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. 

[egg]

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.

[egg]

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.

 

Edited Saturday at 20:03 by Holmes_and_Watson
typo

[egg]

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".

[egg]

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. 

[Farmer Saint]

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Edited 13 hours ago by Farmer Saint

[badgerx16]

"The Trump administration's top official on counterterrorism has resigned from his position, citing opposition to the war in Iran, and urged the president to "reverse course".

In a letter posted on Tuesday to his X account, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed that the Trump administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby". 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4g66r3z40o

"Additionally, Kent alleged that "high-ranking Israeli officials" and influential US journalists had sowed "misinformation" that caused Trump to undermine his "America First" platform.

"This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States," the letter continued. "This was a lie.""

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[badgerx16]

Edited 4 hours ago by badgerx16

[whelk]

Excellent- every day they have beaten them, what with being the best in the world.  Gas prices back to normal now the voters will love you even more.

Imagine this knob talking about the Vietnam War?
Week 1 - We have napalmed every member of the Vietcong, destroyed their tunnels and obliterated the NVA

Week 1018 - We have decided to leave with victory complete;we are just accounting for the whereabouts of 60,000 US soldiers

[hypochondriac]

What a dummy. Why on Earth would you consider the fact that you have isolated yourself from every country bar Russia, Israel and some corrupt oil countries in the Middle East to be something to boast about? Crazy. 

[whelk]

6 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

What a dummy. Why on Earth would you consider the fact that you have isolated yourself from every country bar Russia, Israel and some corrupt oil countries in the Middle East to be something to boast about? Crazy. 

Hard to believe he is an adult, needs to be adored, constantly fed compliments and phoney awards and loves playing the victim like a the self-pitying emotionally stunted adult he is. Comes from, and clearly perpetuates, a loveless, joyless environment.

[whelk]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

"The Trump administration's top official on counterterrorism has resigned from his position, citing opposition to the war in Iran, and urged the president to "reverse course".

In a letter posted on Tuesday to his X account, National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent said that Iran posed "no imminent threat" to the US and claimed that the Trump administration "started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby". 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4g66r3z40o

"Additionally, Kent alleged that "high-ranking Israeli officials" and influential US journalists had sowed "misinformation" that caused Trump to undermine his "America First" platform.

"This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States," the letter continued. "This was a lie.""

Turns out this guy was weak all along. No sorry, not just weak, he was very weak.

"I read his statement," says Trump. "I always thought he was a nice guy but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security."

He continues: "I didn't know him well ... But when I read his statement I realised that it's a good thing that he's out, because he said Iran was not a threat.

Edited 4 hours ago by whelk

[badgerx16]

15 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

What a dummy. Why on Earth would you consider the fact that you have isolated yourself from every country bar Russia, Israel and some corrupt oil countries in the Middle East to be something to boast about? Crazy. 

 

5 minutes ago, whelk said:

Hard to believe he is an adult, needs to be adored, constantly fed compliments and phoney awards and loves playing the victim like a the self-pitying emotionally stunted adult he is. Comes from, and clearly perpetuates, a loveless, joyless environment.

Clear evidence of TDS.

Stop believing everything the MSM feed you. Watch Fox News and NewsMax, get on TELEGRAM, Truth Social, and INSTA to find out about the REAL WORLD.

Dummies.

Edited 4 hours ago by badgerx16

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, whelk said:

Turns out this guy was weak all along.

"I read his statement," says Trump. "I always thought he was a nice guy but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security."

He continues: "I didn't know him well ... But when I read his statement I realised that it's a good thing that he's out, because he said Iran was not a threat.

The guy is a proper conspiracy nut and J6 election denier, but I would take the word of a former SF soldier and CIA operative who served several tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who's wife was killed by an ISIS suicide bomber in Syria, over President Bone Spurs.

[badgerx16]

The US will claim "victory" and pull out without effecting regime change, in the expectation that the Iranian people will "rise up" and overthrow whatever version of the regime remains in power. This will lead to an internal power struggle and substantial further deaths, and Iranian proxies seeking revenge against US and other western targets, whilst we either get a collapsing failed state, as with Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, or a successor generation of the same complexion as the one Trump and Bibi have been culling.

[egg]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

Bless him. We don't need you, you're shit, where are you, we need you, we never needed you, the war is won, we haven't won yet...feck knows what winning looks like, how do I get out of this mess...

He's absolutely lost it. 

[egg]

33 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

The US will claim "victory" and pull out without effecting regime change, in the expectation that the Iranian people will "rise up" and overthrow whatever version of the regime remains in power. This will lead to an internal power struggle and substantial further deaths, and Iranian proxies seeking revenge against US and other western targets, whilst we either get a collapsing failed state, as with Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, or a successor generation of the same complexion as the one Trump and Bibi have been culling.

Yep. The only way the attacks on the Gulf states have a chance of stopping is for the US to withdraw. It'll then be a slug fest between Iran and Israel, who'll carry on smashing up Lebanon with impunity, steal south Lebanon, Hezbollah will be armed to resist that, Iran will be hit more in response, rinse and repeat. Fortunately the wider world are starting to see the issue, and refusing to be coerced into joining the party. 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, hypochondriac said:

What a dummy. Why on Earth would you consider the fact that you have isolated yourself from every country bar Russia, Israel and some corrupt oil countries in the Middle East to be something to boast about? Crazy. 

Because a lot of Americans don’t think there is a world outside of the US of A?

[egg]

4 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Because a lot of Americans don’t think there is a world outside of the US of A?

As long as they don't try to find it, or be anywhere that I am, I can live with that. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

2 hours ago, badgerx16 said:

I laughed but it's actually terrifying that this fruit cake is supposedly the leader of the free world.

[egg]

10 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

I laughed but it's actually terrifying that this fruit cake is supposedly the leader of the free world.

Yep. The idiot has said he'll "take Cuba" next. 

It's only been a year and a bit. 

[badgerx16]

46 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Because a lot of Americans don’t think there is a world outside of the US of A?

 

8 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

I laughed but it's actually terrifying that this fruit cake is supposedly the leader of the free world.

There seem to be a large number of Americans on SM threads who respond to people slagging off Trump by saying "Have respect, he is your President", only for the target to respond "Not in Estonia" or "I'm in Australia", etc. Even then, some assume that those foreign countries are part of Trump's domain.

 

Government of the Stupid, for the Stupid, by the Stupid.

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, egg said:

Yep. The idiot has said he'll "take Cuba" next. 

It's only been a year and a bit. 

I seriously wonder about the US continuing to support Ukraine. I can see Trump considering backing out of a "European problem".

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

 

There seem to be a large number of Americans on SM threads who respond to people slagging off Trump by saying "Have respect, he is your President", only for the target to respond "Not in Estonia" or "I'm in Australia", etc. Even then, some assume that those foreign countries are part of Trump's domain.

 

Government of the Stupid, for the Stupid, by the Stupid.

I haven't seen that, but I can be virtually certain that most aren't written by actual Americans, but bots.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

I haven't seen that, but I can be virtually certain that most aren't written by actual Americans, but bots.

Having said that, equally possible they are Republicans https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/12/americans-opinions-canada-great-britain-poll-00823978

[Gloucester Saint]

5 minutes ago, badgerx16 said:

I seriously wonder about the US continuing to support Ukraine. I can see Trump considering backing out of a "European problem".

Possible but it would seriously embolden Russia and they are a direct threat to Alaska. Have also been helping Iran.

[badgerx16]

9 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

I haven't seen that, but I can be virtually certain that most aren't written by actual Americans, but bots.

( Look at the REDDIT title ).....

Edited 1 hour ago by badgerx16

[badgerx16]

And the OSCAR for best picture goes to.....