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Bro you're the agressor. The US would rather be doing nothing.
Oh, Bro, now the US who started all this would rather be doing nothing?
USA funded and supplied Al Queda from decades ago.
USA started the current war on Iran...and have been attacking via sanctions for decades.
The entire middle east security framework is built upon the US petrodollar empire and its alleged security guarantee of the Saudis and gulf states security.
Now USA is shown incapable and outta Interceptors, I, a neutral observer from New Zealand am the aggressor?
LMAO.
USA and its petrodollar hegemony apologists are in denial of reality.
Are you gonna support your allies the Saudis in their time of need as Shia Houthi massacre their Sunni brethren in Yemen and close off their last avenue of oil exports and revenue?
Or are you unreliable and fickle 'allies' really only playing everyone for your own selfish objectives?
End of the petrodollar empire.
We didn't start it. The PRC and the IRGC are Christian-killers. Christendom is a US ally. We're escalating very slowly because we know most of you are just dumb, so you have plenty of time to repent.
Bullshit, you are just outta Interceptors and can't make anymore so you can't credibly project the power required to support the petrodollar anymore.
Dang!
I'm happy to bet that we can. Do you genuinely believe the communist party will unite China and rule for 10,000 years? I admit there's a lot about China that I don't understand, but I feel perfectly safe betting my life and the life of everyone around me on NO. The payoff is too great and the odds are too favorable to pass up.
10,000 years is a long time.
Would not like to bet humanity has that long left given the point we have reached where technology seems to be accelerating toward the speed of light!
For insight into China read some of Peter Hesslers excellent books on China- they provide a window into this alien culture through a westerners eyes.
It could be argued that Chinas inherently conservative Confucian cultural traditions, preferring stability to change, could be just what the world needs in contrast to the buccaneering tendencies of western civilisation.
Nah the world needs a change from communism. It's gone on long enough.
Given the silence from @coffeebadger and @Cje95 here is a report saying Trump has refused to help the Saudis in Yemen-
End of Petrodollar Empire.
The U.S. has a ceasefire with the Houthis, so why would we get involved with someone who right now isn't attacking, threatening, or doing anything against us? Isnt that what you complain about? The U.S. getting involved in things? Yemen has been a Saudi/UAE problem for a decade now.
Plus, the East-West Pipeline attacks also came from Iraq.
This kinda gets you in a bind doesnt it? The U.S. currently has the leverage over OPEC by a wide margin, esp. with the failure of the Saudi's in Yemen. Venezuela, the world's largest oil reserve, is working with the U.S., not China, not OPEC.
Regarding Trumps claims to have seized custody over Venezuelas oil don't be too hasty in believing the hype.
This is what the WSJ says about it-
'News of the talks caused an outcry among some in Venezuela’s opposition who have been pushing for the U.S. to pressure Rodríguez to hold elections. The Trump administration has played a major role in overseeing Venezuela’s oil industry since ousting Maduro and replacing him with Rodríguez.
“An illegitimate interim government with an illegitimate hydrocarbons law has no legitimacy to strike this unconstitutional deal,” Ricardo Hausmann, a Harvard University economist and former government official in Venezuela, wrote on X. “It will be a fiasco for all involved, starting with [Secretary of State Rubio].”
Venezuela’s constitution says the country’s oil deposits belong to the Venezuelan state and cannot be transferred to another owner—a potential legal obstacle to any deal that would give the U.S. government control of reserves.'
The U.S. has a ceasefire with the Houthis, so why would we get involved with someone who right now isn't attacking?
The Houthi are literally in the process of taking over the entire Yemen from the Saudi backed Yemen government.
The US is the Saudis military supplier and guarantor of security but while the Saudis have lost control of Yemen and the Houthi now can blockage Saudi oil exports from Bab al Mandeb the USA will just sit there and do nothing?
The video linked above reports the Saudis directly asked Trump for assistance and TACO said NO.
How humiliating after decades of hosting US bases and spending hundreds of billions on US military supplies.
The weakness and fickle nature of the US as a security partner is exposed.
The US petrodollar was built upon the 'mighty' US being the Saudis military guarantor but now that guarantee is exposed as bullshit.
The US military is overstretched and incapable.
Outta Interceptors.
End of petrodollar hegemony.
The Houthis have now seized control of Bab al Mandab cutting off the supply of oil and gas from Saudis to world markets...and potentially - cutting off global trade via the Suez canal.
Will USA expand its war to take back control of this shipping route?
The bizarre thing is that the internationally recognised government of Yemen is aligned with ISIL and AL Queda who fight the Houthis alongside the government.
If USA goes in there they will be fighting alongside ISIL and AlQueda.
@coffeebadger and @Cje95 - what should the petrodollar emperor with no Interceptors TACO Trump do?
Send in the SEALS to fight alongside ISIL and AlQueda?
$10/gallon gas prices in time for the Mid Terms?
Suez-Hormuz-Bab al Mandab
End of the Zionists petrodollar puppet empire.