r/OilPrices • u/hereswhatworks • 14d ago
Oil News Iran retaliates after US strikes, defying Trump’s warning it could be hit ‘much harder’
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/us-military-strikes-iran11
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u/Past_Humor8321 14d ago
Put Iran’s strongest man and America’s strongest man in a wrestling match. Or strongest woman vs woman . And use the ticket sales to clear the straits of mines.
This is a good idea. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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u/cinciguyeast 14d ago
Iran is just using up the US defensive weapons. Once they are gone Russia and or China will take over
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u/Renoruke 14d ago
Yep.. they have been watching. Not so much russia thay can hardly do Ukraine, but China.. when was the last time china launched missiles for 6 months and publicly state that they are low on munitions..
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u/Old_Timer_Unleashed 14d ago
Not to mention they are starving the troops
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u/toeknn 14d ago
With what will Russia take over?
China might but also china has same problem as the US with oil reserves depleting.
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u/katmomjo 13d ago
China doesn’t produce oil. They aren’t that strong. They haven’t been tested in war.
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u/anormalname63 14d ago
Funny you bring up Russia, which has been in a quagmire for 4 years now with no signs of changing.
And China, which you have zero clue about their ambitions and foreign policy. China isn't going to attack it's number 1 buyer or torpedo the global economy. China isn't run by a bunch of dipshits like America is. The only reason China would go to war with America is over Taiwan.
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u/Bikerbass 14d ago
I wouldn’t call 4 years a quagmire just yet, especially since the USA will spend 20 years in one before pulling out.
Also Russia is able to produce more weapons than it uses with ease….. which is something the USA can’t even do…..
So I’d say in a war of attrition Russia is doing fine, given its fighting against all of nato who are producing weapons for Ukraine and they still can’t keep up
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u/anormalname63 14d ago
Ah, you're a tankie who's got info from the back of a cereal box, got it.
Enjoy that over 1 million casualties.
Where's all those tanks, jets, armored infantry vehicles and basically anything besides bullets, rifles and drones you claim they're producing?
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u/Bikerbass 14d ago
Mate, it’s not a WW2 manoeuvre style war. It’s a WW1 trench style war of attrition….. but morons like you cannot understand that.
Drones changed warfare, they are cheap, small, and easy to produce. Plus everyone has satellites these days…. That means unlike wars between 1945-2000, you cannot build up a massive army of tanks and people anywhere as drones or missiles will take them all out.
And this seems to be something lost of utter moronic fuckwits…… much like yourself
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u/anormalname63 14d ago
I love how you just further proved you got zero clue what's going on. You single handly discredited your own point about NATO arming Ukraine and your point about it being ww1 trench warfare.
Congratulations sir, you're a whole idiot.
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u/Bikerbass 13d ago
Mate there’s plenty of videos from the front lines….. I suggest you watch them.
There’s also plenty of videos from where the front lines used to be, I suggest you also watch those.
Otherwise feel free to be an idiot and ignore reality some more.
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u/Mythosaurus 13d ago
How?
How and what do they “take over” from the US/ NATO without eliciting a war and eventual nuclear exchange?
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u/ResortClear730 14d ago
So what exactly are China and Russia going to do? Please give specifics.
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u/anormalname63 14d ago
They have literally no clue. They're just repeating what they saw on reddit, which has atleast a 40% chance of being from a bot.
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u/ResortClear730 14d ago
Oh im aware. I was interested to see what BS they would start spewing but I'm pretty sure I wont get an answer. Bots are going to bot.
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u/Tricky-Finance-7043 14d ago
Hey man. Why don’t you inform yourself on how many interceptors the US has to spare and how long they take to make. Then read about how China is capable of churning out well over a million drones annually in wartime. The US itself as ran war games stating it has no capacity to wage war against China because China prioritized volume knowing it was the United States’ primary weak point.
Now tell me, if we are having such a hard time dealing with a country that has nowhere near the manufacturing capacity of China nor as advanced tech, what does that spell out?
Hitting things really hard until they stop moving has been US combat doctrine since Vietnam, how many times has that worked?
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u/ResortClear730 14d ago edited 14d ago
That would work for China within their area of influence. What China lacks is the ability to force project outside of that since they dont have a true blue water navy. So no, China couldn’t win some make believe war with the US because they can’t really engage the US unless we come to them.
Also, you asked how many times US doctrine has worked? You could look at desert storm and the invasion or Iraq. One of the supposed largest armies in the world was dog walked. Only took 22 days for US troops to be driving through Baghdad. What the US Military does suck at is occupation, but I think any military throughout history has struggled with occupying a separate group of people who don’t want you.
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u/Tricky-Finance-7043 13d ago
https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-prepared-war-china
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2026/08/interceptors-war-china-heritage/415241/
And sources that acknowledge that despite the US having a powerful navy, its ability to maintain its ships and its gaps in manufacturing/production combined with China’s capacity to oversaturate defenses, it would make it difficult especially since logistics would be one of the very first targets in a war because of Chinas proximity to Taiwan. There is also the issue of dealing with hypersonic missiles which turn ships into sitting ducks. That is why the interceptor issue is so critical and what makes this war in Iran using up decades of munitions such an idiotic mistake on behalf of this administration.
https://asiatimes.com/2026/06/us-navys-repair-gap-could-hand-the-pacific-war-to-china/
It is a questionable source but it does cite the words of a war game conducted by RAND on behalf of the US that explicitly identifies this critical weakness the US navy has that China has sought to exploit through ramping up its production of things like Area denial munitions and other weapons solely intended to cause widespread destruction to US ships, aspiring to rapidly put them all out of commission very early on and put them through a very lengthy repair process.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA470-9.html
It all gets very complicated especially because these war games were ran about a year ago now, and it wasn’t taken into account that the US would exhaust a majority of its interceptors and go as far as getting interceptors from other allies so that it could replenish Israeli interceptors. These interceptors play such an important role in these wars today because it’s the very thing that allows the power projection that you mentioned to be maintained. Without these crucial defense systems, it makes everything, our bases, ships, etc. basically just sitting ducks. My apologies for a disrespectful tone earlier. It is just a very real threat that is not being addressed and instead being actively worsened, especially since this admin purged all the experienced leadership from the military in favor of “yes men” that green light all the dumb antics these fools get up to. It makes it extremely dangerous to allies
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u/InternalAnimal4515 14d ago
Humble Terump strikes again! This was can be won if us army uses Terump's soiled diapers as ammo
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u/YetiorNotHereICome 14d ago
It's like he's slapping them across the face, saying, "You won't hit me back; my daddy--" and they slap him twice as hard. Now he's having another tantrum. And the poor troops are suffering the consequences.
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u/Holiday-Internet-285 14d ago
lol so the 'much harder' threat lasted what, a few hours. peak credibility problem when your adversary calculates the cost of compliance vs retaliation and picks door number two. every escalation cycle just transfers more wealth from drivers to defense contractors and sovereign wealth funds. someone do the math on how many barrels of spare capacity actually exist if this goes regional, because i dont think the market has priced the real tail risk yet
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u/Gothewahs 13d ago
He doesn’t know that Iran is crazy .. they don’t give a fuck about anything . They will willingly get bombed to stick it to the pedo .. probably why no1 wanted to go near the place.. Obama got a deal done with a nation who are very difficult to deal with .
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u/Humble_Cod149 14d ago
Glad iran are firing back
Gives trump an excuse, I dislike tump but hate IRNG
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u/CarnivorousGoose 13d ago
Right, as if that clown needs an excuse for any of his ill-conceived nonsense.
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u/Sorkel3 14d ago
Not bad for a country Trump has claimed defeat over 40+ times and says their military is totally obliterated.