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WarGamer

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Reply to lame54 (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 14, 2026, 06:46 PM

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It's damaging to the economy as a whole... oil prices being a global commodity... a driving factor for inflation, yes...

But unlike China... we're NOT in need of the oil that flows through Hormuz.

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