Stidham8

I haven’t bought anything Nike since the Kaepernick ad and never will again.

It’ll likely be a European country first because they’re getting hit harder by the Muslims than we are.

I could see Germany doing it first when the AfD comes into power.

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Similar to us with Cuba and South America.

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China’s doctrine is reunification with Taiwan. They seem more hellbent on it than we were with Cuba.

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All you clowns who keep spouting off: "Trump needs to take the gloves off and get serious". Do you not understand that he has run through every available option in the last 6 months? It didn't work. They won. We lost. Now it's time to go home. Trump knows it. Everyone in the world knows it. Most important: Iran knows it. They took our best shot and they're stronger than they were before. Better get used to that idea.

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Spot on, unfortunately. We have lost this war.

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lol ??. China is majoritly impacted by this as they depend on their energy from the ME. They want the strait opened. China also has a military that is made of paper tigers. We know it and they do too.

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China is inferring the US isn’t going to save Taiwan in a prolonged combat outside of providing munitions.

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There is no political will to finish this out the right way. It’s pay now or pay later. It’s always been that way. We have always had room to kick the can so we have kicked it. Thing is we are out of room to keep on kicking. Like it or not that’s where we are at. Every bill inevitably comes due. This one is due.

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You are right. Our country has gotten so comfortable that the slightest inconvenience to citizens is not acceptable. Politically, any sort of military intervention has become a huge negative because of this.

There are dark days ahead. China is watching all of this closely with an ongoing rapid military buildup.

If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time in history we’ve had an opposing country ask for this. They want a total surrender. It’s incomprehensible that it has come to this. What a miscalculation from every level by the Pentagon and White House.

Iran to the US:

What a bitter a-hole.

The purge of the military of Democrat operatives has been spectacular to see. I’d revoke all of their security clearances.

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So if this is accurate we went from demanding free navigation through the strait (which was the case before all this started) to allowing Iran to charge a 5% fee on all ships ,except Russia and China cause of course they wouldn't have to pay. Is this us winning?

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I said yesterday that this is the new reality.

I hate it as much as anyone. The only other options are nuking Iran or deploying ground troops. Both of which we will never do.

The IRGC is now a permanent power in the Middle East that will enrich themselves with these transit fees.

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Iran will “control” nothing. Can they make navigation difficult? Sure. But as long as they do that none of their stuff gets through either. Let’s see how long they can last being out of the oil business.

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We blinked first with the MOU and let all their tankers through. They have us in a chokehold. They are able to tolerate infinitely more economic pain than the US is. Our citizens are bitching about $1-2 gas price increases like it’s the end of the world.

Politically it’s not sustainable in the US. For Iran they can do whatever they want because it’s essentially a dictatorship.

They are going to toll every ship that passes through it. There’s not a damn thing America can do about it. The sooner we accept the new normal and move on, the sooner this cycle will end. Sadly, the IRGC will be entrenched and enriched with these new tolls.