Iran

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

We have been very lucky. We filled up our oil tank a few days before the war started at 55p per litre. The price today is £1.20 per litre.

I didn't know you had contacts in the White House.

[Turkish]

6 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I didn't know you had contacts in the White House.

Did you forgot it’s amazing the people you can meet at a village lunch in Kent. 

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Blimey. So the rest of the world must get involved if they want Middle East oil, whilst the US; doubtless sort themselves out with their own.

Always the plan? Or a consequence of things not going well?

'The US president has issued a new statement on Truth Social on the back of his earlier comments about “many countries” dispatching warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

“The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he wrote.

“The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well. This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be – It will bring the World together toward Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!” '

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 minutes ago, egg said:

Blimey. So the rest of the world must get involved if they want Middle East oil, whilst the US; doubtless sort themselves out with their own.

Always the plan? Or a consequence of things not going well?

'The US president has issued a new statement on Truth Social on the back of his earlier comments about “many countries” dispatching warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

“The Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” he wrote.

“The U.S. will also coordinate with those Countries so that everything goes quickly, smoothly, and well. This should have always been a team effort, and now it will be – It will bring the World together toward Harmony, Security, and Everlasting Peace!” '

I wonder whose ships he wants. It can't be ours, as he specifically said not to bother, as the war was over.

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Just now, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I wonder whose ships he wants. It can't be ours, as he specifically said not to bother, as the war was over.

Indeed. War wise, yep, but I read his comments to mean that US aren't going to sort Hormuz, and if other countries want the oil, they must do it, and the US will merely help. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

14 minutes ago, egg said:

Indeed. War wise, yep, but I read his comments to mean that US aren't going to sort Hormuz, and if other countries want the oil, they must do it, and the US will merely help. 

Ah, so in his head the issues in the Strait are a distinct, not directly part of the war he doesn't need ships for, trade route issue that does need ships.

It must be a constant surprise for him to go through life with no concept of cause and effect.

 

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6 minutes ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

Ah, so in his head the issues in the Strait are a distinct, not directly part of the war he doesn't need ships for, trade route issue that does need ships.

It must be a constant surprise for him to go through life with no ncept of cause and effect.

That's how I read it. Rampant oil prices, outrageous demand, US and Venezuelan oil at his disposal. 

Russia ok. 

China fucked. 

Not sure where this is heading. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

25 minutes ago, egg said:

That's how I read it. Rampant oil prices, outrageous demand, US and Venezuelan oil at his disposal. 

Russia ok. 

China fucked. 

Not sure where this is heading. 

China sends it's Taiwanese invasion fleet to hold the Hormuz straight. 

Russia and Ukraine end hostilities. Russia are too busy shipping oil while they can. Ukraine are too busy making drones for all the countries that spent 2% on vastly expensive US defence systems.

US and Israeli allies keep a battered Iran in check for another number of years, and the conflict fizzles. Dividing up Iranian influence unites them. 

Previously backed Iranian groups, collapse without funding and are forced to give up starting with the letter "H"

Cuba gives up certain communist ideals for electricity and food.

Trump considers all of these as wars he's ended or averted. Sure, the markets took a hit. But they bounce back.

Trump receives every Nobel peace prize handed out, as it turns out erroneously, to other people in the past.

Initially wary, Congress give Trump another term, so he can bring his genius into solving US issues.

Sadly, he's bumped off in Dallas. Key suspects include US defence companies, broken after people realised they were no longer needed. The 20 million dollar missile that did the deed is considered to be a hint. An obsessive lone staple gunman is blamed, after he claimed to hear voices in his head from fictional  brunch friends.

 

[badgerx16]

What countries are going to send warships to a war zone where anything not flying an Indian flag is seen as a legitimate target ?

[skintsaint]

I'm starting to think my flight to Aus via Qatar on Good Friday won't be happening 😅

[Weston Super Saint]

8 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

What countries are going to send warships to a war zone where anything not flying an Indian flag is seen as a legitimate target ?

Isn't that where warships are meant to go?

[badgerx16]

FCC head Brendan Carr has threatened the licences of broadcast and print news outlets that publish reports on the war that do not follow the Trump administration's propaganda lines.

Such "Fake News", ( AKA the truth ), is "not in the public interest".

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1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

FCC head Brendan Carr has threatened the licences of broadcast and print news outlets that publish reports on the war that do not follow the Trump administration's propaganda lines.

Such "Fake News", ( AKA the truth ), is "not in the public interest".

Plus Israel and the Gulf states threatening prison for any filming of what's happening. 

The saviours of the free world my arse.