I don't wanna jinx this, but this very well could be the first time Trump cannot wriggle his way out of a jam. All his "we won in the first hour" speeches are his attwmpt to manifest this wriggling, but I don't think it's gonna work this time.
Anything less than total and unilateral dropping of all sanctions against Iran is selling themselves short.
through the Suez
damn, sure would be unfortunate if a plucky little group of chill guys decided to block the other strait that allows access to the Suez from the Gulf... nah that'd never happen, that's too crazy
Also important to note is that as of today, Iran is actually exporting more oil through the Strait of Hormuz than it was before the war, almost all of it directly to China. So it's hurting the global oil market and the Gulf states without depriving China of crude oil. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/irans-control-of-hormuz-means-its-exporting-more-oil-today-than-before-the-war-ede3cd91
"Decades" here is gonna be a lot quicker though. Roman imperial rule of Britain was almost 500 years. American hegemony isn't even a century old.
I feel like it's not unfair to expect some kind of closure for the one character that was the main character of the book for dozens of chapters.
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Like on the one hand, I get that thematically Denji is indeed trapped on a hedonic treadmill, and he was very explicitly given the choice of having a "normal life" and he didn't want to do that, instead he wanted to be Chainsaw Man, and now basically the world is ending, so resetting it all and removing his ability to "be" Chainsaw Man would potentially allow him to get off that treadmill, and therefore an ending like this would make sense for Denji and his role in the series.
But like, what the fuck do we do with Asa then??? She's been totally discarded, subsumed under the tyranny of Yoru for like 30 chapters or whatever. She hasn't come to terms with her own guilt over the death she thinks she's caused, there hasn't been any sort of arc payoff or anything, and she was our main character for a good length of time. I just don't understand how this thing ends in one chapter that is at all reasonable for Asa. I'm totally with you on this one.
100%, but glad to see the "official" narrative on nonsense like "1 dead 2 injured" or whatever is beginning to crack even in the mainstream press.
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded so far in the war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The figure has not been previously reported and is far higher than the Pentagon's publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded U.S. forces.
The universe itself is conspiring with the Axis of Resistance. Audentes Fortuna iuvat as they say.
They can nuke Iran, sure, but that's gonna collapse the American imperium real quick for a number of other reasons. Presumably Dubai would not enjoy being a few dozen miles from an irradiated wasteland. If they leave the war, same result; Iran just keeps pounding the Gulf, full American tactical retreat from the Middle East, and the Gulf falls out of the American sphere of influence. The true age of multi-polarity kicks off with the Gulf pursuing its own interests against the Americans; it's hard to overstate how important the Gulf states are to continued American empire.
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And the only ones allowed to transit through the Strait!