Really a humiliating time for America in general.

There’s also a broader implication here.

If the US ever goes to war with China (by necessity it choice), for the foreseeable future all China has to do is have their ally choke off the strait of Hormuz and the US will crumple in months.

The reason the US is surrendering is because they are about to lose oil production capacity domestically; they hit the threshold of not enough oil to pressurize domestic pipelines.

That happened because they never filled the strategic reserve, and lashed out at any price increases, and bragged about how they can now sell so much extra oil now.

So any conflict with China will utterly destroy the US (and world) economy. The US is too far into late stage capitalism to ween off oil, so they’re fucked by their own choices.

The US is now officially unable to combat China.

I dunno, Vietnam and Afghanistan were pretty embarrassing too but just on a longer timeline

Yes. And they will because Lebanon is still in this deal and Netanyahu has ALL the Epstein files anf no desire to leave Lebanon

Just to be sure, this only concerns nuclear energy, not bombs.

He has so many footnotes by his name now, we may have run out of conventional symbols to use, and now have emojis for some of his exceptions to a typical President.

He most likely is being paid off.

9/11 was the first sacking of Rome

This is the second sacking?

Soon will we see Trump pleading for a foreign emperor to save him from having his powers stripped away...?

I mean, they do have a right to a nuclear program. At least as much of a right as France or South Korea or Israel, anyway.

I fucking wish the Republican Congress would have stood by and done nothing, rather than green lighting trillions of dollars in war funding that made the nightmare of the last three months possible.

Not only that, he has to eradicate it. Just "my way or the highway" it.

Everything Obama or Biden did he says was dumb or horribly done because he didn’t personally enrich himself by holding parts of it hostage or using parts of it to harm others and then extort them, and then inexplicably get into business with them later in some land development deals. Every time he says Obama did something stupid, it means he’s going to destroy it, rebuild and rebrand it and make himself and his buddies money off it, expecting his buddies to wash some of the govt proceeds used in the deal to funnel to himself and his family.

That'd be fuckin amazing if they did

Maybe the offered him another FIFA peace prize

This is one of the greatest military, economic, diplomatic, and political fuck ups of all time

Can you lose a war if it isn't over yet?

Trump: "Uncle! Uncle! We've had enough!"

Bibi: "the fuck we have?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" bombs Lebanon anyways

Surrendered, and paid $300B for the privilege

It's just nuclear energy, though.

The point is that the electric is cover for the military use of Uranium. Or so was the logic of previous foreign policy.

To be clear, I'm just a messenger here. Not saying its right.

iran should have weapons too though. the terrorist states have them, why not iran?

And Ukraine.

"So if we give up our nukes you'll recognise our territory and protect us against the russians?"
"Sure, of course"
"Ok, we'll do it."
{russians attack}
"The russians are attacking. Protect us!"
"Yeah, about that ..."

I feel like Polymarket is relatively small potatoes. Who's been benefiting from the high oil prices? non-gulf oil producers. Whoever controls that oil has been making real bank. I don't know which all countries are major exporters, but I know a few of them are Russia, the US, and the US's newest puppet state, Venezuela.

Hax.

• Get a bunch of fools who are easily parted with their money to hang off your every word.

• Permit unregulated gambling on things you can control the outcome of.

• Start a war that nobody wants. Tell your fools it will be quick and easy and victorious.

• Fools go and bet on the war en masse.

• Tell a few rich friends that you're forfeiting.

• Profit.

"Art of the deal" is just magic tricks. He wants you to look at his hands to forget about the whole child sex trafficking thing...but did you notice the moonwalking bear?

Took attention off him running a pedo ring w/ Epstein, including some murders of girls and of Epstein himself

The point is... the whole reason the US lost the war and failed so abysmally at is also now the reason the US went to war in the first place (which the US then lost and failed abysmally at).