"I messed this place up, hey you clean it up", classic college bully mentality
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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.
Retreating. The word he is looking for is ‘retreat’. Also known sometimes as ‘surrender’.
makes mess; leaves it for everyone else to clean up
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.
Unrelated but why is he so white in the picture?
The amount of orange goop varying drastically is nothing new
Apparently the spray paint guy was a reservist.
New shade of self tanning cream?
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.
If you’re iran, what’s stopping you from charging a toll for anyone using the strait?
Literally nothing. Trump proved time and time again that you can be the most brazen scumbag on the planet and suffer no consequences.
No consequences yet. I'm hopeful some kind of Iranian batman will show up and settle the score.
They've already pitched the idea of a 10% toll
Basically incompetence. Iran (and Houtis) have been hitting ships they clearly were not supposed to hit. It is not necessarily easy to figure out which ship is which. So even ships that are allowed by Iran are scared of crossing rn. Also, mines don't discriminate.
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If farting and leaving the room was a president
He is doing that on a regular basis.
The fart ends when a shit begins
I wonder when was the last time Donny trusted a fart?
Nothing that comes out of Donald can be trusted.
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......
Nobel is old and busted. Obviously the FIFA peace trophy is the new hotness.
Watch it become the Michelin star somehow.
If you’re in Iran, the US doesn’t have an iron dome. And drones made it over military bases housing hegseth and others.
I thought they were just lying about the drones for attention.
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.
If America pulls out, what would happen to Israel?
Would they continue? Can they take on Iran alone and bring the regime change they keep promising?
Would the US just give them guns and ammunition to continue?
We know that if Israel wanted to take Iran solo, they would have already done that. This might blow up in Bibi’s face.
If the US leaves, then Iran will probably open the Strait.
It's a shame Israel won't let them leave.
Trump wont be happy when the "other nations" solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran
By buying oil in Euros or Yuan 😏
Just leave a giant steaming dump on the elevator for the custodian to clean up. That's his job, he gets paid for it.
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.
But why would Trump do that if it's exactly what Putin would want????
It also undermines the entire petrodollar/Bretton Woods system that gives the almighty US dollar its power. This will be a big win for China, when countries start trading in their USD for Yuan buy oil.
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Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That's another FIFA peace price right there.
So his war slogan is I break you fix?
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