i imagine the Gulf states must be rethinking the whole arrangement now. They thought they were untouchable under the American umbrella, but now they see they’re in fact the ones who will be absorbing most of the damage from the war. And if the US can’t protect them, then making peace with Iran is the only way forward.

Absolutely, the whole premise was that nobody would have the audacity to fight the US directly. There is a famous poker saying that you don’t bluff someone who can’t fold. Iran couldn’t fold because their survival as a state depended on it. So Trump’s made the worst possible blunder, trying to bluff against an opponent with no exit and maximum stakes.

Aside from Iran starting to charge a toll and control traffic through Hormuz, this is the other most consequential outcome of the war. All the infrastructure that the US spent decades building is now useless. Iran proved that none of these bases were defensible, and they destroyed billions, if not trillions, worth of radars and other high tech equipment, not to mention the cost of building these bases themselves. The entire US position in the region has now collapsed, and there’s no going back to the way things were before.

And yet here you are continuing to make a clown of yourself. 🤣

https://archive.ph/fjOIs

amazing

There is no better proof of NATO being a terrorist organization than Rutte himself.

I expect we’ll see this start happening outside the US. At the end of the day, energy is a cost for capitalists that are outside fossil fuel industry, and they want to bring their input costs down.

Yeah you totally got me. I bet you win a lot of arguments in your head like that.

Seems unlikely given that would mean accepting that Iran won the war.

After all the atrocities the west committed against Yemen, they really should follow suit

It’s not a reliable partner, it can’t offer protection, and it has nothing to offer economically.

that’s a lot of verbal diarrhea Lucas, should get that checked

honestly to be expected from the glowie.world

I’m pretty sure any mainstream liberal publication lost this demographic years ago.

I’m hoping people around Trump start getting cold feet. That’s really the only chance this deescalates. Next couple of weeks are gonna be pretty wild.

I guess nuclear holocaust is postponed for now. I’m still convinced that there’s going to be escalation because there’s just no way he simply walks away from this.

It’s just honestly surreal to watch, how can people even attempt to normalize this sort of shit.

These rogue regimes pose the greatest threat to the continued survival of the human civilization.

Just imagine the reaction if Putin went on MAX and said something like this. Every news outlet would rightly scream that Putin is an absolute genocidal mad man, and that such statements are beyond the pale. Yet, for some weird reason, western media doesn’t even bother addressing how absolutely unhinged this statement is when it comes from Trump. CBC quotes it without any commentary as if this is just a normal fucking thing for a leader of a regime that’s sitting on the second biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons to day. All the western media is completely and utterly complicit in enabling whatever atrocities the US will do. Every single one of these spineless sacks of shit is complicit.