kscarbel2

You're right Paul, the land belongs to the host country. Forgive me. But under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the embassy is considered inviolable......i.e. the host country can't enter without permission). When they burned the US flag, that meant war to me. Now President Trump is issuing payback. .

Embassy property is considered inviolable (the host country can't enter without permission). It's protected by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. Iran did not enter the US embassy grounds in 1979 and throw out the American staff. The American staff was not professionally ordered to leave Iran (expelled) and given any time to do so. Rather, Iran threatened the embassy and staff with harm, and then took the staff hostage for two years.

China is a tough all-around competitor that keeps us on our toes. Russia is calculating, but not a threat to the US. The DPRK is a nuisance, but so is Somalia. But Iran, they committed an act of war when they invaded the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and kidnapped 66 Americans, holding most hostages for two years. This criminal act represented a massive humiliation (loss of face) for the US. The corrective action happening now is long overdue payback. The US is finishing what Iran started in 1979. No American president, Republican nor Democrat, from Reagan to Biden, had the guts (apparently) to confront "Death to America" Iran, until DJT. He had Iran pegged back in the 1980s. Obama and Biden gave them cash.

Wall Street's most powerful banker, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon, back's the Trump Administration's military campaign against Iran, even as the conflict sends oil prices skyrocketing. Jamie said Tuesday that finishing the job in Iran mattered more than the stock market turmoil it has caused, arguing the volatility reflects uncertainty rather than a verdict on the war itself. 'It's much more important that this be successfully completed than what the market does.' He says eliminating Iran's leadership is essential to neutralizing a threat that has festered for decades. 'I mean, I hear some people say, "you know, Iran wasn't an imminent threat." A threat means I'm threatening you. I might do something bad. These people have doing something bad for 47 years. They've been killing people. They've been killing Americans. They funded that terrible Hamas thing ... Americans were killed on October 7 ... they've had proxy wars.' 'Further market turmoil should be expected. The global economy unpredictable. The market will be concerned until it's over.'

A few points. A global oil glut for over a year has largely prevented us from feeling the closure of the strait. But now that cushion is evaporating. Oil is different around the world. The oil needed depends on what you plan to do with it. e.g. produce plastics, motor oil, gasoline, ect. The explosion/fire at the diesel processing facility within the Valero plant (Port Arthur) has a bit to do with our rising diesel prices. But be aware there is a global shortage of diesel. In the national interest, the White House should have an export ban on crude oil, gasoline and diesel. Particularly diesel given the Valero plant is down and Chevron is threatening to close its refinery in California (Richmond and El Segundo) due to costly CARB regulations. Tankers that were carrying diesel from the US to Europe have switched course in the Atlantic, another sign of the global tug-of-war for increasingly tight fuels as the Iran war disrupts supply chains. The Aliai and Minerva Vaso, previously headed to Amsterdam, are now delivering to Durban. The Grand Ace6, previously headed to Gibralter, is now delivering to Togo.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15684781/JD-Vance-tense-call-Benjamin-Netanyahu-rips-Israels-PM-selling-easy-Iran-war-Trump.html

Wow.....dueling ? .

Note Pence's comment at 7:00 This wasn't a moment where America went and started a war. This war started 47 years ago when the Iranian regime took Americans hostage and held them for more than 400 days. Three years after that, with their allies and Hezbollah, they murdered 220 Marines, 20 more service members in the attack on the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. This isn't about starting a war, it's about finishing a war that's nearly 50 years in the making. I think you frame it that way. I think the American people will understand that if we see this through, we're not only we're not only going to defeat an enemy that we've been fighting with for decades, but the world's going to have an opportunity for greater peace and prosperity than ever before in that region and beyond. .