US president says Iran conflict ‘terminated’ despite stand-off in the Middle East as Congress consent deadline passes

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      15 days ago

      It’s probably already cost Taiwan.

      (Unless they can do a deal with Ukraine and Japan to churn out a Gundam Drone Army)

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          14 days ago

          Taiwan’s fucked:

          Trump doesn’t give a flying fnord about their life.

          & once Trump’s dictatorship’s instantiated, he’s enforcing his “Greater North America” war on Canada, using Greenland to sever our EU-lifeline, WHILE…

          enforcing Civil War Part2: confederate-vengeance, WHILE

          enforcing imperial-expansion wars throughout the rest of the Americas.

          Asia’s abandoned.

          Europe?

          China will simply tell whomever’s running Russia: “you rampage on Europe all you can, & we’ll supplant you in gov’t & industry, in Russia, but you get to play tzar until you die” … and the ruler(s) of Russia/“Russia” will accept that, because they’re otherwise helpless/hobbled/powerless, & asserting-power’s an addiction.

          China gets the West grinded-down, without Chinese blood spilt, AND…

          China can then concentrate on grinding-down Asia.

          No help from the West.

          No help from anybody.

          Modi’s India, which bet the whole farm on Russia standing with them against China … has nothing, then.

          ClimatePunctuation’ll trash India while they’re trying to fight China ( which is probably part of why China won’t ditch coal, tbh ).

          EVERYthing in this world’s current-vectors is setting-up Regional Consolidation Time™.

          7-ish years of each region getting … not-diverse.

          ( I expect that whomever it is who ends-up owning the Middle-East, they will then set about owning Africa, and I don’t expect that to be Netanyahu or Iran. )

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