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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Damien
The handy thing with Trump is that he doesn't really need an off-ramp.
It's possible he gets bored, declares victory and moves on. His supporters will celebrate and chalk it up to another brilliant move by Trump, he won't care and repeatedly say he achieved all his objectives, and the rest of the world will go along with it because it's a better outcome for all concerned.
It's like the Greenland thing. We're just weeks past the US bordering threatening to invade an ally, a European nation, to appease Trump's ego. Then he sort of gave up, and we all just went 'whatever' and moved on.
You have to treat him like a petulant child prone to the worst temper tantrums. One time, he says he'll invade allies, the next he starts a war with Iran, the next time he might try to ban elections he doesn't like, but each time you have to try and ride it out, knowing he'll get bored and move on.
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Also, knows better than anyone else…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-blocking-it
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Surely this would have been anticipated by Washington when it decided to attack Iran?
US military planners have long warned that Iran could try to close the strait in the event of a conflict, but the Trump administration appears to have failed to anticipate such a response.
While some analysts had bet Iran would keep the strait open to ensure export of its own oil, the existential threat to Tehran’s clerical regime has triggered a far harsher response. That in turn has caught Washington out, including the energy secretary, Chris Wright, who said on Thursday that the US navy was not yet ready to carry out a naval escort operation.
“It’ll happen relatively soon, but it can’t happen now,” Wright said – after earlier wrongly suggesting that an escort had already taken place. “We’re simply not ready.” He added that “all of our military assets right now are focused on destroying” Iran’s military resources.
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Pity they didn’t focus on the minelayers in the first attacks, amongst other strategic targets…
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