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If Russia was going to do anything it would have done so right at the start of the war. They cannot afford to be at a war with NATO, even without the US they would get flattened

Why are will the right wing dictators starting wars and then losing them?

Under the Trump administration I don’t think he will have any problems with not registering.

Yeah because the Japanese are known for being lenient?

It’s not humans that are the problem, it’s specific individuals that are the problem. Basically it’s like 12 people.

I heard Obama flew one of the planes.

People like him do exist in other countries. But without a cult of personality they don’t really achieve very much, and no one can do cults like the US.

The MEGA equivalents in other countries are actually having a bit of a problem because everyone can see a live demonstration of what their policies would actually look like, and no one likes it.

Given the fact that he also wanted to approach China for support I think him actually attempting to get consensus would have been more chaotic than the current timeline.

There’s been enough blue on blue action as it is without trying to get nations who don’t really like each other to work together

I didn’t say that it’s not having an effect, I said the effect is not as bad right now as it is for the US because the US doesn’t have access to its oil reserves well actually it does have access to its oil reserves but the administration won’t use it because there’s hardly any left but it amounts to the same thing.

There isn’t even “a nuclear issue” that’s just a made-up nonsense story from the White House with absolutely no basis in fact.

Does Iran want to develop nuclear weapons, well probably. Are they developing nuclear weapons, no.
So what’s the problem?

In terms of a country likely to develop illicit nuclear weapons I would be much more concerned Israel ramping up their supply but surprise surprise Trump doesn’t think that’s a concern.

The United States itself is well outside weapons range, it’s not even clear that they could hit Northern Europe, (Cyprus is the most northernly target they’ve hit so far) so this war is only happening because the US has military forces in the region. If they just left, the war would end, by necessity.

The economic situation will force Trump to negotiate with Iran or the general public will lynch him. Iran’s big problem is that the Americans are attacking them so if they stopped doing that and went away Iran could spin it as a victory and Trump can just lie about it and claim that Iran gave massive concessions which never happened. It’s not like MAGAs will fact check.

Yes but the thing about countries that are not the US is they’re not affected by prices in the US. That’s why I said that we’re basing prices on the oil reserve that we have. Obviously that can’t last forever but if there is one thing Trump is famous for it’s giving up when things get marginally difficult.

Fuel prices aren’t going up at the moment because we have reserves. It’s likely that Trump will give up before those run out in 6 months time, so why risk the assets?

I lose nothing by asking out Angelina Jolie but she’s going to say no and I’m going to look like a twit.

There isn’t a lot of reason for any world leaders to help Trump at the moment. Our strategic oil reserves had some oil in them, it’s always a good idea to make sure you have lots of reserve oil before attacking an petrostate, so we can just sit it out for a couple of months.

Also it takes time to ready a naval fleet they’re not just sitting around on the off chance that some despotic old fart causes an international incident for literally no reason at all.

So between taking the time to equip and it being strategically advantageous to hold off for a while no one’s coming to help any time soon. Also the war is extremely unpopular with the public so there’s not a lot of reason for international politicians to damage their reputations, it’s not like Trump would be grateful.

If Trump doesn’t TACO in the next 6 months then maybe there will be some ships.

Yes but reality and Trump have never been comfortable bedfellows. He claimed that Iran’s entire naval fleet had been completely wiped out and it turns out it was just one ship they sunk. And now the world’s most powerful military are apparently unable to secure a patch of water about 20 miles across.

He can’t afford to fold. He’s close to finished as it is, siding with trump would be the last straw.

He’s just listing the countries he can remember. It would be interesting to see China working alongside anyone.

We don’t have any ships anyway because the prior government gutted the military, just because. They’re looking very stupid right now.

It turns out that non of the military powers are much of a threat.

The thing is there is no support for a war so leaders are very reluctant to be seen siding with the US. Even the right wing voters don’t want this.