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bucolic_frolic

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2. The status quo satisfies both sides at this point

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2026, 12:22 PM

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A trickle of oil, just enough to keep the world functioning. If they completely shut down the flow, we would have to do something, like bomb and/or invade. In reverse order, if we bomb and/or invade first, it would shut down the flow of oil.

This may continue for quite awhile. Neither side has a clear path to improving the situation, and unilateral actions will likely make it worse.

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Basically Iran and the U.S. separately agreed that Iraq and Vietnam had nothing to do with the current conflict dalton99a Monday #1

The status quo satisfies both sides at this point bucolic_frolic Monday #2