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minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up104·1年前Iran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz. There goes the worlds economy. 25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·1年前And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1年前Shhhh! That’s supposed to be a secret plan!
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1年前No worries, I already read it from their Signal chat
minus-squaretorrentialgrain@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1年前You don’t need to invade to do that.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1年前I still don’t see that happening. Trump likes his popularity too much. Like, he’ll nuke Iran before he ever puts boots on the ground.
minus-squareAirowird@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1年前He’s dying to use a nuke, just to put his name in history books.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1年前They may try. There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1年前Well, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1年前Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1年前Russia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1年前Russia probably isn’t much of a concern right now. China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?
minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1年前Except it won’t even be a proxy war since the US just struck directly
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1年前russia does need a stable iran, for its drone deliveries. china provides iran with huwei tech.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1年前I expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1年前They won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1年前I may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
minus-squareBreezy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1年前Pakistan, and they have nukes.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1年前china helped them developed it in the cold war, as a buffer to india.
Iran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz.
There goes the worlds economy.
25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
Shhhh! That’s supposed to be a secret plan!
No worries, I already read it from their Signal chat
You don’t need to invade to do that.
I still don’t see that happening. Trump likes his popularity too much.
Like, he’ll nuke Iran before he ever puts boots on the ground.
He’s dying to use a nuke, just to put his name in history books.
They may try.
There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
Well, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
Russia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
Russia probably isn’t much of a concern right now.
China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?
Except it won’t even be a proxy war since the US just struck directly
russia does need a stable iran, for its drone deliveries. china provides iran with huwei tech.
I expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
They won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
I may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
Pakistan, and they have nukes.
china helped them developed it in the cold war, as a buffer to india.