• magnue@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah but if they say it this way it sounds like they’re in control of the situation

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        It’s so in a few days he can “re-open” the strait again, declaring that everything is back to normal: “No president ever opened as many straits as I did”

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      The idea being to choke off Iran’s ability to use it at all. This kills their remaining income stream and also incents the Chinese and others who thought they had a workaround (the tolls) to instead put pressure on Iran.

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      2 months ago

      I’m still trying to work out if this one’s a late April Fool…

      Imagine working for the man. You just hear crazy shit day in, day out, and have to quickly adapt and run with it, otherwise he’ll find another mug who will.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      yes, trump is doing 2 things right now, try and pump and dump the markets and continued distraction from epstein files. given how bondi was replaced very quickly BY BLANCHE, and suddenly melania coming out of the woodwork to give a “i did not help diddle kids” speech.