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  • US Navy Tells Shipping Industry Hormuz Escorts Not Possible for Now

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  • might happen in a week or so once they start getting desperate

  • US Navy Tells Shipping Industry Hormuz Escorts Not Possible for Now

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  • Four Union Strategies to Fight on A.I.

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  • I'm kind of expecting we'll see a similar scenario to the dotCom bubble which wiped out majority of the existing tech companies, but then once the dust settled, useful tech came out of the whole thing. We're in the main hype phase of this technology right now, and a lot of companies are making idiotic bets that are obviously going to be ruinous.

    Also worth noting that the spike in energy prices resulting from the war on Iran could be a catalyst for the bubble popping since data centers need massive amounts of energy to operate.

  • Capitalism is going so great that your car is now able to forcefully demand that you die for Exxon Mobile

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  • What's a good language learning app or method?

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  • I've been using this app and find it's fantastic https://www.superchinese.com/

    They break up the lessons into small chunks, and you practice speaking, learning sentence structure, and characters. I found it was incredibly helpful for me.

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    War In Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-03-11/fertilizer-prices-surge-due-to-war-in-iran-odd-lots
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    At Least 17 U.S. Sites Damaged in War With Iran, Analysis Shows

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2026/03/11/world/middleeast/iran-us-military-bases-strikes-map.html
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    At Least 17 U.S. Sites Damaged in War With Iran, Analysis Shows

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2026/03/11/world/middleeast/iran-us-military-bases-strikes-map.html
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    War In Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2026-03-11/fertilizer-prices-surge-due-to-war-in-iran-odd-lots

  • The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

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  • Yeah, it's unworkable, these ships can carry a limited number of munitions. And once they go through them, then they have to sail to a friendly port to restock, and then come back. And all that assuming that they can even survive the trip at all. The most likely scenario is that their defenses would be quickly overwhelmed, and they never make it through the strait.

  • Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia

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  • update to cnn reporting the same thing

  • news @hexbear.net
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    China-North Korea International Passenger Trains to Open in Two Directions on March 12

    d.youth.cn /shrgch/202603/t20260311_16550623.htm
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    China-North Korea International Passenger Trains to Open in Two Directions on March 12

    d.youth.cn /shrgch/202603/t20260311_16550623.htm

  • Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia

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  • Previously, Iranian actions were constrained for fear of ending up in an all out war with the US. This was not a scenario that Iran welcomed, and so they would moderate their response to provocations accordingly.

    The US expected that a strikes on nuclear facilities, killing of Iran's leadership, provoking protests through economic warfare, and other lightning-fast actions with high density would cause unacceptable damage, which would outweigh the benefits of resistance. The theory was that if they pushed hard enough, then Iran would collapse. Survival and saving face have become absolute values for the Iranian system. When the price of surrender is higher than the price of war, then the calculus changes.

    The Iranians also saw that the destruction the US can bring to bear does not lead to an immediate collapse, and now they've started to fight back. Once the victim realizes that it is possible to withstand the first strike and maintain the possibility of a response, the fear of escalation goes away and the conflict becomes one of attrition.

    The problem for the US and personally Trump now is that Iran withstood the initial attack, and American conventional weapons capability is now clear. Iran has stopped fearing a hypothetical war because it is already living in it.

    It seems that neither the US nor their vassals in West Asia planned for this scenario. They assumed that whatever action the US took, the response from Iran could continue to be limited. Now that it's an all out war, they don't know what to do.

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    US Navy Tells Shipping Industry Hormuz Escorts Not Possible for Now

    www.usnews.com /news/world/articles/2026-03-10/us-navy-tells-shipping-industry-hormuz-escorts-not-possible-for-now
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    US Navy Tells Shipping Industry Hormuz Escorts Not Possible for Now

    www.usnews.com /news/world/articles/2026-03-10/us-navy-tells-shipping-industry-hormuz-escorts-not-possible-for-now

  • The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

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  • lol exactly, if anything the US dumping money into trying to keep the strait open would accelerate the economic problems at home

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    US airlines face $11bn fuel hit from Iran conflict

    www.ft.com /content/c425d77d-a467-4e93-a837-85b4858bca58
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    US airlines face $11bn fuel hit from Iran conflict

    www.ft.com /content/c425d77d-a467-4e93-a837-85b4858bca58

  • The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse?

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  • They also avoid discussing the elephant in the room which is the cost of these escorts. Running a bunch of war ships back and forth and using multi-million dollar interceptors would result in this oil being worth more than gold, and that's assuming they can even guarantee passage. The math here doesn't work.

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    Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia

    www.cnn.com /world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-11-26
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    Iran Us War: 'Legitimate targets': Iran issues warning to US tech firms including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia

    timesofindia.indiatimes.com /world/middle-east/legitimate-targets-iran-issues-warning-to-us-tech-firms-including-google-amazon-microsoft-nvidia/articleshow/129450749.cms

  • Reuters admits to as many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war

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  • Exactly, it's absolutely fantastical to think that casualties would be this low after all the bases and hotels they've been hiding it being hit for over a week now. Eventually they do have to notify relatives, and real numbers are going to start coming out. I expect there's going to be a lot of blow back at that point. Especially, given that they're almost certainly going to lose the war.

  • China says 2025 inbound trips top 150 million, spending by international travelers up 40%

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  • I do wish China would make immigration easier.

  • U.S. moving parts of THAAD anti-missile system from S. Korea to Middle East

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  • I imagine that's the thinking, their problem is that they don't control escalation in this war. It's even worse than Ukraine because there the US could just bail and dump the whole thing on Europe. In this war, the US is directly involved and Iran has no reason to end it on American terms.

  • U.S. moving parts of THAAD anti-missile system from S. Korea to Middle East

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  • Also, it's a case of projection because as we see in Iran, attacking civilians is precisely what the empire is doing.

  • Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash

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  • Political backlash from the hoi polloi obviously doesn't matter. But think of the political backlash from the oligarchs due to western economies crashing.

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  • Trump Advisers Urge Him to Find Iran Exit Ramp, Fearing Political Backlash

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  • That's my understanding of the whole thing as well. There is absolutely zero reason for Iran to settle for anything less than full American withdrawal from the region. There's nothing left to negotiate about at this point, any promises the US makes obviously can't be trusted. And if there's some ceasefire then it just gives time to US and Israel to rebuild. Now that the war is on and Iran controls escalation, they have to go all the way.

    And from American perspective, it would be a colossal humiliation if they're forced to run home with their tail between their legs. It would definitively show the whole world that the US is no longer a superpower that cannot be challenged. All their vassals are already starting to realize that they're expendable, and that the empire can't protect them. So, a withdrawal would mean a complete collapse of American geopolitical position.

    In this way, the war is existential for both Iran and the US. And hence why I don't see either side backing down here until the limitations of material reality catch up to them. My expectation is that the US will end up running out of weapons before Iran does. They're already heavily depleted in Ukraine, American weapons are far more expensive to produce, and they have to be shipped across the ocean. Iran has a huge advantage fighting on their home turf. On top of that, every radar, warehouse, and ammo storage depot that Iran destroys worsens future logistics for the US. Weapons, ammunition, food, and fuel have to be stored somewhere, and if these facilities are being systematically dismantled, that's a nightmare for the US army.

  • U.S. moving parts of THAAD anti-missile system from S. Korea to Middle East

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  • Yeah, and if the original ones got destroyed, what makes them think these ones won't?

  • New level of desperation and dysfunction in the Fourth Reich

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  • oh look found a picture of you