Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead
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BREAKING: Attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East have caused the price of oil to skyrocket to a whopping Donald Trump raped children per barrel.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump is my President. He has lowered my taxes. He has raised the prices of commodities I sell.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Not exactly sure if you're joking or not, but I reject that on several levels.
Most importantly, AutoPen Joe Biden* was not my President.
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No he didn't. You're a poor boy who lives alone in a studio apartment.
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Gas prices are down by me today.
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Quote:Let's Talk About Fertilizer
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We don't need the Strait? Tell it to farmers
Paul Krugman | Mar 21, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-fertilizer
Of war, fertilizer, jet fuel, and force majeure.
Transcript (AI-generated)
So let’s talk for a few minutes about fertilizer. Fertilizer is not usually one of my things, but it’s important in what’s happening right now. And it’s also part of trying to understand just how big a mess we are in as a result of this unplanned, ill-conceived war.
So it’s Saturday, it’s been three weeks and one day since the bombing began. Donald Trump's story keeps changing. He is either going to apply force and devastate Iran. Or his job is done, and it’s up to other countries to reopen the Strait of Hormuz because we don’t rely on it, which turns out not to be true. The United States does not import significant amounts of crude oil coming through the Strait of Hormuz, but we do import fertilizer. Lots of things that are coming to light now that we’re facing the crisis.
The reason we are getting fertilizer, mostly from Qatar, is that the fertilizer is made from natural gas. Natural gas can be exported, is exported, in large quantities from the Persian Gulf, or was until this war began. That’s expensive. You have to liquefy it and ship it out through special terminals and special ships.
But the other thing you can do with the natural gas that’s available in the Persian Gulf area is convert it into fertilizer, which is a lot easier to ship.
And so a lot of the world’s fertilizer turns out to come from that area and normally gets shipped through the Strait. And the United States does import significant amounts of fertilizer. We import a large share of our fertilizer, and some of it from the Persian Gulf.
So this is having a direct impact on U.S. farmers. The price of urea is way, way up. And there’s something that I’ve recently been alerted to, which is quite scary. The planting season is coming up.
And the farmers have long since contracted for their fertilizer. They’ve already paid or at least signed the contracts. The prices are locked in. But will there actually be fertilizer available? It’s not at all hard to imagine that the suppliers will declare force majeure, say there’s a war on, which is normally a valid excuse for backing out of contracts, and simply fail to supply the fertilizer. That would be a real catastrophe.
By the way, there are other places where that’s going to matter. The price of jet fuel has risen by 88% since the crisis began. Airlines are talking about cutting back schedules.**
I’m as insulated as anybody can get from all of this, but Robin and I do have some travels planned starting in late April. A mixture of pleasure and business, and some of it we really need to be in certain places, and it seems entirely possible that flights will be canceled. You know, we may or may not receive compensation, which I don’t really care about, but just not being able to get to the places that I have promised to be would be a really serious disruption. Now this is trivial compared with farmers facing potential financial ruin, but this is just an illustration of the disruptions.
And of course, at a fundamental level, saying that because the United States doesn’t buy its oil from the Persian Gulf, that therefore we are insulated, that this doesn’t matter to us. I mean, take a look at your gas station. Gas prices are up about $1 a gallon since the war began.
Wholesale gas prices are up about $1.20 a gallon, so this is going to get worse. Diesel is up even more. So the fact that the United States actually produces more oil than it consumes is pretty much irrelevant.
I mean, the economy is people and most people in the United States are significantly adversely affected by the spillover from this war. Now, oil companies, particularly oil refiners, who seem to be seeing a big explosion i
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Let's Talk About Fertilizer
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Nah. You and Paul Krugman can talk about shit all you'd like.
It's all you both do everyday as it is.
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Just curious, brother...
Do you manually change my signature 10 times every day when you quote reply me with something irrelevant, or do you actually have a document that is open on your computer 24/7 where you can copy and paste that?
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Quote:All Trumptards I know have delusions of grandeur. Yours is right in the signature. Trump's delusion is multi-part, but if I had to boil it down to one word, it would be "competency." Ever since I picked up his book The Art of the Deal, which reeked of his incompetence at business in a way that no ghostwriter could completely remove the smell, I've known that about him:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Just curious, brother...
Do you manually change my signature 10 times every day when you quote reply me with something irrelevant, or do you actually have a document that is open on your computer 24/7 where you can copy and paste that?
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A Strategic Failure in Iran
By Jon Hoffman | March 20, 2026 11:24 AM
https://www.cato.org/blog/strategic-failure-iran
The Trump administration has led the United States into war with Iran, assuming it could secure a quick victory with limited costs. They were wrong. After more than two weeks of consistent bombing, new US intelligence suggests Iran’s regime is now consolidating power, unlikely to collapse, and led by a cadre more extreme than before. Despite this, Washington is deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, and Trump inches closer to a potential ground campaign inside Iran. It is time to face reality: tactical successes cannot mask what has quickly become another strategic failure in the Middle East.
There was no question whether the United States and Israel could inflict major damage on the Iranian regime and its military. It took them only 100 hours to drop more bombs than in the first six months of the US-led counter-ISIS campaign and less than 24 hours to assassinate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The war has certainly achieved discrete tactical successes aimed at weakening Tehran. Yet the central question has always been the strategic end such force is meant to achieve.
Here, the administration’s strategy is divorced from its ostensible aims. Among the many contradicting rationales floated by Washington to justify the attack, two have been most prominent: eliminating Iran’s nuclear program and effecting regime change in Tehran. Washington has achieved neither of these objectives, nor is it in a position to do so.
The Trump administration first claimed Iran’s nuclear program represented an imminent threat, necessitating military action. Trump insisted that Tehran was only two weeks away from a bomb just months after claiming to have “completely and totally” obliterated the program during Operation Midnight Hammer.
There is no credible evidence that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. Rafael Grossi, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed as much after the war began. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. According to Omani Foreign Minister and chief negotiator between the United States and Iran, Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi, Iran offered Washington notable concessions, some of which went beyond the guarantees stipulated in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which Trump scrapped in 2018.
There is now considerable evidence that Trump’s chief negotiators on the Iranian nuclear file—Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff—fundamentally misunderstood at least some of the technical issues at the heart of the dispute, undermining their ability to conduct informed negotiations. Assuming the administration was negotiating in good faith, it lacked the skills to do so effectively.
Airpower alone will not destroy Iran’s nuclear program—it is too widely dispersed and deep underground. Critically, Iran still possesses nearly 1,000 pounds of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) enriched to 60 percent purity, close to the 90 percent required for a weapon. US intelligence suggests that Iran is capable of reaching some of the HEU buried underneath the facilities bombed last June. Trump is now reportedly weighing sending US special f
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Iran’s willingness to escalate this high-stakes war is its greatest weapon
The regime will do whatever it takes to cling on to power – including sacrificing economies of other Gulf states
By Patrick Wintour | Sat 21 Mar 2026
Brinkmanship, the ability to take a country to the edge of war without plunging it into the abyss, was the cornerstone of cold war diplomacy. But in our different, more unstable times – in which the line between state and non-state actors has blurred, and weapons of war have diffused – the world this week finally tipped over the edge, and suddenly it is in freefall.
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The regime in Tehran, fighting for its survival, had long warned that if it were attacked it would retaliate by targeting American bases in the region. Yet Donald Trump, the US president, seemed surprised when it did so. Inured to decades of isolation and condemnation, Ali Khamenei, the late supreme leader, said at the beginning of February: “The Americans should know that if they start a war, this time it will be a regional war.”
Iran also said a new phase of the conflict would begin if its energy facilities were attacked. Ali Larijani, the assassinated Iranian security chief, set this out explicitly to the Gulf states and tried to persuade them that their national interest did not lie in siding with Israel. But he was being given “a martyr’s funeral” on Wednesday as Iran struck Ras Laffan. The crown jewel of Qatar, Ras Laffan – the world’s largest liquefied natural gas plant – may not reopen fully for five years, at a cost of $20bn a year.
The Iranian regime has no compunction about escalating the war. Indeed, its willingness to do so is its greatest weapon. An Iranian official warned this week: “Other playing cards have been designed that will enter the fray at the right time.” This is probably a reference to the Gulf’s desalination plants, the centre of the region’s fragile ecosystem.
Iran’s leadership, with nothing to lose, benefits from an asymmetric advantage of fear.
Much more at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/iran-war-conflict-middle
-east-trump-israel
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Going to war with Iran then immediately lifting sanctions on its oil to prevent U.S. economic collapse is the definition of strategic failure.
Based on recent reports, the scenario described reflects a situation where the United States, under a Trump administration in 2026, initiated a military conflict with Iran and subsequently eased oil sanctions on Iran to stabilize soaring domestic energy prices.
• Wartime Energy Crisis: The conflict in the Middle East, particularly surrounding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, caused oil prices to surge, as the region carries a significant portion of global oil.
• Reversal of "Maximum Pressure": To mitigate a potential “economic collapse" or recession in the US caused by high gas prices, the Treasury Department authorized the sale of Iranian oil that was already at sea, effectively easing sanctions previously designed to cripple Iran's energy exports.
• Strategic Dilemma: Critics, including US officials, criticized the move as a "strategic failure" and "shamefully stupid," arguing that it acts as a "financial lifeline" to an adversary, providing billions in revenue for a regime that is concurrently engaged in armed conflict with US forces.
• Controversy and Contradiction: Reports indicate this creates a situation where the US is simultaneously fighting a war against a nation while enabling that same nation's economy to stay afloat to prevent domestic economic pain in the US.
The situation is characterized by some analysts as a significant policy reversal, aiming to balance domestic economic stability (energy prices) against the strategic objective of crippling a combatant nation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-temporarily-lifts-sa
nctions-on-iranian-oil-at-sea/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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