Fill your gas tanks and stock up on anything else that retailers can invent a reason to price gouge. Look for countries like China to drop petrodollar usage.
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I hope this becomes another Vietnam. I hope others help Iran like others have helped Ukraine. I assume that the US military has lost a lot of expertise with the purge of non loyalists… I would love to see the US military bled dry by this war like Russia has been with Ukraine. Weakened and humiliated, the United States would cease to be the “leader of the free world” and take its new place as a big-but-fucked-up country that nobody holds in any kind of high esteem. I say this as an American. I am ashamed of my country and its people.
I know it's not what you meant when you made the comparison, but the US-Vietnam war was also devastating for millions of Vietnamese civilians. Unfortunately, that is also likely going to be the case in Iran.
Oh yes, of course. There are no winners in a war among the regular citizens. But it’s coming regardless and I just hope that the US takes a fucking devastating shot to the ribs that it never recovers from. It may save the free world.
Desth to any american terrorists chosing murder over jail
That hasn't been a thing for decades.
Trump is “spending a lot of time thinking about this.”
Press 'x' to doubt. When has he ever thought about anything, let alone at length? Dude is pure id.
I mean he’s sure been sleeping on it.
Shhh! Lol