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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. Do what Iraq failed to do in 1991.
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 not closed, it's only closed to enemies of Iran.
Well closed in the sense that it's strictly controlled. Iran can rebuild by charging obscene amounts for the pleasure of trading in it's gulf.
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.
1- Start a war
2- Lose it
3- Make others fight for you instead
4- ???
5- Profit (?)
TACO-in-chief! As well as being the best friend of the pedophile Epstein. Seems Operation Epstein Fury is a failure.
Dotards mull. That's what they do. Lil' Kim was right.
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.
He's done what he wanted. Epstein is permanently out of the news.
rename it the Epstein Straight of Hormuz. with a Sharpie
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.
Retreating. The word he is looking for is ‘retreat’. Also known sometimes as ‘surrender’.
"I messed this place up, hey you clean it up", classic college bully mentality
makes mess; leaves it for everyone else to clean up
If farting and leaving the room was a president
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.
Is it mission accomplished yet guys!?
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.
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.
News Headline: Trump awards himself Medal of Honor.
Trump wont be happy when the "other nations" solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran
The same countries supplying USA with arms and condemning Iran one-sidedly?
By buying oil in Euros or Yuan 😏
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.
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.
Tl;dr: we're fucked in the short run, but the world won't forget this in the long run.
ELI5: Isreal is screwed.
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.
Thats your MO. Come in, shit all over everything, ruin people's lives, and leave. Please leave this plane of existence immediately.
Perhaps the US military told the idiot this is far as you go. Typical of him to leave the situation as a cluster fuck. At least Japan will receive safe passage for their oil.
Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That's another FIFA peace price right there.
The servants will clean up the bed I shat.
"Someone else shat in my bed, good thing I have servants to clean it up."
He'd never take responsibility.
Unrelated but why is he so white in the picture?
Apparently the spray paint guy was a reservist.
The amount of orange goop varying drastically is nothing new
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.
israel has been targeting iran regularly, like thier nuclear scientists and facilities. they wont stop.
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.