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Nicholas Scholten's avatar

Yes, the petrol dollar is now dead. Iran is selling oil outside the dollar.

TomD's avatar

Elsewhere I'm seeing prediction of famine in the next year. With the increased cost of everything involved with growing food, as you've outlined here, it may not matter as so many will not be able to afford to buy anything. A sad scary time for many already struggling and many more who soon will be.

David Haggith's avatar

"Elsewhere I'm seeing prediction of famine in the next year. With the increased cost of everything involved with growing food, as you've outlined here, it may not matter as so many will not be able to afford to buy anything. A sad scary time for many already struggling and many more who soon will be."

And the particularly scary part is that the damage is already done. It cannot be prevented by slamming the brakes on the war now. We've crossed that bridge. The best we can do is not make it worse; but news in the past two days from the Don and from the mullahs sounds like both sides are storming toward making it worse TONIGHT!

Who is going to stop the madness of Donald Trump who just said he will bomb all their bridges and ALL their electrical power plants if they do not open the strait now? To which they responded, "No Ceasefire! You do that to our citizens, and we launch missiles at all the same civilian stuff in all the surrounding countries tonight!"

That means the next step, scheduled for tonight if someone doesn't talk the idiot Trump out of his madness or just stop him, will be scorched earth! That kind of attack, IF Trump does what he actually said over Easter he will do tonight, would kill millions of people. No electricity throughout the country, and all major bridges taken out means no water and great difficulty trucking water and food and no AC OR VENTILATION in large buildings that require HVAC. Partially disabled hospitals. Almost all nonworking clinics, which likely lack generation abilities. No refrigeration of food.

dean myers's avatar

The Empire of collapse is so heavy and large,,no scale can be found to judge the ending !!