It's quite obvious that the problems with this war of choice in Iran are causing fuel prices to spike and that will simply filter down into the economy and effect hundreds upon hundreds of commodities.

Whether or not they anticipated this is hard to say from my point of view it looks like this war was very poorly planned, and I believe Netanyahu convinced Trump that it would be very short-lived. Of course neither of them had the wisdom to understand how a 5,000-year-old civilization would react to being bombarded by the great enemy.

Iranians are used to living with hardship, Americans are not. In my opinion most Americans are quite soft, and though they love to waive the flag, the question is how prepared are they to make real personal sacrifices in order to gain whatever goals Trump has in mind with this very unnecessary war?

There's no question that Trump and the US military have been surprised by Iran's reaction and unpredictability. How long this will go on is anyone's guess, and how long the repercussions will be felt is also very difficult to predict. Certainly the eight baht per liter increase in gas that we've seen here is going to hurt an awful lot of people, and there's no question that the "Trump Tax" is punishing people throughout the world right now. Trump doesn't care, he has more money than he knows what to do with and so do most of his cronies. But when the midterms come he may be crying for days.

It is no secret that fuel costs are soaring. The four-week U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with its disruption of energy exports from the Persian Gulf, has led to a spike in oil prices that’s passing through to other products. For American consumers, the most apparent reminder of this is in the gasoline prices billboarded across the country.

A less immediate, though arguably more pernicious threat to the economy is the cost of diesel — which has climbed faster than regular gasoline. That could lead to inflation across a wide range of goods.

“Because of its far-reaching consequences, it can stop a lot of industries,” she said, adding that if prices continue to rise, consumers will probably begin to see the effects on everyday items and necessities within the next several weeks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/business/diesel-prices-inflation-consumer-prices.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

There may have been an age in American history where voters made their joice by "what's best for the country".

Recent history shows that American voters vote with their wallets, regardless what happens in the rest of the world.

It is therefore important how much prices have increased, come next "mid term elections". Donalds future career hinges on it.

A former President of the US stifled a journalist by exclaiming: " It's the economy, stupid". (Bill Clinton).

Next time around it will be more like " How much smaller is your wallet, compared to before"? (Donald Trump).

American voters will vote accordingly. MAGA supporters losing faith gradually as their size of their wallet has not grown according to Donald's MAGA plans and promesses.

Donalds promess to "elevate" lower income classes has failed. (A good part of his "electorate"). Instead, the economical/political elite has thrived under Donald.

The "filthy rich" from before have even gotten filthy richer than before.

What does it take for the MAGA supporters, until they realise that the current administration is not working for the "little people" in the US?

From a major Trump supporter.

Is Trumpism crashing on the shoals of the Iran war? That is what Christopher Caldwell thinks. Caldwell is on the right. He’s a contributing editor at Claremont Review of Books.

Caldwell has been trying to define and, even, craft a coherent Trumpism. But in a recent piece in The Spectator titled “The End of Trumpism,” he seems pretty dispirited. He writes: “The attack on Iran is so wildly inconsistent with the wishes of his own base, so diametrically opposed to their reading of the national interest, that it is likely to mark the end of Trumpism as a project.”

It wasn’t just Iran that led Caldwell to that point. It was also Trump’s brazen self-dealing, the waves of influence peddling, the sense that this man who was supposed to represent the will of the people in some way was doing something very different.

The real question is: How big is MAGA? If you look at polls that measure it, or the people who have been asking that question for quite a while, like NBC has, it kind of peaked after the election at around 36 percent. So I think that gives him a lot less leeway to, let’s just say, feel that his base will follow him anywhere.

Here you have a billionaire whose major, signature legislative achievements are very unpopular tax cuts that redistributed money upward; who was elected with the help of the world’s richest man, Elon Musk; who seems to be, you note this in your piece, enriching himself, rapidly, to the tune of billions of dollars, since being in office — and who also seems to exist to many as a response to efforts at equality.

I think that the promise of no wars was a kind of ruling out. And Trump has a particular need to make this a campaign promise. There are certain things that you have to commit to not doing.

So I think that people thought: Yes, he’s going to do a lot of crazy stuff — I think people know him — but he’s not going to do that. He’s not going to bring the country into a war lasting years. There are limits somewhere.

But once he does that, once he turns around and does that, your sense of the limits is gone. Then suddenly, being a Trump supporter is a whole different proposition.

I don’t think people are willing to pay a cost for Trump’s impulse here. And to have him create a surge of inflation and scarcity, I’m not sure is survivable for a war that very, very few people were asking for.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-christopher-caldwell.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

I think the Iranians have a bigger part in causing the inflation, after all, they are the ones that closed the SOH

The same punishment is due to him that was handed out to Biden for the inflation that he caused.

25 minutes ago, baansgr said:

I think the Iranians have a bigger part in causing the inflation, after all, they are the ones that closed the SOH

Is this the joke of the year🤣

16 minutes ago, couchpotato said:

Is this the joke of the year🤣

Who closed the SOH?

4 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Who closed the SOH?

Nobody and you know that.

They made the choice to not sail it, many others did.

2 hours ago, Slowhand225 said:

Nobody and you know that.

They made the choice to not sail it, many others did.

Why did they chose to not sail?