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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said it would be unrealistic to launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz after US President Donald Trump challenged allies to work towards reopening it. In unusually strong criticism, Macron accused Trump of constantly contradicting himself on the Iran war and of undermining faith in the NATO military alliance.

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[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 41 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

So Trump created this whole mess. Then he is asking others to go there and put their necks on the line to fix the wreck he created and what he can't fix.

You create the mess, you fix the mess.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Looks like a job for Charlie Kirk

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Say what you will about carotid artery Charlie - but at the end, he leaned left

[–] billybob@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

We are all Charlie Kirk!

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is trying to bait them in for ww3. He doesn't benefit in any way from being humiliated. He needs WW3 so he can try to remain in power. Without power, hell spend the rest of his days in a cell.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

What are basing that on, if Trump were removed tomorrow, who would be president, how do you see that playing out in your head? We'll put in the side that refused to punish him and he is wealthy now due to raiding documents, he'll unfortunately be fine at best he'll been in cushy rich person jail, worst he'll become a dictator.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Iran has given him a clear plan what should be done to open the strait. Trump could literally open it tomorrow if he wasn't such an ass.