Telemark
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That's why I'm generally a week or two behind everyone on global events. I tend to ignore the news and wait for geopolitical analysts to digest it all.
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Conspiracy theorys, where do you stand?
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That's why I'm generally a week or two behind everyone on global events. I tend to ignore the news and wait for geopolitical analysts to digest it all.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
It might get there. So far, we're giving the regime a chance to change its ways. The more.peaceful and stable the transition, the better it is for everyone. There are a lot of reformers in the Iranian government who see the need for change but want to avoid revolution. Revolution is the purview of fanatics, and that's the last thing Iran needs. We see how it went last time.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
Even if it's not true, it great news for the good guys. It helps foment anti-Russia sentiment and supports the narrative that Russia and her allies are the bad guys.
Westwind
5 year old buck +
The PDB is on YouTube and Apple Podcasts and other podcast apps.
The Rest Is Classified is on podcast apps, I listen on Apple.
A few of the podcasts I like are streaming on both audio and YouTube but I just like something I can listen to when I’m doing something else.
Was the US revolution under the purview of fanatics? It’s perspective, and I personally believe there are more people in Iran who want freedom than not. What they don’t have is a way to make it happen by force…..and force is the only thing the bearded goat-humpers understand.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
You don't understand the differences between the American revolution in 1776 and the Iranian revolution in 1979?
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Telemark
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Most of the Iranians I've met are doctors and engineers. I used to date an Iranian woman who is now a doctor. It's a fascinating country full of culture.and history. My ex and I used to talk about Zoroastrianism and Nietzsche over a meal of homemade Persian food, and I would ask her about her country and what life was like there.
I get the impression that there are millions of amazing people there who just want a normal life. Unfortunately, there are also millions of hateful Islamists who have been in control for decades, and they are a formidable force. There are factions within the government that want to ease restrictions on the people and open up the country. But there are also factions that want to commit genocide against the Jews and spread the Islamic revolution across the globe.
Iran is basically the remnants of the Persian empire. There are different groups living together, and they are ancient cultures. Progress and cooperation are difficult but not impossible. The most effective way to keep things stable is through force, which is why the Iranian regime set up it's armed forces to control the people within Iran. It's difficult to see a situation where a revolution of any kind could succeed.
I think Iran's best bet is to get the liberal politicians into power and push out the conservatives and hardliners. This could satisfy Israel, as long as Iran drops its nuclear ambitions and starts to modernize its thinking. Saudi Arabia is experiencing this kind of shift now under MBS. It will take generations to achieve a modern society, if they ever get there at all, and the government would likely never be able to give up its tight control over the population, though it could relax restrictions a bit, especially regarding women's rights.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Bessent said today they may unsanction Russian oil.
Also Qatar said exports will stop from all OPEC countries until oil is $150/barrel. $5 gas is likely coming, the reasons why are still up for debate and history will be the judge.
Yes, it can and is likely true. It seems to have been a goal in Michigan also. Where does the big money go? Are those schools doing better academically?
Positive academic results is not the goal.
Taking down the zealots in I ran may actually allow the Muslim religion to actually integrate into the 21st century and be a peaceful religion.
Here's hoping.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
What have you been reading? I read some things with similar words, but a very different message.
Qatar said that oil producers in the conflict zone might need to cease production, which could drive oil prices to $150 a barrel.
I read it as a warning to the US and Israel that the security situation is tenuous, so please come park anti-missile systems near Gulf state refineries. And move more escort ships into the Straight of Hormuz to protect tankers.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
Here is the headline.
Yeah, basically 20% of the world's oil production is f'd so we have to consider taking sanctions off the oil of the country who is helping the nation we just invaded. Wild times. Buckle up.
Yeah, basically 20% of the world's oil production is f'd so we have to consider taking sanctions off the oil of the country who is helping the nation we just invaded. Wild times. Buckle up.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
we should take those goat molesters oil too.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Ukraine was never our problem. But it's worth discussing. If you haven't watched it yet, you should really watch Oliver Stone's documentary on Ukraine. I'm not asking you to believe anything he's saying, but do some of your own research after it.
The Russians had every right to go into Ukraine and blow the zionist-backed Nazis to kingdom come to stop the genocide in the Donbas, to level every illegal bioweapons lab that the western deep state, the bidens, and metabiota had there. We attacked them first in 2014 when Yanukovych refused to sign onto a trade pact with the EU, and instead did business with their next door neighbor, and ethnic brothers and sisters.
And being anti-intervention isn't radical, at least I don't think so.
Jerry-B-WI
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Where is the 440-460 kilos of enriched uranium Iran is supposed to have? Who will be the caretaker of said uranium after the present regime falls?
Bill
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US boots on the ground.
Before that I say keep training our guys and gals in the Air, Ocean and back rooms on computers. I don’t like the Gov wasting my tax dollars. But I’ll take this over a learing center any day.
This is payback for 1979 and I’m all in.
Westwind
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Russia invaded a sovereign country which is the first such invasion in Europe since WW2. “Zionist backed Nazi’s?” Zionists don’t “back Nazis”. They throw a hood over their heads, throw them in a white van and then put them on trial. Or they kill them. Zelenski (I never know how to spell that) is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust so there’s that.
Ah, but it is. And Polands problem and Finlands problem and even those Germans who used to like to invade other countries. Because if war breaks out in Eastern Europe eventually we will have to act. Y’know, fighting evil, communism, defending our largest trading partner, stuff like that. Putin wants Ukraine. He wants ALL of Ukraine. And every former Soviet state. That is what he wants. The old KGB officer wants to put the Soviet Union back together.
Oh the bioweapons lab. Sounds scary except the Russians are the main ones who like to use Chem/bio. The good news is they MOSTLY liked to use it on their own dissidents and former spies who defected. The Brits don’t care for that much since so much of it happens in Londongrad. Pure Russian disinformation. And nice guys- Novachok is a slow, painful way to die. Plus- the bioweapons claim is Russian propoganda and was completely disproven.
This is also debunked. I have met a lot of Ukrainians. They all speak Ukrainian and Russian. I never know if I’m talking to a Ukrainian or a Russian pretending to be a Ukrainian. Of course, you glossed over the part here Russians killed Ukrainians and relocated Russians to this region in the Soviet years. Nice guys, those Soviets.
He was a Putin puppet. There were protests by the Ukrainian people and he was run out of town. Well actually he was voted out because Ukraine is a democracy. We like democracies. So much we start wars over it.
Neville Chamberlin is in da house.
Also- The Russians are assisting the goddamn IRGC with targeting Americans in the ME. I’m starting to think they don’t want peace in Europe or the Middle East, lol. Nuclear powers cant fight each other. Too much chance of escalation. Thats where all this proxy bs started. I guess thats why Biden took such a Lilly livered approach in Ukraine which we will all live to regret. It’s damn complicated.
Yes. Man, I don’t know what it is. We might be past it but they didn’t ask me. I’m damn worried. This is pretty bold. I hope it turns out well.
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Westwind
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Pickaxe mountain. We didn’t bunker bust it last summer. Too deep. This is speculation, no one knows.
