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News & Current Events Mar 30, 2026 at 1:29 AM

Trump reportedly warns to 'take the oil in Iran' as Tehran targets water, power plants in Kuwait

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Trump reportedly wants to 'take the oil in Iran' as Tehran targets water, power facilities in Kuwait
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Trump reportedly wants to 'take the oil in Iran' as Tehran targets water, power facilities in Kuwait
The Middle East conflict has entered its fifth week, with attacks expanding across the region and raising risks to energy and infrastructure.
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JokerJangles123 Mar 30, 2026 +3333
I'm just going to go ahead and mark down the spot on my bingo card now for seeing clips of Trump administration officials trying to downplay skyrocketing gas prices while we see footage of burning oil fields in the background
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delicioustreeblood Mar 30, 2026 +806
They already trotted out the talking point of "short term pain for long term gain" as if that's going to soothe $5 to $8/gal gas in the States which will if course trickle down to everything that is shipped.
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Thesheriffisnearer Mar 30, 2026 +426
Then once it hits 8 he'll take credit for bringing it down to 6! Art of the deal baby!/s
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BoringEntropist Mar 30, 2026 +173
The chocolate and gin rations have been increased from 100g to 50g.
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Commercial-Co Mar 30, 2026 +98
Nah. The idiots know that one. You have to say increased from ONE kilo to FIVE HUNDRED grams. 500x!!!
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bjchbdelebweflw Mar 30, 2026 +62
If A&W's 1/3rd-pound burger failed to sell due to people misunderstanding fractions 40 years ago, then your example probably has the highest chance of fooling a lot of people.
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SeaTurtleLionBird Mar 30, 2026 +46
Biden never saw $6 during his presidency! Too big of a p**** to make you all hurt so good! #winning
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Acceptable-Lie188 Mar 30, 2026 +6
Trumps MO has always been, buy it, milk it, break it, claim bankruptcy and walk away. Only difference this time around is that he’s doing it to the US dollar. 💵 My bingo card says that the US defaults on debt payments before midterms, then Renminbi takes over as the trusted fiat currency.
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spookmann Mar 30, 2026 +18
short term pain for long term pain
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AlizarinCrimzen Mar 30, 2026 +52
Didn't work for Carter, won't work here. American greed trumps all in the end, good or bad
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Suuuumimasen Mar 30, 2026 +43
They have that island rigged to blow. Everyone will die.
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Beard_o_Bees Mar 30, 2026 +41
They took a play out of Iraq's playbook as they retreated out of Kuwait. Though, Iran's retaliation will be extra spicy. I think more Americans need to see the actual size of Iran relative to the US, area-wise: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/2009_Iran_and_eastern_United_States_size_comparison_by_the_CIA.png
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Jeremizzle Mar 30, 2026 +31
[This map](https://imgur.com/a/y8Gr6pB) is nice too, it really shows how large Iran is compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, the last major wars we were stuck in. We were fighting the Afghans for like 20 years and they’re half the size of Iran. Far less wealthy too. And we still lost that war in the end. Iran has more people, more tech (see the drones they send to Russia), they control a major world shipping lane, they support armed militias in multiple countries that function as proxies (hamas, hezbollah, houthis). Trump and Hegseth have really opened up a can of worms here that could lead to a world of hurt for the US. It’s already started economically with the huge increase in gas prices.
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gmen6981 Mar 30, 2026 +6
And speaking of their proxies, although they have been quiet so far, just wait until the Houthis in Yemen jump in the fray and start to disrupt shipping through the Bab-el-Mandeb Straight, which is just as important to oil shipping from the Red Sea as the Straight of Hormuz is to the Persian Gulf. While ships can use the Suez Canal to exit the Red Sea into the Mediterranean, anything that was headed to the Gulf of Aden and beyond just added a trip all the way around Africa to it's journey. Edit: Speaking of the Houthis, I just read that they HAVE entered the conflict. They've launch several missile attacks towards Israel.
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Pretend_Guava_1730 Mar 30, 2026 +7
And we won't hear about it, because the Trump administration will hide that info as well.
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TheRealSciFiMadman Mar 30, 2026 +35
$10 - $12 in AUD per gallon at the current price. That could climb as high as $25 a gallon of he keeps pushing the Iranians.
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thejourneybegins42 Mar 30, 2026 +19
So about $8 USD per gallon now, and might go up to $17USD. insanity.
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laptopAccount2 Mar 30, 2026 +8
Impossible, gas station signs don't go that high.
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BThasTBinFiji Mar 30, 2026 +7
Thanks America!
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Actual__Wizard Mar 30, 2026 +41
I'm just going to buy an EV, this is insane.
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Kaladin3104 Mar 30, 2026 +48
With the dealer 50k “market adjustment”
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firemage22 Mar 30, 2026 +21
Bigger issue is with orange f@$%er killing incentives some companies have cut their EV options down.
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aReasonableSnout Mar 30, 2026 +51
That helps *your* gas prices for sure But not the price of power or goods or food 😔 The price for everything is going up - everything Buckle up
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firemage22 Mar 30, 2026 +4
i'm paying 6 cents a KW right now, sure i don't get the best of range in this brutal cold but it costs me like 30 cents a day to get to and from work right now
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SkaveRat Mar 30, 2026 +9
(your) long term pain for (our) short term gain
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musty_mage Mar 30, 2026 +17
The yokels are already parroting those talking points. The brainrot is irreversible.
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melithium Mar 30, 2026 +373
And dead soldiers burned on the island. Iran will completely wreck infrastructure to burn trump’s plans.
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reallywaitnoreally Mar 30, 2026 +267
Why would Joe Biden do this to us?/s
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MikeisET Mar 30, 2026 +201
The fact that they continue to bring up Biden and Barack HUSSEIN Obama is really f****** pissing me off Own your mistakes you cowards
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project23 Mar 30, 2026 +64
You know the personality type at the helm here. It is never their fault, they are a frickin GENIUS. Wrong on both accounts but you know they believe it none the less.
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Significant_Tea_2981 Mar 30, 2026 +16
Whether u agree to HUSSEIN's policies or not HUSSEIN is a decent man, which Trump can never be.
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hanksredditname Mar 30, 2026 +35
If we look closely enough at hunter’s laptop we might find out.
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InNominePasta Mar 30, 2026 +50
I can already hear green voting or nonvoting leftists and centrists blaming the Democrats for not giving them an inspiring enough choice in 2024
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Inevitable_Butthole Mar 30, 2026 +16
Look at the price of gas this would've never happened if Biden wasnt elected *burrrrp*
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sheepwshotguns Mar 30, 2026 +36
should yeman be able to block the red sea at the same time.... remember how just a partial shutdown for 2 weeks because of covid caused a years worth of disruptions? yeah, this'll be big. now if americans can start doing strikes at the same time? viva revolution baby!
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starone7 Mar 30, 2026 +65
It’s almost like the international rules based order was good for everyone. Honestly why the USA needs to ruin the world for the rest of us is unforgivable. For the second year in a row I’m not hiring some more help and planning on keeping on being burnt out because of the USA exporting uncertainties all over the world.
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ciopobbi Mar 30, 2026 +16
You know Iran has already mined the c*** out of it and planted IEDs. In addition to being able to hit it with drones and missiles they can reach it with conventional artillery. They are crazy enough to burn the whole island down. Dumb Donny who only thinks in dollars is counting they wouldn’t do it. Iran says “hold my beer “.
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ItsABiscuit Mar 30, 2026 +15
Dump when he learns that religious extremists may not be interested in a making a corrupt deal for mutual enrichment, especially after he killed their supreme leader’s father and wife: 😱😱😱
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M_Mich Mar 30, 2026 +10
It’s not crazy. It’s denying the enemy a strategic asset. Scorched earth and salt the farmland go back to the first camp vs camp fight of the first humans. They know Trump wants the oil, if they can’t keep ownership they’ll deny it to Trump and strike the neighbor states that are allowing us bases and staging. They know the only way to stop Trump is by making the rich rein him in. Maersk and shipping companies start losing ships in the strait and they’ll pressure governments to do something. And if they don’t run the risk, the economic hit to the world from Iran tolls on the strait or material shipments not moving will pressure the rich to make other countries cut deals or make Trump cut a deal. I think we are in agreement on the goals but Iran isn’t crazy their move have been more strategic than anything Trump and Pete ordered
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AbjectList8 Mar 30, 2026 +100
I saw it today in my rural-ish town in SW Pennsylvania at 4.15/gal unleaded. Cannot remember the last time it was ever that high. Truly insane. Edit: My bad, just passed that gas station about 5 minutes ago again and it was at $4.29 and not $4.15. And that is for 88/Unleaded.
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 30, 2026 +54
I dont think it have ever seen it over $3.99 in PA. They're gonna lose their f****** minds lmao. I have no sympathy though since so much of the state continues to vote for conservatives... Sucks for the pockets of sanity there 
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AbjectList8 Mar 30, 2026 +33
Absolutely. I’m most definitely in a Trumpy area, too. Enjoy, folks. I’ll keep charging my EV for free at my house.
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Ranger7381 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Not sure about where you are, but around here a few years ago they started changing prices through the day instead of just at midnight It TENDS to drop as the day goes on so at the same station it will be cheaper to fill up in the evening rather than first thing in the morning but that is by no means guaranteed. Also still happens on weekends even if the “projected change” was for no change
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runs_with_airplanes Mar 30, 2026 +27
$4.99/gal here in Phoenix, fun times 😒
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Ill_Ground_1572 Mar 30, 2026 +111
If you think that's fun, go spend some time on the UAE sub where every 5 minutes a new post shows up with people reporting explosions all around them. And how terrified they are being unable to sleep, distract their kids, worrying if their power is hit. Couldn't imagine being a citizen in Iran. This is totally unnecessary bullshit war and it's always the regular people who pay the price. High gas prices is f*** all.
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project23 Mar 30, 2026 +44
Pretty much reality for the last 5 years in all of Ukraine. donnie saw at the murderous fun puttie was having and wanted a piece.
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Top_Report_4895 Mar 30, 2026 +16
Don wanted to be a tough guy like Vladdy boy
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sebjapon Mar 30, 2026 +56
It’s all part of a plan to make big oil invest in his new colony in Venezuela. They said it was too expensive, well not anymore
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NoKids__3Money Mar 30, 2026 +58
Republicans are always graded on a curve and given as much benefit of the doubt as possible. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, that caused a disruption of 1 million barrels of crude per day. In response, crude futures immediately spiked to $140 / barrel. Gas shot up to $5+ / gallon almost immediately. Voters blamed it on Biden when he had little to no control over the situation. Now that a Republican is in office, who unilaterally CAUSED the disruption, 10 million barrels per day are displaced (10x the Russia/Ukraine 2022 disruption) and somehow crude futures barely crack $110 and the entire world is pulling out every stop possible to try to soften the blow so Trump's blunder doesn't blow up in his face. Releasing every petroleum emergency reserve possible. Lifting sanctions on Russia and Iran (yes, who we're at war with, lol). Japan is engaging in an extremely risky strategy of shorting crude futures just to keep the price down, almost every big bank and financial "expert" is downplaying the seriousness of the disruption. Oh and did I mention that Ukraine blew up Russian refineries earlier in 2026 which have already resulted in a disruption of 2 million barrels / day - that alone is 2x the 2022 disruption. So it's actually 12x the 2022 disruption, with no end in sight, and somehow crude oil is being kept well below the 2022 peak.
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Neat_Key_6029 Mar 30, 2026 +12
The world is fucked, isn’t it? We are waiting for the little tricks to manipulate the price to run out of steam?
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GuttiG Mar 30, 2026 +28
That pic of trump looking disheveled asking if everyone is having a good time placed over said burning oil fields lol.
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CrunchyCds Mar 30, 2026 +21
It's not just Trump the mainstream news media wouldn't shut up about inflation when Biden was in office (Which wasn't his fault it was Covid) however now the rising gas prices are only a blip in the media.
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Ambulating-meatbag Mar 30, 2026 +20
"Short term pain, for long term gain" propaganda on repeat for the long term
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DiveCat Mar 30, 2026 +17
When in fact it is short term pain, for long term pain.
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WaffleHouseGladiator Mar 30, 2026 +33
"The word "affordability" is a con job by the Democrats." https://youtu.be/PS8IJgsOip8?si=lGQCHirfgm6bN-YQ
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redditorperth Mar 30, 2026 +53
All part of the plan. This is what the administration needs to happen in order to suspend elections, citing that "the country is at war and Americans are dying, so we cant have elections right now". Just watch. Its coming.
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InvestmentSorry6393 Mar 30, 2026 +20
"It's allllll part of the plan! Err umm, our glorious leader is playing 4D chess...maybe 5D. And some temporary pain is worth it to make us all safer"
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MentalDisintegrat1on Mar 30, 2026 +20
I have him or Israel yeeting a nuke off at Iran on my bingo card. I hope I'm wrong.
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TriXter69 Mar 30, 2026 +1498
Trump will destroy the world before admitting he was wrong
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ScoobyDoNot Mar 30, 2026 +562
And willingly enabled by the whole Republican Party.
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babydakis Mar 30, 2026 +55
They absolutely love this. They've wanted to invade Iran for decades, and now they can pin it on this f****** guy.
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sentiment-acide Mar 30, 2026 +90
And the american people.
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DueExample52 Mar 30, 2026 +23
We (the world) shouldn’t let the mood of the day of 100 million people define the fate of 8 billion others. Well, in fact only a few millions if you only count the lazy bastards who didn’t get up to vote in 2024.
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GreenAuror Mar 30, 2026 +54
and his cult will cheer him on.
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MovieGuyMike Mar 30, 2026 +115
So will his supporters. Which is why we’ve had to put up with 10 years of his bullshit.
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domine18 Mar 30, 2026 +24
Admitting he is in the Epstein files
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ErgoMachina Mar 30, 2026 +19
*Before admitting he and the world's elite were raping kids on a private island This is about the Epstein files and the doing of the billonare shitheads in them, who clearly chosen to destroy everything instead of facing the consequences for what they did. Anyways it won't work. In a couple months we will living in the biggest recession the world has ever seen, people will eat them.
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henningknows Mar 30, 2026 +2614
American Republicans have done so much damage to the world because they are just plain f****** stupid
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SlowCrates Mar 30, 2026 +270
They're also f****** *evil*.
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hoffsta Mar 30, 2026 +81
I was gonna say, not so much “stupid” when it keeps making them and their friends richer. More like they just don’t give a single f*** about anyone but themselves, and that includes mass starvation and destitution for the entire world.
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Epaminodas_ Mar 30, 2026 +19
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds… and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” —Solzhenitsyn “This new type of criminal… commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or feel that he is doing wrong.” —Hannah Arendt “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” —Arendt
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JayString Mar 30, 2026 +38
Its incredible to think about what the world could be like without Conservatives. Try to imagine a human society where there aren't religious and/or uneducated people standing in the way of proper healthcare for everyone, people who try to push fairy tales to replace science, people who try to strip women of their most basic bodily rights, people who prioritize hate over logic, people who dismiss and even encourage the damage we do to our one and only habitable planet, people who are scared of an equal society where everyone is treated **equally**. Its so fucked up to think about just how much pain and suffering Conservatives have inflicted on hundreds of millions of people all over the world just because they're scared of progress and equality and a better life for everyone. We could be in a near utopia, but because about 50% of people who rather see everyone, including their own families, suffer instead of allowing certain groups of people to get the help they need, this is where we are. Right wing ideologies are the biggest plague the human race could ever infect ourselves with. Its just so crazy to imagine where we could be as a society without them. Conservatives are the biggest barrier to the best human society we could be.
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Successful_Gas_5122 Mar 30, 2026 +668
Stupidity would be a comfort compared to the real reason. They're basically a cult of oblivion that's both servile to Israel and the pedophile in the White House
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Shoot_from_the_Quip Mar 30, 2026 +147
Sadly, it's both.
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ignatious__reilly Mar 30, 2026 +16
He’s going to get so many soldiers killed This is insane
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OldSchoolSpyMain Mar 30, 2026 +9
Many of whom voted for him...which is even more insane.
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dwninswamp Mar 30, 2026 +61
I disagree. It’s plain greed. Some of the things they are doing are dumb as nails, other things are quite smart, but it’s all greed and grifting. Trump also is amazingly racist for a public figure, and clearly very insecure and hateful. But that’s more Trump himself (and probably why he’s so popular with Maga). What’s clear is nothing he’s doing helps the general American public and everything has a massive upside for him personally… or it fulfills his personal hateful agenda… I mean the president of the United States trolls Rosie O’Donnell, that’s not the most petty spiteful thing he’s done, but it blows my mind.
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Diligent_Whereas3134 Mar 30, 2026 +28
We can combine all three and it's still true. They're a bunch of greedy cultist who are f****** stupid.
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dwninswamp Mar 30, 2026 +6
I will admit running bribes through crypto and then conflating polybets, AI, and block chain as one giant thing that can’t be regulated at all is extremely smart. The level of ambiguity around hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes/predictions is a level of corruption we have never seen in the United States. Estimates are that the trump crime family has raked in between 1-5 billion in a year (a range in the billions!!!) is astronomical.
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El_Tormentito Mar 30, 2026 +89
The dumbest f****** ape-brained assholes in the world and they have half their country thinking they're the common sense kings. I'll never understand it.
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kingmanic Mar 30, 2026 +42
Propaganda, Russia has been feeding them an alternate reality for decades. With the Republicans and rich Americans full blessing.
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Greet-Filofficer Mar 30, 2026 +11
Credit where credit is due. The Australian has something to do with this, given his multi-decade plan that worked so well.
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KFlaps Mar 30, 2026 +19
Is it stupidity, or just greed at *any* cost?
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ermac29828 Mar 30, 2026 +6
A combination of greed and stupidity.
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IaMm1N3 Mar 30, 2026 +27
Ain't that the truth
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YYC_McCool Mar 30, 2026 +24
It's wild to read about historic events and go how were people so dumb to believe this or follow such dumb decisions. And yet here we are on 2026 seeing the exact same things play out.
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Sir_roger_rabbit Mar 30, 2026 +877
Ok so they take the island... Then what? Iran stops oil from the mainland going to the island. So the marines are sitting on a island within missile range that's got no oil. I get it limits iran oil revenues as its a major hub. But would this not push the price of oil futher up?
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Upgrades_ Mar 30, 2026 +261
You didn't read the rulebook. It states very clearly that when you take the island Iran declares 'Shit, you got me real good this time' and then the war is over and everyone goes home.
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Tiernoch Mar 30, 2026 +38
Secret victory condition in the strategy guide play.
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melithium Mar 30, 2026 +563
Yes. Stop thinking rationally. That’s not how the administration processes decisions.
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-HoldMyBeer- Mar 30, 2026 +60
These guys are thinking one move ahead. 1/2D chess.
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TheHardBack Mar 30, 2026 +16
Nah, it would be equivalent to my 4yo boy playing chess. He tried to kick my queen by moving his knight right in the square my pawns were guarding. Still let him take my queen tho.
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NoFixedUsername Mar 30, 2026 +10
I actually believe they are playing snakes and ladders at this point. They are planning for ladders but forgot about the snakes.
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MasterGrok Mar 30, 2026 +76
The reason you are struggling to find any good responses is because there are none. This is why presidents have avoided this conflict for decades. We are trapped in the escalation trap. Nothing is certain and it’s all probabilistic, but none of the choices have a high probability of leading to good outcomes. Everything the U.S. does leads to more escalation and chaos.
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Flower_Murderer Mar 30, 2026 +147
Congrats, you somehow have the ability to see the obvious part that most of the US has missed. Gold star.
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davossss Mar 30, 2026 +111
Don't give them a gold star. Trump will insult their parents.
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woodrax Mar 30, 2026 +37
. . . . holy shit dude. 😆
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7ddlysuns Mar 30, 2026 +10
Goddamn. And also true. And also number 300 of no one else could get away with that. He’s an actual demon
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HobbesNJ Mar 30, 2026 +33
Well the morons in charge didn't even foresee the closing of the strait, the most obvious outcome imaginable. So their strategic understanding is clearly quite limited.
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Brave-Dragonfly3798 Mar 30, 2026 +19
Sad truth right here. Any attack on Kharg is almost certainly going to result in the 30 million barrels of oil going up in flames and rendering the entire gulf a toxic dead zone. No water for 65 million people, no ships flowing at all for months and a global economic meltdown. This administration has zero capacity to forward project cause and effect.
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DokMabuseIsIn Mar 30, 2026 +27
>Ok so they take the island... Then what? Iran stops oil from the mainland going to the island. You forgot about Iran getting p**sed off about its crude exports getting cut off, and bombing Saudi and other GCC countries' oil infrastructure.
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Uvtha- Mar 30, 2026 +31
If we attack Kharg... buy a bike if you don't have a functional one cause gas prices are not going down for years.
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 30, 2026 +34
That'll be the least of our worries. The fragile supply chains that supply us with damn near everything essential for basic life functions will start to break down. It will simply be too expensive to run so many trucks. You can ride your bike to the grocery store but there will be f*** all there to buy 
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Monkey1Fball Mar 30, 2026 +57
The island also has 10,000 or so people living on it full-time. What's the plan for *them*? Our marines would be subject to some sort of guerilla warfare from them too (in addition to all the possible missiles from the mainland).
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 30, 2026 +59
Oh I wouldn't worry, the US has a history of always treating civilians well after all. Our troops have never gone on murderous rampage or carried out collective punishments on innocents. Nope, our boys would never. It'll all be great 
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AmIFromA Mar 30, 2026 +6
And three years later, Hollywood will make a film about how that made some soldiers sad.
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solapelsin Mar 30, 2026 +21
Yeah, this is actually terrifying for the civilian population there. Ugh, I hope this will be a TACO event
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EmbarrassedW33B Mar 30, 2026 +28
Its even worse when you consider that with Hegseth in charge there's a non-zero chance he just orders them massacred if they're perceived as resisting the US forces at all.
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speganomad Mar 30, 2026 +11
It’s a big leap to assume guerrilla warfare from unarmed civilians living in a pretty nice area. Some definitely might but not in enough numbers for it to be a major issue overall imo. The bigger issue is drone attacks from the mainland.
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lukeyellow Mar 30, 2026 +6
It will but they stupidly backed themselves into a corner. Trump and Co. Thought it would be a repeat of Venezuela. (I imagine Bibi probably said so too.) And they went in without much of a plan. And since Trump thinks like a dictator and tyrant he can back down or admit defeat as to do so would be *weak* so he has to keep digging in. Honestly, best case scenario I see for him is taking the islands and then using that as a bargaining chip to try to back out with a *peace with honor* garbage. But also I wouldn't be surprised come midterms he's still acting like we'll win in a week.
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ynotfoster Mar 30, 2026 +14
But are people talking about the Epstein files as much?
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Odd-Eggplant-6681 Mar 30, 2026 +23
The island is the home to the only port that export around 90% of Iranian oil to the world market. Taking over that port means cutting off its oil exports to the world, meaning Iran effectively lost the very key thing that kept its economy running during war. What that means for us common plebs, however, is that gas price are about to hit $8.
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Impossible-Flight250 Mar 30, 2026 +11
That’s true, but I think Iran will probably just decide to blow up oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and Qatar at that point and plunge the entire world into a recession.
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intelligentx5 Mar 30, 2026 +176
This has to be the dumbest f****** war we’ve started in and we’ve started some f****** dumb wars man.
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Comfortable-Title720 Mar 30, 2026 +66
Honestly the USA is damned at this point. The failure to impeach/ execution for insurrection/ whatever happened to the Epstein files.
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Monkey1Fball Mar 30, 2026 +282
There is no such thing as "we'll take the oil in Iran." It's 1000x more complex than Trump thinks it is.
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Successful_Gas_5122 Mar 30, 2026 +145
The inmates are running the asylum
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Monkey1Fball Mar 30, 2026 +47
On the afternoon of January 6, 2021, ***somebody*** obviously got to Trump and told him what's up. He released that video and he actually shut the hell up for the 2 weeks afterwards (seriously, you didn't hear much from him) until Biden became President. Where the heck are those people this time?
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HobbesNJ Mar 30, 2026 +88
He literally got rid of any sane or competent advisors in his entire administration. He hates that some of those people resisted his worst impulses and directives the first time, so he made sure there wasn't a single soul with integrity or a backbone this time around. It's bootlickers and toadies, all the way down.
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Successful_Gas_5122 Mar 30, 2026 +37
They resigned or got fired, because Dear Leader must be praised at all times. He recently said that he prefers hanging out with "losers" because successful people make him feel inadequate. "Losers" are exactly who Trump's surrounded himself with this time around. Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth; it's a veritable f****** clown car.
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deviltrombone Mar 30, 2026 +38
"Who knew global geopolitics could be so hard?" "Who knew health care could be so hard?" (That orange *thing* actually said that during its first term.)
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under_the_c Mar 30, 2026 +21
Supposedly he's getting briefings about the war from his aides in the form of short-form video montages of target strikes. Basically videos of boom, boom, explosions (probably with some epic gamer 420 music playing in the background)
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angrylawyer Mar 30, 2026 +12
yea but remember, trump knows more about everything than anyone, we'll just add iran to the list... ["It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles . . . I think I know most of it anyway."](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40879868) [“Nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world.”](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-his-tax-rate-is-none-of-your-business) ["I know tech better than anyone"](https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-knows-technology-doesnt-use-a-computer/) ["I know more about drones than anybody"](https://globalnews.ca/video/4808511/donald-trump-i-know-more-about-drones-than-anybody) [“I know more about renewables than any human being on earth.”](https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/trump-explains-why-he-feels-the-primary-process-is-unfair) [“I know more about ISIS than the generals do.”](https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2016/09/trump-vs-generals/131938/) [“Nobody reads the Bible more than me.”](https://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-nobody-reads-bible-more-than-me-john-kerry.html) [“I'm much more humble than you would understand.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R42mFx3_ss)
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sask357 Mar 30, 2026 +133
First we heard that American military action was necessary to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That may or may not have been true because they had claimed to have completely obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons facilities. Now we hear that there is another motive, an old one. The US wants more oil. This is certainly believable after they arrested Maduro and then made it about oil not drugs. Wealth and military power are the only things that motivate the US today. The rest of the world has to suffer while their Congress and judiciary watch and do nothing.
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Upgrades_ Mar 30, 2026 +47
Trump wants money. He doesn't give a shit if it's from oil or whatever. The US doesn't want this, Trump and Israel do.
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sask357 Mar 30, 2026 +59
The US elected Trump. The US elected their representatives in Congress who do nothing to stop him. The US government represents the people who elected it. Yes, the US wants this. There are some dissenters but they lack the power or influence to do anything about it.
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chinaPresidentPooh Mar 30, 2026 +21
Yeah about 2/3 of the US voters either actively want this or don't care that this is happening. Saying that the US doesn't want this is just trying to hide from the fact that Trump is only in power because the people voted him in or were ok with him winning.
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Sad_Prawn2864 Mar 30, 2026 +20
The US voted for this, you guys absolutely want this, don't wash your hands now. The US has been like this for decades it did not just started with trump and you continue to do nothing about it. so yes this shit is absolutely on the American public.
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TyrusX Mar 30, 2026 +1
Americans always wash their hands and pretend that they never do anything wrong.
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joemaniaci Mar 30, 2026 +11
The crazy thing is we have thousands if not tens of thousands of idle wells that basically wait to turn on when the price makes it just the right amount of profitable.
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Raspberries-Are-Evil Mar 30, 2026 +469
It’s to stop the nukes. It’s regime change. It’s the missiles. It’s terrorists. No. It’s oil. It’s always about the oil.
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Upgrades_ Mar 30, 2026 +170
It's about Israel. That oil isn't going anywhere. Addelson gave Trump over $300m for this. I'm also becoming more convinced Israel has dirt on him they're holding over his head
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SalbakutaMasta Mar 30, 2026 +150
Really tired of this narrative of Trump being scared of some dirt on him. He does it for MONEY. That's it. He can r*** a child in 5th avenue and his cult won't bat an eye.
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mmarkklar Mar 30, 2026 +26
He also does it because he’s delegated out his foreign policy to the tiny men with tiny feet who he put in big shoes… Hegseth, Rubio, and Lindsay Graham are all huge war hawks who have been dreaming of seeing Iran in flames. These fuckers literally see this as a crusade and Trump lets them do it because he doesn’t actually give a shit.
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martinsonsean1 Mar 30, 2026 +20
American foreign policy: We kill your leaders and take all your resources. You're welcome, goodbye. Edit: I forgot, then we come back 10 years later to film movies about how killing everyone made our soldiers very sad.
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tormentnexus Mar 30, 2026 +332
Prepare for gas over 6 dollars a gallon…
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SaveTheAles Mar 30, 2026 +231
The US is going to change to metric just so we can sell in liters so it looks cheaper.
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Yuukiko_ Mar 30, 2026 +117
"1/3 lbs burger is small than 1/4 lbs because 3<4"
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Rando-namo Mar 30, 2026 +67
This story always blows my mind, honestly.
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Yuukiko_ Mar 30, 2026 +21
ikr? I'm not surprised that people actually think that, I'm surprised enough people actually think that to consider the promo a failure. I wish I could sit in on the marketing meeting after that. How do you even tell the upper people that the promo failed because people are idiots?
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Sinocatk Mar 30, 2026 +23
Yet they know a 1/2 lb burger is bigger than a 1/4 lb one.
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Applespeed_75 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Because steel is heavier than feathers
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DonktorDonkenstein Mar 30, 2026 +7
Stayl is heavayr than faythers
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yolk3d Mar 30, 2026 +24
Diesel is currently $3.20 a litre in Aus. Thats AU$12 a U.S. gallon or US$8.30. https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-calling-on-industry-to-explain-widely-varying-fuel-prices And https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/weekly-fuel-price-monitoring-report-27march2026.pdf.pdf Table 5
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BadAtExisting Mar 30, 2026 +16
Cries in California already
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sonofalando Mar 30, 2026 +51
$15 a gallon by year end and lots of people sitting at home looking for work that doesn’t exist.
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AlexandbroTheGreat Mar 30, 2026 +13
Trump will reintroduce export bans before that happens. There is already a $14 spread between Brent and WTI that implies difficulty in securing WTI for export. 
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kingcakeaholic Mar 30, 2026 +7
Thank you sir, may I have another.
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ChicagoAuPair Mar 30, 2026 +6
It’s already there out here in California.
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SoCoGrowBro Mar 30, 2026 +6
Trump 2028! $20.28 per gallon...
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mfyxtplyx Mar 30, 2026 +47
We know. About Iran, he always said that Obama would start a conflict for a ratings boost. About Iraq, he likes to say "We should have taken the oil." Trump telegraphs his intentions a mile away.
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copperblood Mar 30, 2026 +36
Meanwhile Lindsay Graham was literally just spotted at Disney World
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lastpassonright Mar 30, 2026 +162
Kharg is supplied through a pipeline from the mainland. Seizing the island doesn't give the US the oil.
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Broken_Reality Mar 30, 2026 +70
You think Trump knows what a pipe is? He is going to take the island at the cost of many American soldiers lives. If I was Iran that island would be a deathtrap by now. They have had weeks to prepare for an invasion.
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sunnyspiders Mar 30, 2026 +35
So many Mirelurk Queens
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MCI21 Mar 30, 2026 +14
Lindsey Graham went on national television and said it would be like iwo jima. Lets ignore the casualty rates. Iwo was one of the few times they allowed an uncontested invasion, precisely because, japan knew they needed to lure them in to pre set mortar fire and concentrated machine guns. This is gonna be so bad when marines get left to die and iran posts videos like in ukraine.
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Old_Ladies Mar 30, 2026 +6
Yeah I don't think any military is prepared for drone warfare. I don't know if Iran has a lot of FPV drones but if they do it isn't going to end well. Like the US can take the island but it will take many casualties.
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ZestyBeanDude Mar 30, 2026 +14
I doubt Trump could point to Kharg on an unlabelled map.
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specqq Mar 30, 2026 +11
I’ll give him the labels and still take that bet.
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RailroadAllStar Mar 30, 2026 +9
What’s to stop the Iranians from destroying the infrastructure of the island once the US occupies it. And further more, why wouldn’t they?
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lastpassonright Mar 30, 2026 +7
Pure Hope.
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Successful_Gas_5122 Mar 30, 2026 +342
Remember: this is all happening because Trump doesn't want you to know that he raped children
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Shoot_from_the_Quip Mar 30, 2026 +137
And Bibi has wanted this for 30+ years
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Successful_Gas_5122 Mar 30, 2026 +50
Epstein allegedly had Israeli ties, including politicians and Mossad. Weird eh?
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theclansman22 Mar 30, 2026 +54
Yeah, like America took the oil in Iraq, right? Oh wait, Americas just spent trillions of dollars, lost thousands of soldiers and then left empty handed. I’m sure *this time* will be different though.
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ohiotechie Mar 30, 2026 +18
Strictly on a financial level it would have been cheaper just to buy that oil, and that doesn’t take into consideration the 1000s, possibly 100s of 1000s that died.
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Captain_North Mar 30, 2026 +12
The conservative estimate for Iraqi casualties from both gulf wars is around 500.000, of which 85% were civilians, the total excess deaths are estimated to be around one million. 
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Xero_id Mar 30, 2026 +28
Gas prices might force companies to give work from home again as people can't afford to drive to work. This will probably push sales of electric cars also which will be a huge blow to Trump and his oil buddy's that keep donating to him.
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Broken_Reality Mar 30, 2026 +27
All Trump thinks about is taking the oil. Venezuela ..oil. Iran...oil. Constantly talks about how the US drills the most oil. At the same time he stops green energy programs at every chance. Mostly because most of the people funding him or paying him off are all oil based and not green based.
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ynotfoster Mar 30, 2026 +13
He's all about greed. If he had his way he would strip mine the national parks.
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Stunted-Slime Mar 30, 2026 +20
What a f****** mess
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Throwaway0242000 Mar 30, 2026 +22
Do any of the people who buy this nonsense realize it’s not beneficial to spend a trillion dollars in military and other costs to save a few billion on oil/ fuel ??
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Mike-SBA Mar 30, 2026 +15
US oil companies will add billions to their profits while too many American soldiers and marines will be killed or seriously wounded ! Congrats to Trump and his MAGA supporters ! They believe that Trump should get medals for his “peace wars” !
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Curious-Row2410 Mar 30, 2026 +11
America keeps voting for this shit.
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MovieGuyMike Mar 30, 2026 +17
Shout out to all the small business owners who voted for this.
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Angiogrammary Mar 30, 2026 +40
I don't think you can even call this "saying the quiet part out loud" anymore
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JokerJangles123 Mar 30, 2026 +27
Funny thing with old deranged brains. They forget what the quiet part even is
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Broken_Reality Mar 30, 2026 +20
Having worked in nursing homes on EMI units (Elderly mentally ill) and having been attacked by an elderly man thinking he was back in a Japanese POW camp. Then yeah all sorts of weird shit goes through their brains. Sometimes violent when they think you are a Japanese POW camp guard and not a teenager doing a shit job (that could sometimes be very rewarding when you make someone have a better day). Mental illness is not a laughing matter really nor is dementia except when it happens to Trump who deserves every piece of shit that gets thrown at him.
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Beastw1ck Mar 30, 2026 +44
Looks like the worst case scenario really is on the menu. Incredible.
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Apprehensive-Ad9523 Mar 30, 2026 +46
Iran has given everyone a warning shot...There is no reason they cant get the water plants themselves..Not just the power plant..I read where if destroyed it can take a very long time to rebuild the water plants...And without water.. Well we know what that means...
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Upgrades_ Mar 30, 2026 +57
Everything Iran has done is 100% rational. They are only acting in direct response with equal force, largely, and I don't know how you expect a nation to otherwise act when you're repeatedly saying you want to wipe the country out completely. I think the only thing that stops this absolute stupidity from Trump is like literally the entire world making him stop with the threat of combined military action by all of them if he doesn't or widespread revolt / abdication or duty within the military.
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DrSixSmith Mar 30, 2026 +12
Iran’s military decision makers, from the top to the rank and file, have been expecting and _waiting for_ exactly this scenario since before many of them were born. Westerners who thought “I never imagined they could be this stupid! Well, at least there’s the element of surprise,” well, no. Iran always thought we were that stupid, it was just a question of when.
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macinit1138 Mar 30, 2026 +13
All this is happening because a felon was allowed into the White House.
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Medical_Arugula3315 Mar 30, 2026 +11
Republicans really called everyone a pedophile and then voted in the king of pedophiles. Now we're going to war and bombing children just to distract from it. Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.   
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andyroid92 Mar 30, 2026 +12
Ah yes, Operation epstein fury continues to escalate
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Traditional-Oil-6891 Mar 30, 2026 +21
Yes, I want to see those gas prices top 6 dollars a gallon at home. I want to see MAGA and their offspring to cringe when they look at the pump.
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Kindly-Standard8025 Mar 30, 2026 +9
That's what this war has come down to now? After all the rhetoric of liberating the Iranian people, toppling the regime, and preventing nuclear arms in Iran, now were down to the US just attempting armed robbery of oil?
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seejsee Mar 30, 2026 +8
Those around Trump must have convinced him to take over as much of the world’s oil as much as they can, before he goes to Beijing. The plan may have been to barter oil rights for rare earths. They carried out the plan somewhat successfully with Venezuela. But Iran never got the script.
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justinkasereddditor Mar 30, 2026 +7
So many good people are going to suffer from this bullshit.
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G00b3rb0y Mar 30, 2026 +7
And so it begins. The Armageddon that Christian Fundamentalist wanted
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SHITBLAST3000 Mar 30, 2026 +5
“Negotiations are going great” “I want to take the oil”
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knotatumah Mar 30, 2026 +4
Stating the obvious like anybody would be surprise or feign any kind of expectation that its just a threat and wont actually be acted upon. We already invaded one country for oil this year and we're neck-deep into this one, if Trump talks oil then that's his goal no matter the outcome of what anybody does.
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Ludwig_Vista2 Mar 30, 2026 +4
Dumb shit is playing 1D chess and doesn't give a shit because he knows he'll be dead in 5 years.
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Mysterious_Lesions Mar 30, 2026 +5
Meanwhile Chess was literally invented in Iran.
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brezhnervouz Mar 30, 2026 +5
Wait until he realises that if he tries to order the invasion of Kharg island, that Iran will just turn off the oil supply 🤡
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ZeraDoesStuff Mar 30, 2026 +5
And again Americans die for oil in the middle East. Tale as old as America.
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Lord_Skellig Mar 30, 2026 +6
I remember back in 2003 when we needed an elaborate justification to steal the resources of the Middle East. No they've realised that no-one will stand in their way if they just say it.
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RepulsivePotato69 Mar 30, 2026 +5
The dude fucked kids he clearly doesn’t care about your gas bills. He golfs on your tax dollars.
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Sweatytubesock Mar 30, 2026 +10
Grab it by the p****
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