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Comment by throwaway27448

19 hours ago

Presumably, the ships that want to pass through the strait will have to care. As you said, there's no room for compromise.

> shows they don’t live in the real world.

i don't think iran is the country living in a world of delusion—to the contrary, they seem to understand how to leverage their position better than israel, the US, and the gulf states combined.

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ericmay  19 hours ago

I don’t think they do because they’re not doing anything that wasn’t already prepared for. Remember while prices rise means MAGA is mad about their Ford truck gas prices… big deal… countries in Asia are switching to 4-days in the office and Italian cities are restricting jet fuel. The leverage they have is, frankly, to the extent they can make the world mad against America but most adults in the room know you can’t have these guys holding 20% of the world’s oil hostage. Even China seems to have been pressuring Iran.

  • throwaway27448  8 hours ago

    > but most adults in the room know you can’t have these guys holding 20% of the world’s oil hostage.

    ...where, presumably, your understanding of "adult" is whether or not they align with the US? C'mon; be serious. We've been acting like spoiled toddlers throwing a tantrum for the last fifty years because we can't twist iran into kissing our ass.

    • ericmay  7 hours ago

      > ...where, presumably, your understanding of "adult" is whether or not they align with the US?

      No, bad assumption. I think about these things for myself though of course nobody is immune to their cultural biases, whether that's the Ayatollah or a MAGA anti-war protestor.

      > C'mon; be serious. We've been acting like spoiled toddlers throwing a tantrum for the last fifty years because we can't twist iran into kissing our ass.

      Don't think anyone cares about Iran kissing our ass. Instead folks are tired of:

        Iran murdering its own citizens
  Constantly threatening to destroy the United States and Israel - if words don't matter and we shouldn't take threats seriously, it goes both ways then, so stop pearl-clutching at Trump's threats
  Iran loading up on missiles to make it even more difficult to stop them from extorting the rest of the world via threats to blow up ships in the Straight
  Iran funding and arming terrorist groups (as designated by the United States and European Union) including Hezbollah, Hamas, and Houthis which are responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians
  Iran trying to build a nuclear weapon (see threats)
  Iran supplying Russia with drones so that Russia can prosecute its unjust war against Ukraine

      and more...

  • toyg  15 hours ago

    It was working just fine, until Bibi decided he wanted to be remembered as "the guy who completed Israel" so he needed a distraction to try and finish Hezbollah. It will work just fine once Trump is cut to size and the adults get back in the room.