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But why? Trump already told the rest of the world to buy American oil and to also open up the strait since the “hard part is already done”. Why do we need clean, locally sourced energy?

What a loss. How will I ever move on with my life.

Then why were both US and Israeli officials saying they were doing it in coordination?

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/israel-strikes-iran-natural-gas-infrastructure

“The Israeli officials said the strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration. A U.S. Defense official confirmed that.”

I get the point but I don’t agree with the sentiment. If all we ever do is punish people for doing the right thing, they will stop doing it.

People make mistakes. If they eventually turn around and do the right thing, we should celebrate it and not point fingers for being imperfect to begin with.

Incentives are important. And we need to incentivize more of the behavior we just saw in him.

Lol, no fucking way. I just looked it up and confirmed this is true. Can’t make this shit up.

This is a great point and matches my experience as well.

Exactly. It’s like they can’t read. Everyone knew this shit was gonna happen.

It’s always nice to have some wars in the backlog just in case we run out. Not like we share a common planet with common resources or anything.

It’s pretty crazy to me that zuck let an actual academic like Yann LeCun go for a kid like Alex Wang. Seems like some very short term thinking.

Are you sure about that? I couldn’t find any sources stating that the US has formally been reduced to tier 3.

Something definitely broken in Fetterman’s brain https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2026748211914813850

I assume either Netanyahu or Miriam Adelson.

I’ve lived in both and while the similarities are there, it’s a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

No they are in the room with him and his rich friends. The ones who profited off his crypto scams and insider trading.

Except a lot less fun. That one at least had cool lights, cool buildings, and flying cars. We got rotting infrastructure and Teslas.

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don’t see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

I don’t know, I personally think he did it to please Israel (either by carrot or stick).