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Threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz while provoking the region is the textbook definition of living in a glass house and throwing stones.

US Treasury's Bessent, USTR's Greer raised the need for China to buy more Boeing aircraft, US coal, oil, and gas sources

Published on 03/15/2026 at 06:26 pm EDT on Reuters

Funny, how on every forum there’s always one self-appointed referee declaring everyone else a muppet. Markets go up, markets go down > that’s called investing. The real nonsense is pretending that normal market movement is a personality test. 😄

Embarrassing? That’s rich coming from someone whose argument consists of two insults and a spelling mistake. If knowledge were measured by noise, you’d be a professor — unfortunately, substance still matters.

HI Laura2022,

I fully concur with your assessment, except please kindly clarify the 14% short sentiment, as I am reading abouth 2.7% and rising!

If the Greens took charge and you quit working instantly, the first thing they’d probably do is put you on a bicycle and send you off to plant trees to earn your keep. 🌳🚲

Careful what you wish for — you might end up working harder than before, just with better air and fewer petrol receipts. 😄

Retirment,

Resorting to personal guesses about my age and what car I may or may not drive isn’t exactly the hallmark of a strong argument. When the discussion shifts from the topic to playground insults, it usually means the substance has run out.

If you believe the analysis is wrong, challenge the points with facts or reasoning. Speculating about someone’s age, wealth, or garage doesn’t disprove anything; it just advertises that you’d rather throw mud than engage with the actual discussion.

Retirment,

That’s an easy accusation to throw around, but it doesn’t make it true. An analysis or prediction isn’t “fake” just because you don’t like it or disagree with it. Markets run on forecasts, models, and the interpretation of available data: every investor does it.

If you believe something I’ve written is wrong, point to the specific claim and explain why. Simply shouting “AI lies” without addressing the actual argument isn’t evidence; it’s just noise. Now, skip back into the sandbox and keep playing with your Porsche car toys.

Shareflyer,

Calling something spam is often just a convenient way to avoid engaging with the substance of what’s being said. If the information is incorrect, point out where and why; otherwise, dismissing it with a laughing emoji doesn’t add much to the discussion. Debate the facts, not the label. Maybe you are just a fantasy consultant as well.

Retirment,

''Svend "Once we chart a course past $20 in the New York markets, mark me words — that’s when Turbo Tufan fires the boilers full steam"

lies and fake news''

How and why?

Once we chart a course past $20 in the New York markets, mark me words — that’s when Turbo Tufan fires the boilers full steam. The engines roar, the compass spins, and the good ship Rycey goes absolutely ballistic across the seven seas. ⚓️🏴‍☠️🚀

🙌👍VI

Summed up in one word: Unforgiven

https://www.google.com/search?q=Unforgiven&rlz=1C1ONGR_en-GB__1193__1194&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:301562d4,vid:ftTX4FoBWlE,st:0

Tjbh, £28 in 2028 is spot on. Let's turbo Tufan take off like a nuclear SMR rocket, rising like spring tulips—time to shine high and dry above everything else, to be frank and honest. 🙌IV🍀

TJB,

I understand the point and the desire for people to live peacefully together. But banning religion likely wouldn’t solve the problem. For many, faith is a deep part of their identity and culture, and trying to remove it could create more conflict rather than less.

Religion has played a role in conflicts, but it’s rarely the only cause; politics, power, and economics are often involved too. Perhaps the real solution is focusing on values like respect, tolerance, and understanding between people, regardless of what they believe.

R_P,

Your point about a regional nuclear race already being underway is a fair concern; many analysts would agree that the Middle East has been moving in that direction for years. But that’s precisely why the issue is treated with such sensitivity internationally. Once multiple states begin pursuing nuclear capability simultaneously, the risk isn’t just possession, it’s miscalculation, escalation, and the erosion of already fragile deterrence structures.

Where I would challenge your argument is the idea that the conflict can be reduced to a single individual secretly directing U.S. policy. Governments, particularly in systems with layered institutions like the United States, don’t function that way. Policy emerges from intelligence agencies, defence departments, diplomatic pressure, congressional oversight, and alliance commitments. Suggesting that one foreign leader is the “true leader” of the U.S. oversimplifies a far more complex strategic landscape.

Geopolitics is rarely as neat as villains and puppeteers. More often, it resembles a chessboard where every move is constrained by alliances, domestic politics, deterrence calculations, and long-standing rivalries.

That doesn’t mean every decision is right, but it does mean the explanation is usually far more structural than personal.

L-L-P,

The frustration behind this view is understandable > military action in an already volatile region demands serious scrutiny. But framing it as one leader simply acting at another’s command oversimplifies the reality. Decisions of this scale are shaped by intelligence assessments, alliance obligations, deterrence strategy, and regional security calculations. Whether one agrees with the action or not, it’s rarely as simplistic as personal influence or coercion.

On nuclear weapons, the issue isn’t just “others have them, so why not Iran?” It’s about proliferation risk. A nuclear Iran could trigger a regional arms race, increasing the chances of miscalculation in an already fragile environment. Deterrence can work—but it depends on stability, transparency, and rational actors.

The deeper tragedy is the cycle of fear and retaliation that defines much of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Peace isn’t achieved simply by disengagement, nor solely through force. It requires credible diplomacy, enforceable agreements, and restraint on all sides. Wanting humanity to live in peace is universal > building the conditions for it is the hard part.

“Effective immediately, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable price, political risk insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy, travelling through the Gulf,” Trump said on the social media platform Truth Social.

Trump also indicated that the U.S. Navy stands ready to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.

The announcement offered the first concrete policy response to the energy supply disruption fears that had driven the session’s earlier selloff.

F-15 Suspected In Kuwait Crash

Verified videos show thick smoke billowing in Kuwait's Al-Jahra city, about 32km west of Kuwait City, after a fighter jet crashed. Unconfirmed reports indicate the aircraft may have been Boeing Inc.‘s (NYSE:BA) F-15, reported Al Jazeera. Separate reports from India TV suggested that the pilot safely ejected before the crash and was later seen near the Kuwait-Iraq border crash site, indicating the emergency evacuation system worked properly.

Final? Nay, mate > not the last log of the voyage, just the end of that entry in the ship’s journal.

The Captain doesn’t abandon ship mid-ocean. Plenty more logs to come before we dock at the £20–£28 harbour. 🧑‍✈️⚓