[ExI] Just call me Nostradamus

[John Clark]

*Today the number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day
averages about 12, compared with 130 before the war. The average price of
gas in the United States is about $4.09 a gallon, or $1.10 higher than
before the war, and the price of diesel fuel is $5.65 a gallon, an increase
of $3.80 a gallon. So far the Iran war has cost the Pentagon about $113
billion, and it has cost consumers $90 billion more for fuel. 16 U.S.
military facilities across the Persian Gulf have sustained so much damage
from Iranian drones that they are no longer capable of supporting military
missions making operations in that area exponentially more costly and
difficult.  And the estimated number of Patriot interceptors left in the
U.S. arsenal is down from 2,330 before the war to only 759 now. *

*Nevertheless our Dear Leader King Donald posted a heroic image of himself
<https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-declares-bush-style-mission-182851283.html>
declaring
"Mission Accomplished". But that's not surprising because he had declared
on March 7 only a week into the war that **“We won everything; we have all
the cards” and  on April 25 he  said “We’ve already won ” and he said
on May 4. “I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran
today” *

*Another thing that's not surprising is that the new leader of Iran is an
even bigger religious fanatic and hater of the USA than the old leader was,
it's not surprising because the US attacks had disfigured him and killed
his father.*


*On May 21 of this year I made the following prediction, and today I think
my prediction is looking like it's in pretty good shape. *
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*"1) Iran will make a vague statement that someday somehow it will start
thinking about maybe not having a nuclear weapon, but there would be no
inspections and no penalty for noncompliance because there will be nothing
specific that Iran is required to do. *

*2) The US and Iran will agree to become pirate nations. Henceforth any
ship that wishes to pass through The Strait of Hormuz without being
attacked must hand over protection money, the extorted payments being split
between the US and Iran. *

*3) He Who Must Not Be Named will try to spin this devastating defeat into
"the greatest victory of all time". *

*4) His spin will be successful, at least among his hard-core followers,
because they are hardwired to always believe anything he says." *

 John K Clark    See what's on my list at  Extropolis
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