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Volaris

(11,697 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 01:50 PM 17 hrs ago

Tell me if this tracks regarding Iran:

Trump says 'I'm out, bigly victory, hooray me blah blah blah oh by the way sanctions gone because it's the only way I could leave; bestest deal ever'

Iran tells gulf states: now kick out all American military and WE will protect your interests here, OR we will demolish whatever oil and gas infrastructure you have now or will build for the next 5 years...your choice.

If he permanently lifts iranian oil sanctions, the only oil coming out of the gulf WILL BE IRANIAN or Iranian-allied.
Now, just for the record, this is essentially what OBL wanted.

TRUMP and the Ayatollah are going to accomplish what Bin Laden, could not.

Thoughts?

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Tell me if this tracks regarding Iran: (Original Post) Volaris 17 hrs ago OP
If it's a race to see who can demolish the most Frasier Balzov 17 hrs ago #1
Saudi will then open up on Iran. Melon 17 hrs ago #2
Ok..thats the kind of thing i was getting at. Volaris 15 hrs ago #4
I suspect that the Persian memory is long... GiqueCee 17 hrs ago #3

Frasier Balzov

(5,060 posts)
1. If it's a race to see who can demolish the most
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 02:21 PM
17 hrs ago

of the other combatant's stuff, the speed of doing so will matter.

That could mean Trump uses nukes.

Except he won't emphasize how biggly they are.

A little one, just a little one. A baby one. Nothing to worry about.

Melon

(1,525 posts)
2. Saudi will then open up on Iran.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 02:26 PM
17 hrs ago

The other regional countries don’t like Iran for the same region that we are seeing. They add risk to their income. You will see US technology plus the best troops money can buy and the return of Blackwater.

GiqueCee

(4,243 posts)
3. I suspect that the Persian memory is long...
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 02:29 PM
17 hrs ago

... and that there is a lengthy lexicon of obscenities in Farsi that is reserved just for the American government and the travesties it has visited upon the Iranians.
At the top of that list of crimes might be the abomination that occurred in 1953. The newly formed CIA, which grew out of the WWII-era OSS, and was quite full of itself, agreed to help Britain, which still thought it had a God-given right to colonize and rob targeted countries of their natural resources, decreed that they would usurp Iran's oil reserves for itself, and asked for US help in doing so.
They deposed the democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, held him under house arrest, and installed the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. The Shah's bona fides were questionable, to put it mildly, and his secret police, the SAVAK, were murderous monsters.
Bottom line: Trump's Fart of a Deal will not be met with joyous hosannahs in Tehran. Quite the opposite, we can pretty much be assured.
Trump is a blundering imbecile who is in WAY over his head, and psychotic assholes like Nosferatu Miller and Pete Kegsbreath will only make matters worse.

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