What the US has isn't confidence that it's distance. Geographic distance, economic distance, emotional distance. They take 60% of their crude from Canada via pipelines that already exist. They produce record amounts domestically. When the Strait of Hormuz closes (which it basically has), the pain hits Tokyo and Seoul and Mumbai before it ever hits Kansas. I think your observation about resources needs to be pushed even further. The really uncomfortable bit isn't that the US can afford to fight. It's that the US can afford to allow the fighting to take place. There's a difference and it is important. Qatar is literally sitting on half of the same gas field got struck. South Pars on the Iranian side, North Dome on the Qatari side. Same geological body, same molecules, divided up by the fiction of an imaginary line drawn by people who have never spoken to the earth. And now Iran is hitting Ras Laffan because it sees any damage to South Pars as something that should be proportionately answered. Qatar didn't start this. Qatar was attempting to keep out of it. The textbooks won't state it bluntly enough. The countries with the resources rarely have a choice of whether they're in the war or not. Trump requested $200 billion in new Pentagon money. Called it a small price to pay. The people with the resources initiate wars. The people whom are Iwin App the resources absorb them.
What the US has isn't confidence that it's distance. Geographic distance, economic distance, emotional distance. They take 60% of their crude from Canada via pipelines that already exist. They produce record amounts domestically. When the Strait of Hormuz closes (which it basically has), the pain hits Tokyo and Seoul and Mumbai before it ever hits Kansas. I think your observation about resources needs to be pushed even further. The really uncomfortable bit isn't that the US can afford to fight. It's that the US can afford to allow the fighting to take place. There's a difference and it is important. Qatar is literally sitting on half of the same gas field got struck. South Pars on the Iranian side, North Dome on the Qatari side. Same geological body, same molecules, divided up by the fiction of an imaginary line drawn by people who have never spoken to the earth. And now Iran is hitting Ras Laffan because it sees any damage to South Pars as something that should be proportionately answered. Qatar didn't start this. Qatar was attempting to keep out of it. The textbooks won't state it bluntly enough. The countries with the resources rarely have a choice of whether they're in the war or not. Trump requested $200 billion in new Pentagon money. Called it a small price to pay. The people with the resources initiate wars. The people whom are Iwin App the resources absorb them.

What the US has isn't confidence that it's distance. Geographic distance, economic distance, emotional distance. They take 60% of their crude from Canada via pipelines that already exist. They produce record amounts domestically. When the Strait of Hormuz closes (which it basically has), the pain hits Tokyo and Seoul and Mumbai before it ever hits Kansas. I think your observation about resources needs to be pushed even further. The really uncomfortable bit isn't that the US can afford to fight. It's that the US can afford to allow the fighting to take place. There's a difference and it is important. Qatar is literally sitting on half of the same gas field got struck. South Pars on the Iranian side, North Dome on the Qatari side. Same geological body, same molecules, divided up by the fiction of an imaginary line drawn by people who have never spoken to the earth. And now Iran is hitting Ras Laffan because it sees any damage to South Pars as something that should be proportionately answered. Qatar didn't start this. Qatar was attempting to keep out of it. The textbooks won't state it bluntly enough. The countries with the resources rarely have a choice of whether they're in the war or not. Trump requested $200 billion in new Pentagon money. Called it a small price to pay. The people with the resources initiate wars. The people whom are Iwin App the resources absorb them.

What the US has isn't confidence that it's distance. Geographic distance, economic distance, emotional distance. They take 60% of their crude from Canada via pipelines that already exist. They produce record amounts domestically. When the Strait of Hormuz closes (which it basically has), the pain hits Tokyo and Seoul and Mumbai before it ever hits Kansas. I think your observation about resources needs to be pushed even further. The really uncomfortable bit isn't that the US can afford to fight. It's that the US can afford to allow the fighting to take place. There's a difference and it is important. Qatar is literally sitting on half of the same gas field got struck. South Pars on the Iranian side, North Dome on the Qatari side. Same geological body, same molecules, divided up by the fiction of an imaginary line drawn by people who have never spoken to the earth. And now Iran is hitting Ras Laffan because it sees any damage to South Pars as something that should be proportionately answered. Qatar didn't start this. Qatar was attempting to keep out of it. The textbooks won't state it bluntly enough. The countries with the resources rarely have a choice of whether they're in the war or not. Trump requested $200 billion in new Pentagon money. Called it a small price to pay. The people with the resources initiate wars. The people whom are Iwin App the resources absorb them.