Anyone who thinks Israel is somehow a friend of Christians in the holy land is gravely mistaken. The Israeli state frequently suppresses Christian gatherings. It attacked the only Catholic parish in Gaza. The delusion of the American Evangelical movement that somehow Israel is some sort of ally of Christians is amazingly self-defeating.

I agree, the most likely case here is that this is a disaster for the US, whether they have to make an unfavorable deal with Iran and walk away (the best case for the Americans at this point), or they end up with the casualties from boots on the ground.

However the US gets to disaster, and what magnitude it is between the two extremes above, this is more likely one of a string of signs evident to future historians of eroding American control, ahead of the real Suez moment.

Very interesting read. The Suez moment had a new protagonist in the wings ready to take over global hegemony (the US). For the parallel to be exact, China would need to make its desire plain vis a vis Hormuz. It would be a massive Earthquake if China put pressure on the US to stop the escalations, because I think it would work.

It's stuff like this that keeps coming up that makes me continue to question why anyone would go to the US, ever..

We could build datacentres and dedicate them to academic computing - computational chemistry, thermodynamics, physics, to unlock new breakthroughs. Nope, we need to use fossil fuels to power the creation of AI slop I just scan by.

I thought the war was already won with complete decimation of the enemy though.

Ok, bump the cost of 20% of your oil supply by 100%, double the cost of 80% of the potash into your country. Decimate the US automotive supply chain and shut down plants in the US. Go for it! I kept thinking about Carney's speech, was it a bit over the top (ie, is this really a rupture or just a 4 year blip), but it proves without a doubt that Carney was 100% correct. The response to this is not to cowtow down to Washington trying to find a way to talk them out of this. It's to stand firm, prepare retaliation and support for industries/unemployed, and prep to make this transition for our economy once and for all. This needs to end now, we may as well pull the bandaid. It will be ugly but necessary.

HAHAHA I hate the Cons and am an NDP voter who lent Carney my vote (first time voting Lib, actually) because I felt a Con government would handle Trump exactly the way Carney apparently is doing, apparently.
That will likely be the first and last time, that is for sure.

Carney needs to grow a pair. I've had enough of him not saying anything. We voted for elbows up, not subservience. I'm still not clear what we got for the DST removal.