Reopening Strait of Hormuz Not Vital to Ending Iran War
Then may I ask what is exactly?
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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A secret third thing ;)
You won't know secret third thing, it goes to another war in Canada.
You leave Canada out of this we're doing our best to stay out ourselves
TACO
Retaining Saigon not vital to ending the Vietnam war.
Is Trump going to say that Iran agreed to his terms without any proof? Is he going to bomb them again for not respecting the terms they agreed to in his mind?
You think presidents do this? Just go on Truth Social and post lies?
Since posts on Truth Social are per definition called "truths" (like "tweets"), I guess they are per definition not lies? Unimpeachable logic.
That's been his MO every Monday for the past 4 Mondays
So let me get this straight: You went to war to make things worse?
Yeah, for MAGA, that tracks.
TACO Trump Tuesday strikes again. Trump makes threats, those he's threatening laugh at him, mock him and ignore the deadline, Trump chickens out and tries to make up something else to hide the fact he's failed.
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“The full reopening of the Strait is something the Administration is working towards, but the core objectives of the operation have been clearly defined for the American people by the Commander in Chief,” Leavitt said.
No the fuck they haven't. He doesn't even know himself other than whatever Israel said to do, otherwise they'll release the videos of him raping children.
When those videos hit the web, everyone will know the people who supported him. We will never let them forget, nor will we let others be ignorant of what they did.
You know, I’m not even sure I’ve heard a straight line about what exactly they’re trying to do and what precipitated starting the war.
There’s been talk about wanting regime change and halting the Iranian nuclear program. But both of those things have been around for what, like 20 years? And the nuclear deal was being worked out over a decade age before trump threw a fit and ripped it up.
Most wars have a very clear “they did this to us so we have to do this to them in order to secure… blah blah blah.” But with Iran we didn’t really get that. I just woke up one day and the headlines were “surprise, he started another war in the Middle East, checkout this new TikTok trend”
At least bush had the intelligence to lie about WMDs. Trump just threw a fit and seems hell bent on collapsing the global economy for no reason other than the US hasn’t been bombing as many brown people as it once did.
Trump just threw a fit and seems hell bent on collapsing the global economy for no reason other than the US hasn’t been bombing as many brown people as it once did.
I don't think it's just because "brown people bad". I think his goal is to crash the global economy so he and his buddies (controllers) such as Miller, Vought, Kevin Roberts, Thiel, Andreeson, Musk, aka the technofascists (a la Curtis Yarvin), can get their hands in the system from the ground up to extract even more value from everyone and further control pretty much all of society.
Sure they have - Baby gets what Baby wants. If baby wants the objectives of a war to be Iran sends him a cool fire truck to play with, that's how he defines "winning" the war that day.
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He really doesnt understand the global markets are interconnected and prices rising on inputs to American products due to logistics costs are the least of our worries.
Dumbest student in business school, waddaya expect?
He really doesnt understand
ima stop you there only because anything after is extraneous. ;-)
The MAGA US needs to lose this one.
Trump already has lost. There's a Khomeni in charge of the country who is even more hardline than the last with a long queue of replacements should he get killed, they've not surrendered, they're not negotiating and they're only letting through ships they choose to. They're still firing missiles at every Arab nation with a US base in it as well as at Israel. They're still selling their oil. And now the Iran supported Houtis in Yemen have kicked off too, also lobbing missiles at Israel and threatening closing off the Bab al Mandab Strait which is the access to the Red Sea that'll cut off access to the western oil pipelines Saudi Arabia has.
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This could literally be mentioned in the historical annals of idiotic military blunders in history.
Hey Republicans lurking on here, way to fucking go guys. You're so fucking stupid that you collapsed our reputation in the world and now we're a fucking laughing stock and because of your seemingly infinite level of abject idiocy, we now are legitimately in a national security crisis because of this wanton waste of our national defense assets.
Great fucking job, morons. Take a fucking bow.
Some have said that when this war is over, it will be a different world.
But that is not the whole truth, because it is already a different world. The image of the invincible US military is in ruins. This war with Iran can turn out to be nearly as disastrous for USA as the Russian war against Ukraine is to Russia.
Zelenskyy has been on a charm tour to the Arab countries, and offered help to defend against the Iranian attacks, that USA has failed to defend against. And hopefully this will result in significant Arab investments in Ukrainian industries.
These investments are most likely to be drawn from US investments.
When the Ukraine war is over, Ukraine will very quickly become member of EU. And Ukraine will prosper fast with strong know how, and a strong will and help to rebuild after the war.
As a member of EU, the enormous goodwill and prestige Ukraine has earned, will benefit EU too. And EU will be stronger than ever. While USA risk to lose the petro dollar because they fucked up in the middle east.
USA is not losing the war in Iran, because it's already lost. Unfortunately for USA, there is no graceful exit, so chances are that USA will escalate instead. But that will only make it worse for USA. With even more losses for USA in lives money and prestige.
The big immediate winner is of course China, but EU might actually also win from this in the long run. And the sure loser is USA.
Even Iran will benefit, the oil export sanctions against them have already been lifted, and they will keep control of the Hormuz strait.
A new deal between USA and Iran will be on Iranian terms not American.
Funny how this was predicted 2 years ago?
China's Nostradamus" Made 3 Trump Predictions In 2024. 2 Already Came True
The headline is misleading though, because USA has already lost the war, so all 3 came true.
I actually went back and watched the original video, and it's spot on, there can be no doubt about the accuracy of his prediction.
I think this next century is going to be that of the middle powers.
Countries that are agile, looking to innovate and solve problems, and work towards equitable futures for everyone.
America is all in on oligarchy and the nouveau riche, and nothing else. There is zero investment in the common good and zero care for the nation as a whole.
I just hope the American super-capitalist model will be abandoned together with the authoritarian model of Russia.
And I actually see a path to that effect, question is if we (western democracies) will take it.
So you want oligarchs to be in charge? Lmao that's certainly a take.
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If you spend billions and end up with that path blocked, I don't think you can say you "won".
Of course you can finish the war capitulating or losing too.
I'm starting to think either Trump or his acolytes don't really think.
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well that is a relief... now all the US service men being sent to the meat grinder will die to attempt to reopen a Strait that is not even vital to the war effort
As sacrifice to the great state of Israel
The guy throwing military parades for himself capitulates and leaves Europe to clean up the mess. Much Wow
Cool we’ve entered the, “I don’t want it anyway” phase of this bullshit. not sure where this places us in the timeline, but we all know the last step is hyping the massive victory of fixing the problem created by the administration.
The Narcissist's Prayer:
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal. <-- We are here
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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Right, right... Now, about all that child rape...
Hit 'em with the "you're still talking about that?"
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Leavitt signaled that Trump may achieve those objectives by mid-April. “The Pentagon has always stated four to six weeks as an estimated timeline for Operation Epic Fury,” Leavitt said in the White House briefing room. "We're on day 30 today—you do the math."
My math says it's taking y’all a lot longer than you fooled yourselves into thinking.
In May: … was always a 6 month timeline for Operation [~~Epstein Files~~] Epic Fury
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If he doesn't open it within a couple of months at most, the bulk of oil is going to start being traded in yuan (it's already starting to happen) the gulf states are going to start liquidating their U.S. debt and the investments they've made across the global economy. The problem could spiral out of control really fast. The guy's a total idiot, but I assume they've explained it to him with little cartoons or something and he's finally understood that this time he can't just walk away and claim he won
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