Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Hey now, they called it a “Quarantine”, not a “Blockade.” Completely different things. One’s an act of war and the other’s not. And… well, that’s basically the only difference.
The last time Congress officially declared war was in 1942 so obviously it can’t be an act of war.
The Anatoly Kolodkin, a Russian-flagged tanker that is itself under U.S. sanctions, departed from the Baltic Sea on March 9. It continues to be tracked and is expected to reach the Cuban port of Matanzas around April 4 . If it successfully delivers its cargo it would be the first oil shipment to reach Cuba since early January.
Guess we’ll see what happens.
Indeed. Pledging to keep the Strait of Hormuz open would likely be most easily accomplished by applying pressure on the US and Israel to de-escalate, and negotiating with Iran to get its cooperation. European military force isn’t going to add anything that the US isn’t already capable of.
How many layers of “nobody would be stupid enough to…” deep are we into this situation at this point?
I could imagine someone thinking a small fire might be safer than the ship carrying on to Hormuz.
Because the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with.
Iran really seems to have been behaving reasonably here.
Okay? I’m really not sure what your point is here, everyone knows the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with. The article is about the fact that Iran could be reasoned with, they were actually willing to negotiate.
No, you’re still not getting it.
if only we completely reconfigure the topic, the stakes and the parties involved.
Emphasis added to that plural. Iran was not the problem here. Iran was open to a reasonable deal. It was the Americans who were unreasonable, irrational warmongers that wouldn’t accept anything other than total surrender and the destruction of Iran. Only one of the parties involved was the problem.
I think you’re missing the point. He’s saying that a deal should have been in reach if the US had been actually interested in making a deal.
Are we moving from the “AI can never match the quality of human artistic output” phase to the “oh, it’s no big deal, art like that could always be faked” phase?
Only because that had nothing to do with what I was talking about? I don’t see why you think that’s the point here.
A slick of liquid methane would be devastating. Imagine all that methane washing up on the shores.
You chopped my sentence in half when quoting it and reversed its meaning 180 degrees in the process.
I suspect all it would really accomplish would be to get Trump to double down even harder, possibly pulling the trigger on even more extreme and wantonly destructive attacks. And I have absolutely no expectation that there are checks and balances that would stop them.
So not worth it simply for the sake of doing the funniest thing.
It’d be funny if Iran invited Kushner for negotiations and then killed him.
Well, “funny” for certain particularly dark styles of humour, I suppose. And probably not very productive. But turnabout is fair play, eh?
He’ll have some new standup material, at least.
No, surely they just didn’t think of it.
Are you not aware that Snowpiercer is fiction?
There are people who spend their lives tracking bigfoot, or trying to figure out who D. B. Cooper was, or any number of other mysteries. It can be a hobby.