How are so many people falling for this horseshit? It feels like I'm going insane.

how many people have profited from stock market manipulations based on Trunk’s “unpredictability” ?

A strait closure through November would be apocalyptic. Iran would be the least of our worries by then.

Nothing is going back to normal, ever. Not even if Trump loses and gives up power (0% chance of that IMO though). The damage is already done, it just starts to multiply faster the longer this goes.

Will it? I think that's when the madness will really pick up steam!

Their best chance at making something happen is right now. Closing the strait (and associated gas prices) is killing Republicans. After midterms they lose that power because whatever happens already happened.

We don't know that the vote counts that were reported had ANYTHING to do with the votes that were cast.

I’m surprised “peace” is even on the wheel.

Art of the steal.

That's exactly the goal. This regime is extracting as much wealth as possible before they're removed.

it does seem to be about once a week.

The USA has been bombing Iran regularly over the past week. Iran has retaliated by bombing a US base in Kuwait. Since it's obvious that the US thinks it can keep bombing on a slow-burn schedule, Iran is escalating.

Meanwhile, Israel has been bombing world heritage sites in Tyre and moving across the Litani river.

Also, from Iran's perspective, now isn't a bad time to finally block Bab el-Mandeb. The United States can't really withdraw that much more from their SPRs, so the effect will be maximized. Meanwhile Europe is growing more hawkish on Russia, so upping the ante is the right move.

Of course, this will cause incredible suffering in Asia with trickle-down effects hitting the poor of the world the hardest.

Broke the ceasefire again and, more importantly, is refusing any deal which doesn't involve Iran losing all control of the strait and giving up its nuclear materials (neither of which are ever going to happen).

Same thing all the insider traders are thinking

Even worse, negotiations with US brings a high risk of being attacked. During negotiations, of course.

This gets glossed over too often, the US lacks any credibility, across the board. They’ve skipped right past the marrying your horse phase of civic collapse.

trump kept saying things are open, then they are not, then they are open, and now he says he doesnt care.

Art of fucking up the deal

They already had an agreement... until trump pulled out in his first term...

Hezbollah never agreed to no ceasefire