Trump says he bombed Iran

[cherokeetroy]

"Iraq says its oil ports have completely stopped operations after Iranian attacks on crude tankers"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/o.../106446794

"President Trump authorized the Department of Energy to release 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, beginning next week. This will take approximately 120 days to deliver based on planned discharge rates."

https://www.energy.gov/articles/united-s...um-reserve

[Bush Master]

Funny how we would love to help minesweep the Gulf so China can obtain oil, but the four dedicated ships with fiberglass hulls are on a mega barge off the US East Coast heading for scrap.

Trump is SOOOOOO stupid! 

Thankfully the US is a net oil exporter, so we'll be a-ite.

[cherokeetroy]

"49% of the world's urea exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Urea is the most-used nitrogen fertilizer on Earth. The Haber-Bosch process turns natural gas into ammonia, ammonia into urea, and urea into food. It alone is responsible for feeding ~4 billion people. Half the nitrogen atoms in your body were placed there by this reaction. Qatar's largest urea plant has already shut down. Prices are up 35% in one week. The spring planting window in the Northern Hemisphere is right now. Nitrogen has to be applied at a specific point in the growing cycle. Miss it and the yield loss is permanent for that season. The same 21-mile chokepoint that cut off naphtha to five chemical plants last week is now cutting off the nitrogen that grows our food."

https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2031945293009490124?s=20

[IDELB2006]

"49% of the world's urea exports pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Urea is the most-used nitrogen fertilizer on Earth. The Haber-Bosch process turns natural gas into ammonia, ammonia into urea, and urea into food. It alone is responsible for feeding ~4 billion people. Half the nitrogen atoms in your body were placed there by this reaction. Qatar's largest urea plant has already shut down. Prices are up 35% in one week. The spring planting window in the Northern Hemisphere is right now. Nitrogen has to be applied at a specific point in the growing cycle. Miss it and the yield loss is permanent for that season. The same 21-mile chokepoint that cut off naphtha to five chemical plants last week is now cutting off the nitrogen that grows our food."

https://x.com/Gaurab/status/2031945293009490124?s=20

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This is what happens when you fill your war department with talk show hosts and yes men.

Mission accomplished.

[David64]

If anyone takes the time to read the full article, you'll see fertilizer shortages and rising prices are nothing new. Yes, the war with Iran has made it worse, but by no means is the root cause.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2026/0312/...z?icid=rss
 

“Had we gotten on the phone before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran,” Mr. Linville says, “I would have told you we still had supply problems, globally speaking.”
Making matters worse, the American fertilizer market had effectively frozen in the months before the war began – not because of shortages per se, but because of farmers and retailers playing wait-and-see.
Mr. Lillibridge knows this well. As fertilizer prices climbed steadily over the past couple of years, corn prices did not. Unable to pencil out a profit, farmers refused to lock in purchases. Retailers, unwilling to risk being caught holding expensive inventory if prices fell, declined to build up their stocks.
Corn growers like Mr. Lillibridge also insist current shortages are not simply because of the current crisis.
 He says the primary problem has been the consolidation of agricultural suppliers – seed, fertilizer, and chemical companies – into a handful of dominant players with no meaningful competition.
“We’ve been working very hard and trying to have transparency into why costs keep rising,” says Mr. Lillibridge. “And there is no transparency. If we had enforced antitrust laws over the last 40 years, our house would be in order. Our house is not in order.”

[Vermilion]

Funny how we would love to help minesweep the Gulf so China can obtain oil, but the four dedicated ships with fiberglass hulls are on a mega barge off the US East Coast heading for scrap.

Trump is SOOOOOO stupid! 

Thankfully the US is a net oil exporter, so we'll be a-ite.

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded.

USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this."

These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade"

And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that.

"We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing.

"Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour.

https://x.com/lamps_apple/status/2031572371786670564

[andy06shake]

This is what happens when you fill your war department with talk show hosts and yes men.

Mission accomplished.

That's three ships aflame by the look of it.

But according to Trump, the Strait of Hormuz is safe as houses.




Additionally, the first week of America's war with Iran has cost them $6 billion.

And the reality is that an unconditional surrender is not on the table.

How long the debacle will last is simply undetermined.

[SomeStupidName]

Ever been here?

Trump is not exactly popular.

I have, saw the chalk horses and everything. He's probably more popular than you think. As I understand it your country citizens have lost their right to freely express themselves without government persecution.

[Astyanax]

No.

Cat got your tongue?

I understand. Unlike some of the more simpleminded ideologues who congregate here, you have brains enough to understand what has happened. 

Don & Bibi’s Excellent Adventure has bombed, and not the way they think. US-sponsored regime change has succeeded only in replacing one Ayatollah Khamenei with another. Even as your windbag of a President declares victory, Iran continues to fulfil its strategic objectives The Straits of Hormuz remain closed. Iranian drones and missiles continue to blast targets in the Gulf and in Israel. The Iranians, amazingly, have won.

No wonder you haven't got a word to say for yourself. Can’t say I sympathise, but I do understand.

[andy06shake]

As I understand it your country citizens have lost their right to freely express themselves without government persecution.

Then you don't understand it.

UK citizens have the right to free speech under the Human Rights Act of 1998.

But we have laws against hate speech, incitement to violence, defamation, or terrorism-related speech.

You can say as you please, as long as you are not trying to incite hate or violence towards others.