Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz.

The US launched an operation on Monday to help hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war.

Over 800 ships and roughly 20,000 crew members remain stranded in the region.

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    Trump has become Kim Jong Un at this point.
    “We’re going to blow up everything! Just you watch!”

    Let me tell you, Don… They’re not listening to you. No one is listening to you. Laughing at you maybe, but no one is seriously paying attention to your late night war mongering ramblings.

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    This is that elementary school bully that walks up to a kid and punches them because they think it’s funny, but when the kid punches back the bully goes crying straight to the teacher.

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      It’s the greatest. So amny people said a ceasefire wasn’t possible but we manage dit when i went Nad spoke to those gys in Iraq, because even through they hate me they luv me becoz they no I;m a strong prcedent and im a winnewr and they kno the US militry is the strongest un the wurld and thebust in thewirkd.

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    This will ensure that all countries will develop nukes otherwise they will be defenseless against nuke owning states.

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    All you had to do is not do the stupid blockade, Iran at that point was ready to open the damn strait, ships were going through. Now we 'll have stupid pointless escalations because fuck the global trade

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      All he had to do was not shred the Iran deal we already had in place (and was working) because it was negotiated and put into effect under a president who was black.

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          That’s like 95% of the reason he shredded it. Same reason he claims he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, outright hates ACA, and did everything he could to undo literally everything Obama did.

          Exactly the same reason he cut the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, which was Obama’s defense when H7N9 broke out. Then COVID came and no response group

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        When there’s eventually a deal with Iran, it’s not going to be as good as the one we already had with them but he’s going to say it’s the best deal ever and his base won’t know any better. It’s such a stupid time we live in.

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    This train wreck is as painful to watch as a B horror movie.

    This numbnut is walking into an obvious trap. They’re baiting major assets of the USN using ratty little fast boats.

    Now that they’re in striking range, their defense have to be lucky every single day, multiple times per day. If the Iranians are lucky once, they destroy billions of dollars in hardware, get major bragging rights, and thousands of GI families at home get to look up the lyrics to “Fortunate Son.”

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    He couldnt even successfully escort ships for 2 days. And he is not able to keep those ships supplied. How is he going to threaten iran with much of anything? What are we going to do, bleed on them?

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      Take the Gerald Ford and send it drifting into one of their ports. A flaming disease riddled nuclear fireship.

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    In other words, the Cheeto will murder a bunch more innocent children and then taco the fuck out

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    Once you’re doing warcrimes weekly they just let you get away with raping kids apparently

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      Content warning: needless uninvited pedantry ahead

      Trump acts like a toddler. And any parent can tell you that predicting the inevitably dumb behavior of your toddler isn’t rocket science.

      He’s so predictably stupid and selfish that most of the time, everyone else but him knows what he’s doing. It’s a fun meme but I think the reality is the opposite.

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        very occasionally they do something stupider than you thought possible, but ypu just lower the bar going forward for your predictions and your good

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          And that’s why we were all legitimately worried that he’d try to nuke Iran.