• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      yes, trump is doing 2 things right now, try and pump and dump the markets and continued distraction from epstein files. given how bondi was replaced very quickly BY BLANCHE, and suddenly melania coming out of the woodwork to give a “i did not help diddle kids” speech.

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah but if they say it this way it sounds like they’re in control of the situation

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      The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.

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        it wasnt being used all for the most part its not that hard, and not some genius plan by trump. besides russia and china has other ways of getting around it anyways.

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        But that only works if the US is willing to start attacking unarmed oil tankers, which will do no favors for their international support.

        If they hadn’t alienated all their allies, they could build an embargo until the straits were opened but that ship had sailed.

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        21 hours ago

        …You understand Iran has more revenue streams and can overland oil and materials to china… right?

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        China is both extremely well supplied with Oil, and aggressively weaning itself off of oil. It’s everyone else in Asia who are now pressured to get closer to China from this. Asia cutting US off from Chips, and selling to China instead, until US leaves the Gulf region, is the most effective action. Diplomatically, asserting that the US/Israel illegal war is the primary source of fuel and helium shortages needed to make chips, industry needs to focus on serving friendly country needs first.

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      14 hours ago

      I’m still trying to work out if this one’s a late April Fool…

      Imagine working for the man. You just hear crazy shit day in, day out, and have to quickly adapt and run with it, otherwise he’ll find another mug who will.

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      In Hegseth’s voice… Why can’t you idiots understand how clear our, sorry I mean our great President’s, mission has always been. We needed to start this excursion, because Iran was about to extort the world through a blockade. It’s extortion when Iran does it. We are liberating the world when we extort, uhm … uhm… liberate them from Iranian extortion. To pre-empt some of the news you will hear later this week. Iran was already threatening the region with opening Trump branded golf courses on its soil, and so America needed to make sure our friends in the region did so before hand. Radical left wing media not understanding that we won the war because 10 more Trump golf courses are opening in Gulf and 0 in Iran, just don’t understand that freedom isn’t free.