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Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Donald Trump pleads for UK to send warships to secure Strait of Hormuz

www.independent.co.uk

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Donald Trump pleads for UK to send warships to secure Strait of Hormuz

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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Donald Trump urges UK to send warships to secure Strait of Hormuz
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The US president piled pressure on Keir Starmer to deepen the UK’s involvement in the escalating conflict in the Middle East
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  • axh@lemmy.world
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    Why would they join the war that is already won?

    • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
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      Victory has many fathers. Defeat is a gosh gallop of roping in allies, obscuring facts and blaming Joe Biden.

      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        *gish

        • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world
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          *god

          • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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            *gop

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      To win the war he already won. How is that confusing?

    • ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee
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    • redsand@infosec.pub
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      Because Ghislane Maxwell says so.

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    My god he is such a fucking idiot. He just insulted them and told them their help wasnt needed. Just a stupid, pathetic, hatefull asshole.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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      And sadly watch the UK cave cause no one stands up President Lumpty Trumpty.

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        Spain has entered the chat, at least symbolically

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      Meh at this point I feel like this isn’t incompetence but calculated malice, he’s doing everything Putin wants to great effect. He’s basically dismantling America.

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    But he just said he doesn’t need them! What happened? Was he wrong?

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/8/trump-says-us-does-not-need-united-kingdom-aircraft-carriers-for-iran-war

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      “It’s both”

      • tomiant@piefed.social
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        Many such cases.

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  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    “We don’t need your ships”

    24 hours later…

    “Please send your ships”

    “BTW, we already won the war, but please help”

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    "I want Greenland! Give me Greenland, or I’ll go to war with Europe! Give me what I want OR ELSE! "

    3 months later:

    “You better help me save face from my virtuosically incompetent war strategy OR ELSE!”

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    I thought he didn’t need our ships for a war already won.

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    He should be pleading. But he is demanding. That’s the weird part. He does not have the cards for demanding.

    You break it, you own it. He attacked, without reason. Hell! According to them its not even a war. Get congress to declare war first, then we talk.

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      Surprisingly, Starmer has so far shown signs of having a spine. He must be facing a backbench revolt.

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        Starmer is another leader I fucking hate. Are there any good leaders left?

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    Ignore that fascist bastards whining. He dug his own ass into it let him dig himself out

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    I’m starting to think he was never very good at the businesses and the strategies all along!

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    The infinite might of the United States is unable to hold and defend a 24-mile wide body of water.

    Think about that for a second.

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    This is the same country that was seriously planning to invade and annex Greenland just three months ago. They might have postponed their plans in favor of bombing Iran, but Greenland is still on the table.

    So Europe may suffer the economic consequences of this mess, but the White House getting humiliated and the US military getting degraded and bogged down in Iran are both a boon for Europe.

    My only fear that some European leaders (looking at you Starmer) might actually be stupid enough to follow them in this folly out of some misplaced sense of appeasement.

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    “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

    Huh.

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    The only official response to him from the UK should be the direct quote about not needing the UK. No additional words. Don’t take any words out. Just the exact quote.

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      Starmer will say no, only in defence, then give Trump everything he wants.

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        Then the UK has a problem to deal with as well.

        Ready in Canada if our government decides to help Trump out. Don’t care which team he’s on.

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          We should really call a vote of non confidence if they do. Regime change should always start at home.

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            It’s still a minority government.

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        Those wealthy elites know a thing or two about class solidarity. It means a few hundred extra poors to the chopping block, they’ll take it!

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    Sane-washing title

    the US president urged Britain and other nations – including France, China and Japan – to send warships to the area to protect oil tankers from Iranian attacks.

    Not a good sign if we are asking China to change our diaper.

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