Iran is stealing money from third parties, if Iran is going to toll all ships. There is no moral argument for Iran’s actions here. “US was mean to me” is not an excuse for Iran to be mean to other people.

The tweet is linked, but doesn’t give any details. So we don’t know - and it might well not be true. What can be asserted without proof, can be rejected without proof.

when trump’s a corpse and his admin is in jail, the strait will open the same day

So you think that the terrorist mullahs Iran are just the nicest of people, who don’t care about the $billions of revenue from strait tolls, but just want Trump gone to help the world?

You don’t need to eat food which needs fertilizer? Or you don’t care if your food costs more, because the fertilizer transit had to pay Iran a toll?

And even if you don’t personally care about yourself, you don’t care about the poor indian worker, who pay a significant part of his income for food?

I am guessing he can’t throw Vance under the bus for it since he’s probably on record for saying it was a bad idea. Miller or Hegseth maybe?

As far as I can tell, Trump’s mental decline is so advanced that he can no longer create coherent lies. Some of the messaging around the Iran was has been mindbogglingly and transparently stupid.

So I don’t think Trump will be limited by small details like blaming someone who is “on record for saying it was a bad idea”.

Vance famously said that Trump was America’s Hitler. And then when given the chance for power, enthusiastically became Trump’s VP. Vance is also quite intelligent, if lazy. Vance is obviously a nihilist opportunist.

So my money is on Vance not believing a word of it. But just saying it because Vance thinks it will give him votes when he runs for US President.

The problem is that Trump’s supporters are literally a cult. The GOP are the ones with the power to unseat Trump, and the GOP know that their voters will tear them apart if they unseat Trump. Hence this continuing clown show of least resistence by the GOP.

An alternative is Trump stepping down voluntarily. But in best narcissist style, Trump believes he is the best man for the job, any job. “Only I can fix it”. And the pathological lack of self insight only gets worse as Trump mentally declines.

The Narcissist’s Prayer:

That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal. <-- We are here
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

What does that even mean? The world economy, you and me and other innocent people, wants and needs the strait to be open.

Possibly - but the people here complaining were not very articulate about it…

This shooting war is going to end some way, eventually. And the ending is going to be some form of diplomacy, implicit or explicit. Even just agreeing to pretend each other don’t exist is a form of diplomacy.

The only case where Iran should not care about pissing off Trump, was if the US was totally annihilated. Trump is a madman with a nuclear suitcase.

makes my brain start to believe in 5D chess.

It is really not that deep. Trump is a “mad emperor” in an autocratic system. All his ministers know that Trump is literally demented, but they all know that they will pay if they are the first to speak up against Trump. There has been examples of this throughout history.

So it is exactly as stupid as it seems. I like the term “100 ELO chess”. Here is Google’s description of 100 ELO chess:

100 Elo chess represents the absolute beginner level on platforms like Chess.com, often characterized by frequent, accidental hanging of pieces (leaving them undefended), missing basic one-move checkmates, and limited opening knowledge.

But Iran does need to negotiate. They are being bombed quite a lot right now. Iran is not going to surrender, but they would prefer not to get bombed. Antagonizing Trump is not going to help Iran.

Have you seen how enthusiastic Trump is when talking about the design of the ballroom? Trump loves real estate more than anything. So I think it is all about the ballroom.

Israel will make sure hardliners are in control when the war ends, so they can justify reaching across the border regularly to strike targets for domestic political reasons,

Israel has been hit by rockets by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah regularly. Israel doesn’t want a hard line government in Iran that continues supporting Hezbollah, it is quite simple. No need to invent some tin foil hat justification for Israel.

Inden vi taget champagne-flaskerne frem når Orban bliver slået: Den sandsynlige vinder Péter Magyar er en udbryder fra Orban’s Fidesz, og har mange af de samme holdninger.

For eksempel:

beyond opposing Ukraine’s accelerated accession. Magyar has repeatedly stated that he would not reverse Hungary’s current policy of non-support.

Trump og Republikanerne har jo også åbent sagt at de går efter at opløse EU. Det er nogen gange meget svært at se forskel på vores allierede USA og vores fjende Rusland.

Det er vel meget fair, hvis prisen går op når prisen på komponenterne går så meget op?

Her den anden dag da jeg loggede ind på e-boks, så gav første forsøg en systemfejl i MitID. Andet forsøg, hvor jeg gjorde præcis det samme, virkede. Og det er ikke første gang jeg har set det

Det er altså ikke særligt svært at lave sådan et system, så det ikke fejler tilfældigt. Google’s single sign on fejler ikke tilfældigt hele tiden - sådanne designs kan laves, så de opfører sig deterministisk. Jeg har faktisk svært ved at forestille mig, hvordan Nets kan have fucket det op så meget.

Lavet af samme udbyder, som i 10+ år ignorerede at Danmarks førende kryptologer sagde at NemID ikke var sikker.