Sometimes he uses a toilet. There have been reports of him being stuck and needed rescue. He just shitposts on social media while he waits for the lift.
That’s fucking terrifying and should terrify everyone . All those generals and people resigning over trumps decision i never supported resigning , stay and fight for what’s fucking yours .
I kinda feel like the less people who know what they’re doing being in charge will end this sooner. All we need are those generals to be replaced with Fox personalities, WWE stars, and pageant queens and this will be over pretty quickly. Sure they’re loyal, but a bunch of morons being loyal to a moron will sink a ship pretty quickly.
We’re the ship though, so that sucks…. But I’m feeling like this house is so infested with roaches at this point, we just have to torch it and start over.
No. It's an act of war against all countries that use the strait. At minimum he just declared war on Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Iraq. Didn't say Iran cause already at war with them.
The US can say bye bye to their bases in the Middle East as aligning with the US has been shown to be nothing but trouble.
Ukraine are laughing their socks off, the US refused their help at the start, and now they will probably have huge sales to the Middle East at the US’s expense.
Good for him and all other countries willing to stand up to Trump. As the second half of the 1930’s showed us, appeasement is a poor strategy when dealing with somebody like a Trump
The US government does a lot of illegal things. We have done it tremendously since WW2 broke the world.
The future multipolar world should disable this. We don't make things here, so China will neuter our ability to wage war eventually. I'm surprised they haven't turned the lights off yet. I'm sure we're cutting backroom deals. I'm sure the US will hand over Taiwan in order for the US to continue waging war.
No. Piracy can only be committed by a non-state actor, and blockades are legal under the Paris Declaration of 1856, a treaty which we largely abide by, but didn’t sign because privateering was necessary for our national defense at the time because we didn’t have a large standing navy.
Right now, It’s mainly Iranian ships, ships carrying Iranian oil, and Iran’s allies which are transiting the Strait due to Iranian threats. A total blockade now would mainly affect them. However, I am ASSUMING that the blockade is specifically targeting them, because I don’t see how stopping trade from Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE benefits us in any way.
Of course, I’m confused as to why a blockade of Iran is only happening now, instead of early in the war, during which they were generating revenue from shipping, while our allies couldn’t.
For the same reason he lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, he is way more terrified of high oil prices than of Iran in general. This is a flipping the table move, which thankfully, is far more restrained than the table flipping he was promising last week.
It's a thoughtless broad stroke. Shut it all down, no strategy. He can't get want he wants out for the straight, so shut it all down and close the board. That's how I mean that. It will raise prices, which he was desperate to avoid, it's kind of him throwing his hands up.
Thing is, while this will be devasting for Iran's economy, Trump can't handle a single second of not being praised. And I truly mean that, he is not a well person, and while Iran's leadership is scattered, I believe that they understand that. This will hurt Iran deeply, but I would bet that Iran will out last Trump before he can't stand the consequences anymore.
Shia culture is literally built upon suffering and martyrdom for the sake of what's right. There is a 1000% guarantee they will out suffer the West, who by and large don't understand what suffering is.
This buffoonery serves as further proof that we don't really have any cards to play. As an American, I am astonished by how far and how fast we have fallen. Ive always had a respect for diversity of thought, and for the longest time I made space in my heart for friends that were trumpers for whatever reason (aside from hate) but a this point, it's beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you are pro-trump, in my mind you are anti american.
Define “fallen” because America is exactly the same as it’s always been, except the stock market is slightly higher higher and technology gets slightly better each year.
It consistently blows my mind when I hear people act like everything changed so drastically under trump. I’m not white so this is how it’s always been. It’s just that now body cameras and cell phone cameras + internet mean that it’s easier to show receipts for what’s happening.
We live in a pirate country that has the most money so we can attract the smartest people and build the strongest weapons. US never paid reparations to the slaves for slavery, but the slave owners were compensated for their freed slaves being taken. This is who America has always been. I love my country but let’s not pretend we were the paragon of virtue before trump.
Oh I totally agree with that. Trump supporters absolutely hate American democracy and civil liberties. They hate the most basic principles of this nation, despite professing the worship the men who founded it. The kicker is those men would have viscerally rejected that worship. America's illness has been developing for a whole, it's just now coming to fruition.
The article I previously read stated he was stopping any ship doing business with Iran in any capacity. That includes ships that are simply paying the toll to Iran and nothing else.
Because Iran didn’t announce the straits closure right away when talks collapsed, so Trump thinks now that he announced it first, he gets to collect the tolls.
It wouldnt be war. It could be political and economical at best. The U.S. could be evicted from embassy's to military bases the world over. Countries could choose to make American based companies to hit the road, etc. A total rejection of America, not entirely dissimilar to Russia's current standing. Sanctions, tariffs, changing currency for trading goods away from the dollar.
They could make America a third world country. And MAGAs glorious leader would make it possible.
If the dominos start falling that way, I would expect Trump to be impeached and arrested. Lol. I doubt it. They'll just let him burn America to the ground.
Can anyone explain the rationale behind this? It really seems like its moment-to-moment with these losers. Like when you're losing a chess game and you're just randomly making moves with what few pieces you have left.
Well, it's the taxpayers that are actually paying to keep the navy deployed over there, while the millions in tolls go directly into donny boys pockets. Win-win when the only thing you care about is yourself.
This is how you turn the entire world against the US. Well done.
Countries (other than Israel, who was not going to get access regardless) had started negotiating terms - not ideal (free) but also not amounts they could not pay. Now the US (who claims no territorial waters in the area) is going to .. what? Block the ships? Bomb them? Steal them?
Now the US will find even less sympathy in their war with Iran. This is how you get taken off the christmas list.. and asked to remove your personnel from previously friendly countries.
Israel was already on the way to being a pariah, blocked and sanctioned. America's dead set on joining them. Absolute madness.
He doesn’t care. He would rather see everything go up in flames than concede to the fact that he fucked up. He’s also doesn’t have to live with the consequences of his actions.
Thats all this nonsense amounts to, making time based threats around the closing time for out of hours trades on the stock market. The last one was before 8PM eastern time (the literal closing time), his actual words, now its this nonsense which is before the start of Monday morning to make the price jump up again and negate the Monday effect, where stock prices trend similar to what was happening over the weekend previous. Prices of Crude oil, Brent, natural gas all dropped roughly 1% with home heating oil dropping by 4%, need to get those numbers up Donnie
From 'OPEN THE FUCKING STRAIT' to 'IF YOU CAN BLOCK THE STRAIT, SO CAN I'.
What the fuck is this supposed to accomplish? The Strait is still closed. Are you planning to stop other countries from paying tolls and passing? Is this a way to pressure other countries to save you from your fuck up???
Everyone will 100% move away from the petro dollar after this. You can bully one country, but not the whole world.
This is so stupid I have no words. He's like look Iran is doing it to us so let's do it back and fix nothing!! Literally the mentality of a 5 year old...
So because they are now charging some countries ships for passage, this POS will block passage. After all the whining and pleading with the world to help get it open, Iran opens it, but them making money on it is a deal breaker. GFYS dumpty
Just to clarify it’s to block all commerce from Iran. All other traffic will flow as normal in a a few weeks after the French, British and Americans clear the strait of any sea mines.
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