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I bet you didn't know I was a finalist in the 2018 World Sarcasm Championship.

He was there, I came in 2nd in the meme class.

So back to normal in Hormuz? Israel and US merchant ships don’t really use it.

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This guy has a slightly different take on it than I did when I heard that Iran said all ships can pass, except Israeli and US. I mean, I laughed out loud because to me that meant Iran was fucked. Basically they were fucking their own partners.

This guy's take is that Iran is surrendering in a way.

They are attacking pretty much everyone but Russian or Chinese ships and that is in question because they are attacking the ports of every other gulf country.

Operation Maple Syrup

Keep in mind that the assahollah Ruhollah Khomeni was exiled in Marsailles prior to returning to Persia at the behest of the soviet backed so called students to topple the shah.

The only solution to political opposition within a free state is execution of the disgruntled shitstains. You do it openly. Yup I did it. I'll do it again too.

Unlike here, where a Lyndon Johnson murders a sitting president to take his place himself or where you have an fbi that executes a coup as they did with Richard Nixon. The proper way is the Francisco Franco Augusto Pinochet method.

I hope Trump is reviewing history. He has to clear the decks for the coming Caudillo.

Queue up the non coms.

Trump Begs Other Countries to Help Him Clean Up His Mess in Iran

Donald Trump is trying to convince foreign nations to step in to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/March 16, 2026/9:19 a.m. ET

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Tinyhanded Pedophile Begs Other Countries to Help Him Clean Up His Mess in Iran

Donald Trump is trying to convince foreign nations to step in to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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Just two weeks into the war that he started, Donald Trump has resorted to begging other countries for assistance in securing the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump claimed that other regions of the world—such as China—depend more on the Middle East waterway than the U.S. does, and should therefore be leading the charge in reopening the bomb-laden strait.

“I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory. It’s the place from which they get their energy. And they should come and they should help us protect it,” Trump said. “Why are we maintaining the Hormuz Strait when it’s really there for China and many other countries? Why aren’t they doing it?”

Situated between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, the Strait of Hormuz is the single most important energy transit point in the world, funneling approximately one-fifth of all crude oil shipments. Iran began laying mines across the passageway last week, effectively sealing in the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman from the rest of the open ocean.

Trump insisted that China gets about 90 percent of its crude oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz, though analysts that spoke with CNBC disagree, noting to the business network that “Beijing has spent the past two decades diversifying energy supplies and building strategic reserves to mitigate potential disruptions.”

In 2024, the U.S. imported roughly 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day through the strait, accounting for roughly 7 percent of total U.S. crude imports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, the president insisted that nations “affected by Iran’s attempted closure” of the strait would be sending warships to the area. He specifically named China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the U.K. as countries he hoped would contribute.

Nonetheless, some of America’s named allies have already rejected Trump’s plea. French President Emmanuel Macron said he would send the French navy to escort tankers, but only after the conflict stabilizes. Leaders from the U.K., Germany, Poland, and Spain have outright refused to get involved.

The U.S. president is attempting to strong-arm Beijing into the matter, openly weighing the possibility of delaying his planned summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping if his economic adversary does not participate in his war plan, reported the Financial Times Sunday.

Trump has yet to receive Congress’s approval for the war or formally address the American public about the deadly conflict. In failing to do so, he has broken tradition with every other president before him.

So far, 13 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the conflict, as have more than 20 Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More than 1,200 Iranian civilians have been killed, including dozens of children at a girls’ school in the country’s south. Some 3.2 million people have been displaced as U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran have damaged more than 42,000 civilian sites, including homes, hospitals, and schools, according to Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani.

“I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory.”

Trump is "Begging".

The Tinyhanded Regime had no plan for when Iran did the one thing that every literate person knew they would do when attacked.

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No shit. Like do they not realize that Iran is the one attacking all the other countries and holding the world's oil supply and shipping lanes hostage just because they have a beef with one country? And these other assholes who rely on that passageway don't want to protect it? They're fucking idiots.

And before we attacked Iran, the houthis were firing on shipping in the Red Sea and nobody did Jack shit about that it had to be us of course.

I think that we should take over the straight. Invade that island and take it over control the straight and then charge all those motherfuckers to use it.

Are you still driving that Exploder?

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No shit. Like do they not realize that Iran is the one attacking all the other countries and holding the world's oil supply and shipping lanes hostage just because they have a beef with one country? And these other assholes who rely on that passageway don't want to protect it? They're fucking idiots.

And before we attacked Iran, the houthis were firing on shipping in the Red Sea and nobody did Jack shit about that it had to be us of course.

I think that we should take over the straight. Invade that island and take it over control the straight and then charge all those motherfuckers to use it.

The truth is though, nobody else really has a Navy.

No one does.