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minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up104·2 months agoIran 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-up54·2 months agoAnd then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·2 months agoShhhh! That’s supposed to be a secret plan!
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoNo worries, I already read it from their Signal chat
minus-squaretorrentialgrain@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou don’t need to invade to do that.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoI 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-up10·2 months agoHe’s dying to use a nuke, just to put his name in history books.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoThey 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-up33·2 months agoWell, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoWho’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months agoRussia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·2 months agoRussia 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-up15·2 months agoExcept it won’t even be a proxy war since the US just struck directly
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agorussia does need a stable iran, for its drone deliveries. china provides iran with huwei tech.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThey 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-up1·2 months agoI may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
minus-squareBreezy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoPakistan, and they have nukes.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agochina 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.