Most empires have lasted an average of 300 years in historyDoes the US look likely to beat that trend?
Sometimes I'll ask chatgpt to ask me interview questions like I'm a big shot celebrityAnd I'll give it self depreciating answers that makes it feel like we're peers because I'm cool like that
My brokeass auntie is buying fancy softdrinks from new corner shop "to help support them"Support them?! What you doin, you got mortgage payments you nutter!
Iran just depleted the hell out of US and Israeli anti missile munitions and they still control the Hormuz straitThis is a massive Russian W
It kind of looks like the way Trump and Vance are making progress with Iran peace talks is by ignoring the guys with the guns and the drones andnegotiating with some unknown people in the former government structure they bombed into irrelevance
The biggest winners and losers from the current Iran war situation, according to chatgptBiggest winner: Russia. No real involvement in Iran war, but benefiting directly from higher oil prices and a world that needs it's oil as a replacement. 2nd biggest winner: China. Loss of oil supply from the Gulf, but a heavy global shift into... See More »
The MOU was just a PR exercise to allow Trump to call off the US blockade, they were always going to keepbombing any parts of Iran they thought could help the IRGC, and they knew Iran was not going to allow passage through Iran without a toll. They are moving into a frozen war where the US will bomb as much as they can without triggering the ire of the... See More »
Iran has struck a commercial vessel and in response the US has bombed Iranian drone facilities and now Iran has fired new missiles at US assets.If they aren't careful, they'll break the ceasefire
If you divide Elon Musk's wealth by the number of children he's had, he's only making $7.50 an hour.Come on guys, you really think he would be living in a shipping container and trying to leave the planet if he was loaded?
I just watched a documentary on jumping spider mating rituals and now I'm going to start a go-fund me to fight for male jumping spider rights
250 years ago, the US was founded on the ideals of freedom from the tyranny of the rich and powerful, specifically from being taxed withoutrepresentation, subjected to show trials, silenced from speaking the truth and being scrutinized without due cause. How is that looking, these days? Has Trump protected or harmed these causes?
Strait of Hormuz is closed again after attacks yesterday by Israel on LebanonClosed for non Iranian aligned countries I mean. I'm in sure China is getting it's oil through just fine
Trump says a Hormuz toll could be levied by the US for services rendered as the Guardian Angel to the countries of the Middle EastWhelp, that's one way to convince every Arab state to dedollarise
So here's the peace dealUS lifts it's blockade of Iran vessels Iran lifts it's blockade on everything else, unless Israel attacks Lebanon Israel continues to attack Lebanon So we're just right back to the same situation as before the US blockaded Iran.
I don't understand what the gameplan is for Netanyahu. If he derails the peace talks with Iran by attacking Lebanon, he'll earn the ire of every otherdeveloped country in the world that depends on oil from the Gulf. Thats gotta be more costly than anything they can gain from Lebanon.
US has lifted the blockade on Iranian oil despite peace talks being postponedThat means the US is desperate to get the strait of Hormuz open, before Wall Street collapses
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