I am glad to personally be largely independent of molecule-sourced energy March to October. Hoping that the countries affected by oil instability take this as an opportunity to learn this lesson as well.
Both from the fact that’s horrific cost of life in the Middle East and creates perpetual resentment making the US less safe.
And I'm guessing there's lots of operations you don't exactly hear about.
Assuming the US does these kinds of operations it will likely target only high value targets like the rebuilding of a nuclear facility etc
So it's gonna be very targeted and limited in scope, as opposed to Gaza.
Like this time where the bombed nuclear facilities that were "obliterated like nobody‘s ever seen before" last year.
And they did bomb nuclear facilities - nobody is denying that.
Even this time, excluding the tragic school event, there have been very minimal number of casualties compared to the amount of munitions being used, so clearly not a Gaza scenario at all.
Didn’t say anything about Gaza. This is more likely to be a second Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. This isn’t a movie where it ends with the death of the main villain.
I think their intent is to bomb Iran into rubble.
BB has pulled off the ultimate coup. He's managed to sucker a US President into doing the dirty work cutting Iran down to a manageable size with the US paying for almost all the costs. The Pentagon loves it of course because they get to "test" out their toys to see how well they work.
The Iranian people pay the highest price. The rest of us pay economically through sky high oil prices.
That's like saying "ugh, now I need to beat my son every day, or he won't do what I tell him". Sure, if the only tool you think you have in your arsenal is violence, that seems like something you "need" to do, but in the real world, we have many other tools that are much much more effective at achieving our goals. They just...might require actually caring about other people, and treating them with respect and human dignity, and *gasp* possibly even acting like something other than the most absurd caricature of a "manly man" to ever man.
Now, what's abundantly clear is that nothing like that will ever happen as long as any party that remotely resembles the current Republicans is in power in the US. So hopefully that can be another good reason to get them out permanently.
There was an article here (IIRC) about Climate Change and 1.5C may be reached by 2030. With high Oil Prices, maybe it will force some countries to take climate change seriously.
> maybe it will force some countries to take climate change seriously.
Why didn’t anyone take climate change seriously during any of the previous years-long periods when oil was over $100 and why would now be any different?
Smog reduction is nice, but cars were never the main offender and denial was working OK. The real answer is that they were reducing geopolitical vulnerability to oil cutoff. It's a long road and they aren't at the end of it yet, but they can plan a few moves ahead. Unlike our guy, who poked a stick into the hornet nest and was surprised by the outcome.
I know HN allows non tech news of global significance but I definitely don’t think 4 month lows of the stock market counts.