Here are the greetings sent flying on the drones to Moscow today:
1. "Moscow never sleeps. 2.0."
2. "Muscovites, hitch up your horses. Looks like the gas is all gone!"
3. "To set Moscow on fire..."
4. "Moscow, start lining up at the gas stations! Warm regards from the gentlemen and ladies of the 1st USF Special Center."
Even good journalists like J Blas have an unhealthy obsession with POTUS.
You know who is more critically impacted by lower gas prices today, tomorrow, and every day until November?
The US consumer.
CHART OF THE DAY: US gasoline average retail price drops below $4 per gallon for the first time since late March (to $3.999).
Gasoline remains expensive vs pre-war levels, but politically, the fact the first digit of the price is now a 3 is very important for Donald Trump.
All the talking heads hyperventilated when POTUS unleashed an air campaign against Iran hyperventilated about the assumed imminent American boots on the ground only to hyperventilate again when POTUS ended the air campaign.
Likewise, the Iranians will not forget that crossing red lines has consequences. Ayatollah Jr. can ask his dad or Nicolas Maduro about consequences.
@MKhamenei_ir just in case, here is contact info for the latter: https://t.co/HbRm6JZnOE
Only the American TDS brain can conclude that Iran “won”.
Wars and consequences of wars are not evident on X when the ink is barely dry.
The countries attacked by Iran will not simply forget about it.
EXCLUSIVE: The United Arab Emirates is working on a highly ambitious plan to try to end its dependence on the Strait of Hormuz.
“We’re moving toward having zero Hormuz dependency and that’s regardless of whether it’s open or not,” the UAE’s Minister of Foreign Trade Thani Al Zeyoudi told me. “It’s going to open and we hope that will happen quickly, but we will not stop the new plan.”
#UAE #IranWar #Iran
https://t.co/kYhFFUy1Rt
@GavinSBaker@IiiRicher China stopped imports & clearly there was a lot of dark oil moving the entire time.
But the factor you did not mention which made otherwise smart people hyperventilate & assume the worst: TDS.
This time, a smiling Sergey Lavrov is not part of the negotiations.
This time, the Iranians know if Trump approved killing the Ayatollah, he is not to be f*cked with.