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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 72 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Of course they'd urge the continuation of the war, they have access to the Red Sea, and while not convenient, can get around the Hormuz lockdown. To them, aside from the acceptable sacrifice of their population a little, the war is beneficial. Oil prices are up, they're sitting on oil, what's not to like?

[–] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Iranian backed Houthis can still fuck up the red sea though

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can the big oil tankers traverse that?

[–] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

Some, but not the largest.

[–] ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net 1 points 1 day ago
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Assuming human civilization lasts this long, in a hundred years they're going to call this period the Resource Wars.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 day ago

The scary thing is, it hasn't even really started yet.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of wars are over resources. The Gulf War and Iraq War were fairly recent wars that were also specifically over oil on the middle east.

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You can make an argument everything is economics, but I don't think Trump got into this war for economic reasons (other actors may have, but not Trump)

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Trump's a useful idiot with motivations like "being near gold", "not shitting himself", and "getting away with fucking kids". I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs