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> Could be deliberate theater. The real plan is a containment and a slow economic collapse of Iran anyway. Doesn't seem like there's a coherent plan. What you
by mittensc 2mo ago
> Could be deliberate theater. The real plan is a containment and a slow economic collapse of Iran anyway.
Doesn't seem like there's a coherent plan. What you are saying is the old plan from long before Trump, that was torpedoed. Going back to that is saying they've failed in whatever this was.
Also that is iran's plan as well, survive while the US suffers and eventually gives up like Vietnam ...
> If the EU and Japan pay higher energy costs, that is an added bonus for Trump.
US also pays added costs... and Trump is hurting from that
The only one profiting is China since they've mostly transitioned away from oil...
- elias_t 2mo ago> The only one profiting is China since they've mostly transitioned away from oil... They had to use their own oil reserves to regulate the market, where they win is in soft power
- dnautics 2mo ago> soft power hows that going for them?
- elias_t 2mo ago> hows that going for them? "In its July 15 report — based on interviews with more than forty-two thousand people across thirty-six countries — Pew found that China is now viewed more favorably than the United States in most nations surveyed." [0] [0] https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-now-outranks-the-united-states-in-global-favorability-what-happened https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-now-outranks-the-united-s...
- dnautics 2mo agofta: "this is a story driven more by an American decline in soft power than by a Chinese surge." sonething tells me this will shift by the end of the decade