Axios’s Barak Ravid and Marc Caputo had reported on Friday morning that the administration was “considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran’s Kharg Island to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,” and noted that “Such an operation, if approved, would also require more troops.”
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Say it with me, folks:
YOU WILL DIE FOR OIL SO THAT THE EPSTEIN CLASS STAYS WEALTHY.
The Epstein class wants to fuck your daughter while you die in a war of aggression to make oil barons richer.
So you are saying he is lying here? Who would do that? Just go on the internet and lie?
They should put his boots on the ground there. With him wearing them, of course.
Two reasons for that: After he missed out Vietnam, he now has the chance to rectify this blunder. And: He can do everything perfectly (at least according to himself), so he should be a good leader and go first, leading his troops into battle like the kings of old.
Based on my assumption that we live in the stupidest timeline, I predict that Trump will actually fulfill his promise to not put boots on the ground in Iran.
The Marines will instead be wearing crocs.
Maybe they'll be wearing those stupid ill-fitting shoes that he's been ordering for everyone in the admin
Have you see. How expensive crocs are these days?
They’ll be barefoot, and they’ll say it really improves their comfort.
Boots on ground will run into artillery and drones.
It’s like they learned nothing from watching Russia and Ukraine.
Iran also has a lot experience with drone warfare since they're supplying Russia with drones and have people operating and learning in an active war. Meanwhile the US hasn't really fought against drones in a real war and they refused help from Ukraine one of the countries at the forefront of drone warfare.
I wonder how long will Trump stay in office when the internet starts getting videos of American soldiers getting killed by drones just like the ones with Russian soldiers we have right now.
Trump has raped children, is a convicted felon, and demolished part of the White House. He's threatened reporters with execution, demanded personal enrichment as part of foreign trade, incited a terrorist attack on the Capitol building, and then pardoned the terrorists convicted of their crimes. He has openly solicited bribes and disclosed classified data to our enemies that resulted in the deaths of American agents abroad.
His supporters will not move an inch regardless of how many soldiers they see dying.
I've been around for over 4 decades and the only thing I've ever seen conservatives give a fuck about were gas prices, unborn babies (specifically), and people with not white skin becoming president.
Note: Specifically unborn babies because they don't give a flying fuck about kids after they're born. That's why they voted for a party that is currently obliterating child cancer research and are against free school lunches.
That's because Conservativism isn't really am ideology. It's psychological cover for being selfish. Conservatives define their core values based on whatever is good for the people within the Conservative group. They believe that they are the good people, the special people, and that they are entitled to whatever they want. Anyone that stands in their way is evil. Any facts that challenge their world view are lies. Any crimes they commit in service to their goals are justified.
Conservatives don't care about gas prices or unborn babies or racism unless those issues help them get elected. Conservatives get abortions when they want them. They will even blame other people getting abortions "for no reason" as the reason why they can't get their own "totally justified and moral" abortion.
They start wars, make trade agreements, and deregulate inustries that raise gas prices, because someone is getting rich from the high gas prices. When Conservatives are in charge and prices go up, they will tell you it is your patriotic duty to fuel up you SUV and drive around.
Even the racism is entirely user dependent. Black conservatives, Latino conservatives, Asian conservatives, Jewish conservatives, Islamic conservatives, Russian conservatives, they all hate someone and they all pretend to be the most persecuted people. It doesn't matter if they all hate the same people, as long as they hate somebody.
This is not politics. It's pathological narcissism.
They also really hate us LGBTQ people
They don’t hate you they think you’re literally an abomination. Especially the religious ones
I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive. I mean… I’m not a religious person, so perhaps there’s some nuance to it that I don’t get, but, yeah… there is at least some overlap
Guns and hating any sort of liberal thought.
Until he dies.
If un-armed Americans getting killed at home didn't get him removed, armed Americans getting killed overseas won't get him removed, no matter what happens he will refuse to leave office alive.
There's 300 million of you and 1 of him, do the whole world a favour AND FUCKING K-[Redacted for legal reasons but you get the idea].
The people who got Trump elected will find another hack celebrity.
Trump has no magic powers beyond "name recognition", really, another "star". There will be another. And another. And another. Trump will be replaced immediately. The same filthy rich vampires will continue to "donate" and keep them elected.
USA is openly pay-for-play now, they don't even bother to hide it. Look who shared the stage with him when he won... and those were the dumb ones.
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He is doing what putin tells him.
And to those who say that Russia and Iran are allies. Russia was never a true ally with anyone, it is just partnership of convenience. US destroying itself in Iran has massive benefit for Russia.
And the fact that US did this and also lifted sanctions on Russia and Belarus is clear demonstration that US is ruled by Russian agent.
Please just think about this for 5 minutes.
Russia's economy is about the same size as California's. They can no longer afford the President, Russia needs to step it up and give him a jet, a few hotels, or something to compete.
It's all legal, none of this matters.
Putin is not telling Trump to invade Putin's ally, Iran. Even if it will hurt America, Putin does not want that, obviously.
Utterly brain-dead take.
Yeah? Tell me which country benefits most from the current situation? What has Iran to offer right now when Russia is producing their Shaheds domestically? Do you even think Russia would want Iran on any new countries to have nukes? The only thing putin cares is Iran seeing US and the West as their sworn enemies.
You know very little about Russia and recent events if you believe there are any agreements or alliances Russia honors.
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Donald and Jeff thank you for your service.
Born too early to deploy to the Middle East. Born too late to deploy to the Middle East. Born just in time to deploy to the Middle East.
God bless America and it’s love for forever wars in the Middle East.
One of my life's greatest accomplishments is not serving the American military. I take pride in it.
Thank you for your lack of service. :)
Rich people sending poor kids to war is one of America's pastimes.
won't baron trump serve? he's of age iirc
Lol well, did his shithead dad serve when he was drafted?
They're gonna fall for one of the classic blunders, never get involved in a land war in asia. Only slightly less well known is never get involved with a pedo when Epstein files are on the line.
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Beyond "because Israel wants it" and "to distract from the Epstein files", what's the supposed benefit to the US for doing this?
The US has learned nothing from Iraq and Vietnam.
"because Israel wants it" is also America wants it.
Iran serves as a last remaining resistance to Israel's expansionist goals, take them down and they'll take over Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Syria and Egypt.
That's decades of insurgency and civil wars where American weapons manufacturers can make huge profits both arming extremists and bombing them. Brown people die in the process, but who cares about that.
For sure. I guess my confusion is better stated as "what dumb shit reason are Republican citizens using as justification?"
There just isn't any way that this benefits the average American.
It benefits the average Christian American because they'll get taken into heaven. See, the Jews all have to gather in Israel to kick off the war that leads to the Second Coming and the Rapture.
I wish this were a joke. That's really what they believe.
On Thursday, Trump told reporters that he wasn’t “putting troops anywhere,” before adding the caveat that if he was going to do so, he “certainly wouldn’t tell” the press.
So....... he's gonna put boots on the ground. Got it.
Yes, unfortunately the only way MAGA americans will learn is when their sons and daughters are needlessly murdered in a random country, to protect a massive sex trafficking, child-raping pedophile from facing justice.
Also send Stephen Miller over there too, just for good measure. Let's see how much of a patriot he really is.
I agree with this sentiment with one correction: they will learn nothing. They never do.
They'll just shrug and say it was worth it. Like that kid that died from measles whose parents considered death to be a better outcome than getting the vaccine.
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Fuck Trump
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