i hope it goes on longer than a few weeks so that the iranians can get better concessions like the guest was positing would happen.

this tracks for me, but do you have a source you can share?

i hope that they can keep the blockade on the strait going; it doesn’t seem like they have any other sort of meaningful leverage.

Majd said that if Iran decided to start targeting oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf or completely shut off access to the Strait of Hormuz, the economic consequences would be significant. “A financial hit on America and Western Europe is something that nobody wants for a long period of time, certainly not Trump,” he said. “So there’s going to be an advantage for Trump to have [an off ramp]. But if he really believes that Iran is then going to come in and say, ‘Enough, we give up, whatever you want, we’ll do,’ that’s very unlikely.”

that’s the only leverage they seem to have and it sounds like the us empire has already neutralized it.

paywall bypass for the lazy: https://archive.ph/lOe3j

i have a feeling that they’re going to get what they want.

i was agreeing with you and likening using isreali backed authoritarians with american backed authoritarians using an old fashioned way of saying “same difference”

to-may-to / to-mah-to …

i’m the kind of person that ice is actively hunting down (and was caught back in the 1980’s by ice’s predecessor) and refusing to vote for a pro-empire candidate; trump or not; is the only way to reverse ice’s existence.

ice has been an incoming thing since 2001. the republicans have accelerated it, the democrats are actively refusing to abolish or reverse it, so supporting either democrats or republicans will not reverse it.

there always is; it’s just that you’re not made aware of the progressive candidate’s existence.

in cases where it doesn’t seem like there’s one, you have to search for him/her/them yourself.

why is that guy so big?

all of the neighboring countries have american backed dictators & monarchs in charge, except for lebanon and it gets bombed & destablized frequently for not bending its knee enough.

they’re not stupid, they’re disaffected and ignoring why they’re disaffected will lead to more people not voting.

our voting system is a false dichotomy that’s been manufactured by both the republicans and democrats legally squeezing out alternatives as much as possible and socially manipulating our perceptions of a third option for decades.

the majority have been employing your chess strategy for decades and here we with so many people not voting that there aren’t enough 3rd party voters to make up the difference anymore.

end the game while there’s still time before climate change to fucks everyone.

it’s not about retribution, it’s about complicity w genocides; wars for profit; and baby raping/killing/eating.

people are slowly becoming disaffected and now there’s so many who won’t participate that aren’t enough 3rd party voters to make up the difference.

never heard of that instance nor that community and i’m afraid to go look for both given this context. lol

approximately 10 million and the dems still refuses to change their game, but it’ll be worse next time because of epstein and iran… in addition to gaza.

the propaganda brainworms turned into another mini-reddit. lol

be sure to remember that you always have more than 2 options.