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*''[[NYT]]'': [https://archive.is/pAIY9 Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate].

*''[[NYT]]'': [https://archive.is/pAIY9 Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate].

:Don't blame me. [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=2171966 User:Conservative wanted more MSM and less analytical material on MPR]. (Incidentally, the story about the [[Pope]] & the Orange Jesus began with [[John Solomon]] & ''[[Just the News]]'' and was posted Saturday night.) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 16:24, April 13, 2026 (EDT)

:Don't blame me. [https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=2171966 User:Conservative wanted more MSM and less analytical material on MPR]. (Incidentally, the story about the [[Pope]] & the Orange Jesus began with [[John Solomon]] & ''[[Just the News]]'' and was posted Saturday night.) [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|Abnormal is fine. Stupid isn't.]]} 16:24, April 13, 2026 (EDT)

{{Cquote|''What [[Iran]] has done is shift this balance of terror away from the [[military]] dimension to the [[economic]] dimension. Its only way of defending itself against the huge [[American]] [[army]] is not to respond in a similar military way. In a sense, it cannot even respond to the [[United States]] economically by imposing [[economic sanctions|sanctions]] on it. What it can do is close down [[OPEC]]’s [[oil]] [[trade]] with other countries, plunging [[Asia]] and much of the [[Global South]] into [[crisis]]. If Iran is forced to defend itself by a similar bombing of the other OPEC countries and their oil [[export]]s, and by closing down the [[Strait of Hormuz]], then it is saying: 'if you destroy us, we are going to destroy your [[economy|economies]]'....So what Iran has done is essentially force other countries to understand that they have no way of defending themselves except by bringing pressure on the United States to prevent it from attacking Iran, and to force it to withdraw from the [[Middle East]], to withdraw its military forces from all its bases, implicitly including [[Israel]]....That is the [[mutually assured destruction]] that Iran now has, not against the United States directly, but against other countries, forcing them to stand up to the United States.''|||[[Michael Hudson]], April 10, 2027.[https://youtu.be/0ilaswSSBX4 Has the Iran War Created a New Geopolitical Reality?]}}

{{Cquote|''What [[Iran]] has done is shift this balance of terror away from the [[military]] dimension to the [[economic]] dimension. Its only way of defending itself against the huge [[American]] [[army]] is not to respond in a similar military way.... What it can do is close down [[OPEC]]’s [[oil]] [[trade]] with other countries, plunging [[Asia]] and much of the [[Global South]] into [[crisis]]. If Iran is forced to defend itself by a similar bombing of the other OPEC countries and their oil [[export]]s, and by closing down the [[Strait of Hormuz]], then it is saying: 'if you destroy us, we are going to destroy your [[economy|economies]]'....So what Iran has done is essentially force other countries to understand that they have no way of defending themselves except by bringing pressure on the United States to prevent it from attacking Iran, and to force it to withdraw from the [[Middle East]], to withdraw its military forces from all its bases, implicitly including [[Israel]]....That is the [[mutually assured destruction]] that Iran now has, not against the United States directly, but against other countries, forcing them to stand up to the United States.''|||[[Michael Hudson]], April 10, 2027.[https://youtu.be/0ilaswSSBX4 Has the Iran War Created a New Geopolitical Reality?]}}

:"The [[economic]] consequences may prove more immediate than the [[military]] ones. Any sustained interference with outbound Iranian crude risks driving oil sharply higher, with the burden falling first on [[inflation]] sensitive economies already under strain. [[Tehran]] has signaled that price [[escalation]] alone could impose costs on [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] without requiring a direct military response, while [[Chinese]] buyers retain strong incentives to preserve alternative payment and shipping channels.

:"The [[economic]] consequences may prove more immediate than the [[military]] ones. Any sustained interference with outbound Iranian crude risks driving oil sharply higher, with the burden falling first on [[inflation]] sensitive economies already under strain. [[Tehran]] has signaled that price [[escalation]] alone could impose costs on [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] without requiring a direct military response, while [[Chinese]] buyers retain strong incentives to preserve alternative payment and shipping channels.