Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran

(barrons.com)

28 points | by mhb 2 hours ago ago

11 comments

  • thinkindie 25 minutes ago

    How busy are pizzerie around the Pentagon?

    • tptacek 24 minutes ago

      For what it's worth, that whole thing is apparently bullshit.

      • TrainedMonkey 2 minutes ago

        Can you cite your sources? My understanding is that based on past data there is strong correlation between special military operations, people working late in pentagon, and takeout places in the vicinity having a spike of orders.

  • jaybyrd an hour ago

    its seemed very deeply like we (i live in the united states) are going to be getting into a conflict with iran FARRRR more likely than a conflict with greenland despite active threats from the president. iran just feels more like something we would get involved in, The Sandbox TM

    • observationist 33 minutes ago

      The idea of conflict with Greenland is kayfabe - it's all posturing and bombast. There's a significant probability that the Trump admin attempts and possibly succeeds at buying Greenland. Not usual for the last 5-6 decades, but in a historic context, fairly normal for nations to do this type of thing. There are legitimate strategic and economic arguments for it - not sure that I buy the arguments, but I can certainly entertain the ideas.

      Iran is a sticky situation. It looks like the Trump admin is poised to chip in some missiles if it looks like they can tip the balance definitively for the protesters, but according to the intel accounts, the current positioning of assets means they're still at least a few days away from acting. That could be a deception and at any moment the current regime could get erased, so it's probably prudent to get the hell out of Dodge before the missiles start flying, or before the total crackdown and enforcement gets escalated, in the other direction.

      • ekropotin 10 minutes ago

        > The idea of conflict with Greenland is kayfabe - it's all posturing and bombast

        Given the times we live in, I won’t rule out any, even most crazy, possibilities.

        If someone told me (Russian) 20 years ago that we’ll invade Ukraine, I’d think it’s some kind of terrible joke. But here we are.

      • lateforwork 14 minutes ago

        > possibly succeeds at buying Greenland

        If he succeeds at that then Canada will be next.

      • lovich 23 minutes ago

        I remember those halcyon days long in the past in the ancient days of 2024 when the idea that we might invade another country with this admin at the helm was poo pood as extremism.

        Luckily the Greenland situation is different and we definitely haven’t been going through weekly events “that could never happen”.

        As we all know, President Trump is completely comfortable with the word “no” and has been the greatest defender of international law and diplomacy between sovereign nations.

  • dyauspitr an hour ago

    It’s going to be a fight in Iran. Most of the population still supports the ayatollah.