So we have a new deal. Like all the previous deals? If so, don’t count your chickens. The clowns running this shit show have done nothing but lie from the beginning.

If we do indeed have a deal, what are the details? I’ll bet there are few (Trump doesn’t like long memos) and not very detailed (Trump gets bored with details).

Before the war, negotiators were working on the uranium problem. No one is talking about that now.

Before the war, the Strait was open. It’s not open yet and it will be a while before it is, peace deal or no peace deal.

Before the war, 120 Iranian schoolgirls were alive. Now they are dead from an American bomb.

The United States shot off a lot of munitions. We lost some aircraft and suffered some casualties. We deployed the fleets far from home for far too long. We spent billions and plan to spend billions more.

For what?

The Middle East has been a thorn in the side of America ever since the Oil Embargo of 1973. Now much of the Middle East oil infrastructure is damaged and it will take lots of time and lots of money to get it back to full capacity. This damage is not limited to the enemy (Iran) but US allies (the Gulf States) as well. Those allies took the brunt of the Iranian response to the US and Israel. Ha-ha, suckers! The United States DOES NOT HAVE YOUR BACK.

Now the US specifically and the Americas more generally are the center of world oil production. OPEC is no longer in the driver’s seat. Venezuelan petroleum currently flows to US refineries, for example. “Drill, baby, drill!” is the national agenda and the resurgence of American oil power will usher in a new era of prosperity.

For oil companies, certainly. I’m not so sure about the rest of us. The country just fought a war and we have nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, we’ll be distracted by IPOs and waste more billions on shit tech that will only fuck up even more things.

Welcome to the New World Order.