So You Want to Take Iran's Oil… || Apr. 1, 2026
Taking Iran's Oil is far more complicated and dangerous than Trump has made it out to be. We're talking about a humanitarian crisis and a full-blown ground invasion to actually control Iranian production.
Iran's main energy resources are split between the South Pars gas field and Khuzestan. Seizing South Pars is the easier of the two, but the fallout would be horrendous. Controlling Khuzestan would require a ground invasion, fighting both local resistance and the broader Iranian military, forcing the U.S. to stay in the region...sound familiar?
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the trump derangement syndrome is strong in this comment section.
You’re in a cult. Not too late to run away from it.
Yes, we have a child in the White House, but does Europe need to act like children also? A bit of YouTube education from William Spaniel. Europe's Surgical Weapon Against Trump's Iran War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYQCbXGJwK4
Oppressed Iranian minorities can overthrow the regime and become oppressed by the United States? Where do I sign up?
AARP.com
So once again, we are driving our truck at high speed straight into a brick wall, and we all sit in the back asking, "Is it too late to turn back?" We should have thought of that in November 2024.
Yes... we're headed straight for an analogy without a metaphorical backup.
I, for one, am optimistic. Anytime you have B-52s, air superiority and a Donald Trump in office means smack downs are back in style. The advanced defense industry needed a theatre to test tech and protocols. We'll see if 2000 marines backed up by the #1 military industrial complex can overrun a softened-up #18 on their own homeland.
Fist pump - "smack downs"
What is Trump going to announce this evening on Wednesday April Fools Day? Is he going to decide victory in Iran and announce that he’s invading Cuba? Will it be that he’s taking the USA out of NATO? Will he show pictures of his phallic symbol Presidential library/ hotel with the huge golden statue of him which is being planned?
So Trump manufacturing problems for the United States in which the US taxpayers are on the hook for the next 20 years.
Ashame the idiot in the Oval Office doesn't reach out to you in an attempt to try and educate himself on what's going on in Iran....LOL LOL LOL. Like that idiot could ever even think of an idea like that.
If this were, uh, "Risk," I would expect Trump to do something stupid with those troops. Karg would be stupid but also not flashy. I'm wondering what's around there that might make a bigger splash, but also look easier to TACO when the thrill is gone. 🤔
Maybe the Saudi’s could do it. We can’t and the vast majority of Americans, including at least half of MAGA, do not want to do it.
The Saudis don't really have an expeditionary force. Their efforts to smash the Huthis with what forces they could muster weren't exactly successful.
Trump wants our (former?) allies to take the oil. The way his juvenile mind sees it is as their problem. From the get-go, boots on the ground were required to deal with Iran's triple threat of nuclear weapons development, Long-range missiles/drones, and support of military proxies. This is not our dear leader's fault. It's the fault of every administration since Jimmy Carter's. The problem we have here is that our dear, incompetent leader is getting very bad advice from his incompetent advisers. They are all playing checkers, and we are stuck with this mess: Trump could-a, should-a, would-a. Our (former?) allies need to get over their hurt feelings. They could always claim that they saved our butts. Now, how would our dear leader feel about that?
The degree of idiotic arrogance and entitlement displayed by the current US junta is mindboggling. That we should save his stupid arrogant ass is a nonstarter. I won't sugar coat this but the world basically hates your country now and quite deservedly. The entire world is also aware that 99% of all the problems the world has ever faced from Iran in the last century were American Zionist creations or the aftermath of same. The criminal pervert running your country did this with the support of 70 million of your electorate. You can figure it out for yourselves. Your former allies are exactly that. Former. You elected a fascist, child molester, rapist, fraudster and thief and expect us to do ANYTHING to help you in any way to correct his mayhem? Kick rocks. FAFO. You laid down with the filthiest of dogs now you can deal with the fleas, ticks and other communicable diseases you have to get up with and you can do it alone. The Iranians have been getting ready for this for 40 years and the halfwits, perverts and fascists you answer to are utterly f'ing clueless and the US will be paying for the crimes of that asshat for generations to come. Sorry, not sorry.
The next new moon is in mid-April. That's the most likely time frame for ground action.
Sadly, Iran will be waiting and ready if so.
I thought today’s episode was going to be a one year review of the liberation Day tariffs or you know the United States decided to put a shotgun to its left foot and pull the trigger and then threaten the rest of the planet by pointing the gun at our other foot… at least now it looks like we decided to put the shotgun down and start playing with grenades at least Congress didn’t live to see this
Thanks to you, we knew about Kharg almost a year ago.
thanks to DICE, i knew about kharg island a decade ago XD
Trump will show Putin just how tough he is by abandoning NATO bcs the defense alliance isn't helping him attack Iran. Then Trump may or may not retreat and let the rest of the world deal with the mess, or may or may not invade and let the rest of the world deal with the mess. Whatever the case, there's a demented madman in the White House with his pack of goons, and they are all stuck too far up in their respective posteriors of self-interest to honestly consider the 25th amendment. So we're all in a mess. At least there is also a market bubble ripe for popping at the same time.
You do realize this has been the strategy from the get-go right? The entire agenda has been isolationist. Because we were going to close down our Middle East bases and leave the region anyway, I think they decided we might as well put it all to use before we abandon it in an effort to degrade their capabilities as much as we could and let Iran and the Arab states deal with containing them in the future. He's going to try to make North America an Island separated from the rest of the world as it all falls apart
i sense this one will be one of the ones you get very wrong, and you get a lot of those
"When you have no clue what you are doing, your enemy will have no clue what you are doing" - Don Tzu
Ya trump's M.O. is to never admit a mistake, blame someone else, double down. So ya, the idiot will invade...
You all are overreacting. Trump is playing 9D Chess
He's too stupid to count to 9. He's playing with himself and making the world watch as he diddles your entire country.
UM said around 12 days ago the Tripoli would "take 3 weeks" and it's there now ... well
What's a few more war crimes? Add them to the already horrifying list. Keep them handy for The Hague.
Uhh… you think Americans can be tried in The Hague? I’m sorry to break it to you friend, W made sure that’s not feasible. https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
In the real world, in the cold light of day, the whole thing makes zero sense. So of course Trump will do it.
If Trump pursues this course it will fail and the USA will cement its position as a bully.
That position has been cemented worldwide for decades.
The forces are going after the enriched uranium. It's just like DJT to confuse the goal of this operation to try to improve the odds of success.
Oh! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah…. Jesus, sure
Basically 2 scenarios. 1 ground war. Or 2. Pack up and leave. The TACO choice is quite obvious. What are the global consequences if the US packs up and leaves
When Trump takes the oil from Iran, will America finally be great again?
As a veteran of the armed forces and someone who is not a fan of Iran, I never thought I would say this, but I hope Trump fails miserably in the war with Iran and it speeds up his political downfall.
2026 sure is a fun year.🥴
Just wait until 2027, it's going to get way worse
This is why he didn’t pardon Diddy. He wanted his oil. And now he got it. Set a terrible example for the rest of the world.
LOL