[War] Trump surrenders to Iran in a humiliating defeat

Remember when @astros123 told us Iran would be collecting $2 million per ship that passes through the Strait of Hormuz? What a total lie! How’s that looking now, amigo?

Iran will get nothing. And now Trump just took away their access to the global shipping markets. Why are Democrats instincts so horribly wrong every time?

GOOD DAY

 

I don’t trust what any government in “war” says concerning things like this. I certainly do not trust this leak - and this administration. There are real reasons for people involved in this situation to leak this. Could it be true? Possibly but the administration hasn’t addressed the report, which leads me to be extremely skeptical.

Trump has tried to punish Vance for his leaks distancing himself from the war. It isn’t coincidence that Vance since the leaks has been named corruption czar and then given the political suicide mission of negotiations with Iran… while Trump and Rubio were high profile at an MMA fight. Sometimes Vance is his worse enemy, he commented on how many times he called Trump during negotiations in an effort to say he isn’t the one making the call and thus shouldn’t be blamed…. But all it did was make Vance look very weak because he wasn’t trusted with any authority.

 

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Just bs. Trump would not dare.

 

Low energy effort.

You don’t have much to work with - but you can do better.

Spend some time working on your material and comeback strong- you can do it.

Regards

 

Iran’s feeble attempt to weaponize the Strait of Hormuz was a strategic blunder. They couldn’t back up the threat — and Trump called their bluff… and holds all the cards.



GOOD DAY

 

Trump telling the Pope he needs to get his act together and use common sense is pretty hypocritical to say the least. Who does Trump think he is? God?

 

and yet dumbass christians love Trump even though he just insulted the damn pope

 

Hey Baghdad Bob aka astro123, go F a goat scumbag jihadist.

 

Trump vs Catholics is going to end well.

 

Man. Our president has such thin skin.

 

Trump to replace the weak Pope?

 

Like how these folx were studied?

Rocket River

 

https://www.rodmartin.org/p/trumps-hormuz-trap-snaps-shut

Trump’s foreign policy is not isolationism. But neither is it some neocon fantasy in which America attempts to impose its will through twenty-year deployments, while wealthy allies sit on their wallets and hostile powers exploit the order we underwrite. It is something much harder, much more coherent, much more realpolitik: America will protect the system from which America and its partners benefit. But not for free, not forever, and not on everyone else’s terms.

In Trump’s view, the status quo is what got us here. The status quo enabled China’s rise, rewarded Europe’s dependency, preserved London’s privileged position profiting from maritime risk, and let Iran imagine that threatening the world’s trade arteries was a source of leverage rather than a death wish.
Trump is in no hurry to relieve the pressure. The pressure is the strategy. And nowhere is that clearer than in the President’s increasingly strained relationship with Keir Starmer.

The British Empire may be gone, the Royal Navy may not rule the waves, but the City of London still sits astride one of the world’s quiet choke points: specialty risk, especially marine and war-risk insurance. The City assesses risk and sets prices, and hardly anything sails without their say-so. Iran couldn’t close the Strait: Lloyd’s of London did.

Trump’s response was extraordinary.

On March 3, he announced that the U.S. Development Finance Corporation would mobilize political-risk insurance and guaranty products to support private-sector operations in the Gulf, including shipping. Three days later, Reuters reported that the United States would provide reinsurance for maritime losses up to about $20 billion. Later, Reuters reported that Chubb would serve as the lead insurer for the DFC-backed plan.

Read that carefully. This was not merely the United States saying, “The Navy may escort some ships.” This was the United States moving against the City of London’s semi-monopoly, one of the last vestiges of imperial power. The default risk desk suddenly has a rival with a bigger balance sheet, a bigger navy, and a bigger reason to care.

And that points to the deeper truth beneath the whole episode. The real insurer of global trade is not Lloyd’s of London. It is not Chubb. It is not even the DFC.

It is the United States Navy. It has been for 80 years.

Now, with that Navy blockading the Strait directly, no one will pass without U.S. permission. That buys time for the new insurance reality to ramp up. It also gives Starmer time to repent before it can.

What will happen? As the President might say, we’ll just have to find out.

The pressure exposes who is willing to be a partner and who is freeloading as a functional dependent. It also makes plain that America is no longer willing to subsidize a global order in which others consume the benefits, obstruct the guarantor, and then sneer at the one country that keeps the whole system alive.

 

This goes straight over the heads of the low IQ retarrded woke posters like Baghdad Bob aka astro123 and his stupid woke buddies.