Trump mulls ‘winding down’ war and leaving Strait of Hormuz crisis to ‘other nations’

https://news.sky.com/video/trump-mulls-winding-down-war-and-leaving-strait-of-hormuz-crisis-to-other-nations-13522421

38 Comments

  1. Per usual, make a huge unnessasary and expect everyone to clean it up when he got bored (or perhaps behind the scenes someone threatened him with something worse than imprisonment if he continued).

  2. Humble-Aprico on

    Holy shit, so he literally just ruined the world’s economy and then he’s gonna pull a “not my problem”?  I mean, it is something he would do, but holy shit.

  3. Yeah, whatever he feels like. He’s got gas prices through the roof, the whole region a fucking mess.

    Yeah, maybe wind it down. Play some golf. His work is finished.

  4. Its so fucking funny to see him say this after just 3 hours ago reports were saying they were considering thousands of troops being deployed

    Bro must have seen market reactions and inflation forecasts…or he is lying again and they will just keep fighting anyway he really is that stupid

    What pray tell did you accomplish admiral dipshit? The same regime is in place and the strait is still closed 

  5. He’s lying his ass off at this point. No one should believe a damn word he says about the situation in Iran.

  6. RoosterMedical on

    AKA, the people who bribe Trump don’t like to see the stock market crashing.

  7. Just takes a giant fucking shit all over the region and then leaves it for other people to either step in or clean up. What a great man!

  8. Translation: the US & Israel are out of interceptor missiles and will need 12 months to restock at which time the war can continue.

    Iran is fully aware of this and will keep the strait of Hormuz closed.

  9. No one from the EU came over to play minefield dodgeball, and it’s no fun anymore anyways, so we’re gonna go see if Cuba wants to play tag.

    They’re “It”.

  10. *Brave Sir Donald Ran Away!*

    *Bravely Ran Away Away!*

    *When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!*

    *Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about,*

    *And gallantly, he chickened out!*

    *Swiftly taking to his feet, he beat a very brave retreat!*

    *Bravest of the Brave, Sir Donald!*

  11. sure i shit in the swimming pool but everyone who is more concerned with a shit-free swimming pool should really step in and do their share of the de-shitting

  12. The crazy part of all if this is that would allow Iran to potentially walk away from this more powerful by negotiating directly with the EU and other countries in the Middle East.

  13. Huh, i thought TACO was on Tuesdays.

    Right after the Friday bell, this feels like more pump and dump for insider trading. Since the play is Pump, we know what the nest chapter will be…

  14. He does this all the time. Moves one direction, says he maybe isn’t moving that way anymore, but in reality he’s speeding that direction. You don’t send that many marines to just go meh nvm

  15. Which other nations?

    It would be hilarious if he declared fake victory
    Europe deployed some ships etc and Iran immediately ceased fire and reached a more formal agreement with Europeans but not the Americans obviously.

  16. With American marines and warships on the way, it appears this is, at best, ham handed misdirection.

  17. nowhereman1917 on

    This is what he does. He dumped Afghanistan in Biden’s lap. He surrendered everything to the Taliban, ordered the Afghan government to release 5000 terrorists, and made exactly no preparation towards getting our people and assets home.

    Incompetent coward.

  18. so in 3 years when there is a democrat president republicans can bitch about how they aren’t fixing this mess fast enough.

  19. adjust_your_set on

    He really should be impeached for this. We should not be subservient to another country. An absolute colossal waste of human lives, resources, and no international partners, only to have a more extreme leader in place now.

    If Iran did mine the straight, global shipping through there will be more expensive until all of the mines are accounted for.

  20. He’s scared of China and the Saudis. They flexed on him and he’s backing down. Bro is cooked if democrats were as pissed as we are. Our government is a fucking joke. Racking up debt. We’re getting fucked by the wealthy who’s lifestyle will not change a bit… they’ll fuck us and buy up more and more small business at a discount. We’re so fucked. Democrats are a fucking joke of an opposition party. Citizens need to wake up and realize how batshit this administration is. Fuck politicians. All of them.

  21. He’s literally A/B testing exit strategies for popularity. This is insane. We live in a world run by a reality game show host that rapes children.

  22. TOMC_throwaway000000 on

    Has no one put together the timing of what he says and the day of the week?

    It’s Friday and the market is doing badly

  23. Imhere4thejokes on

    People went into a voting booth expecting what exactly? Because this is about how I envisioned he’d fuck shit up…

  24. Iran can keep bombing Israel; to my understanding, they are running low on interceptors. They can attack GCC states and US bases until the US signs a ceasefire. That ceasefire will likely be backed by China and other major nations. At that point, the petrodollar is done. Iran will have proven their importance to the world, and China will be the nation of security and stability… and our debt becomes more difficult to deal with.

    All because the GOP wanted to help Daddy cover up his child rape.

  25. Fuck that I ain’t paying my taxes to clean up your fucking mess. 

    Sincerely, a NATO country dweller

  26. tallperson117 on

    Too late dipshit, that genie ain’t going back in the bottle.

    Literally everyone except for Israel and the Trump admin knew Iran had no intention of getting nuclear weapons; the US intelligence agencies, the international intelligence community, the negotiation mediators from Oman, UK participants in the negotiations, the IAEA etc. Now, after using bad faith negotiations to attack Iran *two separate times in less than a year*, carpet bombing their capital with a larger population than New York, disfiguring their new leader, and assassinating his father, mother, children, and family, they sure as hell *will* want to get nukes.

    Beyond that, the damage to both the hard and soft power of the US is immeasurable. Our allies in the Gulf are pissed because their security guarantees from the US have been shown to be worthless; we started a war that they are facing the brunt of, we’re utterly failing to protect them, and are proving to be more of a liability than a protector. Our allies in Asia are pissed because we both crashed their economies with no warning due to their huge reliance on Gulf oil AND are now pulling defensive assets from Asia to bolster the supplies we’re burning thru in the Gulf, leaving them out to dry. Our allies in Europe are pissed because we’ve fucked their economies, berated them, risked them dealing with an exponentially larger refugee crisis than with Syria and Yemen, shaken them down constantly over the last year, and are now pissed that they’re unwilling to throw their own assets and citizens into a meat grinder of our own creation with no prior warning. On top of that, we’ve shown our military to be a fucking paper tiger; yea we can bomb shit, but despite our huge military budget we have 0 answer for drones despite having actual knowledge of this new age of warfare through everything going on in Ukraine. We’re literally pushing ALL of our allies towards closer alignment with China while simultaneously giving China a front row seat to the limitations of our offensive and defensive capabilities. If they weren’t already investing heavily in cheap one way drone tech, they sure as shit are now, and unlike the US, they can actually redirect their military budget effectively rather than throwing another trillion $ towards defense contractors for shit that doesn’t work.

    Jfc, the days of US hegemony are over. This idiot is seriously jeopardizing the USD’s status as the world reserve currency. If that happens, that $39 trillion in debt will suddenly *actually* become a problem and we’ll be giga-fucked. All of this for fucking nothing.

    To quote Twin Lannister: “Madness. Madness and stupidity.”