Frank wrote on Jun 27
th, 2026 at 7:49am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jun 27
th, 2026 at 7:01am:
Diaper Don's MOU is going well.
The US military conducted strikes on Friday against Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz in response to Tehran’s Thursday attack against a commercial vessel near the key waterway, according to US Central Command. No good? Just let the mullahs get away with attacking commercial vessels?
No good. Your DL's handling of this one has set his own middle eastern agenda back decades.
Jared's Saudi sovereign wealth fund is down. The region is over the black humour of the Abraham accords. After Iran destroyed many of their oil and gas plants, no one's laughing anymore.
The big money's focussed on new pipelines, a luxury only the Saudis and Emiratis have the territory to build. Everybody else needs to build long-term regional alliances get their oil out. For Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar, that would mean putting their entire economies in the hands of MBS - for generations.
This places even more power with your Wahabist friends. On the other side of the Strait lies the mullahs, newly monetized. If the MOU goes through, they'll be back in the global economy, exporting oil, investing freely and moving cash around to fund their proxies. Whatever happens from here on in empowers the mullahs most of all.
When the dust settles, this will go down as a bigger disaster than Nam - the biggest foreign policy blunder the US has ever made.
One thing we know, old boy - if you're on board, it
has to fail. Every move you've supported - from the invasion of Iraq to Brexit to DL - ends in disaster.
Always absolutely never ever.
Vietnam and Cambodia are not exporting communist ideology, they are exporting fridges and cars.
The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact are gone.
You are never more than 5Ks from a Bahn Mi.
The Mullahs have presided over he total economic devastation of Iran (regardles of any military strikes). This cannot last.
Yes, messianic Islamism is an even more crazy ideology than Marxism-Leninism - and that's why the regine won't last.
and cars or whatever.