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minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up106·1 month agoIran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz. There goes the worlds economy. 25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·1 month agoAnd then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 month agoShhhh! That’s supposed to be a secret plan!
minus-squareshplane@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoNo worries, I already read it from their Signal chat
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoI still don’t see that happening. Trump likes his popularity too much. Like, he’ll nuke Iran before he ever puts boots on the ground.
minus-squareAirowird@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoHe’s dying to use a nuke, just to put his name in history books.
minus-squaretorrentialgrain@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYou don’t need to invade to do that.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down1·1 month agoThey may try. There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 month agoWell, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoWho’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 month agoRussia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
minus-squareCarmakazi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·1 month agoRussia probably isn’t much of a concern right now. China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?
minus-squarevoodooattack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoExcept it won’t even be a proxy war since the US just struck directly
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agorussia does need a stable iran, for its drone deliveries. china provides iran with huwei tech.
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
minus-squareTransplantedSconie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThey won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
minus-squareDanquebec@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
minus-squareBreezy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·1 month agoPakistan, and they have nukes.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agochina helped them developed it in the cold war, as a buffer to india.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 month agoMuch of it is from Iran and destined for China. They won’t stop those exports.
Iran is going to close the Straight of Hormuz.
There goes the worlds economy.
25% of the worlds oil runs through there.
And then the Trump will invade Iran to open it citing it must remain open.
Shhhh! That’s supposed to be a secret plan!
No worries, I already read it from their Signal chat
I still don’t see that happening. Trump likes his popularity too much.
Like, he’ll nuke Iran before he ever puts boots on the ground.
He’s dying to use a nuke, just to put his name in history books.
You don’t need to invade to do that.
They may try.
There would be more than just the US and Israel bombing them if that happened, you just don’t fuck with international trade.
Well, yeah. It wouldn’t be WW3 without more dance partners.
Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
Russia and China both have defense treaties with Iran.
Russia probably isn’t much of a concern right now.
China…we wouldn’t overextend a conflict to the point where China gets involved, right? …Not again? …For the third time?
Except it won’t even be a proxy war since the US just struck directly
russia does need a stable iran, for its drone deliveries. china provides iran with huwei tech.
I expect China wouldn’t be happy about the Straight of Hormus being closed though.
They won’t be happy watching the dollar crash and the worlds economy being replaced by BRICS and finally being rid of the US as money police?
I may be wrong but I think China needs that straight open, mayb3 even more than the US do.
Pakistan, and they have nukes.
china helped them developed it in the cold war, as a buffer to india.
Much of it is from Iran and destined for China. They won’t stop those exports.