Trump says he bombed Iran

[Astyanax]

I wondered about building a canal across that peninsula, too.

That peninsula is divided between Oman and the Emirate of Ras al Khaimah. I’ve been there. A spur of mountains runs all the way along the Omani coast to the tip of the peninsula. Not a hope in hell of digging a canal through it.

[Astyanax]

Iran doesn't have a navy, an air force.

Then fear them the more: they won a war against the ‘global superpower’ in spite of that.
 

Their leadership has been blown up.

If that’s the case, who drew up the surrender document and gave it to the Americans to sign?
 

After 47 years, the bully just got bitch-slapped hard.

The last time the bully got bitch-slapped was in Afghanistan, just five years ago.
 

Finally, someone had the balls to use the stick, not just talk about it, and not just give carrots.

And got a bloody nose and a $300bn-plus bill for their pains.
 

They will say Iran won, US lost.

They’ll be telling the truth, then, won’t they?

Iran sends tankers loaded with oil past US military blockade

[Astyanax]

The industrial war machine obviously reached its highest level of development and lethality around 1945. Since then, it has demonstrated nothing but its obsolescence.

For all the grandiose claims of warmongering fools on either side of what used to be called the Iron Curtain, the record of their military adventures demonstrates a simple truth: short of genocide, modern technological warfare is ineffective, uneconomical and ultimately futile. How many times have the USSR/Russia and the United States been defeated by militias carrying small arms and homemade ordnance? Cheap drones and Toyota pickups have proven their military superiority over $100m jet fighters and main battle tanks time and time again.

The real forever wars of this world are conducted in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Both Russia’s Africa Corps and Western troops (primarily French) have been booted out of there, too. 

You can bomb people till there isn’t a wall standing in their towns: they will only resist you more ferociously than ever. And sooner or later, they will make you bleed so many lives and so much money you will cut and run.

The Age of Dinosaurs is over.

[andy06shake]

Oh so you believe the UN and congress,  kay.

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I would take their word before Dr Orange Jesus, who lies as a matter of fact... 

[CriticalStinker]

Oh so you believe the UN and congress,  kay.

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Everyone was saying their program was knocked back decades last summer. Completely obliterated.

[Orby]

If you remove fiscal interest, which causes inflation, you end investment, and usually, most business' profitability and incentive.

Imagine in your hypothetical token system, when everyone receives a fixed number of tokens, so the economy as a total only grows by population growth. No-one can add value. No amount of labor, or demand, or sales, or anything adds a whit to the economy. It just shifts the money around in circles but there is no growth, economically.

So interest, and therefore inflation, has a function. But if the economy free-wheels, interest can become too great - hyperinflation, or too small - recession and depression.

But the economy isn't some simple system, it is made up of the decisions and actions of millions of individual manufacturers, traders, dependents and consumers, so no one authority is really in control of economies.

So, economic theorists have come up with all sorts of ideas about how to balance and control the variables of the economy - what they imagine are the levers and buttons that do things to the great machine, but in truth, they can't even agree with each other. It is all too complex for mere humans (and their machines).

Thanks for that Chrono I must admit it's a bit over my head. If I had any intelligence when I was younger (which is debateable) I certainly lost it somewhere around the turn of the millenium. Love you forever

[Kurokage]

It looks like Trump is going to be handing over a lot of money!?

[andy06shake]

[andy06shake]

It looks like Trump is going to be handing over a lot of money!?

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Im sure Iran will give him some magic beans for his troubles... 

Jokes aside, you have to hope something gets signed that puts an end to the madness.

[DennisR6]

After reading the 14 points of whatever I have come to the conclusion that A. this was thrown together last minute and we just agreed to what Iran wants B. That's a bunch of dough offered to Iran by Trump.