Calling oil sales aggression is some interesting spin.

And now Germany suffers because it can’t access Russian energy. Win/Win for the US.

I think that’s a short-term victory, though. In the long run this will drive the EU away from the US.

I had a thought: in previous decades it was advantageous for the US to invite academics from China because we could impress them with our highly developed standards of living. We could work them over with intelligence and maybe even turn them as US assets and informants. As life in China gets better and life in the US gets worse, though, this has become a hindrance as those same academics now see the squalor of US cities and decline of US prestige. Now we need to keep them out or the whole charade of US supremacy will collapse. Now they can only be allowed to view the US from movies and television.

I’m not going to touch your belief that the attacks on US collaborators are unprovoked. That doesn’t matter. What matters is that Iran has the ability to make demands because the GCC can’t do shit about it. Iran has a position of strength over the GCC too.

Because Iran is negotiating from a position of strength and has the ability to make demands.

Remember when NATO “”“defensively”“” destroyed Libya? I remember.

And they’ll just roll over and accept it.

Iran has played the US into becoming the sin-eater for the consequences of blocking the Strait.

Kind of what I expected. Iran has all the cards here, and the US was already starting from a poor negotiating position due to Israel’s aggression against Lebanon. Iran agreeing to anything right now would have meant taking a loss for no reason.

Tie me to a missile and fire me at Tel Aviv.

More like “lung” than “long”

I, for one, am glad that Iran is discouraging young people from enlisting.

The billionaire ruling class controls NATO, they killed Qaddafi, and now Libya has open slave markets.

That’s what they want for Russia.

So how come I can’t find as much stuff from the Ukrainian people about their government being nazis?

Russia’s war in Ukraine was preceded by mass demonstrations by ethnic Russians in the Donbas region against their government being nazis, which escalated into the masses seizing weapons and occupying buildings. It was only after this that Russia became directly involved.

Is Libya better off without Qaddafi?

Ukraine aligning with NATO is still a problem for Russia, with or without nukes.

Just ask Qaddafi.

Europe is the lesser evil for whom? Certainly not the victims of European colonialism and imperialism.

And when you look, you’ll see those former colonies are getting closer with Russia and China.

The world helped the US sanction and blockade Iran.

Now Iran is sanctioning and blockading the world.

Turnabout is fair play.

traders are assuming that Trump will abandon the conflict before the economic toll of a prolonged war reaches extreme levels.

They don’t seem to realize that Iran gets a vote on when this war ends. They assume that Trump can end this whenever he gets bored, but nothing stops Iran from continuing to hit US+ally assets in the region while continuing to restrain Strait traffic.

US capitalists want regime change so they can steal Iran’s oil and resources, which would necessarily end munitions sales from Iran to Russia. They certainly don’t want a war that drags on until the global economy collapses.

I think you’ve got the material interests of US capitalists confused.