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Re:Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oi... by MrBuddyCasino on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:40AM (#47307273)
> Take it to the final form. It's game theory. The US is promoting system that enables a Nash equilibrium. By playing by the US' rules you empower yourself and you empower those around you. And the US takes a service fee for operating the market.

This is what an empire, that is competently run, should do. The US is not an empire, and it is not competently run. It has no attributes in common with empires of history. It does not occupy foreign lands, it does not extract taxes, it does not (directly) control foreign governments. If anything, in this case, the US is under the control of a foreign government.

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Re:Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oi... by whycombigator on Monday March 09, 2026 @08:35AM (#47308254)
I suspect it's under the transactional control of whomever provides the details for a sufficiently large bitcoin wallet to Steve Witkov
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