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sleepwalking into trouble
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-iran-conflict
maybe the calculation here is that like principals like Trump/Hegseth/Rubio are all out of credibility, so it's better to make announcements through lesser known officials
sleepwalking into trouble
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-iran-conflict
"In an era when firms carry minimal buffer stock and rely on highly optimized supply chains, a prolonged war that creates disruptions in air and shipping routes would most likely cause severe supply chain shocks with a ripple effect reverberating throughout the world," Mohammad Elahee, a professor of international business at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, told China Daily.Elahee predicted that manufacturers and businesses located in Asia must brace for possibly higher costs across the board if disruptions in the strait continue.
This is because "even a temporary disruption in Hormuz would produce severe supply shocks, inflating costs across manufacturing, industry, and consumer goods while compressing economic growth projections," according to Elahee.https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2...66eb3ee48.html"The retail and e-commerce sectors, which depend on vast logistics networks, will experience cost increases embedded in nearly every product they move, resulting in price escalation for consumers," said Elahee.
I mean, if you keep TACOing, what would anyone do except laugh at you drawing pictures of yourself?
a moribund US Congress is stirring, faintly
if Congress doesn't authorize, by law troops are supposed to be withdrawn
in practice, Trump DNGAF about the law or Congress
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/2...on-republicans“At some point, people cross some sort of threshold and start to be very uncomfortable with it. I don’t know exactly where that is, but I am sensing restlessness among many of my colleagues,” said another GOP senator familiar with intraparty dynamics.
There’s more evidence of that restlessness: Four Republican senators introduced a bill on Tuesday to cut tariffs and duties on Moroccan fertilizer imports as fertilizer prices rise because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Many Republicans have accepted reassurances from the administration that Trump won’t send ground troops, and the GOP Congress writ large is reluctant to get directly involved in the war.
That dynamic may change after Friday.
“The 60-days [mark] is very important to me. The War Powers Act makes clear that at the 60-day point the Congress needs to authorize any further military action,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told Semafor. “Sixty days is a trigger that requires Congress to act.”
if the SOH remains closed for two months like Trump is suggesting, second and third order effects will be wild
ITALY TRANSPORT MINISTER: JET FUEL RESERVES AVAILABLE IN ITALY ENOUGH TO ENSURE OPERATIONS AT LEAST UNTIL THE END OF MAY
He may just be stupid enough to do it. If he starts bombing again Iran will start blowing up their neighbors oil again and a supply disruption could easily evolve into a worldwide disaster. Brendt Crude is already $119 today. One wild card is China has been running on their strategic rserve but will have to start buying on the market soon with ocean transit times. They currently use 23% of the worlds production. Add that pressure and we could be looking at $150+ oil.
Omg Trump is destroying the world but also TACO haha nothing happened but also OMG Trump is destroying the world but also TACO haha nothing happened but OMG Trump is destroying the world...ya'll are stuck in a loop
^^^what an airhead
RIP LIV
You are stuck in a quagmire.
Again.
You ed up.
He keeps threatening to destroy Iran. He TACOs out. We win nothing. Our prices go up.
Are you really this stupid that you can't keep up?
"LOL LIBS!!!"
-Snakes in the backseat of his wife's Honda Odyssey as she's angrily pumping $4 gas
He really is that stupid
Trump 86ing a major logistics hub during a war because Chancellor Merz said something mean
why not
JPMORGAN:
The war’s limited energy squeeze — so far — “assumes the Strait opens before inventories are depleted to the point that operational minimums are hit ..
“The risk of this happening is rising, and leads us to consider a more adverse scenario with a non-linear e in energy prices.”
Why would she drive a Honda Odyssey? And why would she even notice the price of gas?
You never expressed one iota of support for this war.
lol
Because she's the one paying for it.
It's not over yet
After starting a dumb war without consulting allies or trying to get them on board before hand -- then insulting them for not participating -- now Trump is begging them for help
https://san.com/cc/us-seeks-internat...ait-of-hormuz/
https://newrepublic.com/post/209665/...stronauts-natoThe crew of NASA’s Artemis II visited the White House Wednesday to celebrate their successful mission around the moon, but they ended up roped into one of the president’s diatribes against NATO.
The astronauts were visibly uncomfortable flanking Donald Trump behind the Resolute Desk as he tossed questions their way regarding the country’s participation in the strategic alliance.
LOL he can't even let astronauts returning from a big trip have a moment
Israel is Gazafying Southern Lebanon
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...f-ffdfc5b70000
the Vietnam war in 1971 was approximately as popular
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...inion-mistake/
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