I support the destruction of the terror state of Iran.
However, there is a reason that no other President has taken them on, and it’s not that they were all chickenshit.
Every day this goes on the Iranians gain leverage, the US loses good will (soft power), the Chinese sell more solar panels, while we burn through irreplaceable wealth and munitions.
Trump is playing with silly putty. He can’t even stay awake during meetings or photo ops. And what’s with the make up on his hands or the way that he swings one leg out when he walks? Curiouser and curiouser.
Trump ruined military victory into a colossal, generational strategic defeat.
The settlement agreement looks like it was written by Iran.
Trump didn’t have the balls to follow the military advice and put boots on the ground. That’s the only way the US could win against this fanatic government.
Now he sells out our country to win a few seats in the mid-terms.
The clown show that is Trumps inner circle gave Iran
Like the incomprehension that the Iranian population could possibly support their government America insists they hate, this article shows an incomprehension that Chinese companies could possibly do business in anything but the greenback.
But those refineries don't need even a single American penny anywhere in their business.
They buy all their feedstock and supplies, pay their taxes and wages, and sell their products in the Yuan. If the purchaser is an Indian company the currency exchange doesn't get mediated by greenbacks. If the supplier is Russia or Iran or a growing number of others, the currency exchange isn't mediated by the greenback. And if that currency exchange is mediated by the greenback at the insistence of the foreign government the foreign buyer/supplier operates under, it is up to THEM to eat those costs, not the Chinese company because THAT'S THE LAW NOW.
And if that buyer/supplier doesn't like that, well, there's a lot more buyers out there, and multiple suppliers too.
Methinks you gild the lily of American leverage. I am glad there's someone who sees the optimistic side to a demented monster in the Whitehouse surrounded by lickspittle grifters.
China was never that invested in Iran. Mostly China has just been willing to sell them some stuff at a profit, as China does everywhere, including to Ukraine.
PRC diplomacy is invested in relations with the Gulf oil exporters as a whole. There was never any prospect of supporting Iran to attack Saudi etc or close the strait.
China is relatively well prepared for oil drought, more so than the other Asian countries. China can wait to see if the Asian US allies get tired of threat to their oil supply, and tell the USA to make a deal or they will make a deal with Iran themselves, pressing the US to choose between Israel and Asian allies. Then PRC can look reasonable to Asia just by backing off threats against Taiwan, and start building an Asian security structure not dependent on America.
If IRGC fails to keep the strait closed and adequate oil, LNG, fertilizer supply resumes, then no great loss to China. No hope of Iran pushing the US out of the Middle East, but China views the US involvement there as a quagmire sapping American resources and attention.
This doesn’t fit Zineb’s reductionist narrative; nor affirm the delusions of MAGAtards that their hero Trump isn’t playing 4D interdimensional chess. So the very reasonable points you point out will simply fall on deaf years.
And we’re stomping all over our alliances with Trump’s threats against Greenland, his verbiage about annexing Canada and his and Vance’s political interference/lobbying for far right parties (Germany) and Russian allies/enablers (Orban in Hungary).
True, wars especially these days are not fought with great armies, bullets, or guns but with misinformation, fentanyl, viruses and ideology. We are getting to the point, pick a side? The old western way of being nihilistic will no longer work. Can't take the can't we all get along together anymore; it will not work.
I want to believe most of this. But we’ve cornered a gang of bullies in a glassware shop, and they’re fine with breaking everything. I think it’s worth it. Does Donald?
We’ve tried to “defang” Iran both in June 2025 and since February 2026. The latest reports are that they still have the nuclear material that Trump claimed was destroyed in June 2025, along with at least half of their missiles and who knows how many drones. I suspect that Trump is not following the advice of our military leaders but is instead being influenced by Netanyahu and Hegseth.
The nice thing about being a sea power that returns to our Pirate 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 roots is we sail away and then keep coming back. Iran wanted Raiding culture and they’re getting it from the other side. Win win. In the interim Iran is on Plan Syria - her Mosaic strategy of 31 Independent IGRC businesses that are terrorist gangsters with religious patina need money to stay alive (every fanatic committed to die is dead). Then the Pirate 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 banking nation’s agents knock on every door purse in hand… as will all of Iran’s neighbors including 🇮🇱 which already has… and 🇮🇱 can fix things with us 🇺🇸 so the phlegmatic can have a nicer exile than Moscow or Beijing…. Canada is the present Mecca for the pragmatic Iranians with Bank accounts…. It’s like the Ukrainian government- half of it is in the West especially the Zelensky family. He himself has a great many properties in England and France. Meanwhile the Petrodollar has become American petroleum and sailing the oceans requires the benevolence of the United States 🇺🇸 🏴☠️ Navy. Happy Sails.
Your story where China is being severely economically damaged by the Iran war just isn’t supported by the numbers. Will their economy eventually feel the crunch should this situation continue, sure, but the rest of the world, especially Europe and even the US would arrive there sooner. So IMO the more you try to force your square narrative through the round hole of reality, the more credibility you lose.
Excellent article but I worry that the left and the extreme right in the US would curtail Trump's efforts on this. The call is coming from inside the house.
Dealing with China over the years has proved to be disaster. They always talk out of both sides of their mouth so to speak. This is part of their culture I understand, like many others, but it does us no good. Let's try to live in the world and ignore them as much as possible. If our rich business tycoons need their business that bad, then move there and set up shop. (Oh, lol good luck with that one hairy uncouth big nosed barbarian lol)
The university = The "New Religion" (religion of nihilism)
Dream on.
I support the destruction of the terror state of Iran.
However, there is a reason that no other President has taken them on, and it’s not that they were all chickenshit.
Every day this goes on the Iranians gain leverage, the US loses good will (soft power), the Chinese sell more solar panels, while we burn through irreplaceable wealth and munitions.
Good will was weaponized against us for decades. Let’s try realpolitik and a comprehensive response.
my goodness, is this really only about Trump?
You're playing checkers. Trump is playing 3D chess. Just assume the position and relax.
Trump is playing with silly putty. He can’t even stay awake during meetings or photo ops. And what’s with the make up on his hands or the way that he swings one leg out when he walks? Curiouser and curiouser.
How’s that 3 D chess now?
The settlement agreement looks like it was written by Iran.
The clown show that is Trumps inner circle gave Iran
Control of the Strait
Veto power over Israel
Money to rebuild their military.
No constraint on nuclear weapons
Legitimacy for their terror-proxies.
No restrictions on missile. development.
How’s that 3 D chess now?
Trump ruined military victory into a colossal, generational strategic defeat.
The settlement agreement looks like it was written by Iran.
Trump didn’t have the balls to follow the military advice and put boots on the ground. That’s the only way the US could win against this fanatic government.
Now he sells out our country to win a few seats in the mid-terms.
The clown show that is Trumps inner circle gave Iran
Freedom to slaughter the people of Iran.
Control of the Strait
Veto power over Israel
Money to rebuild their military.
No constraint on nuclear weapons
Legitimacy for their terror-proxies.
No restrictions on missile development.
But you repeat yourself. 3D chess is a "Long Game". Make more popcorn.
I wish the MSM was 10% as informed and thoughtful as Zineb. Thank you for providing much needed perspective to this thorny issue.
One more excellent analysis. Off
the beaten track.
🌺🌺🌺
Like the incomprehension that the Iranian population could possibly support their government America insists they hate, this article shows an incomprehension that Chinese companies could possibly do business in anything but the greenback.
But those refineries don't need even a single American penny anywhere in their business.
They buy all their feedstock and supplies, pay their taxes and wages, and sell their products in the Yuan. If the purchaser is an Indian company the currency exchange doesn't get mediated by greenbacks. If the supplier is Russia or Iran or a growing number of others, the currency exchange isn't mediated by the greenback. And if that currency exchange is mediated by the greenback at the insistence of the foreign government the foreign buyer/supplier operates under, it is up to THEM to eat those costs, not the Chinese company because THAT'S THE LAW NOW.
And if that buyer/supplier doesn't like that, well, there's a lot more buyers out there, and multiple suppliers too.
Methinks you gild the lily of American leverage. I am glad there's someone who sees the optimistic side to a demented monster in the Whitehouse surrounded by lickspittle grifters.
We deserved a better class of dementia than senility Mr Gee and this is what I voted for…
President Trump is proving that
it is only real world experience that enables a leader to craft foreign policy effective across multiple spheres.
Three dimensional chess on display yet again by President Trump.
China was never that invested in Iran. Mostly China has just been willing to sell them some stuff at a profit, as China does everywhere, including to Ukraine.
PRC diplomacy is invested in relations with the Gulf oil exporters as a whole. There was never any prospect of supporting Iran to attack Saudi etc or close the strait.
China is relatively well prepared for oil drought, more so than the other Asian countries. China can wait to see if the Asian US allies get tired of threat to their oil supply, and tell the USA to make a deal or they will make a deal with Iran themselves, pressing the US to choose between Israel and Asian allies. Then PRC can look reasonable to Asia just by backing off threats against Taiwan, and start building an Asian security structure not dependent on America.
If IRGC fails to keep the strait closed and adequate oil, LNG, fertilizer supply resumes, then no great loss to China. No hope of Iran pushing the US out of the Middle East, but China views the US involvement there as a quagmire sapping American resources and attention.
This doesn’t fit Zineb’s reductionist narrative; nor affirm the delusions of MAGAtards that their hero Trump isn’t playing 4D interdimensional chess. So the very reasonable points you point out will simply fall on deaf years.
The important point is not the triumphalism.
It is that great-power competition is no longer theater-specific.
China competes through energy, ports, finance, satellites, industrial inputs, regional diplomacy, and military partnerships.
The U.S. response is becoming stack warfare: sanctions, alliances, chokepoints, LNG, data centers, defense access, and financial rails.
And we’re stomping all over our alliances with Trump’s threats against Greenland, his verbiage about annexing Canada and his and Vance’s political interference/lobbying for far right parties (Germany) and Russian allies/enablers (Orban in Hungary).
True, wars especially these days are not fought with great armies, bullets, or guns but with misinformation, fentanyl, viruses and ideology. We are getting to the point, pick a side? The old western way of being nihilistic will no longer work. Can't take the can't we all get along together anymore; it will not work.
Thank you.
I want to believe most of this. But we’ve cornered a gang of bullies in a glassware shop, and they’re fine with breaking everything. I think it’s worth it. Does Donald?
We need merely to contain and defang Iran.
We’ve tried to “defang” Iran both in June 2025 and since February 2026. The latest reports are that they still have the nuclear material that Trump claimed was destroyed in June 2025, along with at least half of their missiles and who knows how many drones. I suspect that Trump is not following the advice of our military leaders but is instead being influenced by Netanyahu and Hegseth.
The nice thing about being a sea power that returns to our Pirate 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 roots is we sail away and then keep coming back. Iran wanted Raiding culture and they’re getting it from the other side. Win win. In the interim Iran is on Plan Syria - her Mosaic strategy of 31 Independent IGRC businesses that are terrorist gangsters with religious patina need money to stay alive (every fanatic committed to die is dead). Then the Pirate 🏴☠️ 🇺🇸 banking nation’s agents knock on every door purse in hand… as will all of Iran’s neighbors including 🇮🇱 which already has… and 🇮🇱 can fix things with us 🇺🇸 so the phlegmatic can have a nicer exile than Moscow or Beijing…. Canada is the present Mecca for the pragmatic Iranians with Bank accounts…. It’s like the Ukrainian government- half of it is in the West especially the Zelensky family. He himself has a great many properties in England and France. Meanwhile the Petrodollar has become American petroleum and sailing the oceans requires the benevolence of the United States 🇺🇸 🏴☠️ Navy. Happy Sails.
… and buy American.
Your story where China is being severely economically damaged by the Iran war just isn’t supported by the numbers. Will their economy eventually feel the crunch should this situation continue, sure, but the rest of the world, especially Europe and even the US would arrive there sooner. So IMO the more you try to force your square narrative through the round hole of reality, the more credibility you lose.
Great photo!
I had no glimmer of these complexities!!! Thank you.
Excellent article but I worry that the left and the extreme right in the US would curtail Trump's efforts on this. The call is coming from inside the house.
Dealing with China over the years has proved to be disaster. They always talk out of both sides of their mouth so to speak. This is part of their culture I understand, like many others, but it does us no good. Let's try to live in the world and ignore them as much as possible. If our rich business tycoons need their business that bad, then move there and set up shop. (Oh, lol good luck with that one hairy uncouth big nosed barbarian lol)
The university = The "New Religion" (religion of nihilism)