@D5513954@douglasritz@Megatron_ron They don't need to. They can reach out and touch you from thousands of miles away. That's why Iran's navy, air force and air defenses have been blown away. The clowns in Tehran are just waiting to be bombed into the Stone Age.
@HormuzReport Not likely he's send Ratcliffe on a secret mission to do that. But if he did, you will know shortly because Trump doesn't like to be told no. You will see a swift uptick in aid to Ukraine.
@EmilyandMe2 Yes. Once the midterms are over, Trump is free to do as he likes regardless of the election results. Iran has until then to capitulate otherwise they join South Sudan at the bottom of the world economic list.
@MarioNawfal China tries this in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait. The US and other allied nations regularly transit anyway just to prove the Chinese are full of it. Same thing will happen in Hormuz. US Navy ships go where they please and Iran can't stop them.
@Moparguy19@AlternatNews ROFLMAO...Iran has lost its navy, air force, and air defenses. Anyone can fly and bomb them at will. Their currency and economy are in a tailspin and they will soon be poorer than South Sudan. Their neighbors have started to band together to isolate them. Sounds like a win.
@AlternatNews Per the Central Bank of Iran, oil exports have dropped to zero due to the US blockade. China only gets imports and exports because the US Navy allows it. The US has just demonstrated that to China and the world.
@TheGarlandNixon Iran has until the midterms to capitulate. If they don't the day after the midterms Iran will cease to be a modern nation-state regardless of the midterm results.
@joekent16jan19 Iran ends as a modern nation-state the day after the midterms. At that point Trump has no other limits regardless of the election results. Iran has until then to surrender and accept Trump's terms. Either way Iran is on a long-term down slide.
@Hirsi_Brown@MarioNawfal Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no muslim nation that can decisively defeat the US and the West. Allah has been on our side since the Battle of Tours in 732 AD. 1,300 years of muslim decline and western ascendance says it all.
@MenchOsint You guys don't get it. Trump has been on record since the 1980's that he wants to destroy Iran. This isn't ending until Iran is in ruins regardless of the midterms.
@aeberman12 Biggest blunder since Napoleon? I suggest you crack a history book or two. Iran has already been ended as a regional hegemon wannabe and is now heading for poverty and chaos and America barely notices as we prepare for a prosperous holiday season.
@MKunanja@douglasritz@Megatron_ron Protip: This would only happen if China attempted to attack the US or it's allies. Guess what, though, the US is currently blockading Chinese imports of oil from Iran. And the Chinese are doing nothing.
@BrettErickson28 Iran escalates, attacks neighboring countries, binds them together against it (see Mecca Agreement) while the US uses further attacks to fully destroy Iran's economy and send them into chaos and poverty. Then we can walk away and let the Arabs, Turks, and Pakistanis contain Iran.
@abaabood@BrettErickson28 If Iran continues to attack it's neighbors, whatever the excuses it uses that will serve to bind them together against Iran. And that is what the US really wants in the Middle East. A local coalition that will contain Iran without needing US support.
@Mikethejohnson@BrettErickson28 Iran has lost all it's air defenses so the US and Israel can fly sorties at will with no opposition other than the Iranians shaking their fists. Take out the power plants and bridges and the country will collapse into chaos.
@douglasritz@Megatron_ron Protip: China needs to import food and fuel and export goods just to survive. The US Navy can turn all of China off like a light switch at will.