I did say it wasn’t going to be chill over there for very long.

Idk something tells me China would happily buy Russian oil sanction or not. Especially if their main source is disrupted.

This whole world war 3 bullshittery is hurting my brain

Ok so like if China did do that, whats in it for them?

Also, if the price of oil spikes will that cause a market crash that crashes the housing bubble? Seems like this might be a entirely-too-fucked-up way to make housing affordable again.

Oh, no, not at all. It’s purely about its location and importance than worry me.

The PTSD folk? They were in the expelling force in '91. The others were in Iraq (mainly after 2003), and came through Kuwait.

Kuwait was chill after the Iraq regime fell.

Kuwait is right over the Persian Gulf by Iran. It won’t be chill for very long.

Ugh. This kind of hits hard.

I know people who are active in the military (yes they are stupid and yes it doesn’t take much analysis to figure out they’re probably magats). In particular I know several who have been to Kuwait and seem to regularly get stationed there.

I’ve known several people who died by suicide from PTSD from Kuwait, or Iraq.

There’s a girl, she’s a sergeant. She’s in until 2028, been to Kuwait already. I don’t know if she’s even 23. She certainly doesn’t come off as a magat. But it doesn’t really matter. 23 is an adult yes. But to me? I’m 34? She’s just starting life out. To get killed in this kind of war is gross.

Yes. I love it.

I believe I read that not only are micro plastics unavoidable, the amount entering the environment produced by any organization is an order of magnitude higher than anything we produce at home.

Especially anything that comes in plastic wrap.

Just please wait until after I’ve seen Dune Messiah a couple dozen times in theaters. Please. That’s all I’m asking. I don’t even need to get laid again, that ship isnt even that important and it happens to a lot of people every day. I just want to see Dune Messiah before we all die.

Hahahaha holy shit we are so fucked if actual war happens

Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror.

Ok does someone want to catch me up on this opinion shared by world leaders but quite literally no one else?

Like yes, Iran is a terrible authoritarian state that is very dangerous. But so is Saudi Arabia?!

I didn’t call it, but there’s nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.

This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.

But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because “Iran provided us much help and they need us now.” And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.

Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it’s just people’s lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.

I don’t like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.

Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn’t just escalation, this is staging for invasion.

That’s the limit of the Regime. They can make meaningless threats or go after vulnerable people. Fascists don’t pick fights they can’t win or at least face no consequences.