Trump bombs Iran, what could possibly go wrong?

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Well, the lag created by ending the tax credits for EV's and Trump's policies has set up China to go gang busters with their EV's.

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Ironically other automakers are finally catching up and producing EVs competitive with Tesla.

One of the things that is also happening is that auto companies realized that it made more economic sense to sell their own EVs at a discount rather than not sell an EV and pay billions of dollars in carbon offsets to Tesla.

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Oil prices have soared after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran continued on Sunday night.

Brent crude
prices hit a new 52-week high on Monday, rising 7.6% to reach $78.41 at 6:00 a.m. ET, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate
prices also rose more than 7.4% to $72.01.

Y'know, for a president who got voted in on the promise of lowering prices, and whose popularity is also waning, starting a war in the Middle East doesn't seem to be a smart move. Starting such a war with no other support, either from Congress or internationally, seems to me suicidal.

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Q: who outside of OPEC benefits from the price of oil going up?
A: a guy who stole oil from South America
B: a guy who sells electric cars
C: a guy in Moscow who sells a lot of oil to China
D: all of the above
D. Final answer.

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"I went to war three times and I'm sick of this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQyPPRXDmLU

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MTG says it like it is.
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/marj ... ttack-iran

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Oh, and I just bought an EV (but not a blue Tesla) last week and it might have been a smarter decision that I would have otherwise thought.

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Yes, they are "using AI" but probably not as an overall battle management and information system like the Ukrainians have done. And the Ukrainians are very much in the baby steps phase with that. And such a system has very little to do with what Anthropic does.

I also suspect that nearly all optically (tv) guided weapons in the arsenal now use at least some computer vision AI for final guidance. That is cheap and simple to add, often just a software change. As an example, a pre-AI Tomahawk cruise missile could easily be targeted at a specific building or a part of a larger building. With AI targeting you could tell it which window to fly into.

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I wondered if they were using AI.
Pictures on national news showed Dubai airport damage.
Let's not forget the school for girls that killed dozens. Israel or US bombs.

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WSJ - Hours after cutting Anthropic out the Pentagon uses it for the strike on Iran

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-s ... IbsQ%3D%3D

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Reports are coming in that Iran has launched an attack on the Dubai International Airport and instructed oil tankers that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. This is a rapid pace of regional destabilization.

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WH insider betting

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Iran has struck back with strikes throughout the ME. Dems are trying to force a war powers vote this coming week but without a super majority Trump will be able to veto it. Pictures in the link
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/majo ... dium=email

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this is not going to go well

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-la ... irect=true

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there's a certain irony that the first round of attacks included a strike on a girls' school, reportedly killing 63 girls
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/2 ... -50-people

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So the chairman of the Board of Peace began bombing Iran while we were sleeping

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-57 ... s-trump-us