When will the war end, when this number becomes untenable

[zed707]

I saw a teaser for a local news show that confirmed what I posted yesterday–highest gas prices ever in Spokane.

[windywave]

@BCtriguy1

@windywave

@Helltrack

I think one is also required to state their preferred pronouns.

And though not a requirement most have disavowed capitalism

I think most of the people there would welcome the return of capitalism.

Canadian protectionism would be the first thing to go

[windywave]

@Helltrack

[BCtriguy1]

@windywave

@BCtriguy1

@windywave

@Helltrack

I think one is also required to state their preferred pronouns.

And though not a requirement most have disavowed capitalism

I think most of the people there would welcome the return of capitalism.

Canadian protectionism would be the first thing to go

You misspelled Corporate Protectionism.

[jsivvy]

That’s pretty cute coming from a resident of the country which recently enacted the most protective tariff regime in recent (our lifetime?) memory.

[TiDriver]

@ericMPro

How does one get on the Politics is Life Discussion Board?

Eric

[zed707]

[Ironnerd]

@SG1

@Ironnerd

Whose fault is it that people in developing nations can not afford to buy fertiliser for their crops which will lead to food shortages and starvation? I will give you a hint their initials are DJT.

Fixed it for you.

I will try and stay non political. I think that blaming DJT is a cop out. US voters voted for him, not once but twice. The Republican party has done nothing to rein him in. Congress has done nothing to rein him in. The SC gave him immunity.

I think that world opinion is moving from DJT’s fault to USA’s fault.

[DarkSpeedWorks]

Flying anywhere this summer?

You may want to rethink that …

The jet fuel crisis is ‘a slow motion car crash’

The jet fuel crisis is 'a slow motion car crash', says Kpler's Matt Smith

[windywave]

@Ironnerd

@SG1

@Ironnerd

Whose fault is it that people in developing nations can not afford to buy fertiliser for their crops which will lead to food shortages and starvation? I will give you a hint their initials are DJT.

Fixed it for you.

I will try and stay non political. I think that blaming DJT is a cop out. US voters voted for him, not once but twice. The Republican party has done nothing to rein him in. Congress has done nothing to rein him in. The SC gave him immunity.

I think that world opinion is moving from DJT’s fault to USA’s fault.

I think not acknowledging Iran’s role demonstrates a complete lack of [the rest of this post is redacted]

[Apollo71]

From the CNBC video, Kalshi is putting the odds on the SoH traffic normalizing by September 1st at basically a coin flip.

[spockman]

the price of flights from toronto to auckland have not budged. I checked on cost of flight in oct/nov and no change from last few years seems weird but that is it. Toronto to santiago in july 20 percent more than normal. What you don’t want to do is pay for hotel room in toronto or vancouver which are a collosal rip off. The World Cup is a collosal rip off for host countries to compound that .

[Harbinger]

Filled up this morning here in South Carolina. It was $4.39 for regular.

[spockman]

Neither the conventional political left or right in America or for that matter Europe and Canada gets why we are where we are at today.

[Ironnerd]

@windywave

@Ironnerd

So by your logic. It is a developing nations fault that they don’t have natural reserves of oil. It is a developing nations fault that they didn’t invest in expensive long term contracts and expensive diversified supply channels.

Developing nations aren’t as dependent on oil and in some cases are producers or refiners

The Iran War is not just impacting oil. Many developing nations rely on LPG/LNG and fertiliser coming from the middle east. Food shortages are likely if this drags on.

How the Iran war has sent shocks rippling across the globe

[windywave]

@Ironnerd

@windywave

@Ironnerd

So by your logic. It is a developing nations fault that they don’t have natural reserves of oil. It is a developing nations fault that they didn’t invest in expensive long term contracts and expensive diversified supply channels.

Developing nations aren’t as dependent on oil and in some cases are producers or refiners

The Iran War is not just impacting oil. Many developing nations rely on LPG/LNG and fertiliser coming from the middle east. Food shortages are likely if this drags on.

How the Iran war has sent shocks rippling across the globe | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian

From your article

Tehran has retaliated by closing the vital Hormuz shipping lane and bombing its oil and gas-rich neighbours,

[slowguy]

You understand that the word “retaliation” implies a response to someone else’s instigating actions, right?

[david.mcmullen]

assume this is referring to Iran retaliation against USA actions, but surely it’s not irrational to see USA’s actions as retaliation against decades of extremely poor behavior by Iran’s leadership in the region generally, never mind its treatment of its own people.

Iran is a world class example of FAFO.

[DarkSpeedWorks]

@david.mcmullen

assume this is referring to Iran retaliation against USA actions, but surely it’s not irrational to see USA’s actions as retaliation against decades of extremely poor behavior by Iran’s leadership in the region generally, never mind its treatment of its own people.

But surely it’s not irrational to see Iran’s actions as a direct result of an extremely poor decisions by the USA (directly overthrowing Iran’s democratically-elected leader and then installing in the office a 1st-class psychopath puppet of the usa instead), behavior by the US’s leadership in the region generally (over half of a million civilian deaths in Irag, $ and weapons support of Israel’s truly genocidal actions, et al.).

[WannaB]

If we are going to play back and forth on chicken versus egg,

One of the main tenants of this current negotiation: “Limit Iran’s Nuclear Program”.

Limit. This suggests we are conceding some role for Iran to have Nuclear power, We just want to ensure we they don’t enrich.

Which is where we were 10 years ago. And then last June we “obliterated their program”. Oh yeah, and we are negotiating with the same regime. And we agree to lifting sanctions.

So what have we gained? Honestly, I am open to legit explanation of why things are now about to be much better off. Other than we proved we have a precise military and are happy and willing to dangle the threat of our Nuclear capability.

Maybe we weakened and neutralized their proxies in the region? I guess Israel is satisfied they were able to be proactive and carry out a long held wish, feel short term safer?