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Iran-US war latest: Trump pledges to reopen Strait of Hormuz from today as Tehran warns of ceasefire violation (www.independent.co.uk)

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Donald Trump has pledged to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as early as Monday morning in a “humanitarian gesture”. The US president declared that “Project Freedom” was meant to “free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong”, who he called “victims of circumstance”. It comes after Trump said on Saturday that there was a “possibility” he could order renewed strikes against Iran. Iran’s military warned the US against taking such action, declaring it retained security control over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump said the decision comes as his representatives were having “very positive discussions” with Iran, who reportedly issued the US president a one-month deadline for negotiations on its proposed deal to reopen the strait and bring an end to the war. However, Ibrahim Azizi, a senior Iranian lawmaker, has warned that US involvement in managing shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would constitute a violation of the ceasefire.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Here’s what I don’t get: I can understand this for financial markets and material assets, but the military? It seems counter productive to cripple the US government, then buy and rule with devalued hard and soft power that can’t easily be clawed back.

Trump’s brains are scrambling in front of our eyes like a live dementia lobotomy, but the rest of his family and cohorts are doing the same as him. I don’t think any of these people are fit to run a popsicle stand, but at the same time they also seem to hate popsicle stands and popsicle enjoyers with a generational burning passion while kleptomanically looting the cash box.

I am not a psychologist, but it really seems like these people simply can’t help themselves. They’ve been programmed to just automatically do whatever their hateful, pathologically self-centered minds tell them to do in the moment, and we’re seeing the emergent effects of a critical mass of narcissists operating in a system that has had all of the safety checks engineered out with bribery. The intent is definitely there, but I think it’s more a function of their narcissistic rage at being told not to abuse us.