The Two Week Cease Fire Deal Is A Positive Development!

[EdwinAMartin]

If you were right I wouldn't be corrrecting you.

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Note Saudi Arabia (4.89%) and Iraq (3.31%) etc, those numbers to do not sum to 0%.

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Mideast Accounts For Lowest Share Of U.S. Oil Imports Since 1970s

The U.S. in 2025 imported a record 84.26% of its oil from within the Western Hemisphere, the ninth consecutive year of market-share increase. Canada led the way.

www.forbes.com

Please share a source that supports your claim that the US imports 0% oil from the ME, take your time...

Note they are last year's numbers, and before the war, not today's, and you purposely avoid that fact, for obvious reasons.

See that slight drop? lol we're just getting more from local supplies in our own hemisphere, is all. We don't need your oil.

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See that big jump in imports from Canada the last couple of months? We replaced the ME imports just from Canada alone, before the war started. It;s called thinking ahead, something terror oriented regimes can't do.

Weekly U.S. Imports from Canada of Crude Oil (Thousand Barrels per Day)

See that climb in Venezuelan imports the last months?

Weekly Preliminary Crude Imports by Top 10 Countries of Origin (ranking based on 2024 Petroleum Supply Monthly data)

We're doing fine, and you're not.

 

[Churchill]

Note they are last year's numbers, and before the war, not today's, and you purposely avoid that fact, for obvious reasons.

I see, so a temporary cessation due to war, in your mind means your country doesn't consume Gulf oil.

So if there was a temporary shortage of beef, you'd describe yourself as someone who never eats beef?

How profound.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I see, so a temporary cessation due to war, in your mind means your country doesn't consume Gulf oil.

I see you're confused and struggling. Too late. We never had a shortage, and the war isn't why the prices are up here.

 

[Churchill]

I see you're confused and struggling. Too late. We never had a shortage, and the war isn't why the prices are up here.

Look at the chart, the rise coincides to the start of the conflict with Iran.

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If you regard that as mere coincidence then go right ahead.

 

[toobfreak]

Israel violated the ceasefire in less than 3 hours from its start.

You don't know that Israel was even part of the ceasefire agreement. The agreement is with Iran and they were not bombing Iran, they were still attacking Hezbollah to the north in an entirely different country of no concern to Iran, besides, I was watching TV after the ceasefire and they had a reporter in Tel Aviv, and while I watched he counted at least 5 missiles lobbed into Israel from Iran including one which sounded like a cluster-bomb, and that WAS a direct violation of the ceasefire.

You just better watch out what you say about Israel or they just might come up to Moscow and kick your Slavic ass! Russia is weak, Putin is a castrated lamb, and Israel can take Russia out anytime it wants to.

 

[Zavulon]

You don't know that Israel was even part of the ceasefire agreement. The agreement is with Iran and they were not bombing Iran, they were still attacking Hezbollah to the north in an entirely different country of no concern to Iran, besides, I was watching TV after the ceasefire and they had a reporter in Tel Aviv, and while I watched he counted at least 5 missiles lobbed into Israel from Iran including one which sounded like a cluster-bomb, and that WAS a direct violation of the ceasefire.

Lebadon was a part of ceasefire. Israel knew it and deliberately violated it.

You just better watch out what you say about Israel or they just might come up to Moscow and kick your Slavic ass! Russia is weak, Putin is a castrated lamb, and Israel can take Russia out anytime it wants to.

Bla-bla-bla .... Israel still exists only because Russia is merciful. But even Russian patience has limits. As some of us say - "From the river to the sea - territoriya Rusi!"

 

[toobfreak]

Lebadon was a part of ceasefire. Israel knew it and deliberately violated it.

Prove it.

Bla-bla-bla .... Israel still exists only because Russia is merciful. But even Russian patience has limits.

Israel owns you. Soon, your national language will be Yiddish.

 

[Zavulon]

Prove it.

Israel owns you. Soon, your national language will be Yiddish.

Or, what is more likely, the Federal language of Palestinian federation (with both Jews and Arabs oblasts) will be Russian.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Look at the chart, the rise coincides to the start of the conflict with Iran.

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Gas Station Price Charts - Local & National Historical Average Trends - GasBuddy.com

Compare gas and crude oil prices over time for the US Average, Canada Average, and your hometown. View charts for the past month to 10 years.

www.gasbuddy.com

If you regard that as mere coincidence then go right ahead.

I've already pointed out the cause in several posts, moron.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

You don't know that Israel was even part of the ceasefire agreement. The agreement is with Iran and they were not bombing Iran, they were still attacking Hezbollah to the north in an entirely different country of no concern to Iran, besides, I was watching TV after the ceasefire and they had a reporter in Tel Aviv, and while I watched he counted at least 5 missiles lobbed into Israel from Iran including one which sounded like a cluster-bomb, and that WAS a direct violation of the ceasefire.

You just better watch out what you say about Israel or they just might come up to Moscow and kick your Slavic ass! Russia is weak, Putin is a castrated lamb, and Israel can take Russia out anytime it wants to.

Like Iran, they've also threatened to throw around nukes. They deserve the same treatment.

 

[Churchill]

I've already pointed out the cause in several posts, moron.

If no war had erupted in late Feb, would the US average gas price chart still look like this today jackass?

 

[EdwinAMartin]

If no war had erupted in late Feb, would the US average gas price chart still look like this today jackass?

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So you still don't know what you're babbling about, even when the facts are handed to you. You can't, read, can't do math, and can't stop babbiling.

 

[Conservative from Georgia]

Many critics are grabbing public megaphones to criticize the "Iran War 'Two Week' Cease Fire Deal" but they are not advocating for what is in the best interest of the American people. Leaders in America need to be honest and wise at this juncture of the war the best outcome for the war is to end it as soon as possible and in so doing get the Strait of Hormuz opened back up so the great harm to the world economy caused the closure of the Strait can be stopped. The strategic aims of the war are never going to be achieved because to do so would require a high casualty ground war in Iran and the American people are never going to sign on to such a plan!

This cease fire deal is a great development because it could provide the Trump administration an off ramp to the war. I am not being naive here the Iranian "ten point plan" which apparently will be the starting point for the negotiations has no chance of being made a permanent peace deal both Republican and Democrat members of Congress would never sign off on it as a matter of fact if such a deal was attempted to be implemented the country would probably see many key players in the administration resign! But the great value in the two week cease fire deal is that it will bring an end to reciprocal bombing by Iran on one side and the U.S. and Israel on the other side and it will reopen the Strait of Hormuz thereby stopping this blockage stranglehold on the world economy. O the world will see fierce negotiation by both sides throughout the next two weeks and maybe slight hopes for a deal will pop-up from time to time but at the end of the day no deal will be reached because the gap between the two parties is too large to bridge. This time will give leaders throughout the world that have influence with the major players to get them to understand that the economic cost of this war is too great it is intolerable if it continues it will throw the world into a severe recession. At the end of the cease fire period practicality will cause the U.S. to stop the bombing campaign the temporary reopening of the Strait will give the Trump administration the cover to believe that if the U.S. ends the hostilities the Strait will remain open. Also, President Trump went too far with his bellicose rhetoric the President was planning to end Iranian civilization in the world if he didn't get a deal Mr. Trump the American people are a good people we would not be letting you wipe out a civilization. President Trump was on a trajectory to commit War crimes if this war continued and that would have gotten him impeached and thrown into jail for many years (President Trump remember you are not the President of Russia) this two weak cease fire deal that will morph into an unwritten permanent cease fire deal is the off ramp that President Trump desperately needs!


Critics are way out of line saying that this cease fire deal legitimizes Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz and so the Iran regime will lawfully be able to treat it like the Panama canal and charge a toll or fee for passage. This is completely bogus and illegitimate prior to today any ship navigating the Strait without the authorization of the government of Iran was as great risk of being hit by a missile, drone or mine so if now we only have an oral broad cease fire agreement where one of the supposed points of agreement is that the Strait of Hormuz will restart allowing free passage of ships as a practical matter you want the Iran government aware of and authorizing the transit of each ship so the respective ship isn't sunk or set on fire for some of these ships cost one billion dollars a piece. These critics are way out of line the evidence was overwhelming that the Iran government at will had the power to shut down the Strait of Hormuz the have these underground bunkers on the coast where they have hundreds of small speed boats to drop mines and they have an abundance of anti-ship missiles. Iran stands now and two weeks from now when the cease fire deal is informally allowed to continue in the same state they did forty-one days ago the Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway where no country has the legal right to obstruct maritime traffic and that is it there is no exceptions here!

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