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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    10 days 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…

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    10 days 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.

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    10 days 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

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      10 days 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.

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    10 days ago

    So running away and leaving the mess for his victims to clean up. Much like he probably did to the children he raped.

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    10 days ago

    It’s not the Strait of Hormuz crisis, it’s Trump’s Middle East Epstein Distraction War. Not to be confused with Trump’s South American Epstein Distraction War.

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    10 days 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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    10 days ago

    Oh Sky, Sky, Sky. Don’t bullshit the world when everyone knows you’re doing it. Trump fantasizes about all kinds of things, and realistically there’s zero chance he’ll just pull out. Rule #1 of Mr. Orange is to maximize corruption, and ending wars minimizes that.

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    10 days 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.

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      10 days ago

      This is current state of shipping in SoH. Everyone who goes through has some deal with Iran to pass safely. Iran has offered an “Islamic assembly” (UN/NATO like) peace deal for neighbours. Backup plan if GCC does not ally with Iran is to keep the toll system.

      Oh, you want your oil tanker to leave the gulf? That’ll be one million dollars.

      One ship reportedly paid Iran $BritishPounds2B to go through. $ and Euro are worthless to Iran because of corrupt banking system. All payments in CNY already.

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        9 days ago

        If youre ona phone keyboard holding “$” should give you other currency symbol options. £, €, ₩ etc. Otherwise the usual syntax to denote pounds is to leave off the symbol and append GBP. Eg £2B or 2B GBP are easier to read and easier to type.

    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Basically incompetence. Iran (and Houtis) have been hitting ships they clearly were not supposed to hit. It is not necessarily easy to figure out which ship is which. So even ships that are allowed by Iran are scared of crossing rn. Also, mines don’t discriminate.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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      10 days 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.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    10 days 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.