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And thanks to the fact that 90% of the US armed forces are MAGA dipshits, we can be rest assured that literally no one will refuse to carry out these orders, and any other increasingly unhinged commands that may come in the near future.
I actually have feeling that he TACOd out of nuking Iran because military refused the orders. Firing those generals (of which one was chaplain) during the war is extremely suspicious.
BTW blocking the strait if they did it right away, would prevent Iran setting up a tollbooth and would motivate Iran to also want the strait open, but those geniuses thought of it 6 weeks later after lifting sanctions on Iran and Russia.
What? The US block the strait? First of all, they can't, for the exact same reason that couldn't keep it open: Iran will fuck up their ships! Second, closing the strait hurts the US more than it hurts Iran, which is why Iran closed it: maximum economic pressure. Third, what Trump is talking about now is just piracy: intercepting ships that have paid Iran for passage. The US navy doesn't have to be anywhere near the strait for that, but it puts them in direct conflict with allies and (stronger) rivals. This is just more Trump flailing.
I'm not saying it makes sense now. I'm just saying that if they reacted quickly enough they wouldn't allow Iran to set up toll booth and use their territorial waters to redirect traffic.
If Iran had to decide to have it completely blocked or open it would make it a less powerful card.
At this moment pretty much only Iran is expecting oil and Don Tzu even removed sanctions so they can sell their oil to anyone at market value.
They WANT us to believe that, but I doubt it's that high. Especially when Trump is a known draft dodger. They can respect the office, not the man. MAGA is a cult of personality.
It's around 60-70% if polls are to be believed