Great news for farmers, food quality and prices. 10 years of crises to come back to where we started.
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love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
during the oil/gas crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraime it was striking how some right-wingers tried to gaslight the public into believing the *biggest* problem with their soaring bills (at the time) was green levies rather than the oil/gas price going through the roof
If only the BBC had journalists that could look into this 😕
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
How will the Iran War end?
Listen to Rep Jim Himes of Connecticut. You heard it here first.
I’ve chipped in; if you also can, please do
It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.
Anyone who knows how a certain Austrian Corporal ran his military will recognise a pattern here
Amazing! Thank you for that unexpected crossover!
Say what you like about the new guy’s life expectancy, but I don’t think there’s any doubting his motivation
Now would be a good time to read @graemewood.bsky.social on Mojtaba Khamenei:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
For the sake of Britain’s, and indeed Europe’s, youngsters, make it DAMN CLEAR to your MPs we want NOTHING to do with the mad king’s war:
Not sure the Finns would consider either of those natural enemies. The combination of horrific gore and slapstick comedy is full Nordic Tarantino
“Flesh scabbard” shouldn’t be a thing
It jumps the first shark fairly early, and the shark jumps keep coming
Watching Sisu 2: One Finn Versus The USSR
Curious combination of Grand Theft Auto and IL2
CRIKEY. There never was such a thing as a heavy Japanese fighter, but hitting a Jug is just the worst possible thing short of a B-29
-world’s unluckiest P47D
-no idea
-the plane of a thousand names
-some homebrew Yugo LavochYakVia gulag-dodger
OOO is the imminently-deceased Jug; the rest aren’t in immediate peril
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
I’m old enough to remember that double taps on civilian targets were the hallmarks of terrorists, not US policy
Yeah but guess what; those refugees aren’t going to end up in the US or Israel. A surge of refugees into western Europe is only going to boost support for the kind of political parties that the US National Security Strategy says it is now a US foreign policy objective to support.
We already know the winner in the war with Iran and that's Russia. The closure of the Straits of Hormuz has swung Russian crude from pariah to prized commodity. Urals oil price is the highest since right after the Ukraine invasion. Putin is loving this...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/markets-in...
Shows how geopolitically naive I was; I used to think Israel was a wholly owned subsidiary of the USA…
But if this were a business, and you looked at the money flows and the influence, the Israeli government has pulled a reverse takeover.
And they did it through simple leverage.
Ukraine will probably ramp up attacks on Russian oil exports to make sure Russia doesn't gain from Sun Tzu's attack on Iran.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
For those who wonder why some of us focus on the Trump/Russia connections in the Epstein Files, just follow the evidence
Senator Whitehouse does a great summary here www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...
In the history of horribly misreading your enemy’s motivations, it’s right up there with attacking Iran, or preventing American colonialists from having an MP
