If americans succesfully blockade Iran, the regime will collapse in 1 month.

Berlin by Christmas energy

Shippers have insurance now and they don’t care about the lives of their crews

Are insurance companies willing to pay out for any ship running a blockade? They seem exceedingly risk averse.

Marie Antoinette wants her sentiment back

(Yes I know it’s apocryphal don’t @ me)

What was never there can’t remain

Who are you referring to?

How’s that?

Al Qaeda and Isis aren’t the same thing, even acknowledging al-Sharaa was a part of al-Qaeda for several years and Al Nusra is just a spin off of AQ. Al Nusra and Isis have been fighting one another for over a decade.

Here I thought the Irish boreens in the West were tough to navigate…

Bender Bending Rodriguez

Are the begging Iranian negotiators in the room with us right now, Pete?

If the past decade has taught me anything it is that meme magic is real

As part of the plan, the US has in principle agreed to lift all primary and secondary sanctions against Iran and to withdraw US combat forces from all bases in the region, the council said according to state media.

Yeah… none of this will happen. I hate Trump and this illegal war is abhorrent. That said, if you take Iranian state media at face value I have a bridge to sell you.

They clearly shouldn’t have chosen to be born in Germany if they don’t like it.

Damn, homegirl’s arm scarring hurts my heart.

I think about the battle of New Orleans during the war of 1812 a lot for that exact reason. The war was over for weeks and they had no idea. Over 300 people died and thousands of casualties for nothing. To make matters worse, it made Andrew Jackson popular

It’s always felt punitive for the egg left on the US’ face following the collapse of Batista’s rule and subsequent loss of US business interests. The fact that Cuba hasn’t been a legitimate military threat to the United States for well over 50 years only reinforces that.

They may have assets in the Russian intelligence apparatus. I feel like it’s likely even.

You can draw here, this is bat country

You can say Nazi. Self censorship doesn’t help anyone other than advertisers

The Lebanese government wasn’t really in a position to be able to dislodge Hezbollah from southern Lebanon previously, as far as I can tell. Now that Iran is in chaos they may see this as an opening to make the attempt.