• bagsy@lemmy.world
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    My god he is such a fucking idiot. He just insulted them and told them their help wasnt needed. Just a stupid, pathetic, hatefull asshole.

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      Meh at this point I feel like this isn’t incompetence but calculated malice, he’s doing everything Putin wants to great effect. He’s basically dismantling America.

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    The only official response to him from the UK should be the direct quote about not needing the UK. No additional words. Don’t take any words out. Just the exact quote.

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    “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

    Huh.

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    The infinite might of the United States is unable to hold and defend a 24-mile wide body of water.

    Think about that for a second.

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    I’m starting to think he was never very good at the businesses and the strategies all along!

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    "I want Greenland! Give me Greenland, or I’ll go to war with Europe! Give me what I want OR ELSE! "

    3 months later:

    “You better help me save face from my virtuosically incompetent war strategy OR ELSE!”

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    “We have already destroyed 100 per cent of Iran’s military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close-range missile somewhere along, or in, this waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are.”

    In what appeared to be an appeal to the UK and other nations, he added: “Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated.”

    Mr Trump struck a markedly different tone from when, earlier this month, he accused Sir Keir of joining the conflict after the US had already claimed victory, suggesting the US no longer needed UK assistance.

    “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” Mr Trump wrote earlier in March. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

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      “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the greatest of them all”

      Daddy Bibi gonna be mad about this one.

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    This is the same country that was seriously planning to invade and annex Greenland just three months ago. They might have postponed their plans in favor of bombing Iran, but Greenland is still on the table.

    So Europe may suffer the economic consequences of this mess, but the White House getting humiliated and the US military getting degraded and bogged down in Iran are both a boon for Europe.

    My only fear that some European leaders (looking at you Starmer) might actually be stupid enough to follow them in this folly out of some misplaced sense of appeasement.

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    I don’t have a lot of faith that a worm like Kier Starmer won’t fold after Trump yells at him a bit.

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      There’s no way Starmer pulls us into this war, given the current political climate in the UK.

      The two far-right party leaders called to join the war in Iran as soon as it started - they’ve both had to backpedal now due to the UK public categorically not supporting the war.

      It’s given Starmer some much-needed good press. His actions on the world stage have been consistently brilliant and I don’t see that stopping yet. He should be able to keep our noses clean during this, but I suspect we’ll be hit with the recession regardless.

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          His domestic politics have been a disaster, but his international stuff has been pretty damn good. Mostly…

          I take that back, the government’s position on Israel/Gaza is a disgusting… Apart from that though!

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      He can’t afford to fold. He’s close to finished as it is, siding with trump would be the last straw.