Iran may have found the move Trump can never play
Original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/22/world/iran-war-oil-trump
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I mean, there were 2 ships hit with drones… there are reasons for the insurers to be afraid
Edit source; https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80j4rln8zmo
Yes, they fear the hot war Trump started without consulting any allies (except Bibi) nor any preparation
And I don't think those sea mines are American.
I don't think you two are getting the point. It is the way it is because of Trump's illegal war.
not just illegal -- arguably like every US action since WWII it's not legally even a war
But the reason it's as f--ed up as it is is because Trump went in without
Uh... this war would not be less fucked up if it was run more competently. It'd be worse, in fact, as can be seen in Iraq.
Didn't they bring two additional aircraft carriers into the region like a month before the "preemptive" strike that kicked this off? Also heard rumblings that the US has been moving quite a lot of aircraft into the region since like December
One was already in place. But was supposed to go in for maintenance like a month ago.
The other had to be sent in from IIRC the Pacific, much like the ship full of Marines currently on its way (that should have been in place a month ago if there was any chance they'd be needed...)
Being invaded by an asshole authoritarian doesn't really justify attacking literally everyone in reach with arms funneled in from two other asshole authoritarians.
Not that I'm particularly fond of Exxon Mobil, Dubai, or Qatar.
There is no "good side" in this fight.
They're mainly attacking US bases and related infrastructure in those countries, which is 100% justified
Don't paint Iran as nice guys. Or even as civilized. These are more racist, more homophobic, more religious nutjob, than any Grand Wizard of the KKK ever was. Part of their M.O. is literally just sowing chaos and straight-up civilian-killing terror.
Uh... Setting aside how half (but not all, to be clear) of what you just said is propaganda, how does that have anything to do with what I said?
Eh, the racist bit is really underserved. They probably have the least racist society of the region, that is still horrible by liberal standards, but it's less worse than everybody around them.
Here's the rub - the UN charter doesn't have a seperate set of rules for countries you don't think are civilized. That's not how international law works.
We either try to have a rules based international order or we don't. Without it, we sow the seeds for nuclear proliferation and great power / law of the jungle politics.
"mainly" but they've also damaged civillian airports while firing hundreds of missiles and drones, as well as the aforementioned cargo ships. The only thing keeping casualties down is how ineffective Iranian/Russian/Chinese weapons have been against US air defence so far.
It doesn't. But justification stops being a concern when the most powerful country on Earth decided to extinguish you.