Yeah Iran has a lot of options to respond. It's just a matter of if they commit. And right now I don't see a lot of reasons not to commit to a response.
Makes perfect sense, yeah. I hoped Iran would've just started firing missiles almost immediately after that strikes began but I suppose that's unrealistic.
Yeah I'm assuming the Israelis are going to want to take out as many missile sites as they can to stop True Promise 3.
Ridiculous reason to do decapitation airstrikes but sure. Admittedly I haven't really followed what the vote or non compliance it even was, because the vibe just seemed like it was the International Community voting Iran Bad.
Well time to see what Iran has got cooking. Jesus this was fast. Huge escalation with pretty much no casus belli, not like that even matters anymore. Going to be a long week.
Yeah I know the build up has been going on for a while, and you've done a great job tracking it. It's just the speed of the buzz/chatter around it actually happening that's shocking.
The point about oil prices is we'll taken, forgot about that. But yeah the ramp up is so crazy to me, extremely sudden.
I really have no idea if all this buzz of an attack on Iran is a negotiating tactic of Trump or something real. Seems to have become very real very quickly in the past few hours though. Would still be surprised if anything happened tonight though, seems too fast for something of this magnitude.
China is at least 3.000 years old. It is not going to be destroyed by American trade policy one way or another, I can promise you that. It still benefits greatly from its role as global factory, and even if it is outplayed by the Americans it's not going to be destroyed or collapse or whatever.
They get stability. Stability is prized over all else. I don't disagree with your analysis, if I were in Party leadership I'd make the move you're talking about, but I'm trying to explain it from the perspective of the CPC's leadership.
@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net gets another win unfortunately. China's got too much riding on their export driven economy, and though they can take some pain it can't go on forever. Their current leadership believes it's better to just continue placating the United States and benefit from the system rather than the long term pain of configuring away from that momentarily beneficial system.
Well that's kind of the point of the decapitation strikes, no?