This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
@MichaelAArouet It won’t stay closed, but Iran will charge a levy to every ship to make back the cost of the war inflicted on them by the USA. As USA doesn’t rely on the strait as much as the rest of the world, Trump couldn’t give a shit about the impact.
@KobeissiLetter Classic smoke and mirrors from Trump. He will get Arab countries to agree to pay, but in the background USA will be paying them, because optically him admitting USA is paying for the damage it inflicted will finish him (even though us is practically done already)
Back in May 2024 before the U.S elections a Beijing-based historian named Jiang Xueqin predicted THREE massive things that sounded insane at the time... but two have already hit:
1. Trump will win the 2024 elections.
2. The United States will go to war against Iran.
3. The United States will LOSE this war which will forever change the global order.
@thereal536@mdoty30@larryelder@JudyDh303 …but the slave owners were reimbursed for their losses (no reparations for slaves) and then they went about colonising other countries to maintain their riches by looting the riches in the countries.
@thereal536@mdoty30@larryelder@JudyDh303 Nonsense. some tribal leaders captured and sold off other tribe members, rarely their own. And just because they did this, it doesn’t diminish the horrific institutional race based slave trade Europeans created. A minority of white people did tremendous work to abolish slavery…
“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24
“I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24
The US and Israel are unlikely to win this war, not only because Iran’s response has already proven qualitatively different from previous confrontations, but because their stated strategic objectives are so maximalist that to call this an existential war doesn't do it it justice. What they have launched is a state-annihilating campaign, and that ambition sets a strategic bar too high to conceivably achieve.
Trump has openly called for regime change and the complete demilitarization of Iran, not merely the dismantling of its nuclear program, but the elimination of its missile program, that is, its defensive capabilities. Israeli officials, meanwhile, are declaring that "We are attacking the entire Iranian political and military leadership — past, present and future". This type of language suggests that what they are demanding even transcends surrender within a new Epstein-genocidal order, whereby Iran could continue to exist as a state. What they are calling for isn't just for Iran to stop being an Islamic revolutionary republic, but for Iran to stop being a state altogether and, by denying it the capability to defend itself, to ever reconstitute itself as a state in the future.
Iran today is not just asserting its right to defend itself, or even its right to defend Palestine and sustain the resistance project as a whole, but the right of all states and peoples to control their territories and freely determine their destinies.
Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.