Iran cannot now supply Hezbollah by land. Tahrir Al-Sham hates Iran and Hezbollah, and for good reason. Setting aside a couple thousand years of FS blood feud between Shiites and Sunnis, Hezbollah killed a lot of Sunnis when it invaded Syria to prop up Al-Assad.
So now it's by air, or by sea. Getting ships from Iran to the Mediterranean takes a long time, and the ships could easily be attacked by Israel. We'll see multiple flights a day to Beirut, and while the Israelis are not going to shoot down civilian planes carrying arms, they will bomb the trucks that the missiles are loaded onto, and the warehouses where the missiles are stored.
Things just got harder for Iran in its proxy support for Hezbollah. It's hard.
Still, as I said above, this is just another group of very bad people. Very, very bad.
$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!
Big problem is the regulatory constraint on refining oil into gasoline in the US. Refining is incredibly expensive and you are looking at years of permitting let alone actual construction to build anything in the US. Then you need at least a 20 year production horizon to get the thing to cash flow. All you need is to look at the Keystone XL pipeline. Billions in development costs and then on day one of the dementia patient's reign of terror the pipeline is cancelled. You get a democratic Congress or god forbid a dem president and voila, your new shiny gas refinery is worthless. Older refineries are grandfathered and don't have to meet new air and water EPA requirements. So, old refineries are just fine tuned or subject to limited expansion opportunities. There is a reason that the last new major US gas refinery was built in 1977 almost half a century ago.
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Iran cannot now supply Hezbollah by land. Tahrir Al-Sham hates Iran and Hezbollah, and for good reason. Setting aside a couple thousand years of FS blood feud between Shiites and Sunnis, Hezbollah killed a lot of Sunnis when it invaded Syria to prop up Al-Assad.
So now it's by air, or by sea. Getting ships from Iran to the Mediterranean takes a long time, and the ships could easily be attacked by Israel. We'll see multiple flights a day to Beirut, and while the Israelis are not going to shoot down civilian planes carrying arms, they will bomb the trucks that the missiles are loaded onto, and the warehouses where the missiles are stored.
Things just got harder for Iran in its proxy support for Hezbollah. It's hard.
Still, as I said above, this is just another group of very bad people. Very, very bad.
Probably. But I'm over apologizing for our tactical fuck ups. If we did, we did.
I'm on Team Israel now. It's all I really care about over there. The rest of them can go fuck themselves.
I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you that the head of a Muslim state is bitching about Israel.
Whodathunk? It's 99% P.R. to calm the hot-headed masses.
I appreciate the effort @creepycoug puts into it when he shows up, but I find these idiots not worth the effort.
quality »»» quantity IRL
Keep rubbing their noses in their stupidity, ignorance and immorality. Carry on.
Speaking of False Prophets …
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Priorities! Both a poster child for the wonders of
DEIincompetence.Hope this helps. Don't fool yourselves.
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It’s always about the oil and natural resources.
See also Ukraine.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that Ukraine and Syria are about democracy.
The world needs oil Somehow Allah ended up with it while God gave Moses a Mediterranean resort
The Saudis are the preferred model in an imperfect world
We could also pump a shit ton of our own oil and leave Europe to police the Middle East, if they want to do so.
That doesn't square with the MIC quarterly reporting.
Europe has always been far more reliant on the mid east. A fact that continually escapes American communists
The USA could sell it too
$1.80 fuel is coming! Energy independent America is going to be kicking ass and giving zero fucks about foreign nations. Time to make our country great and let others foot the bills for 75 years!
Mall Cop looks forward to the day America's stance is irrelevant to the rest of the world.
Enjoy isolationism, ladies.
#ZeroInfluence
Things endless war shills say.
We'll be cutting off aid to Israel too, right?
Big problem is the regulatory constraint on refining oil into gasoline in the US. Refining is incredibly expensive and you are looking at years of permitting let alone actual construction to build anything in the US. Then you need at least a 20 year production horizon to get the thing to cash flow. All you need is to look at the Keystone XL pipeline. Billions in development costs and then on day one of the dementia patient's reign of terror the pipeline is cancelled. You get a democratic Congress or god forbid a dem president and voila, your new shiny gas refinery is worthless. Older refineries are grandfathered and don't have to meet new air and water EPA requirements. So, old refineries are just fine tuned or subject to limited expansion opportunities. There is a reason that the last new major US gas refinery was built in 1977 almost half a century ago.
I don't recall ever endorsing aid to Israel.
And that's not spoken in a dumbass @MelloDawg tone. I truly haven't endorsed aid to Israel.