Trump is constantly trying to make a virtue of necessity, and the press lets him get away with it.

Daddy's eternal love and approval. We're thoroughly screwn.

All the money and power in the world doesn't help him at all.

One of these days maybe the angels will hear our prayers.

get what he wants. I'm thinking. (BUT he will say he won)

Yes no matter what he will say he won.

The strait cannot be opened by force, as it is not closed physically but by loss-aversion. And the issue keeping it closed is not the risk rate but the magnitude -- a filled modern oil tanker has a value on the order of a quarter billion dollars. Incredibly high stakes per ship.

No amount of ongoing shooting and bombing will open the strait. Only Iranian assent will do that.

Iran rejected overtures

… and you have an ecological catastrophe on your hands.

We’ve been there too many times already.

“…like nothing you’ve ever seen before.”

Netanyahu suggested the pipelines could end in Israel.

Doesn't solve the current problem but works well for Israel.

Looks to me that Israel intends to annex Gaza, West Bank, and parts of Lebanon and Syria in the current war.

Israel controlling passage of oil and gas now going through Straits of Hormuz would be a cherry on top for Greater Israel dominating the Middle East.

He is just trying to make it appear that it is his idea.

How about taxing the crap out of the top 10% and big oil to pay for it. Might get you some votes.

Domestic oil producers have made increased profits since crude prices started going up, so they, at least, should be subject to extra taxing, but they aren't the only ones who made windfall profits. I recently read an article that said it takes two to four weeks for crude oil to arrive as gasoline at pumps. That means that gas made from oil bought after crude prices started going up is just now being delivered. And yet, prices at the pump started creeping up within a day or two of the start of this mess -- nearly a dollar per gallon where I live -- simply because they could when everyone is raising them. When different people have the same objective, it isn't necessary for them to conspire.

always goes up on Thursday and comes down on Monday, if we are lucky.

How will we know when we have won? What is the objective? What is the goal?

objective & goal - shiny penny so no one really investigates Epstein/Trump files
winning? - he doesn't care as long as he's got billions and he's not in jail

And then pull out of the Middle East, leaving a big mess behind.

We Won! We Won!

Not running away, no siree, definitely not running away, that's not the Trump way!

If you attack a country that wasn't threatening yours, and you're "literally obliterating the other side," only a dangerous psychopath would say "you don't do a ceasefire."

We can't avoid the bloodshed and cruelty while he's president. Let him commit political suicide so it can stop.

TACO, TACO Ma-han
I got to be
A TACO Man.

He can't hide that he doesn't know what in the hell he's doing.

This is the "Epstein Files Fury WAR" !!!!


(somehow tragically ironic that we managed to kill
a schoolhouse full of young underage Iranian girls---
surely our current dictator 'president' would have preferred to RAPE THEM FIRST,
and kill them afterwards !!!!)




If Iran could somehow manage to liberate us
from the plague we are suffering from right now,
I would buy their flag and fly it from the front of my house!

It would be interesting to see how much money Trump and his family have invested in oil and natural gas over the past 2 years and how much they stand to profit by having higher prices.

Waaaaagh!