Buelldozer

Takes as in seizes

I think you’ve forgotten that the means of production is supposed to be seized by the proletariat, not by the bourgeoisie using their illegitimate government.

the difference is that the united states ONLY takes from the poor

Objectively and provably untrue.

This article has nothing to do with the United States and did not need a US centric comment.

China imports 1.3 to 1.8 million barrels of oil per day from Iran, roughly 16% of its total. It’s not just oil either, China is a heavy importer of other Iranian petrochemicals.

China’s EVs give them very little leverage at this point.

Reading these comments seriously makes me wonder how many of y’all read the article. The US doesn’t need Iranian oil but China DOES.

A dwindling supply of oil through the Strait and rising oil prices damages China and buoys the United States. If China doesn’t want to put any effort into keeping the Strait open it’s going to hurt them far more than it will hurt anyone else.

Trump doesn’t need to be brought up in every fucking comment section. This is literally about rice in Japan so stop with American politics.

Start shit, get hit.

It also has no basis in reality.

The Israeli Government used AIPAC to capture the American Political class. That is the reality.

Every US President and major political figure since the Clinton Administration has spoken at their annual Convention. US Politicians regularly travel to Israel.

AIPAC has spent hundreds of millions of dollars backing candidates they like and going against candidates that they don’t. Politicians in the last election cycle lost their seats after AIPAC spent money against them.

I could keep going but you’d probably accuse me of Gish-Galloping.

None of this is conspiracy, it’s well documented and out in the open for everyone to see.

If US withdraws their support…

AIPAC has made it so that cannot happen and they do it intentionally.

The INF went away in 2019 and the Typhon system entered service in 2023 so…ground launched Tomahawks are back on the menu.

The tracking and fire control systems already exist. The show stopper right now in 2025 is the cost; mostly because the needed missiles are ungodly expensive and you need so many of them.

But what if the system no longer needs missiles?

The most conservative estimate I’ve seen for the IDs intercept rate is 80% and many sources claim 90% or even 95%. I’m am not a fan of the Israeli Government but its beyond question that the ID system does an excellent job at countering the threat it was designed to handle.

I know for a fact that parts of it can be built now. Everyone is in these comments trying to pretend that its still 1983 (the year Reagan announced SDI) while ignoring the fact that PATRIOT, NIKE, and THAAD have existed for two decades. Never mind that DE M-SHORAD, DRAGONFIRE and some others are already in production in various countries.

This ain’t 1983. Many things considered impossible 42 years ago are so routine in 2025 that we take them for granted.

The math and physics problems of SDI (Reagan’s Star Wars) hasn’t changed.

42 years of engineering evolution means we can build things now that were impossible back then. The US Army’s DE M-SHORAD and the British Dragonfire, two different High Energy Laser Systems that are already in production, are examples.

The US now has space based quantum sensing systems for God’s sake. That shit was literally unimaginable in 1983!

“Quantum Radar” would have been straight Science Fiction back then and yet at least the US and Australia have already built test systems for it.

The Scientists and Engineers of 1983, even the ones working on SDI, would likely have told you that the SmartPhone in your pocket right now was impossible and could never be built. The screen alone would have had them cumming in their pants and the camera system and processing power in the thing would have blown their minds.

SDI was a long time ago. May as well compare a 1983 Chevy to a 2025 LUCID EV.

The “Golden Dome” system is almost certainly more bullshit from Trump not because it’s infeasible but because we can’t afford to build it. At least not right now.

What Trump is pitching is the same snake oil Reaganite “Star Wars” program that was scrapped 30 years ago.

SDI never really ended and research on the core technologies continue to this day. Things like Patriot and NIKE came out of the program some 20 years ago and we’re now starting to get the energy weapon systems that Reagan envisioned.

The Israeli Iron Dome can’t beat Yemeni intercontinental bottle rockets, nevermind Iranian SCUD missiles.

Iron Dome does an amazingly good job at defending from the threats it was designed to handle. It wasn’t meant to deal with MRBM or ICBM threats.

These programs don’t meaningfully protect a country that is under bombardment.

Effective defense from MRBM and ICBM attack has been technically possible for nearly two decades however installing a GBMD system of that size would bankrupt the United States several times over. The missiles it uses are a hundred million a piece if IIRC and we’d need tens of thousands of them.

What’s changed is that Ground Based Directed Energy Weapons of sufficient power, a direct result of SDI, to interdict ICBMS will be available in the near future. The US Military is already fielding lower power systems like the DE M-SHORAD and everyone from Lockheed to Raytheon has 1MW (or higher) GBDEW systems starting testing this year.

Hell the British already have their Dragonfire system, rated at 300KW, not only built but scheduled to be put on Navy Vessels in 2027 and the US Navy has had a system like this for nearly a decade already.

The fantasy of missile defense only escalates these conflicts.

Missile defense isn’t a fantasy, the short range version has been around for a long while now. Medium and Long Range has been possible for two decades it’s just been wildly unaffordable at scale. That is about to change.

So I read the whole article and the acquittal happened because German Police did not translate the section informing the person what they were being accused of. That’s no small thing.

Then there’s the fact that the German Police kept turning off the recording during the interrogation, there’s no mention of “homicide” on the recordings, and you can’t hear the accused voice on the recordings!

So basically there’s no proof that the accused knew what he was charged with nor is there any direct recordings of his confession.

The only thing this shit proves is that German Cops are as bad at their fucking jobs as American Cops.

Well historically it is not a terrible system

Well historically primary education is pretty shit and we, the readers, thank you for proving that to us today.

What I do not get is why Trump isnt championing this as the right move.

Trump isn’t aware of anything more than 1 foot from his nose. Frankly he doesn’t need to be aware of this, the US Is already selling a crazy amount of LNG on the Global Market. Here’s the graph of exports.

Oil is a different matter. The US can produce plenty of crude but is seriously constrained by refinery capacity. No new refineries of significance have been built since 1976 and all of the existing refineries are already working flat out. It’s why the US was importing so much refined petroleum product (Gasoline, Diesel, etc) from Russia prior to the Ukraine war.

The move to green is the way forward,

I always forget about this perk of my Amazon subscription so thanks for posting this. I jumped over and claimed all the GOG codes. I’ve never tried the Lego games using Proton so I hope they work.

1965 was good but why not the Blackout of 2003?

They can and have been recreated. They just suck due to having very low light output.