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we might even have countries get serious about switching to solar and stuff

the really funny part about the whole thing is that Iran managed to basically do the equivalent of sanctions on the US and their allies here, how the tables have turned

running across one of the most inhospitable places on the planet

I'm not apologizing for the burger reich and the atrocities it commits. The first thing you fucks did was kill over a hundred kids when you attacked Iran completely unprovoked. You are a terrorist state, and you deserve everything that's coming to you.

It is genuinely incredible to watch someone confidently type out the exact literal definition of the sunk cost fallacy while screaming that I don't know what the sunk cost fallacy is. You literally just argued that if a company buys a specialized machine and the demand for its product disappears they still have to keep using it just to see a return on that investment. My guy that is chapter one page one of behavioral economics. A sunk cost is simply money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. The fallacy is choosing to bankrupt yourself by continuing to run a doomed product line just because you feel bad about the loan instead of liquidating the asset or retooling. If nobody is buying your widgets anymore the bank does not care how much your bespoke widget stamper cost so you eat the loss and move on instead of throwing good money after bad.

You also keep harping on about how manufacturing equipment is magically locked into one single task forever. I have to ask if you have actually been on a modern factory floor recently. A five axis CNC mill or an automated welding line does not magically explode if you feed it a CAD file for a commercial tractor part instead of an artillery shell. Yes the specific molds and custom jigs are sunk costs but the actual heavy capital expenditure is in the facility the power infrastructure the automation systems and the trained workforce. The idea that foundational industrial capacity is completely untransferable is absolute nonsense. When major geopolitical shifts happen the industrial base pivots from building weapons to building commercial infrastructure all the time and they do it without just sitting down and crying about their tooling loans.

Then you try to salvage your EV analogy by building an absolutely massive strawman. Literally nobody is saying an automotive plant or a defense contractor needs to pivot to running a hospital or framing residential houses. The argument is that a heavy industry conglomerate with billions in capital equipment and engineers can pivot to building civilian infrastructure or commercial aerospace components. The government forces these industrial shifts constantly through procurement changes and tax incentives. If the defense department cancels a massive weapons program tomorrow the prime contractors do not just fold up and die. They reallocate their capital they bid on different contracts and they adjust their production lines because they are rational actors who actually understand how to write off a depreciating asset. You are desperately trying to invent a fantasy scenario where industrial machinery is entirely rigid just to excuse a complete lack of basic corporate adaptability.

I just can't wait to see what sort of clown shit you'll come up with next.

I just love how the mask is finally off, and they're just openly telling us what they're doing. It's refreshing really.

Last I checked it's the burger reich that has the second most nuclear weapons in the world, and the only country depraved enough to actually use them. And yeah, you losers can't defeat Iran just like you couldn't defeat Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, or Yemen. You're just a bunch of fascist losers and you can get fucked.

Really, it's not economical or practical to do this in the slightest. Laws of physics have fuck all to do with it. Also, a giant hole in that genius plan of yours is that Iran can just bomb this infrastructure like they're doing with all the other infrastructure in the region right now. But thank you for taking your valuable time away from sniffing glue to grace us with your invaluable insight.

No, you really couldn't physically move that much oil on trucks in any realistic scenario.

First of all, it's the principle of not participating in a literal fucking genocide. Second, Americans can do what they want to do without Canada continuing to send weapons to them to commit atrocities. Seems like a really low bar for anybody with even a shred of moral integrity.

It's pretty clear you don't really comprehend the volumes of oil going through Hormuz here when you say truck it the rest of the way.

Same, it's not an easy process unfortunately. Turns out HK is doable to get a residence though.