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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Countries in the Middle East face arid conditions and frequent water shortages, often relying on desalination infrastructure to turn saltwater into freshwater. Without such technology, which removes salt through reverse osmosis, roughly 100 million individuals in the Middle East would have no regular access to drinking water.

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The Iran war is exposing another major resource vulnerability in the Middle East: water.

Drinking water is a scarce commodity, and attacks on desalination plants threaten to open a new front.

#TopRisks2026 #GraphicTruth via @gzeromedia.com:[image or embed]

-- Eurasia Group (@eurasiagroup.net) Mar 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM

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It's called a Kill Switch.

Iran could make most of the Middle East uninhabitable over night.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-03-19 10:08 AM | Reply

As far back as I can remember, Republicans always wanted to nuke Mecca and turn the desert into a Sea of Glass.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-19 10:12 AM | Reply

Bomb,Bomb,Bomb,Bomb,Bomb Israel.

Do it Today....

The American Way.

They are Nobody's Friend.

Self Serving Duplicitous Vermin.

Always The Victim. Everything about Them.

Murdering Leadership,Killing Children, they don't Care... because they're only Goyim.

Bomb,Bomb,Bomb,Bomb, Bomb Israel.

The American Way.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-03-19 10:24 AM | Reply

There is no winning this.

Even if we "win," it will spart years of terrorism and asymmetrical reprisals both at home and on any American found abroad.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2026-03-19 02:04 PM | Reply

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#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-19 02:07 PM | Reply

Those of us around in 1990 recall the months-long buildup to the allied invasion of Iraq, after Saddam's forces rolled into Kuwait, to loot, pillage and rape. None of that build-up is happening here. Der Dotard is about to put boots on the ground in parts of Iran, and it is understood by all but those in our national idiot's war cabinet that Iranians of various stripes will be shooting at US Marines just because they hate Americans nearly as much as they hate the Israelis. It will be less than a couple of days after the Marines go ashore that one or more of them will be killed. Those funerals will be great advertising for the Dems.

Face it: the US was suckered and tricked into joining Bibi and Israel in a war to eliminate the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is not our war, but the blood to be spilled and the billions to be spent will make it an American war of choice, where under Der Dotard we will sacrifice soldiers, treasure and national stature, all before the mid-term elections...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2026-03-19 05:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Poor little oil sheiks elected a moron who will lead to their destruction.

But all they were too excited by how bribe-able he was.

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-03-19 06:20 PM | Reply

International politics now resemble the tinder dry times just before both WWI and WWII...hope another world war doesn't spark up thanks to our greed for oil.

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-03-20 06:22 AM | Reply

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