Iran: the collapse

He's great and knows a shit ton of stuff about shipping. IIRC, he also teaches at the Maritime College.

 

That tracks with Trump bragging about destroying Iran's Navy.

 

But, but...inflation. I hope the price of eggs is going down.

 

Great work every one!

Hundreds of thousands of people in southern Lebanon told to flee by Israeli military

The Israeli military has issued an evacuation order for all of the southern suburbs of Beirut, in an area called the Dahiyeh which it says is a Hezbollah stronghold.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...tes-canada-carney-trump-israel-tehran-strikes

 

Its funny how many projects Donnie already promised to fund with the stolen oil

 

I also think the nature of the creation of Israel also needs to be in the context of the terrible way European powers carved up their colonies/occupied territories into what became independent nations in the 20th Century.

 

If only there were a thread for these discussions! This is the thread dealing with the illegal war on Iran started by a proto fascist regime

 

We'll pay for this war from our conquests!

 

To our conversation yesterday, have a listen.

TL/DR - Bibi is good at providing talking points and influencing. Trump has his own agenda. Both countries see short-term wins. No country seems to have a long-term plan. Too much is unknown.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did-israel-force-trump-into-war/id1200361736?i=1000753315377

Did Israel Force Trump Into War?

The U.S. decision to strike Iran was a victory for Israel, which had been pushing President Trump for months on the need to hit the country. Now, Israel’s role in spurring the operation has become a point of political tension.

The New York Times journalists Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman discuss what we know about the extraordinarily close cooperation between Israel and the United States.

Guest:

• Mark Mazzetti, an investigative reporter for The New York Times in Washington, D.C., focusing on national security.
• Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine in Tel Aviv.

 

If Trump is not stopped, a place like Canada, Mexico, Greenland will obviously be next

I think the best case, he gets into a disaster in Iran

 

I think this is the first time we've had two regional wars at once since 1945?

 

Interestingly I went looking for pod-bro clips and now my 'for you' tab is a stream of anti-semitism and anti-war bros

So I think we know what side the X-algo is on

 

None of them was a regional war though?

At the moment we have a pan-middle eastern war, and the Russian-Ukraine war which escaped containment once Ukraine started bombing targets 1000s of km away and Russia started doing asymmetric sabotage around the region

 

Cuba is next.

 

Context of the time I think matters.
Iran-Iraq certainly mimics Russia-Ukraine.
Additionally, the US were involved in the Nicaraguan civil war, all be it covertly.
There is also the South African border war as well.

The big differences between then and now are the development (and access to) short and medium range missiles and drones.