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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.
US is out of warships? Didn't see this comming.
Pathetic
The United States should be annexed by China
The United States should be returned to its indigenous owners
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.
Just one week ago he "truthed":
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. 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!
What? Wasn't already won one week ago, and no help was needed? Now it needs to beg for help?
"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!"
"We don't need your ships"
24 hours later...
"Please send your ships"
"BTW, we already won the war, but please help"
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.
Alternatively, the UK can kick out the US and Israeli ambassadors and its oil will be allowed to pass the Strait.
Ooooh... If Iran made that counteroffer, things would get spicy!
"Please spend billions of dollars to pull my ass out of the fire!"
France already told him to go fuck himself.
I’m going to tell you like I told George Bush. Go fuck yourself.
-France
Instead of renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries, they'll just ban them, and people who make them in their air fryers at home will be designated terrorists, and be executed.
As a result, the potato futures will plunge, and the entire potato industry will be destroyed, farms will go out of business, animal feed will be short, leading to meat shortages.
And the MAGAs will be on TV saying "It was hilarious to see the Libz getting angry because there were no fries at McDonalds, which was our objective.
"The fact that another major commodity market was destroyed as a direct result couldn't be predicted, and isn't our fault, or our problem.
"Thanks to President Trump's leadership, we achieved OUR objective in record time, and this operation was a TOTAL SUCCESS!"
What in Frankensteins vagflaps is going on with his face? It looks like it was sewn together from discarded bits of uncooked chicken skin
He picks the best people. In this case, a stylist that cant size collars to save his neck image.
It was. His real face is underneath, and it's much worse.
Kir Stammer is one of those that I think is dumb enough to do what trump want
I'm starting to think he was never very good at the businesses and the strategies all along!
The problem with the American military doctrine, is that they don't have one; everytime they need to fight a war, they find somebody else to be the troops while they stick to a "support" role.
lol, lmao even
USA and Zionists just bring chaos and instability to the region .
Gulf countries and Iran could find a middle ground and agree to peace , but zionists wants greater Israel ,USa wants resources
According to the article, this is what he said:
Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.
How does that turn into this?
Donald Trump pleads for UK to send warships to secure Strait of Hormuz
Ummm, sounds pretty much the same to me.
You mean because the headline did not include the other nations?
USA started it, USA should finish it! We don't give a fuck about USA starting a war and then beg the rest of the world to do something! Maybe you should send your citizens!
Where the fuck is Israel in this war? Where are their soldiers?
In Lebanon
Gotta keep the genocide rolling.
At a "safe" distance, ensuring others fight their pointless war for them so they can conquer and exploit the region afterwards.
I submit the following: an oil shock and the resultant recession/depression is worth enduring so that the world may be rid of Trump. Let the idiot wear his blunder, and may the economic disaster he unleashed be forever known as the Trump Slump. The alternative might be WW3.
One thing, though: we must help Ukraine defeat Putin. Russia is getting a huge boost right now from Trumps's blunder. If the UK and others send ships anywhere, it should be to blockade Russia.
The end of the AI and Realestate bubbles and, even better, the Reserve status of the USD, would be wonderful things.
Sure, it would be painful, but it's like pulling a rotten tooth, a short sharp pain now to save us from continued paid that will turn into something much worse in the future.
I’m gonna miss my mighty dollar but you’re right it’s outlived its useful life.
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.
They didn't when Reagan asked. And Reagan didn't even start that war.
Hmmm, I wonder if we made an error in judgment when we designed these countries after WW2, including plopping down our own massive military base in the middle (Israel)?
UK and USA made this mess, the wars will never, ever stop by design.
Why would they join the war that is already won?
Because Ghislane Maxwell says so.