Some f*cking expensive prices for food I can easily make more/better at home-no wonder Trump has grifted over 10 billion bucks for him/family/cronise-they are just senseless/brainless uber-spenders that will go broke in a few years despite their wealth.
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Jiang is the antidote to Gordon Chang-rather like the Chinese herbal medicine's "using poison to combat poison"
Nothing really happened. Iran continues to say Yesnt on the Strait of Hormuz. G7 discussing on releasing 15-20 days worth of oil from their reserves. Trump claims the war is “very much complete” but when asked about Secretary of War Putrid Huckleberry comments about it being the beginning. He said it could be a little bit of both. So I guess it is market optimism? Fundamentally nothing has changed yet.
They're releasing reserves quietly in the hope they can find an off ramp before they run out, lol
It's funnier because China just ran $200B surplus in Jan-Feb and can bid up every drop of oil on the market, so the west are basically indirectly transferring their own reserves to China.
Oil and gas are physical things and physical things are immutable, the west really struggle with this idea.
I guess End of History got cancelled.
Its funny how he still manages to be an insufferable dipshit lib about it. "North Korea was right but because of muh Ukraine, muh 1994 Budapest memo".
Edit: nevermind, just realized the actual author is just some think tankie spook
You are quite right about COLREGS but no USN captain is going to put his thin-skinned destroyer at risk shouldering a Chinese MM fishing trawler.
China has already practiced similar scenarios (most recently in ECS) because China intends to (and likely will) win without firing a shot.
This is exactly what controlled opposition means: calculated and limited damage for greater political gain. Israel and all of Western politics have been working with this for many decades, both in elections and in war.
If Iran's missiles had sunk an aircraft carrier or killed western leaders, Israel would have lost control. But that's not the case. Iran's response remained entirely predictable and as Netanyahu's party wanted to stay in power. The same group also allowed Hamas attack on October 7th to gain political advantage... so it's nothing new.