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Even if the US retreats I hope Iran keeps that strait closed and eventually collapses all those gulf pedo-slave states.
There has to be a price for collaborating with Americans and Israelis. If you want oil and be a US ally then you'll have to rely on the US to share it's own oil with you.
It's as big of a self-own as Russia invading Ukraine and it's only been three weeks.
It would be in Iran's interest to evict the United States from the gulf permanently; the punishment the Iranians must inflict should be severe enough that the US and Israel never again try to initiate an attack like this.
Thing is, can Iran understand this? In the past, their reaction against American aggression has been pretty tepid. That been said, the new Ayatollah has basically seen his family be decimated in a couple of weeks, so his response may be different this time around.
Yes, Iran understands this. Iran is in full, single-minded cancer removal mode. You beat cancer or you die.
They can start all the wars they want, tell me aliens exist, send out checks, it doesn't matter. I'll never shut the fuck up about Epstein and these pedos.
Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran's leader goes "anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else's problem now."
That's not how war works.
1- Start a war
2- Lose it
3- Make others fight for you instead
4- ???
5- Profit (?)
I can't believe he's actually doing the meme, but with war.
If farting and leaving the room was a president
Retreating. The word he is looking for is ‘retreat’. Also known sometimes as ‘surrender’.
Thats your MO. Come in, shit all over everything, ruin people's lives, and leave. Please leave this plane of existence immediately.
If only the other nations would hold us responsible. They should be placing sanctions on is like those that were on Russia. Then it would actually make some Republicans non maga, start to move away from maga
He's done what he wanted. Epstein is permanently out of the news.
rename it the Epstein Straight of Hormuz. with a Sharpie
He is saying it now that the stock markets are about to open again. Wait until friday evening for an honest update.
"I messed this place up, hey you clean it up", classic college bully mentality
makes mess; leaves it for everyone else to clean up
He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane.
Yeah that's why nobody wanted to touch this mess with a 10 ft pole.
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Trump expects the world to go to war with Iran. What will actually happen is that the world will re-establish diplomacy with Iran and offer sanctions relief to end the blockade.
Without war reparations, American ships will forever be barred from sailing the strait, and Gulf states will likely start distancing themselves from the US and re-assess hosting American bases and troops.
Trump’s victory looks an awful lot like a strategic defeat that sees the US pull out of the Middle East and leave Iran in a more powerful position then before.
Trump wont be happy when the "other nations" solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran
Hey, if he pulls the military back out from the Middle East, he can take credit for ending another war that he obviously won single-handedly. Plus he can get another Nobel Prize......
If you're iran, what's stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?
Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That'll be one million dollars.
Make an exemption for oil traded in non-usd for maximum fun.
Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.
It'd be a way to pay for reparations, at the expense of some diplomacy.
This is not how wars work. Considering the nature of ICE, it would be easy for Iran to embed operatives within America, and no one would be able to tell the difference.
The American-Iranian war will drag on for at least a decade, even if open combat was ended today.
Idk the whole "brown people will send decoy immigrants to infiltrate government and destroy it from inside" was just a propoganda talking point.
Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That's another FIFA peace prize right there.
Operation Epstein's Fury ends when Israel says it ends. Which it won't. Even when it ends Israel will reach across the border regularly on some pretext or another.
This is just the president trying to get everyone else to help secure the straits for oil shipments, threatening to walk away.
America: I've had enough.
Iran: I didn't hear no bell.
They have no reason to start letting US ships through the strait and America has no ability to stop them.
So running away and leaving the mess for his victims to clean up. Much like he probably did to the children he raped.
This is coming from the same administration who gave us the ill-fated plan to exit Afghanistan that ended in absolute disaster under Biden. You don't just get to start a war and then leave whenever you want - the Iranians will take full advantage of a drawdown by striking military installations in the region and seizing equipment.
This guy is an absolute moron.
the ill-fated plan to exit Afghanistan
Some plan. He made unilateral concessions, then surrendered, leaving the troop withdrawal to Biden and selling out the Afghans who allied themselves with the US.
