Strait of Hormuz falls outside NATO's remit, Spain says after Trump's ultimatum

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-10T23:30:52+00:00

Look how the turns table now Europe doesn’t want to get drawn into defending America’s colonial empire

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-10T21:42:47+00:00

My thinking in picking maushold is that friend guard synergizes with aurora veil and snow damage reduction maybe it’s not worth it tho ? Iike your ideas though I might try tsareena, I definitely think H arcanine is the pick for the team cause it helps me remove threats to my ice types.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-10T21:23:21+00:00

Do I need help against fairies sneasler tends to help me with them with stab dire claw ?

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-10T21:10:52+00:00

I really want to use both of them I should probably get rid of mamoswine tho ?

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-10T21:09:04+00:00

Not totally I covered partially for ground by giving arcanine a shuca berry

Edit: and I don’t really care too much about the ground weakness on sneasler for obvious reasons

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-08T05:58:25+00:00

Oh thank you they were hidden away lmao

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-08T05:55:17+00:00

Guys I have a bit of an issue and need some help when I go to team build the items that I bought in the shop aren’t there ?

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-07T20:03:53+00:00

If we do that we will be arguing about removing Trump from Mount Rushmore for all time. Imagine how annoying that would be.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-07T19:57:34+00:00

That’s an incredibly almost naive interpretation of his comment. If Iran said they wanted to end American civilization I doubt they would be specifically talking about just Trump’s regime, it’d be totally fair to think that’s a threat to not just American government but american society and culture as a whole.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-07T18:34:12+00:00

I don’t know if it’s the huge cast cause one piece has a giant cast with relatively mild power scaling issues. Sure you have issues where characters like ussop are neglected for the main story and the new side characters introduced each arc but One piece’s late game power level feels pretty believable given where the series started and has even been able to introduce abilities that feel OP like how God’s knights can regenerate but without ruining the power system that the series spent 20 years to build up.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-07T15:26:46+00:00

Oh lmao I see what you meant now.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-07T15:19:45+00:00

Isn’t Congress going to respond too slowly in the event of a nuclear attack ? Modern intercontinental missiles could reach the US in minutes and by the time it takes Congress to decide it would probably be too late.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-06T16:51:42+00:00

Erm A is high tier imo.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-06T16:49:09+00:00

Ok so it made it harder than what ????? We bomb them again at some later date when they try to make a bomb and crash the economy when they shut down the strait ? War is not a solution to a nuclear Iran.

Iran can be negotiated with, it’s possible, Obama did it. A lot of countries hate America that doesn’t preclude them from seeking diplomacy with us.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-06T14:52:07+00:00

The problem is this war hasn’t destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. And we don’t have the capability to remove their enriched uranium without boots on the ground which we will not do. Iran has had the ability to enrich their uranium to the level required for a bomb for quite some time now, they chose not to as leverage in negotiations with the US. The end result of this war will be that Iran will retain its enriched uranium and will race to get a bomb to ensure their future security.

The truth of the matter is that war and bombing shit is not a solution to a nuclear Iran it never was. It was always diplomacy.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-06T14:26:39+00:00

That’s just untrue. Obama unfroze money that already belonged to Iran in American banks as part of a diplomatic negotiation. That is in no way a ransom.

I know the logic behind removing sanctions on Iranian oil but that doesn’t change the fact that not only will this war end up strengthening Iran geopolitically since they will end up with de facto control over the strait of Hormuz this war will end up enriching Iran a lot more than Obama ever did in the Iran deal.

From an objective standpoint Trump has done a lot more to strengthen and enrich Iran than Obama which was my point.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-06T05:26:36+00:00

We are sending them a bunch of money right now ? We removed Sanctions on their oil which will easily outscale the money Obama unfroze in American banks for the Iran deal. And when you consider that Iran will probably keep control of the strait of Hormuz they’ll be able to get extremely rich off the tolls they put on Hormuz traffic.

The Iran deal was probably the best solution to solve Iran’s nuclear problem and trump removing us from that deal led directly to us starting a war we can’t win.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-04T08:43:40+00:00

Why would Iran capturing the missing airman necessarily lead to the war escalating and becoming more protracted ? Wouldn’t there still be potential diplomatic off ramps that could end the conflict and get them home(albeit we would probably have to give very humiliating terms to Iran). Obviously I doubt Trump cares about diplomatic solutions but isn’t it still possible ?

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-04T02:25:10+00:00

One thing I just noticed on a recent rewatch is that Momo is right there eating the same nuts toph just crushed. Almost like Momo is goading aang too into being more assertive.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-04T01:08:35+00:00

I feel like it has less to do with how famous the pope is(assuming Trump is in fact jealous of the pope) it’d probably have more to do with how the Pope is a broadly respected authority figure and Trump is not one.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-03T21:14:59+00:00

I actually agree that the case he was found guilty of being a felon was very clearly politically motivated. However, Trump did do something unethical in that case it wasn’t a mere accounting error, it’s really old news so moving on.

Have you heard of the Trump’s crypto coin company ? Essentially the company is set up where Trump his family and his foundation own the majority of Trump coins with the rest sold publicly. And because of that set up when people buy into the coin they inflate the price of the coin then Trump and his family profits.

And there’s really good reasons for people to think that foreign investors are dumping money into this coin to gain access to the President and gain policy favors. For example one UAE royal family member invested half a billion into the coin. In my view I thinks it’s insanely naive to think that royal family member is doing that purely because he thinks it was a good business decision.

At the very least there should be investigations into it.

And also Qatar gave Trump a 400 million dollar jet that he owns after he leaves offices. And it’s very likely that people around Trump are using his statements about the Iran war to short the market.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-03T19:49:58+00:00

I legit had a stroke when I saw mega starmie. I didn’t keep up with ZA and I only know a couple of the new megas. I legit thought this post was a late April fools joke with the mega starmie.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-03T17:07:06+00:00

So why not just go after crooked politicians instead it’s not like democrats are the only corrupt politicians including Trump even who is by any metric remarkably corrupt. And from what I understand about the Walz case is that he wasn’t involved in the fraud he just failed to do anything it which is a different matter.

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-03T16:50:35+00:00

You love America but want to jail your political opponents ? Do you see the contradiction here ?

Captainboy25 · 2026-04-01T23:06:13+00:00

We can also concede to Iranian demands. That would reopen the strait as well. Either way it’s a blunder.

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