This is a crime against humanity

Causing the price of oil to rise by 40% is nothing?

As of Monday morning, Brent crude, the industry benchmark, was priced at $106 per barrel, up more than 40 percent from $72 per barrel on February 27.

A report conducted by the global macroeconomic firm Capital Economics warned that if the conflict drags on, oil prices would rise further to around $130pb in Q2 [second quarter]."

I remind you that Israel, after 2+ years of ruthless bombing that turned the Gaza strip into a moonscape DID NOT DEFEAT HAMAS.

In 1953 we destroyed every single building in the capital of NK and they did not quit.

That is a pipe dream.

Maybe, perhaps Iran might quit? NO, they'd have to be insane to quit without major concessions. Iran will NEVER have the advantages they have now. They will need sanctions relief and some iron cast guarantee that Israel or the US won't be back in 6 months.

No, there is NO military solution to this.

Then one must ALWAYS consider that Trump may WANT to keep this war going for the foreseeable future for his own political ends here in America.

So, again, these are historic times. Pay attention.

The president is contemplating seizing islands in the straits of Hormuz to facilitate the transport of oil.

Leaving aside all of the lies and hyperbole and changing justifications and contradictions and the amateurishness of the Secretary of Defense.

Seizing island in the straits of Hormuz or escorting tankers through and fro WILL NOT WORK.

The goal is to permit oil tankers to flow through.

Well, those tankers have to load in ports from port facilities with oil piped through pipelines from well fields.

Each and every point along that path is vulnerable to interdiction by Iran.

I have heard NO ONE state that obvious fact. That OBVIOUS fact.

If Trump is contemplating military action with land forces to that end it is nothing more than another dead end.

And, it should go without saying that any land operation will be devastating to our forces.

I could bore you with a long litany of unsurmountable problems, from the terrain to projecting tactical air power over the combat zone, to simple numbers and locations of Iranian artillery and missiles, to the Iranian navy's submarine and surface ships to a lack of munitions, to destruction of our radar system to a host of other problems.

Is anyone telling that to the President?

And, again, if somehow, we seize islands at low cost and am able to supply those forces and that allows us to escort tankers through the narrows, and somehow, we can convince private companies to put their billion-dollar vessels at risk, what then?

Well Iran drops a drone into a port facility.

Or Iran bombs a pipeline

And we are back to square one.

THERE IS NO MILITARY OPTION FOR VICTORY. SHORT OF SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE-REGIME CHANGE THROUGH AIR POWER.

Who is he talking about?

The voices in his head.

The following are some of his remarks:

Trump has claimed if he didn't "decimate" Iran's nuclear programme, "they would have had a nuclear weapon within one month after that bombing took place, and they would have used it on first Israel and then the Middle East."
"A nuclear war that would have evolved into World War III, and more important, this is a war that there would have been nothing left," Trump said adding that "we've done a great thing."
"Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. They should not have it. They have no navy, they have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft weapons. They have no leadership."
"My biggest problem is I have no idea who we're talking to because nobody ever heard of any of these people, they're all dead."

"We did a job for the world, not a job for us, for the whole world."

So, we need to seize their fissile material, right?

The man is insane

His justification for the war is back to Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

Which begs the question

What steps will he take to assure they don't build one assuming the bombing campaign does not reach that objective?

Is it comforting that tomorrow he will have another justification? I don't know any more

BTW you can dislike those regimes as I do. But you cannot deny the importance of these countries to our national security.

Like I said you're scum
Truly truly scum
#46 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-03-12 11:26 PMFlag: (Choose)FunnyNewsworthyOffensiveAbusive
#46. That's a fair point.
#47 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-12 11:28 PM

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

Why anyone takes anything this used maxi-pad posts with good faith is beyond me.

If you don't stop calling us fascists we will kill you.

Btw this goes to a major media and pundit problem. They aren't framing it he issue correctly. Escorting will not solve the logjam only a ceasefire will

To be clear it isn't just about escorting ships thithe strait. It is a ships loading. It's about port facilities it's about oil storage and piping and pumping. Escorting ship will do nothing while hostilities are ongoing

Trump is threatening news agencies with treason

Trump accuses US media of treason over Iran war coverage
The US president has lashed out at US media over their coverage of the war on Iran, calling for treason charges against outlets that spread false information.

In a Truth Social post, Trump accused the US media of being manipulated by Iran, which he claimed is using AI to disseminate disinformation.

"Iran, working in close coordination with the Fake News Media, shows our great USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, one of the largest and most prestigious Ships in the World, burning uncontrollably in the Ocean. Not only was it not burning, it was not even shot at " Iran knows better than to do that! The story was knowingly FAKE and, in a certain way, you can say that those Media Outlets that generated it should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information!" he wrote.

"The fact is, Iran is being decimated, and the only battles they "win" are those that they create through AI, and are distributed by Corrupt Media Outlets. The Radical Leftwing Press knows this full well, but continues to go forward with false stories and LIES," he added.

Abject scum surrounded by fanatical evangelical christian nationalist deeply yearning for armegeddon

what could go wrong

no one believes you

How about this?

Why don't our media, all of them, put a full court press on the WH and Pentagon to explain why the ---- we are in this war and what we are trying to achieve?

How about that for a start?

How about honest reporting about the US starting a war of aggression?

How about honest reporting about the lack of honest information regarding casualties?

How about honest reporting regarding the corruption at the center of the decision to start a war?

How about honest reporting about the military fiasco that is unfolding?

How about honest reporting about the economic abyss that Trump is pushing us into?

How about honest reporting about the censorship our and our ally's government is conducting?

How about honest reporting about the media kicked out of the pentagon?

Nah war porn, stories about shoes and touting pentagon talking points is fine.

Jeff bravely takes a stand against the MSM taking a conservative approach to reporting

Jeff supports his government threatening news companies over article headlines

"I never supported Bush or his failed wars in the Middle East, so I'm not sure why you think I wouldn't call it a failure."

No one believes you.

And around the same time it was announced that Iran would target anyone supplying the Gerald Ford

Apparently, Piggy is going to announce a coalition of nations who will escort ships through the strait.

No word on whether that would be before or after the war is over.

Gonna be funny when this collapses or a Japanese ship is sunk in the strait

It is depressing that Tucker Carlson is the voice of resistance.

Do Americans have any concept of what we have done?

This is national suicide level stuff.