The neat part here is that the energy shock hasn’t actually hit yet because tankers move at around the speed of a bicycle. The ones that left before the strait was closed are still on route. When the oil and gas they carry is gone and the next shipment fails to arrive is when real fun starts at the pump.

China is just playing factorio IRL

I’m just going to shamelessly plug my explanation of dialectics :) https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-toolset-of-reality

So like absolute win for Spain then?

Seems that even France wasn’t confident they’d get their gold back. What they actually did was sell the gold in the fed and bought new gold in Europe.

I can’t see the US allowing this to happen either.

I’m just hoping the EU collapses before that can happen.

western propaganda is very effective

My bet is that it’ll restart before the two weeks are up. Lebanon is being bombed right now, and Iran is closing Hormuz in response.

it really bothers me that people don’t care about this sort of stuff

which makes it all the more odd that the idea hasn’t seen wide adoption

ah then does sound like a bug in lemmy code

certainly helps sell the narrative of it being the enemy to maga

lol yeah

I’d say it goes beyond Vance personally. The US generally dislikes the EU since it’s much easier to negotiate with individual countries from a position of absolute power. While the EU inevitably does bend over for the US on every issue, they always go through a bit of drama first. The stage we’re at now, is where the US would just like to burn Europe down so it can’t become integrated with China economically, and then scrap whatever is left for parts by poaching remaining industry. EU kind of stands in the way of that.

oh weird, wonder if it might be something weird on kbin end

Oman followed the whole do nothing, win approach here. :)

Yeah, I laughed at that too. It’s pretty obvious Iran isn’t going to collect USD here. It’s basically a cope article trying to paint a narrative where the US isn’t a total loser. As far as the ceasefire goes, I imagine Iranians are smart enough to realize they can’t trust Americans. If they’re agreeing to it, then it means they’re going to use that time to their own advantage too. For example, they can probably get more supplies from China and Russia, improve their AD based on what they’ve learned, and so on. The damage that was done to US infrastructure can’t be repaired in a few weeks nor can the weapon stocks be replenished, so it’s not like the US will be in a significantly better position by then.

oops fixed

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