Today? Starmer has to make a pathetic speech of even allowing US planes to land on British bases to help defend Gulf allies, and even that is met with a heavy backlash.
I think a large part of this is Queer Starmer being a utter pathetic excuse for a human.
Then they wouldn't be able to sell oil to china, and they'd wind up bankrupt in a couple of months.
Unless something has changed in the last day, Iran is still shipping oil to china. It sails right past the USN.
The USN is not interdicting civilian shipping in international waters, correct.
Its a Bank not owned by Jews though. That makes its competition.
> Bank
> Not owned by Jews
do you even hear yourself?
That "...and their allies" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially since no one is sure which IRGC member interprets what ship as belonging to an "ally."
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Additionally that ignores that Chinese vessels were hit. The Iranians have that Arab aim.
I'm certainly concerned that drone terrorism is going to eventually be the new thing especially once the Russia-Ukraine conflict ends as regardless who wins, what is certainly going to happen is hordes of trained operators selling their services to various rogue actors as it's rather cheap for the damage you can do.
Yes and no. Drone terrorism against civilian targets will be a concern in the future very likey. Against military targets less so for EW reasons I'm going to get into.
The US has system that will cook a FPV's drones electronics, the Iraqi drone got through to an unoccupied section of base and was fiberoptic for which there are limited counter measures against.
No way. He knew it was a bad deal, the JCPOA was all about optics. Like all the rest of his foreign policy. I heard someone famous for commentary on US foreign policy coping and sneeding that the failed deal was actually 4d chess. It was always intended to maintain Iranian strength in preparation for the IROI to act as an American ally in the region against an Israeli-Saudi Axis. It seems like die-hard Obama-stans really struggle to rationalize his decisions with Iran ex post facto.
This is correct
People forget how utterly fucking awful Obama was because of how happy Euros were to have a weak American president they could push around.
In 2015 then the utterly retarded JCPOA was signed, Iran had been under 3 decades of sanctions due to first the revolution and then Iran/Iraq. The French continuing to sell them whatever they could ship not withstanding, Iran was being slowly strangled.
This kicked into high gear under Dubya with the "axis of evil". Then the 2008 global financial meltdown happpened and Iran, while temporarily benefitting from higher oil prices, was long-term turbo fucked. This lead to the 2009 wide-spread protests that were the worse until recently; it really looked like Iran was about to topple but Obama was a weak cuck. There is some other stuff with I think the jews that happened that I forget all specifics, but the regime was very vulnerable in 2015, to the point they had previously refused to mention their nuclear program in ANY deals and now were willing to at least discuss it in exchange for sanctiosn relief.
Now lets shift focus for a moment. The Arab Spring caught the US and explicitly Obama unprepared. The US wasn't sure how to respond to any of these protest movements and Obama was caught completely flatfooted. He looked like a chump where the US didn't even issue statements until after the fact. Libya was a huge fucking mess, driven by the French, that resulted in our Embassy being BTFO by Al Queda and Hildawg trying to blame it on a youtube video.
This is one of the reasons the US went so retardedly hard on Syria despite the only opposition groups worth a damn being Al Queda and ISIS.
So Obama is about to term out and had no absolutely nothing productive geopolitically or domestically (except stoke racial tensions). China had built Atol bases, Russia had invaded Crimea, Syria was still in civil war, Egypt was back to the military dictatorship after the Islamic Brotherhood spooked everyone who wasn't Obama (hmmm curious), nothing had changed in Israel... basically his legacy as the first Head Nigger In Charge was going to be letting Russia expand and having the US embassy in Libya destroyed and the staff slaughtered. People in the future were going be wondering why the US elected a nigger, Obama couldn't have that.
Obama tried to cuck on Cuba but discovered no one really cared.
So, Obama reaches out to Iran to make a deal, and finds the Regime near collapse and more willing than ever before to make a deal, to fix their economy and prevent the brewing revolt. And then Obama signs the fucking ankle-grabbing zero-enforcement JCPOA. It was a fucing travesty. Iran gives up nothing and only gets rewards. That is, they could do what they did was was spit on the document and ignore it and the worst thing that happens to them is everything goes back to the way it was. Which is exactly what happens.
Edit: I should add some additional context in the concerns of fairness; Obama/His administration very likely reached out the Iranians because of concerns of the Iranian government collapsing due to growing internal unrest. the US didn't like the IRGC but they at least understood the game had rules, there was very real concern that Iran would collapse or balkanize if the situation wasn't stabilized; the nightmare scenario was a Sunni group like ISIS getting access to HEU - remember ISIS was still holding territory in Iraq and Syria at the time. So cutting a deal to stabilize Iran in the interests of the region not falling to chaos was not completely out of line. The abysmal terms Obama accepted to do so were.
to tl;dr:
Iran was being strangled for 30 years. Great traitor and cuck Obama took the rope off their neck so they wouldn't build a bomb during his presidency to 'secure his legacy' and we're now dealing with the consequences of that.
Obama should have been tried for treason.
I make jokes about him being a deep cover Muslim agent out to destroy America but its not as outlandish of an idea as it should be.
Its incredible how Trump keeps raping Obamas legacy.
The JCPOA agreement was retarded from the getgo, a glorified can kicking down the road ritual where everyone patted each other on the back and did an international circlejerk. Regardless, it went down by 'experts' as a great deal and something legacy making for Barry because Iran would be true and honest about their nuclear program in return for some economic relief. Thankfully it only lasted 3 years before Trump tore it up in May of 2018.
An earlier 2018 raid on Iran's nuclear archive showed Iran lied and was just going to wait out the political hot potato of Irans nuclear ambitions and that they already had a vision for expanding and hiding their nuclear weapon program. Trump doesn't get much flack, if any, for tearing up the agreement now. Even in 2020, 2024, it was never even mentioned. The big topic was the Hamas Israel war in 2024.
Events have since transpired that have turned the table on its head. The Hamas Mario kart massacre of October 7th gave Israel a free pass by nearly all world governments to go after Hamas, Hezbollah and parts of Syria and Iraq. Putin getting stuck in Ukraine caused Syria and Venezuela, two BRICS members to topple, Russia can't save anyone anymore. After the success of Midnight Hammer, its consequences and failed negotiations, and killing of their own people, its become clear that Obama was a dumbass who go duped into into a bad faith agreement because Barry wanted to atone for all the world evils and promised the US would be a good person in the international community.
I suppose its good it happened the way it did, because it allowed Trump to buck break Iran in front of the world, getting an even greater legacy than Obama will ever have. The democrats WISH they had someone as good as Trump.
Yup. Obama was a fucking retard. The treaty he signed, and then rewarded Iran with 1.7 billion in untraceable cash and bold dropped on the run way at Tehran International (seethe), did nothing but had Iran pinky promise they wouldn't test a bomb before 2030. It allowed them increasing levels & ammounts of enriched Uranium nearly guaranteeing that they would have a bomb in 2030*, but of course Obama would be long out of the whitehouse, legacy secure, and a nuclear armed Iran would be blamed on someone else.
*or more likely they would be very near the bomb and then solicit more ballwashing deals from the west to not officially test it.
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Dooming negros on WSJ think that because of the heckin' trade war, Europe won't come to our aid. Idk maybe the fact that they will have to turn to Putin for gas otherwise have an energy crisis might light a fire under their ass. If they kept their nuclear plants they would be alright but now since they threw it away, they no longer have the luxury of choice to say 'no' to the US. Importing infinity browns isn't helping their either.
When your 'allies' make retarded decisions that cause them to then leech off your defenses, thats no longer an ally but a liability. Eurofags did it to themselves. They can get fucked. The globalism argument is dead.
Europe was warned about dependence on Russia by Trump in 2018. Their response was to laugh.
Without turning this into Russia/Ukraine slapfight:
From 2014 to 2022, Europe gave Russia around 1.1 trillion, with a T, dollars buying oil, gas, and electricity. Post 2022 They have still bought several hundred billion in oil and gas (Euros like to focus on "just the EU" and ignore Turkey, which where they get their refined products from)
every year edit: Sorry that's several hundred billion total not per year. Continental Europe started at about 100 billion with 100 billion in turkey in 2022, that has declined to about 40-50 billion for Continental Europe in 2024, but Turkey unchanged/slight growth (110 billion iirc). Basically they cannot stop funding their #1 security threat they beg the US to save them from because it would destroy their economies; just imagine if Russia had invaded Poland and it was a real war.
Even ignoring the brown wave and them allowing Caliphates to grow inside their borders independent from their laws, Europe is an unreliable partner and a massive security vulnerability for themselves and the US.
The fact eurofags refuse to acknowledge this is galling.
France unironically has a good navy. The main problem with it is that it's small. And they have experience doing shit far from home with all the games they've been playing south of the Maghreb for the last 25 years
They have an OK navy. What they have, because of national pride reasons, is ships that integrate technologies (radar/sonar, nuclear propulsion) in the same class as the US even if the individual ships themselves are usually "aw isn't that cute" or lack numbers to be meaningfully powerful.
No matter how he asked, the Europeans would have waffled and ultimately done nothing like they always do.
Why give those stuffy bureaucrats the dignity of filing out whatever 2000 page form they think is proper when a tweet works just as well?
The only thing warning the Euros would have done would have caused the plans to leak to Iran. Niggas are not only still buying oil & gas from Russia, but our Stalwart German Allies passed a bill to kill oil and gas exploration/drilling in the North Sea + raise taxes and "environmental impact oversight" on what extract they do have.
It's ridiculous TBH that their performance in WW2 (which was sad) somehow erases the fact that the French are most militarily successful nation in the history of humanity.
Hi there. I see you have forgotten the 1800s exist post-Napoleon I and there was more than just WWI in 20th century. Let me help you out.
Capitulation on Algeria.
Vietnam, leaving a mess for the US to clean up.
Franco-Turk War
WWI - which I will allow equivocation to just the Belgium part because vs. Germans it was an even fight.
Franco-Prussian war
Franco-Mexican war
Franco-Korean war
First Italian Independence War
France juices its stats by either being a Junior member of an alliance (Crimea), slap fighting with a weakened neighbor over bullshit they have to let slide (various wars with Spain in particular) or shitting on retarded browns (Africa, minus Algeria pushing their shit in)
Tucker is about to get CIA'd after getting caught selling state secrets to Iran.
He's trying to get ahead of it by claiming it's all a gayop.
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Qatarlson's a retard but I can't suspend my disbelief enough to think that he was litrully a "spy" for Tehran and the CIA played a reverse uno with him
Foreign Agent act isn't about passing secrets. It is about communicating/negotiating with members of a foreign government without notifying the USSD that you are doing so.
My immediate suspicion is that the Foreign Agent charge is used to pressure him to STFU about Iran.
Or it is a gay psyop to explain why he's about to flip on bombing Iran being a bad idea now that his qatari masters have changed positions.