Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

[gleick@mas.to]

@gregatron5 Take your tiresome harangue elsewhere. Don’t drag me into your crusade.

[martinicat@mastodon.social]

@gleick Very similar to the Joseph Heller novel Catch 22

[tasket@mas.to]

@gleick This is a project to shift Europe (e.g. white nations) back to imperialism. That's why mine sweepers were sent away from the region and Iran's oil refineries were bombed: Create a surge in energy prices for Europe and force them to go abroad and take what they want.

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@gleick Unimaginable, unbelievable, yet true.

"The entire post-1973 petrodollar deal was simple: Gulf sells oil in dollars, America provides the security umbrella. The umbrella is on fire. The refineries are on fire. ... The petrodollar was already the payment..."

And yet, according to this blog, the US is now paying for oil in Yuan to quiet the situation down.

If that is true, the humiliation is complete.

[alexblock@ottawa.place]

@gleick My head exploded reading the final paragraph...

[spdrnl@sigmoid.social]

@tasket @gleick Yes, the war on Iran is indeed turning "up the heat" in Europe.

And governments are not even asking to turn down the heating.

Or will Europe become a Russian vazal state?

@bert_hubert

[hllizi@hespere.de]

@gleick Who could blame them? I think I myself sometimes attempted such daring missions when playing Command & Conqueror.

[tasket@mas.to]

@spdrnl @gleick @bert_hubert Yep, Trumpists want to wrest Russia from China's orbit, and regime change in Europe (putting extractive industries on a pedestal) is one of their goals for achieving that. No more EU (Four Freedoms, Precautionary Principle, Human Rights); it would be a zone dominated by Russia and US.

Look at how US regime is allowing Iran to keep bombing other fuel facilities and ships in the region. Instead of targeting missile launchers they're destroying fuel infra in tandem.

[cmdrmoto@hachyderm.io]

@spdrnl @gleick Complete? No, no, I’m sorry to report we’re scheduled for at least three more years of humiliation. As long as agent #Krasnov and his cronies are designated leaders instead of inmates, their victims will be subject to ever worse depredation.

[goss@c.im]

@gleick Holy shit ...

[kristen_d@mastodon.social]

@gleick
"The logic, insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market so hard that the administration needs the enemy’s oil to keep gasoline prices from eating the midterms. They are unsanctioning the people they’re bombing because the bombing is working too well at the thing they didn’t want it to do."

[gregatron5@vmst.io]

@gleick My apologies. I can see that the way I phrased it could be offensive.

What's a better way to preface the question “Could you please post content about your anti-fascism crusade on a platform that doesn't openly support fascism”?

[joy_intl@mastodon.online]

@gleick Holy .....
- what I kept repeating while reading..

Quote: "This is a clusterfuck of historic proportions and everyone who's ever held a rank knows it."

Accurate.

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@gleick Xi Jing Ping once officially said that he's gonna take Taiwan without a bullet shot> he seem to be right on course here.