"Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz"
- Is that what you call it?

U.S.A. attacked IRAN, and has blown up the global economy.

I don't care about your solutions
I'd rather you admit that your country is the problem.

'Losers First'

'Your government is run by pedophiles'
'They ordered you to die for Israel'

http://youtu.be/5G9DNx7xIIc

That “discomfort with ideology-driven climate policy is finally beginning to surface in public” might apply where these contributors live, but not here in the Dumb Country, where the idiots of the political class are trying to blame the Iranian affair for their own failure to maintain the obligation to hold 90 days of fuel in reserve.

The useless twats are taking no responsibility at all; they are telling us we can all ‘do our bit’ by not driving as much, taking off roof racks (which most people don't have) and pumping up tyres.

Australians have allowed themselves to be treated like children for so long, that they will probably take the garbage seriously! It's hard to decide who is worse: the political class or the electorate.

Some of us know that around 90% of energy needs are supplied by fossil fuels. Waffling about electric cars and the sun not having to go through the Hormuz Strait is utter horseshit; renewables don't provide diesel, on which the country operates, or enough energy to support the manufacturing we once had.

Albanese uses up Avgas going overseas to beg for oil - what's wrong with the phone or internet? - while dodging questions as to why we are not exploiting our own plentiful resources as we have done in the more prosperous and secure past, before losers and abusers like him got into power. He is even begging for vital to our food production,urea, from third world countries.

I wonder if Albanese remembers, or even knows, that the boss boy in Sri Lanka had to leave the country by helicopter after his government had decided that farmers had to use poop in place of chemical fertiliser, leading to the reduction of food crops.

Of course, old folks with experience are ignored in ageist Australia. But, we will be relieved of the approaching disaster pretty soon, and all the young smartarses will be coping with it. Tough titty.

The current tensions in the Persian Gulf have been a wake up call for much of the industrialised west. Or at least it should be a wake-up call... I suspect the lessons will be forgotten the moment the crisis passes.

While-ever oil and the products derived from it were plentiful and secure, the net-zero/Stop Oil zealots could get away with their fantasies. That the oil and its distribution was under-written by the US navy keeping the world's sea-lanes open and free was lost on these people although they never missed a chance to critique the US's supposed militarism.

But now that the US has decided that the opening of the Persian Gulf is an international problem and that they, the US, won't expend lives and treasury keeping it open, the industrialised world is scrambling to adjust. The PM's of Australia, Canada and Japan are becoming international nomads trying to protect supplies for their respective countries. Europe is in a quandary trying to simultaneously sabotage the US war effort while demanding the US use its military to save their economies from the consequences of decades old policy failures.

The ramifications of all this will be seen for decades to come. Already we see some in Australia calling for a policy that is effectively "Drill, Baby, Drill" and calling for more, not less, refining facilities, quite ignoring the emissions ramifications of that.

Nations are slowly coming to terms with the true meaning of "America First" in which the freedom of navigation is a world problem, not a problem the world relies on the US to solve.

If net-zero wasn't already dead, the current mayhem is the final nail. Fossil fuels are vital to an advanced economy and each country will now need to protect its access to those fossil fuels without relying on the US navy to do it for them.

"That the oil and its distribution was under-written by the US navy keeping the world's sea-lanes open and free was lost on these people although they never missed a chance to critique the US's supposed militarism.

But now that the US has decided that the opening of the Persian Gulf is an international problem and that they, the US, won't expend lives and treasury keeping it open, the industrialised world is scrambling to adjust."

U.S. The 'protector'?
Are you out of you're freaking mind?

Maybe the fact the Persian Gulf was OPEN before Trump started this war (and Albo cheered it on) was lost on you mhaze.
It really baffles me how sometimes people can say things but be completely removed from what they're actually saying.

It's like you're advertising stepping and sliding in a big pile of shite.

Why not just be honest.
For whatever reason you support Israel.
And Netanyahu has wanted a war with Iran for 30+ years.

So Israel got Pedo-in-Chief to start a war that no other President would, that it's had planned forever, and what you want is to send Aussies to Iran to become cannon fodder, (for Israel) to try and open a strait that Pedo-in-Chief got closed when he started a war he can't finish.

Iran controls the Strait, period.
Trump will only make things worse.

Just stop in at the Tehran Toll booth, pay the transit fee, it's no different to a Trump tariff.
You don't even have to pay in U.S. dollars.

You want Aussies to die just to avoid the toll booth.

And really ALL OF IT, is really just about Israel wish to 'get rid of those pesky Palestinians', and further establish Greater Israel.

Everything, since 911.
http://x.com/DrLoupis__/status/2044316160447922657

Incoming global civil war.

Palestinas V's Epsteinlanders.

Sheesh.

AC,
This'll go over your head, but I was taking a longer view than the immediate past few weeks. The age of globalisation was underwritten by the US navy, as much as it would irk you. Australia's prosperity was centred on us being a trading nation but a trading nation that couldn't protect the trade routes. There were many like us, including China. So the world relied on the US navy to ensure the trade routes were open to all.

No more. And the world is struggling to work out what that means.

As to your antisemitic obsession...this will piss you off:

http://x.com/VividProwess/status/2044060608518336896

"Bill Clinton: ““I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza, 96 to 97 percent of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel… They turned it all down. I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians. They wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable."

I'm starting to think the oil crisis a good thing as it might show people where the political activist renewable energy morons are taking the nation. The reason we don't have mines, industry, cheap energy and the associated prosperity comes down to crazy regulation, not economics.

As for Iran, the US and Israel have a number of options. All Iran has is the terrorist option, a card it has been playing for 47 years.