Iran

[ButchPlz]

Indeed.
There is only THE WORD
John 1:1

What does "logos" more robustly translate to? Why would a God of logos author a bizarre, unclear, confusing, sign-watching-riddled twisted timeline for anything? Who benefits from confusion?

 

[McDad]

I have offered my share of thread derailments so it's totally fair to tell me off.

But would really like y'all take the religion discussion to the religion thread in the pub.

 

[hog88]

John of Patmos?

Doesn't really matter, his name was John and he never met the big guy. It's all HS anyway.

 

[NashVol11]

Yeah, remember when Iran used to have them? Ah, the good ole days.

Whoops

 

[McDad]

Whoops

UAE needs to step in and exert control on their side of the strait.

 

[85SugarVol]

Starting to think? It's like Iran being "2 weeks away" from nukes for the last 40 years straight

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[McDad]

Oh, I meant to share this yesterday.

I saw where years ago Saudi Arabia built a 1200km pipeline to the Red Sea just in case the Persian Gulf was too dangerous to transport.
Has anybody else heard that? If true, then I wonder if/when we will see that be available?

 

[hndog609]

Oh, I meant to share this yesterday.

I saw where years ago Saudi Arabia built a 1200km pipeline to the Red Sea just in case the Persian Gulf was too dangerous to transport.
Has anybody else heard that? If true, then I wonder if/when we will see that be available?

Aramco chief warns of 'catastrophic' hit to oil market if Strait of Hormuz stays closed | The National

World's largest oil exporter is selling crude via Red Sea

www.thenationalnews.com

 

[rikberry31]

That correlation is some magical thinking. Nixon imposed price controls. Was he a commie?

Nixon was a commie, China today is his fault. And I was there, research how those price controls go.

 

[volfanhill]

IEA agrees to release record 400 million barrels of oil to address Iran war supply disruption

The move comes as the Iran war continues to choke off traffic through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.

www.cnbc.com

 

[rikberry31]

I think it's just scale. A no BS war isn't a duel/joust and sides don't square up equally and play "who is better" in some kind of per capita "best fighter per pound" kinda way. In that context Israel is quite legit in equipment, training and urgency in motivation. In the context of us wanting to really take them out there's basically nothing they could do with our numbers.

Very true, but the Chinese and Russians are so much more inferior in the equipment dept and I don't really fear them.

 

[McDad]

Aramco chief warns of 'catastrophic' hit to oil market if Strait of Hormuz stays closed | The National

World's largest oil exporter is selling crude via Red Sea

www.thenationalnews.com

Thanks for that. So the Red Sea terminal can handle 5 million barrels per day and they can convert gas pipelines to carry crude expanding capacity to 7 million barrels per day.

The article didn't compare the Red Sea capacity to what was going out of the Persian Gulf prior to the attacks on Iran.

 

[rikberry31]

Whoops

And in a related story, a mosquito bit me on the arm yesterday.

 

[adam.vol]

Nixon was a commie, China today is his fault. And I was there, research how those price controls go.

Were you there counting the oil?

 

[hog88]

Oh, I meant to share this yesterday.

I saw where years ago Saudi Arabia built a 1200km pipeline to the Red Sea just in case the Persian Gulf was too dangerous to transport.
Has anybody else heard that? If true, then I wonder if/when we will see that be available?

It's up and running.

'Swinging into action:' The Saudi Arabian pipeline designed to bypass Hormuz

 

[rikberry31]

Were you there counting the oil?

I waited in line for hours to get gas and only being able to get gas on odd numbered days. I remember shortages of everything.

 

[appvol]

 

[appvol]

 

[rikberry31]

I guess we should face the reality that real estate developers don't make the best nuclear proliferation negotiators. I do understand that it's difficult for some to accept though.

He did better than Biden and Obomber.

 

[EasternVol]

Nixon wasn’t a Commie. Nor was he a true economic conservative.
He made several economically illiterate moves in his presidency.

Which moves do you have in mind? I'd say the wage and price controls.

 

[rikberry31]

Nixon wasn’t a Commie. Nor was he a true economic conservative.
He made several economically illiterate moves in his presidency.

His biggest f'up was normalizing relations with China, before that we imported nothing from them. Nixon made China the problem it is today at the expense of Japan and Taiwan. He sided with the commies.

 

[EasternVol]

They’re certainly capable of doing what just happened all on their own. They could probably flatten Iran if they tried but if they did it by ground it’d be hard just based off personnel

We'd have to give them a whole lot more weapons and ammo. They certainly have the technical capability to rule the skies. Agreed they don't have the manpower to invade.

 

[EasternVol]

You would rather have „negotiators“ like Obama and Biden?
We give Iran several billion dollars of taxpayer money and get absolutely nothing in return?????

Now who said that? Stop making up silly straw men.
When did we give Iran any US taxpayer money?

 

[TVOLS]

I don't worship Israel, I just recognize that they have the world's 2nd best military.

2026 Military Strength Ranking

Ranking the nations of the world based on current available firepower.

www.globalfirepower.com

This think tank on this kind of stuff has them ranked at 15 globally. Good website that breaks the numbers down in numerous categories if interested in this stuff.

If you look at their totally number of fighter and attack aircraft and then think they have been using these planes since the 2023 terrorist attack on top of bombing everyone else during this timeframe says a lot about their maintenance program to keep these planes flying at the rate they are.

 

[Smokey123]

Now who said that? Stop making up silly straw men.
When did we give Iran any US taxpayer money?

If you disagree with anything Trump has done you’re an Obama loving Marxist. You know the rules