He weaseled out of having to commit war crimes and, as of 910 EST, the strait is not open except under “condition via coordinating” with the IRG.

Which means the strait isn’t open without conceding something to the Iranians. They literally believe they are winning solely due to the regime still being in power. They’ve shown they can bring the US to its knees via the strait and that there is no political will in the US for Trump to actually do what it would take to open it without conditions.

But yeah, the toddler is playing 5D chess lmao. All this war showed is that the Iranian regime is not going to be destroyed by the air and that the Iranians, though they can’t match up militarily with the west, can still cause much more significant pain economically.

Every person telling their rep they are behind them is one more reason for them to stand tall. Keep at it

Dont we fucking all

No no its more that he does a really good job of trying to present “both sides” (understanding some of those arguments are complete bullshit) but sometimes doesnt spend enough time either debunking or recognizing valid arguments.

I say that agreeing with his general point on a lot of stuff.

John Oliver, who has his own problems, does a really good breakdown on how the original idea got spun so far out of the intentions. Essentially its exactly what you said below in a nice 20 minute video. Good stuff.

Only an absolute buffoon surrounded by incompetent yes men could be handed a hard right dictatorship fresh off its latest round of mass civilian murders and somehow give them the moral high ground.