President Donald J. Trump said Saturday that allied nations could deploy warships alongside the United States to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a potential multinational naval effort to restore shipping through one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.
In a post on Truth Social early Saturday, Trump said countries affected by Iran’s attempted disruption of shipping would send naval forces to operate with the United States.
“Many countries… will be sending war ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe,” Trump wrote.
The president mentioned China, France, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom as countries affected by the disruption, though no government has publicly confirmed plans to deploy warships to the region in response to the statement.
So, shall we recap? First, Trump goes after friends and adversaries alike with his ill-thought out and largely illegal trade war, raising and lowering tariffs on a whim. Next, without consulting with anyone else (including the countries who might take retaliatory fire) or trying to build a coalition, much less make the case to the American people, he begins a war with Iran. Then, to add icing to his cake of shit, he figures that airpower can win a war fast enough to prevent Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz. When people who might actually know things about that try to tell him or Pretty Boy Pete, they get dismissed because those two know it all.
But since that didn't work out, he now thinks he can demand that the rest of the world save him from his folly. Even if they wanted to, it'd take weeks for any meaningful deployment of warships from the Pacific Rim powers to get to the Persian Gulf, because it's really fucking far away from them.
I guess it didn't also occur to him that if they do come to save his ass, there will be a real price to be paid for it.
The bottom line is that Trump is a toxic mixture of arrogance and stupidity. And because of that, he's running a real risk of tanking the global economy. As much as he likes to tell everyone how smart he is, he'll go down as the worst president in American history and certainly the most corrupt.
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And the most time in jail.
He has 34 felony convictions. He was found liable for sexual assault. He has six bankruptcies. He was fucking a porn star while his wife was home with their newborn child. He hid classified documents in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. He instigated January 6th. He had the Justice Department cover up the Epstein files. He gutted healthcare for millions. He gave tax cuts to billionaires. His tariffs were found to be illegal and struck down by his own Supreme Court. He pardoned one foreign leader who was convicted of sending tons cocaine to America. He kidnapped another foreign leader for sending drugs to America. He started a war in Iran because....??? And still the MAGAts stood by him.
But now? The MAGAts? They didn't give a fuck about democracy. They didn't give a fuck about norms. They didn't give a fuck about Christian values. They didn't give a fuck about anyone who wasn't them. But the second it cost them an extra twenty bucks to fill up the F-150, suddenly they're all political experts. That's all it took. Seeing the price of gasoline rising at the pumps. TDS is real! But it's not those that have been critical of Trump that have it. It's those that supported and continue to support this piece of shit that are the deranged ones.
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