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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****BREAKING NEWS**** Iran Just Reclosed The Gulf of Trump
Irans military said in a statement that the strait had now returned to its previous state unless the United States ended its own blockade of Iranian ports. A shipping monitor run by the British navy said Saturday that it had received a report of Irans Revolutionary Guards firing at a tanker in the strait.
The new developments added to the confusion on Saturday over the status of transit through the strait, where Iran has choked global energy supplies by menacing passing ships during more than a month of war with the United States and Israel.
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"If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"1 Corinthians 14:8
Lovie777
(23,213 posts)I still think that Iran is fucking with shithole's head.
FalloutShelter
(14,529 posts)I marvel at how this timeline could be so ridiculous and horrific at the same time.
Nothin gets better until the Traitor is gone and the GOP is turfed out wholesale.
My mental health cant take a lot more of this
TOFU TACO diet.
Scrivener7
(59,784 posts)There's no reason for ICE, there's no reason for tariffs, there's no reason to be murdering boaters in South America, there's no reason to be bombing little girls, there's no reason to be making enemies of every ally we ever had, there's no reason to be blowing up the economy that was called "the envy of the world" before he got his hands on it, there's no reason to trash the White House.
There's no reason for ANY of it.
Bluetus
(2,939 posts)Under cover of chaos, they can do all the other things they don't want people to see. Like, how much money have the Trump people made by trading on Trump's stock market manipulation, and investing in defense companies just before they get new contracts?
And it also goes back to Trump's 2011 tweet about Obama. Trump believes that start a war automatically leads to popularity. It worked for W Bush big time (and GHW Bush to an extent). But in those cases, the Presidents made a big effort to explain that to the public and the public generally saw those wars as just and necessary. Trump is a moron. In his mind, it is the command of power that makes a President popular. And the opposite is true. Americans see a RECKLESS command of power, and they hate that.
But there are reasons. Not intelligent reasons. Not valid reasons. But reasons in that demented brain of Trump.
Link to tweet
newdeal2
(5,501 posts)I predict this scene from Dr. Strangelove with his face instead

And something about crazy bastards
everyonematters
(4,202 posts)surfered
(13,768 posts)Don, Jr and Eric will be making gobs of money.
dalton99a
(94,684 posts)