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Amazing how many geopolitical, economics, and military strategy experts all of a sudden appear (not just on this forum) during a crisis to start criticizing the whole operation, yet those same experts need to have the details explained to them in small and unclassified terms, otherwise what the US is doing is obviously stupid.
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This is the financial intricacy I was hoping was being lost in the details. I'll try to be more judicious in my use of the word "anyone" when asking a serious question next time. With that ambiguity it was a coin flip between a short rage bait response from the left or a community college dissertation from Ratner...
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Huh? When did I say they would stop attacking? I believe we fully expect them to continue to attack, which is why we have destroyed their big Navy and are currently waging a campaign against their swift boats...You might have heard A-10, Apaches and other assets are now in that fight. We have also shifted the air campaign to attacking launch sites and storage for anti-ship capabilities. The price of oil is just as much perception as it is supply. Selling 140 Million barrels will have a small part on both factors. The real issue as BOTH sides know is getting ships flowing through the straight. Killing the swift boats and launchers is part two, a coalition (which it appears is now forming), to sweep the mines is the final stage.
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The Obama administration gave Iran roughly $1.7 billion in 2016. We're now allowing 140 million barrels of Iranian oil to be sold. If that oil only sold for $90/barrel it would be $12.6 billion. Does anyone know if there is some financial intricacy I'm missing here that prevents Iran from making that money?
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Sorry don't know what a huckleberry is. But I just got back from a UPT base, and I would be glad to share what I heard from the flight line. First most distressing in my mind but maybe not if you're a part 141 dude is there were three engine failures in the last month at ipt, one was with a solo student on takeoff, the same plane / engine had failed the day before on Final. There is a huge gap in uniformity of instruction at the contracted IPT locations, some are nose to the grindstone 7 days a week finishing 30 days early , some as one Lieutenant put it are Club Med FAA rating writtens spoon fed to them. There was a 30 to 40% failure rate in the T6 instrument Sims with the new ipt student flow, they are working to figure out the solution. I witnessed a drop night, only 6 T38s, and when three of those are slotted to Guard /Reserve babies then it's slim pickings for those that did really well and are in the top five or six of their class. One class at a different base got just one T38, still scratching my head on that one but he is the only one in his T-38 class. Lastly, at one of the IPT bases in Phoenix, two Chinese students who were flying at the same school and living in the same dorm complex were caught in one of the lieutenant's rooms photographing the Air Force students" curriculum. No one I talked to could find out if they were PLAAF students or Cathay Pacific. That whole thing is under investigation and the two Chinese students were tossed.Doing this during the trail is hilarious - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AiuqQpB1U- Last week
Possibly Private money, crypto backed with a physical presence and assets held as redeemable collateral with a feasible redemption mechanism I still hold some minute hope that the powers that be realize destroying the dollar is not going to work, the piper must always be paidYou can absolutely be critical of Israel without being an anti-semite. That's not what anyone is saying. But, to your point. October 7th gave Israel (not the Jews) the right to displace every single Palestinian from Gaza forever. That action, supported and enabled by Iran, and undertaken by Hamas foreclosed a two-state solution permanently. And I said as much shortly after October 7th. It also gives them the right to overthrow the government of Iran.
