Also caused a regional environmental crisis by bombing oil facilities. That’s likely to kill a huge number of civilians

The bigger deal, which didn’t make the headline of this article, is that making the switch is cheaper than putting up with a single fossil fuel price jump.

Just that they weren’t deployed in a way that prevents a pilot who knows where the mines are from avoiding them. In the 1980s, tankers regularly transited despite a risk of mines.

Full disconnect is fairly unlikely. You really want the wind and geographical backstops to be reliable and cheap

Still makes a lot of sense to me that they’d try to deploy at least some mines; needing an Iranian pilot to get through the strait would provide one more advantage.

Land mines are still getting widely used in Ukraine despite there now being drones. Why is this any different?

It still makes a lot of sense for them; a set of mines which Iran knows the location of would be pretty dramatically to their advantage, just as it did in the 1980s.

Because:

• It’s cheap
• It’s effective
• It’s hard for the US to prevent
• They haven’t gotten takers on their safe-passage thing

It seems to all be anonymously sourced. Still, the kind of thing I’d be really surprised if Iran didn’t do

Organize escorts for minorities so that people can vote

They don’t have any real power. So its going to be on us to pull that off

Yeah, Trump behaves as if the national interest of the United States is not his top priority.

You rather mangled the URL there. Here’s a simple gift link

I think they annoyed Republicans because they failed to help Trump hawk hats

Always been a risk with ICE and the Border Patrol. About 1% of deportations have long been of US citizens. You need to get a friend to bring your proof of citizenship and try repeatedly to come home if that happens. A lawyer helps too.

Fwiw the US only imports about 5% of its nitrogen fertilizer use.

For US citizens, that’s not so true. People do seem to be getting no-bills from grand juries and acquitted at trial.

No, they’re just being less flashy about it.

The actual statistic is from here I think.

Source for the statistic