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jmowreader

(52,462 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 09:13 PM 22 hrs ago

Does OPEC have an "an attack on one of us is an attack on all"...

...provision in its constitution?

Donald Trump, for reasons known only to him, bombed an OPEC member a couple days ago. With real bombs.

If OPEC has a mutual-aid policy like NATO's Article 5, and Trump's bombing triggered it, we could be facing a situation that's worse than the 1973 Oil Crisis. Even impeaching and convicting the bastard - no longer outside the realm of possibility if gasoline hits $6 per gallon and almost a certainty if it hits $10 - might not solve the problem.

In the movie Full Metal Jacket the lieutenant closed out his speech at the meeting the morning after the Tet Offensive kicked off by telling his Marines, "it's a giant shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite." Thanks to Trump I suspect we're not only going to have to eat the whole sandwich, they'll give us another one when we're finished. And we'll have to eat that one too.

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Does OPEC have an "an attack on one of us is an attack on all"... (Original Post) jmowreader 22 hrs ago OP
No sarisataka 22 hrs ago #1
No... in fact they have occasionally been at war with each other FBaggins 21 hrs ago #2
Iran has no mutual defense treaties SSJVegeta 21 hrs ago #3

FBaggins

(28,145 posts)
2. No... in fact they have occasionally been at war with each other
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 09:49 PM
21 hrs ago

Iran/Iraq were both members during their several-year war.

SSJVegeta

(823 posts)
3. Iran has no mutual defense treaties
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 10:10 PM
21 hrs ago

But they did recently sign a close security cooperation treaty with Russia, who recently claimed they will start helping Iran with a nuclear weapons program.

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