Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz

[SamuelTheThird]

WASHINGTON—President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.

In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade. If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait, the officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trump-iran-war-strait-of-hormuz-ee950ad4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdHR79drw7I_TVYrq0F2B4sWdt1T3zKNbC80PMKeGCLsfCuH2NVME6aYRcNNc0%3D&gaa_ts=69cb2138&gaa_sig=PdVJnT9paObiyANB7CJActd8b1im_S0loUyKZ25JMTU-pXilf9J5vp1hSukRq6ikvRFu3199A8OMerJQEl1j8A%3D%3D


who the hell knows at this point

[Skittles]

1. IOW

it's the Trump playbook: create a mess, declare victory, leave others to clean up the mess

[Scrivener7]

6. Either that or he thinks he's being slick and he's going

to ramp things up somehow. I'm hoping your scenario is the right one because there's no good way to ramp this up.

[Blues Heron]

2. time to take gramps keys

[surfered]

3. In football, it's called a punt.

[allegorical oracle]

4. So this whole mess is pointless? Besides the death and injuries of our troops,

and spending $2 billion a day, what did he accomplish? When he took office, Hormuz was open and functioning. It closed due to his ordering an attack on Iran. He needs to be impeached.

[flying rabbit]

5. Yep, Fuck shit up, declare victory.

Let someone else pick up the pieces. Lather, rinse, repeat.
LEEEROY JENKINS!!!!

[dweller]

7. that tracks

mmmmmaaggggaa ack ack ack



✌🏻

[Blue_Roses]

8. He and his "crew"

are in so over their head. With gas prices soaring, the choke-hold on the Strait of Hormuz, inflation, etc., his "advisors" see the writing on the wall. Now to try and figure out how they are going bail out and still look like they accomplished something. That's probably more what their "talks" consist of, rather than "talking" to Iran.

[yonder]

9. So if trump finds an out by declaring victory, does Israel follow suit?

Seems like Bibi will never be finished scorching the earth — they just got started with the Gazafication of Lebanon.

[hay rick]

10. Just another trip to bankruptcy court.

Trump creates a mess and somebody else cleans it up. Trump leaves with his pockets bulging with sovereign wealth fund bribes, his cut from insider trading, and Polymarket blood money.

[taxi]

11. He is telling other Middle East countries to

get Iran off of his back, or else. He hints that they could be next, that errant missiles could hit a school anywhere?
Trump doesn't care who or how many have to suffer.
It's been said that the worst thing to do in a fight is to be so brutal that your opponent feels the need to settle a grudge.
The 25th is long overdue.

[harumph]

12. Everything he touches dies, including the world's economy.

If something is flawed but still working OK, he'll find some way to fuck it up.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. SO MUCH WINNING.

He’s bored. Nobody is really talking about him. It’s all about oil, and the price of oil, and the market, and the various countries in the ME, and only some of the talk actually involves him. The only people who are really excited about his war are Lindsey G. and Whiskey Pete. He wasn’t expecting MAGA to get cold feet. He wasn’t expecting a recession or gas to climb straight up like a hobby rocket in the engineering department at MIT. Also, he’s realized by now that his buddy Bibi led him by the nose into quicksand.

This “strategy” allows him to get even for that by screwing Bibi over, and blame former presidents of the US and nations of the ME for not “taking care of the problem sooner.”

[LudwigPastorius]

14. TACO

[Renew Deal]

15. Every Day is TACO day!

That would be one hell of an embarrassing loss.

And the only reason he can claim that Iran's missiles were reduces is because they used them. They are littered all over the Middle East.

[GoodRaisin]

16. So he's going to quit, and leave our allies with a Hormuz problem?

That, in fact, he unilaterally brought upon them. They’ll really love that.

God he’s stupid.

[David__77]

18. The US isn't going to solve it through committing more crimes.

Today is the day to get out.

[GoodRaisin]

20. Not debating that.

[David__77]

17. Stopping military action now, today, is the right thing to do.

[Initech]

19. Open the fucking straight!!! Throw Stephen Miller in the dumpster where he belongs already!

[David__77]

21. They should deploy the Ben Shapiro for sure.

[RockRaven]

22. So..... Declare he won and then

https://m.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. Not The Onion

Give the imbecile a victory parade with a big arch. Better than WW3,