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Mike Dilger ☑️
@Mike Dilger ☑️

Author of Gossip client: https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip
Dual National (USA / New Zealand)
My principles are Individualism, Equality, Liberty, Justice and Life

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Recent Notes

Awiteb · 21w
What if my screen is actually big?
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The US is oil independent. And they are willing to take a lot of pain to stay on top, even if it means the whole world takes a lot of pain. Military primacy supercedes other concerns. I think taking the THAAD from S. Korea was because they have to make hard choices, and the active war is currently in Iran.

Nonetheless, since I wrote this, nobody has mined the strait. So my comment is, for the moment, moot. Iran controlling who can pass by other means is the best option for Iran.
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I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.
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Mike Dilger ☑️ · 24w
Also, the operation in Venezuela happened first to make sure that their oil can't substitute for the gulf oil being blockaded.
pam · 25w
Man, it's sickening. None of them - EU leaders, Canada (for all that bullshit of being remorseful just a month ago), Australia, have the basic dignity to be honest about who started this war. They mak...
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I think the only real solution might be simple. Simple but very difficult. Never assist evil. If people truly followed that, America and Israel would be nearly empty of people fleeing who could not in good conscience pay taxes to those regimes. But people rationalize, say they don't have a choice (even though they know they do have the capability to move). And thus evil wins. The only people who think clearly on this seem to me to be the Muslims.