Date: September 11th, 2026 11:40 AM Author: swollen mentally impaired house
there's literally nothing right, it's only up from here. no more fake cease fires, no more reserve releases, just more and more problems every day. venezuela isn't coming online for years, canada is backing away from us, and domestic producers aren't jumping in on a war spike.
Date: September 11th, 2026 11:48 AM Author: Titillating Market
no one gives a fucking fuck about gas prices dipshit. if we did then we would be all driving priuses or teslas instead of massive trucks/SUVs but we don't.
Date: September 11th, 2026 11:47 AM Author: swollen mentally impaired house
play it out. we back out of the region entirely, iran makes tons of money from tolls, builds up its military, makes nukes, starts bossing around it's neighbors who can't defend themselves, they move toward iran and away from us, china moves in on the whole thing.
one thing we could do is give our gulf allies nukes on our way out. that buys them some time to build their militaries. but once we leave the region they're not really out allies. they never really were, it was just a pact to trade our defense for their petrodollars.
Date: September 11th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: swollen mentally impaired house
i think getting in this war is about the dumbest thing we've ever done, but as much i hate to admit it i think we have to do a land invasion now. we can't lose this. iran will totally take over the middle east.
Date: September 11th, 2026 12:10 PM Author: swollen mentally impaired house
another option is that we wipe out kharg island, they wipe out all the arab refineries in response, and then we bounce, leaving the entire region fucked for years during which time we are far and away the world's leading oil producer. use all that profit to build up and integrate venezuela and get an even bigger market share.