In the Iran War. He just can’t stop blabbing on Truth Social, and he has handed America the worst wartime loss in history. He didn’t have a plan except for bombing them. He didn’t think through *how* to bomb them. So he and Israel threw bombs at them. All it did was make Iran close the Strait of Hormuz, which holds not only the US, but the world hostage. Now, his thumbs have given up the game completely. My regards to Raw Story:
Donald Trump has handed Iran a stunning victory while simultaneously raising questions about his stability to American allies with a proposal so “divorced from reality” that it exposes the administration’s complete lack of strategic planning. So wrote New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, a Middle East expert, who said on Tuesday that Trump’s misguided Iran war strategy has already inadvertently given Tehran a far more potent weapon than any nuclear capability: the realization that it can hold the global economy hostage at will with no end in sight.
As we’ve been saying. They are holding the world hostage. That fertilizer we needed so badly won’t help now. That’s almost as big as the oil that everyone needs. Iran only cares about itself. Iran has called Trump’s bombs a bluff. Since we did so badly with them, it was essentially a bluff. The only other choice would be a land war, and we do NOT want to get into that.
“Now, and forever, Iranians will know that we know that Tehran can shut off the world’s most important oil tap anytime it wants. This new source of leverage for the Iranian regime is priceless,” the columnist explained. Trump’s latest proposal in a Truth Social Memorial Day post exposed the catastrophic consequences of waging war without scenario planning or expert input with the president writing that he is “mandatorily requesting that all Countries [in the region] immediately sign the Abraham Accords.” The columnist pointed out that Trump even claimed allies told him they “would be honored” if Iran itself joined the accords.
So, yes, Iran controls the Strait and can turn it on and off. They have plenty of munitions to threaten any ship going through. Now, Trump has shown his hand again by calling for signatures for the Accords and wants Iran to join. Iran is only out for itself. They do not want to be beholden to anyone or anything. There’s no way in hell they would even sign on. Why is Trump inviting them through a Truth Social post? I know I ranted about that when it came out. Telling the world that he wants this done is no way to handle it.
Friedman posed the question: “On what planet of the Milky Way Galaxy would this regime in Tehran, which is practically founded on hatred of Israel, just up and make peace with it after this war?” The proposal was so unexpected and so divorced from Middle Eastern political reality that Friedman labeled it as “unhinged” and a cause for concern. “The whole thing was so ridiculous, juvenile, and unvetted by any experts that it had to have left our Israeli and Arab allies deeply worried that their American protector is led by a truly unstable man,” Friedman concluded.
It took them this long to realize that Trump is unstable? Here in America, we’ve known it even since the day he pardoned J6ers, and he’s getting worse day by day. His Middle Eastern allies should have figured it out within the first couple of months. If the Accords get signed without anything going catastrophically wrong, it will be a miracle. Well, they should worry. Concern is not the correct degree of description. Trump is nuts, and as we worry about more and more, he holds the nuclear codes.
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“Iran cares only about itself.” “Iran is only out for itself.”
Hmm. Does that sound ANYTHING like someone else referenced in the article?