He says other nations will have to guard and police the Strait of Hormuz as necessary, after his attacks on the country prompted Iran to target vessels in the crucial world shipping lane. Mark Stone analyses the Truth Social post.

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    Perhaps the US military told the idiot this is far as you go. Typical of him to leave the situation as a cluster fuck. At least Japan will receive safe passage for their oil.

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    Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran’s leader goes “anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else’s problem now.”

    That’s not how war works.

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    Tl;dr: we’re fucked in the short run, but the world won’t forget this in the long run.

    ELI5: Isreal is screwed.

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    Hey, if he pulls the military back out from the Middle East, he can take credit for ending another war that he obviously won single-handedly. Plus he can get another Nobel Prize…

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    Operation Epstein’s Fury ends when Israel says it ends. Which it won’t. Even when it ends Israel will reach across the border regularly on some pretext or another.

    This is just the president trying to get everyone else to help secure the straits for oil shipments, threatening to walk away.

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    If America pulls out, what would happen to Israel?

    Would they continue? Can they take on Iran alone and bring the regime change they keep promising?

    Would the US just give them guns and ammunition to continue?

    We know that if Israel wanted to take Iran solo, they would have already done that. This might blow up in Bibi’s face.

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      11 hours ago

      GCC will move closer to Iran as a block that will make Israel take a more humanist attitude to region.

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    16 hours ago

    Trump wont be happy when the “other nations” solve the problem by simply making deals with Iran

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    17 hours ago

    Trump expects the world to go to war with Iran. What will actually happen is that the world will re-establish diplomacy with Iran and offer sanctions relief to end the blockade.

    Without war reparations, American ships will forever be barred from sailing the strait, and Gulf states will likely start distancing themselves from the US and re-assess hosting American bases and troops.

    Trump’s victory looks an awful lot like a strategic defeat that sees the US pull out of the Middle East and leave Iran in a more powerful position then before.

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    Look at that, Trump is about to end another war. That’s another FIFA peace price right there.

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    If the US leaves, then Iran will probably open the Strait.

    It’s a shame Israel won’t let them leave.