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One of the self-owns of all time. Triggering a global supply chain crisis right before midterms is bottom of the barrel strategy. But then again, who expects co
by VK-pro 7mo ago
One of the self-owns of all time. Triggering a global supply chain crisis right before midterms is bottom of the barrel strategy. But then again, who expects competency from any recent American administration, most especially this one?
- realo 7mo agoBut where are the Epstein Trump documents? Someone really hopes you forgot about them...
- garciasn 7mo agoWhat’s baffling to me is how they’re going to attempt to spin the colossal fuck up this is from a “Best Military in the World” perspective, particularly after their unapproved relabeling of the DoD to the DoW.
- lejalv 7mo agoIncluding starting with murdering 100+ kids based on stale intelligence, according to the NY times.
- ForHackernews 7mo agoIt doesn't matter how good the military is if the political leadership is incompetent and the strategic objectives are incoherent. You'd think that after Vietnam, Iraq 2, and Afghanistan this lesson would have been learned, but apparently not.
- lm28469 7mo agoTactical win, strategic defeat, a classic for the US military, especially in the middle east, you'd imagine they learn after so many blunders
- jonfw 7mo agoWhatever your political affiliation and thoughts on the war, I hope we can all agree that it would an awful thing to base our foreign policy on the US election cycle.
- ordu 7mo agoNot so awful as it may seem. It would be even more awful if election cycle had no influence over decision to wage one more war. "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
- dizlexic 7mo agoDepends, I just want to point out that the US is a net exporter of Oil. They also secured oil imports from Venezuela while at the same time in 2 strokes seriously hurt Chinese oil imports. If the goal was to hurt China / BRICS and kneecap Iran it seems on point. It's always hard to predict how the USA will vote when "war" is happening.
- wmfiv 7mo agoVenezuela has reserves. Relative to the gulf it doesn't produce any meaningful amount of oil from those reserves.
- bilekas 7mo ago> They also secured oil imports from Venezuela while at the same time in 2 strokes seriously hurt Chinese oil imports. This 'Venezuelan oil' is a pipe dream for the moment. It will take a significant amount of years to get anywhere near completed.
- 1234letshaveatw 7mo agoreally? where are their oil exports going now?
- piva00 7mo agoThey aren't pumping that much oil since Chavez, the expertise for extracting oil was lost during nationalisation. It needs a lot of work to restart extraction, it will take years.
- christkv 7mo agoThey don’t need Venezuela look up Guyana next door its the new oil country in the region
- ericmay 7mo agoWhat makes you think that if this was the case that the US wouldn’t also take action there to secure those oil exports?
- toyg 7mo agoThese people live on manufacturing crisis after crisis in order to exploit the manic status that they generate. Why worry about how the midterms, if you can create a situation where elections cannot be held at all...? Yes, it sounds crazy right now, but a lot of things sounded similarly crazy 10 years ago, and here we are.
- gzread 7mo agoI heard a theory that since someone told Trump that Ukraine wouldn't hold elections until after the war, he thought America had the same law.
- Jtsummers 7mo agoHe has lived through multiple wars where elections were held. I do not think highly of the man, but he would have to be pretty bad off to come to that belief.
- FireBeyond 7mo agoWhich "war"? While there are the current "debates" about whether this is a war, the US hasn't declared war on anybody since WW2. > but he would have to be pretty bad off to come to that belief. Well, did you hear that the dead are walking around with no arms and no legs because they were blown off? Trump said that, a few days ago.
- Marsymars 7mo agoIf you listen to him talk and the things he actually says, it's hard to escape the conclusion that he's losing his grip on reality as he ages. The mainstream media is incredibly generous to him, they parse out the non-crazy from his word salad and report on that.
- MisterTea 7mo agoI would wager that someone as selfish as narcissistic as he is would have been oblivious and unconcerned with the day to day affairs of the plebeians unless it effected his income.
- lenkite 7mo agoLockheed Martin already paid for Trump's ballroom (not a joke) and so needed the guy to start a War as their investment must be repaid a hundred fold. Who cares about American voters ?
- epistasis 7mo agoThe Biden administration was actually extremely competent, handled global inflation after the pandemic and Russia's war fairly well relative to peer nations, and set US manufacturing on course to provide us with all the batteries, solar panels, and EVs to prevent oil crunches like this from causing future inflation. I expect more competency from US Presidential administrations, and also expect more competency and indpendence from the various parts of the executive branch, which should execute their missions without micro-management from the President, and I further expect far more competence from Congress and the US Supreme Court in setting law and enforcing law. It's bad enough that we have an incompetent Presidential administration, but that damage should be limited by the independence of the other parts of the government. The blast radius should be far smaller, we shouldn't have a King.
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- epistasis 7mo agoHuh? That's a pretty far out there statement that needs substantial support to be taken seriousl. By all accounts Israeli leadership also tried to rope Biden and Obama into attacking Iran, but they were stronger presidents that paid more attention to US interests rather than being easily tricked.
- muddi900 7mo agoUS pulling out of the JCPOA was the biggest travesty of the 21st century. No nation state will ever feel safe without a nuke now. But Israel wanted to destroy Iran as competition. And they got it.
- epistasis 7mo agoAgreed. And I'd say pulling out of the TPP is an equivalently big mistake, and will honestly have far worse consequences for the US but in far different ways. Letting China be the leader of the Pacific by pulling out, in combination with the terrible hostility to all countries there now, especially to South Korea, massively weakens the US economically and military. We just handed everything over, no fight, no fuss, no benefit to the US. Ugh.
- tjpnz 7mo agoCurious timing given the latest from the Epstein files.
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- josefritzishere 7mo agoI have no idea how American will extricate itself. We are nowhere near a Nixonian "Peace with Honor" exit. The Trumpian manuver of declaring victory and walking away seems increasingly infeasible. I think the best case senario is a Pyrrhic victory. The worst case is probably more like Russia's exit from the Soviet-Afghan war.
- apercu 7mo agoThe previous one, while not great, was reasonably competent.
- p4coder 7mo agoThe nation is one terrorist attack away from rallying behind the president. And sadly the chances of that happening have gone up significantly in recent days.
- DivingForGold 7mo agoI would bet Trump just shot himself in the foot with this war, after midterms he will be a "lame duck" pres the remainder of his administration, relying on executive orders, which his opponents will merely take to liberal judges to have them stricken down. The final straw near the end of his term may be selling pardons to any takers.