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| High Gas ⛽ Prices, Oil Shortages are what is in store for the world, and the United States. The stupidest war since the War on Terror. |
I took a long Vacation to watch the insanity of the Israeli -Trump - US War against Iran . As predicted in my March 2026 post the economic consequences are spilling out all over the world. The Idiot named Trump To put it in a phrase: He and he alone created the conditions that made war possible. He and he alone created the chaos that, he then told the American people and the world, made war necessary by kissing up to Bibi Natanyahu. This war is probably the war that's going to drag out till the end of the year , probably going to get worse. It depends on the madness of Bibi Natanyahu and Donald Trump.It was only when it became clear that it wasn’t easy that Trump settled on his current rationale for the war (that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon). Because at first, the rationale was regime change. And we took out the supreme leader, and Trump probably thought well, that was that. But that just handed everything to the supreme leader’s son, who is more radical, and whose father, wife, and son were killed by U.S. bombs. The war was orchestrated by Israel. They have compromised the US gov't. Make no mistake--it was a deliberate and methodical act on their part. Simply characterizing it as "dumb" misses just how pernicious their influence in the U.S. has become.The series of decapitation strikes were also designed with only one thing in mind: to start a protracted religious war that would make any subsequent negotiation/compromise difficult, if not impossible. Such is the case with Trump’s claim that he didn’t know Iran might attack its neighbors and close the Strait of Hormuz in response to his joint attack with Israel. Trump insisted that none of the experts thought this possible when in effect just about every expert thought it was both possible and likely. What we have, what we are doing is UNSUSTAINABLE. Historically, surging oil prices have often worked against the ruling party. The second oil shock triggered by the 1978 Iranian Revolution caused international oil prices, which were around $12 per barrel (approx. 159 liters), to skyrocket to $31 per barrel, leading President Carter to suffer a crushing defeat in the 1980 election, with Republican candidate Reagan securing 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49. In 2008, when West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices hit a record high of $147 per barrel, the average U.S. retail gasoline price exceeded $4 per gallon. Changing direction will never, ever come voluntarily as long as big $ is calling the shots. Trump is the predictable result of an electorate that is ignorant, short sighted, and superstitious (religious). Gas prices are also a key keyword in understanding the current Iran war. Trump often said, "I want Iranian oil." Although international oil prices surged from $70 to $110 per barrel in the early stages of the war, when a U.S. victory was expected, Trump claimed, "The U.S. is the world’s largest oil-producing country. If oil prices rise, the U.S. makes a lot of money." However, as U.S. gasoline prices exceeded the psychological threshold of $4 per gallon in April,The system will fail sooner or later…it already has, but Trump has thrown gas (ha) on this nascent dumpster fire. Our unaffordablility crisis is ignored by the donor class because they wrongfully think they are immune. Trump really thought Iran was a lame duck and was not a real regional power, as if it were Venezuela or something. Iran is a hornets nest in a crevasse, and there's no way to get the hornets to go back into their nest, at least not without a negotiation where the US actually gives something... which would be too embarrassing of an agreement in Trump's mind.All the shit that has happened (including today's LNG strikes against Iran), would be pretty tough to forgive if I were an IRGC commander. I see no agreement to end hostilities being possible without major concessions from the US and even then who knows Israel's willingness to stop or even negotiate. Middle East conflict that feels stuck in place while the consequences keep escalating. Oil prices have surged past $100, the U.S. is burning through thousands of missiles, and tensions with Iran are still boiling beneath the surface as both sides escalate in the Strait of Hormuz. At the same time, the ripple effects are hitting closer to home — from rising fuel costs to surprising supply chain impacts that could drive up everyday prices in ways most Americans didn’t see coming.Their comfort and safety are illusions that will dissolve in time like morning fog on a sunny day.“I think we won,” the president said on Wednesday. “Now we have to get what we have to get.” But what the U.S. wants to get may be impossible — and that means this whole conflict will end with something less than a win. Trump has hastened the collapse of systems built on fossil fuel, toxic and costly farming techniques, inadequate healthcare and education. And the grand irony? Trump’s “Golden Age” will burn down and a better world will rise from the ashes of his destruction.






