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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. Mark Stone analyses the Truth Social post.

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[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 205 points 3 weeks ago

Thats your MO. Come in, shit all over everything, ruin people's lives, and leave. Please leave this plane of existence immediately.

If only the other nations would hold us responsible. They should be placing sanctions on is like those that were on Russia. Then it would actually make some Republicans non maga, start to move away from maga

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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Pigeon management: Fly in, shit on everything, strut around like you’re the best and then fly away without a care.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 15 points 3 weeks ago

Seagull management is the name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management

The one you're referring to is playing chess with a pigeon.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11427530-arguing-with-idiots-is-like-playing-chess-with-a-pigeon

But both are applicable

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[-] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 110 points 3 weeks ago

If farting and leaving the room was a president 

[-] GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 weeks ago

He is doing that on a regular basis. 

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

The fart ends when a shit begins

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[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 74 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 71 points 3 weeks ago
[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I mean I wanna upvote but this has my AI sensor sus.

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[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 67 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] zeejoo@thelemmy.club 20 points 3 weeks ago

Well according to Chief Cheeto, that doesn't matter because the USA "doesn't use it" 🤦‍♂️

[-] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 28 points 3 weeks ago

Ignore the $4/gal sign at your nearest gas station.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago

America is a net exporter of oil, Trump could limit the export of oil or make a deal with Venezuela or reduce domestic demand by investing in mass transit and renewables, but any of those would be as bizarre as expecting Richard Nixon to make a trade deal with communist china.

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[-] fun_times@lemmy.world 63 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] metermatic26@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] SolarMyth@aussie.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago

Comes in, shits the room and leaves.

[-] Naevermix@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks ago

Trump wont be happy when the "other nations" solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran

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[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 36 points 3 weeks ago

Retreating. The word he is looking for is ‘retreat’. Also known sometimes as ‘surrender’.

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 weeks ago

The servants will clean up the bed I shat.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 weeks ago

"Someone else shat in my bed, good thing I have servants to clean it up."

He'd never take responsibility.

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[-] dantel@programming.dev 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That's another FIFA peace prize right there.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Vietnam speedrun any%

It did achieve the intended distraction from Trump's Epstein issues quite well though, they've been off the press radar since this began.

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[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

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......

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 19 points 3 weeks ago

Nobel is old and busted. Obviously the FIFA peace trophy is the new hotness.

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[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I started the war, you all finish it! Thank you for your attention to the matter!

🫲🍊🫱

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 28 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't think TACO even applied to military action, learn something new every day I guess.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 3 weeks ago

i'd rather have him chicken out than continue a pointless war though

[-] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 24 points 3 weeks ago

"I messed this place up, hey you clean it up", classic college bully mentality

[-] DokiDokiCT@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 23 points 3 weeks ago

America doesn't lose wars, it loses interest

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So that means he is gonna attack Kharg Island, doesn't it? Or launch a ground invasion elsewhere in Iran?

He likes to do this stupid transparent 4D chess stuff to try and keep people off balance

[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

I’m sure you can just watch the betting sites, going to be some random 3 million dollar bet two hours before it happens and that’ll be junior cashing in.

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's not your fault but I hate that you're right. We live in the fucking torment nexus timeline.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago

Trump mulls all sorts of stuff. Invading Greenland and Canada come to mind, as do hamberders and cofefe.

[-] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

He's done what he wanted. Epstein is permanently out of the news.

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[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] icedaemon0@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

1- Start a war

2- Lose it

3- Make others fight for you instead

4- ???

5- Profit (?)

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even if the US retreats I hope Iran keeps that strait closed and eventually collapses all those gulf pedo-slave states.

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.

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, quitting and going away is the best he can do. If he does that, other countries will work down some way to fix things.

[-] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

And at the same time he deployed a fuck load more marines to Karg.

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

You break it, you buy it, loser

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