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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOther presidents did not try a major attack on Iran for a reason.
It's been known all along, by every president, that attacking Iran would result in them shutting down the Strait of Hormux to stop oil shipping.
No president has felt that attacking Iran would be worth the damage to the world economy.
And so here we are.
Irish_Dem
(80,953 posts)It doesn't affect him personally.
He still has the US treasury as his personal ATM.
And all the money he has stolen and will steal.
He will destroy anything in his path to get what he wants.
LymphocyteLover
(9,747 posts)The only people getting from rich from high gas prices are oil execs.
— Rep. Mark Pocan (@pocan.house.gov) 2026-03-12T18:13:44.980Z
Irish_Dem
(80,953 posts)Of course he is getting big kickbacks.
The mob boss always demands a piece of the action.
SheltieLover
(79,779 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(22,864 posts)leftstreet
(40,279 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,960 posts)Other Presidents werent this susceptible to bribes.
Other Presidents actually understood, or at least had advisers who understood, geopolitics. And listened to them.
Other Presidents, even W, werent as stupid as this asshole.
PatSeg
(53,155 posts)Perhaps because of age and health, he feels the clock is ticking and he has to speed up his diabolical plans.
bmichaelh
(1,157 posts)Trump thinks he is the smartest person in the room.
He is in fact not the smartest person in a room full of current and past Presidents.
He may be in fact be dumber than George W Bush, but he is no way smarter than Obama or Biden.
aggiesal
(10,750 posts)This Mierda47 only thinks with his mushroom head around women and his mouth & grift account around men.
NoMoreRepugs
(11,995 posts)My guess is VonSchitzInPants takes a 25% 'taste' of all these donations.
aeromanKC
(3,881 posts)jmowreader
(53,114 posts)Another problem with attacking Iran is the Iranian Army is in love with rocket artillery tipped with high-explosive warheads, and even the shortest-range Short Range Ballistic Missile system in their inventory can reach Dubai. They also have four Medium Range Ballistic Missile systems (Shahab-3 with 1300km range; Ghadr-110 with 1800km range; Sejjil-2 and Khorramshahr with 2000km range) that can reach anywhere in Israel.
Now, please understand that just having these systems is no guarantee of perfection in their employment. I doubt that an Iranian missileman can type "hit the Burj Khalifa" into his firing console and have any expectation of hitting it. However, typing that into his console and hitting anywhere in Dubai would basically change the world.
Aviation Pro
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