So the US has 25 weeks, or 6 months of oil reserves left. One thing to note is that most jet fuel for europe comes from persian gulf oil. The US has been supplying Europe with jet fuel (at the cost of American gasoline) since the beginning of the war. If the US stops pumping out of the strategic reserve, there's not enough oil to produce both enough gas to stay below $5 a gallon, and keep the transatlantic/european aviation industry afloat. Iran has nothing to lose by turtling through the mid-terms and into January. They've been preparing for this war for 45 years, and everything is mostly going according to plan.

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CamperBob2 18 hours ago | parent [-]

This just in: Failed casino huckster defeated by country that invented chess. Ric Romero has more on this late-breaking story at 11!

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mna_ 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Nitpick: Iranians didn't invent chess. Four player chess called Chaturanga was developed in India, then it was picked up by the Iranians (in Farsi, it's Shatranj) and later the Arabs (at some point here, it became a 2 player game). Then the Spanish picked it up from the Arabs. The Spanish and the Italians buffed the Queen and Bishop allowing these two pieces much greater movement, and this is chess as we know it today.

	▲	CamperBob2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The best kind of correct! Another way to put it is that while chess originated in India, it was the Persians who gave us the term "checkmate." Which doesn't exactly invalidate my point.