Again, NO reason for war was given. No strategic objective verbalized.

Touting the destruction of Iran's non-existent air force and obsolete surface fleet is not going to make up for the ever increasing price at the gas station.

Did you see oil price skyrocket and DOW Futures tank during the speech?

The UK will be receiving its last tanker of jet fuel and will not permit airplanes to refuel at their airports.

S. Korea has started rationing.

Neither the UK or S. Korea wanted(s) this war.

Poor countries in East Asia and Africa are now without fuel for hospitals and schools.

It's always the poorest that pay the most for these wars.

5 Million People have been displaced.

Iran continues to hit oil tankers in gulf

Infrastructure throughout the Middle East is getting hit.

Be clear, the military targets being blown up-rockets, missiles, launchers, drones are far less than is being claimed by the US government and will EASILY be rebuilt or purchased from China and Russia. That part of the campaign is pointless.

Professor Pape (author of the escalation trap) is arguing that Iran will come out of this war as a 4th super power given they will control 20% of the world's oil. America will decline.

Giving up control of the Strait of Hormuz makes that inevitable. Iran will have dominance over it's ME neighbors.

JVL of the Bulwark had an interesting observation.

By Piggy calling for other countries to go seize the SoH and seize Iranian oil, Piggy is calling for groups of countries to actively unite in competition to America. That is rather an amazing fact. That America is saying fuck it to the rest of the world, like international relationships have no use.

Be perfectly clear. this war will rage on. the catastrophic events are just beginning and will magnify exponentially. Delays of fuel and fertilizer and other chemicals will have ripple effects that will blast across the world's economy. two weeks from now there will be massive, unsolvable problems emerging.

Again, a deep recession is a given, we are looking at a global depression.

BTW Piggy sounds extremely unwell, mentally and physically, his speech was rambling, incoherent and contradictory (the little I heard and gathered from observers). It is past time he be 25th Amendmented or out right impeached.

It is literally mind-blowing that Donald J. Trump will be the singular figure to cause the downfall of America and the world.d

If Piggy was a normal human being one could take comfort that a speech like this would mean ground troops would be less likely but since Piggy is not a normal human being, who knows.

In other words, this speech meant absolutely nothing. It will mean nothing tomorrow and a week from now it will mean nothing.

So, in reality it was a grab at getting through the day. Tomorrow it will be something different.

Of course, this is a 3 day weekend, so the markets will be off, so maybe ground forces assault on Friday

It would be nice of some active military personnel would push back against the flagrant war crimes Piggy is constantly touting.

Of course, EVERY SINGLE BOMB DROPPED IS A WAR CRIME.