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Trump: "Go to the strait and just take it" Spain: "OK." Trump: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT"
He'll be never see it, but.. get fucked you orange faced cunt.
So the US has more naval power than the whole of Europe together, and they need help fixing the mess they started?
TACO
I’m so tired
I broke it, you fix it.
And just like with Venezuela the Oil Motive for war becomes obvious. Greedy old dumbass dinosaurs still think oil is worth killing for instead of working on the many alternatives that we have already available.
Lol grandpa is triggering himself. What a stable genius
Trump started this shit and he should finish it (but sadly, he cannot).
He should cut his losses and go cry in a corner.
Think that's what he's doing. Though, Trump's version of "cry" is actually "blame everyone else, sulk, and act like he's on the high road". It takes the maturity of an infant to actually cry, Trump can't even manage that
Or more likely lash out like a drowning man, grab anybody that comes too close and try to climb out on their backs in a wild panic while pushing the wannabe rescuer below the waves. Most know this and stay away.
I would also accept crying his losses and cutting himself in a corner (though a trial for treason and a public hanging would be ideal)
Iran is so angry that the only thing ending the war any time soon is reparations.
He should absolutely not finish it.
WTF kind of idea is that? He started killing random people so he must kill all of them?
That's the correct speech. He's preparing to abandon Israel alone at the war.
Ok, he may be only trying to mislead people and manipulate stock markets too.
But that's the speech he'd use if he was intending to go away and abandon the war.
Hopefully this unites the Arab world against Isreal again, they have been bought off by the US for awhile but it's time for a good Ole fashioned jihad.
But we have plenty of oil. Middle Eastern oil accounts for barely 2%.
I'm no mapologist, but getting oil from the straight of Hormuz to the UK seems like an incredibly long way around. Surely the UK gets their oil from elsewhere?
In a way it doesn't matter who gets their oil from where.
Whoever was getting oil from Hormuz, is now getting it from wherever the UK was.
Yeah, that's a problem for sure. But also means that securing Hormuz doesn't solve anything, because tomorrow the pedo will invade some other oil critical country. Can't exactly plan around a lunatic.
Obviously, it will be better for everyone if oil is moving through the Strait.
Actually it's best if we focus on reducing carbon emmitting energy source usage. High oil prices make that easier.
Or you know... do both?
The Hormuz situation is about to precipitate a financial crisis the likes of which we have never seen.
We can't avoid it by all buying EVs.
precipitate a financial crisis the likes of which we have never seen.
Can you elaborate on this? And how it is worse than the impending financial crisis due to barely mitigated climate change?
You would not believe how stupid and outdated the infrastructure is in that region.
Everyone just grabs the money.
Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
I mean, same should be said about Trump's son.
“We have plenty” ~~that we stole from Venezuela~~