Feels like right now the US is Wile E Coyote after running over a cliff and he hasn’t looked down yet.
Feels like the economy has been doing that since 2019
Nah, that’s the working class. The ruling class and CHUDs are more like Hong Kong Phooey. They can fuck up as bad as they want, but supernatural good luck will always guarantee them victory.
Call this Hetalia because we are a cartoon character ass nation.
Undialectical. No ruling class rules forever.
There is always “common ruin of contending classes” possibility.
As it stands the oppressed classes seem pretty ruined so at least there’s gonna be revenge
The only immediate solution to this spiraling crisis, according to oil executives, market analysts and diplomats, is a US Navy escort operation – something Trump promised last week would be available to protect shipping assets in short order.
Lmao, I have not seen anything come out about an energy ration. Even in the time of crisis libs and caps can’t imagine not consooooooming
If they tried to enforce an energy ration they’d immediately lose all of the squealing hogs who’d start pumping gas into their truck beds and lighting it on fire in protest
As funny as that image is, I don’t think most hogs could afford to burn gas in protest. They lost their life savings gambling on sports betting
You think those trucks were bought in cash? It’s the 21st century, we finance that shit. Need to roll coal in protest of energy rationing, you put split that three ways on your McDonalds credit card, your Amazon credit card, and barter with the cashier for ammunition or deer pelts
As the conflict with Iran intensifies, the world’s energy arteries are constricting to a point of “nonlinearity,” where every day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed doesn’t just double the economic pain — it multiplies it exponentially.
the math understander has logged on
It doesn’t just x — it ys
Least obvious AI text
Everyone knows 2x2x2… is different from 2^n
Iran has discovered a terrifying new weapon: hyperoperators. They’re bringing 2↑↑2x pain every day now.
but don’t worry folks, we’re bringing the factorials back to America. we’re not just going to make numbers great again, we’re going to make them great again!
FTFY
…doesn’t just double the economic pain — it multiplies it exponentially, logarithmically increasing the pain at a geometric rate to the nth degree
I mean AI text aside how is it wrong, or are you saying it’s because a daily doubling is itself exponential
are you saying it’s because a daily doubling is itself exponential
Yup, that’s what I’m saying! I’m not the kind of person who will get on someone’s case for using exponential colloquially to mean “growing really fast”, but when you explicitly describe an exponential function and then imply that it’s not exponential, that’s just sloppy. Bringing in nonlinearity, which makes it seem like you’re being more mathematically formal, makes it even less acceptable.
The only immediate solution to this spiraling crisis, according to oil executives, market analysts and diplomats, is a US Navy escort operation – something Trump promised last week would be available to protect shipping assets in short order.
“This is a matter that is being studied very closely by the military and discussed constantly,” a senior administration official told CNN. “A lot of progress has been made in coming up with a plan that can do exactly what the president has suggested.”
Step 1: Start war.
Step 2: Plan for the war.
They also avoid discussing the elephant in the room which is the cost of these escorts. Running a bunch of war ships back and forth and using multi-million dollar interceptors would result in this oil being worth more than gold, and that’s assuming they can even guarantee passage. The math here doesn’t work.
It also increases the burn rate on interceptor stockpiles.
The US has two carrier task forces, and I think they’re sending a third, to the region. You’re talking about 11 to 15 destroyers In the area and iirc 3 littoral (edit) combat ships. which probably is not enough for this plan. They need to keep a few of those escorts near the carriers, 2 to 4 depending on how aggressive the Iranians are targeting them. At any given time a few of them are going to need replenishment and rearming of they are seeing persistent attacks. That only leaves a handful, to go back and forth through Hormuz, shooting $1,000,000 interceptors at $1,000 drones until their launchers run dry.
And that’s even before we think about what Iran could do in retaliation to arleigh Burke class destroyers going through the strait. If they actually mine the strait of Hormuz, an already catastrophic situation gets even worse. At least Chinese owned and operated ships, seem to be able to make it through, a few other ships have snuck through at night by turning off all of their radio equipment. But as soon as Iran drops a single mine, nobody’s going to want to risk it.
Yeah, it’s unworkable, these ships can carry a limited number of munitions. And once they go through them, then they have to sail to a friendly port to restock, and then come back. And all that assuming that they can even survive the trip at all. The most likely scenario is that their defenses would be quickly overwhelmed, and they never make it through the strait.
It’s too bad they can’t rearm at Bahrain anymore lol
Off the top of my head, I’m not sure there’s anywhere to rearm outside of going through the Suez or mabie Diego Garcia.
through the Suez
damn, sure would be unfortunate if a plucky little group of chill guys decided to block the other strait that allows access to the Suez from the Gulf… nah that’d never happen, that’s too crazy
They’ve been hauling back to Diego Garcia so far
That’s like a 2-day trip, isn’t it?
In a best case for the US:
According to Google, you’re looking at over 1500 mi (assume 400 mi off the coast of Oman, and a straight line to Diego Garcia). if you’re going at 30 knots, which would almost be redlining their engine the entire way burning an ungodly amount of fuel, you’re talking about 40 hours of travel time. Even if it only takes 16 hours to refuel and rearm, which is impossibly fast, every time a ship has to leave the theater it’s gone for at least 4 days.
More realistically:
2,000 mi at 20 knots, which is a more realistic, is 4 days and 4 hours of travel one way.
AB destroyers have at least 90 VLS cells, assume only half of those are anti-air missiles. Google says about a half hour to load each VLS, which means you’re talking at least 24 hours to rearm. If they pack the ship to the gills with anti-air missiles, it’s more like 48 hours.
So you’re talking about 11 days to leave their formation, rearm, and get back.
Most realistically:
The US Navy has already said that they are not going to be escorting ships through Hormuz anytime soon, because even the most brain dead us admiral can do basic math. If you have 15 destroyers, you need to leave 2 or 3 fully armed with each carrier, that leaves 9 or 11 to run escort duty. If 1/3 of them are either going to rearm or coming back, that leaves six or eight to actually escort tankers. Six destroyers 20 miles apart. Could cover the whole straight, with one or two ships patrolling in between, but that still leaves massive gaps. Perfect for UAV, USV, UUVs to slip through.
To paraphrase the IRA: to pull this off the United States Navy would have to be lucky every single time, Iran only needs to get lucky once, in order to stop practically every tanker from taking the risk even with US Navy escorts. Not to mention the fact, that those destroyers would be sitting ducks the entire time.
Do they not have cargo ships that can resupply them while at sea? Or is loading the munitions too complex of a task for that, so they need to be docked?
US Navy have 14 Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ships for large scale munition replenishment, those would need to be escorted too, and they would need to have ammo to replenish, and US already burned through quite a bit of their stock in war against Yemen.
As far as I know they need to dock, but resupplying at sea wouldn’t really change the overall dynamic that much. You’d still need ships constantly going back and forth to get these resupplies. And the resupplies themselves have to come from somewhere too. Given what we’re reading about existing stocks, it doesn’t sound like that would be sustainable for long.
literal combat ships
littoral? not trying to be annoying, but it reads differently if you meant literal
You are 100% correct. Is the problem with relying on voice to text.
littoral
At least auto-correct didn’t step in and drop a ‘c’…
Of course. The best stealth ships are the clittoral combat vessels… No one will ever find them.
The only immediate solution to this spiraling crisis, according to oil executives, market analysts and diplomats, is a US Navy escort operation
These dipshits are gonna get a Navy ship sunk lmao
Inshallah
Godspeed then.
Step 3: Think whether the war is necessary now.
The Iran war: Oops, all this
panel:sun-tzu-shining:
If you plan for war, you won’t be able to make as much money from insider trading. You see the dilemma they were facing?
“Fire, aim, ready!”
how are you gonna intercept artillery fire
Park a boat in front of it, duh!
All of Trump’s talk about blockade running has gotta have the US Navy sweating. As we’ve seen in the Black Sea and Red Sea, the current paradigm of warfare is not favorable for surface vessels operating near enemy shores.
Why not both?
No mention that both could be avoided if all Epstein forces withdrew from the region and the entity was left to its self-made fate.
Why not both?
