Iran deploys more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, sources say

Funny until it starts REALLY impacting more than oil.

This joke is so timeless and flexible. I’m curious if the Simpsons writers actually encountered this in the wild, or how else they dreamed up this scenario.

Oh that’s absolutely the plan. I’m just wondering when the ball will drop

He really needs an attack on American soil for that to be palatable at all to the American people. I pray it doesn’t happen but I’m not confident it won’t.

There were elections in 1862 and 1864 during the US Civil War. That was a war on US soil in which 3% of the population was injured or killed. There's no excuse for not having them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862_United_States_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864_United_States_elections

I suspect this is more a matter of Hanlon Razor (Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity). You are giving him to much credit otherwise. Not saying he does not do things to profit though. He clearly does.

isnt that what american troops are for? :/ so glad keir starmer has decided not to send british forces to join in on this

0, Israelis don’t want to watch IDF vs FPV drone compilations on their social media feed

Did make me feel a bit sick, but Israelis have been quite transparent with their malice

Writing it like that confuses the ESL shills hired out of South Asia

>I mean if they think it is f****** with their lives now after just an oil shortage wait til the fertiliser kicks in. ... What's your point? It's still entirely the fault of the USA regardless.

You can buy corn futures, literally.

> I’m carefully optimistic the they will take advantage to get the US back on course. OR! They could spend the next few years in-fighting about stupid bullshit while ignoring all the real issues!

This is exactly what I was thinking after the election. Republicans won on lowering prices and affordability. But now they own it, and there will be hell to pay if they don't actually make it better. And then of course Trump makes it worse, so. The average American is going to see that they're not better off from 2 years ago and that will slaughter Republicans

"but he’s also liable to impeachment by the house and senate" No, he's not. Only the House can impeach the president (with a majority) due to "high crimes and misdemeanors" and impeachment itself doesn't do much. Conviction and removal comes from 2/3rds of the Senate, something that has never happened in the US and the dems have no hope of gaining that many seats this year to get 2/3rds. Using the military, even in a deeply unpopular way, is not an impeachable offense, although there's plenty of other actions democrats could point to as high crimes/misdemeanors (maybe bribery or treachery although those are high bars). The president has a lot of leeway on military operations, so even if dems controlled the House (likely) and Senate (majority possible although less likely), there isn't a lot they could do for stopping military action in the Middle East without republicans crossing the aisle. Crossing the aisle might occur since the Iran war is very unpopular, especially with MAGA. Dems taking Congress would do a lot to hamstring Trump, particularly with his tariffs and domestic policies, but less so for military action.

I'm betting on the Dems being too cowardly to take action even when they have a majority in both the House and the Senate. Either way, the world is screwed if the pedo-in-charge stays in power for another 3 years.

No it wouldn't. They would need 2/3rd of the Senate to remove, and the dems have basically no hope of getting 2/3rds of the Senate in Nov. They're gunning for a simple majority. No US president has ever been removed from office, so it would take a lot to get Republicans to go along with it.

We are extremely low on those reserves and we are getting very close to not having enough to make a difference Our reserves were already at 33% capacity before release

Yea, it's horrible. I really hope regardless of what silly bickering Trump or the Iranian regime get into, the people in Iran are able to get something out of this positive out of all this- hopefully a change in government and a better, less oppressive life.