Sounds like Hormuz is quite a hand

Also, I wonder what could have caused their leadership problems…

Iranians weren’t sending anyone to negotiations, they made it clear that Trump must stop the blockade

Three times.

Especially when the opponent is literally holding a strait.

Yet ironically they seem to still be more organized than our intact leadership. If a foreign nation simultaneously assassinated the 40 most important leaders in the US we would be immediately plunged into multiple civil wars and would be pretty much done forever. Iran has existed in one form or another for thousands of years and will most likely do so for thousands more. This probably isn’t even the worst military fate it’s had to endure.

you know what’s really gonna chap your ass?

when you realize that this cycle of the rich and powerful being assholes, becoming rich and powerful specifically through being the biggest asshole in the room, and setting the rest of us fighting against each other; has always happened and presumably will continue to happen for as long as we’re around. It’s never getting better. It’s never going away. It ebbs and flows with time, and society frequently course-corrects (often with much bloodshed), but barring a hostile alien invasion I simply do not see a future in which all mankind is enlightened and united to do better than tribalism and hierarchy; as we should do when we are literally incredibly lucky walking, talking, thinking, loving, feeling stardust that can cure diseases and travel to other planets when we work together.

We are, instead, in this latest of shitshows; going to use the gift of our own genius to create the Torment Nexus and hand the keys to it to Sam Altman and Peter Thiel (among others), while killing the planet and bombing brown people; because that is better for making made-up numbers go up, and/or because we find those people over there (whoever they are) distasteful in some fashion and they will suffer more for this. This is not defeatism or doomerism or whatever you’d prefer to dismiss it as; this is reality knocking, it is already happening, it is already here and it isn’t going to get better in our lifetimes unless something happens that hasn’t happened in the past however many thousands of years of this bullshit. When it gets better – and the world will recover from the likes of Trump and Netanyahu and Putin, that much is true, I freely grant you – the reprieve will only ever be temporary and fleeting barring the most extraordinary of circumstances.

yeah, that gets me salty nowadays. Not just Israel getting free bombs. The entire system that puts psychopathic despots in charge of WMDs in the first place, and will almost certainly keep putting them there through sheer inertia.

The kompromat is irrelevant, Israel is an arm of US hegemony and continues to do exactly what the US wants, the only reason they’re considered a separate nation is culpability. They are not out of our control, they are literally us doing the same thing our country has done since inception: Genocide. If a US president wanted to unilaterally cut ties with Israel I’m sure the CIA would have much better blackmail prepared against them than Mossad could dream of.

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Flying is too much work.