Watching the US get its economy shredded by a pedophile would be a lot more entertaining if I wasn’t a participant in that economy.
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I find this all quite amusing.
The US is less than 4 weeks away from losing all of its oil reserves.
If the Zionist pieces of shit thought support for Israel was obliterated before, its about to be 0% for anyone who isn't a billionaire
Oil reserves? The US is a net exporter of oil. The prices are only up because our government prioritizes oligarch profits over the people’s well-being.
Nypost? Seriously? There are dozens... hundreds of more reputable source to choose from.
It's more and more clear that the Wikipedia editors made the right choice in deciding that the US lost the war:
On the bright side, green energy is looking better and better each day the straight remains closed.
It's amazing that people don't recognize the actual freedom that generating your own power gives your country
The problem is that it also grants individual freedom. Oligarchs hate that.
Yeah, Trump may unintentionally start the end for the fossil industry. Which is kinda ironic.
How the hell will I buy trilobites now!?
Trump's bumbling is really helping the planet, ironically.
Hopefully this helps drive a big wedge between Israel and the US. Lets stop giving them any weapons and aid. Tired of my tax dollars supporting a rich country dead set on genocide. Israel can handle their own affairs.
Israel has Epstein's blackmail against Trump.
The only way the US withdrawals support from Israel is after Trump either leaves office or croaks. He doesn't care if the entire country runs out of oil in >4 weeks. He'll destroy the country forever, all because he's a child rapist.
That might be what Iran is thinking with this. Israel's continued existance is incompatible with peace, so splitting them off from their sugar daddy will help
USA and UK created Israel for a reason, and they're fine with Israel's actions.
Israel is doing what it was created to do.
Correct. It's not just Trump, it's an entire generations-long policy norm to suppress peace and sovereignty across the middle east that passively scapegoats and endangers jews all over the world as consequence, perhaps intentionally. Pretty sure that Israeli money still funds the majority of both Republican and Democrat campaigns in congress. We need a whole-house cleaning, Israeli lobby funds from any sources need to be popularly seen by voters as a hard disqualification. Jewish voices that oppose genocidal Israeli domination narratives need to be amplified and normalized.
Should have been so for decades
Hopefully when American strategic reserves run dry, America goes into a depression and collapses!
The title has since changed:
Iran Foreign Ministry says Strait of Hormuz is open after IRGC warned it was closed — sparking confusion
Trump claims Iran deal is ‘unconditional surrender,’ says his power has ‘no limits’
did not help either
This moron can’t stop running his mouth. A person like this can’t handle diplomacy - his fragile egomania will always get in the way.
THE ART OF THE DEAL!
(written by a ghostwriter)
Unconditional surrender, for the US, I suppose?
Let's see these "no limits" against Israel, hmm?
id say this is 3d chess but its more like being a nation-state 101. Iran expertly played israel and america off eachother to get exactly what they wanted and give neither america or israel anything, all while driving a wedge between these two assholes.
it would be impressive if they pulled this off against highly-capable nations with well developed diplomatic corps. As it stands it kind of feels mean to big up Iran for dunking on what are effectively two asshole toddlers screaming about their toys
American diplomacy had been obliterated in past 10 years
Thanks to weak Republicans.
So stupid
Israel isn't gonna stop
But now Trump can try to shift blame for the war onto Israel and Netanyahu.
Of course, this won’t work, but that’s why these stupid idiots picked this course of action. They knew they couldn’t stop Israel from being insane assholes, so they tried to figure out a way to shift a blame to Israel.
Oops!
He would never speak ill of his leashholder.
All of Lebanon is included in the map of Greater Israel. God’s Chosen Master Race aren’t going to stop until they’ve genocided every last Arab and Muslim and anyone else who tries to stop them. Unless someone actually makes Israel stop.
I fear you’re correct. To the extent that they view this as an existential question (and for Netanyahu it truly is), they could give a shit about oil prices.
I concur. Putin is a bad guy. Trump is a bad guy. Nethanyahu is a bad human (just for once I misuse the word human)
While this seems plausible — likely even — it appears this is only being reported by the NY Post, a known neonazi propaganda rag. I would wait for more confirmation.
Yeah, I'd wait, too.
It's also reported by German t-online (which also isn't a reliable news source).
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-politik/id_101304268/iran-schliesst-strasse-von-hormus-wegen-israelischen-angriffen-erneut.html
They do name their sources:
X profiles @sentdefender and @Faytuks
So that's https://xcancel.com/sentdefender and https://xcancel.com/Faytuks. Possibly this post https://xcancel.com/Faytuks/status/2067919275986124896 specifically?
Yes, and sentdefender has audio from the primary source (which is in Farsi, so I don't know if it's accurate).
https://xcancel.com/sentdefender/status/2067925165208490356#m
While I can't root for any party involved in this, I have to say I'm really glad to see someone is holding America by the balls big time.
I feel like it wont open back up now unless we go to war with Israel. Which, I am not keen on honestly.
When you negotiate with lying egomaniacal assholes who never say the same thing twice .... what do you expect is going to happen?
TBF the didn’t say they were surprised.
This whole thing is stupid as fuck.
I've got no special love for Israel, but they are still an independent country that is not obligated to do as we ask.
Trump made a deal that promises they'll do something- a promise he had no standing to make. That's like if I promised everyone reading this thread that if you upvote me, Elon Musk will give you a million dollars. I have no authority to make that promise because Elon never agreed to it, and he's not bound by my statements.
And since apparently Israel never agreed to this, and in fact said openly they don't agree, this whole deal was bullshit from the start.
Hope we didn't send the money yet...
And the US - as an independent country - can also withhold military aid, intelligence, financial support, political cover at the UN, and overall Israeli dick sucking to get the ethno-fascist state to fall in line.
You don't provide any of that to Elon......though I can't tell for certain about the dick sucking, but that's totally your choice dude.
Lol
Yeah we can absolutely do those things, and some of them we probably should just on general principle. I have always been of the belief that if you give a guy a gun and he shoots somebody, and you give him another gun and he shoots somebody else, you may not be responsible for the first shooting but you're definitely responsible for the second. And all of the ones that come after that.
So if you're going to argue that we should take a harder stance with Israel, I'm definitely not going to disagree. Whether that will actually happen is a completely different story.
However even if we weren't going to strong-arm Israel, it's basic dealmaking 101 that while bluffing is acceptable in some situations, when it comes time to put the cards on the table and play them, you can't play a bluff.
I could see this as a comedy skit
Trump: if you reopen the Strait Israel will get out of Lebanon.
Israel: no we won't.
Iran: okay we will open the strait and Israel will leave Lebanon.
Israel: no we won't leave Lebanon.
Trump: okay we have a deal!
Iran: Why isn't Israel leaving Lebanon?
Israel: is my phone on mute or something?