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- I wonder how impactful that debt is. If america simply says "no, we wont pay it back, suck it up" there's nothing iran can realistically do. Same for most countries.by floro
- What impressed me was that the speaker of Iran’s Parliament casually tweeted a tongue-in-cheek variant of a complex economic formula while the president of the US tweeted about being a "STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT".
- This discussion is entirely stupid from the view of Iran.
What is Iran's situation? Spent money on weapons and spreading terrorism in the Middle East. Spent money to build ballistic missiles and nuclear weapon. What is so special about this country vs North Korea? It has oil.
Now it can't export oil or accessing its money on international state.
Don't bother trying to compare to the USA. We have a different problem. Which country you rather be in? Iran or USA?
- And this is exactly why dependency on single-source energy is anti-sovereign.
What's sovereign? Electricity-only to the home, subsidized battery packs in every home, as much solar as possible everywhere, full-spectrum centralized generation (including gas, oil, solar, wind, nuclear) all decentralized as much as possible, etc.
It's already bad enough that several major economies concede energy reliance to potential adversaries, but when one concedes critical financial controls, well, one is F'd AF. I know Ghalibaf won't get the Nobel for Economics, but he should.