Quite a clever move by Iran:
Iran may allow a restricted number of oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz if shipments are traded in Chinese yuan, a senior Iranian official told CNN, according to a report Friday.
A financial missile aimed at the US dollar
Iranâs tactics have been so successful that one White House advisor is saying that Israel may be forced to start using its nukes.
intercst
Absolutely the most reliable information Iâve seen all yearâŚNOT.
Wendy (whatâs the point of quoting this drivel?)
Because Netanyahu has wanted the US to attack Iran for 20 years. The previous US Presidents were smart enough to shut that thinking down.
This is shaping up to be another expensive and embarrassing misadventure like the Iraq and Afghanistan War, or the US-funded genocide in Gaza.
intercst
Unless you have some evidence thatâs AI and not David Sachs, itâs very credible.
Also noticed that South Korea is upset that weâre moving some of their anti-missile defense capabilities against North Korea to the Mid-East due to missile depletion. Iâm pretty sure these are headed to Israel and not Saudi or the UAE.
intercst
If a few nukes go off we all commit suicide instead of seeing our deaths by the end of a month. Does not matter where you are on the planet. We have x number of nukes and we can not use even three or four of them.
Learn to ignore the drivel, they have nothing better to offer. By complaining you widen their platform.
The Captain
Re: Iraq
Are you satisfied w the current govt in Iraq? Or Syria? They are much improved compared to 20 yrs ago. No longer threats to Israel or their neighbors.
in that sense the invasion of Iraq succeeded. Though it was costly especially in terms of stolen artifacts.
Iran is much larger and more powerful. Many would be pleased w a similar outcome. Still Muslim, still traditional, but much less threatening to neighbors.
The Iranian also let passed Indian ships. Highly selective.
The US far from everything and everyone have more control and options. They can unleash havoc anywhere and everywhere, and they will not be affected so much- that is what they count on.
People within complain about gas prices. Democracy and freedom of speech are thereâbut so often accompanied by impotence. Is that really so terrible when compared to the destruction and disruption unleashed around the world by us? By the ones we elected? Or by those many who were never truly elected, yet in whom we placed our confidence by default? Or perhaps simply by our own ignorance, by letting them do whatever they do while we look the other way?
There are hundreds if not thousands of law suits winding through the courts on every iota of it all.
you think the judiciary is going to change what the executive wants or in their mind needs to do? The law is still part of the apparatus. Law can be steered and changed but the executive leads the way. Yes we are in transition times. That is what most donât understand.
To me that is incoherent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/iran-war-trump-conservative-divide-israel.html
As the joint U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran rolls into its third week, leading figures of the Make America Great Again movement have attacked each other with increasing vehemence over the wisdom of the war, and more broadly, what the American relationship to the Jewish state should be.
The debate reflects a widening rift within the American conservative movement. For decades, conservatives were stalwart supporters of the Jewish state, but over the last few years, some have grown disenchanted with Israel and its role in American politics. The disagreements have only intensified since the attacks began on Feb. 28. On Tuesday, Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned from the administration, stating that the U.S. had entered the war âdue to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.â
But the heated disagreement over attacking Iran, which shows no sign of abating, sets this conflict apart from previous military actions in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq, which began with more unified support from conservatives.
It remains to be seen whether the war will have a lasting impact on American attitudes toward Israel. Polling shows that sizable support for Israel still exists, but that it is eroding, especially among Republicans younger than 50. A March 2025 poll by Pew Research found that 50 percent of these younger Republicans had a negative view of Israel, compared to 35 percent in 2022. Republicans 50 and older also had a more negative view of Israel, rising to 23 percent last year from 19 percent in 2022.
Overall, the 2025 poll found that 53 percent of Americans held a negative opinion of Israel, an increase of 11 percentage points compared to three years earlier.
Older Americans, versed in the horrors of the Holocaust, grew up seeing Israel as the lone democratic outpost in a complex, strife-ridden part of the world and an essential homeland for an oppressed people. Few in Gen Z, by contrast, have ever met a Holocaust survivor. Their views are instead informed by having come of age during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and they tend to view Palestinians, rather than Jews, as the oppressed people, especially after the conflict in Gaza erupted in October 2023.
Critics of the war have seized on the March 2 comments by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who told reporters that the United States had initiated its attacks only after learning that Israel had already planned to strike. âWe knew that would precipitate an attack on U.S. forces,â Mr. Rubio said. âIf we didnât pre-emptively strike before they launched those attacks, we would suffer more casualties.â
For now, it is difficult to know how the hostilities within the conservative movement, much like the war itself, will end, and what that end might look like. For conservatives like Laurie Cardoza Moore, an Israel supporter and critic of Mr. Carlson, the question could not be more serious.
âThis is going to be the defining moment of the Republican Party, of the conservative movement,â she said.
Indian and Pakistan are allowed through after paying in Yuan