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.

  • IronBird@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

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