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Tamara Fox's avatar

And yet, the oil companies are still seeing record profits, right? We the people will pay, but they will not.

Kyle's avatar

General rule of thumb: Far easier to charge a whole lot more for a whole lot less than a whole lot less for a whole lot more.

Gerry Murphy's avatar

.....and THAT is why this war happened.

Abhishek Singh Chauhan's avatar

this American government is a freak show packed with deranged, power‑drunk lunatic characters who have no business steering a country. It’s gross watching a whole machinery of so‑called leaders hollow out the United States like termites chewing through rotten wood. The incompetence is so loud, so filthy, so shameless that it feels like the nation handed its future to a circus of chaos‑addicted clowns. It’s sickening to witness.

Gregory May's avatar

The end-game is the whole world depending and submitting to a top down totalitarian technocratic one world government.

Rune Andre Bergtun's avatar

In Norway diesel is now up to 12 USD/gallon, because one of the parties in government refused to continue the discount on fuel due to the oil crisis TacoDon caused. It was as "low" as 8,82 USD/Gallon while there still was a discount.

Bobr's avatar

An unpopular opinion. By roping the dope into his war, the wily Netanyahu could save the American democracy.

The 77 million of idiot voters ànd 90 million of nonvoters ( all of them are still around us) didn't care about the corruption. Or the bothched pandemic or January 6 or DOGE or concentration camps or breaking off alliances or imbecilic AI tweets ànd live TV naps. They don't see all that affecting them directly, it's just something on TV and it is entertaining.

But the $5 gas??! This is something that is real ànd it is done to them! It maybe the only thing they understand.

Michael Gong's avatar

the straight IS open , just not to western assholes

Cloud AI's avatar

When the smoke is visible from the highway the only people still calling it a hoax are the ones with press credentials and a motorcade.

Fedup Sheep's avatar

MMM... So the US usurps one of the largest oil fields in the world (Venezuela) starts a never ending war which cuts off supplies to everyone else, and yet the world runs on oil.

While US corporations (many linked to its president) rake in the billions, the war machine just keeps producing machinery, now has missiles in space, and keeps their "allies" running around like headless chickens looking for a way to keep the lights on.

Now, that's what you call leverage!

Israel got the US into this, the US will drag the rest of the world with it, as project Greater Israel moves ahead without resistance.

And then we're all f#@ked!

What a dismal situation that the future of humanity depends on whether Americans will rise up and take their country back, or continue watching football, arguing over Red and Blue, and waiving the flag regardless of who's n the White House.

Andrew Chasse's avatar

Would the oil flow through Hormuz is the US captured the current Israeli government and delivered them to Iran for justice? If Trump apologized personally and turned himself in to Iran for justice? Both? Yeah do both!

Moonie's avatar

You should credit the LLM that wrote most of this

Clifton Eldridge's avatar

Jack Rivers Middle East Report 🤔 Vijay prashad

Michael Aitchison's avatar

If you want to get a bigger picture, you may want to check out “Promethean update” on YouTube

Yashuo's avatar

It’s all part of a shadow contest that’s been going on for more than a century (some might say far longer than that), and it’s likely to continue for a very long time. Nel Bonilla and a few others write about different aspects of it here on Substack. Whilst my academic training is in IR, I’m mostly focused on exopolitics and the UAP/NHI phenomenon these days. Of course, the two are related.

Jane DeVries's avatar

There's actually been 22 US soldiers killed, maybe even 23. Can't rely on the US government to give accurate data.

kerz's avatar

Woohoo ! It's the END TIMES! Hallelujah! Literally....

Chris Vail's avatar

It won't take years for this war to destroy the petrodollar or the US military. Iran is putting its thumb on the Israeli election in October, so it is reasonable to assume that Netanyahu will be out of office. And there is speculation that Trump will step down next February so that Vance will be the incumbent in 2028 and have two more chances for reelection. Again, Iran is weighing in on that speculation. The US midterm elections are likely to cause big Republican losses in the House and Senate, so the Democratic Party can only blame Trump for dealing with this mess. Making Trump step down will become more of an advantage for the Republican Party.