1. Trump is legacy shopping and “fixing” Cuba/Iran/whatever fits the bill. 2. He has yet to face a single actual consequence for any of this military adventurism so for him there’s really no reason not to.

To be clear, he’s not a billionaire. He desperately wants to be, but he’s currently not.

Lol at the rate Chinese cars are improving they’ll get over that particular cultural disease in less than a decade.

Which is why he won’t do this. One of his sycophants will explain at a 5th grade level that those bases benefit the US and Trump will forget about this.

No they can’t because they lack the strength. There are no reasoned arguments or claims in play here beyond “the strong do what they want”.

Minivan full of usb keys. Probably still the fastest data transfer method too.

They want to prosecute peope in open court so using the NSA to id people would be inconvenient (but not impossible).

Whenever the media needs a headline they run another poll on this. It’s not relevant. As a Canadian I support the idea in principle too but this doesn’t analyze and ask people about the challenges and complexities involved in doing so.

That would actually be massive escalation in more than the obvious ways. Gulf states are the ones buying up most US debt (which is piling up extremely quickly). This is a large part of their leverage to secure continues US military protection. Should the US Navy be used to block the straight to enforce some kind of all-or-nothing approach, it’s going to be cause a lot of knock on effects in the bond market. We do be living in interesting times!

Neither of those things has anything to do with this. You can eliminate the NASA budget and you still won’t have healthcare lol. You have to actually fight for that.

The moment anyone else moves to assist he will simply bail out and walk away. He was actually dumb enough to say that out loud too. It would be strategically stupid and politically suicidal for anyone else to get involved.

Centralized problems are generally easier to solve than distributed problems. Depending on their architecture moving to an EU cloud provider could range from tricky but manageable to very painful , but it’s a centralized IT problem that can be attacked and solved. Getting every retail vendor to support Wero is much harder, and is being solved apparently.

China is getting Iranian oil right now and the US isn’t going to control Iran. Why would either of them commit to this? Pretending like you solved the problem when none of the incentives line up is ridiculous. Either of them could militarily defend Iran if they want to without commiting to a security guarantees for Iran. So why would they bind themselves unnecessarily?

Yes they could do that. But why would they commit to that?

Lol so now Russia China and Europe have to jump into militarily attack the US ? This is your plan? Well sounds solved to me.

This is basically just the Obama Iran deal. It was working pretty much exactly like this until Trump tore it up and began in multiple rounds attacking Iran.

After this war, Iran has no reason to sign such a deal especially since Trump and Israel will just tear it up whenever they want. Iran needs security guarantees which your deal doesn’t provide.

He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane.

Yeah that’s why nobody wanted to touch this mess with a 10 ft pole.

They won’t all die, that’s not on the table here lol

Keep in mind there’s a huge fog of was element to this, but there are reports that the US Navy is allowing China-bound tankers to pass simply because stopping them would basically be an act of war against China.

Methane is a gas at room temp. It’s only liquid under pressure. What even is this article?

Methane is however an extremely powerful greenhouse gas (20x as potent as CO2) so the best thing to do is to evac everyone and burn it off .