the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.”
Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.
Does this count as a real one? The German Type XIV Milchkuh subs refuelled other subs at sea.
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The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.
It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.
I suspect the fertiliser issue is the bigger one in the longer term.
That’s not fair. There are acoustic explodey floaty things too.
The Guardian are saying 3 ships hit today.
It’s not difficult to lay mines either. The US claimed to have destroyed 10 minelayers, but what I saw was LCI-type landing craft.
You can drop a mine from practically anything that floats above a certain size.
The thing about Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key brains of the Nazi murder campaign, was that as well as psychotically evil he was also intelligent. This is why the SOE’s assassination of the guy was probably necessary.
Miller is ignorant and simply not that bright. This is certainly a good thing.
The Strait of Hormuz is a critical oil chokepoint.
Since the military escalation in the Middle East, ship transits have dropped sharply.
What could this mean for energy markets, shipping and supply chains?
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Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Turns out the US Secretary of Energy’s tweet that the US Navy was escorting tankers turned out the be BS (I wonder if he was shorting the price of Brent Crude). So we’ll see what it does in the morning
In the past, commodity prices had some bearing in reality. Nowadays its just another roulette game
We opened fire on them in the middle of negotiations. Why on earth would they go back to the table?
Check my LinkedIn if you’re obsessed about it. I use my real name.
The Kuwait Emergency Response Project, KERP. I was on the electricity grid, but I had all the fun of choking smoke, corpses lying around.
First time I’ve ever been pursued by a reply guy. Maybe you ought to talk to a therapist?
With free to read link
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Accidental.
But the point stands. Oil catches fire, and who would know better than the Iranians how to ignite it?
Too many people applying wishful thinking to this conflict. Talk now of the U.K. sending a destroyer to reopen the strait 🙄. They have 6, 3 in drydock, so that isn’t going to happen.
Soon, an oil-bro heavy on shorts will show you a screendump or even recordings from your favorite AIS-service stating that Hormuz strait is open.
These are the ships "transiting" right now. Ask you local sailor if shipping looks like that.
Repeat after me: real data or it did not happen.
Strait - freaking autocorrect
Tankers are expensive and, for the moment, impossible to insure passing through the Hormuz Straight. They’re also really easy to set on fire.
Don’t hold your breath on those transits.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your alternate outcomes are being dead, being overthrown (and also probably dead) or being bombed again in 12 months (and being dead) sowing chaos probably looks pretty good.
I think you’re missing the basic games theory. Get hit once and you might shrug it off, hoping to avoid a fight. Get hit a second time, you’re in a fight whether you like it or not.
The Iranian regime’s intent might be to deter a third air attack. Sowing economic chaos for a while serves that goal.
I far from certain there are many in the Kuwaiti hierarchy that learned anything that might be of use in a drone war.
And places like Shuaiba, Burgan and their de-sal plants are horribly vulnerable to attack and damn near impossible to defend.
They were well armed against Afghanistan *and* they had boots on the ground, and they still lost. Eventually you run out of strategically useful bombing targets.
Drones are not hard to build and tankers are big, slow, vulnerable targets. It would not take a lot to keep the Hormuz straight closed.
Having lived in Kuwait, Alexander, this is a rubbish take.
A large proportion of the Kuwaiti population cleared out after the liberation and had to be threatened by the Emir to return. There is a hard core of patriotic types, but it isn’t large. And the only war that mattered was the 90-91 one.
1. Iran gets a say on whether it ends or not, and it is in their interests to weaken Trump and deter further attacks.
2. What lunatic would invest money in this overpriced, vibe-driven roulette wheel of a market?
Sorry, Strait of Hormuz. 🙄
I can’t see why Iran would give up right now. If they do, the US can just wait until they’re better prepared and attack again - as they’ve already demonstrated they will. Iran has demonstrated it can inflict enormous economic pain - pain Trump can’t stand - and they’ll definitely want payback.
💯This is the point few seem to be considering. Trump lies all the time. For him the truth is what he can induce other people to believe. To plan any long term strategy on his words is irrational.
It is easy for Iran to keep peppering the Gulf of Hormuz with Shaheds until they get what they want.
Just slaughtering people outside a declaration of war is murder - for decades it was practically synonymous with terrorism.
