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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    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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    If America pulls out, what would happen to Israel?

    Would they continue? Can they take on Iran alone and bring the regime change they keep promising?

    Would the US just give them guns and ammunition to continue?

    We know that if Israel wanted to take Iran solo, they would have already done that. This might blow up in Bibi’s face.

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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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    Just leave a giant steaming dump on the elevator for the custodian to clean up. That’s his job, he gets paid for it.

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

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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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      It also undermines the entire petrodollar/Bretton Woods system that gives the almighty US dollar its power. This will be a big win for China, when countries start trading in their USD for Yuan buy oil.

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    Didn’t think TACO even applied to military action, learn something new every day I guess.

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      Marines have not been deployed to Kharg yet, unless I missed something.

      What you’re seeing here is just classic Trump, utterly indecisive, utterly lacking in any ability to make long term plans. This is why he doesn’t like war; it demands long term planning and punishes impulsivity (at least at the strategic level).

      Currently he’s stuck between two bad options. He can abandon the fight, or he can go all in. Both choices hurt him, just in different ways. And because he’s a creature of pure id who craves constant adulation and approval, he’s doing what he usually does and sounding those choices out in public to see what plays / feels best.

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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.

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      Only, what, 12 more pointless wars and he can coast to the end of his term without epstein coming up again.

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      he realized the venezuelan invasion wasnt enough, so he likely contacted bibi to start a war to distract the MSMs.