Iran being a guarantor of collective security and enforcer of international law was not on my bingo card.

Fair enough. Fucks us all economically, but that's a lot ofl lives currently at risk in Lebanon.

The Guardian:

Iran has said it is closing the strait of Hormuz after waves of Israeli strikes in Lebanon in a move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal with the US, signed just days ago.

So, Israel doing the very thing which was explicitly in the peace deal as something that couldn't happen isn't at all the "move that threatens to derail the fragile interim peace deal", it's Iran reacting to the peace-deal itself being broken that's the thing threatening it.

And some people actually think this Manufacturing Consent specialist pro-Zionist English newspaper is left-of-center ...

All you need to know:

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has vowed to keep Israeli forces in southern Lebanon until any threat to Israel is eliminated. Hezbollah has refused to halt its attacks unless Israel commits to withdrawing from Lebanon, which Iran says is also a condition of the deal.

All this chaos cause Israel thinks it can take land to stop attacks instead of triggering more attacks.

Gas jumped .50 today in my city. I should have filled up yesterday.

As soon a s the Stock Market goes DOWN enough to buy cheap then the strait will open so they can sell those stocks they bought.

Buy low, sell high. There is no other way to do it.

Some dude who just bought an F150 at a Carmax somewhere in Georgia

"FUCK, REALLY?"

Shias have the right to defend themselves.

There will be many farmers trying to grow crops without fertilizer within the next twelve months.

I hope for your sake that you have spent the last half a decade practising how to grow your own food. Anything perishable and annually seeded is going to become hellishly expensive next year.

Basically, the straight of Hormuz needed to be fully open by the end of June in order for fertilizer to be cheap enough to be widely used by farmers next year. Since it isn’t going to be open, supply is going to be increasingly starved, and prices increasingly unaffordable the longer it stays closed. We could easily see widespread crop failures due to lack of fertilizer in places where industrial agriculture is dominant. And this will, of course, cascade down through other products like beef, pork, and chicken, as many farms absolutely rely on fertilizer-dependent crops to feed these animals. Food could quite literally become unaffordable for many people.

This is just what unconditional surrender looks like

The most brutal bombings and killing always happen during ceasefires. /s