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I didn't say that it's not having an effect, I said the effect is not as bad right now as it is for the US because the US doesn't have access to its oil reserves well actually it does have access to its oil reserves but the administration won't use it because there's hardly any left but it amounts to the same thing.

The economic situation will force Trump to negotiate with Iran or the general public will lynch him. Iran's big problem is that the Americans are attacking them so if they stopped doing that and went away Iran could spin it as a victory and Trump can just lie about it and claim that Iran gave massive concessions which never happened. It's not like MAGAs will fact check.

How much does it cost to flatten peanuts?

Those people need therapy because that's not normal way of thinking. If you're miserable in a relationship what's the point in staying in the relationship?

I hate people like this because they're just miserable on purpose.

My partner doesn't like Marmite and I do. Solution, I buy Marmite and she doesn't eat it.

Just buy the peanut butter you like, as well.

You're yawning? You're the one that brought it up.

No there isn't. There's lots of ways you can shoehorn NFTs in, but it's always a poor fit. People always try and claim that NFTs will solve some sort of problem that is already solved with existing technology.

There is no problem NFTs can solve that can't also be implemented much more cheaply and effectively with an SQL database from the 90s.

Fuel prices aren't going up at the moment because we have reserves. It's likely that Trump will give up before those run out in 6 months time, so why risk the assets?

I lose nothing by asking out Angelina Jolie but she's going to say no and I'm going to look like a twit.

There isn't a lot of reason for any world leaders to help Trump at the moment. Our strategic oil reserves had some oil in them, it's always a good idea to make sure you have lots of reserve oil before attacking an petrostate, so we can just sit it out for a couple of months.

Also it takes time to ready a naval fleet they're not just sitting around on the off chance that some despotic old fart causes an international incident for literally no reason at all.

So between taking the time to equip and it being strategically advantageous to hold off for a while no one's coming to help any time soon. Also the war is extremely unpopular with the public so there's not a lot of reason for international politicians to damage their reputations, it's not like Trump would be grateful.

If Trump doesn't TACO in the next 6 months then maybe there will be some ships.

Yes but reality and Trump have never been comfortable bedfellows. He claimed that Iran's entire naval fleet had been completely wiped out and it turns out it was just one ship they sunk. And now the world's most powerful military are apparently unable to secure a patch of water about 20 miles across.

He can't afford to fold. He's close to finished as it is, siding with trump would be the last straw.