Iran says it has seized two ships in Strait of Hormuz after vessels attacked

It’s a “concept of a war”

This isn't the first time, either. The 1979 revolution ended exactly the way one would expect, given that the shah killed all leaders he deemed a threat - which was everyone of any competence. But he never killed any religious leaders no matter how competent they were. So when the revolution came, the only competent leaders alive were all mullahs. Outcome is obvious. The surprise is that they actually chose to share power with the secular public when they really didn't have to. That's why they have a presidency and an elected parliament.

The US took out the government leadership but somehow avoided the entire IRGC leadership. This means Iran effectively has two governments at the moment.

Roughly the same place that Iranian frigate got popped by a submarine, isn’t it?

Nah, that's like... Totally Iran-adjacent...

All priced in already. 😉 That's what the stock gambling subs tell me. 

The markets will just keep lying because it's fake and money is fake.

Explain to me how Lebanon is part of Iran.

It could work. The US can declare a ceasefire and remove all US forces from the region.

Not their billions though and they pocket the millions. This is embezzelment, and the whole world watches stunned.

It also helps out trumps best friend Vlad. His competition can't ship oil. His sanctions are lifted US is squandering munitions and political capital at an unprecedented rate There's no downside for trumpy, he doesn't give a shit about midterms or gas prices or insulin for dying folks.

They *arent* burning billions of their own money, they are burning the money of the american people. All the while they are making billions for themselves into their own pockets. Trump is one of the biggest scumbag piece of shits ever

It is efficient because it doesn’t cost them money

War is a Racket is a good read as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket Smedley Butler was a hell of a guy. He received two Medals of Honor! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

It can be refined just fine. You simply will not realize a return on investment for all the infrastructure you built for heavy crude oil, as you don't need the coking units/etc. The refinery simply makes less money. Thermodynamically it will work out just fine. You'd still get gasoline/diesel/LPG/kerosene/etc. in the end. Folks in the energy space I've talked to a while back estimated it at a roughly 30% or so financial efficiency loss, but you'd still get the same amount of light distillates (see above) out of each barrel, less the heavier ones being missing. Running heavy crude through a refinery built for light crude is an entirely different story of course. What is harder is reconfiguring supply lines. If you have a facility setup to offload a tanker of heavy crude every week for refinement and now need to switch to light - you need to have a light crude shipping facility somewhere else ready and able to send you ships. Since idle capacity is exceedingly expensive, it's not like there are a bunch of US light crude oil export facilities with a ton of unused capacity laying around.

If Iraq went as well as he was hoping, I bet Iran would have been next. I remember the rhetoric against Iran amping up, but then Iraq turned into a disaster.

Last I heard we were imposing a blockade and not allowing shipping at all, so this seems to line up perfectly with that.

They are pretending they are protecting it to their followers who won’t question it

sounds like monkey business

I don’t think that’s what the comment above is suggesting at all lmao they’re saying it’s just impossible to protect without escalating it. What a wild extrapolation you made

Always has been.

He has shown to be a powerless, scared little moron. The only people who take him seriously are the ones dumber than he is. We call those Republican voters.