A defense analyst said, "we can't be sure that the administration has met their war aims" and it made me scream at the radio. What aims? They didn't even bother making something up. At least Bush 2 respected us well enough to lie. I have no idea what any of this is supposed to accomplish.
You're watching a nuclear power putter around a marina with fifty brawling toddlers climbing all over the tiller.
But yeah fair callout about Israel.
It's been all throughout the news throughout March and April, here's some examples (please excuse the LLM summary, but summarizing lots of repetitive news links is actually one thing that LLMs do not hallucinate on often):
> March 29-30, 2026: Trump told the Financial Times that his "preference would be to take the oil" and discussed seizing Kharg Island, which handles over 90% of Iran's oil exports.
> April 3, 2026: In a social media post, he claimed that with more time, the U.S. could "OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE".
> April 6, 2026: At the White House Easter Egg Roll, Trump told reporters, "If I had my choice, I'd keep the oil," but noted that he hadn't fully done so because he wanted to "make the people of our country happy" who wanted the war to end
March 29 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-pre...
April 3 - Trump posting on social media https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-makes-cryptic-social-media-2...
April 6 - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/trump-says-he-would...
They additionally said it was to free the Iranian people from the oppressive regime, and later said we would end their civilization if they don’t agree to a cease fire.
I’m sure obtaining their oil is a goal, but it’s not their primary goal.
Any media worth its salt spend a brief time explaining why invading Kharg would mean mass US casualties, while having no critical objectives only achievable by seizing Kharg.
If one of your media sources only echoed "reports of the US looking to seize Kharg island" without that context it was wasting your time for attention.
The war will continue at least up to elections, maybe longer since Zionism has bipartisan support in the US, but they’ll at least have to change the messaging or approach somehow. These ceasefire negotiations are a farce and will invariably fall through. The US will get no benefits and the spin will be how incompetent the Trump administration is for creating another quagmire but there was never anything for the US to gain from this and the real objective of exhausting the US military resources to undermine Iran will have been achieved. They ideally would still like to install the descendant of the last Shah as the new prime minister, but if that can’t be accomplished they’ll just reset the Iranian civilization back 20 years by destroying infrastructure, oil fields, and killing influential and popular leaders.
The only redeeming factor of the Trump admin is that they are genuinely incompetent so this hidden hand influencing our foreign policy is more apparent but they’re not so incompetent to have started a war they have nothing to gain from.
>enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi...
I stopped visiting the HN front page months ago, when all the absurd over-flagging started to happen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory%3A_So_You_Want...
They do not say why in the returned html.
I do not approve of such blockage.
Nevertheless. Knowledge is knowledge. So I post for everyone’s sake.
> Important Dates: Created 4/28/2026
Many an ISP these days blocks domains that have been registered less than a month ago because most scam campaigns have to cycle through domains way faster than that time.
Check if you have enabled some sort of "malware protection" at your ISP, because that usually is based on DNS filtering.
> vial of measles
But it only works on Firefox for me, not on Chrome.
Error Message on Chrome:
Error: Failed to initialize graphics.
at SceneManager.initGraphics (rmmz_managers.js:1957:15)
at SceneManager.initialize (rmmz_managers.js:1929:10)
at SceneManager.initialize (CGMZ_Core.js:1662:41)
at SceneManager.run (rmmz_managers.js:1918:14)
at Main.onEffekseerLoad (main.js:150:22)
at _onRuntimeInitialized (effekseer.min.js:35:44)
at effekseer.min.js:35:327
at Module.onRuntimeInitialized (effekseer.min.js:15:164351)
at doRun (effekseer.min.js:15:164904)
at run (effekseer.min.js:15:165064) > Error
> Your browser does not allow to read local files.
I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...
I played the game for a bit, but I cannot figure how to win. (FYI: Google tells me with bad AI/LLM that it may not be possible to win.) I can finish all side quests except I cannot find Kash Patel's (beer) ping pong balls. I even figured out how to beat the "Weak on Crime Pope" using a magic spell. When I sit on the golden toilet and use Truth Social to post, I "win"... then when I try to leave the building, Theo Von forces me to repeat the game. Also, there are two broken bridges that I cannot fix. Also, I can collect one extra barrel of oil ("lube"), but no idea if I can use this extra barrel.
Related from Wired: "There’s an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War"
I mean it'd make sense for it to loop, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing something or should I just call it there.
