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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for
"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) 2026-03-13T00:51:08.105Z
www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
Lovie777
(22,822 posts)US is run by greedy stupid people.
Irish_Dem
(81,006 posts)Just a Trump smash and grab with his own personal troops.
UpInArms
(54,858 posts)You can cure ignorance, you just cant fix stupid
Srkdqltr
(9,686 posts)Everyone knew not to poke that particular wasp nest.
chouchou
(3,108 posts)doesn't take his truck with him. He's been extremely tired all the time..... Can't figure it out.
Ocelot II
(130,310 posts)The Strait of Hormuz is Iran's most powerful weapon. You'd have to be a right moron not to see that they'd use it. But it's morons we're talking about, so...
MLWR
(991 posts)I'd bet good money that they couldn't even find the Strait of Hormuz on a map.
SamuelTheThird
(1,017 posts)They really are this vertiginously stupid, or this was all thought out to help putin?
mwmisses4289
(3,955 posts)That's it. That was the whole "plan".
Justice matters.
(9,725 posts)Ând no matter how many "suckers and losers" would be put at risk while doing so.
They. Don't. Care.
Got to protect their pedophile in chief.
sinkingfeeling
(57,741 posts)D_Master81
(2,518 posts)I mean that was the most likely response. I think what happened is Trump thought he would kill the Ayatollah and the people would rise up and take over and thatd be that. He probably didnt listen to anything else because he didnt want to. This is why it was always so dangerous to put this man back in the White House and have him surrounded by a cult. I dont see any way out of this except to tuck tail and retreat or turning Iran into Gaza and just leveling it
tanyev
(49,172 posts)JCMach1
(29,191 posts)Cold War era strategy to keep it open. FFS they must have fired and retired anyone with any policy and planning experience.
alwaysinasnit
(5,616 posts)Uncle Joe
(64,991 posts)If any one of them had testified they told *rump what any 10th grader could figure out by looking at map, they would leave him exposed, because the buck stops with them, and if doesn't they're fired.
Thanks for the thread tblue
liberalla
(11,059 posts)SamuelAdams
(10 posts)They are deeply unserious people. They were the class clowns in high school.
sakabatou
(46,075 posts)dalton99a
(93,910 posts)Operation Epic Stupidity