Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[Fatman17]

ONE ATTACK IN THE MIDDLE EAST JUST PUT THE ENTIRE TECH INDUSTRY ON LIFE SUPPORT

Iran bombed Qatar's helium plant.

33% of global supply is gone.

Here's who's bleeding right now:

South Korea — 64.7% of all helium imported from Qatar ($226.9M). Samsung and SK Hynix fabs on a countdown clock.

Taiwan — home to TSMC, makes 18% of global chips. Said "monitoring situation." Translation: quietly panicking.

Japan — major chip fab and MRI manufacturer hub. First to run out if Qatar outage extends beyond 60 days.

Singapore — regional semiconductor hub. Heavy Qatar helium dependency flagged by Scientific American.

India — imported helium from Qatar for thousands of hospital MRI machines. MRI costs already rising, scan delays starting.

Germany — hosts major industrial gas distributors (Linde HQ). Helium spot prices up 100% — Linde, Air Liquide rationing supply.

United States — federal helium reserve running down for years. US chip fabs still exposed. HP, Dell, Lenovo warned enterprise buyers: 15-20% price hike incoming.

United Kingdom — NHS hospitals with MRI machines facing supply tightness. No domestic helium production.

France — Air Liquide headquartered here but cannot produce new helium. Distribution-only country.

China — imports helium for chip fabs and MRI. Could accelerate its own helium exploration in Siberian region (strategic play).

Australia — Exporter, one of few alternatives. Helium production from Amadeus Basin, but NOT enough to fill Qatar's gap.

Qatar — the source of 33% of the world's supply. Offline since March 2. CEO says 14% of capacity PERMANENTLY damaged for up to 5 years.

12 countries exposed.

33% of global supply gone overnight.

Zero subsidies
Economic hydrogen bomb

Blame Trump

 

[dbc]

Please share the alternative?

start with tone down the rhetoric i.e. death to America and death to Israel. Moderate, pivot to business and development. Nothing works as well as opportunity for global investors to generate ROI and when US investors have their money in Iran it's likely to influence US policy more than missiles and drones. Iran has leverage in natural resources, young educated work force and a large population. I think Iranians at their core are business people probably from centuries of being at the hub of global trade. Look at China in the 70's and look at them now. They are laser focused on development and once they achieved sufficient traction they invested in defense. Not that China is perfect but at least they focused on themselves and prioritized their own nation.

Iran is falling behind in the transition to new energy. We are not far from a future where oil and gas become less important and consequently generate less revenue. Saudi is preparing for that future and Iran is squandering her natural wealth on side quests beyond her borders instead of investing in herself.

 

[dbc]

really the US is the second largest sulphur producer in the world.

 

[baqai]

Blame Trump

also blame the idiots who brought him in the power

 

[K2RULEZ]

No doubt. Trump is starting to sweat. What should have been a short war of a couple of days has now entered the 21st day.

 

[albritani]

really the US is the second largest sulphur producer in the world.

Much like the rhetoric on oil, America is the world's biggest producer, America is self sufficient in almost every area, it's why they do what they want.

 

[PakistaniDefender]

You guys are good, you have Baluchistan border with Iran, lot of fuel smuggling. We are screwed, we are fully dependent on ship based import.

That fuel is shit bro. Will wreck your car

 

[TallarnDesertRaider]

start with tone down the rhetoric i.e. death to America and death to Israel. Moderate, pivot to business and development. Nothing works as well as opportunity for global investors to generate ROI and when US investors have their money in Iran it's likely to influence US policy more than missiles and drones. Iran has leverage in natural resources, young educated work force and a large population. I think Iranians at their core are business people probably from centuries of being at the hub of global trade. Look at China in the 70's and look at them now. They are laser focused on development and once they achieved sufficient traction they invested in defense. Not that China is perfect but at least they focused on themselves and prioritized their own nation.

Iran is falling behind in the transition to new energy. We are not far from a future where oil and gas become less important and consequently generate less revenue. Saudi is preparing for that future and Iran is squandering her natural wealth on side quests beyond her borders instead of investing in herself.

Let me just reword this briefly...your purported solution is....to basically become another PGCC state? Complete capitulation, allow an installation of a puppet monarchy/vassal state, court investors and try to become an industrial and resource powerhouse (a la China, just without Chinese natural resources) before you build up your military?

really the US is the second largest sulphur producer in the world.

Read the actual paper here:

The Chokepoint We Missed: Sulfur, Hormuz, and the Threats to Military Readiness - Modern War Institute

The cascading effects of disrupted maritime chokepoints are no longer the subject of simulations; they are an active crisis. As the US-Israeli military operation against Iran and Tehran’s regional military response continue, missile attacks, drone swarms, airstrikes, and maritime threats...

mwi.westpoint.edu

>While the United States produces significant sulfur domestically, the near-total disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for approximately 50 percent of global seaborne sulfur trade flows, has compounded an already tight market. US sulfur prices have increased 165 percent year-over-year to over $650 per metric ton; and now the price has surged by 25 percent just since the Iran war began. This makes domestic procurement fiercely competitive, while also threatening the import of specific ultra-high-purity grades required for advanced manufacturing. It is squeezing one of the most consequential inputs to modern industrial power.

 

[ety]

Trump compares Pearl Harbor to strikes on Iran in meeting Japan’s leader​

President Donald Trump drew a parallel on Thursday between US strikes on Iran and Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington.(AP)
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• Donald Trump: ‘We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?’
• ‘Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?’

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump drew a parallel on Thursday between US strikes on Iran and Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, as he defended the war he launched against Tehran while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington.

“We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Trump replied when a journalist asked why he had not ‌told allies about ‌his war plans.

“You believe in surprise, ‌I ⁠think much more so ⁠than us.”

Takaichi’s eyes widened and she shifted in her chair as Trump, seated beside her in the Oval Office, evoked the moment that drew the US into World War Two.

The Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, ⁠killed 2,390 Americans. The US declared war on ‌Japan the next day, ‌with President Franklin D. Roosevelt calling it “a date which will live ‌in infamy.”

The US defeated Japan in August 1945, ‌days after US atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Trump’s remarks received a mixed reaction on the streets of Tokyo on Friday.

Yuta Nakamura, a 33-year-old ‌engineer with a petrochemical company, said that Takaichi had been put in “a very difficult situation,” ⁠praising ⁠her for doing well by “avoiding upsetting Trump.”

“Personally, I took President Trump’s remark as just a joke. But because of her position, if she laughed too much, she’d likely face criticism, so I imagine it was quite hard for her to react.”

Tokio Washino, a retiree, said: “Given the historical context of Japan having done that, and with Donald bringing it up as an example, it makes me feel a bit uneasy as a Japanese citizen.”

Trump compares Pearl Harbor to strikes on Iran in meeting Japan’s leader

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump drew a parallel on Thursday between US strikes on Iran and Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, as he defended the war he launched against Tehran while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Washington. “We wanted surprise. Who knows better about...

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Haha the Japanese Woman PM's reaction to the WW2 nuking of Japan. Eyes widened.

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Two clowns. So Trump is comparing his strike on Iran as similar to the despicable Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, using Roosevelt words, wow, great achievement.

 

[VCheng]

start with tone down the rhetoric i.e. death to America and death to Israel. Moderate, pivot to business and development. Nothing works as well as opportunity for global investors to generate ROI and when US investors have their money in Iran it's likely to influence US policy more than missiles and drones. Iran has leverage in natural resources, young educated work force and a large population. I think Iranians at their core are business people probably from centuries of being at the hub of global trade. Look at China in the 70's and look at them now. They are laser focused on development and once they achieved sufficient traction they invested in defense. Not that China is perfect but at least they focused on themselves and prioritized their own nation.

Iran is falling behind in the transition to new energy. We are not far from a future where oil and gas become less important and consequently generate less revenue. Saudi is preparing for that future and Iran is squandering her natural wealth on side quests beyond her borders instead of investing in herself.

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte.

If that is what Iran wants to do with its resources, then it has every right to do as it pleases with them.

 

[Persian Gulf]

Iran is squandering her natural wealth on side quests beyond her borders instead of investing in herself.

comically ignorant of Iran, like most Americans.

Iran's military budget is $20 billion. a significantly lower percentage of its GDP compared to virtually all of Iran's neighbours.

just worry about your new $1.5 trillion military budget and extra $200 billion for America's latest illegal war.

 

[albritani]

If it was a base just given to them for the purpose of bombing Iran, yes. They were not though, there are American air bases on British land that are older than Pakistan as a nation.

 

[Persian Gulf]

Trump admits the US attacked Iran "out of habit" and for Israel

 

[Persian Gulf]

The IRGC has struck Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery twice in 48 hours, igniting fires & forcing KNPC to shut down units at a facility with ~350,000 b/d capacity



NASA FIRMS imagery shows several fires throughout the facility in the past 7 days

 

[Persian Gulf]