He was aware

John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

Doc,
My wife just told me that Virginia had a law on the books, put in 1806, that freed slaves were required to leave the state within one year.
Jefferson complained that the law made emancipation difficult.
If Jefferson had freed his slaves, they would have been required to leave their families.
Yes....life with Clio's disciples is always interesting.

#99 | Posted by BillJohnson a

John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

Fair nuff lol

Meanwhile, meanwhile, idiots like rf4b ignore the point of the thread, which is we are on the verge of a global famine that could kill 10s of millions of people.

If Iran wants to starve the world, let them drink sand.
#7 | Posted by rf4b

Desalination currently provides a very small fraction"roughly 3%"of Iran's potable water, and only about 0.2% of its total overall water consumption. Unlike neighboring Gulf states that depend on it for up to 90% of their supply, Iran still relies primarily on traditional rivers, reservoirs, and heavily depleted underground aquifers.

You're an idiot

Meanwhile
Approximately 90 percent of Kuwait's drinking and residential water comes from desalination.
Desalination provides 59 percent of Bahrain's total national water supply, a figure that jumps to over 90 percent (and up to nearly 100 percent) specifically for drinking and municipal water needs
Approximately 42 percent of the United Arab Emirates' overall drinking and potable water comes from desalination plants, according to official government data. The remainder of the country's broader water supply relies heavily on natural groundwater and treated wastewater
Approximately 70% of Saudi Arabia's drinking water comes from desalination, though desalination accounts for about 18% to 60% of its total overall water consumption depending on whether agriculture and heavy industrial use are included. The country relies heavily on this infrastructure managed by the Saudi Water Authority (formerly SWCC).
Desalination accounts for approximately 85% to 90% of Israel's municipal (drinking) water supply. This is generated by five major Mediterranean coastal plants (Ashkelon, Palmachim, Hadera, Sorek, and Ashdod) and numerous smaller brackish groundwater plants in the Arava region

Like I said, you're a idiot

And add in the higher cost of diesel fuel which is used to harvest and transport food.

We are looking at a catastrophe of epic proportions.

The development of a cost-effective fertilizer within the last 80-100 years has permitted the world to grow enough food to support 8 billion + people.

That may be ending and we may be returning to a pre- time when agriculture could support only 2 billion people

So it is not crazy to imagine that if this war goes on for another 5 or 6 months that famine and starvation will kill 10s of millions of people.

And understand that that type of food insecurity causes mass migration. From the global south to the global north.

Expect another flood of immigrants, seeking food.

Reminder of how we got here

1. Piggy unilaterally pulled out of the JCPOA despite Iran abiding by it
2. Piggy attacked them last summer without warning, declaration or justification-during negotiations.
3. Piggy agreed to a ceasefire with Iran last summer
4. Piggy attacked Iran AGAIN, during negotiations, without warning, declaration or justification despite Iran abiding by the ceasefire
5. Piggy launched the current war with a cowardly sneak attack that murdered their leader and infants.
6. Piggy launched this unjust, unjustifiable, illegal, immoral attack because Israel recognized a target of opportunity-the Iranian leader at home during peacetime
7. Piggy murdered Iran's negotiators and moderates in the Iranian leadership
8. Piggy bragged about murdering Iran's leadership-despite this being a war crime
9. Piggy has threatened to murder Iran's negotiators
10. Piggy signed a MOU to stop the fighting
11. Piggy nearly immediately breached the MoU
12. Piggy has attacked unarmed commercial vessels traversing the strait
13. Piggy has regularly threated to end Iranian civilization
14. Piggy flounders between outrageous threats and actions-seizing the Strait and charging a toll, giving Saudi Arabia nuclear technology and immediately TACOing because the corrupt gulf dictators tell him no.

None of the above even touches on the evil acts of our ally Israel

America is the bad guy

We deserve to suffer.

The simple fact is Iran has won the war.

The magnitude of the strategic defeat is way beyond anything in recent military history.

Iran is and will dictate the terms of surrender and Piggy will pay them, or more correctly, the rest of the world will pay for the privilege of Iran controlling the Strait.

There is talk that Kuwait may collapse and be absorbed by Iraq. Jordan's royal family is hiding in London, the Kuwaiti ruling family may be too. The Gulf states may collapse as well.

Alternatives to the Gulf for oil transit will arise but they will simply not be able to keep up with the demand.

Pipelines to the Red Sea and through Syria will be built but are and will be very vulnerable and and cost a great deal of money.

Piggy has lost the war

There simply are NO military options.

On top of that we are experiencing the malpractice which has run our defense establishment for the past decade.

We are incapable, despite spending a trillion dollars per year, of sustaining a military campaign against a 2nd rate military force.

that is malpractice of the highest order.

To say nothing of the unmovable fact of terrain and geography

We cannot use land forces against Iran in any meaningful numbers. MAYBE we can do a raid here or there, but no sustained land operation is even in the realm of possibility. We do not have a safe base to operate from, we cannot assault Iran's coast, we simply do not have the man power to do it. Compare that to Iraq when we had several hundred thousand men, allies with major contributions, and access from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Saddam Hussien could not effectively touch us in our bases. Plus Iraq is wide open compared to Iran.

No, there is no military option, full stop.

Except a nuclear weapon.