He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane. Mark Stone analyses the Truth Social post.

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    Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran’s leader goes “anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else’s problem now.”

    That’s not how war works.

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    Trump expects the world to go to war with Iran. What will actually happen is that the world will re-establish diplomacy with Iran and offer sanctions relief to end the blockade.

    Without war reparations, American ships will forever be barred from sailing the strait, and Gulf states will likely start distancing themselves from the US and re-assess hosting American bases and troops.

    Trump’s victory looks an awful lot like a strategic defeat that sees the US pull out of the Middle East and leave Iran in a more powerful position then before.

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    So running away and leaving the mess for his victims to clean up. Much like he probably did to the children he raped.

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    Trump wont be happy when the “other nations” solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran

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        Euros

        Don’t see why they’d make an exception for them. Europe in general supported the strikes on Iran.

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          Supported “in general”?

          Also Iran hates the US specifically, anything that will hurt them in the long term is a good idea in their book

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            Supported “in general”?

            Spain and Ireland have been pretty vocal against the war in Iran, but the rest supported it more or less clearly.

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              Finland didn’t, Sweden didn’t. Poland told Donald to pound sand

              I kinda want a source for this “more or less clearly”

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                I kinda want a source for this “more or less clearly”

                In politics, no outright opposition is tacit approval.

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      for you it was the Straight of Hormuz. But, for me, it was a Tuesday.

      – Donnie “shits-his-pants” Trump

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    Hey, if he pulls the military back out from the Middle East, he can take credit for ending another war that he obviously won single-handedly. Plus he can get another Nobel Prize…

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    Operation Epstein’s Fury ends when Israel says it ends. Which it won’t. Even when it ends Israel will reach across the border regularly on some pretext or another.

    This is just the president trying to get everyone else to help secure the straits for oil shipments, threatening to walk away.

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    Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That’s another FIFA peace prize right there.

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    Vietnam speedrun any%

    It did achieve the intended distraction from Trump’s Epstein issues quite well though, they’ve been off the press radar since this began.

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      Once the war news slows down and then another Epstein news hits, won’t it come back but stronger?

      The Epstein thing has lasted so long because it’s being drip fed into the news cycle, I honestly think they would have been better off if they just released it all at once.