Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike

Post by Hikikomori » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC

bluGill wrote: post #38

ck2 wrote: post #11

btw fertilizer prices are now 40% higher this is going to destroy world economy on every angle fuel and now food it's like the Israeli's figured out the answer to their problem was to make it everyone's problem how about we stop giving them offensive weapons, defensive only or we'll be going through this every decade

Why are you blaming Israel? Iran has been fueling the fires for year by send piles of money and weapons to anyone who had a serious plan to attack Israel. Not that Israel is perfect, but there is plenty of blame to go around and recognizing that reality is required before we can even try to think of a solution. (I don't have one)

Post by pphysch » Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

gljiva wrote: post #119

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No one denies that Iran has strategic partnerships in the region. The question comes down to whether you believe armed resistance is ever legitimate or you blanket-dismiss it as "terrorism", in order to justify the territorial encroachment, ethnic cleansing, or mass murder that is brazenly perpetrated by Israel.

Armed resistance is legitimate as long as harm to civilians is carefully avoided. Let's not downplay it as "strategic partnerships" and "armed resistance". It is terrorism. Both sides perpetrate it.

Post by dzhiurgis » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 12:57 AM UTC

ifwinterco wrote: post #107

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It's Israel's behaviour that is causing antisemitism. There is a theory that they actively want this, because it encourages people (often with significant human capital) to leave western countries and move to Israel. This is not a new thing, Theodor Herzl famously said that antisemites were zionist's best allies

Post by triceratops » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

PolygonSheep wrote: post #122

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That's not a solution. A solution is something you can actually do.

They can restart them and/or build new ones. Fission isn't some lost technology like Greek fire or Damascus steel.

Post by SV_BubbleTime » Thu, Mar 19, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

1718627440 wrote: post #68

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #5

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EU has had a lot of time to recognize the situation they have been in regarding energy. Sorry, but this will never not be not amusing. Where Trump being a stopped clock warns the UN about relying on foreign energy and the German delegation laughs as they were shutting down their nuclear and increasing reliance on Russia for energy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfJv9QYrlwg

> EU has had a lot of time to recognize the situation they have been in regarding energy. There is no case of they just needed to pay attention earlier. The problem is known. There is just no good solution. Drastically scaling back energy consumption isn't going to happen any time soon and would harm the economy. So we can choose between Russia, the Middle East and the USA. Best would be of course to reduce fossil us…