They never needed a navy. And to the degree a navy was helpful, it was in the form of fast-attack craft. We don't seem to have hit those much yet [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Islam...
War crimes every day.
https://asiatimes.com/2026/03/trump-us-navy-sank-unarmed-ira...
The were in allied water, on a regularly scheduled drill, unarmed.
Source? Torpedoing anything with the enemy flag, down to civilian boats and merchant marines, was normalized by centuries of precedent by WWII.
That ship was involved in naval exercises at the invitation of the host navy, India.
That ship was unarmed. Nothing unusual there - that was the original plan for the joint navy drills. A large complement of the crew was A BRASS BAND!
The Indian's (and this has been formally confirmed since) communicated to the Americans that this was an UNARMED ship which was about to leave Indian territorial waters on its way home.
So the Americans KNEW where the ship was (they were told) and KNEW it was completely unarmed.
And they sunk it anyway, and refused to pick up any survivors.
Thats a crystal clear WAR CRIME. The kind which is writ large in western history books for 80 years, condemning the conduct of the Nazi Germany submarine units.
A win isn’t diminished because the enemy fucked up. Neutralizing a massive national investment is a military win. Why Tehran didn’t scatter its boats is a chapter for a future manual.
It strikes me as sensible. DRAM being cheaper over decades doesn’t negate the impact of recent price hikes.
Inflation is a bitch. It’s also been the ruin of republics since at least the Romans, possibly sooner.
At the current geopolitical trajectory, I also doubt $147 is anywhere near the limit of where oil is going.
Long-term measurements of value are kind of weird, as your unit of measurement can gain and lose value relative to the units other people are using.
That being said, unleashing this blow on Asia is insanely risky whether it is intentional or no. The Trump administration has a well-earned reputation for not being direct in their warmaking and the Asian's might decide not to go down without a fight. And the US is likely to get nothing but ill-will from the continent for the next generation. And I doubt Trump will politically survive the blows the US economy will take in the process of shredding the global oil market.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oi...
No, Trump and the Republicans currently in power in the U.S. wanted this themselves and acted on their own moral depravity. Letting them scapegoat the decision to Israel/Bibi solves nothing to address the decision making made here (without Congressional approval) in the U.S.
Trump and his Cabinet have agency, and any suggestion otherwise is problematic.
> are specifically in Bibi's pocket
Being in his pocket means they owe him something. They don't. They make their own decisions, meant to be representative of the constiutents that did and did not vote for them. If they go against their consitutents wishes, that was their own decision to make. They are to blame.
The US will be harmed far more than China by consistently high oil prices.
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