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Trump pulling an Uno Reverse and feeling very smart about it?
Great to see the US is asserting its control over the Straight of Hormuz. Just like Iran "asserted control" by threats with missiles, we now assert control in the same fashion with our navy. Crazy! :)
The US is shooting down its citizens, blockading vital commerce routes, and accumulating a dangerous amount of nuclear weapons. It seems ripe for regime change.
What an utterly pathetic man. He gave away the Strait of Hormuz to Iran with an ill-conceived plan. Even the US military-intelligence community had long thought attacking Iran a poor idea, and that's really saying something! And now instead of taking his licks and finding some way to downplay a swift loss to an elective way, his new genius response is to commit an act of war against the same countries Iran is attacking?
Random US soldier: "Are we the baddies?"
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USA is racing with Iran who can get to 200USD per barrel faster.
Is this a Trump version of "nobody move or the n**er gets it?" from Blazing Saddles? Taking yourself hostage so the other side doesn't have to do it?
Seems a pretty obvious goal, yeah.

Raise the prices to extremes for oil and gas producing allies through regional uncertainty, bomb infrastructure to keep them high, encourage Israel to keep doing what Israel, flooding the EU with asylum seekers.

He's padding his own pockets, crippling the EU's and continuing to centralise influence around himself. Pretty typical megalomania. Y'all voted for this. Twice.

so now iran’s allies need to get their oil elsewhere. could only mean one thing for prices.
I wonder if Donald Trump is aware that he is asking for a repeat of Pearl Harbor.
I think the first shots looked like the strategy at Pearl Harbor. So it’s more appropriate to learn that Japanese success at Pearl Harbor didn’t grant Japan any choices about how the war would end.
I have a conspiracy-adjacent question. Let’s say your goal was to reduce globalization, but tariffs were too unpopular a way to do so. They too directly put the blame on the president for what happens.

Would starting a war with Iran, shocking energy and transportation prices, raising the costs of exports from every other country be a more solid mechanism? Especially when the US is a net exporter from oil and could conceivably protect domestic industries from the same?

It also - if Trump loses the presidency, the Iran war impacts will continue for years, the impact of tariffs would end relatively quickly.

I just wonder if all he wanted was another trinket gifting ceremony in his office with "the CEO of Iran", and he thought everything he's approved was strictly for show. That seem to explain a lot of his visible confusions and weird messaging, to me...
At this point I'm skeptical enough to believe this is yet another attempt at market manipulation.
So the problem of skyrocketing oil prices because of the Iranian control of Hormuz will be solved by a blockade, which will prevent even more oil from reaching the market. Nobody is 1) this stupid to do it 2) this stupid to bite on this threat
There's a comedy sketch in there somewhere. I expect it'll be called the Straits of Trump soon.
Interesting times intensifies.
Is it a coincidence that he posts an insane sounding headline grabber the moment that his dictator buddy Orban announces his loss? The idea that a dictator could be ousted is very consequential to Trump, and isn’t an idea he would want to allow to spread.