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So, here's a scenario .... Submitted for your approval. Satire, I hope.
Trump has been telegraphing all hell breaking loose on Tuesday.
WHAT IF Putin, Xi, decide to have some fun with him, leak some fake intelligence about a counter-strike?
Fake intelligence costs nothing and easily misleads the boneheads in the White House.
Of course, crapping his drawers won't prove a damn thing, but it could provoke a real crisis.
So, the market was up today on speculation that there would be no ground attack.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/article/trump-backs-away-from-seizing-irans-oil-unfortunately-the-american-people-would-like-to-see-us-come-home-201041843.html
Amid a day with dozens of threats and escalating rhetoric toward Iran, President Trump took a significant step back on one key issue for energy markets: a US campaign to control Iran’s oil.
“I’d like to take the oil because it’s there for the taking,” the president told reporters at the White House easter egg roll. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”
The president said multiple times on Monday that he personally wants to take the oil. “We’d make plenty of money,” he said
But the president repeatedly acknowledged that there might not be political will for such a move, which would likely require a ground operation, saying, “I just don’t think the people of the United States would really understand.”
“I’d like to take the oil because it’s there for the taking,” the president told reporters at the White House easter egg roll. “Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.”
The president said multiple times on Monday that he personally wants to take the oil. “We’d make plenty of money,” he said
But the president repeatedly acknowledged that there might not be political will for such a move, which would likely require a ground operation, saying, “I just don’t think the people of the United States would really understand.”
How much further will he back down on Tuesday?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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