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@bigdgramps46079 @HansMahncke So he foresaw the problem then decided to throw the world into an economic whirlpool without first consulting allies and agreeing a common course of action. Either this was extreme arrogance or stupidity. He’s no strategist , he’s an impulsive toddler.

@Albravey @HansMahncke You assume that he did not see it. False assumption. What you do not realize is that it is sacrificial as far the US is concerned. We don't need their oil. It is not the 1970's anymore.

It’s genuinely hard to understand why this is so difficult for people to grasp, other than sheer Trump derangement. Trump wasn’t invoking NATO’s legal obligations. He was testing whether European countries that the U.S. has protected for over 80 years would do the bare minimum to help secure global sea lanes, which American taxpayers have also been underwriting for decades at no cost to them. In this case, those sea lanes benefit Europe far more than the U.S. and Europe failed the test.

@bigdgramps46079 @HansMahncke Any half decent chess player asses risks two or three steps ahead. Trump missed the obvious first trap in failing to see the Iranian threat to the Strait. It’s like invading Russia in the winter and then finding out that it’s freezing cold.

@HansMahncke He was playing 3D chess. He knew what the response would be. He needed to prepare the people in the US to get out of NATO and create new alliances.

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 Then something doesn’t ring true. They have been taken out yet U.S. officials have been in contact with them. I’m a firm believer in the message of The X Files. “Trust No One.” I fear we may not see eye to eye but thank you for the debate.

@Albravey @Microinteracti1 Who does he make a deal with, who is left to deal with?

A former NATO commander just said the quiet part out loud. Trump is trapped. The military logic of this war has collapsed into a binary no one in Washington wants to say clearly: either launch a ground invasion of Iran – a country of 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and three decades of asymmetric warfare doctrine – or declare victory over rubble and go home. Neither is winning. One is catastrophe. The other is theatre. The Strait of Hormuz is still contested. Iranian proxies are still operational. The nuclear program is dispersed, hardened, and possibly accelerated. Air strikes didn’t end the threat. Every day this drags on, the gap between what was promised and what is achievable gets wider. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 It appears that in spite of Trump’s conversations with top Iranian officials, there is a denial from the Iranians. They have said that Trump approached them. There doesn’t seem to be a deal in the offing. Perhaps the primary objectives need revisiting.

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 Ok. Trump appears to be positioning to do a deal with Iran. If that includes a deal on nuclear weapons and missile development, great! With the same regime in power and with willing allies of Iran like China, how will that deal be enforced?

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 Wonderful! So when can I, and others like me, expect the devaluation of our savings and investments, resulting from this adventure, to be reversed and restored to their previous values?

@Albravey @Microinteracti1 As far as primary objective 👍

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 Has the aim been achieved? Trump implied that the attacks were a total success by the end of week one. Obliteration of Iranian military assets was claimed as a fait accompli. And yet….

@Albravey @Microinteracti1 I stated what has repeatedly been said the goal was,& it wasn't regime change. The U.S. has said many times that will be up to the Iranian people.

@UlfGabrielson @Microinteracti1 @MarkHal87606381 No, he doesn’t choose, he’s just too dim to understand.

@Microinteracti1 @MarkHal87606381 Even worse, that POTUS chooses not to understand how NATO works.

This is Adam Mockler explaining to a MAGA panel how NATO actually works. The woman is furious. America is fighting in the Strait of Hormuz and the allies won’t show up. “What’s the point of an alliance if they won’t help us?” she asks. Mockler explains, with the patience of a man teaching long division to a golden retriever, that NATO is a defensive alliance. Article 5 is not a blank check. It does not activate because one member decided, unilaterally, to go to war in someone else’s waterway. Europe does not scramble its navies because Washington picked a fight and then expected company. The face she makes says everything. This is the real cost of ideological illiteracy in a nuclear-armed democracy. When the people advising power have never bothered to understand how the world is actually assembled, every institution becomes a betrayal. Every ally becomes a coward. Every rule becomes an obstacle. They spent years calling Europe freeloaders. Then started a war. Then got angry that the freeloaders wouldn’t come. The confusion is genuine. That’s the part that should keep you up at night. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Daractenus You smug faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer as soldier lads march by Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. Siegfried Sassoon.

"We got two marine expeditionary units sailing to this island [Kharg]. [...] We did Iwo Jima, we can do this." How cheap life is when it’s someone else’s sons and daughters dying.

@rottenbanana101 @Microinteracti1 If the regime is not overthrown it will emerge stronger and as a greater threat down the line. It will redouble its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and systems to deliver them. Failure to remove the regime will be stalemate at best. Trump miscalculated.

@Microinteracti1 What was promised was to severely degrade Irans defense industrial base and destroy most of Irans current stockpile of ballistic missiles . Now 8000+ targets hit, means both objectives were met.

@SprinterPress So, having created a massive economic mess through his lack of intelligent foresight, this thwarted toddler is going to chuck his toys out of the pram, sit in the corner with his back to the room and let everyone else tidy up his toy box.

The US no longer needs the Hormuz Strait Donald Trump stated that the United States is not interested in the Hormuz Strait because it is needed by others. “We have already defeated Iran. We do not need this strait; we do not use it,” he said. According to him, the strait will "open by itself" over time, and its importance is greater for Europe, South Korea, Japan, and China.

@SpencerHakimian Lifted straight out of 1984.

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP SAYS THE WORLD IS FINALLY SAFE THANKS TO HIM

@mpmarky @onaseriousnote @afneil They didn’t have a viable endgame. Much like the present fiasco over Iran.

@onaseriousnote @afneil For a start how did Germany plan to overcome the biggest navy in the world? But why should I tell you? Look it up yourself.

There were 10 Americans in Battle of Britain. Not exactly a game-changer. They weren’t provided by America. They were just pro-Brit yanks. And we paid US oil companies fuel market price for that high octane fuel. No favours were involved.

@TONYxTWO His loyalty test in insulting British war casualties, tariffing his allies and threatening to annex Greenland while cosying up to Putin might have had some bearing on events. It also suggests a degree of strategic planning that is in short supply.

“Trump just ran the most brutal loyalty test in NATO history and every single ally failed it.” One of many reasons to leave NATO!

@TomBluderson3rd @afneil America did not provide a small contingent of pilots. Some brave Americans essentially ignored American neutrality to volunteer to fly in the R.A.F. They risked a criminal prosecution by the American government to do so.

America provided the high octane fuel used in the Battle of Britain. We also provided a small contingent of pilots. After the UK ran out of money (because of the costs around the Battle of Britain), the US switched to Lend-Lease in order to keep supplying the UK with food, weapons, fuel, etc...

You have a weak and tendentious grasp of history. We were never a few months away from ‘being a German colony’ after the Battle of Britain (which did not involve America). Churchill made clear his endgame from the start: Total Victory. Germany declared War in USA. That’s what brought USA into the European theatre of war. FDR agreed with Churchill’s endgame.

@WasAcop Trump can act like a medieval king but Starmer is merely head of a collective cabinet. He can’t make executive decisions without agreement of his team. Britain is a monarchy that behaves like a republic. America is a republic that behaves like a monarchy.

BREAKING NOW: Trump just DROPPED THE BOMB on live phone call! “I talked to Starmer about Iran—he literally said he CAN’T make a decision and has to ASK HIS TEAM first!!” “I told him you don’t need to talk to your team” Folks… we have a completely SPINELESS, dithering, LAME-DUCK Prime Minister who is utterly CLUELESS and TOTALLY INCAPABLE!!! 😱🇬🇧🚨

@PressSec Decimated? So Iran’s military and economy has been reduced by 10%. Only another 90% to go then. Excellent use of arithmetic.

@Jimrob_north @TheBitcoinETF @georgegalloway Thanks. You’re quite correct. Dropped behind enemy lines before the main assaults.

@Albravey @TheBitcoinETF @georgegalloway French SAS.

On the matter of people “joining wars that are already won” we might unkindly analyse WW1 and WW2. American newsreels recorded London Coventry Clydebank and other British people burning alive at the hands of Hitler fascism. American banks and companies fuelled the Furher’s conquest of every European country except us. Because we resisted. America never declared war on Hitler. He declared war on them. America never declared war on Fascist Japan, until they attacked Pearl Harbour. There are many damning things you could say about my country. Failing to turn up when it is right to fight is not one of them. #Trump @10DowningUK

@TheBitcoinETF @georgegalloway The first troops to land on D Day were those of the British 6th Airborne Division. The first allied soldier killed on D.Day was Lt. Des Brotheridge. British 6th Airborne.

@georgegalloway Don’t forget D-Day and to thank America every chance you get. FAFO

@CreasonJana Credibility in this post got a bit of the shine knocked off it when your reference to the British Empire revealed a certain lack of grasp of world geopolitics. There is no so thing as The British Empire.

If Keir Starmer wasn’t pissed before … he certainly is now! Trump outmaneuvered him in regards to Hormuz. Great Britain thought they held all the cards when they ordered Lloyd’s of London … the world's only insurance market large enough to back the value of the global oil fleet … to stop insuring them is they were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. This move had the potential of crippling 20-30 percent of the world’s oil attempting to get thru the 21 mile chokehold. Why? Because there is only one company in the entire globe that is big enough to insure all the oil tankers going through this strait. Up until now, that company is Lloyd’s of London. One needs to understand how Britain bit off its nose to spite its face … it’s because the oil being delivered thru Hormuz is responsible for about 2 percent of the British Empire’s GDP, over a $40 billion contribution to the United Kingdom and 50,000 jobs, but it’s also a geopolitical tool for the UK. Then SUDDENLY … POOF … Starmer decided they were no longer going to insure anyone going through the Strait, which would have halted all energy shipments. It was kind of a giant ‘middle finger’ to President Trump to confuse and distort the energy markets and make America look bad. But our @POTUS played his ‘Trump card’ and said that the United States government will start insuring these shipping companies. And with the return of ‘double Middle Fingers’ back at Starmer, our President said our Navy will provide personal escorts for those ships. Effectively shutting down one of the largest geopolitical tools the United Kingdom has had all the way back to the 1600s. Additionally, Lloyd’s of London has been affected economically, because getting back online will take more than a magic wand. And, since our US military has traditionally assisted these tankers with going thru the Strait in the past, why would many of the companies owning those tankers want to go back to Lloyds. Starmer has learned the meaning of FAFO!