Trump ultimatum: Open Hormuz in 48-hours or your powerplants will be destroyed. (Poll)

[kyzr]

Andrew Chang explains why for the U.S. — despite having the world's most powerful navy — getting oil tanker traffic moving through the vital shipping route again is much harder than it may seem.

Good video, but it doesn't address the OP.

Open the strait or lose your powerplants.

 

[Mac1958]

trump has lied about everything from the very beginning. Nothing to believe in.

There's no way to know. Neither side of this thing is trustworthy. I just hope that their religious zealot leaders and more stable and less delusional than Trump. On the surface that seems likely.

It's very difficult to imagine Trump would put boots on the ground there, though. Scaramucci thinks he will.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Mac1958]

A day or two ago Trump literally contradicted himself in the next sentence.

"No one knows who the leaders are. We're negotiating with them now."

He is completely out of his depth. And he wasn't deep to begin with.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Zincwarrior]

Well now that Litnick, Bessent, and Trump did their Taco insider trades for $500 MILLION DOLLARS, the market is back down and oil is back up above $94. So much for that.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Again, while @Crusader Frank is perfectly entitled to draw such conclusions as he sees fit to draw, they are being posted about in an irrationally hyperbolic way.

For example, there is not one fact to support anyone’s claim that our President seeks to kill Iranian people —!other than the Islamofascist regime’s main actors.

What happens if you destroy their energy infrastructure?

 

[Zincwarrior]

So now we are going to drop 10,000 troops and Marines into the meatgrinder. This is great, just great.

 

[Ringo]

That is the price of siding with Israel.

 

[Mac1958]

So now we are going to drop 10,000 troops and Marines into the meatgrinder. This is great, just great.

It's still tough for me to believe he'd actually do that. But I've overestimated him many times before.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

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Why the clown face when all of that is true?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

So now we are going to drop 10,000 troops and Marines into the meatgrinder. This is great, just great.

You know this how? Did you get your crystal ball recalibrated?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Well now that Litnick, Bessent, and Trump did their Taco insider trades for $500 MILLION DOLLARS, the market is back down and oil is back up above $94. So much for that.

What do trades have to do with the price of oil? You can't even make that connection. Why do you lie?

 

[rightwinger]

It's very difficult to imagine Trump would put boots on the ground there, though. Scaramucci thinks he will.

Trump is lazy
Boots on the ground makes things hard

He prefers easy solutions with quick resolutions
Just drop bombs and kill leaders and they will surrender

They won’t

 

[rightwinger]

What do trades have to do with the price of oil? You can't even make that connection. Why do you lie?

They don’t.

But if you are making trades based on what you know Trump will do…..there is money to be made

 

[Roudy]

And you’re stuuuuupid enough to believe what the Iranian animals have to say. We already knew than had the Democrat party of hate America, in their back pockets

 

[Roudy]

A day or two ago Trump literally contradicted himself in the next sentence.

"No one knows who the leaders are. We're negotiating with them now."

He is completely out of his depth. And he wasn't deep to begin with.

Yes, no one has seen their new supreme leader, he could very well be dead, disfigured or severely injured. Trump knows EXACTLY how to deal with the medieval thugs of the IRGC, and the proof is the Iranian people totally approve and are very grateful.

 

[rightwinger]

Yes, no one has seen their new supreme leader, he could very well be dead, disfigured or severely injured. Trump knows EXACTLY how to deal with the medieval thugs of the IRGC, and the proof is the Iranian people totally approve and are very grateful.

If Trump knows what he is doing
Why is the Strait of Hormuz closed without Trump knowing what to do?

 

[Roudy]

If Trump knows what he is doing
Why is the Strait of Hormuz closed without Trump knowing what to do?

closed temporarily, last act of desperation by a dying regime.

 

[kyzr]

What happens if you destroy their energy infrastructure?

Don't say "energy infrastructure" like CNN. That combines two separate infrastructures, oil and electricity.

Oil infrastructure is Iran's long term revenue source, needed to rebuild their economy.

Electrical infrastructure, i.e. their powerplants, is needed for power and for their desalinization plants for drinking water.

Trump's deadline for tomorrow (Friday) is probably for electrical substations that could be repaired faster than if we obliterated the entire powerplant.

Iran's leaders better tell the IRGC to go away quietly and open Hormuz, or Iran is in deep trouble.