IRAN WAR Catch-All

[BlueSmoke]

Wow. U.A.E. is leaving OPEC so they can ramp up exports because of the price of oil? Now how are they going to export that extra oil? The pipeline to the oil Port outside the Gulf can only handle so much. Most likely they are being pragmatic and cutting a deal with Iran.

This just shows that enough money going to Iran will open the Strait up.

 

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[TurdFerguson]

They want us to open it when they are the ones that have closed it?

 

[dukeman92]

 

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[superrific]

Speaking only for myself— I’ve long thought (ie, over the last decade or so) that our current and continuing/advancing state of decline on multiple fronts has made us increasingly susceptible to military attacks from Russia and China.

While I admit that my initial thoughts ran to physical boots/boats combat, I’ve become convinced that that level of intervention likely wouldn’t be necessary in the near term—however, it might become an eventuality as a mode of finalizing the job.

Military attacks? Yes. Attacks involving munitions on Earth? Very doubtful, to put it mildly.

 

[superrific]

Wow. U.A.E. is leaving OPEC so they can ramp up exports because of the price of oil? Now how are they going to export that extra oil? The pipeline to the oil Port outside the Gulf can only handle so much. Most likely they are being pragmatic and cutting a deal with Iran.

This just shows that enough money going to Iran will open the Strait up.

I think it's more this:

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Politics Post in thread 'The economics of OPEC and the UAE'

Today at 11:23 AM

So what is the big takeaway here? We have a signal from a very sophisticated oil producing nation telling us that it expects the price of oil to steadily decrease.

That is, the UAE believes -- I think -- that fossil fuel dependence globally will be decreasing sharply. Perhaps only a little in the short term, but very much in the middle term and even more in the long term.

In other words, Trump might very well have done more for the cause of renewable than any US president ever. Not by intent, of course. He's so stupid and incompetent that he has managed to completely undermine his...

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[Wheels81]

“A big, strong Iranian man came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, ‘Sir, we’re in a state of collapse. Please help us. You’re the only one who can.’”