hormuz? Is it a toddler-level 'if I can't sail through here, no one can', or could there be some kind of deeper plan at work?

(Yes, I know, Occam'z kazoo gives us the answer, but I try to have an open mind)

 

[dirtywick]

Anyone know why the chubby little bastard has joined in on blocking the Strait of Hormuz? Is it a toddler-level 'if I can't sail through here, no one can', or could there be some kind of deeper plan at work?

(Yes, I know, Occam'z kazoo gives us the answer, but I try to have an open mind)

seems to me plan a didn’t work and there was no plan b and they’ve bit off way more than they can chew

 

[Ziggurat]

And what do you think is going to happen in the future now that Tr*mp seems determined to genocide a civilisation.

Yeah, that’s not going to happen.

Are you not a little bit scared of the possibility of escalation - never mind what it is doing to the World's economy?

Iran isn’t capable of escalating. Is someone going to join the fight on Iran’s side? Who?

Yeah, the hit to global economy isn’t great, but we’ll survive.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

Yeah, that’s not going to happen.

Iran isn’t capable of escalating. Is someone going to join the fight on Iran’s side? Who?

Yeah, the hit to global economy isn’t great, but we’ll survive.

Schrodinger's Iran. At the same time a weak incompetent country unable to threaten the US and an existential threat to the whole world that needs to be attacked in the middle of negotiations, civilian causalities be damned.