Post #1265098

It took the threat of a blockade to get Iran to completely fold. They lost, they know it, they're finally admitting it because the alternative is not simply physical annihilation, but economic annihilation. Every one of you idiots who believed Iran's propaganda has no idea how the brownoid mind works. The brownoid is hot air. He is sound and fury, signifying nothing. When the legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey was sent to Egypt in 1956 to report on the Suez Crisis, he spent the first two days hiding under his hotel bed listening to bloodcurdling radio broadcasts about how the Egyptians would bathe in the Israelis' blood and spear their newborns on their bayonets. He then realized that Arabs talk like that when they're haggling over cab fare. A lot of threats, a lot of chest-puffing, but nobody ever throws a punch. This is the Iranian equivalent of izzat collapsing. They have been completely exposed. Not only can America glass their entire country, a prolonged blockade will sever them from the world economy entirely. The rest of the world has already adjusted to the Strait's closure and is now buying oil and gas from the U.S. Those are customers Iran will struggle to get back even when the Strait is reopened. The human factor is now being priced in. If you're literally anyone else in the world, do you want to buy oil from a country run by 84-IQ savages who throw a sperg fit, lob missiles at neutral countries, and demand a toll like medieval highwaymen? No, you don't. You're going to buy from the U.S., which has a larger supply and is stable, trustworthy, and won't threaten to sink your ships in the middle of an autistic tantrum. Put simply, this war has completely crushed Iran not only as a military power, but as an economic one. Even if the IRGC clings onto power, they will be a poorer, weaker nation as their customers trade with America instead, and what customers they DO get back will have America dictating the terms of trade. To use an old Cold War term, Iran has been Finlandized. No Iran. The world has moved past the need for Iran.