• moody@lemmings.world
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    3 days ago

    Let’s be real. He had no idea what the strait of Hormuz was until after they started bombing Iran.

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    3 days ago

    The Strait of Hormuz becoming 1) a badly needed geography lesson for Americans and 2) the next coming of Saddam’s hiding place/troll science is one of the few bright spots of this embarrassing nightmare.

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    Unfortunately the best way to raise the sea levels is by using the oil from the straight itself, so we’re kind of at an impasse here

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    What we really need is a brave and intrepid captain, a modern day James Cook or Vasco da Gama, who’ll throw out conventional wisdom and blaze a trail north up the Tigris to find the fabled passage through to the Mediterranean.

  • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    us military sat and watched war evolve for years as cheap drones nullified billion dollar weapon systems. attack! omg where did all these cheap drones come from. like an idiot taking a ball bat to a hornet’s nest.

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    Come on. He’s nowhere near bright enough to come up with that. He probably couldn’t find Iran on a world map.

  • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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    his oil pals cashing in getting twice the money per barrel while dumbdle gets a ballroom and sells stock. djt is bouncing petty low these days. he owns half and it keeps getting propped up.

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    This is a lot less stupid than the guy that proposed we drive trucks from one side to get the oil to ships on the other side

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      3 days ago

      I remember watching a documentary on the Panama canal. (Long time ago)

      But I remember the take away was.

      1. It cost like 100x more than was estimated.

      Not like twice or 3 times. But like 100x. (I’m probably wrong about this number but you get what I’m saying).

      1. And that an incredibly large number of people died to make it.

      2. And that exploited labor was used.

      I think a lot died from malaria.

      1. It also took like 10 years or something.

      And the Panama canal is like just south of the U.S. Same continent.

      Not that challenging to get to compared to the middle east.

      There is no way in hell another project like that could be under taken in a war zone , on the other side of the planet.